Michael Gove and Sarah Vine to divorce

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57699096

Sad news for their children.

This doesn't surprise me as I read something she wrote in the DM last week re: Hancock. It was: www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9728749/amp/SARAH-VINE-problem-wife-knows-youre-not-Master-Universe.html

It cannot be easy for their children, especially given that most parents have strong opinions about their dad.

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57699096

Sad news for their children.

It might not be sad news. They might welcome this news.

It's probably not news to them.

I do wonder why though. Apart from the obvious he's Michael Gove and she's Sarah Vine issues.

[quote ThisMustBeMyDream]This doesn't surprise me as I read something she wrote in the DM last week re: Hancock. It was: www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9728749/amp/SARAH-VINE-problem-wife-knows-youre-not-Master-Universe.html[/quote]
Yes, after that article by Sarah Vine last week, this is the least surprising news ever!

I remember reading a book long ago by Sarah vine. It was "Backwards in high heels" a very insightful and pragmatic lovely book. Was really surprised to find it was the same Vine dripping poison in the Daily Mail. Good luck to both her and Gove. (Please gods let there not be an ingenue aide or SPAD waiting in the wings..that would be so predictable)

Yes. Gilt's off the gingerbread now. Poor Sarah will never be Mrs PM.

Yes, I gather SV was preparing the ground for this announcement.

Yes, probably sad for their children, but I find both of them completely vile so can't muster a great deal of sympathy for either of them.

It was obviously an open secret given all the thinly-veiled tweets when the Hancock news broke

One of the regular themes on Twitter was that he had already moved out of the marital home and in with a male ‘friend’

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It cannot be easy for their children, especially given that most parents have strong opinions about their dad.

Quite a few have fairly robust ones about their mother too

Wow. That article is quite damning.

So Diane abbot knew of this 🤔

Twitter full of rumours that he's gay, but goodness only know if this is just malicious tittle tattle.

Yes, the twist is appara that the (his) ingenu aide is male.

(The pedant in me is agonising over aid or aide, paired with ingenu that I have already taken the -e off.)

I am in Ireland. The private lives of our TDs (MPs)and Ministers is off limits completely. No one is bothered by what they do or don't do and long may that remain. I am mildly amused by the awe and salacious journalism/comment about British MPs and their liaisons, sex lives, affairs, divorces, sexuality and so on. Who gives a damn? As long as they do their job as MPs that's all that should matter in the end. Hancock caused such a furore a week ago, but nothing about him anymore now.

I'm just speaking generally, not about posters on the thread.

Couldn’t give a shiny shit.
Both vile human beings

Yes they are both nasty attention seekers with delusions of grandeur. No sympathy from me!

@veeeeh while I agree that someone's private life should be private, when MPs are hiring their mistresses and snogging them in work time, it's fair game if they are voted in by the electorate, and paid with public funds. Private things happen in private times and private places.

am in Ireland. The private lives of our TDs (MPs)and Ministers is off limits completely. No one is bothered by what they do or don't do and long may that remain. I am mildly amused by the awe and salacious journalism/comment about British MPs and their liaisons, sex lives, affairs, divorces, sexuality and so on. Who gives a damn? As long as they do their job as MPs that's all that should matter in the end.

Funny that, I could've told you the name of Charlie Haughey's mistress but I don't even know what his wife was called.

@Amrapaali I read that, I liked the cooking bit

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(The pedant in me is agonising over aid or aide, paired with ingenu that I have already taken the -e off.)

What's the collective noun for a group of tory aides?

Surely not a "harem"? No, that's probably too on the nose. A "concealment" of aides? A "scandal" of aides?

What's the collective noun for a group of tory aides?

A brothel?