Westminster honeytrap: Tory MP accused of ‘exceptionally inappropriate’ behaviour

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1. He has to resign, simple as that. Whether the police want to investigate him for security breaches is a matter for them, but he must resign from parliament immediately.

2. When Labour win the election they should manufacture some low level scandals with sackings so they reset a higher bar of parliamentary standards. So many Tories are waiting it out after seeing how much others got away with

3. You can picture a Tory going “It’s the most exceptionally inappropriate thing that has happened this week! Well… Today, well… In the last hour for sure. And it will be for the next 5 minutes!”

4. Exceptionally Inappropriate behaviour???
   Exceptionally?

   For a Tory MP?

   We seen what their standard is for appropriate behaviour, what daemon shit he been up to to get “Exceptionally”????

5. Are we at the ‘new revelations show much worse than original apology’ or the ‘Sunak gives support and says he should get on with the job’ stage of the inevitable resignation?

6. Work out where it is going to end, and get there first. – Alistair Campbell on scandals

7. this type of thing gets to the heart of why the UK government has been very poor. Our MPs seem to be completely naive to the significance of their responsibilities to the welfare and security of the nation.

   They really just don’t seem to get it.

8. Do anything like this in any other sector and you would already be gone.

9. Westminster Honeytrap?

   I think I went to school with her

10. The word inappropriate should be discarded and replaced with wrong or right.There is no in-between.

11. >Chancellor Jeremy Hunt described Mr Wragg’s apology as “courageous and fulsome”, and Tory high command is understood to be concerned about wider fallout if the scandal forces by-elections in one or more seats.

    Yeah I bet they are. A major scandal in the Tory now all but forces the election immediately, can’t have that, theres power to pointlessly cling to for months yet.

12. I’m not so bothered about how appropriate it is. It is more how mind blowingly stupid he is. Its bad enough they use whatsapp like it’s *secure* but this goes beyond even that…I’ve a 12 year old could have told him all the ways he was fkin up.

13. A tory doing something exceptionally inappropriate? Well I am shocked and astounded.

14. >A person identifying themselves as either “Charlie” or “Abi” sent flirtatious messages, and in some cases an explicit photo, to a number of MPs as well as some political journalists.

    >It is understood that at least two of the MPs responded by sending a picture of themselves back.

    In what world is it normal to send pics to some random person that messages you out of the blue?

15. He thought he could get the hot ones on grindr because he was an MP

    Never trust the hot ones if you’re average always a cat fish

    Stick with moderately attractive

16. I’m a big fan of these scandals, it shows us how stupid and pathetic they are

17. Meanwhile some papers are running Angela as a headline, hmm…..

18. More than anything it’s the sheer stupidity that amazes me. Everyone who’s ever worked in a government job with even the slightest bit of a security angle knows exactly what the rules are. It’s drilled in, and here is this fool wafting his Jake around online for all and sundry. If this were a common or garden civil servant, they’d be having a stern interview followed by dismissal at the very best. It’s quite possible charges would follow.

19. Wonder if we’ll ever find out who the blackmailer is? Foreign agents looking for kompromat (and being served it on a plate by idiot Tory MPs)? But some articles suggested a “political insider”, which would be a plot twist for the ages.

20. Tories gonna Tory. Sooner this corrupt, dishonest, gaslighting rabble are out the better !!!

21. How is it the tories are the party of diversity and homosexuality? What’s labour the party of? Palestein?

22. The only reason he’s being backed and hasn’t resigned is due to the headache of another heavy defeat for sunak. This is supremely weak leadership.

    It’s another Tory mp sexting and then handing over personal details to an unknown source. It may even be treason depending on who is behind it.

    It’s the clearest case of career over I have ever seen

23. I feel very conflicted.

    On the one hand, having an MP who crumbles and discloses confidential information to a blackmailer for no better reason than to get themselves out of a bind (I’m not at all against whistleblowers in general passing on certain confidential information-but it has to be in *RADICALLY* different circumstances), just shows that they are totally ill-equipped for the job. No offence, no superiority, no lack of empathy: I’ve never been in this situation, and I’m not necessarily going to condemn him. However, an MP not being able to resist this, is like a driving instructor not being able to drive. DO SOMETHING ELSE for a living, then.

    Where I come to being conflicted is that the best defence against blackmail is for the victim to be able to come forward, admit what they’re being blackmailed about, and for everyone to speedily get over it, like the bar scene in Star Wars.

24. Will this be why the client media and of course Laura K are trying to deflect with a story about cushions ?

25. > A person identifying themselves as either “Charlie” or “Abi” sent flirtatious messages, and in some cases an explicit photo, to a number of MPs as well as some political journalists.

    > It is understood that at least two of the MPs responded by sending a picture of themselves back.

    > Mr Wragg told the Times he was “scared” because the person had compromising information on him.

    Holy shit, this is like the simplest, most blatantly obvious blackmail scam humanly possible.

    1. Send dick pic and generic flirty text
    2. Wait for them to respond with their own
    3. Post “haha, lol, now I have a picture of your cock and transcript of you sexting”
    4. Demand they do things for you/pay money/pass on secret information/vote the way you want them to on a bill/etc

    These people are so fucking dumb that literally even *ChatGPT* could successfully compromise members of Parliament and convince them to pass on privileged information. You could fucking *automate* this shit and hit every member of parliament from a different account with nothing but a laptop and a free OpenAI account.

    This is fucking horrifying. I bet if you look at this guy’s computer his browser has like twenty seven toolbar plugins, three desktop stripper apps, it’s secretly mining half the crypto currencies in existence and the only reason it works at all is because the various pieces of malware are too busy fighting amongst themselves.

    Someone this dumb shouldn’t be allowed to live on their own and make their own financial decisions, let alone have a hand in running the country.

26. Just once I want to see a Tory MP in the headlines and it not be a scandal.

27. From a work-security perspective, it should be obvious that the correct move as soon as someone attempts blackmail is to report it to your local security team and take their advice. They’ll not only tell you not to be an idiot and give out other people’s personal info but can also probably forward you onto other services to help deal with the impact on you, e.g. counselling, anti-ID-theft resources if it’s that kind of blackmail etc.

    If you are in any kind of job where your reputation matters or you have access to material that is of particular interest to attackers, you shouldn’t be sending compromising photos to anyone who also knows your name. Obviously, there’s a limit, and I don’t think public figures should have to be chaste and teetotal, but show some restraint unless you’re happy being open about it such that you can’t be blackmailed. (As an aside, I’d love to see a public figure take this approach.)

    Finally, anyone, no matter what their role, should consider that blackmailers are not the most trustworthy people, so even if you meet their demands, it’s no guarantee they’ll hold up their end of the bargain. You’re also encouraging future blackmail. Ransoms should only be considered when lives are at stake.