To feel quite sorry for Carrie Symonds (Bojo girlfriend)

[Cinammoncake]

When I saw the picture of her yesterday I felt sad for her. She's still quite young and it must be very isolating being stuck with him. Plus all this Jennifer Arcuri stuff coming out. Obviously if I was her I'd ltb but I suppose that's harder to do in the public eye anyway. I wonder if she'll look back on it later and cringe.

@Cinammoncake which photo was that? The ones I saw were of her at the Queen's speech and she was in the gallery with Boris' dad, chortling her head off looking as pleased as punch.

I'd expect her to be after a political career – in one form or another.

Elected representative possibly, or something unelected with de facto power. Maybe not immediately, but she's got plenty of years in front of her.

Being openly dishonest, shit at your job and acting illegally seem to be positive requirements for high office these days, not disqualifications. Look at Johnson and Trump.

That's interesting cosmia I didn't see that one. The one I saw was just her sitting on her own

Interesting points about her potentially wanting a political career, I hadn't thought of that

Reminds me of the famous (infamous?) Mrs Merton question, asked of Debbie McGee:

“So what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?”

I doubt very much it's his money she's after. The flat she owned in her name was worth around £675K when she bought it at 29 or so.. For a woman her age that's a lot of money and her job would not allow her to buy it on that I assume. So it was either family money from parents or whatever.

Either way, she won't be poor on her own.

Suppose that he might treat everybody else like shit, but treats whoever he fancies as the most Important and Special Woman in the World. Like any other gaslighting, narcissistic and probably abusive arsehole does.

I don't think it's about money. She has her own, and there are plenty of other well-off men out there. She was already doing fine in her career too.

She would be stupid to marry him as when they get divorced he would be after her money.

I feel sorry for her that she has admitted to being BoJos gf. I mean would Any of you ladies like to date BoJo?

He's looking rough right now.

It's the dog I feel sorry for - shameless use of him to get a bit of positive publicity. Pfeffhole and Symonds seem well matched.

I don’t know how BJ gets anyone to sleep with him tbh.
He must be extremely charming and good in the sack , because I just don’t get why a young lady would be interested in an overweight, middle aged man with two ex wives and several kids.. particularly a man who can’t keep it in his Y fronts.

He is utterly amoral - she knows what she is dealing with and will be dumped pretty soon.

I presume she's a independent women just doing what she wants.

She finds him attractive, even if no one on here does, and is enjoying her life with him at the moment.

So I don't feel sorry for her.
Good for her.

Naive is the last thing she is, however he cheated on his first wife with his second, so she should have known what to expect

She went from being a relative unknown to being world famous overnight. She won't stay with him long after he leaves Downing Street but as far as fame and fortune goes, she's now made for life. A tell-all memoir alone will net her millions.

Reminds me of the famous (infamous?) Mrs Merton question, asked of Debbie McGee:

“So what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?”

It's a good line but the irony is that Caroline Aherne had herself just married the millionaire Peter Hook.

I rather like Boris, I wish he would.come to my local pub,and liven things up a bit. I am not bothered about his so called iffy life style.as lots of people ha.e iffy life styles. especially in my pub.

rather like Boris, I wish he would.come to my local pub,and liven things up a bit.

Only if you promise to lock him in the cellar until after the next election.

I honestly can't imagine what women see in him. His dad is more attractive!

Carrie is quite pretty, cheerful looking too.

Did she come on the scene after Boris had broken up with his wife or was she already having an affair with him? I'm not up to date with all this.

I don't feel sorry for her, she doesn't appear to be unhappy at the moment.

I work with someone who knows her, apparently she isn't that academically smart at all but is very much a social climber and power hungry . She's always gone out with men that can raise her profile and she's currently loving the fact that when she wears something people start buying it etc. She is not naive, she is calculating and knows what she's doing. Apparently she issued him with an ultimation over leaving Marina. No idea if that's true, but that's what I was told. I don't feel in the slightest bit sorry for her.

The past with Jennifer Arcuri is not the issue I see here. I understand the OP feeling sad for Carrie Symonds, who I expect will be dumped by Mr Johnson once she is about 40.

The more important thing is that the voters of Uxbridge and South Ruislip dump him as their MP when they have the opportunity.

Ugh no. She’s choosing to shag Johnson. Nobody’s making her. She’s well into her 30s so she’s not that young and she’s supposedly smart.

In my view her attraction to Boris is likely to be daddy issues too...her father provided financial support but otherwise wasn't involved..so looking for a father figure maybe? Looking at her family history is quite an eye opener - numerous affairs on both sides - mothers and fathers and so many of her ancestors the products of those affairs, so fidelity doesn't seem to be in her DNA...

I don't know much about her but I think the comments about her wanting to make money from this are unfair. As are those which can't imagine how she could be attracted to him based on his age and looks. We don't all fall in love with beautiful people. I haven't met Boris, but have met his father and one of his brothers and they are very charismatic.

I'm less impressed that she chose to take up with a married man but she's not the first to do so.