Ha ha ha.

On a serious note, I actually find the second story quite annoying. Why should someone be hounded out of their job just because a newspaper found evidence that he has a sex drive? You know, like most normal people?

Nothing wrong with a sex drive, it's his hard drive that is causing him all the problems, he has taking the selfie to another level, that level being below the waist.... my MP, the Tory bike Nadine Dorries says that is not that big a deal, and with her reputation I guess she is speaking from experience.

I'm not a fan of Nadine Dorries; she's a fool. But there's no need to make unpleasant sexual slurs against her, Nigee.

If society didn't have so many absurd hang-ups and double standards when it came to sex, this would be a complete non-story.

@ Jamie

You could make arguments about whether the character of a man who betrays his family is the sort you want in high office, but that is a relatively small issue.

The fact of the matter is this minister sent highly embarrassing pictures of himself to a person he barely knew. This is a serious lapse of judgment. This time he was fortunate it was just a left wing journalist. It could just have easily been a foreign agent, criminal, or unscrupulous businesswoman. Instead of being embarrassed by the Sunday papers he could be being blackmailed by the Kremlin.

The man is an arse and a danger to the country. He deserves to lose his post.

Hah, Octavious, calm down. He was a very junior minister, the government's "Civil Society" spokesperson, not the Secretary of State for Defence.

I'm not really all that worried if the Kremlin discovers David Cameron's secret plans for a 1% cut in funding for the Womens' Royal Voluntary Service.

Was it a lapse of judgement? Yes. Did it put the nation at risk? No, or course not.

Even the minister of civil society carries some clout. They have powers and access and information that can be made use of. Perhaps more importantly they can easily be promoted into the ministers of more sensitive matters.

The Russians have been putting more efforts into spying on Western European nations than at any other time. They have been targeting all aspects of the state, from MPs down to rank and file soldiers. It is a very real risk.

"I'm not a fan of Nadine Dorries; she's a fool. But there's no need to make unpleasant sexual slurs against her, Nigee."

Jamie, I'm guessing you don't know a lot about both politics and Nadine Dorries.
Firstly she's no fool, check out how she convinced the standards committee that £60k worth of mortgage payments for her 2nd 'Westminster' home in Wiltshere, which is actually further away from London than her real home in Central Beds, all paid for by the British taxpayer.
You obviously don't know her reputation but there is no need to where your ignorance on your sleeve, even a lazy person can google....

Apologies, Gloucestershire, not Wiltshere.

She is great copy though....

Dorries' daughter was among the highest earning family members employed by MPs with a salary of £40,000-45,000 as an office manager. This is despite the fact that her daughter lived 96 miles away from the office. Subsequently her sister was taken on as senior secretary with a salary of £30,000-35,000.[138][139] Ben Glaze, a journalist with the Sunday Mirror, was threatened by Dorries on twitter for asking questions about the MPs employment practices: "Be seen within a mile of my daughters and I will nail your balls to the floor... using your own front teeth. Do you get that?"

Criticism of Cameron, Clegg and Osborne
On 6 March 2012, Dorries attacked Cameron and Nick Clegg of the Coalition over their taxation policies. Referring to the proposed cuts in child benefit, she told the Financial Times "The problem is that policy is being run by two public schoolboys who don't know what it's like to go to the supermarket and have to put things back on the shelves because they can't afford it for their children's lunchboxes. What's worse, they don't care, either".[107] She again criticised Cameron, and also George Osborne, in similar terms on 23 April, calling them "two arrogant posh boys who don't know the price of milk - who show no remorse, no contrition and no passion to want to understand the lives of others".[3][108] Following Dorries' claim, in a Mail on Sunday article, that Cameron could be replaced within a year,[109] George Osborne said on The Andrew Marr Show on 6 May: "Nadine Dorries, for the last seven years, I don't think has agreed with anything either myself, David Cameron, or indeed most Conservatives in the leadership of the party have done".

@ Nigee - I was objecting to you calling her "a bike". That's a nasty misogynistic term of abuse and you didn't need to use it.

Jamie - Ok I got ya, I agree, a bit of poetic licence there that was a little OTT, it is ironic you use the word misogynistic because that is what I think about any person that denies women the right to choose, aka Ms Dorries, I'm pretty sure she is not a woman-hater though, she just thinks she should be able to tell them what to do with their bodies and their pregnancies, it is hard to respect a woman who seeks to deny other women what I think is a very basic human right.

"The Russians have been putting more efforts into spying on Western European nations than at any other time. They have been targeting all aspects of the state, from MPs down to rank and file soldiers. It is a very real risk."

Good for the goose, but not so much for the gander I take it.

Sorry, Putin. I'm not following.