Let’s Get This Party Started: The Social Media Circus Over Vaz

Keith Vaz, the UK Labour MP’s sex scandal has made headlines world wide. Here’s how social media reacted.

Keith Vaz was the chair of the influential House of Commons Affairs Committee. (Photo Courtesy: Facebook/United4Justice)

Britain’s longest serving Indian-origin MP, Keith Vaz has been allegedly “caught” in a sex scandal by the Sunday Mirror, a UK Tabloid. Vaz repotedly paid two male escorts in his London flat and encouraged the young men to carry “poppers”, a sex-enhancing drug. Incidentally, Vaz has been rallying for the drug in the Parliament; he is against its criminalisation.

Ever since the story broke, social media has not stopped buzzing. Many have called the incident a private matter that has unceremoniously become a matter of public outrage and debate. Others have taken the liberty of discussing the MP’s sexts, condoms and Viagra details extensively.

This is how the UK Tabloids reported it