WhoodaThunk wrote:Lord Ellpus wrote:[<mind wanders to cigars, the Oval Office, a short, pretty brunette>
BTW, excellent example there, Lord. (Also, naked strippers in D.C. fountains.)
I didn't mean that British pols have a wrap on scandals, but they're usually on the upper end of the scale when it comes to luridness.
Did you get the evidence for their supposed luridness from a Senate report, by any chance? I would like to ask who, what, where and when, but I know how you are about questions.
I will suggest a few.....Blunkett, a single guy who recently had a straight forward not very lurid affair with a married Woman, who as it turned out was a bit of a game lady, having affairs with several other men at the same time (she is American, I believe). Bit of a mess over fathering one of her babies. Tragic rather than lurid. He resigned.
Prior to that....Paddy Ashdown, years ago....had a fling with his Secretary....dont remember much luridness...straight sh*gging if I remember rightly.
Jeremy Thorpe, who had a gay affair in the seventies, about the most lurid of all the one's I can remember....lots of Newspaper coverage. He resigned and almost disappeared from public life.
Maybe you're thinking of the Profumo affair, back in the Sixties. He resigned I believe.
It seems to happen about once a decade....and this is worse than in the USA? It just shows that British Politicians like to play hide the sausage just as much as Politicians and people of power the world over.
We dont have the monopoly on luridness.