Tractors

Stephen Fry and David Baddiel have mocked Tory MP Neil Parish who claimed he was 'trying to look at tractors' amid porn scandal.

A total full apology. ‘I make a full apology. I did get into another website that had a very similar name and I watched it for a bit which I shouldn’t have done.

Neil Parish said the first time he looked at porn in Parliament, it was accidental, after looking at tractors. But he admitted the second time was ...

I think it is right that action has been taken, that the Chief Whip has taken the action he has taken. And I will carry it on for as long as I have it.” You’ve got to carry on, haven’t you?" Safeguarding minister Rachel Maclean added: "I agree with pretty much everything that she said. “But it’s shocking that the Conservatives have allowed this debacle to drag out over many days. He would never just sit there with people looking. Mr Parish later told the Sun: "It was a complete mistake, and I will man up to it as they say". Asked about him continuing as a select committee chair, she said: "That's a matter for Neil to discuss with the party whips and to take a position on, but I think whilst he's under investigation it's going to make it very difficult for him to be in the Commons as much as he needs to be." “People shouldn’t be looking at pornography. He later said he had made “a complete mistake, and I will man up to it as they say". He described it to the BBC as a "moment of madness" - adding: "I was not proud of what I was doing." He said in a statement on his website he "will be co-operating fully with any investigation, and whilst it is ongoing I will continue to perform my duties".

The Tiverton MP has now resigned after admitting watching porn not just once but TWICE.

He said: "The situation was that - funnily enough it was tractors I was looking at. The furore over his porn watching antics which has now led to his resignation, ends what has been an almost 12-year stint as Conservative MP for the Devon constituency of Tiverton and Honiton. The 65-year-old had been a Member of the European Parliament for South West England from 1999 to 2009. The MP told BBC South West that the first time he watch pornography was by accident as he was trying to look at tractors instead. He was suspended by the Conservative Party on Friday over the allegations. What I did was absolutely wrong." Neil Parish has announced his resignation as an MP for Tiverton after admitting he had watched porn in the House of Commons not just once - but TWICE.

Neil Parish has resigned as an MP after watching porn in the House of Commons – and many have taken to social media to crack jokes about his tractor-related ...

Parish said that the first occasion occurred in the Commons chamber, but he later deliberately went back to the same site while in the adjoining voting lobby. And he admitted: “I was not proud of what I was doing.” “That was deliberate.”

Neil Parish has resigned as an MP after he admitted for the first time that he had deliberately watched pornography in the House of Commons.

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That was sitting waiting to vote on the side of the chamber.” And the term “CornHub” was trending on Twitter in the wake of Parish’s admission... Parish said it was a “moment of madness”, which he accepted was “totally wrong”, as he insisted he was “not making sure people could see it” and was trying to be discreet. In 1999, he was elected to the European Parliament to represent the region of the South West of England and Gibraltar. “The situation was, funnily enough it was tractors I was looking at, so I did get into another website with sort of a very similar name and I watched it for a bit, which I shouldn’t have done,” Parish said. The backbencher said in an interview with BBC South West that he recognised the “furore” and “damage” he was causing his family and his constituency in Devon before deciding “it just wasn’t worth carrying on”.

Neil Parish resigned as a Conservative MP yesterday, having admitted watching pornography in the House of Commons after looking at tractors on the internet.