Talk:Paul Boateng

Prologue

For the record (post IRC discussion), Re Middle name this is single-sourced and not confirmed by other sources which state he does not have a middle name. --VampWillow 21:04, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hansard have it. Enough said. [1] Morwen - Talk 21:08, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

See also Brent Council's election results page. The Electoral Commission's offical results (364k PDF - p.20) list him as "Boateng, P. Y.". I conclude from this that "Paul Yaw Boateng" is the name he stood under at the last election, even if he doesn't use it on other occasions. --rbrwrˆ 21:42, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I've added a reference to Charles Clarke's promotion. Anecdota

the right honourable?

is he still the right honourbale? what is the correct form of address for a high comissioner? Amo 22:36, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

His Excellency, I believe, but he will still be a Privy Councillor. -- ALoan (Talk) 10:19, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Political bias

This entry appears to be written by someone with a vast amount of bias - see weasel words such as 'prissy' and 'exclusive'...

Boateng's Son Is A Convicted Rapist, And His Sisters Are Rabid Racists

His son was found guilty of date-rape <see: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2069594/Boateng-thought-untouchable--son-privilege-away-anything.html >, and throughout the trial, his aunts kept referring to the victim as 'white trash' as she gave her testimony. The association of this man with Racists surely makes his continued presence in the Upper Chamber completely unacceptable? One would think anyone would resign to protect the integrity of the House, but not this family ! 212.139.110.83 (talk) 01:14, 4 December 2011 (UTC)twl212.139.110.83 (talk) 01:14, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

It is quite normal for the family of public figures to be included in their Wikipedia entries. I can't see why the fact he has a son isn't mentioned - especially since the person in question was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to three years, ten months. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:470:1F09:AA9:892B:671:26D5:D23B (talk) 12:05, 25 October 2013 (UTC)

Last section

Why is there a section about Boateng's son? Is it relevant?/Nicke L 13:33, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

I've cut it here at least until it gets formatted properly: Biruitorul 05:12, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

This needs to be removed. It does not relate to the man. If the event is notable enough for a page for his son, then it should be put there, with full citations, not the ones currently present. - Francis Tyers · 15:26, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Mmm. The son isn't independently notable; the case has been dropped; it was a year ago and appears to be a dead story. Shimgray | talk | 15:27, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

I have repasted the beginning section here. Why it should appear twice, I don't know. Whoever is up to this should decide properly what he/she wants to do and do it appropriately. --Natsubee 10:09, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I have removed the offending text from the article (and note that it is an IP-anon adding it back) as clearly unwarranted and also removed it here too on the grounds that if it is irrelevant there then also irrelevant here. --AlisonW 12:26, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Does this need to be sprotected until the anon stops adding this section back? -- ALoan (Talk) 12:26, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Although the four IPs which have added this irrelevant content have only edited this page it would, I believe, be ineffective to block just those four IPs given that the offending (ab)user is clearly on a dynamic IP and isn't guaranteed to come back to one again. Similarly, the rate of vandalism is only once per day, so a tital lockout of IPs and new editors isn't really the right solution presently, however the page is being acticely monitored and, should the situation deteriorate, I will semiprot the page. --AlisonW 12:58, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Shoot, I missed the same information being added by another IP shortly after it was reverted and it remained on the article for the best part of a day. Somewhat ironically, another IP removed it... -- ALoan (Talk) 10:33, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

I think we have to agree that this article is currently suffering from this repeated vandalism. it is clearly by the same individual given the nature of the copy & paste having the same markup errors each time, so I've now semi-protected the page for two weeks. Hopefully the individual concerned will cease and desist. --AlisonW 10:53, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Current whereabouts

What is he doing nowadays, after his High Commissioner posting ended? – Kaihsu (talk) 22:10, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Times (2009-11-08): Lobbying row as ex-minister Paul Boateng lands defence firm job: ‘Paul Boateng, the former cabinet minister, has become a director of a private military company after lobbying the South African government to water down proposed anti-mercenary legislation. Boateng has joined the board of Aegis Defence Services, run by Tim Spicer, the former Guards officer at the centre of the arms-to-Sierra Leone scandal in 1998.’ – Kaihsu (talk) 18:04, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Peerage

There is no mention of Boateng's new role as a working Labour peer, this should be rectified. 86.156.253.92 (talk) 23:05, 29 May 2010 (UTC)

Herman the Tosser

Could we make it quite clear in the article that he was not leveling any accusations against one of the forerunners of the Blood Rap movement? 82.42.241.253 (talk) 13:40, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

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what does "moderate" mean ?

> Like many other members of Labour's left-wing in the 1980s, he became more moderate under the leadership of Neil Kinnock how are we defining moderate here ? moderate and extreme seem non NPOV terms especially as there is no evidence provided eg what policies did he adopt that were objectively moderate or which objectively extreme ones did he abandon ? 82.11.163.59 (talk) 10:11, 21 June 2023 (UTC)