Boris Johnstone quickly settles divorce.

[Nippybutsweet]

AIBU to call it now that his girlfriend is pregnant?

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/18/boris-johnson-agrees-divorce-settlement-with-marina-wheeler

Seriously, I don't think we have. If a Labour leader behaved like Johnson he'd be hammered.

I disagree. Boris was a character who the media loved before he was prime minister - for all the wrong reasons really. He was oafish and fun.

I don't think it's because he's a Conversative PM that people don't care.
I think a lot of people don't care because
A) it's 2020 and he can do what he likes with who he likes - his sex life is his business
and B) a lot of people just think "ah that's Boris - he's a bit like that".

I do think people are indulgent with Boris, they think 'boys will be boys'

What about Ed Miliband?

New partner pregnant before the divorce comes through - shock, horror! Mumsnet is like the 1950s sometimes.

In a few respects the 1950s was better. Men didn’t go around siring two or three families and politicians were held to a high standard. The 21st century isn’t an improvement when it comes to sexual behaviour.

I am confident that those did happen in the 50’s,

In the 1950s divorce was still heavily frowned on, very few people did it. It was a blight on a politician’s career. As late as 1983 Cecil Parkinson had to resign as minister of state because his mistress was pregnant, I remember the scandal well.

I can see how in some ways, the flippancy with which people like Boris treat relationships, isn't an improvement on the 50s. But on the other hand, in the 50s there is no way I would have been able to divorce and manage alone with my DD as a disabled woman. And my marriage was making me feel suicidal. So I think it's tricky - there is very much both good and bad from the social change.

I do agree about standards of behaviour, but I suppose society in general seems to have "slipped" so much in that regard, that Boris seems more normal. Not that that is necessarily a good thing.

@AlsoHuman - I just remembered about Robin Cook. When the papers found out about his affair and he had to decide between his mistress and his wife. So he chose his mistress and told his wife there and then that they were over. Harsh! That must have been late 90s early 00s. Not long ago at all.

“His sex life [and parenting] is his business”

Because he’s a rich, white man.

Oh, and straight!

there is very much both good and bad from the social change

You’re right, there are so many things I’ve done with my life that would have been impossible or an uphill struggle then. We’ve progressed in some ways but definitely not in others, I feel very sad that standards for people in public life have fallen so low.

if women want to sleep with a known shagabout that is their business - but don't go blubbing when you end up as the latest dumpee.

isn't there something about he either does it to his wife or his country?

Isn't CS the product of an affair herself? I think she's not in contact with her father as well but can't find the article when I looked half-heartedly so being with someone so much older figures. And seems close to Stanley Johnson as well (before getting with Johnson even?)

Isn't CS the product of an affair herself?

Wow, you have such a way with words

Called it!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-51691434

Looks like YWNBU!

Well done OP. You are psychic.

Now, on to the lottery numbers...