Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
Yet more whataboutery from you - why do you do it so often when there is a bad news story concerning the party of the right on either side of the Atlantic, but never when it is Labour or the Democrats that are under fire?

The clear difference between the Webbe and Paterson cases is that the former has been tried and convicted without a Government whipping it's MPS to vote for a change in the legal process afterwards which would overturn the verdict arrived at on the latter. Jon pointed out earlier that nineteen Tory MPs who had, effectively voted for the abolition of the Parliamentary Commission for Standards had complaints upheld against them in the past by said commission - the Government majority was eighteen.

Also, while sympathy clearly has to go out to Mr Paterson following his wife's suicide, it needs to be pointed out that she took her life in 2020 and he started undertaking paid lobbying work four years earlier.
The suicide of his wife was a strange sideshow and reports have said previously Paterson has suggested the investigation into his corrupt behaviour may have contributed to her poor mental health.

I don’t suppose he’s asked himself what may be the cause of the investigation as he’s stated he feels he’s entirely innocent?

His resignation statement also remarks that he doesn’t want his wife’s death used by political opponents as a “political football,” I may have this wrong but wasn’t the first person to use his wife’s suicide as some sort of mitigating circumstance Boris Johnson?

Boris then still throws him under the bus.

It’s sad but laughable.