“Nice to see ya. Are you alright?” was this Independent Conservative’s answer when he was asked about his inappropriate behaviour outside a court. “He grabbed my arse” was the response of his victim. A former Mayor of Barnet, Coleman, who was expelled from the Conservative Party in October 2012, was fined £270 after pleading guilty to the charge in May 2013. In both 2009 and 2011 he was to be in breach of Barnet Council’s code of conduct and in 2007 he wrote a blog post for the New Statesman accusing the late Edward Heath of being into cottaging. Would you want him as a dinner party guest?
Two stories to keep beside you
Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman DBE (1923 – 2014)
At one point both an MP and an MEP at the same time, this former Conservative member for Lancaster (1970 – 1997) was known for her “trill” voice and once described as sounding like a “squawking parrot”. A strict Methodist, Kellett-Bowman was a campaigner for the return of the death penalty and against moral laxity […]
Sir Bernard Ingham
Margaret Thatcher’s former spin doctor is as well known for his eyebrows as his outspoken remarks. In November 2013, this Yorkshireman commented that Northerners who refused to vote Conservative conveyed an “image of bovine stupidity” and has previously derided Scottish nationalists as being “as greedy as sin”. He believes that the Hillsborough disaster was caused […]
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“Don’t Just Lie There, Say Something” is a 1973 British film based on the popular “Whitehall farce” written by Michael Pertwee.
Sir William Mainwaring-Brown a British Government Minister, puts forward a bill to battle filth (permissive behaviour) in the United Kingdom. However, he has an affair with his secretary and a wife of a high up reporter.
It is all so familiar. Reality is stranger than fiction.
Coleman is a convicted criminal and just ghastly