Meet The MP Who Wants You To Ask The Stars For Guidance

David Tredinnick MP (Capricorn) is a long-time advocate of alternative medicine, astrology and the "influence of the moon" on blood clotting. But now he wants to help you to help yourself by turning to a map of the sky for guidance.

Mr Tredinnick recently told Parliament, "I am absolutely convinced that those who look at the map of the sky for the day that they were born and receive some professional guidance will find out a lot about themselves, and it will make their life easier."

So what's going on here? Well, it's pretty clear that this guy really, really likes astrology. He even went to Glastonbury to talk about it.

He took to the stage after the Daily Mail's very own star-tickler, Jonathan Cainer. Jonathan writes horoscopes. He writes things like, "since when has common sense provided the solution for any miserable frame of mind?" And this is great news for David, since it comes from today's Capricorn forecast.

But the stars haven't always aligned so neatly. In Parliament he spoke of the "relentless attacks" made against him because of his views. He referred to the fake Twitter account D Tredinnick's Brain and also reminded us that a fellow MP once named him "The right honourable member for Holland & Barrett". And back in 2009, the planets cruelly failed to get behind his expenses claim of £125 for a course on "intimate relationships".

But David is a capricorn — ambitious, hard-working and highly sexed. He isn't going to allow any of this to dampen his ambition to become a full-time Sky Wizard.

Hitting back at his numerous critics, which include science, he has accused some people in the scientific community of acting "emotionally and not rationally", and labelled them "superstitious", "ignorant" and "racially prejudiced".

His campaign to have astrology integrated into the NHS remains in full swing and he's recently been busy compiling astrological charts for fellow MPs, which he says have "certainly made their lives easier".

Normally you could keep up to date with David's progress via his website, but unfortunately it's down at the moment. Presumably he'll be asking for a refund on the £581.90 he claimed late last year for website design, production and hosting. That minor setback aside, at least he managed to score us taxpayers some serious value for money when he claimed a total of £97.48 over a four month period for 'office water'. It may seem like a lot, but think about it: just shy of a hundred quid isn't bad for water that can tell you where you left your keys.

Shine on David. Shine on.