Love a political gaffe. . .when it isn't an Australian MP for once.

  

Nadine Dorrie in the Commons

After enduring months of sniffy UK reports quoting the clangers and faux pas of Australian politicians - and no, I am not the suppository of all political wisdom so can't be bothered listing them all again (although you can find them here) - I got all skip-skippingly happy to read tonight that the Brits are not immune from foot in mouth disease either.

Red faces at Westminster after Tory MP, Nadine Dorrie, warned her constituents to brace for a "tidal wave of immigration from Yugoslavia".

The fact that Yugoslavia ceased to exist a while ago - and the er, break up, sparked a wee fuss - seems to have escaped La Dorrie.

P'raps “Mad Nad”, the MP for mid Bedfordishire, picked up a few tips in Oz as it was she who was temporarily suspended from the parliamentary Conservative Party after her unexpected appearance on ITV's execrable I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! in 2012.