This Daily Mirror Tory minister sex sting

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If you are unaware to what I am referring to: http://www.theguardian.com/politics...rror-complaint-ipso-press-regulator-sex-sting

Far be it for me to stick up for a Tory minister, but I have a bit of sympathy for him here. A (male) journalist posing as a pretty, 20something Conservative supporter called Sophie Wittans to attract party members and apparently exchanged flirty messages. This poor bloke sent explicit pictures of himself to her and ended up having to resign. While I agree that there's a public interest in knowing about the moral compass of elected officials, it seems wrong to me to encourage them to have extra-marital affairs.

Also, there's a suggestion that the Mirror used pictures for the fake profile without permission of the copyright holder. Surely that must break some new press regulation?
 
They broke all sorts of press rules here, but it's The Mirror so there'll be no lefty outrage. Same as everyone's gone very quiet about The Mirror being prosecuted for phone hacking now.

Curbing the press only seems to apply to News International, not to Trinity Mirror or Guardian.
 
regardless of the situation...on what planet is it a good idea to send a picture of your knob to somebody you have never met
 
FTM said:
regardless of the situation...on what planet is it a good idea to send a picture of your knob to somebody you have never met
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Email in Trust.

The Swedish press are kicking off because the unsolicited pictures they used were apparently of some bird from their version of Sweden's got Talent, or some other gutter trash TV.

I think the guy is a Twot. moral compass??? Who does that kind of stuff when you are in a loving relationship and position of power and responsibility oh... wait..Zing!
 
Regardless of whether it was a sting or not, he was stupid and had no thought for his family etc when he did what he did.

Someone pretty sends him a message and the next minute he's dropping his trousers with no thought but his own selfishness.

If he loved his family as he claims to do in the article I read this morning, hr should have said 'I'm flattered, but no thanks but I love my family more than internet sex'.

Moron.....
 
Had this been in the Mail and the bloke was labour the BBC would have gone into melt-down.

Like they did with the story about Millibands Marxist dad.
 
Why does someone have to quit their job for sending a picture of their knob to someone who, apparently, was acting more than happy to receive it?
 
cheesyboy said:
Why does someone have to quit their job for sending a picture of their knob to someone who, apparently, was acting more than happy to receive it?
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He's married with kids, so there's another party with a direct interest in this case.
 
John40 said:
Had this been in the Mail and the bloke was labour the BBC would have gone into melt-down.

Like they did with the story about Millibands Marxist dad.
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Completely different situation - they wrote a story with poor research inferring incorrectly that the father was a communist and therefore Milliband was a Marxist.

Plus the father was dead and could not defend himself together then the press then hounding the family as the uncle lay dying.
 
This should be between the MP and his wife to resolve. I don't see it as a resigning matter. He was an idiot though.

However if the paper has used pictures of a woman without her consent then I do see that as a disciplinary offence.
 
covenantuk said:
They broke all sorts of press rules here, but it's The Mirror so there'll be no lefty outrage. Same as everyone's gone very quiet about The Mirror being prosecuted for phone hacking now.

Curbing the press only seems to apply to News International, not to Trinity Mirror or Guardian.
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Consider this post to be the lefty outrage that you're looking for. What The Mirror did is disgusting.
 
scorza said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2773038/How-Sophie-blonde-never-tried-charm-Tories.html

As this is GD I thought I'd treat you all to the Daily Mail article which features the young lady whose pictures were used, including a bikini bridge!

Have to admit my heart would be aflutter if I received flirty messages from her...
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Yes, but... If you're below average looking, yet (presumably) of above average intelligence, you should probably do a bit of research into who's tweeting you flirty messages. Then you'd have seen the other flirty messages to other Conservative MPs (most of which were a bit odd in tone, I guess that's because they were written by a bloke pretending to be a girl) and concluded that this lady is either a nutter with a Tory fetish or a sting. Either way you'd leave well alone.

He's a victim of his own stupidity more than anything, but this sort of fishing by 'journalists' is apalling.
 
cheesyboy said:
So?

Loads of people have extra-marital affairs. They don't usually have to quit their jobs.
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So there are few issues I have with this; firstly he's an elected official - partly on the back of the happy family man image he presented at the election. Secondly he's a minister which is a full time job and then some, he clearly needs time to sort out his family life which means he can't do his job at the same time.
 
Whilst the minister was a douche for sending pictures of his 'John'... what the journo did in this case sounds like it was entrapment. He blatantly was out on the pry to try a catch a minister. He sent the same sort of messages to about 8 ministers, so was out for trying to get one of them.

Oh well, looks like the Journo is gonna get done for it anyway as the Swedish model whose pictures he used without permission isn't a happy lassy!
 
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