Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse in government for farmers ……. Neil Parrish

[Dave6170]

 

[puntabrava]

He’s surely become a wiser mortal.
Who hasn’t lusted or letched to some degree? We aren’t all eunuchs and never will be. Ok he let it get the better of good sense and decency. But end his career for that? You’d need to kick them all out if that’s the rule.

The problem being, he was caught! I do not disagree with the sentiment of your post but!

 

[DrWazzock]

I think I and many others would happily kick them all out if that's what is required for a slither of common sense and decency from the people who have such vast control over our lives.

Well who hasn’t looked at a woman and thought “impure” thoughts? You will be a looking a long time to find any bloke with the sort of purity of thought that some people expect, and chances are he’ll be completely useless.
I’m not excusing disrespect for women. A gentleman should always act as such. But to expect absolute purity of thought at absolutely all times is unrealistic. It’s very poor form to be looking at porn in the House, but a warning and lesson learned would have sufficed. As I say, he was 99% a decent hard working bloke from what I could see.

 

[Sid]

It wasn't mad Hat's husband, it was the other woman, having thought on it.
Just been on radio, apparently Mr Parrish was attempting to look at tractors and came across it by accident.

What's wrong with tractors

Suffolk man had sex with 450 tractors

A Suffolk man with a bizarre sexual attraction to tractors has been banned from the countryside and forced to sign the sex-offenders' register.

www.suffolkgazette.com

 

[DrWazzock]

We all know the complainants are only interested in nothing more than finishing an old style Tory’s career. It’s nothing to do with moral decency anyway.

 

[puntabrava]

Well who hasn’t looked at a woman and thought “impure” thoughts? You will be a looking a long time to find any bloke with the sort of purity of thought that some people expect, and chances are he’ll be completely useless.
I’m not excusing disrespect for women. A gentleman should always act as such. But to expect absolute purity of thought at absolutely all times is unrealistic.

I am nominating Philip Halse to succeed him.

 

[ajcc]

Be good if the some of the others showed such a moral compass as NP has displayed.
Whole affair really highlights a decent bloke as opposed to partygate shambles and the poor quality of those still in denial.
Neil Parrish is head and shoulders a better man than many in Westminster and its a bad day for rural representation imo.

 

[David.]

What's wrong with tractors

Suffolk man had sex with 450 tractors

A Suffolk man with a bizarre sexual attraction to tractors has been banned from the countryside and forced to sign the sex-offenders' register.

www.suffolkgazette.com

I assumed he was watching the tractor for slopes thread, and something unseemly from Thailand popped up...

 

[jondear]

I am nominating Philip Halse to succeed him.

Like machinery porn when visiting his yard!

 

[bobk]

We all know the complainants are only interested in nothing more than finishing an old style Tory’s career. It’s nothing to do with moral decency anyway.

Maybe , but his behaviour was crass , unacceptable and offensive , he deserves to walk

 

[Huno]

Who cares.. he likes porn... you just can't watch porn in "this special place" without getting sacked... he was crap at his job and maybe someone else might support farmers...

 

[Happy at it]

Since when did everyone live there lives like a plot line from eastenders. Every week there's someone associated with the conservatives/labour up to something random, last week it was the bloke who wants to be a woman who claimed to have PTSD after being raped by a man he met on the internet, using it as an excuse for drink driving and leaving the scene of an accident where he wiped out a villages Internet connection. Next week it'll be someone with something else.

Pretty sad that these twits cause such distractions from the important issues in goverment. A nuke could be heading our way and they'd still be whinging over partygate while it's in mid air....

 

[Jerry]

I am nominating Philip Halse to succeed him.

I doubt he would be interested. He’s very religious is he not?

 

[milkloss]

Be good if the some of the others showed such a moral compass as NP has displayed.

I think his dodgy 'moral compass' is what got him into this predicament!

 

[Tamar]

Bet his wife wished she didn’t say that now !!

 

[puntabrava]

I doubt he would be interested. He’s very religious is he not?

For me he is a person with incredible integrity and drive.

 

[Two Tone]

There goes the most effective EFRA Committee chairman in decades.....

Who's up to replace him I wonder?

Unfortunately, although I do feel some sympathy for the man, I cannot agree with you.

I watched him in a PAC meeting discussing ELMs and the demise of BPS.
Firstly he jovially gave the impression that he was the only farmer there (which he wasn’t!), that he knew everything and that the others needed to listen and learn. Both Tim Farron (Liberal) and Daniel Zeichner (Labour) gave far better arguments as to why BPS payments should not be reduced until ELMs is properly sorted out.
Then Victoria Prentice (Tory) gave her ‘This is what we are doing - Like it or lump it’ speech and Neil Parish (fellow Tory) said thank you very much for coming and that was it!

You cannot chair such a meeting, trying to make it jovial as it loses all seriousness.
There really has got to be somebody better to chair the EFRA committee meeting than him!

 

[Huno]

Unfortunately, although I do feel some sympathy for the man, I cannot agree with you.

I watched him in a PAC meeting discussing ELMs and the demise of BPS.
Firstly he jovially gave the impression that he was the only farmer there (which he wasn’t!), that he knew everything and that the others needed to listen and learn. Both Tim Farron (Liberal) and Daniel Zeichner (Labour) gave far better arguments as to why BPS payments should not be reduced until ELMs is properly sorted out.
Then Olivia Prentice (Tory) gave her ‘This is what we are doing - Like it or lump it’ speech and Neil Parish (fellow Tory) said thank you very much for coming and that was it!

You cannot chair such a meeting, trying to make it jovial as it loses all seriousness.
There really has got to be somebody better to chair the EFRA committee meeting than him!

 

[Huno]

Agreed.. Ronald McDonald might be an alternate chair??

 

[Huno]

Cant wait to watch Vicky Apprentice crash and burn!!