What is it about British Politicans and sex???

[Joeaksa]

What in the world is going on with politics here in England??? It seems at least one a month, if not sooner, one of the politicians of either party is caught in bed with someone (or thing) that they should not be there with!

Latest is: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4636282.stm

Member of the govt found to have been having a "relationship" with a "rent boy" as they call it. The 23 year old rent boy had been having sex with the 41 year old married father of two.

It seems like this keeps coming up again and again in the news here. Last week was another member of the govt who admitted to excessive drinking and he has since resigned.

I thought we had it bad in the states before spending a week or two over here!

JoeA

[aways]

Haven't the Brits (in particular the "upper crust") always had a reputation (deserved or not) for having an appetite for buggering boys?

[Craig 930 RS]

A repressed society often goes underground with various acts of perversion.....

[Joeaksa]

And the guy has a nice looking wife and family??!! Just went through the newspaper here and he not only had one guy in bed with him but later paid for two young guys to have sex with him! To boot he was in the run to be the leader of his party here in the UK!

Do not understand it I guess...

[pwd72s]

Sounds a lot like the recently recalled ex mayor of Spokane, Washington...

[StevoRocket]

He always was a slime ball like all the other Liberal Democrats, too bad the w*nkers in Winchester kept voting him in.
Lets hope this submerges the Lib/Dems for ever.

[livi]

Reminds me of the Catholic church priests.

[tabs]

Originally posted by Craig911
A repressed society often goes underground with various acts of perversion.....

Hey whats wrong with a little perversion once in awhile...it does one good to get down and wallow in the filth and slime for awhile and once you get up and wash yourself off, you can go back to being the morally superior hypocrit that you always were.....

[kach22i]

The saucy version of the story..........if you are into that kind of thing.

http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/story_pages/news/news2.shtml

"When he arrived we put on a show for him. I started having sex with my boyfriend on the bed then Oaten stripped and began pleasuring himself. Then he said he wanted us to degrade him." The naked MP then got the rent boys to humiliate him with a bizarre sex act too revolting to describe...............................The scandal exposes Oaten as a hypocrite. Last year he CONDEMNED a judge who was sacked for hiring rent boys.

And he has no qualms about using family values to further his career. His website boasts he is a family man who lives with them in his constituency.

[kach22i]

Originally posted by StevoRocket
He always was a slime ball like

How well did you know him?

Do you know what the word hypocrite means?

Read the story about double life style.

I think Tabs has the tone of the story correct.

[Joeaksa]

Well, its less than a week and we have our next gay outing in British politics! What in the world is going on there!

The press has been asking the Liberal Democrat if he is gay several times and he always says no, now out comes the news that he has been spending time on gay chat rooms and has had relationships with men in the past.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4651640.stm

Gay revelation 'is leader test'

Hughes interview

Lib Dem leadership contender Simon Hughes has said the way he has handled media pressure after admitting gay relationships is a mark of his courage. He said it showed "he was not afraid of dealing with things" - a quality "which might be a leadership criterion".

The MP told Thursday's Sun he had had relationships with both women and men.

Asked about his recent denial when asked if he was gay, he said: "I gave a reply that wasn't untrue but was clearly misleading and I apologise."

'Vision'

The 54-year-old Lib Dem president said he had considered quitting the leadership race but had not come close to doing so.

He told BBC Radio Five Live the situation had become "unmanageable" this week as newspapers put more allegations, most of them untrue, to his campaign team.

I apologise if I misled people, I apologise if I unintentionally gave the wrong impression.

Simon Hughes

Analysis: Political fallout

The Bermondsey MP said he could not tell if the episode had damaged his leadership campaign. He urged Lib Dem members to judge him on his experience, vision and campaigning.

"I hope they might think one other thing: that having gone through this experience and not disappeared, not backed away, that is a test and a sign that I'm not afraid of dealing with things that may be a criterion for leadership," he said.

Mr Hughes has slipped from odds-on favourite at the bookmakers to win the contest to 4/1 outsider.

'No stereotype'

His leadership rivals, Sir Menzies Campbell and Treasury spokesman Chris Huhne, both said his private life should not affect the leadership race.

Mr Hughes recently denied he was gay, saying he had "often" thought about getting married but had not been "as successful as I would have liked".

Asked by the Independent whether he was gay, he replied: "No, I'm not. But it absolutely should not matter if I was."

On Thursday, Mr Hughes said his reply had not been untrue, saying his relationships with both men and women meant he was not easy to "pigeon hole".

By-election battle

He said: "I apologise if I misled people, I apologise if I unintentionally gave the wrong impression.

"But I hope people will understand why people in public life try to put that sort of fence around them.

"And I hope they will understand that it shouldn't disbar people - not just me but anyone else - from public office or doing a job which I want to do and want to do well."

HAVE YOUR SAY
Sadly the leadership race is being dominated by the candidates' private lives, not by their policies

Terry Gilbert, Norwich


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Mr Hughes was elected to Parliament in 1983 in a bitter by-election battle in Bermondsey against gay Labour candidate Peter Tatchell.

In one election leaflet, the Liberals presented him as the "straight choice" .

Mr Hughes said he had apologised publicly and privately for any part of the campaign which had been homophobic.

Gay rights activist Mr Tatchell said he had never considered "outing" Mr Hughes as he had not been hypocritical on gay issues.

"Although it is a pity Simon was, even recently, denying being gay, it is great that he has now come out," he said.

[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by kach22i
How well did you know him?

Do you know what the word hypocrite means?

Read the story about double life style.

I think Tabs has the tone of the story correct.

Hey Kach, I did not know him at all and he comes across as a slime ball. How would you like it if your Father or Brother was married with two young daughters and it was found out that he was leading a secret life with male prostitutes?

Personally I find it sicking but it seems that some of the Brits seem to like it.

Regarding Tabs comment, well we all might like to get "down and dirty" at times but at least for me its with a woman and not young boys that have been paid to have sex with someone. This Brit politician had other ideas...

Joe A

[kach22i]

Originally posted by Joeaksa
How would you like it if your Father or Brother was married with two young daughters and it was found out that he was leading a secret life with male prostitutes?

Wow, so you mean you would rather have gays out of the closet?

You gotta see Brokeback Mountain, that's the real theme of the movie.

The movie still is lame.

[StevoRocket]

As my local Mp I have seen him perform over 8 years - he has been a slimeball.

He and the rest of the Liberal Democrats are a waste of space in British politics taking votes without purpose from the two leading parties.

Over the last few weeks we have had their alchoholic leader resign, this guy Oaten admit to lying to his wife and kids party and constituents and now another leadership contender lying last week about his sexuality, denying he was gay - only to admit his bi-sexuality this week.

The position of MP is prized and well paid - as constituents we deserve better than prats who have no moral standards.

[Joeaksa]

Originally posted by kach22i
Wow, so you mean you would rather have gays out of the closet?

You gotta see Brokeback Mountain, that's the real theme of the movie.

The movie still is lame.

Kach,

I have no problem with gays, as long as they realize that I like girls and they do not bother me. The last guy has been telling his public that he is not gay for years now (lying to them) and now running for the leadership of the party, and now that he has "come out" cannot figure out why they do not trust him!!??

Idiots...

JoeA