Post by m***@btopenworld.comPost by OpheliaPost by JNugentPost by NickBritish Parliamentarian Quits After Cocaine Prostitute Sting
Baron John Sewel, who is tasked with upholding standards
in the House of Lords, was filmed by a newspaper
allegedly snorting cocaine off a prostitute's breasts.
I heard he has resigned does anyone know what he is supposed to have
done wrong?
Labour politicians usually resign because they've done nothing wrong.
Well what he was doing isn't my cuppatea but it is his private life and what
the hell were the Sun doing filming in there???? Whatever law he has broken
by snorting cocaine, is the Sun not guilty of something unlawful?
It's the price you pay for a free press. There is nothing to suggest that
anything the Sun or anyone else says is untruthful otherwise the writs
would flying already.
This 'private life'/ 'so long as he does his job properly' can be taken so far,
Society expects from all of us a certain modicum of behaviour. Certain
behavioural thresholds beyond which we will not openly trespass. You can
tolerate or endure the kind of behaviour that this character has committed
but there is no way you can make it respectable. Wider society simply will
not permit us. We demand respectability from our public figures and where
they fail in this respect they pay a price.
This insistence on standards of behaviour comes as a result of generations
of social evolution . People who exhibit poor standards of behaviour are
the very people most inclined to let other people down. A man who has let
down his family and those who have supported, helped and trusted him will
have no compunction in letting you or anyone else down. He is no good to
anybody.
He will be ostracised and deserves to be.
Fair comment.