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No doubt we will be getting betting markets in the next day or so on whether the culture secretary is going to remain in his job following the revelations that have just come out.
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Right.
I think he'll probably take something of a beating over this but i doubt there'll be too much blood on the carpet ....
But clearly the press have had the whip hand over him for some time.
I see that the Lib Dems have organised an election with seven candidates and three voters in the House of Lords.
Any thoughts on the most appropriate voting system to use in such a situation?
Hopefully there will be a three-way tie.
Or is it, 'no smoke without fire'....'nudge nudge, wink wink'
Exactly the sort of thing Hacked Off complained about when it involved a Tory MP celeb actor......
Beyond that I dislike Whittingdale's politics. I would be glad to see the back of him but not over this.
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If he wasn't paying he should be asked to review general public procurement.
I've just been reading one blog that is trying to liken it to Profumo, with a member of the London underworld playing the role of the Soviet naval attache in this case.
It does seem as if the lately-loyal right wing press is starting to toy with the financial-and-sex sleaze-ridden divided small-majority Tory party narrative that did for Major from 92 onwards. Will be interesting to see whether that's an EUref-inspired development or something that gathers pace over the next year or two.
One of the biggest shocks about this story was that a Tory actually uses the Tube...
https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/720161197639745536
And every time before a Labour MP has a consensual sex relationship, I look forward to them getting out a standard Labour Party-approved questionnaire:
"Are you now, or have you ever been, a sex worker, been paid for sex, been a mistress, engaged in dubious moral activity, failed to declare some or all income to HMRC, been the beneficiary of an offshore trust...."
Helpful headline by Aunty, - makes it look like he hired hookers.
Hacked Off finally became what they said they opposed. Intrusions in to private lives of those caught up in news, ends justifying means.
Remainers = Sweet and Innocent people
Leavers = Colossal perverts
A vote for Remain is to uphold the moral hygiene of the U.K.
... I'll get my coat
Let's think ...
Senior MP .. tick
Now Cabinet Minister .. tick
Spicy Sex .. tick
Former Prostitute .. tick
Ex wife of "Gladiator Celeb" .. tick
An editor's dream.
But ..
MP at time was Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee and now SoS for same and known critic of Leveson.
Oh Bugger !!
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/apr/13/dear-america-this-donald-trump-thing-its-not-all-about-you-video
For the good of decent circulation figures, we need another good Mandelson story or maybe some Ecclestone millions to get us back to the quality we have come to expect.
And totter towards the tomb
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Labour are correctly going on the angle of whether his personal life led him to abuse his power in relation to press regulation, not the nature of his relationship.
Dolly Parton sleeps on her back.
If in round 1 two votes go to a candidate then they're duly elected, no second round.
If in round 1 no candidates get two votes who do you eliminate and transfer the vote of?
AV doesn't apply here.
This just looks like muck-raking to me.
So with the current perceived conflict for Whittingdale, newpaper regulation could be passed back to the BIS Department.
It really is an AV election
What position did he hold prior to being in the Cabinet ?!? and what issue dominated his tenure ?!?
The tabloid press don't care about the finer details but the association of kinky sex and an MP.
Since Whittingdale is a Tory they see no problem with his privacy being invaded, even though in fact the papers did not invade his privacy, and he had ceased having the relationship long before he became Culture Secretary.
Hacked Off are an utterly unedifying organisation and the sooner they - rather than Whittingdale - disappear from public life the better.
A proper Domme (as opposed to a hooker who does it a bit) doesn't give their submissive any sexual relief.
If he'd been pro, I could half see a case but not here
In any case, I'm not saying there is any evidence for or against the concern Labour are advancing, merely that it's a reasonable question to ask in the circumstances, and it's reasonable behaviour for any competent opposition in attempting to hold the executive to account (maybe the biggest surprise here is Labour behaving like a competent opposition).
I mean, I had improper thoughts just by betting heavily against Jeb on the Republican Nomination market.
Not like that.
During the Yorkshire ripper trial he said something that upset every prostitute in the country.
Havers drew controversy at the outset of the trial, when he said of Sutcliffe's victims in his introductory speech: "Some were prostitutes, but perhaps the saddest part of the case is that some were not. The last six attacks were on totally respectable women."
In response to this remark, the English Collective of Prostitutes accused Havers of "condoning the murder of prostitutes", and women demonstrated outside the Old Bailey with placards in protest.[9]
https://twitter.com/ms_shepherd/status/719938342339657732
The press shouldn't (IMO) publish this stuff about anyone. In the real world, it does. Whittingdale is responsible for relevant regulation, and has not seen fit to address the issue. If - and I have no idea whether this is the case - he used his position of power to afford himself greater protection than he feels that the population at large deserves, that's an abuse of his power and pretty hypocritical.
The relevant question is how he deals with the world as it exists, not the counterfactual that states he would not have had to deal with the problem were the world to be as "the opponents [of the press]" would like it to be.
http://knowledgenuts.com/2013/07/21/the-victorians-didnt-cover-their-table-legs/