It is public scandal that constitutes offence,
and to sin in secret is not to sin at all.
Le Tartuffe
Le Tartuffe
ONE WONDERS WHAT MOLIÈRE MIGHT BE WRITING nowadays if he had been paying attention to the behaviour of our Liberal Democrat leaders over the last twenty or thirty years. Indeed, almost every snide attack M. Poquelin made on the French nobility, court, middle class, liberals and soi-disant politicians in the early XVIII century may happily be applied to our splendid coalition partners today.
THE ‘OUTING’ OF DAVID LAWS AS A HYPOCRITE might be drawn straight out of The Misanthrope, and new boy Danny Alexander seems to be going the same way, suggesting that these chaps have simply not understood that golden rule about glass houses and throwing stones. After one speech in the House of Commons by David Laws, on Thursday 27th of May, warning MPs that they cannot expect to have their “frills paid for them”, the Daily Telegraph of Friday 28th of May outed him as having claimed for his “frills” for eight years. On Saturday 29th he resigned.
CONTINUING IN MOLIÈRE’S RICH VEIN, the Liberal Party, whether Democrat or not, has never been a school for husbands, and much less one for wives. We may go back to Jeremy Thorpe, Simon Hughes or Mark Oaten or to see an embodiment of their ideals: many of them want the libertarian freedom to indulge in smutty behaviour behind closed curtains in suburbia without telling their wives, husbands, boyfriends, children or, more importantly, voters.
DAVID CAMERON WAS SURELY WARNED by the barons who run his party that when one gets into bed with a Liberal one gets into bed with all his friends, and all their friends, and that somewhere along this daisy chain of bourgeois gentlemen there will be someone with dirty fingers. The millionaire David Laws, so secretive that his party didn’t even know his address and that he himself did not know he had been living with a male partner for eight years, was obviously a live one for Cameron. No wonder the Lib-Dems want CCTV banned.
THE ‘OUTING’ OF DAVID LAWS AS A HYPOCRITE might be drawn straight out of The Misanthrope, and new boy Danny Alexander seems to be going the same way, suggesting that these chaps have simply not understood that golden rule about glass houses and throwing stones. After one speech in the House of Commons by David Laws, on Thursday 27th of May, warning MPs that they cannot expect to have their “frills paid for them”, the Daily Telegraph of Friday 28th of May outed him as having claimed for his “frills” for eight years. On Saturday 29th he resigned.
CONTINUING IN MOLIÈRE’S RICH VEIN, the Liberal Party, whether Democrat or not, has never been a school for husbands, and much less one for wives. We may go back to Jeremy Thorpe, Simon Hughes or Mark Oaten or to see an embodiment of their ideals: many of them want the libertarian freedom to indulge in smutty behaviour behind closed curtains in suburbia without telling their wives, husbands, boyfriends, children or, more importantly, voters.
DAVID CAMERON WAS SURELY WARNED by the barons who run his party that when one gets into bed with a Liberal one gets into bed with all his friends, and all their friends, and that somewhere along this daisy chain of bourgeois gentlemen there will be someone with dirty fingers. The millionaire David Laws, so secretive that his party didn’t even know his address and that he himself did not know he had been living with a male partner for eight years, was obviously a live one for Cameron. No wonder the Lib-Dems want CCTV banned.
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