Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,070
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Charlie ElphickeVerified account @CharlieElphicke 8m8 minutes ago
The party tipped off the press before telling me of my suspension. I am not aware of what the alleged claims are and deny any wrongdoing.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
Blimey.
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
- Posts: 1,071
I was just about to post the Britain Elects tweet on this.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
Starting to feel like the beginning of the end for this Government.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Met Charlie and chatted to him quite a few times in town over the years and I like to think am a good judge of character. Hard to imagine him as a predator or even putting it in to soak in the wrong place, hopefully this is just something that will blow over(no pun intended}.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Cathy Newman Channel 4 News
Cathy NewmanVerified account @cathynewman
Am told @CharlieElphicke was reported to whips not long after @theresa_may became PM. Woman who reported him didn’t want to involve police
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
TheThinWhiteDuke- Registered: 7 Jul 2016
- Posts: 357
howard mcsweeney1 wrote:Met Charlie and chatted to him quite a few times in town over the years and I like to think am a good judge of character. Hard to imagine him as a predator or even putting it in to soak in the wrong place, hopefully this is just something that will blow over(no pun intended}.
Hopefully you won't have to re-evaluate your character judging skills.
I mean. There's no way a tory MP could possibly be at all predatory. That's not their whole ideology at all, is it?
They never stick their fingers into anything where their fingers are not wanted right?
Ross Miller
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 17 Sep 2008
- Posts: 3,705
what is it with small men and power? or for that matter plain/ugly men and power?
do they not get that we are no longer in the 60's or earlier?
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
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Leaving aside the credibility of the allegations, the way this has been handled has been pretty severe. I can imagine the mood in the Tory party at the moment is pretty toxic. Charlie Elphicke, whatever you thought of him, was the classic ultra loyal backbencher - to have been hung out to dry so publicly will upset many.
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
So the claimant is not named but the accused and, by association, his family are.
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(Not my real name.)
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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The previous chief whip got rid of the Defence Secretary and was given his job, two days later the new chief whip goes a step further and reports our MP to the police. I find it hard to believe that much new evidence of wrong doing came in such a short time.
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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if an MP can bum a cheap immigrant rent boy and give money for coke and still survive,charly has nothing to worry about.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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Button wrote:So the claimant is not named but the accused and, by association, his family are.
This is what happens all the time for so many especially if they are media fodder like Charlie. The law should change to protect the person until they are about to be charged whatever the crime.
To suspend a person from the party and notify the media before the person concerned is notified stinks of being a personal vendetta or internal backbiting politics.
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Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,257
Keith Bibby wrote:if an MP can bum a cheap immigrant rent boy and give money for coke and still survive,charly has nothing to worry about.
Yet another job our youth are to lazy to do!
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Arte et Marte
Guest 1997- Registered: 3 Mar 2017
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The allegation (and it is, of course, only that) has been around for sometime. Personally I don't doubt for a second that the lovely Theresa was aware of it. Had it been blatantly vexatious or implausible, then she would not have authorised his suspension or, even more significantly, reporting the matter to the police.
Quite why she chose to do it when she did is a subject ripe for discussion!
I feel more sympathy for the town and it's people. Between our Mayor and our MP we certainly do attract nationwide publicity.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
It was reported last week that the PM is briefed weekly on who is being naughty and who with. It seems that the information is used to ensure vote loyalty rather than any concern for the victims.
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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I too feel mortified. You can see why I and others like howard mcsweeney1 write under a nom de plume and the good residents of River want the direct stage to Canterbury reinstated. The sooner the constituency gets re-named 'Dover and Deal' or 'South Thanet Hundreds', the sooner we'll be able to share any shame around.
(Not my real name.)
Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
This has made international headlines, just been out and about with a Saudi radio station drifting over the border and heard the Arabic punctuated with a very phonetic "Charlie Elphicke" .
What a word we live in; accusations into a hitherto unknown Hollywood producer end up with Charlie Elphicke suspended barely a week later. Crazy.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,070
This is getting silly. Back from town to find carer with telephone number of 'some journalist from the Sunday Telegraph', could I 'phone him back. 'What had I done this time?', she glared.
Needless to say it's a 'fishing trip' about our Charlie wondering whether I had any idea of what it's all about.
Whilst sorely tempted to make up some tale involving bestiality and the HofC 'Dog of the Year' I restrained myself! So taking things at face value even the reptiles don't know what the accusations are.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson