UK ethics lord resigns over drug-prostitute scandal
Lord Sewel in The Sun expose
(CNS): A British peer who oversees ethics and standards for members of the UK’s House of Lords has resigned from the committee after he was caught on camera allegedly taking cocaine with two prostitutes. In a scandal that is now in the hands of Scotland Yard, Baron Sewel of Gilcomstoun, the deputy speaker of the Lords and the chair of the Privileges and Conduct Committee, which upholds standards in public life, faces claims that he took the Class A drug at a sex party after his behaviour was exposed by a British tabloid.
The Sun on Sunday published pictures and video of the peer in the compromising situation and what has been described as “shocking and unacceptable” behaviour by his colleagues. Sewel, who has himself called for investigations into peers behaving badly, is now the subject of a police enquiry. “The actions of a few damage our reputation,” he wrote recently. “Scandals make good headlines.”
In a classic expose, the 69-year-old married man was shown on film with the call girls in his flat near Westminster last week snorting the alleged narcotic with a rolled up five-pound note. Pictures also show the peer stripped naked in front of the prostitutes and at one point dressing up in their underwear.
On the video the peer is heard discussing with prostitutes the daily expenses members of the House of Lords get, and when one of the women points out that $200 per day for lunch is ridiculous, the peer tells her, “It’s not lunch, lovey, darling; it’s paying for this,” as he unwraps the drugs.
Sewel has resigned from his official posts, and also announced his resignation from the House of Lords Tuesday, but he has not yet given up his appointed title. Formerly a Labour peer, Sewel resigned his party membership to take up the House of Lords role and is a “non-affiliated member”.
See article in The Sun: Lord Coke: Top peer’s drug binges with £200 prostitutes
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69 years old.. this man should be reprimanded. then given a medal with kieth richards on it.
Good for him, at least he can still get it up and enjoy a good toot and booty call! Reminds me of the 1980’s!! Should’ve used his own $$$ though!
Remember old chap do as I say not as I do. Yes you plebs corruption only happens in the colonies, get a grip of yourselves! who are you going to believe your loving colonial master or your lying eyes. This situation could have been a lot worse Thank the Good Lord! The prostitutes could have been men. Any comments from the HRC or the ACC on this matter please feel free tell us what we need to do if it happens to us? Mmmmmmm I wonder if Mr Legge will get and audience at GOAB for the Gov to explain exactly what is going on back a HQ
No doubt this sort of behavior already goes on with some of our Leaders because there isn’t a piece of paper telling them not too do it. Do you think its all business when they go to Cuba or Central American where hoes and coke are easier to find than a hot breakfast?
Or London, England by the looks of things.
(Funny how you missed that destination, isn’t it?)
– Whodatis
Worry not my friend, Whodatis is right here quietly watching with nothing to say.
I’ll let the powers that be tell on themselves … yet again.
– Whodatis
Stick to that mantra for as long as possible. We are enjoying the silence.
Evidently not. Whodatis was called out. Just saying.
– Whodatis
The calling out was sarcastic. Your need to respond was narcissistic.
Clearly a man who can still enjoy the better things in life. At least he didn’t waste the money gambling in a casino 🙂
Where there is money, there is cocaine.
Bryce? Dah you?
By word Smithers their corrupt??looks like the Hypocrites have been caught yet again wid their pants down and on cocaine too. Poor old Cayman still buying and drinking the Kool Aid.
Rich old Cayman not drinking Kool Aid! No way is this not happening here as well as during important foreign conferences like postal seminars etc. Does anybody believe that our leaders aren’t into this sort of stuff? Why are they all so silent right now when matters of great importance are being speculated only in CNS comments etc?
The difference is he resign from his post, in Cayman nothing would happen and they would just carry on.
in the UK their are consequences fro getting caught, not so in Cayman
Actually in Cayman the fat pollies sue whoever brings it to light.
I thought politicians being corrupt and naughty only happened in Cayman and other places around the world……. with the exception of the UK.
Guess not.
Why you think that Anon? UK is corrupt, just when they’re caught doing it then put their hands up and resign, and of course a criminal investigation soon follows. Here? I dunno, maybe they’ll get a pat on the back and moved to a different department.
The UK lord is one out of hundreds. I am trying hard to find the one good, decent, transparent and clean cayman politician, I mean there must be one, right?
Lord? Chairman of Ethics Committee? Britain? And who is it pushing “Intergity” so hard here? How about yu clean up yu yard Fus? Physician cure thyself!
Well this fellow certainly has done his best to dispel the following critique by the Economist newspaper:
“RARELY in your columnist’s forays around Britain has anywhere fulfilled his worst expectations as the House of Lords did this week. The upper house of the British Parliament is in many ways a joke.
The lethargy and decrepitude evident among the noble legislators your columnist observed, creeping along the Palace of Westminster’s lushly carpeted corridors like so many pinstriped snails, or sipping their way in its Thames-side bars towards a mid-afternoon stupor, was depressing. “Oh God, look at him!” cried an eminent peer, pointing at one of these aged gastropods. “This is not a lovely retirement home! Actually, it is a lovely retirement home.” Could anyone consider such a place, stuffed with unelected party hacks and semi-functioning geriatrics, an appropriate assembly for modern Britain? It was even more depressing to hear that some peers do, albeit that this experience was often leavened by absurdity: as when an ancient and extremely pompous Conservative peer accompanied his ponderous self-justification with a noisy and protracted fart.”
Well done Sir! Much more entertaining than our gamblers and drunk drivers.
Look at that! Public figure gets caught and has to leave office. Make no mistake he is finished. Now let’s see, similarity to Cayman?? Err. Zero.
Did Whodatis not pay his internet bill?
He’s looking for away to make the Brits look bad cuz the guy stepped down
UK politicians and government officials need no assistance in making themselves look bad … especially when they’re almost 70 years old, male, and sporting a bright red lace bra, LOL!!
– The Who
the video is classic..a must watch..he tells them that the cocaine and hookers are paid for out of stipend on the UK taxpayers…its world wide you see
Yes it is worldwide but it doesn’t make it right or justified.
The difference here being one politician with a dirty, corrupt lifestyle is exposed by a newspaper and does the right thing and resigns. This is due to the knowledge that a police investigation will follow, he has let his country down, his political party has suffered damage and voter confidence has been lost.
Now elsewhere- everything is denied, it is someone else’s fault, voter confidence is maintained through the medium of new appliances, it could only be wrong if there is a policy saying that you cannot use cocaine on prostitutes, it is not illegal anyway if you repay the money and if it does get into a paper and mentioned, the editor is branded treasonous and flees with family.
It happened and it is horrible.dont care how you try to twist it it is horrible. You sound like a Brit and I know you are embarrass but please stop trying to pass this over on us. Do what we have had to do, take our shame and move on.
I was with you right up until that last clause. Editor fleeing the country in fear of his life was plain ludicrous. Funny how he came back in a week’s time driving an open top convertible.
So he is a Saint because he resigned? What else was he going to do say it wasn’t me? Come on folks he got caught with his pants down literally yet somehow you bring Cayman politicians into it.
Well he had an accurate assessment of political figures and didn’t claim the hookers or dope on expenses – and the bra kind of suits him.
So sad and disgraceful. He really needs help. I feel for his wife.