Paul Flowers

3812 days ago

Co-Op Boss Flowers says that HE is the Victim – how utterly predictable

The shamed ex Co-Op chairman, ex Labour party councillor and ex-Methodist Minister Paul Flowers reckons that in this whole great story the real victim is …HIM. How utterly predictable in a society which celebrates rights without responsibility. 

Flowers has a right to run his bank into the ground, he has a right to have gay porn on his Council owned PC, he has a right to buy illegal drugs, he has a right to take those drugs and bugger rent boys on hotel rooms being paid for by the Co-Op, he has a right to use rent boys (itself an exploitative relationship by definition) and he had a right to fiddle his expenses from his last employer.

But he has no responsibility to do minor things like not break the law, exploit vulnerable young men or do his frigging job properly. That is because

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