What did Conor Burns do at Tory conference?

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Anyone know why he's been sacked?

www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/07/senior-tory-mp-conor-burns-asked-to-resign-after-serious-misconduct-claim

I don't know but I've never seen such swift action.

Phone footage did cross my mind.

I don't know, but I'm not that surprised by the swiftness of the action. Truss knows what the Pincher situation did to Johnson and will want to be seen to be acting quickly and suspending people while investigations are carried out, rather than dithering and leaving herself open to accusations of ignoring complaints.

No idea if it's related at all, but I think there were allegations of homophobic abuse at one of the conference events.

I don't, but at least action has been taken swiftly. Unlike the previous Prime Minister.

Sacked from the cabinet too so whatever it was must warrant instant dismissal.

Gonna be sex or drugs.
Or both.

It was in a bar
Got his dick out possibly?

Sex and drugs dont usually happen in a bar (and dont usually getter whip removed)

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11291965/Former-minister-Conor-Burns-Tory-whip-suspended-amid-complaints-behaviour.html

Not very illuminating, and most of the comments BTL are faintly embarrssingly crap, but it does raise the issue of what goes on at these conferences.

The Lib Dems ones are notorious. One can only imagine how grim the Tory ones are. It's about the time the lid was lifted about what happens at these conferences when a large group of predominantly male people with power over juniors are put in a pressure-cooker environment for three days with those same juniors, and alcohol and adrenalin flow, and hotel rooms are just a stone's throw away for the men willing to offer favours and favouritism to their new favourites.

Sometimes power corrupts in the stupidest, smallest, most venal of ways.

Hasn't he been mentioned before? Groping young males? It will be groping, poss drugs but he will have been tired/emotional and maybe his drink was spiked. Prob the usual closet gay Tory antics. Must have been bad or on camera for such quick action.

I think I'm the last person who believes in Innocent Until Proven Guilty.

However, it would be glorious entertainment for me, as a follower of political gossip if he really did get up to something Sordid and I get to watch the twisting squirming communication shenanigans that would inevitably follow the revelations. After such a crazy Tory conference event. I am standing by with baited breath.

if only he were a DUP member being accused of sordid misconduct. <wistful> Still, you can't have everything.

ps: he's not closetted He may (or may not) be a Perv & a Lech, but not because he's in a Closet.

I also think people who make false allegations about that kind of thing should be punished.

I think I'm the last person who believes in Innocent Until Proven Guilty

Pretty sure that they've only taken this action because they know he's guilty. I don't think it needs to be proved to the rest of us.

Burns also had to resign in 2020

news.sky.com/story/conor-burns-resigns-as-minister-after-trying-to-intimidate-person-in-money-row-11982866

A trade minister has resigned after he tried to "intimidate" a member of the public over a financial dispute with his father.

Conor Burns was found by parliament's sleaze watchdog to have "put personal interest before the public interest by suggesting that he would take advantage of his public office".

He allegedly wrote to an unnamed person connected with the company and threatened to raise his father's case about repayment of a loan in the House of Commons, warning them they could avoid the "potentially unpleasant experience".

Mr Burns was an international trade minister
Taxpayer-funded parliamentary stationery was apparently used to write the letter sent in February 2019, which added: "My role in the public eye could well attract interest especially if I were to use parliamentary privilege to raise the case."

He’s got a history as a nasty piece of work

Said something off in a lift to Mel B

Kwasi Kwarteng gets around doesn't he! 😩

"they know he's guilty" is direct contradiction to principle of Innocent Until Proven Guilty. Suspension is reputation protection, nothing to do with what "they know". Break with Johnson era of brazening every scandal out.

He is a local mp to here and he is an absolute twat. He is a downright nasty piece of tory scum. He has been sacked before and come back again and again.

Gosh. I didn't have the Spice Girls on my mental bingo list of Tory scandal adjacent

They need to follow protocol and do an investigation. And it is likely they have video image or someone who truss trusts implicitly witnessed it

Most Tory men are arrogant, bombastic, offensive, greedy and entitled.

Well, obviously something far, far worse than tanking the pound, costing the BOE £65 billion, adding hundreds to mortgage payments and firing a torpedo through the housing market.

Pinching someone's bum perhaps?

The DUP have plenty of form at this believe me. Up to their necks in financial scandals and many of their councillors convicted of sex offences. My local DUP mayor done recently for soliciting a blow job from a 14 year old boy.

twitter.com/OfficialMelB/status/1578487276707143682?s=20&t=S9TN5mKnnt7NDJoW-a0NQg

Company conferences are similar. I worked for a FTSE company and the annual sales conference was rife with this sort of thing. People getting horribly drunk, sexual shenigans and a couple of fights from memory.