Originally published at: Scottish politician resigns over "sexy" "Satanic" novels | Boing Boing
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Yikes, judging by the covers to those books, Craik should be done for “Accessory in the Murder of Graphic Design”.
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For those who have learned to get over notions of good taste, and just want a good bed time read.
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That phrasing is a bit off. He wasn’t going trying to lead the party, he was just trying to be selected as the party candidate for one of the ~650 seats in Westminster.
It’s a stupid reason to rule him out for, but at least that means fans of his writing won’t be faced with a possible 5 year hiatus in his writing.
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He was in the running to be selected as the Labour candidate for Glenrothes in the next general election, not the party leader. As much as I hate the guy, I think that Keir Starmer is more qualified to be party leader.
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Not having the guts to keep people like this is why the UK will never be free of the Tories.
Pathetic.
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That is so dumb - we should have more fiction writers in parliament, and writing on non-boring topics should not be a blocker
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Nadine Dorries and Jeffery Archer have not left a good legacy.
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Alan Johnson writes a decent whodunnit.
As for a sex, magic and religion novel by an MP
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FTFY.
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Maybe 20 years ago, but he’s too Zentrum for them now. He’ll enable fascism, but won’t actually do it himself, which makes him unelectable for modern Tories.
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Horror occult psychic whodunnit?
I’d read one. It’d be a tricky format to do well, while playing fair with the reader.
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He seems to be obsessed with making himself unelectable to Labour voters too.
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How about Alastair Campbell’s porn?
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I mean, that sounds kinda cool, to be honest.
While we’re on the subject of (ex)MPs writing books, I noticed the other day that convicted liar Jeffery Archer is still pumping out books. I suppose ‘lying’ is one of those things which is frown upon in most contexts, but is technically the heart of fiction writing.
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