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A former Scotland Yard detective has told BBC News he was "shocked" by the amount of pornography viewed on a computer seized from the Commons office of senior Tory MP Damian Green.

I don't like the bloke, but putting that aside, if there is evidence of porn on a laptop, apart from some indignation from his constituents, is it illegal ?

They've explicitly noted there was no illegal content. A faction at the Met is pouring mud out of a dumper truck trying to stick the knife into Mr Green regardless, and they're using their porky ex-colleague to front for them. The red-top papers win whichever way it goes.

Even if he had viewed it he has not done anything illegal and for redtops famous for their salacious content to sit there and tut tut is hypocritical tp say the least. More serious I would have thought would have been the likelihood of virus infection on a computer prsumably linked in to servers containing confidential material. Frankly I don't care if he did watch porn.

It IS starting to look like a personal vendetta. If nothing was illegal it just looks like a smear campaign.

We'll find out eventually. Either Bob Quick and Neil Lewis, the rogue ex-officers, have backing for their behaviour, or they'll be taken to court. If this breach of confidentiality isn't illegal I'll eat my hat, it's information uncovered in the course of an investigation that was already a scandalous political Metropolitan Police witch-hunt before the computer was even looked at.

MPs have already said that if this isn't penalized by the Met itself they'll legislate to make a crime of breaching confidentiality after an investigation regardless of how long or retired.

Was the laptop a work laptop? In that case, I'm pretty sure the empolyer has gorunds to say he was defrauded out of time he paid to the Tory. (And that boss would be the People, wouldn't it?)

Saint_;1515414 wrote: Was the laptop a work laptop? In that case, I'm pretty sure the empolyer has gorunds to say he was defrauded out of time he paid to the Tory. (And that boss would be the People, wouldn't it?)


It was a departmental laptop, as far as I'm aware, used in common by the MP and his researchers. The files found were all thumbnails in the invisible Microsoft picture cache, whoever had used it had clearly purged the browser itself.

He has gone.

Seems denying he knew about the allegations was his undoing.

To be honest I don't entirely mind, though I'd still quite like to see those two vindictive squit coppers prosecuted. The entire cabinet consists of nobodies, comedians or vile Christian mothers, they have no positive attribute between them. Where are the politicians of yesteryear when they're needed?

"Vile Christian mothers" ? Are they vile....because they are Christians.

And the politicians of yesteryear good and bad are...................in yesteryear.

I do actually agree with the rest.

Bruv;1516140 wrote: "Vile Christian mothers" ? Are they vile....because they are Christians.Yes, probably - look what it did to Tony Blair.

I was referring to the repellent Andrea Leadsom.

I'm hoping the younger generation turn out to be something. I've some hopes of Chukka Umunna and Sajid Javid but they are very raw at present is my impression, Mr Javid less so, perhaps. There are a lot of new, young MPs learning the ropes and their way round the Committees who are very upset about the antics of their seniors, or at least there were a few rumours to that effect reported. The Tory rebels showed they had principles and were prepared to act on them, which is also hopeful. I'm starting to like Soubry but

that's brexit related.

Then you have MPs who are good in some ways but not in others. I'd put Goldsmith in that category: he genuinely does good work on environmental matters, but he's an appallingly far right tory in other ways.

All in all this is actually a very interesting time for Parliament, and Parliament is not being entirely supine, which is good to see. They DID say that if sovereignty is being "returned" it's going to Parliament, not Ministers. That was a very important moment, I suspect, and may well be one historians note.

Now it remains to be seen if David Davis will be true to his word that if Damian Green went, then he would resign.

FourPart;1516391 wrote: Now it remains to be seen if David Davis will be true to his word that if Damian Green went, then he would resign.


I'm still waiting ...

Bruv;1515352 wrote: A former Scotland Yard detective has told BBC News he was "shocked" by the amount of pornography viewed on a computer seized from the Commons office of senior Tory MP Damian Green.

I don't like the bloke, but putting that aside, if there is evidence of porn on a laptop, apart from some indignation from his constituents, is it illegal ?


Serious question: Just curious why they call the Police Station "Scotland Yard"?

The first police station with proper formal policemen in England was set up in London a couple of hundred years ago in Great Scotland Yard, a minor street in London. That building became the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police as the service grew. When that command function moved in the late 19th century to a new building by the Thames, the new building was given the name Scotland Yard for continuity, and when in the sixties the headquarters moved again to its current location round the back of Whitehall, the building it moved into was given the name New Scotland Yard for the same reason.