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Tory minister for civil society Brooks Newmark resigns after sex scandal

That's two of the fawkes team Jones is best buds with now. And laurie was all pally with the Cole one. After accusing him of stalking and threatening her sister and stealing explicit photos of herself. Journalism - what a noble pursuit.

Cole is permanently on Sky it seems these days. All the sucking up to Kay Burley on Twitter seems to have paid off, although if they actually read the comments section on his site you would wonder at the wisdom of it. racism, sexism etc.
 
They wouldn't touch it because the victim of the 'sting' was on their side. Don't interpret it as a moral decision.

It's neither.

They've just looked at it, seen it for what it is (an entrapment case with little public interest) and steered well clear. No morality here, just a desire not to be in the kind of shit that The Mirror have got themselves in to.
 
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Sorry to see @TweetBrooks go. One of the very few MPs to talk sense on Syria from the start. At least now he's unchained to do so again

eta - i still can't work out how to embed tweets but that was from Sat evening.
you need to copy the link from behind the time/date it was posted and just paste that in here, looks funny to begin with but do a refresh and it is there
ie the direct link to the specific tweet. can also hover over the time/date of the tweet, open in new tab/window and copy that address from the address bar
 
Hat-tip to the ever excellent "Inside Croydon" team for suggesting the reasoning for Wickham's targeting of Barfwell...I'd forgotten this gem of an own goal from the member for Cronx Centrale & Whitgift...

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/17/gavin-barwell-date-arab-girls-twitter
I remember that, I think there is a thread on it somewhere

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threa...l-in-idiotic-tweet-shocker-arab-girls.307726/

yep, I started it - forgotten that
 
Well it's come from way out of left field as she hasn't even posted on the thread since Sunday.

Looks like you're just trying to have a pop at another poster in that snidey way of yours, tbh.

Do you have anything to add to the topic?
 
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it's a question as i was wondering

no relevance to this thread that you can see?

Maybe it does have some relevance, but it's not immediately obvious, and it's up to you to make the case if you think there is one.

It's certain possible to argue a case for this sort of tabloid tactic being generally unwelcome without being a Tory sympathiser/voter, and if you really can't see that, says more about you than anyone who's argued that case.
 
Well it's come from way out of left field as she hasn't even posted on the thread since Sunday.

Looks like you're just trying to have a pop at another poster in that snidey way of yours, tbh.

Do you have anything to add to the topic?
no i am not, fuck off.
i am sure the poster can answer or not (or tell me to fuck off) for themselves. i hadn't noticed that they hadn't posted since sunday, apologies m'lord
 
Maybe it does have some relevance, but it's not immediately obvious, and it's up to you to make the case if you think there is one.

It's certain possible to argue a case for this sort of tabloid tactic being generally unwelcome without being a Tory sympathiser/voter, and if you really can't see that, says more about you than anyone who's argued that case.
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i can see and appreciate where the poster is coming from and why the tabloid tactic is shit
please don't assume i can't or misrepresent me
 
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i can see and appreciate where the poster is coming from and why the tabloid tactic is shit
please don't assume i can't or misrepresent me

Yes, this is clearly all about me misrepresenting you, and nothing whatever to do with your non sequitur of a post...
 

Desperate stuff.

This is getting good now.

Brooks Newmark was one of the founders of “Women2Win”, a campaign to get more Conservative women into politics. Newmark had a certain reputation among younger Tory women for being, for want of a better word, a bit of a creep. Think what his position gave him access to – ambitious, younger women.

If that's not true, it's probably libelous. The trouble is that Skidmark is probably more likely to want to keep his head down for a while rather than sue them!

And what's this bollocks?:

How do our critics expect us to prove an MP is exploiting his position for carnal gain?

Yeah, cos that's exactly what you've done, isn't it? :facepalm:
 
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yeah. def don't buy this women2win crap. they went on a massive fishing expedition and happened to get this guy.

Well quite; if they were trying to prove he was not safe in taxis one would think you would need an actual woman for that.

It is also a mystery to me why Guido is trying to pretend this wasnt entrapment either - it clearly was, and there is a clear public interest justification for doing what they did (albeit with the proviso that they should have got consent from the person whose photos were used first).
 
Well quite; if they were trying to prove he was not safe in taxis one would think you would need an actual woman for that.

It is also a mystery to me why Guido is trying to pretend this wasnt entrapment either - it clearly was, and there is a clear public interest justification for doing what they did (albeit with the proviso that they should have got consent from the person whose photos were used first).

What's the public interest though?

That a married MP would shag a hot 24 year old? Big deal. It's not even as if he's pursued her.

Guido is attempting to say that this bolsters their claim that he had a creepy reputation but it does nothing of the sort. As you say you'd need a woman or women to confirm that, and they don't seem about to roll a load of them out. There are far more questions than answers. If they had snagged Elphicke or Pritchard instead of Newmark, no doubt they'd be the ones with the supposedly sleazy histories.
 
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