There are two parallel scandals in the Mark Menzies affair. The first is Menzies himself. He should have never have gone into public life as a Tory MP. That career is now over with the revelation by The Times that Menzies, 52, called a former campaign manager at 3.15am (the lady in question is 78) asking if she could lay her hands on £5,000 as he had fallen in with ‘’bad people’’ who had him locked in a flat. That money was eventually paid out of local party campaign funds in Fylde, Lancashire (donated by local people) and has never been repaid. Angry donors are now calling in the police. Quit…
