MP Named as Neil Parish

When my Uni granddaughter works in McDonalds or behind the bar in a club she has to leave her phone in her locker ?? MPs should do the same they should not have their darned phones while AT WORK
So when he opened his phone it just popped up I wonder what else just popped up
As for his wife it doesn’t bother me what he was watching but he shouldn’t have been watching ANYTHING or sleeping or playing patience on his phone
Ban them for when they are at work if that is work !! Half of them snooze off and just wake up to go yah yah yah

I think they need to be contactable as they may have urgent constituency business to attend to, so I don’t object to having phones in the House. However it’s sometimes obvious that they are just scrolling.
I don’t buy the ‘accidental’ excuse and presumably if someone had sent him a dodgy video which he opened without knowing the contents any sane person would delete it, not watch it, and no offence would have been committed. The fact that he is apparently going to resign speaks volumes.

He is implying, although not saying, that he landed up on the site by mistake .... hmmmm.

I think that MPs should hand in their phones as they walk into the chamber - watching anything at all on your phone means that you are not concentrating on the job you are being paid to do.

in any other job he would be sacked immediately.
that happened in my workplace some 20 years ago.
they were gone instantly. never seen again.
and nobody had actually seen them watching porn; a disk was found in their desk when they were absent and others were checking some work.

Living in East Devon he is MP for our next door constituency. He campaigns a lot for rural and animal issues, but I'm sure he wouldn't be missed. There's nothing much about it yet in the local news, in some ways people here are more worried about employment for the young and better transport links. They will start to question what their MP stands for.
I think what he did is wrong and this needs addressing across the house.
I feel sorry for his family and the many people who voted for him.

Men watch porn that’s a fact, mostly it’s discrete, in secret if you like. To watch port with a woman either side of you is utter contempt of reasonable behavior, it’s taking the pi$$, as Parish is also being investigated for other inappropriate behavior with women it’s time to go.

He has a 24000 majority in his seat, he should resign and let a better Tory take his place.

It's the cakes fault...

MissAdventure

Very accident prone, our mps aren't they?

Yes, poor lambs. Forever being waylaid by rogue cakes and porn

Very accident prone, our mps aren't they?

He has admitted he was accidentally watching porn and he was now embarrassed and ashamed.
How do you accidentally watch porn?

He should not be watching or doing anything on his phone while he is being paid to represent the interests of his constituents, not wordle, not sudoku and certainly not porn. His pathetic protestations that he watched it 'by accident' are pathetic. In the unlikely event of accidentally downloading porn, any decent person would turn it off and profusely apologise to anyone adjacent. He watched it. As for his wife....blaming the women.....nice

I'll probably get told off for that, but it was too good an opportunity to miss.

MissAdventure

I think perhaps he was going to take some business in hand after watching.

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Well, if they didn't use their phones during working hours then none of this would have happened.

MissAdventure, I suspected you’d see that as I posted it.

Unlikely but possible that someone else in the house sent him a video which he opened without knowing what it was. That would account for his earlier interview where he seemed to think that someone else was the guilty party.
If that’s the case the investigation will show it.
As I said highly unlikely but just possible.

I think perhaps he was going to take some business in hand after watching.

An absolute disgrace. Porn has no place in the workplace. IMO porn has no place anywhere, it’s demeaning to all concerned.
I do agree that phones should be switched off in the house and MPs should be concentrating on the business at hand.

Quite simply, MPs should not be watching anything on their phones!! Or sending messages, or playing games ( not even Wordle) or doing their Waitrose food order. Their phones should be switched off and they should be concentrating on what is happening. It is their job.

Love it, Zonne!
Shame on him, and shame on his wife for any attempt to defend his behaviour.

Whitewavemark2

Neil Parish, the MP who was watching porn in parliament, went on GB News earlier this week and discussed the unnamed MP who was watching porn in parliament.

???there is no end to their lies is there?

Maybe there are so many of them doing this that at that point he thought it was one of his colleagues who’d been caught…

I think he's stated something along the lines that he may have "accidentally" opened a porn video.

Why are MPs scrolling through their iPhones anyway when they're in the House?

Like others, I feel sorry for his wife, but her comment, "that if women were "mad" with every man who watched porn "you would not have many wives in the world". has lessened my sympathy somewhat. Entirely missing the point.

... and not all porn is harmless either. Does she, or the men who watch, know that it's an industry into which women are frequently trafficked? And that some men have admitted that their addiction to it has led to them being unable to hold down normal relationships with their wives and girlfriends?

He just should not have been watching it at work, it's as simple as that.

Blimey,parliament must be more of a bore than i ever thought it could be.
IF and i say IF it is proven he did watch porn than lord help him.
Why though didn`t the women shout it from the roof tops there and then and show him up for the person he is, if guilty that is.
And yes i too feel for his family either way.

Whitewavemark2

Neil Parish, the MP who was watching porn in parliament, went on GB News earlier this week and discussed the unnamed MP who was watching porn in parliament.

???there is no end to their lies is there?

What was he thinking?

Seriously - porn habit aside, he clearly has zero sense of judgement to even think of accessing it in public in the HoC, but to then go on TV to castigate 'the culprit' is just stupid. He must have realised that as he had been caught because someone had seen him 'in action', he had also been named.