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A Tory frontbencher watched porn on his mobile phone in the House of Commons while sitting alongside a female minister

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user750 · 27/04/2022 12:52

twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1519264807798595584?s=20&t=rA-tD9ekpAfridYkkl8hdg

FFS I have no words. Speechless.

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Stealhsquirrelnutkin · 28/04/2022 19:44

Women who lack the ability to projectile vomit on command should take to carrying around dog turds in plastic bags, so that they could anoint the shithead in question with literal shit.

OhLordyWhatNow · 28/04/2022 20:04

greasyshoes · 28/04/2022 19:22

And? You believe viewing pornography in a public place is a generally accepted standard of behaviour? Really?

The term is "indecent image." It's the image itself that's indecent, not the context.

Not quite.

The term 'indecent image' does have a definition in law, but it is also valid everyday language that can be used to describe something shocking or unseemly.

Viewing pornography (images) in public is both shocking and unseemly (indecent).

HRTQueen · 28/04/2022 22:00

It’s absolutely disgusting

sadly I’m not surprised I hope they are named and sacked

i recently saw a man watching porn in the queue on a supermarket. Revolting no wonder so many men are influenced by porn it’s become such a big part of many men’s lives

OhLordyWhatNow · 28/04/2022 22:16

i recently saw a man watching porn in the queue on a supermarket. Revolting no wonder so many men are influenced by porn it’s become such a big part of many men’s lives

There seem to be quite a few anecdotes about this phenomena of watching pornography in public. I wonder if it's linked to WiFi hotspots and 5G? Better streaming and download speeds while on the move... thanks for that mobile phone companies 🤨

KimikosNightmare · 28/04/2022 23:40

greasyshoes · 28/04/2022 19:22

And? You believe viewing pornography in a public place is a generally accepted standard of behaviour? Really?

The term is "indecent image." It's the image itself that's indecent, not the context.

What is that supposed to mean. I can't believe anyone is seriously saying watching porn in a public place is acceptable.

buckeejit · 29/04/2022 07:57

Totally disgusting & he should be sacked. Watching porn in public is extremely offensive & not something that should in any way be normalised. I'm so worried about the accessibility of porn as my children enter puberty. Anyone with a shred of moral fibre is aware of the damage caused to sex workers.

MPs should be held to higher account. Sadly they always seem to set the bar way below. I hope he is named & shamed. It's such a flagrant & disrespectful act

BitOutOfPractice · 29/04/2022 09:20

I see the Attorney General (a woman) thinks it’s womens fault that men behave in this abhorrent way.

"On the one hand we have women saying 'it is my right to post photos of myself in underwear, it is empowering to pose naked online, don't be so prudish, don't curb my liberty' - and on other hand we are denouncing the permissiveness that is enabling that. We've got to take this moment to reflect on what we are doing to lower standards of behaviour."

Link to bbc article

PlinkPlankPlunk · 29/04/2022 11:22

BitOutOfPractice · 29/04/2022 09:20

I see the Attorney General (a woman) thinks it’s womens fault that men behave in this abhorrent way.

"On the one hand we have women saying 'it is my right to post photos of myself in underwear, it is empowering to pose naked online, don't be so prudish, don't curb my liberty' - and on other hand we are denouncing the permissiveness that is enabling that. We've got to take this moment to reflect on what we are doing to lower standards of behaviour."

Link to bbc article

I thought Suella Braverman was doing well in that interview until she started minimising the number of MPs (56!) under investigation for sexual harassment. Her comments about how it was a small minority were a testament to how much that behaviour is just expected.

I started to think about how I’d feel if 10% of the people in my organisation behaved so badly that people had to complain (presumably there will be others that fly under the radar as well). It would be awful working there. So depressing that these people are leading the country

UsernameNotAvailableHmm · 29/04/2022 15:42

Neil Parish

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 29/04/2022 16:07

Yes, just reported on the BBC news on Radio 4. Neil Parish, Conservative MP for Tiverton and Honiton in Devon. 65 years old.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61276319

UsernameNotAvailableHmm · 29/04/2022 18:15

Neil Parish MP is asked about 'parly porn', here he is talking nonchalantly on GBN:

Bogofballs · 29/04/2022 18:42

OMG he seriously went on TV to talk about himself in the third person.

Is he a psychopath? Enjoys it maybe?

GreenLunchBox · 29/04/2022 18:47

I think that Gbeebies presenter knew he was talking to the culprit. He was smirking 😆

duskyspringfield · 29/04/2022 18:50

Grim -it should be illegal ffs!

He should be named and shamed.

Curiously arrogant behaviour isn’t it…

Zeugma · 29/04/2022 19:05

OhLordyWhatNow · 28/04/2022 22:16

i recently saw a man watching porn in the queue on a supermarket. Revolting no wonder so many men are influenced by porn it’s become such a big part of many men’s lives

There seem to be quite a few anecdotes about this phenomena of watching pornography in public. I wonder if it's linked to WiFi hotspots and 5G? Better streaming and download speeds while on the move... thanks for that mobile phone companies 🤨

Funny you should mention that, @OhLordyWhatNow. Apparently Neil Parish has mentioned broadband 58 times in the Commons.

🤔

OhLordyWhatNow · 29/04/2022 19:15

@Zeugma

"Funny you should mention that, @OhLordyWhatNow. Apparently Neil Parish has mentioned broadband 58 times in the Commons.

🤔"

Perhaps he's going to justify it by saying something along the lines of the broadband and mobile phone signal is so poor in his constituency that he has to use HoC WiFi to access it, it an equal opportunity issue, levelling up and all that old chap. What's a bloke to do?

Poor lamb

Saucery · 29/04/2022 19:30

He’s just been on Ch4 News. Obviously pissed as a fart, the sad old bastard.

theDudesmummy · 29/04/2022 19:33

I belive his wife is defending him. "It takes two to tango"??? So the wife is blaming women for her husband being sexually inappropriate in his workplace? Nice going there Mrs Tory. Real old stylee stuff.

HannibalHeyes · 29/04/2022 19:35

Wait for him to be variously described as “a stand-up member of this government”, “rock solid”, and “unfailingly rigid in his support of Johnson”...

Saucery · 29/04/2022 19:36

Yep. Something along the lines of All Men Do It. Well no, they don’t, so let’s stop making excuses for the inadequate perverts who do. And the men who don’t, need to step up and call it out. The possession of a penis does not make you a slave to your hormones, so stop excusing it.

greasyshoes · 29/04/2022 19:40

The term 'indecent image' does have a definition in law, but it is also valid everyday language that can be used to describe something shocking or unseemly.

Viewing pornography (images) in public is both shocking and unseemly (indecent).

Well yes, as I said, and as you have said, it's the context that's indecent, not the image per se. Therefore, the term "indecent image" is incorrect here. It would be more appropriate to say "images that are indecent to view in a public place."

greasyshoes · 29/04/2022 19:41

What is that supposed to mean. I can't believe anyone is seriously saying watching porn in a public place is acceptable.

No one said that.

theDudesmummy · 29/04/2022 19:44

Even if "all men do it" that is irrelevent and does not mean you should be doing it in a workplace, what has that got to do with it? All men regularly take a piss too. But not in the middle of their mixed-sex workplace, in view of female collagues, in front of members of the public, on camera. If they did, unless they were seriously acutely unwell, they would be dismissed.

theDudesmummy · 29/04/2022 19:48

Just watched the Sky news interview. My God he is drunk.

duskyspringfield · 29/04/2022 19:48

This is important because I think any student doing this at college would be out on their ear …

…whatever his punishment it will send a strong message to young people about the responsibility and authority of government.

We all know that he will be defended to the hilt, then ridiculed in the press forever more. Only then will he lose his job and the government will yet again look like a bunch of arrogant, pompous and reality-avoiding arseholes. (Who also waste eye watering amounts of tax payers money).

So the message to young people will be - ‘don’t get caught’.