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5 Sep, 2013

The stupidity of porn-watching UK MPs should worry us – The Independent

More than 300,000 attempts were made to access porn websites at the Houses of Parliament in the past 12 months. That’s an average of 820 times a day. That’s a lot of busy wankers. As John McCain proved this week – caught playing poker on his iPhone during the three-hour hearing of the Senate committee on Assad’s regime – even when your work is crucial and world-changing, we all need a little downtime. If only McCain has been caught playing Snake, this parallel would be even more bountiful.

Top of the league in the publicly funded work-frottage league was November 2012 when porn was accessed 114,844 times. I can only imagine that this was due to our MPs and their retinue hearing about Cameron’s plans to make internet providers issue an opt-in button on tits and arse, and them having to rush to their desks to fully acquaint themselves with exactly what level of smut could be “corroding childhood”.

Read the rest: Forget morals. It’s the stupidity of those porn-watching MPs that should worry us – The Independent.