Boris Johnson -are there challenges in being an older Dad

[mids2019]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14746043/Boris-Johnson-baby-wife-Carrie-announces-fourth-child.html

Boris is 60 and though presumably pretty healthy and wealthy doesn't being 80 when your child is going to be at uni cause challwnges? I always think with these things you are risking a child becoming a care fiver at an early age or having a distorted view of a parent due to a large age gap.

The older Dad option also seems to the option for famous and wealthy men and personally I do not know many women in their bid 30s dating men who by some measures are pensioners.

Good luck to them though

i doubt it shall be his last

he is one of those men that can’t be tamed these type of ‘bad boy 🤢’ men are always loved by some women plus he is famous and extremely wealthy

having been on mn for some years I can remember a number of discussions about Boris Johnson being attractive 🤔 i think that was a less popular opinion after 2016

Sunak is far wealthier than Johnson. As is his father-in- law Narayan Murthy, a billionaire still with the same quite unglam woman he married in his 20s.

Something to be said for boring non-posh values.

Oh absolutely. And two of the three named (at least) used that "agency and choice" to have an affair with Boris while he was still married to someone else. Classy.

As I said, as long as you apply it across the board, to all politicians and their personal lives, that's fine.

Yes but will this money still be rolling in when he is seventy-five to eighty years old when this current batch of dc are heading off to university?

Financing them through that period between uni and their first earning job is one of the most expensive as a parent.

And, before that, how will he afford 4 x sets of public school fees? Eton costs about £52k a year nowadays!

Yes , I think it must be accepted knowledge about Arcuri's child surely.

I think it's safe to say that if Keir was shagging anything that moved the press would be all over it.

Yes this. I find it mine boggling Carrie is prepared to turn a blind eye to all the stories.

she's the type of woman who thinks she has won because she has "got" him, the stories won't bother her.

I did wonder if that was why she ended up in hospital earlier this year. She seemed to need extra medical attention above and beyond a normal 30-something.

Hope the baby and Carrie are both in rude health now.

Four under school age is a lot. I doubt Alexander does much parenting tbh.

I didn’t know they had a third one..

But I suppose a pack of siblings is some protection against a BJ of a father.

Alright Boris!

I hate to break it to you, but now she has had the brood of kids she wanted before she hits 40, Carrie will have her eye on the hunt for a wealthier partner.

I don’t think BJ’s shagging around bothers her because she has a bigger grand plan.

she did have an affair though.

Well yeah, an affair - not, as far as we know, dozens of them.

plus at least one abortion paid for

Thank you, I wondered that, just wasn’t sure.

"I do like Boris, and always have. I think him and Carrie genuinely love each other and I think he loves fatherhood. In my opinion, he is the prime minister I felt most happy with."

Jeez!

I’m a lot of things but I’m no hypocrite!!!!

Because his wife wanted them.

Yes! I was thinking this. I get Reddit updates every day from people finding out that their father/grandfather is not who they thought it would be.

Agree about affairs being distracting. I'm not aware of any other PM being caught "sharing a glass of wine" 🤔 with their mistress in Number 10 during work hours.

He makes a lot of money on the lecture circuit plus whatever he gets from other sources. The fees are covered.

He is very popular in America and Asia they love that posh English pray act he made millions in a few months

I wish his drive was money but unfortunately it’s politics I have no doubt he shall be putting himself forward again probably some deal with Reform

She will be disappointed. Wealthy men won't want a woman with 4 x Johnson children in tow. Generally they will want a new younger woman preferably without that much baggage.

Eton's fees are apparently about to go up to £63K a year and will no doubt continue to rise. So, if his children follow in his footsteps, he's looking at finding around quarter of a million every year out of taxed income, over and above what he's already paying out for his other children. I'm not sure that he can really guarantee being that much in demand on the lecture circuit as he gets further and further distanced from any real power, nor will his funders have any real incentive to keep slinging money his way.

I agree. Not all rich men are looking for a 'trophy' but if they do she doesn't qualify. She has 4 kids, is no longer that young and if I'm being frank, is no great beauty. Very wealthy men can take their pick and I'm not sure she'd have that much to offer.