Christie The Cat

[Gone_Shrimping]

Christie the Cat is on page 5 of the Daily Mail today.

I didn't know the real identity of Christie before I read this !

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... mails.html

[bill ding]

I maybe wrong but I'm sure Mr Clifford is not CtC , he may have worn it on occasion but there was no need to post that picture in relation to his textual intercourse .

[paschahound]

That's one very very naughty cat.

Good to see some in Nu Liebour still have the ability to come out with some Carry On style innuendo.

Not quite enough to get him a job as a presenter on a local radio sports phone-in show yet though.

[marky No.1]

Oh dear that does not look good for a local councillor

Thats the first time ive bought a Daily Mail this century

[BerlinWaller]

Anyone else a bit gutted he didn't refer to himself as "big red dog" in the messages?

[bill ding]

Rather than Big Red Cat

[redrobo]

That should be the end of Christie the Cat

[MfcChris]

"I've got something you can cling on to" Really how embarrassing. Is he a Morecambe regular?

[bill ding]

"I've got something you can cling on to" Really how embarrassing. Is he a Morecambe regular?

He was

[Lloydie]

[Freez]

That’s hilarious!!
Indignant preaching on the same online page that contains numerous links to scantily clad celebs!!

[Bara brith]

I’m sure he once had a squad number and was pictured in the official squad photo( think he won it in a competition )

[black morse]

Bill Clinton got away with much worse than that. Mind you it did make him cry

[halftimeresults]

Surely this kind of behaviour will promote him to Labour's front bench

[Gone_Shrimping]

They could film a new "Carry On" film called "Carry on Councillor".

Pity Syd James is no longer with us , you can imagine him cackling as he tells Barbara Windsor he's been very very naughty!

[marky No.1]

"Carry On Councillor".[/quote]

Dont use the shortened version

[Gnasher]

This is so worth cuming out of retirement just to thank Gone_Shrimping for posting the link. First time I've bought a newspaper since Glen's Visitor was worth reading

[Keith]

Very poor reporting by The Daily Mail...

...normally they'd have travelled the girl's instagram & Facebook and friends until they found a photo of her in a bikini or drunk or something similar. Are they going soft?

I think anyone on the council who opens the Daily Fail on a work computer should be censured!

[marky No.1]

How about The Times

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/carr ... -cv6pps05g

[John L]

The saddest thing about all this is the fact that it ended up in the national press, but unsurprisingly two Tory ones. Hopefully Darren can be allowed to get on with his life without this pile of sensationalism affecting it and his career...

[Gnasher]

The saddest thing about all this is the fact that it ended up in the national press, but unsurprisingly two Tory ones. Hopefully Darren can be allowed to get on with his life without this pile of sensationalism affecting it and his career...

Councillors go to great lengths to put themselves in the public domain, Darren even switched to a new Twitter account in April '15 to reflect his councillor status. It's only right that misuse of services we pay for are reported.

[Keith]

The saddest thing about all this is the fact that it ended up in the national press, but unsurprisingly two Tory ones. Hopefully Darren can be allowed to get on with his life without this pile of sensationalism affecting it and his career...

Councillors go to great lengths to put themselves in the public domain, Darren even switched to a new Twitter account in April '15 to reflect his councillor status. It's only right that misuse of services we pay for are reported.

Reported? yes.
Leaked to the press? Hmm.

Were the emails made public as part of a disciplinary process? Or were they 'leaked' for no reason other than political damage? If they've been deliberately leaked, then the person responsible is in breach of GDPR regulations and would probably struggle to defend their actions as a 'whistleblower'. Unless the emails were made public prior to the press picking it up, I hope there is an investigation to find the source, as that is a far bigger breach of regulations.

Stupid thing for Darren & the woman to do, but really...

[BerlinWaller]

No sympathy. Local councillors laud about like they are the bee's Knees. He has misused equipment and time paid for by the public. People like him are only sorry when they get caught. The saddest thing is that he can't be sacked like any of us would be in our job.

[Gnasher]

How they managed to appear in the public domain is wrong but neither should the detail be hidden from the public who put Darren there in the first place and pay for the service he misused.

[Keith]

I very much doubt that it would be a sackable offence for anyone. The emails are not obscenely sexual and it isn't sexual harassment because both adults were consenting. The amount of time wasted is minimal, almost inconsequential. I sent an email to a colleague who is a Barnet fan (not at all bitter about the Coventry knockabout last season) and sent him a photo of 'that banner'. The loss of time was similar to the Sid James innuendo that made The Mail.

Not reporting the relationship to the Standards Committee (or whoever it was, I don't want to sully my Mac by opening The Mail story again!) is probably the actual offence here and that wouldn't be sackable either, certainly not for a first offence.

As I say, it was a dumb thing to do, anyone should know nowadays not to do anything like that from work computers (haven't they got their own smart phones to send saucy emails from?) but it is a poor smear story. Deliberately breaching GDPR is a definite sackable offence though.