“She just had to admit what she did and go out,” said Hannah Tucker, 32, a supermarket worker who was shopping with her husband, Liam. “Tories are a joke. They climb all sorts of things – and most of the time they get away with it. “They have to stop.” Liam, a freeway technician, said it was never acceptable to look at the type of material Parish allegedly saw in the workplace. “The scandals continue. “I will never vote for Tory.” Katy Oakley, 40, an ecologist, was walking in the city with her four-year-old daughter. “It simply came to our notice then. “I think it shows how irrelevant members of the elite are to normal society. They think they can get away with things that ordinary people could not. “This is not brilliant publicity for our city – it puts Tiverton in a bad light. It is not good for the image of the country abroad. And it’s not good for society. “ Katy Oakley. “I think it shows how unknown the members of the elite are,” Oakley said. Photo: Jim Wileman / The Guardian Thomas, a middle-aged man who sold confectionery yarn at the city’s historic bakery, said his wife would kill him if she caught him watching pornography. “If it turns out he did, he should leave. “He is a member of our parliament and he must be respected in order to do it right.” What was worrying about Thomas was that it was no surprise. “To be honest, nothing surprises me now. “It has happened so badly.” Although Paris lives on her farm across the border in Somerset, she is a well-known figure in Tiverton. He was first elected 12 years ago and has since doubled his majority. Tory MP for North Devon Selaine Saxby said Parish had always been a loyal and supportive colleague. However, he expressed shock: “No one wants to think that his MP is sitting on the green benches watching videos completely, certainly not this kind of video.” Husband and wife Liam and Hannah Tucker: “Tories are a joke. They go up in all kinds “. Photo: Jim Wileman / The Guardian Speaking to BBC Radio Devon, he also said he could be prone to accidents. “There is no colleague who is more likely than Neil to have the kind of accident he described. I think anyone who has finger slips or is a little short-sighted as we get older will know that the first thing we want to do is try to turn it off. That may include looking at your phone very carefully. “ Gillian Evans, president of the Conservatives of Tiverton and Honiton, did not speak, referring callers to the Conservatives’ headquarters. Fortunately for the Tories at Tiverton-based Mid Devon County Council, city councilors will not be elected this spring. “I guess that’s good,” said Ray Radford, a senior Conservative councilor who also chairs the council. “I do not really know what to do about it,” Radford added. “It simply came to our notice then. As far as I know, he is an honorable Member of Parliament who has served the constituency well. “We have to see what the research shows.” At the pannier market, 59-year-old lumberjack Max Hall said it was simple. “If he is found guilty, he should be fired and if they can get back some of the money paid as an MP, they should get it. “He seems to have shown a complete lack of respect for all those who voted for him.” Hall’s wife, Jane, 56, added: “When people were scratching and scratching, he was obviously sitting there watching porn. He should be fired, but he has Boris as his role model. “He had a party when people were dying.”
