So THAT is the special relationship between Conservatives in England and the USA: The wide stance
(Toilet toff & tosspot Robert Benson)
I’ve finally realised why Conservative politicians like to privatise things. It’s because they always get into such embarrassing trouble in public places.
Anyway, what is it with Conservative politicians and public toilets?
I mean, in the USA, people have just recovered from laughing about senator Larry ‘wide stance’ Craig and here we have yet another family value politician, on this side of the pond, who’s been caught with his trousers down:
A TORY councillor was arrested for gross indecency after he was allegedly caught in a sex act with a man in a loo. Robert Benson, 41, was taken to a police station and charged with engaging in sexual activity in a public toilet. Benson — who has recently married — was nicked in South Harrow, North London.
Don’t you just love that ‘recently married’ detail? Makes you wonder if it would have made a difference if he’d pinned a sign ‘Just married’ on the outside of the toilet door instead of putting it on the back of the wedding car. Call it a alternative life style decision.
Mind you, I’d have more consideration and commiseration for the councillor’s wife if:
a) I hadn’t seen the guy’s picture and
b) he wasn’t a Conservative politician
I hate people who say ‘I told you so’ but truly, she could have seen this one coming from miles away.
Anyway, in England it’s always said that whenever there is a Labour scandal, it’s about money and corruption, because, traditionally, people in the Labour party didn’t have and/or come from money.
With the Tories it’s supposed to be about weird, kinky sex scandals – basically because England’s Conservatives used to come from the thoroughly inbred classes who sent their sons to the kinds of schools were they would be caned and rogered by various teachers and older boys.
Yes, those are clichés – but we all know how clichés are born: By truths hitting us over the head so many times that even the least contemplative muppet starts to see a certain pattern emerging.
Anyway, it’s nice to see that some of those old traditions are still being kept – but then, that’s why Robert Benson and his mates are called Conservatives, of course.
(Senator Larry “wide stance” Craig)
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