Tory minister for civil society Brooks Newmark resigns after sex scandal

[butchersapron]

Sounds like bollocks to me; MP's 'luring in young women', but if that's how it rolled then I might revise my opinion. Need to get his version, and that may never happen.

But The Mirror themselves say:



So "she" (actually a male reporter) sent him at least one picture first (they don't say if "she" complied with his request for another) and he eventually sent one back.

He is a MASSIVE fuckwit. But this isn't him "luring" someone, it's someone "luring" him. Entrapment.

This is the real article - and they clearly state that he asked for a pic first.

 

[Spymaster]

This is the real article - and they clearly state that he asked for a pic first.

On the evening of July 16, after Sophie told him she was lying in bed, Newmark wrote: “By the way I have no idea what you look like so post a pic to me on Whatsapp so I know what you look like when I meet you.”

In reply to a picture Sophie sent after midnight, the balding MP sent a picture of himself sitting on his bed and wearing a white T-shirt.

He forwarded another of himself below the waist as he reclined on his bed watching television in a pair of dark blue and red paisley pyjamas.

Sophie wrote: “Should I send another pic that is the question.” Newmark replied: “Wasn’t that the deal?”

Sophie asked how far he was willing to go. He wrote: “That’s very brave talk.”The reporter then sent a more intimate image, supposedly of Sophie, and Newmark wrote back saying: “You took my breath away!”

He then sent her a close-up of him with his hand covering his bare chest.

The pair discussed taking “it to the next level” before Sophie replied with an explicit naked picture and asked him to promise not to show anyone.

Newmark wrote: “You must be kidding! I’d never do that. But resend without your hand in the way and legs parted and I will send something in return. That way we both have a secret.” He added: “Assuming it meets my request and I reciprocate you MUST swear on a stack of Bibles you won’t show pics as I promise not to show pics of you? OK?”

So "Sophie" says she's lying in bed (no agenda there then) and it escalates from there with her sending the first "explicit" shot.

There's nothing here that suggests that he's done this before, or that he would have done it this time had it not been initiated by the paper.

He's definitely a fucking idiot, but this whole thing stinks.

 

[butchersapron]

Even better then.

 

[Spymaster]

Well I suppose that would depend on ones definition of "better".

 

[ViolentPanda]

I hope the pictures are the full orange-and-binbag variety to really bring back the good old days.

You forgot the stockings. You need the stockings for the full "Stephen Milligan" effect.

 

[tony heath]

That was no sting, that's a Tory prick

 

[tony heath]

The Tory member for Paisley was not acting appropriately

 

[killer b]

some details here. pretty sordid fishing tbh.

 

[hash tag]

Oh dear, are there not "bigger things" in the world to rant about?

 

[Spymaster]

some details here. pretty sordid fishing tbh.

Yes. The only story here is "Daft MP fitted-up by tabloid scum"

 

[DotCommunist]

I sort of wish this ones name had been 'Foolhardy' or 'randy'.

The headlines would have been great 'Reckless & Foolhardy'

 

[ferrelhadley]

The Tory member for Paisley was not acting appropriately

No conservative has held Paisley going back to at least 1832

 

[Theisticle]

Tory or not, this reads more and more like a shitty example of tabloid entrapment:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...ls-tory-minister-sexting-sting-brooks-newmark

 

[brogdale]

Tory or not, this reads more and more like a shitty example of tabloid entrapment:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...ls-tory-minister-sexting-sting-brooks-newmark

They had their chance to make this aspect of the "free-press" more difficult...and bottled it.

FTR, here's what Nomark himself said...

A Conservative minister who resigned after sending a sexually explicit image of himself to a reporter posing as a young activist has said he was a “complete fool”
The married father of five told the BBC: “I have no one to blame but myself.

 

[Nylock]

Leaving aside the press entrapment issue, the man thought he could get his leg-over with a woman less than half his age and no-one would find out. I'm sure he didn't keep his wife up to speed as to how the 'sexting' was proceeding. Stupidity or not: Fuck him.

 

[tony heath]

It was bloody stupid and potential blackmail material.
A minister is meant to be smarter than that.

He may have been set up, was he thinking of joining UKIP or just shagging a young journalist?

 

[Theisticle]

The bloke's an idiot. But there are fundamental ethical issues for the journalists in question. Whose nudes did they use? What about the other picture? Did they just pluck them from Google or get consent?

 

[iamwithnail]

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"Butter mountain"????

Boringly, the company that make a bunch of MPs websites...

 

[Spymaster]

The bloke's an idiot. But there are fundamental ethical issues for the journalists in question. Whose nudes did they use? What about the other picture? Did they just pluck them from Google or get consent?

Beyond that it goes to what is or isn't in the public interest enough to condone entrapment of this sort.

If it was potential noncing, drug smuggling, or genocidal tendencies, fair enough, but this episode just tells us that this particular married MP would probably have had a snidey shag with a stunning 24 year old who showed a sexual interest, given the chance.

Not even that he did; not that he'd ever been unfaithful to his wife before; but under exceptional circumstances contrived by a tabloid hack, would have done.

Wow!

"Hold the front page!!!"

 

[weltweit]

This is my preferred method for trapping Tories

It looks to be missing its spring! Not going to catch many tories without that

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Beyond that it goes to what is or isn't in the public interest enough to condone entrapment of this sort.

He was a minister in the government.

If he is too stupid to know that sending pictures of his cock to people he doesn't know on the internet may be a bad idea, he really should not be taking £200K (inc. exes) of our cash each year and should not be laying down laws of the land.

If this is the only way to get rid of incompetent ministers, that's a very sad state of affairs, but I'll not be losing any sleep over some sleazy creep who thought he could abuse his position and our money to pressure a woman less than half his age to shag the dreary, balding cunt.

Fuck him.

 

[Spymaster]

This bit first:

... but I'll not be losing any sleep over some sleazy creep who thought he could abuse his position and our money to pressure a woman less than half his age to shag the dreary, balding cunt.

He hasn't "abused his position" or "our money", ya fackin willy! A tabloid journo has targeted his position (and loads of other people's) on a fishing expedition.

If he is too stupid to know that sending pictures of his cock to people he doesn't know on the internet may be a bad idea, he really should not be taking £200K (inc. exes) of our cash each year and should not be laying down laws of the land.

No argument here. He's been an exceptionally stupid tool and his resigning was correct.

My issue is with this style of "journalism".

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

I'm no fan of the press, but this country is so corrupt that this kind of thing is the only way to get rid of these fuckers; see Royal Mail sell off, they should be doing bird for that.

And he offered her a trip to Parliament, seeing as his sole motivation was a bunk up it goes without saying that a few tax subsidised drinkies would have flowed, if not a meal...

 

[likesfish]

Minister attempts to shag flirty 20 something hold the front pages
Bit like b list celeb can find you cocaine

This isn't journalism guys an idiot and has to resign. But jurnos should be doing better than this

 

[Spymaster]

I'm no fan of the press, but this country is so corrupt that this kind of thing is the only way to get rid of these fuckers

"The only way to rid ourselves of corruption is to manufacture corruption"

And he offered her a trip to Parliament, seeing as his sole motivation was a bunk up it goes without saying that a few tax subsidised drinkies would have flowed, if not a meal...

Thinking that "she" was a researcher for his party he suggested that she give him a shout when she was around. I'm no apologist for mistreatment of expenses and subsidies but I reckon if you were to pull-up every MP who's expensed a few sneaky drinks or dinners, parliament would be about 648 MP's short.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

"The only way to rid ourselves of corruption is to manufacture corruption"

Facilitate, not manufacture.

Thinking that "she" was a researcher for his party he suggested that she give him a shout when she was around.

And then sent 'her' a picture of his cock.

I'm no expert on these matters, but most women that I have had acquaintance with ain't too keen on pictures of random penii.

He was hoping she would be in awe of his position, you know full well what was going through his sordid mind

I'm no apologist for mistreatment of expenses and subsidies but I reckon if you were to pull-up every MP who's expensed a few sneaky drinks or dinners, parliament would be about 648 MP's short!

So left with 2 MPs? We could do that, we're not bothered about paying for our drinks, doubles excepted. Parliament could be an endless cycle of capital punishment debates. In the meantime the country would function much better with none of these wankers getting in the way.

 

[Dan U]

Some rumours on twitter it wasn't The Mirror who got the story, but Alex Wickham from Guido Fawkes. He wrote in the Spectator earlier this year about mps trying it on with him.

 

[Prince Rhyus]

This -> http://barristerblogger.com/2014/09...unday-mirrors-sting-brookes-newmark-criminal/ on the barrister blogger blog makes for interesting reading - did the newspaper break the law? If so, which one?

 

[brogdale]

From what I understand this is slightly different to Mahmood's MO.

The Mirror was tipped off about a number of MPs using social networking to lure in young women. They set up a twitter account pretending to be an early 20's female Tory PR, just chatting about shit and this sleazoid came on to 'her'. He made all the running, offering 'her' a trip to parliament, lunch (at our expense) etc. with the sole aim of getting in to 'her' kecks. If this is what our MPs are doing with our taxes, it should be exposed.

If that's correct, then Buzzfeed's list of those vermin receiving tweets from "Sophie" might be telling us something?

recent months Sophie Wittams tweeted compliments at Conservative MPs including Dan Byles, Charlie Elphicke, Rob Jenrick, Gavin Barwell and Mark Reckless. Only a handful of the politicians replied and there is no suggestion that any MP other than Newmark sent inappropriate sexts or pictures to the account.

Shame they didn't nail Barfwell

 

[Spymaster]

Facilitate, not manufacture.

No. Manufacture. Totally.

I'm no expert on these matters, but most women that I have had acquaintance with ain't too keen on pictures of random penii.

How was this "random"?

The Mirror expressly contrived to obtain a picture of his tool in order to dob him up. A picture that would never have existed had they not encouraged it by subterfuge.

Let's be honest, it's the fact that he's a tory that is achieving support here. If this had been Saint Livingstone, or Sir Robert of Crowe, back in the day, U75 would be shitting flames of rectal indignation at press entrapment.