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to think that if I shared an explicit picture of myself with a stranger and then they used that to blackmail to release client information, I would be sacked?

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cakeorwine · 05/04/2024 18:21

I guess people know what we are talking about.

William Wragg: Jeremy Hunt praises MP's apology over dating app incident - BBC News

If you send an explicit picture of yourself to a stranger, you are asking for danger.

If I did that and I was blackmailed into releasing personal information on other people, I would be sacked,

But hey, it's an accident. Nothing to see here.

And as for MPs who then were contacted by a stranger and then sent their own explicit pictures, what is there to say?

William Wragg

William Wragg: Jeremy Hunt praises MP's apology over dating app incident

The chancellor says William Wragg showed courage in admitting he gave out MPs' phone numbers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68740332

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JessS1990 · 18/04/2024 11:28

AlecTrevelyan006 · 18/04/2024 11:17

Things that make you go hmmm…

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68841840

A Tory MP has been suspended after claims he made a late night call to ask for money to pay off "bad people".

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I thought he had been suspended because the Times ran a story naming him.
If it were because there was an investigation he would have been suspended at the start of it as people would have been in any other profession.

aurynne · 18/04/2024 11:37

noblegiraffe · 05/04/2024 22:01

I seem to be largely agreeing with most people on the thread that he shouldn't have responded to blackmail and should have gone to the police.

Why people seem to think I've gone mad because I don't think it's immoral for gay men to exchange dick pics on Grindr is rather beyond me.

Some of us hold MPs at a high standard, regardless of their sex or sexual preferences. A person sending nude pics to a stranger is, for me, a seedy, slightly pathetic and reckless person, so I would like to think people who are chosen as MPs would have better judgement than that.

Being unkind to waitresses, pissing on the side of the road and farting in public are also not uncommon behaviours, and not abnormal. I would still expect an MP to show better behaviour than that.

And I haven't even started about the disclosing of confidential information from other colleagues. That's not only immoral, but cowardly.

And being gay and having an account on Grindr does not excuse it to me. You seem to have lower standards for gay men than you have for anyone else. I know plenty of gay men and no, not all of them send pictures of their cocks to strangers.

newnamethanks · 18/04/2024 14:03

Wragge's password photo. "He's sitting at his desk" I said to my sister. 'Yes,well, he's probably not wearing any trousers'. For convenience.

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