[MERGED] Mark Oaten......

[marky]

Atleast it was another concenting adult and he wasnt preying on kids.
Personally i dont think there private (legal) sex life should be spread all over the news

[Chimaera]

But if a politician can have an affair and betray his wife and family, what sort of a political leader would he make?

[Tuftus]

Originally Posted by Angua

I suspect those who pushed for Charles Kennedy's departure are wishing they hadn't now!!

Hmmm, they say what goes around comes around eh...

I wonder how many more skeletons will come out of the closet before this whole leadership affair is done?

no subtle puns intended... thats Nuggets job

[BBKing]

But if a politician can have an affair and betray his wife and family, what sort of a political leader would he make?

Well, Paddy Ashdown's just coming to the end of ten years as the de facto King of Bosnia, so he didn't do too badly out of dropping his trousers. John Major made a pretty poor Prime Minister but (railways apart) didn't do too much damage, and he'd been tupping Edwina. Profumo, by all accounts, was an extremely nice chap. Cecil Parkinson's a complete sod. Not much of a conclusion to be drawn from those.

On the other hand, Tony Blair has had not a hint of impropriety in his career and has made the biggest foreign policy mistake in postwar history plus massively contributing to the erosion of democracy and centralisation of executive power. Possibly some extra-marital executive relief might help him understand that there are human beings outside the Downing Street Policy Unit.

[Robert Atkins]

Originally Posted by BBKing

Well, Paddy Ashdown's just coming to the end of ten years as the de facto King of Bosnia, so he didn't do too badly out of dropping his trousers. John Major made a pretty poor Prime Minister but (railways apart) didn't do too much damage, and he'd been tupping Edwina. Profumo, by all accounts, was an extremely nice chap. Cecil Parkinson's a complete sod. Not much of a conclusion to be drawn from those.

On the other hand, Tony Blair has had not a hint of impropriety in his career and has made the biggest foreign policy mistake in postwar history plus massively contributing to the erosion of democracy and centralisation of executive power. Possibly some extra-marital executive relief might help him understand that there are human beings outside the Downing Street Policy Unit.

In one line: the "morality of your sex" life it's irrelevant to your job performance.

[BBKing]

Quite, I don't see how it's any different from any other element of your extra-political life - don't say one thing in public and another in private. if you've got shares in a DNA testing company, don't use your position in Government to expand DNA testing (yes, you, Big Dave Blunkett). If you like a bit of man-on-man action, don't stand up in Parliament and denounce homosexuality as a sin (countless examples, usually Tory). If you like prostitutes, don't try and have it criminalised. It's called hypocrisy.

In this case I believe Oaten spoke a couple of days before the manure hit the rotary ventilator arguing (as a Liberal, of course) for a more tolerant attitude to prostitution. Not particularly hypocritical, really.

[Angua]

Originally Posted by BBKing

Quite, I don't see how it's any different from any other element of your extra-political life - don't say one thing in public and another in private. if you've got shares in a DNA testing company, don't use your position in Government to expand DNA testing (yes, you, Big Dave Blunkett). If you like a bit of man-on-man action, don't stand up in Parliament and denounce homosexuality as a sin (countless examples, usually Tory). If you like prostitutes, don't try and have it criminalised. It's called hypocrisy.

In this case I believe Oaten spoke a couple of days before the manure hit the rotary ventilator arguing (as a Liberal, of course) for a more tolerant attitude to prostitution. Not particularly hypocritical, really.

Obviously doing his own research into the subject

[Nugget]

Originally Posted by Angua

Obviously doing his own research into the subject

Well, it's always worth keeping your hand in

[BBKing]

...and making a decent fist of your position?