If I got caught surfing porn at work I’d expect to be kicked out - why should MPs be any different.
Unfortunately he’s in a very safe Tory seat (60% Tory, 19% Lab, 14% Lib at the last GE) so it’s unlikely the Tories will suffer the loss of the seat itself (but we can hope they get a bloody nose at least).
Ah, but isn’t his excuse that he was originally looking for a tractor website and, if you’ll excuse the phrase, got accidentally sucked in to watching porn?
Presumably in Google’s world of searches, ‘tractor’ is also a euphemism for some deviancy of which I’m mercifully unaware. But on the other hand perhaps there exists underground porn movies such as ‘Fatal Traction’ and ‘Dangerous Traction’ or maybe a snuff move, ‘Fatal Tractors’. 
There could be a whole online world of tractor porn out there, so be especially careful what you Google if you’re innocently looking for an ‘old tractor’ like an Allgaier or a McCormick, you might get an embarrassing surprise…
Right. Of course. Actually he’d appear less ghastly and dishonest if he just said yes guv you’ve caught me bang to rights but I suppose it’s easier to try to weasel out of it and take everyone for an idiot. Creep. The problem isn’t the porn - assuming it is legal, but the lying and weaselling.
The ‘apology’ that always irritates me begins, "If anyone was offended… " when in fact, everyone knows that 5 million out there were definitely offended…
Well, having suggested that possibility, I had to Google ‘Fatal Tractors’ - ‘About 659,000 results’…
so was Paterson - look what happened to his seat… same County so the Liberals will be salivating at the prospect of a rerun of their success there…
True - I didn’t realise how big a majority the Tories lost in North Shropshire, actually “safer” than Tiverton and Honiton, plus there’s the issue of not matching EU funding. Might be an interesting by-election after all.
It’s a non-apology, only being apologetic (and even then not very much one suspects) for the offence caused, not the causitive act itself. Indeed it tends to imply that those taking offence are the only ones in the wrong.
Re-phrased it, and pretty much every Tory “apology”, amounts to “I’m sorry (that) I got caught”.
when they said that Neil Parish is hard working, did they actually mean “he is hard, working”
Maybe O R was confused with A N
Children 
What’s more relevant, the fact that he was watching porn or that he was on his phone rather than working?
Both, frankly.
is more relevant… no reason why he can’t fact-check something during a debate using his phone or tablet surely.
He was allegedly looking at tractors to start with Graham, could he not have done that after work?
True but then looking one thing up is likely to mean that you miss other points in the debate.
it could still have been relevant - he was the elected Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee after all
Not always the case… a skilled and experienced debater has the capacity to multi task, look at notes and the like, whilst still keeping focus on what is going on - not unlike speed reading really…
We’re talking Tory MPs here… 
