© PATory MP Mark Garnier admits making aide buy him and constituent assistant sex toys
The 53-year-old MP for Wyre Forest said he was "not going to be dishonest" after Commons Secretary Caroline Edmondson told The Mail on Sunday Mr Garnier gave her money and waited outside a sex shop in Soho while she went inside to buy two vibrators.
Ms Edmondson claimed that the Under Secretary of State told her one of the sex toys was for his wife and the other was for a female assistant in his West Midlands constituency.
Comment: Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn comments on the culture of sexual harassment by people in positions of power, highlighting the recent scandal involving agent Harvey Weinstein where more than 50 women have come forward, and sexual abuse victim Corey Feldmen continues to reveal the extent of the problem: Weinstein is just the tip of the iceberg: Former child actors reveal Hollywood's organized pedophilia
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Mr Garnier told the Sunday paper: "I'm not going to deny it, because I'm not going to be dishonest. I'm going to have to take it on the chin."
But the father-of-three denied the 2010 incident constituted sexual harassment and said the sex toys were bought after a Christmas lunch and the "vibrator shop was high jinks".
Comment: The article doesn't state whether the taxpayer was forfeiting the bill for this 'Christmas lunch' or whether these items were paid for using MP expenses, though one wouldn't be surprised these days:
He said his "sugar tits" comment was part of "an amusing conversation" about TV show Gavin And Stacey.
Mr Garnier also admitted that he and Ms Edmondson later fell out and that she had been using the incident against him "ever since".
Ms Edmondson disagreed with the junior minister's version of events and argued Mr Garnier had suggested shopping in the Soho sex shop in a Commons bar one evening and told her "let's do it" the following day.
Meanwhile, another sex controversy had engulfed senior Tory MP Stephen Crabb. The 44-year-old minister and devout Christian admitted to The Mail on Sunday he sent "explicit" messages to a 19-year-old woman who was coming in for a job interview in 2013.
© PAMP Stephen Crabb said he had been "foolish" to send "sexual chatter" to the teenage girl he interviewed for a job in 2013
"We exchanged messages which talked about sex but none of it was meant seriously," he said, adding the pair had met a few times for coffee and had met for a glass of wine once at a Commons bar.
Comment: The Commons bar, subsidised by the taxpayer, is understandably popular: Parliament's booze bill has TRIPLED in two years - to £1.8MILLION
A friend of the woman told The Daily Telegraph she saw messages in which Mr Crabb, a father of two, said "he wanted to have sex with her".
"I accept any kind of sexual chatter like this is totally wrong and I am sorry for my actions," Mr Crabb said told the Mail.
Comment: Those entrusted to manage public affairs profess they 'won't be dishonest' about their 'foolish' highly inappropriate antics though they only admit admit it once they've been caught out (or thrown to the lions). The problem is endemic and isn't going away any time soon so we can expect only more revelations as people continue to speak out and the dying establishment jostle for control of their puppets and the public: