Oaten resigns over rent-boy claims

[srebbe64]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4635916.stm

That won't do his political career much good!

[Balmoral Green]

Shame really, if he was a Tory no one would have batted an eye.

Boys eh? should've stayed in India etc...

[Prof Beard]

Not having a good week are they...

[Eric Mc]

Well well.

Are politicians naturally dosposed to such errors or judgement?

Are they susceptible by nature to flattery and attention ?

>> Edited by Eric Mc on Saturday 21st January 21:09

[rich 36]

If they are (guided) to step down, before leaping into positions of power (sic)


then who shall we discover,
is at the very pinnacle of virtue, in a few weeks time.

or who might be pulling the strings?

[Piglet]

What a prat!! He was the bloke they were showing a week ago having breakfast with his photogenic children!!

[rich 36]

I watched that,
all business & cornflakes,

what a fool

[Balmoral Green]

los angeles said:

Echoes of a past Liberal leader, one uptight

My mum bough a Citroen Maserati SM off Jeremy Thorpe right in the middle of the scandal. I was just a teenage lad at the time and remeber going to fetch the car, and all I could think of was the joke about what have Jeremy Thorpe and Captain Kirk got in common?

[Balmoral Green]

They both get extra thrust from Scotty.

[rich 36]

and my money on the next one for the
'long walk' is....

[srebbe64]

los angeles said:

Balmoral Green said: what have Jeremy Thorpe and Captain Kirk got in common? Don't keep us in suspenders, Balmoral! What has Jeremy Thorpe and Captain Kirk got in common?

They've both been where no man has gone before?

[eccles]

is that a geography teacher at the end with a beard?

[Balmoral Green]

los angeles said:

Not many will know Scotty was his doggy walking, pal.

Didnt the dog get murdered? but they didnt kill Norman Scott, who used to bite the pillow

[srebbe64]

I find there's a certain irony that his job was "home affairs".

[Balmoral Green]

srebbe64 said:

I find there's a certain irony that his job was "home affairs".

I think that covers 'cottage industries'.

[srebbe64]

Balmoral Green said:

srebbe64 said: I find there's a certain irony that his job was "home affairs". I think that covers 'cottage industries'.

He was sowing his "wild oatens"

[rich 36]

Sir Menzies Campbell said the Lib Dems needed to be more ambitious and tackle poverty. Simon Hughes said he wanted it to be the party of fairness.

Chris Huhne called for a radical rise in eco-taxes to help reduce greenhouse gases and
Mark Oaten said only the Lib Dems could fight for British liberties.




Campbell followed by Bell, anyone fancy a fiver?

[cymtriks]

Another personal muck raking session by our politicans and their media chums.

I'm so much more likely to vote a different way now. One, yes, one, chap is rumoured, that means he might have possibly, to have done something a bit naughty.

Last weeks bit of Earth shattering news was that the Lib Dem leader used to have a drink problem. Wow. Changed the political landscape that one didn't it.

Politicians!

Can't you get it through your skulls why so many people don't bother to vote any more? Still trying? Too hard to work out?

Please don't insult us by trying to pretend that someone whose past you rake over with a fine toothed comb until you find some muck to throw shouldn't be in office on your say so or that your motives were the "public good".

If you really did give a hoot about the public good you'd actually be doing your jobs properly and sort out the issues in the violence and crime threads now running!

Let me spell something out for you comtemptable fools.

Dig up dirt on a candiadates affair ten years ago to deflect critisism over NHS = we're not fooled and we're not more likely to vote for you.

Dig up dirt on a candiadates former drink problem to deflect critisism over education = we're not fooled and we're not more likely to vote for you.

Dig up dirt on a candiadtes finances to deflect critisism over crime = we're not fooled and we're not more likely to vote for you.

Do you understand now? Or is it still too hard?

[rich 36]

Gosh,
retaining or digging up some apparently unimportant,
or dare I say seemingly less-than-harmful traits (drink)
after such a long period of time, in the run-up to,
an important decision, its, well,











not unlike marriage really.

[Piglet]

On the basis Mr Oaten appears to be apologising for his "lack of judgment" I find the arrogance of the man in standing as a leadership candidate whilst parading his young family in front of the camera with this in his background absolutely unbelievable.