Keith Vaz is refusing to do the right thing, says VIRGINIA BLACKBURN
YOU are a Member of Parliament caught with a couple of drug - taking prostitutes and what do you do?
Cling on to high office for dear life if Keith Vaz is anything to go by.
It is absolutely extraordinary that it took four days for him to resign as chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee and a slap in the face of his constituents that he seems determined to carry on as an MP.
Just what do you have to do these days to bring real shame on your head?
Some people are saying it’s a private matter. Oh no it’s not.
He is an elected representative of the people having a say over drugs and immigration and he ’s been found out with a couple of pill - popping Romanians.
Others are saying it is a gay issue because homosexuality is frowned on in some quarters, Vaz was forced to marry a woman and keep his real leanings secret.
Keith Vaz is refusing to do the right thing
That too is a load of old baloney. The point here is not the gender of his playmates but the fact that they were paid for.
If you are an MP, even in these beleaguered times, some standards of behaviour are still expected.
Metropolitan sophisticates may sniff that it’s all so terribly suburban to be disgusted by Keith Vaz’s behaviour but the fact is that the majority of us are.
This is why politicians are held in such low regard these days.
Not only do some of them behave in a debased manner but they refuse point blank to admit that they have done anything wrong.
When John Profumo was caught sleeping with Christine Keeler he resigned and spent the rest of his life working for an East London charity and it is ironic that his name will forever be associated with a scandal when he ended up doing the right thing.
Do you think Keith Vaz will do something similar? Honourable Member? Don’t make me laugh.
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We don’t all want babies, get over it
I will not be going to see Bridget Jones’s Baby – the original was very funny but it was of its time.
However I have been enraged by the smugness of some women pontificating that it’s highly unlikely that Bridget would have a baby at the age of 43 and that we middle aged child-free types are all tragic females weeping into the bottle.
When will they accept that some of us never wanted children and that we are incredibly lucky to live now when there are alternatives?
Some women have always wanted to be child-free and yet traditionally were given no option of any other kind of life: the alternatives were the convent or destitution.
Now we get to, oh I don’t know, become prime minister. Just back off you stupid bints.
New Bridget Jones movie premieres in Paris
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Protests alienate the general public
If you are thinking of staging a demonstration and wish to win round public opinion, two pointers to help you on your way.
Do not join the medical profession and then indulge in behaviour that will end up killing people.
And do not disrupt people on their way through an airport.
Travelling is an absolute nightmare and you will truly hate anyone who makes it worse.
Do those City Airport protesters really believe they’ve won round a single soul? If so they’re even nuttier than they look.
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Matthew Tate sounds like an excellent headmaster: he is insisting children at Hartsdown Academy be properly dressed.
In return some parents have staged a demo against him, thus highlighting quite how much some kids need a decent schooling given the laxity with which they are treated at home.
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They said it wouldn’t last and they were right.
The romance – or should that be showmance? – between Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston is over and rarely has a man trashed his own reputation as thoroughly as Tom.
A few months ago he of the golden buttocks was the next James Bond. Now he’s yet another of Taylor’s cast-offs.
Was it really worth it? I think we all know the answer to that.