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David Blunkett affair

227 replies

Tinker · 28/11/2004 15:58

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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spacedonkey · 15/12/2004 18:39

gasp!

Blu · 15/12/2004 18:40

Gasp!

noddyholder · 15/12/2004 18:41

oh I'm glad you said the c word aloha it was on the tip of my tongue!!!!!!

bundleofyulelogs · 15/12/2004 18:44

aloha did you see the david aaronovitch piece on the whole affair, about quinn's own childhood? he was abandoned by his mother & considered his own upbringing all the better for his adoptive family. puts an interesting slant on it all..

aloha · 15/12/2004 18:47

Yes, I did. It was interesting...in a voyeuristic way that I have to say I enjoyed...
I felt really sorry for his birth mother, who had him in one of those dreadful 'homes for shamed sinners' in Ireland, but managed to keep him for two years by working in the laundry (which must have been fun, not) and only gave him up when she was forced to choose between giving him up and their both being homeless and starving - ie no choice at all. I was surprised, given that, how vehemently angry he still seemed to be with the poor woman.

aloha · 15/12/2004 18:48

The thought of being forced to part from my son, aged two, made me want to cry.

bundleofyulelogs · 15/12/2004 18:50

maybe deep down he resents that abandonment, and cannot empathise with the plight of such a vulnerable person. imo it was a wisdom of solomon type of decision, ie only the real mother would sacrifice her own need to be with her child to let her child have a chance at life. maybe we'll see him on Trisha soon.... venting....

bakedpotatohoho · 15/12/2004 18:50

so the vile KF-Q has won this round. it seems pretty obvious that she made quite detailed notes of all the times when she was asking him daring him, almost to intervene in the nanny's various visa applications (still don't believe he did anything to assist. surely can't have been so stupid). Could she have been salting these incidents away for future use? i think she is capable of anything

bundleofyulelogs · 15/12/2004 18:51

bp, surely a girly-wirly isn't capable of that kind of forethought [snurk]

bundleofyulelogs · 15/12/2004 18:51

(now he'll presumably have plenty of time to nip over to the high court...so it may backfire for her)

bakedpotatohoho · 15/12/2004 18:58

have just looked at the bbc news website. DB has acknowledged he did send an email re one of the visas can't tell which one 'no favours but slightly quicker'!

feel a bit daft now. what is WRONG with these men? why do they always get carried away?

still, he may be stupid but she is actually evil

noddyholder · 15/12/2004 19:00

why do they always fess up when they've been caught?MEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Caligulights · 15/12/2004 19:19

I think they're both ghastly, but frankly I'm glad he's gone, "by any means necessary" as Malcolm X would have it! He's the most self-righteous, authoritarian home secretary we've had since Jack Straw, oh sorry, I mean Michael Howard - what the f* IS it about that job? I remember when he and Straw were quite left wing, about five hundred years ago.

noddyholder · 15/12/2004 19:20

agree she has been so bad through this whole thing

Caligulights · 15/12/2004 19:43

They both have. I don't see why she's any worse than him - she's a manic control freak, he's a manic control freak. So far, they're quits! Pity they haven't stayed together really - they sound perfect for each other.

bakedpotatohoho · 15/12/2004 19:51

i'm coming round to your POV. I suppose she is only f*cking up his life, and that of her own immediate family, whereas his remit stretches a bit further

Piffleoffagus · 16/12/2004 09:06

Still we can bemoan his failings as home sec for sure, but that is not why he resigned is it?
It could have brought TB down if he had stuck his neck out for DB until the Alan Budd report came out which would have implicated DB and thus made TB look like an ass (again albeit)
The Home Sec is another name for the PM's fave most inline with his own ambitions, I mean how much of a yes man is Straw? At least DB forced wide discussion on various issues, if not for the right reasons
I think KQF is going to be a social pariah, IMHO she def comes out smelling like the manure you put on the roses. I am after reading his biog anyway, which certainly didn't help - And to hear Pollard say it is a sympathetic biog HA HA timing was so fortunate, publishers must have been going ape trying to get it out to coincide with his downfall!
The whole thing is mucky and when Labour get voted in again next year DB will have a new important job, I still suspect TB wants him to succeed him....
Stil at least it got I'm a Celeb tits off the front pages
PHEW

SantaFio2 · 16/12/2004 09:33

awww i feel so sorry for him I just hope he gets proper access to his children now he has sacrificed his career for them

that woman is just plain selfish, i hope her husband doesnt put up with her either - coniving bitch

5goldendillydallys · 16/12/2004 09:57

Can I ask a quick question, has it been proved yet who the father actually is? Or is it all still hear'say

PaRumPumPumScum · 16/12/2004 10:08

Have to say I feel desperately sorry for poor D Blunkett too fio, much to my own surprise as I've had reservations about his attitude as home sec- esp re asylum seekers and refugees. I think it was reading this interview that fuelled my sympathy. Almost made me cry actually - he just seems so very lonely and upset. I suspect he's one of those people who gets a lot of his feelings of worth from his job and to lose that as a direct result of the vindictiveness of someone he passionately adored must be absolutely devastating.

bakedpotatohoho · 16/12/2004 10:16

so ironic that he has been undone by the very quality that was mean to make his position so secure: his forthrightness. he got carried away with his biographer, bitched about his colleagues, and they are casting him off now. really dim mistake of his. (in the marr interview, he's still referring to his straight-talkingness in a way that i can't help but find smug and self-satisfied. i think a bit of humility now would have gone down well.)
also it seems so obvious that he DID intervene re the nanny. why else would someone from his dep. highlight her letter? i wish he'd square up to that.
i really strongly bought his argument that he had nothing to do with the visas, which is why i now feel no particular sympathy with him on this front. but i do still hope, more than ever actually, that he gets access to the boy SOON.

bundleofyulelogs · 16/12/2004 10:34

bp according to the guardian the email was from his office but he said he wouldn't hide behind civil servants (nice image ) so quit. i too vascillate about how i feel about him.

bakedpotatohoho · 16/12/2004 10:40

bundle, does it explain why his office were onto it, unless they were already familiar with her name?

aloha · 16/12/2004 10:42

I don't think their relationship was a secret by any means - he organised the train ticket for her as his spouse, remember?

bakedpotatohoho · 16/12/2004 10:44

he says in the Marr interview (which i found a bit hard to follow at times)

'I had made it clear that the backlog exercise that was taking place at the time was absolutely crucial to the effectiveness and to the efficiency of the department.

So when I heard about the 12 months [wait for his ex-lover's nanny's application to be processed], I took action.

What I hadn't realised is that I had put the letter into the system and the system had done the job.'

uh -- duh!

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