Investigation: The Tory MP who allegedly demanded campaign cash to pay ‘bad people’
The call came in the dead of night. “Are you on your own?” the man said. “I’ve got in with some bad people and they’ve locked me in a flat and they want £5,000 to release me.” The caller was Mark Menzies, the Conservative MP for Fylde in Lancashire.
The Times investigation reveals a litany of allegations involving sex, drugs and a drunk dog. Mark Menzies disputes all the allegations, and says he “fully complied with all the rules for declarations.”
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A single man, with a MP's salary, and he has no money?
@kingsrd1
13 күн бұрын
But he has a drug and rent boy addiction
This is what happens if you send your son to a public school.
@anonUK
13 күн бұрын
Do you think the introduction of girls into private and "public" schools over the last few decades will change the character of future right-wing MPs?
@futonclutch5040
13 күн бұрын
I went to a public school... I don't behave like these scumbag seedy tory mps.
@ivanconnolly7332
13 күн бұрын
@@anonUK The young age at which they are separated from their families is cruel , to know your parents did this to you must be devastating,
@kwanchan6745
12 күн бұрын
this is what you get when you parachute in MPs that are not from the local area, and have no interest in spending time listening to their constituents, knowing that they are in a safe seat and they can get away with anything, so spend their money on base activities
@Puffball-ll1ly
11 күн бұрын
Wonder if he got bummed at school 😮
I will never vote torry party. All old men and women who just take care of their own pockets not the country. Waiting for a big change
The Tories are weird as well as being self serving phycopaths. Get them out.
@jsd8981
7 күн бұрын
So true...
They should all be in prison for what the Government have done to this country.
@daydays12
10 күн бұрын
Indeed!
Gets caught with a Brazilian rentboy.......gets job as envoy to Brazil Who voted for him again? Who allowed him to stand again? The people gets the government it deserves
Another dodgy MP from shady Tory party.
‘Private medical bills’ = black mail payouts
@AndreS_22246
13 күн бұрын
Drugs and young male prostitutes “allegedly”……. Good ol’ Tories…
@AndreS_22246
13 күн бұрын
More nefarious than that, but comments get deleted
@AndreS_22246
13 күн бұрын
Let’s try: substances and young males who provide ‘services’ (“allegedly”)
Who thinks the 'medicine' he needed was 'nose medicine'?
@bigpants6121
13 күн бұрын
from a Brazilian?
@loyalroyal
13 күн бұрын
Nailed on.
@sarangistudent8614
13 күн бұрын
He was made trade envoy to Colombia
Never forget that the government is there to serve the people, not the other way around..
@daydays12
10 күн бұрын
The government since 2010 has forgotten...what a corrupt shower..Cameron.. Johnson...Truss... Sunak... this creep was a Cameron favourite
It's SO difficult not to laugh at this callous, conscience free hypocrite's demise.
@bearsbreeches
12 күн бұрын
Too difficult 😂😂😂😂😂
Another day in Toryworld. 🙄
Who are ‘bad people’? Who did you go with and why? Where were you and how did you get there? What information do they have about you that requires a payoff? More questions then answers. All the hallmarks of a classic Tory homosexual scandal 🤡
@uapuat
13 күн бұрын
I don't understand how there are so many gay Conservatives. Even though Cameron legalised Equal Marriage, I gather it was against the will of many party members. They have always been a very homophobic lot.
@alantheinquirer7658
13 күн бұрын
You are at hurt from 'bad people'. Don't call the police, don't call the Whip office (that is designed to cover-up bad stuff). Call a 'minion' to spend their money to bail you out, and spend NOT YOUR MONEY to pay the muppet back?
@derek_williams
12 күн бұрын
My first thought was some kind of loan from gangsters, possibly connected to a gambling habit
@williamevans9426
12 күн бұрын
Sounds like sex-related blackmail, 'though a bit 'low rent' (no pun intended), drug and/or gambling debt.
@VictorCharlesEvans
12 күн бұрын
PLUS HE WAS GETTING THE DOG DRUNK!!2
Makes the Angela Rayner saga appear like a slow news day
This absolutely stinks of corruption
@kingsrd1
12 күн бұрын
No, it is corruption. Moral corruption. Who was actually the last decent politician.? Someone who actually gave a s*** about the people they are meant to serve. Seems like we are just the cash cow for their "schemes" What is all the money being spent on? We need to vote them all out and if the next lot aren't any good we'll have to vote them out as well.
Did he pay tax on these "donations"? So tax fraud as well.
I know this is allegedly, but how many of us by now actually already assume this to be true, outlandish as it is?
@MephitisUK
13 күн бұрын
It's been being investigated by the Tories since January, I'm pretty sure if they had any evidence to prove this is an unfounded allegation we'd of heard about it by now.
@GJAllKnowing
13 күн бұрын
Unless you're completely deluded this is all absolutely true. Stop making excuses for a government full of cads and grifters.
@tt-ew7rx
13 күн бұрын
@@GJAllKnowing I thought from my language I am assuming this to be true.
@GJAllKnowing
13 күн бұрын
@@tt-ew7rxMy point is that we've moved beyond mere assumptions; this is a government in a tailspin and they're stealing as much as they can before they are eventually booted out 🥾
@binkyboobosh1
13 күн бұрын
There appears to be a number of people involved who've stated their case. The tories will have told him to deny everything. They've known about it since January which may lead to issues with witness intimidation and evidence tampering. This is not the same as Raynor where the argument is over tax technicalities. Menzies could well face prison over this for fraud...
Has the Police got 12 officers ready to investigate this case?
A measure of how far this countries so called governing class has sunk, gone are those who's vocation is to serve, replaced by self serving career politicians of all parties.
How does an MP not have that kind of money at hand?
@maccagrabme
13 күн бұрын
Addiction which is why they should be nowhere near party funds.
@S.Trades
12 күн бұрын
You surely aren't suggesting he might be lying? 😮
It’s a disgrace
Overpaid Tories,bunches of crooks, love off the public incomes!
And what are the police doing about it? And why didn't they immediately phone the police when he was "held against his will".
@Coelacanth1
12 күн бұрын
I would hazard a guess the desire was for not letting the press get wind of what he was up to, either that or ' nefarious ' is a word that could apply.
Why isn't this being covered on GBNews, if this had been any opposition MP, Councilor or Activist it would have resulted in wall to wall coverage for a week,
@roelkomduur8073
13 күн бұрын
Angela Rayner.. perhaps?
@evolassunglasses4673
13 күн бұрын
Possible Mossad connection.
@roelkomduur8073
13 күн бұрын
@@evolassunglasses4673 Do think you have to take you medicine...
@hunsey
13 күн бұрын
@@roelkomduur8073 I get it, for me to even question why GBNews want no truck with a Tory, his illegal migrant Brazilian rent boy and methadone and the misuse of campaign funds points to serious issues with my mentality
@roelkomduur8073
13 күн бұрын
@@hunsey That's why YOU paying taxes and billionaires who fund their media don't..They pay exact 0% ( for example mrs Heineken, 140 million euro dividend this year alone, living in London as a'non dom" but pays nowhere any taxes!)
Same old tories , either got their fingers in the till or their trousers round their ankles & in this case both.
@lisabutcher661
11 күн бұрын
We call them shirt lifters.
the brightest and best in the tory party
These donation vehicles sound similar to SPACs in the US. Menzies clearly 'has form', aparently having fleeced his party at least three times in an amount totalling some £20k, and requested/demanded a further £35K. If the police drop this citing 'insufficient evidence', things truly have hit the skids.
For a MP he has such poor judgement.
@williamevans9426
12 күн бұрын
Another one? Wragg was only two weeks ago!
But but but, didn’t Rayner sell her council house 10 years ago or something.
Oh dear not another one. 😂😂
@bigpants6121
13 күн бұрын
Bone, Pincher, Wragg and Menzies. Not forgetting Neil Parish!
What? And he's still an MP. WAKE UP Sunak!
Why do they let themselves be blackmailed or bullied by these people???
where does the con party find these weirdo's ( like hancock & shatts /shapps or whatever name he is using today )
@RossKempOnYourMum01
13 күн бұрын
At private schools
@zingo2664
11 күн бұрын
@@RossKempOnYourMum01 something wrong with these dudes.
Why is no one saying the b-word? As in "blackmail"?
@sarangistudent8614
13 күн бұрын
NO ONE ever mentions the B word, it’s all the EUs fault.
The first issue is that, apparently having been illegally detained and released after paying ransom, he did not make a complaint to the police. Very odd. Then there is a pattern, allegations strenuously denied with a promise to provide evidence to that effect. Never happens. He is either unlucky, a victim of conspiracy or ………..
His face alone tells us hes not a true honest person.
Not as bad as Angela Rayner ? Not according to the Tory media !
A Brazilian had to be involved, imagine what goes on on the Brazilian government.lol
They could make a film about this ...its got all the right ingredients....The Rent Boys from Brazil?????
You couldn’t make this sss up
Corrupt boy
Never EVER trust any tory!
@christopherbrown5141
13 күн бұрын
Yeah,cos you can really trust weird starmer.
@andrewmaccallum2367
12 күн бұрын
@christopherbrown5141 ...and why would the red tories mean anything to me? 🤷♂️
Apparently he has got his new Brazilian 'friend' a new job ...Fudgepacking...
What a shock!
& this is the "Times" radio!!! They can't even depend on Murdoch anymore.
Mate of dodgy Dave? ...OK...err
We need to bring back flogging.. And NOT the gay type of flogging.
@georgesears2916
12 күн бұрын
Tell me you're sexually repressed without telling me you're sexually repressed... Edit: removed "not" 😂
Fans of Robert Mapplethorpe may enjoy the thought of whip being withdrawn from Tory MPs
@davidprentice5442
13 күн бұрын
Withdrawn from where ?
@anonUK
13 күн бұрын
@@davidprentice5442 Have a guess.
Strange,many would pay good money to get a Tory MP OUT of their place.
12;20 if it's life and death you call the rozzers.
Experimenting is seen as GOOD and Failing to Comply EVIL? Evil will be seen as GOOD and Good will be Seen as EVIL!
@ilokivi
9 күн бұрын
Lead us not into temptation, and deliver us from evil.
I would have thought that locking somebody in a room against they're will would have been a serious police matter, expecially with him being an M.P...
Look forward hearing what he to say for himself
Let’s hope no crime has been committed ? But how could we know ?
Echos of the end of the Roman Empire 😂
Brazilian rent boys are really expensive these days 😂😂 so I have heard
Naughty people locking a nice young man , oooooh , up in a paper bag and he can’t get out , or come out !!!
there is more to the story than the eyes can see suspicious
More dodgy tories.🤣
@maccagrabme
13 күн бұрын
I cant imagine how any grown responsible adult in his role could get themselves into this type of situation, truly reckless to let complete strangers into your home and to be taking those sort of risks esp online, sounds like he was putting it about so goodness knows what diseases he was picking up, yuck, couldnt think of anything worse, no amount of money would make me want to get involved in that. On that type of income he should have plenty of cash in the bank for an easy days work.He was out of control, get him out.
Why aren’t these people Jailed?
Surprised the daily Mail , and sickly obsessed stalker Dan Hodge’s with Rayner ,that Carol vorderman , Gary lineker and readers of the guardian for causing this to happen , that it’s there fault
At ;east it was not what was described by a tory whip Fortesque (BBC 1995)
Why does the Times support the Conservatives?
How would you know ?
Oh, for the days of duck houses
WF
🤦🏻♂️🙄
I thought the Tories were the bad people?
Leave out the music ffs
How many hamsters can you get for that much money? I also sounds like he coerced the elderly lady to commit fraud as well as cash went into her personal account.
Alleged and what happens if it is proved the allegation is fake? Which can happen, however I think it is more likely he will end up in the Crown Court!
P
No! Someone has made a series of allegations, which she suddenly remembered NOW? which has resulted in him having the whip withdrawn, whilst an investigation is carried out. However - the law states he is innocent - like a certain red headed female on the opposition benches, until the case is proved in a court of law.
@ianbanks3016
13 күн бұрын
Yeah, nothing to see here is there, his behaviour is just perfectly normal, isn't it. We've all phoned up pensioners at three in the morning begging for money because we're with 'bad people'.
@suzettewilliams1758
13 күн бұрын
Tories are massively corrupted So much so that they are looking to throw mud a woman at working class women that despite being a single mother at the time managed to by her council house that she later sold for a small profit. Yet the PM while he was Chancellor responsible for collecting tax in the UK had a wife filing Non Dom to avoid paying tax and he has had various off sure funds also avoiding UK, plus an interest in Moderna the vaccine maker. Don't even get me started on Rees-Mogg.
@sasserine
13 күн бұрын
The difference is, there's an audit trail of the payments and withdrawals made on behalf of Menzies, and recordings of the calls, plus GPS info for where he was allegedly 'held prisoner', which could have been used to trace the identities of the 'bad men'. No evidence exists to support the allegations against Rayner. Allegations that were made, around the time Menzies was reported for his conduct, and for which CCHQ required a distraction.
@rineesinharay6009
13 күн бұрын
She didn't suddenly remember. Complained but only when the Times broke the story it is being taken seriously.
@bigpants6121
13 күн бұрын
the episode was made aware to HQ 3 months ago .Do you not know this?
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A full investigation, please, with wild speculation and insinuation in the media, an harassment of former neighbours and at least 20 police officers assigned to the case. Also, there should be an investigation into why the tory party have been aware of the situation since January but have only acted upon it when the story broke in the newspapers.
Vote reform.😂❤
Good god, do these pervert Tories ever stop.
Jail him.
Westminster has been a sewer for the last few decades...but the level of filth flowing through its corridors at this moment in time is astounding...it would seem all these private education establishments realy are turning filth at an unpresidented rate... disgusting aren't they!
Menzies in a frenzy! Wragg and Bone-The (chris) Pincher men!