“Mortified and embarrassed”, Bramwell had acknowledged that she should have informed the DWP, and had shown genuine remorse since, he said.
- Woman fearing death ‘stuck her head in the sand’, and falsely claimed over £5k in benefits, GazetteLive.co.uk, October 1, 2017.
3. Faced with a wide range of personal or ethical questions, some politicians are trying out an old strategy that has long been considered obsolete: hiding out.
Rather than publicly confronting the issues, they have had aides issue statements - sometimes denying allegations, sometimes apologizing - and then have simply declined to talk much further about the issues.
The strategy appears designed in part to avoid saying something that could be contradicted by others, but there is also an underlying sense that voters cannot pay attention to one thing for long in the nonstop-news era of President Donald Trump - that if they just keep their heads down, particularly over the holiday weekend, people will forget about the unanswered questions.
There’s Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., who felt compelled to apologize when two women accused him of inappropriate sexual conduct. Franken was last seen in public on the morning of Nov. 16 at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on which he sits. He disappeared before the hearing began, just before the first allegation against him appeared online.
Franken’s apologies have included suggestions that he remembers the incidents differently, but he has declined to explain his side of things, even to news media in Minnesota. He has not returned to the state and is instead holed up in his family’s home in Washington’s Tenleytown neighborhood this week, even though Congress is not in session.
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