Does Ben Bradley Have Any Future In The Tory Party After His Embarrassing Antics?

[kvalidir]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/24/ben-bradley-apologises-unreservedly-for-corbyn-spy-claims

[Jackdaw33]

Who gives a monkey's?

[-Talbot-]

Using other MP's 'Embarrassing Antics' as a yardstick ... why not?

[kvalidir]

I dunno Jack, if someone in my party wrongly accused the Prime Minister of being a spy and selling information I'd care, but if it doesn't bother you then it probably says more about you than him...

[melv16]

My biggest worry is that people like him have a hand in running the country. In my own fair city we've got a complete to55er in Javed Omara, who's mysteriously disappeared.

[Jackdaw33]

//but if it doesn't bother you then it probably says more about you than him...\\

You really are an impertinent little Miss.

[kvalidir]

Well I suggest you if you don't like what I say to you Jack, you don't paint yourself into a corner in the first place, because i'm not changing to suit you and I stand by what I said. How can that possibly not bother you, if you have any integrity?.

[Mamyalynne]

It rather depends how much he has damaged his own credibility, it is worrying but then so much of what goes on is.

[Mamyalynne]

Why not just comment on the question?

[youngmafbog]

Have labour asked for that?

Personally I think he should step down. You cannot go around posting unsubstantiated claims like that.

On the other hand it would help if COB participated in an inquiry, which if as he says he is not guilty of any wrong doing, would put this matter to bed. Refusing to do so is always going to lead to people thinking he has something to hide.

[kvalidir]

Apparently I missed something :/

I do agree actually YMB, Corbyn ought to be as transparent as possible about this, but Ben Bradley really needs his P45 tbh.

[Gromit]

The Sun article was quickly debunked, so posting lies based on it was always going to end in tears.

I had never heard of Mr Bradley before, so I cannot comment on his parliamentary career, or whether he deserves to keep it. Based on this incident, you have to wonder about his judgement.

Probably not a resigning issue, but a bit of an own goal for his party.

[jno]

Alas, he is probably just a typical young person - apologies, kvalidir, I know you're not all like that, but it is quite common: see some complete balderdash, think "Wow, the world must hear this!" and instantly fire off tweets that make the original lies seem even more scandalous.

You'd like to think the political classes would by their nature come from people who were more cautious and showed some signs of adult judgment. But this is probably wishful thinking. They come from people who want power.

I expect Labour would prefer him to remain where he is, always a potential embarrassment to his party.

[Quizmonster]

On another thread here I recently said I hoped Mr Corbyn would take legal action against Bradley for his claim, for which he had not a shred of evidence. Later I was delighted to note that Mr Corbyn had, indeed, done just that.
Now I am even more pleased to see that Bradley has been compelled to offer a grovelling apology. The icing on the cake is the fact that the Labour Party is to give some of the money he was obliged to pay to a charity to go to a food-bank in his constituency! His idea about the poor, you see, was that they should be sterilised to stop them having children, apparently unaware of where similar "solutions" had been applied by a right-wing party to problems in the past!

[Spicerack]

Think you'll find eugenics were very popular with the Labour Party, QM.

[jno]

And with Churchill.

[Spicerack]

You're right, jno. Liberals were just as bad.

[jno]

It used to be a cross-party thing. Now it's just a one-party thing.

[youngmafbog]

If JC was quick enough to call in the lawyers for Ben Bradley why has he not called them in for Ján Sarkocy?