Friday was the first time I have been to a night-club since the smoking ban, and foolishly, I was at Walkabout in Shaftesbury Avenue. It is the first time I have encountered the eye-wateringly bad smell of stale beer and body odour and I had to leave early to get fresh air, coffee and a nightbus home.
This isn’t the only side-effect of the smoking ban.
A young researcher told me how the various smoking spots on the parliamentary estate have become social hubs, a bit like facebook but with cancer. This has resulted in new acquaintances for this young man, not least with a number of MPs, who until now were just smoking in their offices.
So one evening shortly before the start of recess, this young man and his friends are enjoying a few drinks in a bar in Soho, when he sees one of his new “smoking friends” shambling up Greek Street wearing sunglasses. Of course, he was just about to say hello when the MP disappeared into the kind of doorway that any reasonable person might think was the entrance to a brothel. Or else he might be keen on life drawing and in search of “MODELS” for those purposes.
I have berated the young researcher for failing to switch on his cameraphone in time. However, I shall not be divulging the name of this member of parliament, not least because it would surprise you too much and we can’t be giving you palpitations. However, I will reassure readers that it was not local MP Mark Field doing house calls.
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So it was a Labour MP.
Guido Fawkes said this on August 20th, 2007 at 10:36 am
“a bit like facebook but with cancer”
LOVE IT!! Made me nearly spit out my tea with laughter…
Paul Blanchard said this on August 20th, 2007 at 10:55 am
‘Course it was Guido, if it had been a Tory then Recess would be trumpeting the name from every rooftop.
Matt said this on August 20th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Getting a happy finish off of a sex worker made Tommy Sherridan a very wealth man.
Madame Mao said this on August 20th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
MPs up and down the country will now be wondering why their constituents keep asking them if they smoke. I take it that it was not Miss Widdicombe wishing to learn something of the night.
Angelina said this on August 20th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
Q. I say I say I say - do you smoke after sex?
A. Only when I don’t use a lubricant
Recess Monkey said this on August 20th, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Recess Monkey, That has just conjured up some horrible images.
Back to cigarettes. Would smokers have to stand outside the brothel to partake of nicotine? After all it’s a working environment and frequented by members of the public and parliament.
Angelina said this on August 20th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Madame Mao, how do you know that it was a “happy” finish?? Tommy Sheridan strikes me as the premature type myself.
Matt said this on August 20th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Can we perhaps refrain from potentially actionable comments? If I’m going to be sued, would like it at least to be for something I have written.
Recess Monkey said this on August 20th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Presumably some kind of mission to save fallen women? Very worthwhile I’d have thought. Hide light under bushel … ahem … cross in the no publicity box … might be misconstrued … one of the LD cllrs in Mcr cheerfully admits to brothel creeping even as his own party slam XY and Z health clubs … that Parbury went in one once, doing a spot of voter iD … he was then able to practice the swearing he had only just learnt from his mentors as he realised he had been sent up the garden path …
Just one small point, ahem, there is an assumption that this was a ‘john’ rather than a moonlighting young MP trying to pay off her student loan …
Chris Paul said this on August 25th, 2007 at 10:16 pm
Come on give us a hint.
roger said this on September 1st, 2007 at 6:08 pm