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Chris Pincher has had whip removed

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MissAdventure Sat 02-Jul-22 22:34:10

Chris Arse Pincher. grin
I enjoyed the Guardian column.

Ladyleftfieldlover Sat 02-Jul-22 22:32:13

Sounds painful.

DaisyAnne Sat 02-Jul-22 22:22:31

How can Johnson sack him? The man has been a whip; he will have been party to knowledge that others don't possess and he is a journalist.

Mind you, if Johnson does do the right thing, I imagine the article that follows from Pincher (how unfortunate is that) should make very interesting reading.

Dinahmo Sat 02-Jul-22 21:08:01

I wonder how that compares with other work places. Worse probably.

RichmondPark Sat 02-Jul-22 21:06:36

The figures in Marina Hyde's column are astonishing. 5 Tory sex scandals in the last 3 months and "56 current MPs facing allegations of sexual misconduct. Assuming the vast majority of those will be men, that’s about one in eight male MPs."

Isn't that appalling.

NotSpaghetti Sat 02-Jul-22 20:31:34

Peter Brookes in The Times today.

Dinahmo Sat 02-Jul-22 19:02:09

A link to Marina Hyde in the Guardian on the subject. Her usual amusing self.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/01/boris-johnson-chris-pincher-westminster-scandals

Iam64 Fri 01-Jul-22 20:59:44

Johnson resisted pressure to suspend Pincher. Evidently, Johnson believed Pincher no longer having the deputy whip post was sufficient. He changed his mind after pressure from his own MPs, especially two senior women

Esspee Fri 01-Jul-22 18:31:05

Apparently Boris and the Chief Whip made the decision to suspend Pincher according to the Telegraph.
The idea of Boris judging others and deciding that they should be suspended is laughable in the extreme.

NotSpaghetti Fri 01-Jul-22 18:21:25

BTW, I think he actually resigned the whip.
No chance of BJ resigning.

NotSpaghetti Fri 01-Jul-22 18:18:48

Fat chance Esspee!

Esspee Fri 01-Jul-22 17:47:55

Thought for a moment that meant he had been in to S&M too but it simply means he has been ejected from the Conservative Party for the time being.
Now, with Boris’s blow job in the office with a woman with no security clearance to be there who he was actively trying to get into a highly paid job…..(taking a breath here)…. can we hope he will be kicked out too?