Culture Secretary John Whittingdale Caught in Prostitution Scandal

[Ironing Man]

9. for me...

for me its a resigning/sacking issue - firstly i simply don't see how anyone can do a job regulating the press (and lets remember he was a big beast in HOC media and culture select committee before he became a minister..) when he knew, and they knew, that the press had a nice juicy story on him in their back pockets.

secondly, and this is a judgement/integrity thing rather than the operational issue above, he failed to tell either the other members of the select committee, or the PM when he was appointed a minister, that he had been compromised in this way.

we are fortunate that as a minister in a 'who cares' department, he wasn't privvy to much more sensitive stuff and therefore that that much more sensitive stuff wasn't exploited by people who mean us a very great deal of harm, but the point stands that a minister cannot have hugely embarrassing secrets, and a minister certainly cannot have hugely embarrassing secrets that are known by the people he is, theoretically, supposed to be regulating.

sadly i think that however offended disco Dave is by Whittingdales' behaviour (and Whittingdale has already said that he did not tell the PM that he had this, umm.. little local difficulty..) because he needs this like he needs Ebola, the current EU etc.. issues within the tory party will stop Cameron kicking the creep down the Downing Street steps.