Labour M P Stands Down

[FatticusInch]

After sexual misconduct allegations.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63344752

Good, need to rid Parliament of this type of behaviour and style of politician.

[Canary42]

Whatever next ?

A Liberal murder plot perhaps (the Oldies here will know that to which I'm alluding, no doubt).

[Bobbisox1]

Indeed I do Canary ,dear old Jeremy Thorpe :0/

[DTCwordfan]

Exactly - seems to be prevalent in all parties and not just the Tories - Gully will be mortified!!

[davebro]

must have pained you to post this fatti - well done!

[steg]

You seem obsessed by gully…

[Gromit]

It is not clear whether this means a by election?
Has he quit his party or the seat or both ?

Chester has been a marginal. 2015 GE was very close.

[Peter Pedant]

photo with 'look what I have down here' look on his fdace

Kier must be apoplectic - as Christian insists that Boris seems to be able to screw whimever he likes - and Kier yells - that is Boris for chrissakes

and Kier goes on - all you had to do was keep your payants arn
Xtian oo you have been watching Judge Judy
Sir K for it is he: and we wait and we get power just like Tony Blair

Like the last Major months - incredibles

[FatticusInch]

….the main difference being they acted on it immediately.

If only the person being touted for a Lazarus-style comeback had done the same and not lied about it, eh?

[Peter Pedant]

it must have pained you...
time for Fatti to boast: all truth is with me

[Peter Pedant]

no no fatts I got there first
the contrast - randy Boris
and randy the rst... andy Christian

saw Sissy Spacke got off - an american civil case
miracles do still occur

[Peter Pedant]

resign what mean dat den
I had this difficulty with Thatcher
rezeen - does that mean vacate no 10
or step down from parliament

former of course

[FatticusInch]

davebro
//must have pained you to post this fatti - well done!//

Erm…..how/why?
It’s acknowledging a recorded and documented factual event reported on by a credible news source, why wouldn’t I?

You and the Borstriches should try it some time, it’ll make you a bit more balanced than some machine-gun toting lunatic with a pathological hatred of illegal immigrants.
Give it a go.

[Gromit]

// the main difference being they acted on it //

The Labour Party didn’t act on anything, the independent parliamentary watchdog gave a 4 week suspension.

As for his insincere apology, it was straight out of Boris’ playbook. An independent panel found him guilty but he insists he did nothing wrong. Good riddance.

[gulliver1]

DTC @ 12.07 why should I be mortified I am not gay. But it seems to be upsetting you more than me . Is there something bothering you ,and you want to get off your chest. If so, now is your chance to own up and confess. We are all here to help you on A.B.

[FatticusInch]

Fair enough Gromit, that amount of detail wasn’t present when I first posted, it was literally a single paragraph in Breaking News, but good riddance all the same.

[FatticusInch]

That said, who made the initial report to the independent panel?

From the link:

/It was understood the Labour Party launched an investigation and immediately suspended Mr Matheson from the party membership in light of the report./

It’s a bit vague as to how it was all initiated.

[gulliver1]

If it was made illegal ,then half the Tory MPs ,,ex public schools.. dormitories etc. would be under lock and key.

[Gromit]

// On 21 May 2021 the complainant, a young woman and junior member of the respondent MP’s Parliamentary team, made a complaint under the House of Commons Independent Complaints Grievance Scheme (ICGS). She alleged that the respondent had behaved inappropriately towards her on a number of occasions, each involving sexual misconduct.

The conduct complained of included the following: inappropriate sexual remarks about other women; invading the complainant’s personal space and unwanted touching at work social events; inappropriate and unwanted hugs; a sexually motivated invitation to take a secret trip to Gibraltar; and sexually motivated incidents at and after a formal work social dinner, with personal comments about her looks, linking arms, holding her hand, holding her by the arms, inviting her to come back to his flat, two kisses on the forehead and an attempted kiss on the mouth, all of which were unwanted and unwelcome.

The respondent denied the more serious allegations. He accepted that he had been in breach of the Sexual Misconduct Policy after the formal dinner because he kissed her on the forehead. He also accepted that he had blurred the boundaries between employer and employee and been too ‘fatherly’ and ‘friendly’. But he denied that he was ‘sexually motivated’ at any time.

The complaint was investigated under the ICGS and on 13 July 2022 the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards (the Commissioner) found certain allegations of sexual misconduct proved. The Commissioner found that all conduct complained of (except the invasion of personal space) was proved and involved breaches of the Behaviour Code. //

https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/mps-lords--offices/standards-and-financial-interests/independent-expert-panel/hc-823---the-conduct-of-mr-christian-matheson-mp.pdf

[FatticusInch]

Cheers for that Gromit.

[Untitled]

good riddance