Tory ex-Minister arrested on suspicion of rape

[agricola]

I don't think there's an angle here that the party has done anything criminal by not reporting it - it's for the victim to decide whether they want to report their rape, and considering the likelyhood of a successful conviction who could blame them if they choose not to bother?

Thats true, but the problem some (the Chief Whip especially) might have is that they are technically ministers.

Crown servants (including ministers) are covered by misconduct in a public office; failing to do something about something they are aware of (when it forms part of their public duties) is something that they could, in theory, be held criminally liable for.

 

[Roadkill]

Thats true, but the problem some (the Chief Whip especially) might have is that they are technically ministers.

Crown servants (including ministers) are covered by misconduct in a public office; failing to do something about something they are aware of (when it forms part of their public duties) is something that they could, in theory, be held criminally liable for.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes...

Or, to put it more elegantly, not bloody likely.

 

[brogdale]

I'll be honest; I've read through loads of this poster's timeline & I really can't decide if its parody or not. If not...how dumb.

 

[Roadkill]

I'll be honest; I've read through loads of this poster's timeline & I really can't decide if its parody or not. If not...how dumb.

 

[splonkydoo]

In one sense... no surprise the Chief Whip or JRM weren't forthcoming on this to the authorities. Even with a large governing majority, it's not beyond these pricks to use issues like this as leverage against their own.

 

[Gerry1time]

MPs are not employed by the parties they represent, though.

I remember asking my then local MP years ago what happens if he has to go off sick. Does he have to drop the Queen a line to let her know he won't be in that day? Turns out he just had to let one of the whips know.

 

[maomao]

I remember asking my then local MP years ago what happens if he has to go off sick. Does he have to drop the Queen a line to let her know he won't be in that day? Turns out he just had to let one of the whips know.

Whips are just line managers.

 

[brogdale]

Like much of our constitutional arrangements, the employment status of MPs is not well defined; the best that Parliament can express is that their employment status is somewhat like office holders with a 'stipend':



That said, they represent private organisations called parties and, as such, should be bound by the safeguarding/duty of care protocols developed by those institutions. This is where the vermin appear deliberately unprepared as it has always suited them to hush up offending to save repetitional damage and then allow the whips to hold the knowledge with the potential to weaponise in tight 3 line votes etc.

 

[MrCurry]

I'll be honest; I've read through loads of this poster's timeline & I really can't decide if its parody or not. If not...how dumb.

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Just about batshitcrazy enough to be heavily involved in a local association.

 

[phillm]

In the twisdom of crowds the rumours seem to have coalesced around one particular odious slug.

 

[Raheem]

Just follow the trail of slime.

 

[moomoo]

In the twisdom of crowds the rumours seem to have coalesced around one particular odious slug.

That doesn’t exactly narrow it down tbf...

 

[killer b]

He means Francois, but I don't believe it - he's just so hateful and gross they all just want it to be him.

 

[phillm]

That doesn’t exactly narrow it down tbf...

He's normally very gobby but has gone deadly quiet. Maybe he's on holiday. That said Cold War Steve has given IDS a rare star billing probably some other context I have missed.

Edit this and yet here is Iain Duncan Smith arguing against the withdrawal agreement he voted for because HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE VOTED FOR

 

[phillm]

Ed: nope. No 'here's a clue' nonsense.

 

[editor]

DON'T POST UP YOUR FUCKING GUESSES. Jeez.

 

[phillm]

DON'T POST UP YOUR FUCKING GUESSES. Jeez.

Sincere apologies Ed, a contrite lesson learned I should have known better and appreciated the risks you have running a wonderful board such as this.

 

[Pickman's model]

Sincere apologies Ed, a contrite lesson learned I should have known better and appreciated the risks you have running a wonderful board such as this.

Keep your guesses to pms like everyone else

 

[Pickman's model]

He's normally very gobby but has gone deadly quiet. Maybe he's on holiday. That said Cold War Steve has given IDS a rare star billing probably some other context I have missed.

Edit this and yet here is Iain Duncan Smith arguing against the withdrawal agreement he voted for because HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE VOTED FOR

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The sign should danger don't let any of the former tory ministers into your car

 

[Buddy Bradley]

He means Francois, but I don't believe it - he's just so hateful and gross they all just want it to be him.

Unfortunate for the person running the amusing parody Twitter account if it is.

 

[killer b]

Anyone running a twitter parody account deserves a punch in the face

 

[Teaboy]

Well, I for one am looking forward to the Rose Garden press conference when the man in question explains that it was just a simple case of needing to check that his cock still works.

 

[Streathamite]

He means Francois, but I don't believe it - he's just so hateful and gross they all just want it to be him.

Francois has never been a minister though....

 

[maomao]

Francois has never been a minister though....

He was minister for the armed forces until they realised he was too thick for a proper job. Though several sources have said 'a senior minister' which would seem to rule him out.

 

[existentialist]

He was minister for the armed forces until they realised he was too thick for a proper job.

You wouldn't have thought it'd have taken them long to realise that...

 

[maomao]

You wouldn't have thought it'd have taken them long to realise that...

Have you seen the rest of the tory party?

 

[existentialist]

Have you seen the rest of the tory party?

Ah. Fair point. Yes, it has turned into a bit of a cretinocracy

 

[Streathamite]

He was minister for the armed forces until they realised he was too thick for a proper job. Though several sources have said 'a senior minister' which would seem to rule him out.

ahh....didn't realise that. ta for the heads-up

 

[Raheem]

He was minister for the armed forces until they realised he was too thick for a proper job. Though several sources have said 'a senior minister' which would seem to rule him out.

What's a senior minister, though, except someone some people will have heard of? If we were talking about a cabinet minister, we would probably know that by now.

 

[tim]

He means Francois, but I don't believe it - he's just so hateful and gross they all just want it to be him.

I can't believe that any Prime Minister, however Tory, however desperate, thought the idiot capable of managing a ministerial portfolio, but they did.