Laws an Ass ?

[olddutch]

BBC reports “Chief Treasury Secretary David Laws has apologised for claiming MPs' expenses to rent rooms in homes owned by his partner. Mr Laws said he would immediately pay back the money the Daily Telegraph claimed totalled more than £40,000.

He said his motivation was to to keep the relationship with the man private and not to reveal his own sexuality. David Cameron said he agreed with Mr Laws' decision to refer himself to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner

Sir Alistair Graham, the former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, voiced his surprise that the details had only just emerged. He told the BBC: "I'm a genuinely shocked that somebody who is now Chief Secretary to the Treasury is faced with disclosure of this nature where he clearly hasn't told the full truth to the people dealing with expenses in the House of Commons.
"Given all the expenses farrago that has gone on over the past two or three years, the fact that it has
come to light now when he is a key part of a coalition government is staggering really."

Laws should go now - anyone disagree ?

[bibblebub]

http://www.guardian.c...uits-expenses-scandal

So he's now resigned, and Cameron has described him as "...a good and honourable man." Honourable? Hmmm...

[whiskeryron]

Is it not time now that 'Great Britain' got back to basics. In the good old days we all believed in the sanctity of marriage, it all seems to have gone to pieces nowadays. May I remind you that the idea of couples getting together was to procreate & produce offspring to perpetuate the human race. These so called 'Gays' are deviants & should carry on their abhorrent practices away from decent human beings & also, should they be allowed to occupy positions of authority in society?.

[jackthehat]

Which good old days were they, Whiskeryron ?
Your rose-tinted spectacles could obviously do with a good clean..........

[whiskeryron]

Come off it jack,you know what I'm talking about,when young couples took marriage seriously & didn't jump into bed with anyone who happened to be passing. The whole moral outlook seems to have gone haywire.

[jackthehat]

And that is pertinent (if it ever existed) to the issue surrounding David Laws, how exactly ?

[whiskeryron]

I am refering to the rapidly declining morals in general in this country, homosexuality is only one of the issues that are now regarded as normal practice. I am merely pointing out how morals over a wide range of issues have now deteriorated to very low levels. Marriage was a state that all couples when they fell in love strived to achieve. Sodomy & Buggery were always a sin & in my eyes still are. OK I accept that to a lot of people I'm an old fuddy duddy, I couldn't care less, I still stand by the morals I was always taught as a child & have lived by all my life.

[jackthehat]

Well, you live by yours and leave other folks to take care of themselves.

You still haven't managed to tie your views to the current situation with David Laws; I presume it's just your general revulsion towards homosexuals that colours your views ?

[Sqad]

Whiskeron....//// I'm an old fuddy duddy, I couldn't care less, I still stand by the morals I was always taught as a child & have lived by all my life.///

"Fuddy duddy" is a term given by people who cannot see or do not want to see, the other side of the coin.....they should have gone to specsavers.

NEVER apologise for being a "fuddy duddy"

[whiskeryron]

I stand corrected sqad.

[sp1814]

whiskeryron

Perhaps Britain should re-criminalise homosexual acts?

Or why not go the whole hog and take a leaf out of the Nazi's book? Bit of extermination so that homosexuality doesn't pollute the rest of the nation, then perhaps we could all be like you.

That would be marvellous.