A Cock and Balls Story

Before Theresa May decides that she has a 'reasonable belief' that I might 'disrupt democracy' and thereby prevent me from posting online anything other than government propaganda, I thought I'd take a look at yet another Tory sex scandal and the accompanying hypocrisy from the press.  The burning question here, of course, is whether it is in the public interest to publish a story about a government minister sending a picture of his cock and balls to a young woman he hasn't met, simply because an online exchange has indicated that she might be 'up for it'.  'No' screams the Tory press, claiming the fact that Brooks Newmark, the minister in question, was entrapped as the 'young woman' he assailed with a photo of his junk was in fact an undercover reporter, which apparently means that he wasn't really sexually harassing anyone. Except that he thought that the recipient of his picture was a woman, from which we can only conclude that Mr Newmark thinks that this represents acceptable sexual etiquette regarding virtual strangers of the opposite sex.  Now, I don't know about you, but I find that pretty shocking and I think that it absolutely is in the public interest that we should know that a government minister - the Minister for Civil Society, in this case - not only has such an attitude toward women, but also thinks it OK to engage in behaviour you would normally associate with a sex offender.

Let's face it, if it was some TV celebrity working for the BBC who had been caught out sending photos of his knob to young women, then the likes of the Daily Mail would be branding him a 'filthy sex pervert' and would have been screaming for the BBC to be shut down.  Just as they did with Jimmy Savile (who, let us not forget, was never actually convicted of anything). According to the right-wing press and their Tory back bencher pals, the BBC should be held entirely responsible for Savile's alleged sex crimes as they allegedly took place when he was in their employ and allegedly sometimes happened on BBC property.  So, surely the same criteria should apply in this case: Brooks Newmark was a member of the Conservative Party, a Tory MP and a minister in Cameron's Tory government when he was flashing his cock and balls around the ether, so surely the Conservative Party should be held responsible for his behaviour?  In fact, shouldn't they just be disbanded?  After all, they don't seem to have done anything about his unacceptable sexual shenanigans.  Oh sure, he's resigned as a minister, but he's still an MP representing the Tories in parliament, drawing a sizeable salary paid for by us taxpayers.  That's right, us taxpayers are subsidising a sex monster!  Let's face it, if he'd been caught waving his whanger at women on Clapham Common, he'd be labelled a flasher, charged with indecent assault and put on the sex offenders register,  But instead, he's still in parliament, paid for by Joe Taxpayer.