Would you marry an MP?

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Another thread made me think…

And would you only marry them if your politics aligned?

Yes! Mine & DH's political views are worlds apart but we still love each other and get on enormously!

No I wouldn't marry an MP. I couldn't bear the scrutiny into our private life.

I would find it very hard to be in a relationship with someone whose politics were vastly different to mine. I think a persons politics are a reflection of their world view and if someone has wildly different politics from me the chances of us being compatible would be small.

A London MP, possibly. Maybe even a home counties MP. A commuting MP from Truro, Berwick upon Tweed, Aberdeen, Anglesey, absolutely not.

I’d rather be one than marry one.

Usually they become MPs after they’re married so the spouse is stuck with it.

Are you one Blossomtoes?

I've read a lot of your posts and I'd vote for you.

No. It takes a certain type of ego and that’s not something I’m attracted to.

Shag, marry, push off a cliff: Rishi Sunak, George Galloway or Sir Lindsay Hoyle.

I'd push Galloway, shag Hoyle and marry Sunak and live like a Queen on half of his ex wife's fortune. (I know they aren't divorced but they'd have to be for this particular fictional scenario)

Thank you, that’s lovely. I’d have loved to have been an MP. Unfortunately I’m too old now.

No.
I couldn't bear the expenses flip-flopping.

A friend is married to an MP. Very well suited, both of them work hard, friend has a good career and has been with the same organisation for 20 odd years. MP has worked through the political ranks, knows the local community really well, cares about what is happening locally and as a result is well respected.

There is a little bit of publicity but not so much as to be invasive, but they aren't front bench, and don't generally spout nonsense which helps.

My friend is married to a very senior MP, I’ve never seen her mentioned! She’s very low profile and private. He works bloody hard, she does the grunt work at home.

I'm pretty happy with my non-MP husband, and we both agree I'd be the one more likely to become an MP.

I couldn't marry a Tory. The thought turns me cold.

No. You have to have some standards.

Probably not. I'd hate the scrutiny.

Some MPs, mostly backbenchers, treat it like a vocation and work hard. That sort of spouse I could cope with I guess.

Front benchers - not in a million years. None of them can sell their own policies without spending most of their time running down the other parties and very little about the practicalities of their own policies. They're more interested in slagging off each other than finding solutions to the big issues facing our country. Sunak recently spoke about how we have more in common than divides us and we need to be more united as a country. Well, the HoC would do well to apply the same principles.

Some great thoughts.

I have a friend married to an ex Conservative MP.

Some of his extended family are absolutely opposed to his political views and his underhand deals and personal life. He has lived away from home mainly.

He kept his head down politically but has made millions out of his own business (selling a service to the public sector).

Some dodgy off-shore meetings.
New business dealing with BJ fronting. Quite sickening.

His extended family manage their opposition to him by compartmentalising. He is a good family member.