[Closed] Coke and hookers

I think its quite refreshing to see memeber of the Tory party taking some pride in their grand history and traditions, and returning to the sort of headlines we used to get on what seemed like a daily basis

A £5 note though? Seriously?

He seems like he's decent fun mind you, particularly for a 69 year old baron!

I think its quite refreshing to see memeber of the Tory party taking some pride in their grand history and traditions, and returning to the sort of headlines we used to get on what seemed like a daily basis

Isn't he Labour?

I wonder what he did to piss someone off?

I would have thought that, as a member of the House of Lords, he should at least have been using a rollded up £20. Truly, in this time of life peers, standards are slipping.

I think its quite refreshing to see memeber of the [s]Tory[/s] Labour party taking some pride in their grand history and traditions, and returning to the sort of headlines we used to get on what seemed like a daily basis

Sewel got this right:

He is also said to have called Scottish MP Alex Salmond "pompous",

I wonder what he did to piss someone off?

Take your pick! Didn't sound like there was anyone who he had a good word for

it's a sorry state of affairs when a peer of the realm can't have a few peccadilloes, really what's the point of living ?

Saw Sky noos at lunch. While he acted like a right berk he was 100% correct when he was talking about Cameron, Boris and Salmond.

I wonder what he did to piss someone off?

My thoughts exactly. I also wonder how many tory peers were at the same party but kept out of shot by Murdocks cronies.
The fact that he has not resigned does indicate that he doesn't really see this behaviour as anything out of the ordinary.

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For the truly classy.

taking drugs with prostitutes

chairman of the Lords privileges and conduct committee

You couldn't make it up.

Name: John Buttifant Sewel

The above pic gives me awful flash backs to my hard house listening days, I can't think why...

****ing Labour. Indistinguishable from the tories on every count.

You'd never catch Corbyn with an orange in his gob.

Should be releaved that it was grownups I suppose.

I wonder what his STW forum name is 🙂

Binners.

So cliched... couldn't he have come up with something more original than getting caught in a coke and hookers sting by a Murdoch tabloid?

Shows how unimaginative our ruling class has become! Open goal for Murdoch too...

The one politician Sewel did have a good word for was Tory Chancellor George Osborne. He described him as a “very, very consomethinge politician” and tipped him as future PM.

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Maybe all the Lords need to turn up wearing something like this next time they meet?

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Although he could be the most truthful man in politics today-

Lord Sewel is said to have described Mr Cameron as "the most facile, superficial prime minister there's ever been"

Well on the one hand it's disgraceful and we should all be outraged.

On the other hand, a man needs a hobby.

It is like every cliche wrapped up into a proper old school tabloid sting, I can't help but smile.

I do find it truly staggering that he won't immediatly stand down from the Lords. The prospect of taxpayers footing a £300 per day bill for him turning up is pretty unpleasant. He should just be sacked, quickly and easliy. Not sure if that is even possible though.

You'd never catch Corbyn with an orange in his gob.

Can't shake the feeling that you're being prophetic.

To be fair to him, 300 quid a day isn't going to go very far on coke and hookers, unless you're prepared to let quality standards slip with either one or t'other

I'm a bit disappointed. I thought they were talking about Brian Sewel at first. Was looking forward to hearing that conversation.

In the future, when we prescribe a solution of coke and hookers on here, do we need to include an orange bra as well ?

So it is bad luck to use a 5 pound note then.
He was either at it every weekend or stupid to think he would not be exposed.

I wonder what Baron Sewel did to piss off Rupert Murdoch?
I'm not sure that it matters what he gets up to in his private life, but I suppose we pay his salary and coke and hookers are sort of illegal, but our lords and Barons need to blow off steam just like anyone else, its not like he does anything important, like oversee the nation's finances......

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Of course that's all in the past for our chancellor

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Coke and hookers aged 69, gives us all hope 🙂

jive kimbers jive 🙂

Where is jhj ? Have they finally got to him?

OK. I understand that taking cocaine is technically illegal, and that none of this is respectable, but it's not really very exciting stuff...

Or I'm just hopelessly degenerate.

🙂

Failing to see the problem here.

Adult pays two consenting adults for time and sexual favours whilst making a choice to ingest narcotic substances.

Last I checked there was no law against what people can or can't spend their salaries on, publically funded or not.

The only law being broken is the coke use, everything else is above board. Okay, it makes his job untenable but how often do such things happen oon a daily basis and nobody bats an eyelid?

Wondering what my facebook feed looks like right now, betting there's a few people conveniently discounting their own publicly funded narcotic shenanigans from their student days.

Can't be much else for the media to write about.

I think it's quite amusing that the media are stirring this up, claiming that we -the populous - should be outraged by such immoral behaviour! The only point in it that I find deeply outrageous is the use of a £5 note. FFS! A peer using a fiver?! No class. Which of course is what you get now that anyone is allowed to become a peer! 😉 ( joke btw for any sensitive lefties )

Politicians, peers, police, media, they are all covering and threatening each other's backsides with various forms of blackmail and information they hold on each other, the phone hacking debacle illustrated that rather nicely.

And of course, which Labour Party conference was it where the toilets of the venue were found to be coated in the finest South American marching powder? During the Bliar years IIRC.

Highlights the double standards of the media.

Bet there's never been a journalist or editor who has done similar? Who are in a position where they can influence public opinion?

Yes he's broken the law, yes his position is possibly untenable, but I've not seen anything to suggest that his antics affected his day job, which should be the main reason for a press witch hunt.

Conversation with the Mrs about this.
Me "i dont see what he's done is that different to many footballers"
Mrs "but they're not paid to make decisions on the country"
Me "No they're paid millions to be role models for kids"

If he had not published a paper a few week ago on ptofessional conduct for lords i dont think many would be so bothered.

Can't say I'm keen on footballer excesses, but are they not paid to play football?

And the upside is that there were no young boys involved, it seems.

but I've not seen anything to suggest that his antics affected his day job

He had important positions overseeing HofL activity. Therefore in a position to influence the decision-making process around public policy. And if being photographed taking coke, in an orange bra, with a multitude of hookers isn't the stuff to leave you wide open to blackmail (or exposure in this case, maybe he had the integrity to refuse to be blackmailed) either by our own powerful interests (media, security services etc) or those of another country, then I don't know what is..

Me "i dont see what he's done is that different to many footballers"
Mrs "but they're not paid to make decisions on the country"
Me "No they're paid millions to be role models for kids"

Errmm. Last time I checked they were paid to play football! This whole "role model for kids" line that is liberally applied to anyone in the public eye (but particularly sportspeople, pop stars etc) is one of the reasons why this country has become such a cliched "Little England" in the last few years, what with faux outraged "Twitterstorms" and othersuch. IMHO people who spout this line are the natural heirs of those in the early 60s who were having a go at the Beatles and the Stones et al..

PARENTS are the role models of children. It is our job to teach them right from wrong and to give them the faculties to be able to make decisions. early 20s footballers are - surprise, surprise - early 20s young men. With lots of money. Of course some of them will get up to no good. Thinking what I got up to when in my early 20s makes my eyes bleed.

Anyway, it looks like the honourable Lord's parents didn't teach him right from wrong (thereby neatly concluding this rant and bringing my thread hijack full circle back to the actual topic...)

Breaking news: he has now resigned.

That orange bra totally doesn't match his skin tone, he should be arrested for fashion crime if nothing else!! 😈

Failing to see the problem here.

I can see the point of view, but the big difference for people in positions of power is he's making it very easy for people to manipulate and blackmail him.

Presumably he would rather his friends, family and colleagues did not know about this. If a paper could catch him out in this way, it's hardly inconceivable that another organisation could. Be it a criminal enterprise or foreign government. They then have the guy over a barrel.