Posted on 04/18/2024 10:38:17 AM PDT by RandFan
A Tory MP has been suspended after claims he made a late night call to ask for money to pay off "bad people".
Mark Menzies "strongly" disputes the claims, but has had the whip removed amid allegations that he misused party funds and abused his position.
The MP called an elderly party volunteer saying he was locked in a flat (apartment) and needed £5,000 as a matter of "life and death", the Times reports.
An eventual sum of £6,500 was paid to secure his release, the paper says.
The money is reported to have come out of local Conservative party funds and the party is carrying out an investigation.
According to the Times, Mr Menzies, who represents Fylde, in Lancashire, phoned his 78-year-old former campaign manager at 03:15 last December to ask for £5,000.
The sum was reportedly paid later that morning, by which time it had risen to £6,500, from the personal savings of Mr Menzies' office manager, who was reimbursed from campaign donations, the paper said.
A source close to Mr Menzies told the Times he paid the money because he was scared of what would happen if he refused, but didn't have enough in his own savings.
Mr Menzies offered to repay the funds but claimed local Tories who controlled the account the money came from said he didn't need to, a source told the paper.
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Last week that gay MP admitted being caught in a Chinese honeytrap and now this
The UK Parliament is heavily compromised!
Sounds like gambling debts and the mob wants their money................
Blackmail anyone. I can use “Blackmail” on this forum without being denounced right.
Punish these traitors and perverts !
ZERO SEATS !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-x5yunHs5g
Clear them out !
At first I thought it might be a scam like the ones where they call and say your grandchild has been kidnapped or is in jail and you need to send us $$$$X to get him or her out?
But he seems to have been involved.... so I guess not.
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