Do you care that Liz Truss had an affair?

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On the one hand, I feel that it's her own business, but on the other, I want a PM I can look up to, who I can trust, who has dignity. After Boris, after his endless lies, Truss doesn't inspire the integrity that I want to see in my country's leader. AIBU?

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@ashitghost I thought she was early 50's tbh

Not really.

I care more that she appears to be both incompetent and a fascist.

Tbh we’ve got the bar set so low that anyone who knows how many children they have seems a step up “family values” wise!

On a personal level ie would I be their friend, then yes I judge people who have affairs....but if I need a plumber or an electrician then I will judge them on the ability to do a good job and i feel pretty much the same about politicians....to be clear though, I don't include bullies or gropers in that view. I wouldn't want one in my house and don\t think that other people should have to put up with them either.

I think personal integrity does matter but none of us know the ins and outs of anyone's relationship or marriage, where the balance of power rests, who has been unfaithful to whom in the past, who is faithful but potentially has other major failings. It's not for anyone else to judge imho if the two participants are mature intelligent adults and one is not being exploited by the other. The only time I would say it is significant is when it forms part of a repeated pattern of behaviour, as with Boris Johnson, as that contributes to an overall picture of someone's values.

Who’s had what with affair with whom and ‘who’s the daddy’ seem quite the themes in Westminster these days. Such very Conservative values while they punch down on poorer women and put an anti-choice anti-abortionist in Health and promote a gender ideology drenched fuckwit to Leader of the Commons.

No - they all have in the cabinet. Perks of being in poli tics.

It’s a Cabinet of the Vanities & Inanities

Yes this

Her husband forgave her and they are still together so I suppose that's what matters. Still a bit odd having Kwarteng as her Chancellor though? I wonder how other candidates for that job feel about it .

Cheating is immoral but it's one of those things that are someone's personal business. The poor bloke who got cheated on should be the only one worrying about it.

I feel like it's a Tory rite of passage to cheat on your partner. I don't think she's any different to the men who have come before her and given the other horrible things she's said I think it's a really strange choice to focus on this.

I have had reason to visit Parliament and its estate many times when I was working - most of the researchers are very pretty young things while most of the politicians are how shall I put it - well they do say politics is show business for the ugly. The smell of power and entitlement wafts through the place as well of "very important people doing very important things".It's no wonder many affairs grow in that perfumed garden of earthly delights.

If she can cheat on the person closest to her, what hope for the country?

Much like Liz Truss, we're screwed from various directions.

Her judgement is also severely lacking since her choice of AP was that violent misogynist Field.

I think it's a really strange choice to focus on this

I tend to fleetingly focus on it because of the sorts of things that Liz Truss says about herself in interviews, like when she was insisting to Kuenssberg that 'what you see is what you get' and how straight up, straight talking and honest she is yada yada.

I suppose it just enters my head at that point that she hasn't actually been 'straight up' at all in the relationship with the person she's supposed to share her life with - so how much is she prepared to shaft the rest of us?

I find her hypocritical, and I think the truth of the full totality of her 'goings on' is pretty unedifying and an open Westminster secret. So no, I don't want her lecturing me on how 'what you see is what you get' because that's clearly a lie.

(I find Boris Johnson worse, for the avoidance of doubt. Much, much worse.)

Couldn't care less tbh.more important that she cuts energy prices and cost of living in general. We also have to deal with a mortgage rate increase which seems not to be spoken about much!

Think she is actively "very close" with Tony Abbott.

Also (not) looking forward to the video.

Hmm (goes off to wade through the dregs of Twitter)

twitter.com/MarinaPurkiss/status/1299642685821722624

It's from a good source.

I don’t really care - when you think how many powerful men cheat/have cheated - even the unlikely ones like John Major - I think it’s at best refreshing and at worst irrelevant that a woman PM isn’t a nun or a saint when it comes to that part of their personal life.

Do I think she will be a good PM, no, but having affairs with some colleagues is not the reason why.

I thought it was Amber Rudd, not Liz Truss, who had a fling with Kwarteng?

I couldn't care less. Its not like she's a violent criminal. I don't want her as PM but not because she's had an affair.

Remember when Tiger Woods lost lots of sponsorships and had to apologise to the world for shagging about? I remember thinking wtf 🤣 had nothing to do with his golf, and he hadn't committed a violent crime, wasn't a danger to the public. Just had a messy love life.

Both apparently.

Surely it’s not so much the fact of the affair as that it was with mark field - bluck - seriously? He is the horrid little man who manhandled that woman out of a conservative fund raising dinner.

Nice
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mark-field-tory-protest-climate-change-greenpeace-boris-johnson-a9255471.html