Brooks Newmark, the Conservative minister for civil society, resigns after being caught sending explicit photographs of himself to women over the internet
Sources told The Telegraph that Mr Newmark had sent the pictures to women who posed as users of a social networking website as part of a tabloid newspaper sting operation.
Brooks Newmark, the Conservative minister for civil society, resigns after being caught sending explicit photographs of himself to women over the internet
Well judging by all the questions the journalists were just throwing in his direction about leadership and being able to stop his party haemorrhaging MPs.. I'd suggest it's got a lot to do with him. Especially when the MPs leaving the party are naming him as the problem. It's not the greatest start to a conference ever.
Edit: Just realised you were probably referring to this particular issue not the other.. so apologies if so. Either way it's not been a great day for DC.
Well judging by all the questions the journalists were just throwing in his direction about leadership and being able to stop his party haemorrhaging MPs.. I'd suggest it's got a lot to do with him. Especially when the MPs leaving the party are naming him as the problem. It's not the greatest start to a conference ever.
Edit: Just realised you were probably referring to this particular issue not the other.. so apologies if so.
I was talking about the minister that has resigned because of personal matters.
Well I guess it's not great for a leader of a party if members are jumping ship to UKIP, and resigning for the reasons given here. The GE isn't that far away
He has a point. A lot of charities are full of former labour people. That by it's self isn't necessarily a bad thing. But when they are using the supposedly impartial charities to score political points by attacking government policy. Then we have a problem. So far Newmark has been very good at defusing the charities supposedly unbiased campaigning and pointing out who's who in the organisation. Now the Labour supporting Mirror has used a sting to have him removed. With Newmark out of the way the supposedly impartial charities can rail against the government with impunity right before the general election. It's almost like it was planned.
I do worry about the decision making ability of our politicians when they don't see how obviously bad a decision to send nude photos of yourself to strangers (never mind a partner) is. And they don't understand why we don't trust them at all?
I do worry about the decision making ability of our politicians when they don't see how obviously bad a decision to send nude photos of yourself to strangers (never mind a partner) is. And they don't understand why we don't trust them at all?
Haven't read the details, but unless he was sending them out unsolicited, I really don't see the need for resignation.
I'm sure there are plenty of Labour Members floating about in cyber
I have absolutely no doubt there's plenty of politicians up to dubious shenanigans and when they get caught, they too will be knobs of the highest order.
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Sources told The Telegraph that Mr Newmark had sent the pictures to women who posed as users of a social networking website as part of a tabloid newspaper sting operation.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11125919/Conservative-minister-resigns-over-sex-scandal.html
poor women!!!!!
check the nick of him
Very bad timing for Cameron all these events.
It does appear however that they were quite literally asking for it - in that it was a sting by the Sunday Mirror rather than he sent them unsolicited
IMHO that's a pretty inappropriate post to make even in the form of a question. You can't just throw around posts like that.
What has it got to do with Cameron
Well judging by all the questions the journalists were just throwing in his direction about leadership and being able to stop his party haemorrhaging MPs.. I'd suggest it's got a lot to do with him. Especially when the MPs leaving the party are naming him as the problem. It's not the greatest start to a conference ever.
Edit: Just realised you were probably referring to this particular issue not the other.. so apologies if so. Either way it's not been a great day for DC.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/03/charities-knitting-politics-brook-newmark
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11074061/Charities-should-stick-to-knitting-not-politics-minister-says.html
I was talking about the minister that has resigned because of personal matters.
Seen your edit that's ok
Nice chap all round then:eek:
Maybe there is a God after all.
Well I guess it's not great for a leader of a party if members are jumping ship to UKIP, and resigning for the reasons given here. The GE isn't that far away
He has a point. A lot of charities are full of former labour people. That by it's self isn't necessarily a bad thing. But when they are using the supposedly impartial charities to score political points by attacking government policy. Then we have a problem. So far Newmark has been very good at defusing the charities supposedly unbiased campaigning and pointing out who's who in the organisation. Now the Labour supporting Mirror has used a sting to have him removed. With Newmark out of the way the supposedly impartial charities can rail against the government with impunity right before the general election. It's almost like it was planned.
Haven't read the details, but unless he was sending them out unsolicited, I really don't see the need for resignation.
I have absolutely no doubt there's plenty of politicians up to dubious shenanigans and when they get caught, they too will be knobs of the highest order.
What did he do that you find shameful?
The image of Chris Bryant in a Y-fronts was hard to forget.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3256348.stm