I agree with all of this. Granted there is a basic and rightfully expected decency in being faithful to the mother of your children, but for some, personal indulgence and self gratification are more important than a bond of trust to their partner and by consequence their children. Low loyalty.

Boris' tumultuous personal life and scattered children are certainly well documented.... but the bloke is running to be Prime Minister, not Father or Husband of the Year.

Drawing an assessment of what is good for the country doesn't require a picture perfect home life, and the bar we set for politicians and the scrutiny they're under isn't fair in that regard. Motivations behind imperfections in one area of life, in certain roles may well even act as a positive. Trump has quite an extreme personality for instance, and I wouldn't be a fan of that in day to day life, but an upside of it in his role is that he doesn't think twice about being pushy on trade for example. Before him that type of approach was seen as strictly out of bounds.

I would rather Bojo or Hunt win on the strength of the arguments they put forward to tory members. Then we'll likely see more of a message for the country rather than the membership and see where it goes from there. What I don't want to see is a strategic release of a barney with the missus days prior to the vote in an attempt to throw the whole thing into disarray. US style politics coming to the UK. No thanks.

I'm beginning to have second thoughts about Boris as our supremo due to his refusal to face the media and tell us exactly what he intends to try and do.

Whilst it's no concern of ours what he gets up to behind closed doors all he had to do was to admit that he and his girl friend have the occasional argument and this one was of no consequence and everyone would have moved on.

He needs a TV debate with Jeremy Hunt where they both answer relevant questions in some detail after all if we have a General Election soon he is going to have to face the cameras against Jeremy Corbyn if he has any hopes of the Conservatives winning

If it rumbles on too long he might be forced to address it. He'd have been better off saying "We had an argument like any other couple could, it's a private matter and I am entitled to a private life." rather than "nobody wants to hear about that"..

From the sound of it, it was more his other half kicking off anyway

"It was really loud, loud enough to make me turn down the TV and see what was going on. I could hear shouting and screaming from a lady, she sounded really angry. There was a man’s voice too, but he was much calmer and he was telling her to calm down but she was still chucking things about,” she said. “It went on for about 10 minutes. I’ve never heard anything like it. I was considering calling the police but then a [police] van and car came.”

I can see why he's keeping a low profile, and not wanting any head to heads with Hunt, on account that he's clear favourite for leader. I expect he's come to a conclusion that there's more of a down than up side to TV time, head to heads and so on. If the internal poling changes before the vote though, we can expect him to be all for it. Politicians politicking.

I thought that 'acting like a little girl' was all the rage for males on the left?

Surely you should be praising him Mainey?

Edited by Stirlingsays (24 Jun 2019 4.22pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Is having “a pair” a distinct advantage for a politician? Bet Jess Phillips has a view.

I can understand why he doesn't want to address this. Firstly it their private business but secondly if he does discuss it and admits his girlfriend had a meltdown there goes the female vote. It's a no win for him so best to keep quiet.

Update
I should add that his girlfriend was one of John Worboy's youngest victims (this is public knowledge) so maybe she is entitled to be a little upset, she certainly will have the sympathy vote from women. The press know all about this so they will have to tread very carefully here.

Edited by Badger11 (24 Jun 2019 5.37pm)

One more point