What do yo think of Williamn Hague's statement re his marriage, miscarriages etc

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Snort @ Hullygully.

Well, he is a very very attractive special advisor, isn't he?

He could give me special advice any day.

The only thing I feel sorry for Hague about is that he couldn't be honest, but then that's tories for you.

:o :o :o FioFio

fwiw I think he probably is gay. That's why Mr Myers resigned - not much of an advisor if he can't withstand a few internet rumours is he? Mr Hague knows of the speculation that has dogged him ever since he made that cringeworthy speech for the Tory Party when he was 16. To know about the rumours and yet still think it ok to share a hotel bedroom with a "special" advisor who's 25 and looks as gay as they come is just asking for trouble.

His wife's miscarriages have nothing to do with his sexuality. He's living a lie. My opinion.

Agree with BadgersPaws, the real issue is why he has so many special advisers. I really don't care where he is or isn't dipping his wick.

Having said that, I'm not sure why 'proving' that he's shagging his wife is any sort of proof that he isn't also shagging his secretary/special adviser/chauffeur/whatever. He's a politician FGS! (and a Tory at that, they always have the weirdest sex scandals. Though Mark Oaten came close.)

For the record, Hitler was NOT a vegetarian. The menus for some of his meals survive and make that clear. There's no evidence he was ever vegetarian although he may have been advised to cut down on meat. Eating a little meat does not equal vegetarian.

It's true that Churchill enjoyed a tipple, though. And of course he suffered from depression. The first would probably be a bar to being PM these days (although there are plenty of heavy drinkers at Westminster).

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Unless his wife wanted to put out the statement I think it is wrong of him to use it
but this story seems like a series of ill judged incidents, the room, the photos, the statements

don't really care what he does in his private life

Nick Roibinson says that Hague's statement
is "one of the most extraordinary statements I have ever read from a senior politician"

www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/

The Daily Mail also describes it as an extraordinary statement.

Politicians don't make extraordinary statements on the number of special advisers they employ. It is obvious what this is really all about.

"The first would probably be a bar to being PM these days (although there are plenty of heavy drinkers at Westminster)."

If you believe Blair's memoirs, he was driven to drink.

Fio, not as far as I know, but Abs posted that old false comparison between Hitler and Churchill, claiming Hitler was veggie. It's very wearisome.

Is it just me, but I don't get how this has become a story.

He shared a twin room with a collaegaue and friend. OK. So, why is that a "story" then?

Dh goes away with friends occasionally and they always twin up in rooms. I go away with friends and we always share twin rooms. Isn't it quite normal?

The media really don't have any other news right now do they? Are they really so desperate?

I would imagine WH has only given details out because the media has behaved so appallingly. And I imagine he and his wife have had discussions as to what to put out.

Politics actually is completely irrelevant to this story IMO.

Fio - hehehehehehehe

And, quite.

Was Hitler gay?

the media didn't break the story. The blogger, Guido Fawkes, did. Guido Fawkes is very influential and has many readers, so the media was forced to look into the story.

He shared a twin room with a collaegaue and friend.

Ahhhh, bless.

If it comes out that Hague is a vegetarian it will do him untold damage in his rural north Yorkshire constituency.

It's obvious why it's a story. He's a senior politician who knows how the game is played.

He supports anti-gay legislature.

He has employed a 25 year old, nubile special advisor who was less qualified than his other special advisors and who was not needed, yet who followed him around like a lovesick puppy dog.

He shared a hotel room with this special advisor - not any other advisors, just this one.

Rumours have been rife since his teens that he is gay. Mr Myers resignation may have prompted his little speech on his wife's miscarriages, but the media certainly didn't force him into it and the majority of the public would not have known anything about it otherwise.

It's not the same as your husband sharing a room with one of his mates. At all.

And I can totally understand why they felt the need to give out the information about their difficulties to start a family.

Having endured infertility, albeit secondary infertility in my case, and having people question why you don';t have (another) child, ad even insinuate untrue things - in their case, sham marriage, in my case selfish to my DD - I can see why they may thing enoughs, enough and become quite cross and want to shut up those stupid rumours by telling the world about their issues.

At least if he came out he could dress better.

"If you believe Blair's memoirs, he was driven to drink."

Having read the extracts in the papers, we appear to be talking about "a G&T before dinner and a couple of glasses of wine with it"

Now, I don't want to encourage Binge-Drinking Britain by saying that's a level of consumption suitable for ladies or those of a nervous disposition, but, er....

If he hadn't put out a statement, this would have remained an internet/westminster rumour. I heard people talking about this last week but no names named. He's invited a lot more speculation than he would have done if he'd just kept schtum. It was bizarre finding myself agreeing with Max Clifford this morning I must say