Unbelievably, David Cameron has actually made this MP a minister

Remember Amber Rudd? The hapless Hastings MP who once explained why she wanted to stand in that seat by saying:

“I wanted to be within two hours of London and I could see we were going to win it.”

Rudd followed that up by making her constituency sound like a bleak hellhole:

“You get people who are on benefits, who prefer to be on benefits by the seaside. They’re not moving down here to get a job, they’re moving down here to have easier access to friends and drugs and drink.”

That, and her musings on whether anal sex would be a doorstep issue come 2015, made her something of a laughing stock. It wasn’t long before she was pooping on her own metaphorical doorstep again, saying:

“Hastings used to be this beautiful, refined seaside place.”

And it was only last week that we revealed the questionable goings on involving Rudd and £5000 worth of prize money. A competition promoted and run by the Tory MP awarded a £5,000 competition prize to a prominent member of the Conservative party.

Unbelievably, Cameron has rewarded this constituency criticism and prizes for local Tories behaviour with a ministerial job.

It’s unlikely Rudd will have her job for much longer. After all, Hastings is a marginal, Labour has an excellent candidate in place (Sarah Owen) and local elections in recent years have seen relentless Labour advances. As Amber herself said in that car crash interview last year:

“If the worst comes to the worst, it’s been a great five years.”