Lanark Liberal

So it seems that the turbulent times we LibDems live in are not yet at an end. First Charles Kennedy quits after admitting to a drink problem, and then leadership candidate Mark Oaten pulls out of the contest, and his private life is brougth into the public domain. The News of the World revealed that Mr Oaten had been having an affair, and made a huge deal of the fact that it was with a rent boy. Now I don't care who he chooses to sleep with, but I strongly believe that the private lives of MPs shpuld be kepy exaclty that, private. What Mr Oaten has done is wrong, however it is a problem for him and his family to deal with. This has clearly not affected his ability to do his job, and therefore I see no reason why the public should have to know. Yet somehow this does not surprise me, yet another cheap story which we have come to expect from the News of the World.