Comments on: Afternoon Quickie #12 http://charlottegore.com/2009/05/03/afternoon-quickie-12.html Free Trade and Free Minds. Politics for Reasonable People. Independent Political Blogging. Top 20 Blog. Libertarianism. Laser Kitties. Tue, 10 May 2011 21:47:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Darrell http://charlottegore.com/2009/05/03/afternoon-quickie-12.html/comment-page-1#comment-2544 Darrell Sun, 03 May 2009 19:01:52 +0000 http://charlottegore.com/?p=714#comment-2544 Dave, Be that as it may; and I dont disagree with your judgement on cheating as being bad and wrong here, the point is that the Major government launched a major (no pun intended) campaign which allegedly wanted to promote family values. This is why the press leapt all over Tory sex-scandals like a rash and there was such a climate of popular outrage; where as this government have done nothing of a kind and I really don't think many people care who a particular Labour MP is frackin... The source of peoples outrage this time around is the national debt, not having a job etc...hence my comment this governments weakness is money not sex... Dave,

Be that as it may; and I dont disagree with your judgement on cheating as being bad and wrong here, the point is that the Major government launched a major (no pun intended) campaign which allegedly wanted to promote family values. This is why the press leapt all over Tory sex-scandals like a rash and there was such a climate of popular outrage; where as this government have done nothing of a kind and I really don’t think many people care who a particular Labour MP is frackin…

The source of peoples outrage this time around is the national debt, not having a job etc…hence my comment this governments weakness is money not sex…

]]> By: DavidNcl http://charlottegore.com/2009/05/03/afternoon-quickie-12.html/comment-page-1#comment-2540 DavidNcl Sun, 03 May 2009 18:45:58 +0000 http://charlottegore.com/?p=714#comment-2540 The sexual stuff is of more than purient interest because it's about crucial values stuff - men who betray their wives and familes for a fuck aren't going to think twice about selling me or the country out. I do realise that politicians are human and that it is possible to fall in love with someone else etc - but that's not what were talking about. The sexual stuff is of more than purient interest because it’s about crucial values stuff – men who betray their wives and familes for a fuck aren’t going to think twice about selling me or the country out. I do realise that politicians are human and that it is possible to fall in love with someone else etc – but that’s not what were talking about.

]]> By: Darrell http://charlottegore.com/2009/05/03/afternoon-quickie-12.html/comment-page-1#comment-2517 Darrell Sun, 03 May 2009 16:50:59 +0000 http://charlottegore.com/?p=714#comment-2517 Sex isn't the governments weakness...no ill-advised 'Back to Basics' campaign....money is.... Sex isn’t the governments weakness…no ill-advised ‘Back to Basics’ campaign….money is….

]]> By: Niklas Smith http://charlottegore.com/2009/05/03/afternoon-quickie-12.html/comment-page-1#comment-2515 Niklas Smith Sun, 03 May 2009 16:32:14 +0000 http://charlottegore.com/?p=714#comment-2515 I'm a bit uncertain about whether it is actually so awful for MPs to have affairs. When Boris Johnson's affair was exposed I remember thinking "why is it all right for him to lie to his wife but not his party leader" (Michael Howard sacked him from the front bench because he had initially denied having an affair when Howard asked him). And I suppose it may say something about how trustworthy someone is. But surely misappropriating taxpayers' money is more serious? In other countries people aren't bothered by their politicians' sexual morality (or lack thereof). But someone can be forced to resign from cabinet for paying for private expenses with a work card (even if she always paid it back), as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Sahlin#Toblerone_affair" title="Toblerone affair" rel="nofollow">Mona Sahlin</a> found out in Sweden. This obsession with sex is a curious and not very attractive Anglo-Saxon phenomenon. Let's just hope it doesn't get to the point it did in Ireland, where for a long time "public morality" only meant sexual morality and politicians took bribes and evade tax left, right and centre. I’m a bit uncertain about whether it is actually so awful for MPs to have affairs. When Boris Johnson’s affair was exposed I remember thinking “why is it all right for him to lie to his wife but not his party leader” (Michael Howard sacked him from the front bench because he had initially denied having an affair when Howard asked him). And I suppose it may say something about how trustworthy someone is.

But surely misappropriating taxpayers’ money is more serious? In other countries people aren’t bothered by their politicians’ sexual morality (or lack thereof). But someone can be forced to resign from cabinet for paying for private expenses with a work card (even if she always paid it back), as Mona Sahlin found out in Sweden.

This obsession with sex is a curious and not very attractive Anglo-Saxon phenomenon. Let’s just hope it doesn’t get to the point it did in Ireland, where for a long time “public morality” only meant sexual morality and politicians took bribes and evade tax left, right and centre.

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