Following Kennedy standing down as leader of the LibDems and the Lords leader of the party admiting to being a heavy drinker during the 1970s and 1980s a candidate for leadership has today withdrawn his bid after rumours of a dalliance with a rent boy. Mark Oaten's entry in Wikipedia has already been updated but I'm having problems linking to the BBC page - it keeps falling over.
I'm not and never have been attracted to rent boys and I recognise that addiction to anything is a terrible problem but you have to admit that they do sound like the most interesting bunch to spend time with!
I'm not and never have been attracted to rent boys and I recognise that addiction to anything is a terrible problem but you have to admit that they do sound like the most interesting bunch to spend time with!
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I bet they do more drugs than the other lot, too :-)
it's like the old days, when jeremy thorpe had to resign. what larks!
I wonder simply whether we've come very far when someone's personal life can have such a big impact on their professional life.
To be fair, this is a candidate for leadership who has positioned himself as a family man espousing family values. It's not his sexuality, it's his hypocrisy that has led to his downfall...
Can't argue with tha Rob but I wonder whether he'd find himself standing down as a leadership contender and front bench spokesman had the affair been with a female prostitute rather than a male one?
I went for a job as a rent boy at Conservative party headquarters, but there were no prospects really. You had to start at the bottom, and you kind of stayed around that area for ever.
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