Westminster sexual abuse scandals

[chilango]

Wasn’t a submarine commander recently relieved of his duties cos of a sexual relationship with a colleague? But Felon is still an MP.

What’s long and hard and full of seamen?

 

[kebabking]

Wasn’t a submarine commander recently relieved of his duties cos of a sexual relationship with a colleague? But Felon is still an MP.

Yup, the colleague was also relieved of their duties.

Both have effectively lost their jobs.

 

[hash tag]

What’s long and hard and full of seamen?

And round

 

[bimble]

These?

Woman 'reported sexual assault by MP four times but was ignored'

EXCLUSIVE: 'Date rape drug' in Commons bar - Tory aide tells police her drink was spiked in MPs' drinking den

Yep. The front page this eve looks like this (sorry if massive pic)

 

[DaveCinzano]

Is there a collective noun for disgraced former defence secretaries?

A Cliveden party of disgraced former Defence Secretaries

 

[tim]

Is there a collective noun for disgraced former defence secretaries?

A robertson of disgraceful defence secretaries.

 

[hot air baboon]

A Profumo ?

 

[DaveCinzano]

A Profumo ?

Ahem

A Cliveden party of disgraced former Defence Secretaries

 

[hot air baboon]

officially he was the " Secretary of State for War" - so they're both wrong anyway

 

[DaveCinzano]

officially he was the " Secretary of State for War" - so they're both wrong anyway

Speak for yourself

 

[tim]

Only a matter of time I reckon

Till he get's forgiven and returns to the cabinet

 

[hot air baboon]

well you would say that wouldn't you

 

[tim]

How many lost by-elections till the govt falls?

They won't lose much sleep over Sheffield Hallam.

 

[shifting gears]

Appears that Newsnight tonight is going to examine sexual-harassment in general rather than directly address the recent parliamentary revelations..... hmmmm

 

[ViolentPanda]

Sounds like this sort of stuff was an open secret - or not even a secret. Yet this bloke won the selection for a very safe seat. They either have very serious personnel problems or there's some serious not giving a shit going on.

Either?

Both.

 

[SpackleFrog]

If it's an document put together by Tory staff to compare notes - as it's claimed it is - then that it's a mixture of unconfirmed and possibly inaccurate gossip and more serious allegations is totally what you'd expect. It's been leaked by someone with an agenda (that Guido and the Sun are where it was leaked to makes this pretty certain), but this kind of thing just isn't controllable once it's out in the world - this will destabilise the government, and it's totally conceivable it could bring it down: so look for people who could gain from that within the party for the leak, rather than dreaming up some machiavellian conspiracy on the part of the government.

As you say, if. It doesn't look like a list that was compiled for internal purposes. Why would Amber Rudd be on it?

Having said that, a lot of stuff broke tonight so whatever, it's out, and regardless of whether my suspicions have any basis as you say it *is* destabilising the govt.

 

[agricola]

As you say, if. It doesn't look like a list that was compiled for internal purposes. Why would Amber Rudd be on it?

Having said that, a lot of stuff broke tonight so whatever, it's out, and regardless of whether my suspicions have any basis as you say it *is* destabilising the govt.

The Raab one is the interesting one - he has denied ever having an injunction, but the case he cites that he thinks it may relate to (him suing the Mail over a story about when he was DD's chief of staff) actually boiled down to the Mail being refused permission to examine a settlement (and speak to one of the parties) agreed between Raab and a third party over an employment dispute which may or may not have involved sexual discrimination.

 

[ViolentPanda]

the Rory Stewart allegations - that he asked his researcher to do 'odd things' - have been denied. by the researcher...

I wonder how baroque the "odd things" were. Most of these offences, while nasty, are quotidian. Where's the Milliganesque stuff, the auto=erotic asphyxiation while wearing women's underwear and gumming a satsuma?

 

[ViolentPanda]

it was a named researcher - on the list. same name researcher claims its bollocks. could be some form of mix up, but given the other hole in the list, it smells a bit like made up hoop.

Was probably Bob rather than Rory Stewart. Probably asked his researcher to give him a reach-around while they sang "Father Abraham" and sank pints of gin.

 

[kebabking]

I wonder how baroque the "odd things" were. Most of these offences, while nasty, are quotidian. Where's the Milliganesque stuff, the auto=erotic asphyxiation while wearing women's underwear and gumming a satsuma?

politicians today, they've just not got the flair for public life...

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'm really confused. I can't think of any short words, words of let's say 4 letters, that would apply to Grant Shapps.

I can. Plenty of 5 letter words too, like "fraud", "Green", "shite", "twonk" and many others. 4 letter words are best, though. Especially "cunt".

 

[elbows]

I can. Plenty of 5 letter words too, like "fraud", "Green", "shite", "twonk" and many others. 4 letter words are best, though. Especially "cunt".

Is there a short word that describes sexually harassing your own alter ego?

 

[ViolentPanda]

politicians today, they've just not got the flair for public life...

Precisely! It's like they've forgotten every bit of perversion and deviance they learned at boarding school and university! All that ferret-molesting, playing "spunky biscuit", raping the janitor's Jack Russell, de-bagging and sodomy, and fetishising women in 1950s nurse's uniform.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Is there a short word that describes sexually harassing your own alter ego?

No, but now I wish there was!

 

[Raheem]

I can. Plenty of 5 letter words too, like "fraud", "Green", "shite", "twonk" and many others. 4 letter words are best, though. Especially "cunt".

You can also combine those. "Cuntfraud". "Twonkshite". It's practically a whole language of its own.

 

[kebabking]

Precisely! It's like they've forgotten every bit of perversion and deviance they learned at boarding school and university! All that ferret-molesting, playing "spunky biscuit", raping the janitor's Jack Russell, de-bagging and sodomy, and fetishising women in 1950s nurse's uniform.

amateurs the lot of them - though an honourable mention goes to the chap who was videoed (allegedly m'lud..) while having 3 blokes piss on his chest.

it almost makes you envious of the French - doubtless they have a minister who has worked his way through entire sports teams and nunneries - and of the Americans; i know Trump has silly hair, but to have a Pres who has enriched his children to the tune of billions at public expence and commited treason against the US despite having been in office less than a year, it must make the heart swell with pride and the eyes to dampen somewhat.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Is there a collective noun for disgraced former defence secretaries?

A shared hotel room of former defence secretaries?

 

[ViolentPanda]

Wasn’t a submarine commander recently relieved of his duties cos of a sexual relationship with a colleague? But Felon is still an MP.

TBF, I thought it was a job requirement for sub skippers to have sexual relations with crew members!

 

[ViolentPanda]

What’s long and hard and full of seamen?

Margaret Thatcher's coffin before it was cremated.

 

[kebabking]

there are several ideas doing the rounds regarding Fallon, none are concrete, so take your pick...

i) Fallon is - in a genuinely innocent way - a touchy-feely bloke who likes a drink at parties. he can read the tea leaves and knows that there are probably hundreds of people he has touched while drunk (not neccesarily in a sexual way, he touches shoulders, arms etc.. of pretty much everyone he talks to), and knows that he can't possibly expect a a get-out-of-jail-free card as presented by Julia Hartley-Brewer in each case - so he's gone before he was pushed.

ii) theres an allegation that while an Energy minister he became overly attentive to a very pretty, and unnacountably interested in the minutae of Energy policy, woman with a pronounced Russian accent. never proven, quite possibly made up, but you never know.

iii) i +ii + he thinks defence is going to get a shoeing in the next spending round, he has already told the PM that Defence can't function on its current budget and she isn't prepared to order the Treasury to find more cash, so he's decided that its time to go.