David Blunkett affair

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Sad lonely man? None of our business? Discuss?

Must say, it would be more believable if she were the blind partner

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tbh, i;m not worried about it. if the kids are his then he has the right to see them surely. are they his? arent they?

i give up.

lol! how rude!

None of our business but fat chance of us not being informed. Sad lonely man too - they spent a lot of time together - she doesn't want DNA testing, what does that say? I agree with misdee.

I think this is just like the business with Boris Johnson last week.
On the one hand, what someone does in their private lives shouldn't be any of our business.

BUT

If these guys can't act with decorum, discretion and respectability in their own lives, what are we doing letting them have a controlling interest in OUR lives?
And make no bones about it, David Blunkett has a VERY controlling interest in our lives.

easy - so how come Boris got sacked from his parliamentary role, but David is still there in a much more prominent role than Boris.

What a double standard

Boris didn't get sacked for having an affair - he got sacked for blatantly lying about it. DB has never denied the affair.

I guess that Blunkett is much more precious to Tony Blair than Boris was to Michael Howard!

Prufrock surely Boris is not the 1st man to deny an affair.... would you own up to your boss?

If I knew that it was in the public domain - ie if a newspaper had asked me if it was true, then yes I probably would. I obviously wouldn't volunteer the information, but I wouldn't see the point in lying if I was going to be found out.

Anyway Blunko isn't married.

But the woman he was having an affair was, was. Or was she?

Haven't followed this one very closely. It's moved on from affair to visa applications. All very confusing.

Yes, she was/is. But his situation is still somewhat different from Boris's, for that reason as well as others.

she is a horrib;e person IMO apprently
it says int he times today that if she was dead in a coffin , she would be wondering if there was anynone more interesting to lie next to!!

how can she have an affair for threee years htrough two pg?
poor husband

blunkett has also used his oitition to get her benefits

allegedly, coddy.

She had an affair through 2 pregnancies? How very energetic of her. So these babies - are they Blunkett's or her DH's?

How humiliating for her DH. He should horsewhip Blunkett. How did this all come to light? (I really haven't been following this story! - how on earth have I missed it?!)

Well according to the Observer "It is also alleged that Blunkett and Fortier have already obtained private DNA test results that prove her two-year-old son William was fathered by Blunkett." (Article.)

He had been the soul of discretion really until she dumped him.

Sounds horrific. Poor old husband.

Poor kids. Poor husband. What a mess. Can't believe how she kept the whole show on the road for three years, almost her whole marriage, and went on holiday with Blunkett. What did her husband think she was doing? Extraordinary business.
Husband is, I've been told by people who have met him, a very nice man.

what was she doing/thinking????

Personally think that if someone (DB) has that little control over their behavior they should not have control over my life.

1. he had an affair with a married woman either 2)he had an affair with a married pregnant woman or 3) he fathered a child to a woman recently married to someone else
2. he behaved with complete indiscretion and no regard to the poor husband at the end of the affair
3. he may have used his position to the benefit of his mistress I know we are supposed to be a liberal society but Im sorry, I think this is appaling behaviour, millions of times worse than Boris Johnson, and yet there seems to be no governmental response.

Yes-her behaviour is shameful but she isnt the home sec!

is there much moral difference between being married and having an affair, and having an affair with someone you know to be married?

and if not (as I believe), then why should boris be sacked and blunkett kept in his job? and don't say it is about lying, please don't tell me that blunkett had a mistress who was married to another man and who had two children, paternity unknown, without him lying to someone sometime!!

Well Boris' sacking was not just about lying over his affair.... surely.... there are other issues.....

I do think the whole thing is unbelievably sleazy. But imagine being pregnant and have this played out in every newspaper - horrific! I personally would love Blunkett to go, for many, many reasons, of which his affair is the least important. But that's a whole different thread.