Colourful past as French tart wrecks dream of shortlisted Labour canidate

[T_i_B]

Now I have always tended to see Blairite MP's as political whores but this is ridiculous!

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=614574

Educated at a girls' grammar school and Oxford University, Christine Wheatley, a trainee barrister, seemed to be a model New Labour candidate. There was just one detail missing from her Curriculum Vitae: she had been a prostitute in Paris.

Like a scene from Belle de Jour , Ms Wheatley, 53, had enjoyed a brief secret life as a French tart. And like the classic 1960s film character starring Catherine Deneuve, Ms Wheatley saw nothing to apologise for. "Yes, I worked as a tart. I'm not ashamed," said Ms Wheatley yesterday. "It was before I found proper work. I hit Paris with £300. I didn't have much to spend. I had to find money.

Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former director of communications, once boasted of a life as a Riviera gigolo but Labour Party officials took a dim view when Ms Wheatley revealed all about her past to a local newspaper.

Her name was hurriedly removed from the shortlist for the safe Labour seat in Copeland, a rural constituency in Cumbria, being vacated by Jack Cunningham, a former cabinet minister who is standing down at the next election.

[Nihil]

1. She should have known better ...

... than to try telling the truth ... especially in the Blairite
"image not content" establishment.

Personally, I'd think that people would rather vote for an ex-call-girl
than just another bland, lying, hypocritical vote-grabber.

[CottonBear]

2. Please define "French tart" for this Yank. n/t

[non sociopath skin]

4. A "tart" (in this sense) is a prostitute ....

... although it can simply mean a promiscuous woman or, in some circles, be used as a disrespectful term for any woman.

Here endeteth today's lesson ...

The Skin

[CottonBear]

5. Thank you very much! n/t

[amber dog democrat]

3. Sometimes I think I would prefer an honest tart

to a "moral" politician. Other than that, is she not qualified ?

[RogueTrooper]

6. my friend is on the shortlist for that constituency

I guess he will be quite happy with this.