Westminster sexual abuse scandals

[mauvais]

You know, I reckon if there was a Tory Battle Royale, Leadsom would probably win it.

Andrea who?

*arrow to the throat*

 

[EYEisBloke]

As much as i dislike Jess Phillips, she has spent much of her working life working in women's refuges and charities supporting victims of domestic abuse. She's one of the only MPs i can think of who i think will actually go at this properly. I hope i have her pegged right as someone with some principles when it comes to this issue and that she won't let this go in a horse trade for some career bullshit.

She worked for one charity supporting female victims of domestic abuse as their Business Development Manager (i.e. funding applications etc) before that she worked for her parent's business.

Since entering Parliament in 2015 her profile has been significantly raised by various sensational headlines (I told Dianne Abbott to fuck off / I would stab Jeremy Corbyn / I think a night out in Birmingham is like Cologne on new years eve etc), she's supplemented her MP salary by £100k++ with a book all about her, lobbies hard on internet censorship and claims to have been the victim of torrents of twitter abuse on at least 4 separate headline generating occasions, three of which involved over 600 'rape threats' in one night..

So i doubt principles top her values set sadly.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I'm not a Jess Phillips fan but I've no doubt she does receive a huge amount of horrible shit as well - any woman that puts her head over the parapet will do. I think it's important to remember that and in the context of this thread particularly I think putting scare quotes around 'rape threats' is very suspect tbh.

 

[killer b]

check this prick's post history before bothering to engage huh.

 

[Sue]

Petronella Wyatt on the Today programme doing the 'women gave up their right to moan about such things when they wanted to be treated like men, it's a bit of fun, nothing wrong with it as long as everyone has good manners, why are women making a fuss over nothing' bollocks and, of course, women being offended by men holding doors open for them (which I have to say I've never, ever encountered in real life). What an appalling woman.

She also kept talking over the woman giving the other (reasonable) point of view then complained she wasn't getting a chance to talk. Absolutely dreadful.

 

[planetgeli]

Petronella Wyatt on the Today programme doing the 'women gave up their right to moan about such things when they wanted to be treated like men, it's a bit of fun, nothing wrong with it as long as everyone has good manners, why are women making a fuss over nothing' bollocks and, of course, women being offended by men holding doors open for them (which I have to say I've never, ever encountered in real life). What an appalling woman.

She also kept talking over the woman giving the other (reasonable) point of view then complained she wasn't getting a chance to talk. Absolutely dreadful.

That'll be Woodrow Wyatt's daughter. The one who had a four year affair with Boris Johnson.

Her credentials aren't exactly great.

 

[Sue]

That'll be Woodrow Wyatt's daughter. The one who had a four year affair with Boris Johnson.

Her credentials aren't exactly great.

Don't know anything about her except what I heard earlier and that was more than enough.

 

[keybored]

Don't know anything about her except what I heard earlier and that was more than enough.

She was either trying too hard to be edgy or she's as hatstand as her dad was.

 

[butchersapron]

She wrote a piece for the mail a few years back calling ascot races chavscot and demanding vulgar people be denied entry.

 

[killer b]

The BBCs commitment to balance is fairly unbalanced isn't it?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Don't know anything about her

Enjoy:

...I, too, earn between £80,000 and £100,000 a year, yet a rejected credit card is only the start of my financial woes. I’ve even come to the point where a visit from the bailiffs is a very realistic prospect — a troubling predicament I’d lived with for years.

But how did I, a privately educated, privileged Oxbridge graduate come to be part of what I call the Broke Generation? My friends come from similarly well-heeled backgrounds. We work hard. Ten or 15 years ago, this would have guaranteed financial security, yet it has become increasingly difficult for us to make ends meet...

...Time was when a salary of £120,000 allowed one to live the life of a potentate. I know. My late father, the politician Woodrow Wyatt, never earned more than £130,000, yet he maintained a Grade II-listed house (albeit rented) in the same London street as Sir Paul McCartney, with a cook and a butler...[etc]

Petronella Wyatt: It's hell being posh but poor | Daily Mail Online

 

[killer b]

odd her claiming to be an oxbridge graduate - according to her wiki (I looked her up in horror this morning) she left oxford after two weeks, claiming bullying for being right wing...

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

It's terrible isn't it. These days a hundred grand a year is barely enough to sustain a respectable coke habit.

 

[butchersapron]

odd her claiming to be an oxbridge graduate - according to her wiki (I looked her up in horror this morning) she left oxford after two weeks, claiming bullying for being right wing...

Even her linkedin just says 'won a place at Oxford University to read History' - i think she must have done that herself. Everyone else would be too embarrassed.

 

[teqniq]

I imagine it's useful in the circles she moves in to claim Oxbridge and hope no-one looks too closely, bit like Katie Hopkins and Sandhurst.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Awkward:

...David Cameron’s hand was in mine. His fingers were warm, with an apple-whiteness. It was one in the morning, and the occasion was the birthday party of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont, a family friend, in spring 1992. David was at the time Lamont’s special adviser and a young-man-about-town...We had been dancing, and in his patent Boden shoes, which matched his black tie, David was delineated of feature, slim and lithe. In the soft light he had the fleeting look of a young Valentino and was already exhibiting the assured footwork that would characterise his rise.

Dancing is very much like politics. In David’s dancing, there was a sneakiness as well. On one occasion his hands violated the neutrality of my posterior and had to be removed. Doubtless it was inadvertent. But he had a cleanness about him then; a freshness of manner – though just how fresh I was soon to find out.

Petronella Wyatt, Chronicler of Cameron's inner circle of rivals recalls her dates with Dave | Daily Mail Online

 

[DaveCinzano]

The BBCs commitment to balance is fairly unhinged isn't it?

FTFY

 

[DotCommunist]

I once saw it described as having an expert cabinet maker come in to talk and for balance bringing in a bloke who doesn't believe in chairs

 

[killer b]

It's not just that though: what gets balanced is ideological - we don't get a marxist brought in for balance when some shiny fuck from the Adam Smith Institute or the CBI is on talking about the latest productivity figures for example.

 

[Sue]

Enjoy:


Petronella Wyatt: It's hell being posh but poor | Daily Mail Online

These fucking people. Pickman's model's South Georgian canals are way too good for them.

 

[Sue]

Awkward:



Petronella Wyatt, Chronicler of Cameron's inner circle of rivals recalls her dates with Dave | Daily Mail Online

She'd struggle to get a gig with Mills and Boon.

 

[Pickman's model]

These fucking people. Pickman's model's South Georgian canals are way too good for them.

yeh. you see the mountains? the former mps etc who will be digging the canals will be digging 40' wide notches through those mountains, down to the level at which water can flood the canals. without the benefit of mechanical assistance.

 

[agricola]

yeh. you see the mountains? the former mps etc who will be digging the canals will be digging 40' wide notches through those mountains, down to the level at which water can flood the canals. without the benefit of mechanical assistance.

the Penguin Venice, they will call it in years to come

 

[Sue]

yeh. you see the mountains? the former mps etc who will be digging the canals will be digging 40' wide notches through those mountains, down to the level at which water can flood the canals. without the benefit of mechanical assistance.

I see you've thought this through.

 

[chilango]

Stop ruining South Georgia for me

 

[kebabking]

Stop ruining South Georgia for me

Too right, SG is utterly beautiful, I don't want it ruined by dreadful people in boiler suits who break wind in the halls of the mighty....

 

[teqniq]

Leopard seals however might be interested in a new source of protein.

 

[kebabking]

Leopard seals however might be interested in a new source of protein.

I was chased by a Leopard Seal on SG once, I was doing to the 'how close can I have my picture taken with this fucking massive set of teeth' thing, and the answer was 'too close..'.

 

[ViolentPanda]

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).

TBF Bob Stewart was known to "like his ale" even back when he was a colonel.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Is it just me or is Williamson a bit of a familiar face?

I think I once saw him in a car park, shouting the word 'Dan'.

He also looks a bit Lembit Opik, pre-faceplant.