Labour frontbencher Jack Dromey was
left red-faced after it emerged he added a Twitter link to a gay porn
website to his list of ‘favourites’.
The
shadow policing minister - who is married to Labour deputy leader,
Harriet Harman - linked to a tweet about well-endowed black men.
The link showed a picture of two men engaged in a sex act.
This
was the second occasion on which Mr Dromey’s finger had strayed on
Twitter. Back in September, Mr Dromey also favourited a link to a Tweet
on a similar theme.
At the
time, the then shadow housing minister dismissed it as a mistake as he
and Mrs Harman had been exploring romantic breaks in Paris.
According
to the Guido Fawkes political gossip website, Mr Dromey said he had
accidentally stumbled on the gay porn website - which featured a
character called ‘Paris’.
Inside
Housing covered the story in a diary item, saying: ‘Shadow housing
minister Jack Dromey is the latest victim of this murky world after
favouriting a tweet that featured a very different type of outstanding
member to that normally found in the parliament
Back in September, Mr Dromey also favourited a link to a Tweet on a similar theme
It is surprisingly easy for Twitter
users to publicise embarrassing searches to all their followers by
typing key words into the ‘Tweet’ box rather than the search engine.
The shadow policing minister - who is married to
Labour deputy leader, Harriet Harman - linked to a tweet about
well-endowed black men
But the revelation could cause
tension with his staunchly feminist wife, Mrs Harman, who has called for
the Sun newspaper to stop its ‘sexist’ pictures of topless women on
page three.
The story was retweeted numerous times after being posted by Guido Fawkes yesterday.
A
Labour source said: ‘This is a technological mix-up and we’re sure Jack
will be taking Twitter lessons to work out the difference between block
and favourite as soon as possible.’
The Mail understands that no one else has access to Mr Dromey’s account so the tweet cannot be blamed on a junior staff member.
‘It’s all very embarrassing. He is aware of it. It’s more mix up than conspiracy,’ one insider said.
Mr Dromey, a 65 year-old former trade union boss, was elected as the MP for Birmingham Erdington in 2010.
His selection was controversial as the usual all-woman shortlist championed by his wife, was bypassed.
Meanwhile it also emerged that David Cameron’s official twitter account followed an escort agency.
The @Number10gov account was following the @carltonslondon, which described itself as an ‘elite London escort agency’.
Downing
Street blamed the gaffe on the ‘auto-follow’ facility which has been on
the account since Gordon Brown was prime minister.
A
spokesman said: ‘We have stopped following this particular account.
Prior to 2010, an auto-follow process was used, meaning that
@Number10gov automatically followed anyone who followed the account.
‘This was common practice at the time for many corporate accounts, but was discontinued in 2009.
‘As
a result of this legacy, the @Number10gov account follows almost
370,000 accounts and we have taken steps to un-follow as many as
possible that are inactive, spam or inappropriate.
‘This work is ongoing.’
Originally,
Twitter users had pointed out that perhaps Mr Cameron had mistaken the
escort agency for the Carlton Club, an exclusive private members’ club
in London.
Official records
showed that more than 300,000 attempts were made to access pornographic
website in the Houses of Parliament last year.
About 5,000 people work on the parliamentary estate
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