There is so much political capital here… The news that he used a male prostitute while married has got the media machine really excited.
But I don’t get it:
- People shouldn’t be unfaithful — but they are all the time.
- Using prostitutes is illegal — but shouldn’t be.
- Being a politican is completely separate from having a consistent or particular sex-life.
Let’s leave Mark Oaten alone — and why should he resign? I cannot tell you a good reason.
But this is one in the face for all those smug Liberal Democrats who laughed so vehemently at the Tories during their sleaze scandal period.
January 22nd, 2006 at 7:01 pm
the wrong party
had mark oaten been labour he would now have a nice office in the european commission, probably in charge of slease
January 22nd, 2006 at 8:14 pm
I don’t get it.
If you want to shag men when you are a public figure, why do it with rent boys? Why take the risk? And why do that to your wife and children?
I just don’t get it.
January 22nd, 2006 at 8:16 pm
“and why should he resign?”
Because he’s a hypocrite who made political capital out of being a family man and who previously denounced a judge who’d been caught using prostitutes.
January 22nd, 2006 at 8:24 pm
James, Good reason…
Does this make him bisexual? And what was a Lib Dem doing lecturing about family values? They don’t believe in that I thought!
January 23rd, 2006 at 4:13 pm
Anyone seen series 3 of Little Britain, the scene with the politician talking to the press about the ‘incident’, where he accidentally falls inside a young gentlemen in the toilets?
January 24th, 2006 at 8:36 am
I don’t know about anyone else but certain scenes from Little Britain sprung to mind when I saw this on television..