THE FICTION OF MRS MENSCH
In the current political climate you would think that it would be nigh on impossible for a tabloid journalist to seize the moral high ground, but no, this amazing feat was achieved by British MP Louise Mensch, a writer of 'chick lit' fiction,who lied about the former Daily Mirror and News of the World editor Piers Morgan. Under the cloak of parliamentary privilege, she made up a quote from a book he wrote some years back which is now widely acknowledged to be fictitious. She has subsequently refused to repeat her accusations outside of the protection of parliamentary privilege. Parliamentary privilege is an extremely valuable and powerful tool and carries with it extremely high levels of responsibility, for someone to use it so cavalierly with no respect for the facts represent an extreme abuse. Mrs Mensch chose the moment of her greatest celebrity, as an MP interrogating the Murdoch’s with a world wide audience to conduct this abuse, it is the cowardly behaviour of a self publicist with a grudge.