Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Strewth!

Did you know we had a parliamentary sleaze watchdog? No, me neither.  His (actually I think it's currently a her) official title is the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards and is in charge of regulating "MPs conduct and propriety".  Lovely word - propriety.  It's the noun derived from the adjective proper, and therefore means that which is proper.  Problem of course, as with all such concepts is that what I consider proper and what you consider proper may differ, so it's a subjective notion.  Which brings us to Mr Vaz, a Labour MP who has apparently been indulging in homosexual activity in the privacy of his own home with what used to be called "rent boys".  Note that it was in private, and we only know about it as a result of a Sunday newspaper "sting" operation,  The Commissioner may well now have to decide if that is "proper" behaviour for an MP.  Good luck with that!

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