All The Best To You Graham

[MargaretR]

In post #110 here, I described the 'grey books' maintained by whips.

It seems that are also described as 'dirt books' and this is an article describing how they are used.
The Dirt Book: How the sexual abuse of children is used for political gain | spotlight

Our MP is a whip so he is likely aware of which MPs have mucky secrets.

[Less]

I suppose a frightening thought could be how a newly elected MP may be groomed into making career busting mistakes of almost any kind, just so they can be controlled from the very beginning.
The Palace of Corruption, Westminster, no wonder politicians should never be trusted.

[accyman]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

But my suspicions are such, that I believe that this will not happen.
The establishment will close ranks, deny that there was anything in any of the dossiers handed to Leon Brittan all those years ago.....those that he hoped would never see the light of day.

they are already using phrases like "but the person involved was of legal age when the incident happened " on the news

so basically watering it down to been ONLY rape then

only in the world of politics could something be deemed more acceptable because it was adult rape and not child rape


lets hope there is a full enquirey and a lot better job is done than what was done with the news of the world hacking case because in that case the biggest offenders walked free

[Margaret Pilkington]

You can hope, but it think that hope will be dashed.
The full and thorough enquiry should have been done years ago......when CS was messing about with children.......and the establishment covered things up.

[cashman]

Enquire all they want, way i see it is, if oer 100 documents of accusations have convienantly vanished,then theres more chance of being struck by lightening than the "Real Big Wigs" will get prosecuted. Hope all yeh want, it aint gonna happen imho.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Cashy, I will share some of my anti cynicism pills with you.....it seems like we both need them!
Don't want to be accused of being critical or unfair to our 'honourable(?) member'.

[accyman]

hopefully most of the victims are still alive and willing to come forward with fresh complaints

[Alan Varrechia]

Bet this is not far from the truth.

[Alan Varrechia]

Or this.

[Margaret Pilkington]

I see there has been no answer to the direct question I posed to our elected representative.

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I see there has been no answer to the direct question I posed to our elected representative.

You've been holding your breath again haven't you?
How many times have you been warned against doing that?

[Margaret Pilkington]

Seeing as I asked this question yesterday at 17.09...if I had held my breath I would be dead by now.
I know better than to hold my breath when asking a question to a politician.

[Boeing Guy]

Some people would say the goings on at Westminster are similar to Yes Minister, The New Statesman or even The Thick of It (all very very good and scathing) But for Graham maybe Francis Urquhart would be more applicable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_o..._(UK_TV_series)
or even the US version, which is not bad at all if not as downright evil.

To paraphrase FU, '....Whip, merely a functionary. I keep the troops in line. I put a bit of stick around. I make them jump. And I shall, of course, give my absolute loyalty to whoever emerges as my leader'

I wonder what GJ thinks.....

[cashman]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Seeing as I asked this question yesterday at 17.09...if I had held my breath I would be dead by now.
I know better than to hold my breath when asking a question to a politician.

Thing is,according to the other days news, the chances of yeh getting a straight answer to a question (when Graham pops by) are very remote.

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Boeing Guy

I wonder what GJ thinks.....

Does GJ think?
Perhaps he just does as he is told...those that are in this mindset rarely have to think......and the thinking muscle is like any other muscle, it atrophies when not used.