Unless you’re researching them, pretty much never, right? So, resign already!
“They never pay attention during my sermons. Well, the little heretics will pay attention during this one!”
You are married to them.
If the minister is unitarian I can see it happening. Especially if the unitarian sex ed program for the youth needs supplies. Our kids got a very sensible, matter of fact education about sex in the unitarian sex ed program.
Guys, the minister in question is a politician, not a member of the clergy. This is a British scandal, for which I thank the OP. It’s a pleasant diversion.
In answer to the question posed, unless the two are in a consensual (emphasis on consensual) sexual relationship, or the Minister is prepping for a particularly rousing speech on his new Bill on restrictions on sex toys, now before the committee/Parliament, the answer is never.
I’m trying to work out some sort of Conservative whip/BDSM joke here…
Help me out; what are we being hysterical about - he asked, she agreed, they went to Soho, he waited outside
Yes it’s a bit odd but I’m going out on a limb here by suggesting she could have said “No thanks”, at several points.
Why didn’t the guy just go in and buy them himself? It is lame for a teenage guy to make his girlfriend buy condoms instead of doing it himself, it is worse for an adult.
He could have ordered them. I guess it was an emergency need. Did she think they were for her benefit or something? I would’ve asked and answered!!
Oh, not a church minister. Well, that’s very different, then. NEVER MIND!
The article refers to Edmondson (aka “sugar tits”) as a “former assistant”. Does that mean she is former now but active at the time of the purchase, or former at the time of the purchase? And what’s a Commons bar? Does this mean it was after hours?
Garnier: You’re not going to believe this, but we have to test D-sized batteries. Apparently there is public concern over fire hazards.
Edmondson: Oh dear. How are we to proceed with this?
Garnier: There’s a dainty little adult shop around the corner. Run and pick up a few dozen personal massage units, won’t you? There’s a love.
The point is that he was a government minister, and he really shouldn’t be asking his assistant to buy sex toys at all, unless it was somehow genuinely work related.
Yeah, she could have refused, but how would he have taken that? Would saying no be risking her job? These aren’t two friends, he’s her boss. It’s on him to act in a non-skeevy manner, and not put his staff in uncomfortably sexual situations for his own entertainment.
If he wanted a vibrator for his wife (and one for a woman working at his constituency office, which is also a bit of a wtf) and he had the time and ability to go to the shop, why on earth would he need to involve another person?
Crime of the century? No. Pretty skeevy and not the sort of thing a government minister should be doing? Well, yeah. I’m not seeing anyone getting hysterical, just people saying that’s pretty damn inappropriate.
There is too many ways for him to get what he needed or
wanted without involving his assistant. Was he doing it to intimidate her or to scare her. It is all gonna be contingent on how she felt he meant it. At most it seems crude and inappropriate. Imho.
Presumably it’s the same as the bar in the Canadian House of Commons.
I doubt that the House wishes to pay tribute to the Honourable Minister. :rolleyes:
From the Telegraph article.
Hmmmm. Someone needs to provide a diagram of how and where to use vibrators because chins aren’t it.
Both houses of Parliament maintain several such establishments on their premises, for both members and staff.
You made that up, right?
It was all just a big misunderstanding. He needed to pick up a loaf of pickled bread for his wife and so asked his assistant to go get a dill dough.
A pub. There’s quite a few watering-holes in the Palace of Westminster for politicians, staff, journalists etc