Is the new PM, still married ...

enlighten me ...

Jane10 I know what you mean. It’s sort of shorthand for the woman a married man is having a sexual relationship with whilst still living with his wife isn’t it? .

But if there is another term that ecompasses all that perhaps you can suggest one Jane10. I suppose there are things like his "bit on the side" or the "other woman" or as my mum used to say his "fancy piece". Are they any better?

Clandestinely, yes.

Getting back to 'pillow talk', it could work both ways. I understand that Carrie is a keen environmentalist and interested in animal welfare.

We are seeing rather a lot of Stanley, though.

My post was in reply to suziewoozie

Partner? Isn't that the norm nowadays?

SirC
It’s a shame the Uk didn’t read the small print from the EU years ago, about how they planned to expand and expand,
Their hopes for a federal state of Europe, their own army,
And unlimited freedom of movement.
The way that the UK has had to go with begging bowls when they hoped for something ( witness Cameron getting nothing and having to then agree to a referendum because he didn’t get what we wanted.)
The EU is a bloated and corrupt body that we will be well rid of.
We pay our MP’s, Ministers, Government to make plans for us, and they have failed to agree anything between themselves for the last three years.
I have no idea if this new Cabinet will be able to unblock it,
But can only hope.

I think partner usually means the person you are in a long term relationship with but not married to and you are not concurrently married to and living with someone else?

Also boy friend / girl friend sounds daft as you get older doesn’t it?

It does suzie....we shall have to think up a better one.

Remember SO, significant other? That always sounded daft,
Rather pompous.

I rather liked Terry Wogan's reference to "the current Mrs Wogan". In the case of Mr Johnson, reference to 'the current Mrs Johnson' or 'the current girlfriend/squeeze/female companion/choose your own description' would be excellent.

suzie- for me 'partner' means TRUST, special, long-term- something those two don't seem to get. I have a wonderful partner, 50 years next Easter.

Been thinking about it- and in this case, I'll stick to Mistress.

I hate 'partner'! Many years ago I knew someone (lets call him Fred), at a social event I was introduced to a man wo was described as "Fred's partner". I thought oh I never knew Fred was gay but didn't say anything thankgoodness. A bit later on I heard him described as "Fred's business partner"

LOL it always felt strange talking about my OH's many partners, especially the female ones. Often raised an eybrow or two.

you are not concurrently married to and living with someone else?
Well, I don't think he has been living with Marina for a couple of years.

He's a heel, isn't he
(another idiom, sorry)

suzie- for me 'partner' means TRUST, special, long-term- something those two don't seem to get. I have a wonderful partner, 50 years next Easter.

No, jura, that is you and your DH (darling husband) - and me too!
Partners, I would assume, are not married although they could have been together for 50 years or more.

LOL it always felt strange talking about my OH's many partners, especially the female ones. Often raised an eybrow or two.
Ha ha!!

I don't particularly like the term partner as it does sound like a business-like arrangement, but it is in general use unfortunately.

Britain's European partners Friday warned Boris Johnson that his hardline Brexit stance was putting the UK on a "collision course" with the EU and called on the new premier to avoid "provocations".

Johnson is planning meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the next few weeks, officials said Friday, as the British premier insists he will renegotiate the UK's divorce accord with the European Union.

Macron extended the invitation to Johnson in a call late Thursday from his official summer vacation residence in the south of France, where he is expected to stay for the next three weeks, said an aide.

But in a sign of wariness about Johnson's anti-EU rhetoric, France's Europe Minister Amelie de Montchalin urged Britain's new leader to create a working relationship with his partners on the continent.

"From our side, we need to be responsible," she told France 2 television. "That means being clear, predictable and it means on the other side that we need to create a working relationship, that there aren't games, posturing, provocations."

- 'Who will blink first?' -

Macron, who has said he is happy to be considered the "bad guy" in the Brexit negotiations, is set to be a key figure during the tricky and potentially bad-tempered talks in the months ahead.

"Emmanuel Macron has had one of the firmest positions of European leaders in the negotiations," said Vivien Pertusot, a research fellow at the IFRI foreign affairs think-tank and specialist on Brexit.

"Nothing is going to force his hand and he has no reason to soften his position," he added.

Pertusot said that upcoming negotiations would be marked by "frankness" with attention on "which side is going to blink first".

news.yahoo.com/eu-partners-warn-johnson-against-brexit-provocations-162918646.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAH7p85U8rPewga6ZyvAzdDdrSp2b5dsXGq7qYclsk4mq3FB2PHPRVYN1FKUjgYURT65yxY1LAnpoOfzgenayNNLkpHpk-7oGaT9fz6M2UWmq3xcxYqqPXlgDSP7mFwIvW7SgRZm4ZPKcQHg_LBKxuKmsTtfBqunKLSyk9B1Kl05A

This was a fairly lighthearted thread about Boris's mistress/girlfriend/partner/significantother, varian.

(fairly, not altogether)

Perhaps you'd like to post that on another thread?

on the grounds that it could be missed or ignored?

It is difficult for many of us - possibly most of us- to feel lighthearted about having a habitual liar as PM.

A 'fancy piece' in Scotland means a fairy cake, a tray bake or similar sweet treat.

A mistress should swan about in a negligee being 'kept' by a sugar daddy. I would visualise one such spending her days popping marrons glaces into the mouth of a pekingese or similar small fluffy dog.
Partner/girlfriend would fit the Boris situation.

How very old fashioned Jane, lol.

Girl/boyfriend is for teenagers surely. And as said, for me a partner is long-term in a trust based relationship. But we can agree to disagree, surely.

Calli- you are right, my OH has been my husband for all those years, and me his wife- and partners too. He was my boyfriend for 1 year ... when I was still a teenager.

Oh varian have some self awareness. You never miss an opportunity do you? These long ‘cut & paste’ screeds are so off putting. Especially when inappropriately inserted into a wrong thread too.
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