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BlueBelle Sat 29-Feb-20 17:38:11

...but not in government matters he’s sired an offspring

GagaJo Sun 01-Mar-20 11:00:27

I think there are 2 points really. What he and his women do is about choice. But he has a clearly bad track record with children. It's a new person he's making. Children NEED their fathers and he's absent with others already.

I REALLY hope it was her choice and not his political manoeuvring.

Shelmiss Sun 01-Mar-20 11:02:58

I think it’s great. At least he can afford to have 6 children, not like a lot of people who think it’s ok to just keep on producing babies without being able to afford to provide for them.

SirChenjin Sun 01-Mar-20 11:05:18

Headline: Not yet divorced 55 year old gets engaged to woman 24 years younger after fathering an as yet unconfirmed number of other children by 2 other women.

Jeremy Kyle wants you back Boris! I suppose the alternative form of deflection was to start a war, so perhaps we’ve got off lightly. What a sleazebag he is.

Joesoap Sun 01-Mar-20 11:09:49

Not living in the UK I am a bit ot of touch with these things, has Boris really six other children? and isnt divorced yet wow thats an eye opener for me, thanks GN,s he is obviously a very busy man in all departments,I hope he keeps his eye on the ball ie.EU negotiations.

Greta Sun 01-Mar-20 11:10:21

I don't really care what Boris Johnson gets up to in his private life. What does worry me is that a man like that is our Prime Minister.

mcem Sun 01-Mar-20 11:11:00

Neatly summarised SirChenjin.
Add in his dismissal from previous jobs because of his lies and dishonesty, his lack of loyalty and his devious tactics.
Why aren't our own dear Hyacinth Buckets clutching their pearls like good little Tory ladies?

sarahellenwhitney Sun 01-Mar-20 11:13:00

Daddima
What would you know of BJ as a father.?

GagaJo Sun 01-Mar-20 11:15:17

No wonder he's got no time to do politics and has to let Cummings do it all for him!

trisher Sun 01-Mar-20 11:15:25

I was looking at the info about his love-child (a daughter) and came across this comment from 2010 when his philandering was publicised. From the Daily Mail.
Senior Tories say this scandal ends his ambitions of leading the Conservative Party or ever being Prime Minister. Mr Johnson himself joked he had "more chance of being reincarnated as Elvis Presley" than taking over from David Cameron.
I wonder if the bloke working in our chip shop really is ???????

Shortlegs Sun 01-Mar-20 11:16:28

Wow!!! So many haters. I'd guess that's the end of 'be kind' then?

GagaJo Sun 01-Mar-20 11:18:38

Hahahahaha. Twice today I've laughed out loud at you, Trisher.

Now can you sort out Covid19?

Moggycuddler Sun 01-Mar-20 11:19:55

I dislike him intensely and think he's an arsehole. Can't understand what an attractive young woman (what - about 25 years younger?) could see in a podgy racist nitwit like him. But their business. I'd put money on them not being together in another 5 years though.

Rosina Sun 01-Mar-20 11:28:33

Racist? Seriously? His grandfather was a Turk and Marina Wheeler is Anglo Asian.

Kandinsky Sun 01-Mar-20 11:30:12

Didn’t Nelson Mandela have 6 kids with 3 different women?

Still....,,that’s okay because he was a great guy.

Rosina Sun 01-Mar-20 11:32:10

'Should have read 'great grandfather - Ali Kemal I seem to recall.

trisher Sun 01-Mar-20 11:41:03

Kandinsky Perhaps not a great example. One of his children died in infancy. One of his wives was involved in affairs and criminal assault cases. His children.
Madiba Thembekile
1945-1969
Born in 1945, Mandela's first son was killed in a car crash when he was 25. Mandela was in prison at the time and was not permitted to attend his child's funeral.
Makaziwe
1948, died aged nine months
Mandela's eldest daughter died aged just nine months. His next daughter was named Makaziwe in her honour.
Makgatho
1950-2005
Mandela's second son died of Aids-related diseases in 2005. After his son's death, Mandela said: "Let us give publicity to HIV/Aids and not hide it...". Makgatho's eldest son, Mandla, is the family heir and chief of the Traditional Council in Mvezo - birthplace of his grandfather.
Makaziwe (Maki)
1954-
Named in honour of her older sister, who died some years earlier. Of the four children born to Evelyn and Mandela, Makaziwe is the only one still living. She has held senior university positions and has worked at the Development Bank of Southern Africa.
Zenani (Zeni)
1959-
The eldest daughter of Mandela and his second wife, Winnie. She is South Africa's ambassador to Argentina and is married to Prince Thumbumuzi Dlamini of Swaziland.
Zindziswa (Zindzi)
1960-
Businesswoman and managing trustee of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund. With Mandela jailed in 1962, neither she nor her sister saw much of their father during their childhood.

Nightsky2 Sun 01-Mar-20 11:44:58

Carrie Symonds looks like a lovely young woman. She’s young, highly intelligent and is going to be Boris’s wife no, 3. SO WHAT. I’m sure she knew exactly what she was doing when she first got involved with him. I wish them both the very best.

Boris Johnson divorced Marina Wheeler 11 days ago with an £4m settlement.

maddyone Sun 01-Mar-20 11:45:12

I agree with GrannyGravy, it’s Carrie’s first child, she’s young and has energy, she seems extremely discreet and supportive, I absolutely wish them both well. I hope she has a trouble free pregnancy and birth. Why would anyone wish anything else to a young woman, pregnant for the first time.
Boris is the father. His divorce came through a few weeks ago as I understand it, and he intends to marry Carrie. What’s the problem? Tony Blair and David Cameron both had new babies whilst living in number 10. I was happy for them, I’m happy for Boris and Carrie.

maddyone Sun 01-Mar-20 11:45:58

Quite right Nightsky.

Greymar Sun 01-Mar-20 11:59:58

Boris has Turkish blood so he is not a racist. Don't know whether to laugh or cry. The new baby will have the famed 'leadership genes' too.

Anniebach Sun 01-Mar-20 12:01:21

Because some of Mandela’s children sadly died it does change the fact he had six children with three women

Greymar Sun 01-Mar-20 12:02:41

And?

Houndi Sun 01-Mar-20 12:02:44

This is a man who left his wife why she was having treatment for cancer.He has 6 or 7 children all by different woman.If he lived on a council estate he would be seen as a reckless father

maddyone Sun 01-Mar-20 12:03:10

BJ has five children, four by his second wife, now all grown up, the youngest is about 20 I think. He also has another child who is about 11/12 who lives with it’s mother. I can’t see any reason why he and Carrie shouldn’t have a child. Lots of men, famous or otherwise, have lots of children. Mick Jagger has eight with a variety of different women apparently. BJ is divorced and going to marry Carrie, and yes, he has apparently had affairs, but so have lots of other people. All the women were adults, they knew what they getting into. Let’s worry about the real problems in this country, and BJ and CS having a baby isn’t one of them.

maddyone Sun 01-Mar-20 12:08:01

How do we know he has 6 or 7 children, only 5 are known about officially. And what’s it to do with any of us? This is important only to them, there are more important things to worry about.