Political Stripper: 'No One Respects Me'

Honestly, strippers rate much higher than politicians, although as far as strippers go, this one needs some work. Check that. A lot of work.

A councillor at the centre of a furore over her job as a stripper and kissogram has finally admitted defeat and stood down.

Myrna Bushell, a Liberal Democrat town councillor in Bideford, runs a phone sex line from her home and advertises herself on a website as 'Jessica - a very sexy auburn professional Devon lady, kissogram, strippergram and stripper entertainer'.
But she has decided to stand down from her council role because her colleagues no longer take her seriously, it emerged today.

The 35-year-old mother-of-one offers 'novelty party entertainment' including £85 for a kissogram, £95 for a strippergram or a £110 for a topless strippergram.

She offers to dress up as a French maid, waitress, schoolgirl, biker, nurse, headmistress, 'devil lady' or Catwoman.

She appears on two websites runs by the Xanadu Entertainment Agency and boasts she has appeared in Escort magazine and a Sky TV shows about the 'secrets of suburbia'.

Mrs Bushell was elected onto Bideford town council in Devon in May last year but three colleagues quit the party in protest two months later after her business was exposed.

At the time she defended her decision to continue with her chatline operation, saying: 'I've got to earn a living somehow.

'The reason I do it is to pay my bills and be able to spend quality time with my family. It's not incompatible with being an elected councillor and it's not illegal.'