The conservative deputy, name unknown for now, was staring at the mobile. The porn video what he was watching must have seemed more stimulating than the ongoing debate on the House of Commons. While she was hanging out, a colleague with a position in the Government noticed what she was doing. another deputy tory confirmed it. Both point out that it was not the first time that such a thing had happened. The incident, now investigated, became known on Tuesday and it was raining on wet. It was another example of what women have to put up with in political life and macho culture in the British Parliament.
Two days before porn, on Sunday Mail on Sunday an anonymous group of parliamentarians, also conservatives, had accused the number two of the Labor Party, angela raynerof trying to distract the rowdy Boris Johnsonintentionally crossing and uncrossing the legs in the style Sharon Stone. The sensationalist and ultra-conservative newspaper illustrated the story with a photo of the deputy and another of the actress in the famous pose of Basic Instinct. To the degrading of the insinuation was added another evil endemic to the troops led by Johnson: classism. “She knows she can’t compete with Boris debating at the Oxford Union (the notorious private society frequented by Oxford University students), but she knows she has other gifts that he doesn’t,” the smears said of her. Moral: if she has achieved something, it is thanks to using her body. As usual.
Rayner, born in a working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Manchester, left the state school where she was studying at the age of 16, when she became pregnant with her first child. Before dedicating herself to politics, she was a trade unionist and is situated in the left wing of labor. Far from not measuring up, in his interventions in front of Johnson, when he frequently replaces the leader, Keir Starmer, quickly counters with a mocking touch that throws the prime minister off balance.
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The misogyny in the ancient corridors of the Palace of Westminster is not exclusive to the Conservatives. A Labor MP, considered a rising star, heard a colleague blame her success on having “a secret weapon” when collecting votes in elections. “Women want to be her friends and men want to sleep with her,” she said during an event.
In actuality there are 56 British MPs, including three members of the Government, investigated by the parliamentary sexual misconduct complaints body, ranging from humiliating comments, to allegations of harassment, to requests for sexual favors. The behavior of certain politicians sometimes enters the criminal field. the conservative Imran Ahmed Khan will definitely leave his seat this Saturday after being convicted of abusing a minor under 15 years of age. At the end of May he will know the sentence of the judge. Another of his colleagues, the one who was a deputy for Dover, Charlie Elphicke, He is in jail serving a sentence for sexual assault on two women. One of them worked in Parliament.