Keith Vazeline, MP: who's blown him and why now?

[Paul Rigby]

The eminent Blairite MP, Keith Vazeline, a serial establishment toady, veteran of too-many-conflicts-of-interest-to-bore-you-with*, and self-styled washing machine salesman, is exposed in today's Sunday Mirror as a parliamentarian with an unusual dedication to Eastern European relations - and proposed changes to legislation governing prostitution. The full salacious details are below, and hugely enjoyable they are, too:

Married MP Keith Vaz tells prostitutes in his flat: 'Bring poppers' ... 'We need to get this party started'

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/mar...ls-8763805

Given that Vazeline has long exuded not only extreme unctuousness, but the air of a twisted boarding school housemaster, the question is why MI5 - and the Mirror group is predominantly an Orangeman's paper by long tradition - has decided to terminate his career at this time, rather than much earlier. I ask the question because it seems safe to assume that Vazeline's predilection for pale youths has long been known to the Tory Party's covert wing.

Ah, the answer:

The scandal is another blow to Jeremy Corbyn's crisis-hit Labour party, coming less than three weeks before a leadership election which could trigger a historic split.

Mr Vaz, a member of the party's NEC, played a key role in shoring up Mr Corbyn when he faced a coup against him by moderates in July.

It's Keith VICE! Married Labour grandee Vaz quits after he is caught 'meeting male prostitutes in London flat and asking about sex drug' (after telling them he was a washing machine salesman called Jim)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...drugs.html

Vaz stayed loyal to the leader - it just happened to be Corbyn - at a key NEC meeting in early July 2016, the one at which Corbyn and allies successfully fought off a proposal to make him secure nominations from MPS and MEPs in order to fight the leadership battle:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/je...78d6e765d3