I have watched the William Wragg scandal develop with mounting incredulity. First, this Conservative MP showed an astonishing lack of judgment by sending intimate images of himself via a gay dating app to a man he had never met before. That was stupid. But what horrified me was that he then handed over the personal telephone numbers of public figures to somebody who was blackmailing him. His excuse for this incredible lapse is that he was “scared” because the individual “had compromising things on me.”
When it’s laid out like that it is pretty stupid, isn’t it? Certainly not relective of the sort of intellect we’d like among our rulers……
Certainly not reflective of the sort of intellect we’d like among our rulers……
If only it was just intellect. The propensity among certain Conservative MPs for molesting young men (and occasionally women) in parliamentary bars and sending dick-pics to complete strangers, let alone the questionable behaviour of the honourable member for Bridgend, suggests that the criteria determining “Who chooses Tory candidates” may not simply be a case of ideological alignment with little Rishi.
Perhaps all these shirtlifting MPs have a league table of how many Likes that they can get on Grindr.
Are there any straight conservatives any more ? All the male journalists and pundits seem gay. Not sure about a lot of the females either.
John
Exactly that. Those pulling the strings need control over those that are there for show. Especially true the higher they climb.
I think the fundamental problem here is the likes of Hunt waving this off as an indiscretion. He’s a security risk and potential traitor 🙁
And so is the shirtlifter being blackmailed.
BiW
Not to mention all the high security clearance civil servants. Espionage has never been easier and I imagine the never-ending supply of pretty young men of Middle Eastern appearance is being put to good use by our enemies (But who are our enemies nowadays? Which religion, ideology or even hemisphere? There’s the real question) to the irreversible detriment of our country.
But who are our enemies nowadays?
They’re all Honourable or Right Honourable men, most of them have OBE’s and the like, and one of them – Klaus Schwab’s mate – is pretending to be our king.
Is there anything about the picture of the person involved that doesn’t scream “Gullible Snowflake Mug”?
I was thinking that there are a lot of risk-addicted dopamine addicts in Parliament who thrive on this sort of dodgy behaviour which leaves them in a constant state of anxiety. It’s a personality-type that gets attracted to political life. And that we would be better served by a few more stodgy asexual dullards to provide some gravitas and stability.
And that got me thinking about Gordon Brown, so then I thought fuck it I just don’t know any more, but someone needs to do something.
Another thing. I don’t believe for one minute Wragg handed over the numbers because he was blackmailed. No calculating crim, or opportunistic chancer, threatened to put his dick pics in the public domain unless he complied. My guess is that he anticipated yet another fun party he could help set up, and was then reminded by one of his mates that he had been a little indiscreet by involving an obvious outsider.
Steve
I was more alluding to the ever-narrowing gap between those who make no secret of their loathing for us and our culture and those across the channel or across the pond who are ostensibly our friends and allies but who we know, while pretending not to, are spying on us and endlessly intervening in our governance – just like we were doing to them up until around 75 years ago.
In today’s Britain the increasingly twink-hungry ruling classes make ridiculously soft targets.
This is of course the downside to the acceptance of homosexuality. The will always be bum chums & all that arises from relationships of that nature. Mixing emotions with business never works out well.
There was some satirical series about a secret service and they forced all the people who identified as gay to attend Pride and act outrageously gay so they couldn’t be blackmailed for being gay