Thursday 16 January 2020

Jamie Wallis: Bridgend MP 'misled press' over sugar daddy site

Could we be seeing the first byelection of the new Parliament?

Only last week i blogged that he Tory MP for Bridgend  seems to be associated with a very dubious website.

Now it is claimed that Newly elected Tory MP Jamie Wallis should apologise for his alleged involvement in a "sugar daddy" dating website, a Labour MP has said.
According to the BBC
Tonia Antoniazzi said the Bridgend MP's denial of a link to Sugar-Daddy.net was "clearly" contradicted by company records.
She accused Mr Wallis of misleading the press.
Jamie Wallis, who was elected MP for Bridgend in December, has been approached for comment.
It comes after a candidate in the Labour leadership contest, Jess Phillips, called for Mr Wallis to be thrown out of the Conservative party.
The Sugar-Daddy.net business offered people introductions to wealthy individuals, saying: "We can introduce you to your very own sugar daddy and solve your money worries.
"Whether you're a boy, girl, straight or gay, there's a sugar daddy for you."
Ms Antoniazzi's comments in the House of Commons follow reporting by BuzzFeed News into Mr Wallis' business background.
Mr Wallis told BuzzFeed: "Online queries indicate the Sugar-Daddy.net website was registered in 2004 and ceased to be operational in 2010."
"The site appears to have been owned and operated by a company named SD Billing Services Limited.
"For the avoidance of any doubt, I have never had a financial interest, nor been a director of SD Billing services Limited and cannot comment on its operational activities."Media captionSugar-Daddy.net was a 'exploitative and demeaning website', Tonia Antoniazzi saidMs Antoniazzi, MP for Gower, said Companies House records "clearly contradict that statement".
She said she had received information from a former employee of the member for Bridgend that also contradicted his statement.
The Gower MP claimed Mr Wallis had "misled the press about his involvement" in the website, which she said was "exploitative and demeaning".
Jamie Wallis is listed at Companies House as a person with significant control of Fields Group Ltd.
 

Fields Group Ltd is itself listed as the sole shareholder of SD Billing Services between October 2007-October 2010 - within that period Mr Wallis was a shareholder and director of Fields Group.
BuzzFeed News reported that ten companies where Mr Wallis was or is a director were subject to more than 800 complaints to trading standards between January 2008 and February 2017, according to Bridgend council.
The council said the companies had been the subject of 20 enforcement visits.
Mr Wallis told BuzzFeed the figures were "nonsense" and he is taking legal action against Bridgend council.
A spokesman for Bridgend council confirmed they had received a "letter-before-action" from Fields Group Limited but could not comment further "due to the possibility of ongoing proceedings".
The Conservative Party declined to comment
Of course  Sugar-Daddy.net website is not in itself encouraging what could be vulnerable  young people into prostitution, but it could certainly be said that  there is a resemblance to the accusation about Prince Andrew  Ghislaine Maxwellwho ad a romantic relationship with Jeffrey Epstein for several years in the early 1990s and remained closely associated with him for decades afterwards.

 The nature of their relationship remains unclear. In a 2009 deposition, several of Epstein's household employees testified that Maxwell had a central role in both his public and private life, referring to her as his "main girlfriend" who also handled the hiring, supervising, and firing of staff starting around 1992.[32] She has also been referred to as the "Lady of the House" by Epstein's staff and as his "aggressive assistant"In a 2003 Vanity Fair profile on Epstein, author Vicky Ward stated that Epstein referred to Maxwell as "my best friend".] Ward also observed that Maxwell seemed "to organise much of his life".]
Maxwell has attracted press coverage for her friendship with Prince Andrew, Duke of York, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II, who attended social functions with her in New York. Maxwell introduced Epstein to Prince Andrew, and the three often socialised together. In 2000, Maxwell and Epstein attended a party thrown by Prince Andrew at the queen's estate in Norfolk, England, reportedly for Maxwell's 39th birthday.[37] In a November 2019 interview with the BBC, Prince Andrew confirmed that Maxwell and Epstein had attended an event at his invitation but he denied that it was anything more than a "straightforward shooting weekend."

Vrginia Giuffre, an alleged victim of Epstein, sued Maxwell in 2015 claiming that she helped him procure girls for sex. 
Giuffre launched the defamation suit accusing Maxwell of calling her a liar, which she denied. The case was settled before trial in May 2017. 
Jaime welles needs to come clean , he may have not broken any laws but to we really want him to represent us in any legislature.

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