I make no comment on this. I just think it a great piece of public interest broadcasting:
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I saw this on iPlayer this morning. It looks to me as though any vested interest with money could buy a Tory policy to benefit them.
Sexual harassment of any kind against anyone is appalling and I hope that we see changes in how this is dealt with.
But as justified as the furore over such bad behaviour is (as man I am extremely ashamed of others of my sex), we must not lose sight of the fact that:
Tax evasion is still happening;
Our NHS is being deliberately underfunded as a prelude to more privatisation;
People are going hungry as state financial support falls or is withdrawn and:
People are finding it hard to find somewhere reasonably priced and decent to live.
Oh – and we are about to turn our backs on a very useful economic treaty with our nearest neighbours.
None of these issues are resolved or will be by this bunch of Tory trash posing as a Government. They have brought Parliament into disrepute and blackened its name and they need to go instead of clinging on. The whole Tory administration should be sent to the knackers yard as far as I concerned.
Agreed PSR. How restrained of the reporter to keep calling Ashcroft, ‘Sir’. I’d find that difficult.
Mind you, his silence is deafening
Also agreed. But does anyone have any idea of how to get rid of them, and just as important, make sure that what replaces them isn’t more of the same only a different colour – like Blair, Brown (who should be in gaol).
What a wally. If I were a super rich Lord I’d rather pay £20,000,000 in tax than humiliate myself in that fashion.
I can’t help feeling that the “sex scandals in Parliament” brouhaha bears all the marks of the MP’s expenses scandal – a double whammy scam, that both
a) takes the eyes of the public off the real miscreants and puppeteers like Lord Ashcroft (whose “favourable” polling of Ed Miliband’s Labour Party was almost certainly a ploy to lull Labour into complacency in the 2015 GE), and
b) disempowers Parliament and MP’s, the ONLY organisation and group of people who COULD rein in such antisocial behaviour, and punish its perpetrators.
It worked then, over the expenses, when Parliament was threatening to take action, and it’s working now, as the public focuses more on who’s doing what with whom, than over who’s doing what with what is ours, or should be ours.
I suspect you are on the right track Andrew. Undermining our institutions has been a goal of the right wing media for many years, playing to the agenda of their owners and the club of the super wealthy to which they belong.
Just as with expenses scandal, at which I had something of a ring side seat, the appalling behaviour of a small number was used to tarnish the entire institution.
It is somewhat reassuring to see that His Lordship (not a mere ‘Sir’!) can be embarrassed this way.
He’s a billionaire: a sovereign nation of one, answerable to no countries’ law.
He *owns* a country – Belize – and I do not doubt that he can give orders to the governments (or at least, the ministers) of at least one other country with every expectation that his orders will be obeyed.
I can only hope that he is less vindictive than (say) his fellow-billionaire, Peter Thiel, who can and does shut down media outlets that annoy him.