The Andrew Pelling Challenge: Tory, Labour Or LibDem?
ANDREW Pelling, MP for Central Croydon, has been arrested for allegedly assaulting his wife.
There now follows a test of your political instinct. We will deliver the facts, as told by the Times, and ask you to guess which political party Mr Pelling represents.
He is 48. His wife is 26. She is seven weeks pregnant. She is called Lucy.
When Mr Pelling met Lucy he was married to Sanae Umeda Pelling. Lucy was in his employ. Mr Pelling is a former investment banker.
He ended his 14 year-marriage to the mother of his three children when she was visiting her dying father in Japan. Although in the Express this marriage lasted 18 years. Also the Pelling home worth £600,000 in the Mail rises to £700,000 in the Express. But that’s the housing market for you.
Sanae says: “He treated me like a doormat. As far as he was concerned I was there to raise his children and cook his food.”
As the Mirror reports, Sanae claims her former husband posted money through her letterbox to avoid seeing her. She once said: “Once my children ran out to catch him before he left but he drove away. They were in tears. They couldn’t understand how he could choose a woman half his age over them.”
Those are the facts, such as they are represented.
And you realise that Mr Pelling is a Labour politician. No, not really. He’s a Tory. But he could be from either party.
Although not from the LibDems, who are too old and, as the reaction to leader Menzies Campbell’s conference speech proved, too clapped out for such goings on…
September 21st, 2007 at 2:32 pm
What a decent caring human being
September 21st, 2007 at 4:39 pm
He cares for you!
September 21st, 2007 at 6:58 pm
Andrew is obviously a Tory. A Labour MP would be too busy with case work, drink and possibly Cocaine.
Seriously, The Tory Whips were very impressed when he got his hands on such a young wife (er thats actually a quote direct from Andrew himself…).
Not sure they will be this impressed this time!
September 22nd, 2007 at 11:28 am
NuLab will obviously be head-hunting this major catch!
September 25th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
He’s my MP I’ve met them both (and he could ONLY be a Tory) and I never thought I would say it but what a good representative for central croydon. We have quite alot of wife beating, two timing sleezy money grabbing crapheads in the town so its probably quite apt. I shall look forward to voting him out. By the way how come the tories always go on about single parent families while creating so many of them themselves?? this fellas got two on his belt already!
September 28th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
What ever happened to the idea of being innocent until found guilty?