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Westminster and sexual harassment

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Anniebach Tue 31-Oct-17 16:02:43

Did she make the claim or reply to a claim in the press?

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maryeliza54 Tue 31-Oct-17 15:59:31

It shouldn't be up to women to say stop it but up to men to not do it

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Ilovecheese Tue 31-Oct-17 15:58:55

Maybe because it is possible that he carried on doing it to other people who were not so self confident. it is very unlikely that one knock back from a confident woman would have deterred him from trying it on with someone else.
A bit of public embarrassment doesn't seem too high a price to pay for a past sense of entitlement towards women.
I don't mean he should lose his job or anything like that, but being made to feel a bit shamefaced seems about right.

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maryeliza54 Tue 31-Oct-17 15:58:26

Because he damn well shouldn't have done it in the first place bloody entitled git - he was already a senior Tory by then and should have known better. What about the others he may well have had some sort of go at who didn't have J H-B's confidence ?( she was established by then) . Serves him right to be named and shamed - what right did he think he had in the first place to do that?Yuk

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Rosina Tue 31-Oct-17 15:49:21

I am probably going to be shot down in flames here but I am feeling really rattled by the perfect storm of sexual harassment complaints that are appearing. The latest - and the one that has provoked me to ask other Gransnetters what they think, is an incident where a Minister touched the knee of a female reporter at a dinner several times, she evidently told him to stop or she would 'punch his face' , he stopped, and apologised. this was in 2002 but she has now chosen to tell.
This seems to me a vindictive move or have I got the thinking all wrong? She dealt with a clumsy groper in a very robust way, and well done that woman, so why is the man now being publicly castigated for an incident that appeared to be done and dusted fifteen years ago?

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