Reverend Paul Flowers - Ex Co-Op Bank boss busted.

[gpo746]

The man was under lots of stress. What better way to relieve that stress than to engage in romps with rent boys ?

[tubbystu]

gpo746 said:

The man was under lots of stress. What better way to relieve that stress than to engage in romps with rent boys ?

Others find a lie down in a cool dark room helpful.

Each to their own

[carinaman]

Today's MoS, page 11 says Flowers discussing his dismissal with Paxman may have breached the terms of his £95K pay off and the Co-op may try to get it back.

Previous pages mention that Flowers used to be a Councillor in Rochdale. Seems a certain Cyril Smith came from Rochdale too.

[mybrainhurts]

Ooops...

[carinaman]

He'd only have blown it on drugs and loose....

Didn't he say something about Vultures?

[mybrainhurts]

Found a picture of his house...

[carinaman]

He's faulty. Or prone to the same lapses as the rest of us mere mortals.

[richie99]

carinaman said:

Today's MoS, page 11 says Flowers discussing his dismissal with Paxman may have breached the terms of his £95K pay off and the Co-op may try to get it back.

Previous pages mention that Flowers used to be a Councillor in Rochdale. Seems a certain Cyril Smith came from Rochdale too.

err, Flowers was a Councillor, Vice Chairman of the Social Services Committee, which was responsible for overseeing the reprehensible Rochdale school and sat on Committees with Smith. The same Council who took no action as a result of reports of abuse of children under its care. Saying they both came from Rochdale doesn't seem to quite cut it.

[Thorodin]

carinaman said:

He'd only have blown it on drugs and loose....

Didn't he say something about Vultures?

Yes, he did. He was alluding to the journalists who dared to gather near his exaltedness. Sadly, he failed to complete the metaphor. That vultures only feast on stinking rotting bloated corpses.

[mybrainhurts]

[The Hypno-Toad]

Well the verdict is in.

After pleading guilty to the drug charges, he is fined a total of £500 which is roughly what he paid for the meth and gak. Which is also (I'm guessing) the amount that would have paid for two of the four minders who he hired to help get him into court today.

I'm sure he can afford them on the £510 per month that he claimed was now his only income in court........

So if £500 is the fine for being stoned out of your gourd in charge of a major bank, what would that get you as a motoring fine?
https://www.gov.uk/highway-code-penalties/penalty-...

That's right folks. Cycling on the fking pavement.

Seriously words fail me, absolutely fail me. What in the wide, wide world of sports has this blubbering, hypocritical, patronising, self-centred, self-indulgent, weak-willed, pathetic little got on someone high up in the British government/Labour Party/Church/Monarchy.

Shirley, he must have something and it must be MASSIVE. It can be the only explanation.

[anonymous-user]

He admitted the crime & was fined. Pretty minor in the scheme of things. I thought the press behaviour was shocking, virtually assaulting him on his way to the car. Felt a bit sorry for the guy to be honest..

[jogon]

Looks like the crystal Methodist hasn't managed to change his ways yet..

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2625176/Th...

[aw51 121565]

I can only hope the DM can evidence what they're saying... Words fail me!

[BlackLabel]

He deserves everything he gets for the mismanagement of the bank and the fact that he seems to think he's done very little wrong in this respect makes me dislike the man, however I feel a bit sorry for him when it comes to the other suff - rent boys, cocaine, ketamine etc, it's hardly the crime of the century. The man clearly has serious issues to deal with in life, perhaps the press should just leave him alone now.

Edited by BlackLabel on Sunday 11th May 08:08

[kev1974]

He's got some damn disloyal friends that keep photographing him in these compromising positions, unless it's his rent boys doing it. In which case he should be a lot more careful!

[Gargamel]

BlackLabel said:

He deserves everything he gets for the mismanagement of the bank and the fact that he seems to think he's done very little wrong in this respect makes me dislike the man, however I feel a bit sorry for him when it comes to the other suff - rent boys, cocaine, ketamine etc, it's hardly the crime of the century. The man clearly has serious issues to deal with in life, perhaps the press should just leave him alone now.

Edited by BlackLabel on Sunday 11th May 08:08

Sorry, what ?

Poltically motivated, check
Religious, a minister and preacher, check
Trusted Highly paid executive of a bank owned by members, check.

Now a convicted criminal, absolutely a fair enough target for ongoing press attention. Especially when it shows he continued to lie to the court.

Coke and rent boys might not be 'crime of the century' to you, but It sells papers.

[Thorodin]

BlackLabel said:

He deserves everything he gets for the mismanagement of the bank and the fact that he seems to think he's done very little wrong in this respect makes me dislike the man, however I feel a bit sorry for him when it comes to the other suff - rent boys, cocaine, ketamine etc, it's hardly the crime of the century. The man clearly has serious issues to deal with in life, perhaps the press should just leave him alone now.

Edited by BlackLabel on Sunday 11th May 08:08

Just shows you the chasm between die-hard stick-in-the-muds with antiquated old fashioned ideas about personal behaviour and 'respectability' (in the generally accepted sense of the word), and cutting edge street-cred right-on do-as-you-like as long as you can get away with it disgusting and criminal activity. Sometimes think even the 'mid point' on the scale seems beyond the pale.