nadine dorries: I'm really quite unpleasant when you get to know me

Nadine Dorries seems determined to remind everyone that she's a deeply unpleasant person - taking the time to crow over her attack on a female Labour MP back in December.

Dorries had accused the MP (along with 11 others) of corruption - of having been bought by the "abortion industry" - an obviously ludicrous charge which was dismissed out of hand by the parliamentary standards commissioner.

Understandably pissed, the MP confronted Dorries and asked for an apology. Here's Dorries' version of the event:

Minding my own business, I was helping myself to a bowl of haddock soup, when the Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform, Caroline Flint MP descended upon me.

“Well”, she squealed, in the ‘hand on hip just look at how important I am’ way she has, “are you going to apologise, well, are you?” The squeal became a bark.

“Apologise” said I, genuinely non-plussed, “what for?”

“You were wrong weren’t you, you reported me to the Standards Commissioner and you were wrong, so go on apologise – are you going to apologise?”

I was even more non-plussed, nay, gob smacked, that a Minister who had just walked out of a Committee should behave in such a way.

Her fishwife behaviour was very undignified. She displayed in 10 seconds how un-worthy she was of a Minister’s position; but more than that, she epitomised the very fact that this government hate to be challenged in any way whatsoever…

So, even though Dorries was completely wrong, and smeared Caroline Flint with manifestly false allegations, it's apparently unthinkable that she should apologise. Instead, it's asking for an apology when you've been lied about which somehow makes a person unsuitable for office. Presumably we're now free to say whatever we like about Dorries, regardless of the facts.

And so, a month later, Dorries is still celebrating the fact that she a) pushed lies about a group of MPs in an attempt to smear and b) refused to apologise when her claims were dismissed as false.

What an unpleasant person.