Stop whinging and start smiling, Claire Perry tells the moaning media

Marlborough’s Tory MP Claire Perry has blamed  the “moaning minnies” of the national media for the doom and gloom that is dragging down the country.

While the Prime Minister told the Daily Telegraph that he expected austerity cuts to last until 2020, Mrs Perry has listed the coalition government’s achievements since she was elected in May, 2010.

And in her weekly local newspaper column she tells constituents: “We are making huge progress on the things that will help our country in the future.  The sun is about to come out.”

“The Olympics is about to start with more than a few medal prospects.  My summer message to the London-based media mob?  Stop whinging and start smiling.”

She claims that despite the Eurozone crisis, the government had reduced the UK’s huge budget deficit by more than a quarter in just two years and reduced income taxes “for more than 20 million working people.”

Former banker Mrs Perry says the government is also tackling “other long-standing issues which others have ducked like fixing the broken banking system that brought this country to its knees”, although previous Tory policy opposed bank regulation by the last Labour government.

She adds: “Finally, unlike the moaning minnies who edit our papers and produce our TV, I want to stand up for Britain.  We live in a wonderful, prosperous, safe tolerant society.”

Meanwhile, although criticised in the press for her outspoken language, 48-year-old Mrs Perry, who is parliamentary private secretary to Philip Hammond at the Ministry of Defence,  has been named as one of the new entry Tory MPs who deserve promotion.

Sunday Times political editor Isabel Oakeshott referred to several women MPs worthy of promotion in David Cameron’s expected Cabinet reshuffle in September during a BBC Radio 4 interview broadcast yesterday (Thursday).

What about Claire Perry? came the question.

And she replied: “It would be really wonderful if Claire Perry was to be promoted to be a minister in that department (MoD), where no women have ever served before.”