Jeremy Vine right now - about rape within marriage....

[WhatFreshHellIsThis]

....I'm intrigued. He started the show with an email from 'Jane', read by an actress, about how her husband rapes her regularly.

Now this seems very topical with the BNP agenda at the moment.....am I being cynical in thinking that the email from Jane probably isn't real?

I suspect it's a clever way of raising the issue, and good on whoever came up with it, it's an important issue that needs to be brought to people's attention.

But I can't help thinking if I was experiencing this, writing to Jeremy Vine wouldn't be my first port of call. What do other people think? Am I being cynical?

[Dumbledoresgirl]

Yes, best kept away from imo. I do love Jeremy. That couldn't really have been him on MN earlier, could it?

[WhatFreshHellIsThis]

I'm choosing to believe it was, I bet he googles himself regularly

[LovelyTinOfSpam]

Oh let's just believe it was for excitement value

[monkeytrousers]

Of it was Vile Vine, I think we just caught him out googling himself!

[Dumbledoresgirl]

Well, he does have kids of his own. Oh let him be a Mumsnetter, please!

[ObsidianBlackbirdMcNight]

Social services act on evidence of abuse which is not necessarily proven in a court. If they were obliged to wait until abuse was proven in court many more children would suffer prolonged abuse and/or die, given that the court process is always long, and that testimony from children is very hard to obtain in a way that convinces courts. Family courts likewise, and this also applies to evidence of domestic violence.

[Tinker]

Bet his wife's a mumsnetter.

[Longtalljosie]

I imagine someone on the programme is a Mumsnetter and has sent him the link.

[Longtalljosie]

Oh and ps, I used to work with him a long time ago and he's very nice

[monkeytrousers]

His wife a MN'er? And his mistress..or is that just Andrew Marr? Talentless egomaniacs at every turn at the Beeb thesedays.