Revealed: Tory MP allegedly demanded campaign cash to pay ‘bad people’

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1. Yikes 😳

   “Are you on your own?” the man said, with urgency in his voice. “I’ve got in with some bad people and they’ve got me locked in a flat and they want £5,000 to release me.”

   The caller was Mark Menzies, 52, the Conservative MP for Fylde in Lancashire.

   He had rung his 78-year-old former campaign manager, a woman who The Times is not naming, waking her from her sleep to ask her to hand over thousands of pounds from a bank account containing donations to the MP’s campaign”

   Questions in the House soon surely.

2. Wealthy Conservative MP becomes embroiled in a “matter of life and death” of his own making.

   Still wakes a septuagenarian up at 3am to demand use of donation funds rather than take money out of his own bank account.

3. Although being a room with some bad people could simply be a meeting of the 1922 Committee.

4. You’d have thought they’d have run out of scandals by now.

5. Why has this been covered up by the party for 3 months? He’s accused of fraud, plus potentially demanding money with menaces. He should resign immediately.

6. That sounds like the behaviour and logic of a coke addict.

7. Good god. Totally unhinged behaviour. Surely he’ll be out on his ear, now it”s out in the open.

   Won’t need a general election at this rate.

8. [Oooh, look…](https://news.sky.com/story/mark-menzies-mp-gives-up-tory-whip-following-newspaper-claims-13116735)

9. Sigh….the lack of morals and corruption in government is why there’s a lack of voting .They need to sort this out .

10. Clearly not fit to stand as an MP, but regardless of that this man has some serious issues that he needs to attend to in his life.

11. Bad person from group of bad people wants money to pay other bad people… yeh, that gets it.

12. We laugh at America but look what we’ve become. 

    Our fucking politicians are celebrities who get paid to sway public opinion to get big corpos/pharma into power. 

    Tory or Labour, we have no future… 

    We need to do something before it’s too late.

13. > The Conservative Party has been aware of the allegations of potential fraud for more than three months and has taken no action. The MP was accused of paying for sex from a male escort in 2014.

    And they’ve been gleefully going after Angela Rayner…