Westminster sexual abuse scandals

[Teaboy]

He's definitely deep in the creep.

Vine's screeching column basically gave the game away.

 

[Poi E]

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[killer b]

Williamson seems to be a very unpopular appointment with the party. Good stuff.

 

[DotCommunist]

toynbee said that its one more scandal/fuckup till the wheels come off, which means may is secure for now

 

[Wilf]

Williamson seems to be a very unpopular appointment with the party. Good stuff.

Yep, plenty of anger being reported at the appointment, that it shows her to be week etc:
Gavin Williamson's appointment as defence secretary triggers backlash - Politics live

 

[ViolentPanda]

work being the hotbed (are we allowed hotbeds anymore?) of gossip and speculation that it is, the concensus of opinion is that both Fallon and May decided that he could not survive the stream of 'handsy at parties', 'likes a drink', and 'wasn't he a bit friendly with that Russian woman?' stories that are inevitably coming down the road, so knew he had to go (it also suggests that while his relationship with May was still one of genuine support and friendship, he has felt for some time that she's simply not listening to his begging, and its getting to begging, for more money for the MOD) - the concensus also supports the view that the deep, long-held loathing that Fallon, and May, have for both Boris Johnson and Liam Fox has coloured the way that has resigned with the very deliberate intention of seeing them in personal disgrace.

I'm not sure that Johnson or Fox have a sense of personal shame or honour larger than an atom, so expecting them to sense that their behaviour disgraces them, their party and Parliament enough that they resign their ministerial permissions is a fantasy on Fallon's behalf, IF that's a reason for his departure.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Psy-trance promoter?

Gabber dj?

 

[Teaboy]

toynbee said that its one more scandal/fuckup till the wheels come off, which means may is secure for now

A real boost for May that.

 

[Wilf]

A real boost for May that.

Every fucking bit of this, along with every bit of the brexit makes her look worse and worse... but then her failure with the 2017 election means she has to at least try to cling on till the end of Brexit. Must be twisting her filthy rotten guts.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Vine's screeching column basically gave the game away.

Yep. I really should write to her, thanking her for shanking her hubby and his colleagues.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Williamson seems to be a very unpopular appointment with the party. Good stuff.

Unsurprising. He's even more of a nasty careerist worm than Liam Fox is.

 

[ViolentPanda]

toynbee said that its one more scandal/fuckup till the wheels come off, which means may is secure for now

Sadly true.

 

[Wilf]

Basically, it's like House of Cards, where Kevin Spacey plays every character.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Basically, it's like House of Cards, where Kevin Spacey plays every character.

And every character thinks that they have the ruthlessness, sharp wits and persuasiveness of Kyser Soze.

 

[kebabking]

Williamson seems to be a very unpopular appointment with the party. Good stuff.

its a pretty unpopular appointment within the MOD as well - he's an ultra-loyalist and the Cabinet Office mini defence review is out within the next few weeks. Fallon was known to be very unhappy with it and is known to have repeatedly challenged May over it in private, this bloke however won't bat an eyelid.

Fallon wasn't lionised by any stretch of the imagination, but he was at least considered to be the MOD's man in government regardless of how effective he was at securing funding he'd previously been promised - and that generated a certain degree of loyalty towards him with regards unauthorised media briefings. Williamson, unless he pulls something pretty spectacular out of the hat in the very short term, will get none of that, and it'll be open season with leaks left, right and centre.

 

[killer b]

Basically, it's like House of Cards, where Kevin Spacey plays every character.

Very good. your own work?

 

[Wilf]

Very good. your own work?

Yes.

 

[Wilf]

And every character thinks that they have the ruthlessness, sharp wits and persuasiveness of Kyser Soze.

"The Usual Suspects ask their assistants to do odd things".

 

[Puddy_Tat]

may couldn't manage a small shop

 

[ViolentPanda]

"The Usual Suspects ask their assistants to do odd things".

 

[Wilf]

Farage has been noticeably quiet about all this. I'd have expected a 'political correctness gone mad' tweet at the very least by now. Surely there has to be a bit of cross party solidarity for the gropers and lechers?

 

[spanglechick]

I wonder if it might not be the booze with fallon and/or some of the others.

Yes, one of them is being explicitly claimed as drunk all the time, but with a job like politics I'd be astounded if there weren't a whole stack of people with quite concerning alcohol dependency (in turn, fuelling many of these other behaviours).

 

[Pickman's model]

Farage has been noticeably quiet about all this. I'd have expected a 'political correctness gone mad' tweet at the very least by now. Surely there has to be a bit of cross party solidarity for the gropers and lechers?

And gripers

 

[Teaboy]

Farage has been noticeably quiet about all this. I'd have expected a 'political correctness gone mad' tweet at the very least by now. Surely there has to be a bit of cross party solidarity for the gropers and lechers?

Probably more a case that he is nervously watching what is going on over the water and shredding every piece of paperwork in his house.

 

[Raheem]

Basically, it's like House of Cards, where Kevin Spacey plays every character.

Well, I can guess what will be in my dreams tonight. Thanks for that.

 

[Teaboy]

I wonder if it might not be the booze with fallon and/or some of the others.

Yes, one of them is being explicitly claimed as drunk all the time, but with a job like politics I'd be astounded if there weren't a whole stack of people with quite concerning alcohol dependency (in turn, fuelling many of these other behaviours).

I don't see why it would be booze alone. Loads of them are open and proud piss-heads, its what they do when pissed up which is the issue it would seem.

 

[Wilf]

Probably more a case that he is nervously watching what is going on over the water and shredding every piece of paperwork in his house.

Yes, libel laws aside, I've always thought he's a combination of pretty much celebrating his own boozing and shagging along with the possibility of something darker.

 

[spanglechick]

I don't see why it would be booze alone. Loads of them are open and proud piss-heads, its what they do when pissed up which is the issue it would seem.

Piss heads as in binge drinkers, goes down differently with the public than "govt minister starts every day with half a bottle of vodka".

 

[Mumbles274]

House of Cads

Ftfy

 

[Teaboy]

Piss heads as in binge drinkers, goes down differently with the public than "govt minister starts every day with half a bottle of vodka".

i'd think more of them tbh. If they are all doing that suddenly the state we're in makes sense, I had assumed they were naturally shit.