More Tory sleaze

Scotland Yard said today: "A man was arrested on suspicion of indecent assault, sexual assault, rape, abuse of position of trust and misconduct in a public office."

The Met said the alleged sexual offences were committed between 2002 and 2009 in London.

They first received a report of the allegations in January 2020 and have conducted a two-year probe into the claims.

The unnamed MP is not being suspended by the party until detectives from the Central Specialist Crime unit conclude their probe.

But Chief Whip Chris Heaton Harris has asked the MP to stay away from Parliament during the investigation.

A whips office spokesperson said: "The Chief Whip has asked that the MP concerned does not attend the Parliamentary Estate while an investigation is ongoing.

"Until the conclusion of the investigation we will not be commenting further."

The sex assault arrest comes after Parliament was rocked by a fresh Pestminster scandal amid a recent flurry of cases.

Imran Ahmad Khan resigned as a Tory MP after last month being convicted of molesting a teenage boy.

Fellow Conservative David Warburton was also suspended following sexual harassment allegations.

Around 50 MPs have reportedly been referred to Parliament's authorities over sex misconduct claims.

www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/18599461/tory-mp-arrested-for-rape/

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This, from Allison Pearson in today’s Telegraph, makes for mind boggling reading about the many levels of NHS management teams:

Look away now if you suffer from hypertension ....

“Unfortunately, NHS managers appear to see their role of overseeing the delivery of healthcare as superior to that of care itself. I asked “George”, Planet Normal’s senior source within NHS England, to paint me a picture of the organisation’s structure. After reading the email, I needed a lie down in a darkened room.

Essentially, NHS England – main offices in London and Leeds, but with lots of satellite buildings in places like Leicester and Taunton – is a Hydra with all of its multiple heads turned inwards looking at all the other heads.

NHS England does no routine hospital management; it is responsible for implementing government policy. For every type of healthcare “workstream” – elective, mental health, screening, primary care – there is someone in NHS England in charge of overseeing the delivery. Each of those national leads has a team of people and each region (of which there are seven) has a set of people overseeing delivery from a regional perspective. That’s a hell of a lot of staff who are not actually providing any medical care, but are busy reporting on how others are delivering it.

Wait, there’s more. An executive board covers operations, finance, information technology, human resources and analytics. Each of those functions has a similarly extensive national and regional structure. The function of departments called things like Improvement, Strategy and Transformation is “murky”, says George, but “essentially, a lot of resource goes into looking at how can we do things better and more efficiently while never appearing to make any progress in that direction”.

I’m not sure I can bring myself to type what follows, it’s too depressing. But I think you should know – after all, you’re the ones paying for it. In between NHS England and the hospitals, there are now Integrated Care Systems, which are basically a partnership between the hospitals, GPs, some local authority services and healthcare commissioners. They too all have boards, heads of delivery, finance structures and business intelligence functions. (Of course, they do!) As George wryly observes: “This is yet another in a long line of organisational configurations that may or may not deliver any real improvements or change.”

In theory, NHS England can support, cajole, even threaten those organisations actually doing the frontline delivery. Ultimately, says George: “We are fairly powerless to bring about any real change. So you have to wonder, how much money should this organisation consume and does it provides any real value?”

What has this Telegraph article got to do with Tory sleaze?

Oh sorry ... wrong thread! Apologies everyone.
Thanks varian.

The unnamed Tory MP, who has been named all over the net, voted against gay marriage, when it was voted on, as it being immoral, inappropriate etc.?

Sometimes, people's morals are obviously very flexible...?

Indeed. The unnamed Tory sounds thoroughly unpleasant I all manner of ways before these allegations.

A quick look at twitter and you will know who the unnamed MP is. There are 2 names going the rounds, the most likely one is an MP I haven’t heard of.

A two year investigation by the met suggests this has been properly investigated. He’s been arrested, not yet charged

Someone upthread has raised the usual old question. Why did the woman (and we are assuming the alleged victim is female) not complain immediately. Read the research on this and don’t instantly assume it’s false allegations

Months after his scandalous behaviour featured on the front pages of the Sunday papers David Warburton is finally being investigated by the parliamentory authorities.

Let's hope he resigns or is disbarred as an MP so the people of Somerton and Frome can elect a decent representative.
. www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/22/tory-mp-david-warburton-parliamentary-standards-inquiry