THAT viral email dishing the dirt on George Osborne’s affairs

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Has anyone else seen this email, which has been swirling around this week?

It purports to be for all the guests of the upcoming wedding between George Osborne and Thea Rogers (who he left his wife of 21 years for) plus journalists, political figures etc and lays out all the affairs they’ve both had. Fine, they are clearly both awful people and welcome to
each other.

But there are also a couple of mentions of GO having sordid ONS with teenage girls working in his local

His new career of high paid advisory jobs can’t survive this, surely?

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Am both shocked and impressed to see how skilfully this story has been spirited away. Googling George Osborne this AM brings up plenty of articles about orange confetti and just one single article about police investigating the author of the email rather than the serious allegations it contained. Depressing; and I hope the timing of that BBC presenter doesn't mean George Osborne's alleged wrongdoings get swept under the carpet. Seemed way too serious to be forgotten about

@BEdeLL my thoughts too...
I even wondered if Mrs Elderly Smartly Dressed was an Osborne plant?
A bit of orange paper for a few seconds which can be blamed on Just Stop Oil
(& remember they've denied it was them) which becomes THE STORY. Clever!

I agree with @millymog11 who wrote
"...What an absolute mockery of whichever church/ religion they get married in."
She feels sorry for the minister/priest.
But they could refuse to do the ceremony.
On the other hand if it's a Christian church, isn't forgiveness important ?
Ugh !

That was my thought

I wonder who it is

That email reads as if it has been written by someone really nasty, rather than someone who thinks the truth should be told because that is the right thing to do.

(I am not an Osbourne fan btw and didn’t expect to have that opinion, but it’s so vindictive that I wouldn’t expect the writer to be someone with integrity)

Perfect example of how newspapers can do their mates favours in order to steer the public discourse and direct anger where it best serves you.

Allegations made by a third party of non-consensual sex/sex with a 16 year old made against a former Chancellor of the Exchequer- barely a ripple

Allegations made by a third party of a BBC employee purchasing explicit images from a 17 year old - front pages of all the papers

You can make some arguments as to why one is getting more attention than the other but fundamentally I think that a lot of explanation is where genuine power and influence resides, and how that power can be wielded.

It suits the Tories to paint an image of an organisation like the BBC having that sort of power, whilst they simultaneously and quietly pull at all the many levers at their disposal to bury unwanted news or attention.

Is your sympathy really with the BBC in all this?

The style of that email is so bizarre. The content might be true for all I know, but the writer came across so bitter and twisted that I gave up after a paragraph or two.

Spot on. It’s a classic squirrel.

@StefanosHill - I’m now sure what you mean?

im sympathetic to the BBC in the sense that no employer can control what it’s employees get up to in their private lives outside of work, and since this employee’s alleged actions outside of work have caused the BBC a massive headache and reputational damage by association I feel for them.

In most cases when you read about someone one who has done something bad no one really cares who they worked for, it is a side note that may not even be worth a mention. Obviously when the employer is the BBC that part of the story is front and centre.

I will have less sympathy if it turns out that when the allegation was first made it wasn’t dealt with properly by them, because that is the part of all this that they do have control over. At the moment I don’t know if it was dealt with properly or not but no doubt that will come out in time.

"On the other hand if it's a Christian church, isn't forgiveness important ?
Ugh !"

I didn't say this bit (although I am a Christian).
Firmly on the side of his first wife and children and on the side of the Church who (it seems) feel like they are between a rock and a hard place when asked to conduct ceremonies like this.

what is ONS?

I love the fact you picked up on the timeline, rather than Ghandi would not have said that 😬

Does anyone have any updates as to whether this ever went to court? Lots of articles say that he knew who sent the email and that he'd started civil proceedings and wanted a police investigation, and this should have come to light now if he was telling the truth...

I thought this was a family affair? Unlikely to see any court action if so.

I don’t think Osborne was really taking action against anyone. That would be a really bad look on top of all of the scandal.

The whole ‘Just Stop Oil’ thing at the wedding was just a ruse. It was set up by the bride and groom. Hence the lame ‘confetti throwing’ not protestors actually protesting or holding up the traffic. It was all a distraction.

That can’t have been a comfortable family Christmas though.

I see he and his wife have had a third child.
So they have a 2 year old, a 1 year old and a newborn.

Former Chancellor George Osborne has welcomed his third child, a baby boy named Pax, with his wife Thea Rogers. The couple, who tied the knot in July last year at a ceremony in Bruton, Somerset, welcomed their son on Tuesday.10 hours ago

His 5th child.

Another deadbeat dad forgetting his existing DCs when he finds a new fan~~~ to fu~~

Every time I read about these sort of second wife scenarios I assume the first wife is killing herself laughing that her awful ex now has to raise a whole bunch of new kids at the age when they just want a quiet life. She on the other hand has her older children, living their own lives, and can spend as much time as she wants in her own time doing what she pleases. I know the Osbornes will have no financial burden but it still changes your life to go back to start again. Exhausting thought.

You've misread the sentence. It says it's his third child with Thea Rogers, not just that it's his third child.

I do actually look at people like Thea and cannot help but think there is something very calculating about what they do.
Who knows whether they do actually love the man but in her case she has even got him to say in public that he has never been more happy. Her ego must be beyond the stratosphere by now and i have no doubt she was absolutely delighted when he came out with that gem and it was published.

NOTW had all kinds on him (prostitutes/cocaine) but hushed it up so he'd do Murdoch's bidding as chancellor.