Under the Whip

I see they took the whip away from that Tory MP who was in the middle of yet another sex scandal.  Quite right - stopping him from getting a good thrashing is probably the most apt punishment for him.  It's interesting how the media and the Tories have tried to characterise it all as a financial scandal rather than a sex scandal.  But when you have a Tory MP ringing up a constituency worker in the middle of the night and begging for four thousand quid because 'bad men' have got him locked in a room and wouldn't let him go until he paid up, what else are we supposed to think?  It seems quite obvious that he was in some kind of sex dungeon, clapped in irons, no doubt, unable to pay his bill - he'd probably been getting his arse whipped on credit for too long and now his hosts wanted paying.  The most incredible thing is that instead of calling the police, as most of us, I'm sure, would  have done, the constituency worker apparently paid up.  Although details on exactly how the payment was made are still unclear.  Did this Tory blue-rinser go to an assignation, late at night, in a deserted supermarket car park to exchange the money for the MP - who doubtless would have been delivered chained up and naked?  There have also been all sorts of talk of missing constituency party funds and rent boys.  

Clearly, this guy was shagging and getting whipped to excess if he couldn't afford to pay for it all on an MP's salary.  Which leads me to consider an alternative scenario, in which he was touting his own arse around Soho as a part-time rent-boy, in an attempt to make up the missing funds before anyone found out.  Naturally, the local 'talent' wouldn't have been happy about him encroaching on their territory - especially if he was successfully pulling in punters - and kidnapped him, holding him hostage for money to make up for their lost earnings.  Not, obviously, that I'm saying that a serving MP sold himself as a rent-boy, frequented S&M joints for services he didn't pay for or embezzled party funds.  Well, the jury is still out on that last one, but the rest are just amusing stories told for satirical effect and are in no way libelous.  It is not, perhaps, a surprise though that the Tories and their media partners seem to be more concerned with the financial, rather than the sexual, aspects of this story.  After all, money is their sex - acquiring it, by any means, is better than an orgasm for the average Tory MP, so is it any wonder that 'abuse' of it is what shocks them?  (especially when it is party funds being abused - if it was some public body or working class oik being robbed or ripped off, then they'd applaud).