A member of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party, Neil Parish, of the British Parliament, said on Saturday (30) he would resign after admitting he had twice watched pornography in the House of Commons.
Parish told the BBC the first time he saw the explicit material was an accident after searching online for agricultural vehicles. The second time was deliberate and a “moment of madness”, said the 65-year-old.
Johnson’s government is currently embroiled in several scandals, just days before key local elections. The prime minister himself was fined by police for violating their own Covid-19 rules during the 2020 lockdown and faces an investigation into whether he misled Parliament about Downing Street parties.
Last week, his party was accused of having a serious problem of misogyny, after one of its members anonymously told a newspaper that Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the opposition Labor Party, distracted Johnson in the House of Commons by crossing and uncrossing legs, similar to Sharon Stone’s character in the movie “Basic Instinct”.
Parish admitted on Saturday that his behavior in Parliament was “totally wrong”. “The situation was that I, oddly enough, were tractors I was looking at. And then I went to another site that had a very similar name. And I watched it for a while that I shouldn’t have.”
“My biggest crime is that on another occasion I went for the second time. And that was deliberate,” she added.
The politician’s local Conservative Association in Tiverton and Honiton, West England, said in a statement Saturday that they would “take this opportunity to thank Neil Parish for his service to our communities over the past twelve years as our Member of Parliament.” .
Source: CNN Brasil
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