Empire State of Mensch

Following my earlier blog - 'If you can't join them, beat them', my attempt at recording an opinion on the facts.

Louise Mensch, the Conservative MP who beat expectations in 2010 by doubling the long-hoped-for swing of the 13 year Labour seat of Corby and East Hants, has this week resigned from her post, following a long-time struggle to find the “best outcome” for her family.

Mensch, a graduate of Oxford University joined the Young Conservatives at the age of 14 and was selected as Parliamentary candidate for Corby in 2006. She was cited in the Insight Public Affairs ‘The Next Generation: Parliamentary Candidates to Watch’ in 2009, which celebrated the 2 million copies of her 12 novels, written since her first publishing contract at the age of 22.

Praised for her comment, “women can have it all, if they want it all”, Louise has found her life balance increasingly difficult to optimise since her divorce from her first husband in 2009, with whom she has 3 children now 4, 7, and 8, and marriage to new love Manhattanite and manager of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Peter Mensch.
This year she aims to publish her 13^th novel, under her married name, “I was longing to brand myself with his name for a very long time. He's a living legend, and to be his wife is the greatest honour.”

Successful in anything she puts her mind to, Mensch certainly challenges any suggestion of politics being a Calling. When news of alleged youthful drug-taking broke in 2011 she assumed it would all be over, “There goes my career. I was like - oh well, easy come, easy go, political career.”

As well as the beloved new husband, three children, millions in the bank from her immensely popular novels and Parliamentary career, she has also recently launched a new social networking site - Menshn, which, rather foolishly, she claims is not inspired by her own name. A “niche complement to twitter”, the site fixes three of twitter’s well publicised problems: poor topic structure, follower reach, and offensive use.

She swung the Corby electorate, twitter’s loyal followers should be a walk in the park.

I think I might sign up.

(Thanks to GQ.Com for quotes)