Renaissance Robot posted:

Gonzo McFee posted:

Wasn't this guy accused of getting young girls so drunk they couldn't stand and then having sex with them? "Isolate, intoxicate and penetrate." Was his motto, or am I remembering something different.

quote:

Shocking claims of violent sexual abuse by one of David Cameron’s top Election aides have been reported to Conservative chiefs.

Three female Tory whistleblowers say senior aide Mark Clarke, who ran the party’s Road Trip 2015, attacked and threatened them.

One says he forced her against a wall and demanded sex; a second claims he threatened to ‘destroy her’ after she stood up to him; and a third alleged he molested her in a bathroom when she was 17.

Two of the women say that he bragged of using alcohol to make women sleep with him, calling it his ‘IIP’ technique: ‘Isolate, Inebriate and Penetrate.’ They are among more than 20 Tories who have complained to an official party inquiry linked to the suicide of young Conservative aide Elliott Johnson.

Clarke is also accused of preying on women in a 100-strong team of young Tory activists on his Road Trip campaign. Some of those on the trail were as young as 16.

Tory HQ handed out up to £250 a night to provide free drinks for the activists as they toured key constituencies and stayed in hotels.

Once dubbed a ‘Tatler Tory’ and tipped for the Cabinet, Clarke allegedly used bullying and blackmail to try to control the Tory youth movement and become an MP.

Conservative chiefs now face calls to explain why Clarke, a known womaniser, was allowed to take charge of an Election team involving young girls.

He has told friends he once accidentally dislocated the jaw of one of his lovers when he slapped her during a consensual sex session, requiring her to seek hospital treatment in the early hours. He said they told doctors it was a ‘netball injury’.

Newly ennobled Baroness Emma Pidding, a personal and political ally of Clarke and chairman of his rebranded Road Trip 2020, also faces questions. She arranged for Clarke to be feted by Cameron in public at the Conservative National Convention in July.

Tory HQ has been told married Clarke, 37, regularly shared a room with his mistress, India Brummitt, in Road Trip overnight stays.

Brummitt is a Commons aide to Tory MP Claire Perry who advises David Cameron on how to curb the ‘sexualisation of children’.

Clarke’s physical attack on Johnson in a Westminster pub in August, witnessed by dozens of Tory aides, triggered protests by those who had suffered similarly at his hands.

Incredibly, Clarke stepped up his threats and intimidation to try to silence them. Johnson refused to back down in a second pub confrontation with Clarke days before his death on September 15.

Now two Tory women whistleblowers who gave evidence against Clarke to Tory chiefs have spoken to The Mail on Sunday in return for remaining anonymous.

One, aged 20, revealed how Clarke targeted her on a Road Trip visit to Harlow, Essex. She said: ‘We were walking down a street late at night. He waited until the others with us had moved ahead and shoved me into a doorway. He grabbed me by the neck and started running his hands over me. He said he wanted to sleep with me and named the hotel where he wanted to take me. Luckily someone came round the corner and I managed to get away but he didn’t give up.

‘He kept pursuing me with text messages trying to arrange a date and time. I wouldn’t call it attempted rape but it was certainly an assault.’

quote:

Fr Stephen Crossan is reported to have sniffed coke through a £10 note on a night of drinking in July 2015 in Banbridge, County Down.
He was in a room with Nazi memorabilia and seemed to say "I shouldn't" as he snorted,

serious gaylord posted:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35688401


I suppose at least hes not diddling kids.

dispatch_async posted:

OwlFancier posted:

Though, I mean, "being in a room with nazi memorabilia" being objectionable would presumably make visiting most museums unethical.

serious gaylord posted:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35688401


I suppose at least hes not diddling kids.

serious gaylord posted:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35688401


I suppose at least hes not diddling kids.

sebzilla posted:

Only a tenner? loving oik.

serious gaylord posted:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35688401


I suppose at least hes not diddling kids.

Seaside Loafer posted:

His quote:
"Father Crossan told the newspaper that he took the drugs but said: "It was just the one night and that was it.""

He kinda looked like he had done that before. One is usually a bit 'how do i do this' on ones first go on a line of coke.

XMNN posted:

This was my first thought too

LemonDrizzle posted:

Unfortunately, not a literal cull and the picture is apparently not from a training manual instructing culling agents as to how to perform their duties.

Guavanaut posted:

Use a straw instead of gross things that have been touched by hundreds of other people, some of them bankers. That's how you get sinusitis.

Pissflaps posted:

I don't know what Brewdog is.

LemonDrizzle posted:

Unfortunately, not a literal cull and the picture is apparently not from a training manual instructing culling agents as to how to perform their duties.

Pissflaps posted:

I don't know what Brewdog is.

Guavanaut posted:

This is the worst thing about the whole drug charade. It's either 'no it was just once and I'm very sorry it was a mistake' or 'I experimented back in college but we were all young once'.

There's never 'oh yeah I actually indulge pretty regularly but I don't let it affect my personal or work life' and there's no such thing as a casual user, which implicitly means that all regular users are addicts and all addiction represents some sort of personal moral failing.

Pissflaps posted:

I don't know what Brewdog is.

Tesseraction posted:

'migrants set "The Jungle" ablaze' says headline with image showing people covering their faces to keep out the smoke while one is clearly holding an extinguisher

Seaside Loafer posted:

Forget priests, they can go nuts for all i care, but from politicians id appreciate a plain 'Ive occasionally used recreational drugs of various sorts at various times across my life but now I'm on the public payroll I'm going to be working like a bastard because of the trust the public has put in me and wont really have time for such fun, but I'm rolling a fat reefer the day I'm out of office!'

Wouldn't that be nice.

Guavanaut posted:

Good news that the Apple/FBI thing seems to have made May stand down a bit though.