Scott Bent on

[Notch7]

Pizzed my pants

 

[Mottie]

Pizzed my pants

Why?

On the BBC website it says: "It comes after a Times report said Mr Benton was offered a paid advisory role by reporters posing as gambling industry investors. He did not pursue the role and no rules appear to have been broken".

"A spokesperson for Chief Whip Simon Hart said: "Following his self-referral to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards earlier this evening [Wednesday], Scott Benton has had the Conservative Party Whip suspended whilst an investigation is ongoing."

You seem rather excited by it - are you sure it was just pizz in your pants and not jizz?

 

[noseall]

He did not pursue the role and no rules appear to have been broken".

What role? I'm guessing the sting had no endgame other than to expose Tory sleaze. Job done - another greedy grasping Tory suspended.

 

[Mottie]

I am completely baffled by your reasoning.

Are you saying that if you went to discuss some paid work for a client, you didn’t feel comfortable as you knew it would break some rules or regs you work under and refused the job, that would effectively 'expose' you?

 

[JonathanM]

I am completely baffled by your reasoning.

Are you saying that if you went to discuss some paid work for a client, you didn’t feel comfortable as you knew it would break some rules or regs you work under and refused the job, that would effectively 'expose' you?

What if at the meeting you offered to do something illegal for the client and told the client you'd done it several times before.

 

[Mottie]

What if at the meeting you offered to do something illegal for the client and told the client you'd done it several times before.

Then you'd be f*cked! Is that what he did? The BBC article doesn’t mention that.

 

[JonathanM]

Then you'd be f*cked! Is that what he did? The BBC article doesn’t mention that.

Illegal as in against the rules; not criminal. I think that is what the Times is alleging. They say he offered to leak a white paper which might be market sensitive. From the Mail

He was stripped of the party whip after an investigation for The Times found he was prepared to leak market sensitive information to a bogus investment fund and ask parliamentary questions on its behalf, in breach of parliamentary rules.

Mr Benton was caught on camera telling undercover reporters posing as investors how he was willing to take actions which would break Parliament's lobbying rules

He also said he could table parliamentary written questions and that he had previously done so on behalf of another company.

 

[Nige F]

Should've been stripped and whipped

 

[motorbiking]

There is some hearsay that he discussed sharing confidential information. If true, then it’s inappropriate and he should be disciplined. However, I suspect the stingers may have led him to discuss this which isn’t the same as offering confidential information for cash.

We will see what the standards people come up with.

There seems to be a lot of Tory stings going on at the moment.

 

[IT Minion]

There is some hearsay that he discussed sharing confidential information. If true, then it’s inappropriate and he should be disciplined. However, I suspect the stingers may have led him to discuss this which isn’t the same as offering confidential information for cash.

We will see what the standards people come up with.

There seems to be a lot of Tory stings going on at the moment.

There's a lot of bites.

There is a perception that the current government is unusually corrupt so it makes sense to run more. Both as a public duty and to sell papers

 

[JonathanM]

There is some hearsay that he discussed sharing confidential information.

I think there's a video.

However, I suspect the stingers may have led him to discuss this which isn’t the same as offering confidential information for cash.

He should still have said no.

 

[Odds]

I am completely baffled by your reasoning.

Are you saying that if you went to discuss some paid work for a client, you didn’t feel comfortable as you knew it would break some rules or regs you work under and refused the job, that would effectively 'expose' you?

That's effectively what Sam Allerdyce told the 'Arab' fixers who set him up. He repeatedly said he'd have to talk with the FA about the offer but he was still hung out to dry by the tabloids.
It's nothing more than entrapment and should be inadmissible.

 

[Notch7]

He did not pursue the role and no rules appear to have been broken".

He went for the meeting.

A gambling company only wants to give money to a politician for one reason.


He was a 2019 grifter intake.
Nevermind, Benton only has 3700 majority he will be looking for a new job anyway soon

 

[blup]

Benton seems like another here today gone tomorrow mp. The issue is not just about the rules being broken - they appear technically not to have been - but whether the actions breached the parliamentary code of conduct. The bbc report parrots one line but fails to ask questions about the other.

Blup

 

[noseall]

Benton seems like another here today gone tomorrow mp.

Greedy grasping MP's see politics as a neat way of making big cash. Trés noble.