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Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Stroller, Jun 25, 2015.

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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

Poll closed Jun 24, 2016.
  1. Stay in

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  2. Get out

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  1. GoldhawkRoad

    GoldhawkRoad Well-Known Member

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    There was a picture of her wearing a corset in The Times. If a woman I worked with, appeared wearing a corset in a national newspaper, I think I might mention it when next I saw her. What would you do, Strolls. Pretend it hadn't happened?!
     
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    If only there was some way that the poor man could de-stress... :)
     
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  3. Stroller

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    It was an out-of-the-blue text, Goldie, not an everyday encounter.....

    having admired you in a corset in my favourite tabloid, I feel impelled to ask if you are free for a drink anytime?
     
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  4. Lawrence Jacoby

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    Dog eat Dog
    None of them seem to be doing their jobs that well on the face of it but what do we know?
    The BBC let their staff all **** a clown once
     
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  5. GoldhawkRoad

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    But if a minister or an MP is looking for a bit on the side, should he be sacked for immorality? I thought we'd left all that Victorian stuff behind. I can't see Green was using a powerful position to force her to do something she didn't want to do. There may have been a politely worded invitation (he was a friend of her family), but that's hardly Harvey Weinstein bullying
     
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  6. Lawrence Jacoby

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    Green is a Smoke & Mirrors story read what the real news is today:

     
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    To be honest, I couldn't care much about the porn or the sad-old-man sexual advances, but the lying does bother me. The best reason to sack Green, though, is that Davis has threatened to resign. That might do us all a favour.

    Jess Phillips has been rather scathing...

    “David Davis. Don’t let the door hit you on the arse on your way out.

    “David Davis your red line, your hill to die on is really something. ‘What made you want to become an MP’… ‘Great question, I really wanted to fight hard so people can **** at work,” she added.
     
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    I’m warming to Jess Phillips.
     
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    While I have no time at all for Morgan Stanley and their ilk, Corbyn’s attack comes straight after Morgan Stanley issued a report that said the U.K. economy would tank under a Corbyn Government, so its a bit of afters. The real problem is that Morgan Stanley can make the tanking happen.

    Dark glasses at night and shouting to make your point? Not calculated to make me listen after the first ten seconds I’m afraid.
     
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  10. GoldhawkRoad

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    Well, yes, I'm sure there are lots of ulterior motives about all of this. Did Jess Phillips really make that second quotation? Shameful if she did. Nothing has been established, so to prejudge is unparliamentary conduct at the least. May be defamatory, if the inquiry finds in Green's favour
     
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    ? She didn’t say that it was Damian ****ing at work, more like that Davis’ threat to flounce out again seemed to be about preserving the right for MPs to **** at work, because he hates the idea of the police being able to seize MPs computers, even when they are illegally receiving confidential information as Green was when this happened. The civil servant sending it to him was sacked.

    You are taking this very seriously Goldie.
     
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    Justice is a serious matter, Stan. Phillips did not need to mention Green by name. Innuendo has long been recognised as affording a defamed party a cause of action.

    The more I look at Green's conduct, the more I think it's not a hanging offence, without more. Corbyn, Phillips and Co will use all in their power to disparage him and get another Tory minister scalp, but apart from anything else, there are important precedents at stake here. Add the Labour Governments decision that Tory offices should be raided, the police's agreement to take a less than independent approach and to exceed the scope of the search, and later, certain retired coppers to use confidential information for what looks like it could be malicious purposes - and you have a very complicated situation
     
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    I still think the key question is whether the electors of wherever he is MP want to be represented by a bloke who ****s at work and then lies about it. Allegedly.
     
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    Taking what you say literally, I should think it would be almost impossible for him to masturbate at his desk, given that all kinds of parliamentary colleagues and aides are coming in and out of his office like tourists at Harrod's sale. More likely surreptitious downloading of what Jacob R-M refers to as dirty photos (because the women aren't wearing many clothes, the brazen hussies). As I've said, most men would deny it if confronted...but if you'd like to own up to anything, Stan, now's your opportunity...!
     
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    Speaking from experience, people don't seem to like it when you **** at work and then announce it.
     
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    I’ll bow to your apparent expertise in the area of office ****ing Goldie.
     
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    This could be fake news, fake accusation or fake denial. What it certainly should not be is front page news or 30 minutes of the Today Program discussing it. There are more important things going on in the real world. Frankly I'm not even that bothered if it's true and he did lie about it. Few of us would be brave enough or rather calm enough to admit it openly and face the ridicule, sniggering and being the butt of all jokes. Move on.
     
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    It’s ****ing weird and that catches people’s attention. ****ing weird middle-aged man work ****er.
     
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    agree it's not the first time a politician has been caught tied up wearing a Larry the Lamb outfit with an apple in his mouth. I thought that was the norm for MP's
     
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