Jennifer Arcuri publicly admitting four year affair with Boris Johnson

JaneJudge , just imagine what he’d want in return!!??

Sleaze and cronyism are one thing, but I can’t get steamed up about affairs. Powerful men have so often had them, but in the past they were kept quiet from the bulk of ‘ordinary’ people, as they like to call us - no matter how many of the elites knew.
Wasn’t Lloyd George a notorious womaniser? Just for starters.
But the press was too deferent to publish ‘scandalous’ details.

Maybe it was the Profumo affair that finally put paid to the general pretence that powerful/rich/aristocratic people were morally beyond reproach.

IMO Mandy Rice-Davies’ reply of, ‘He would say that, wouldn’t he?’ - and the laughter that ensued in court, was something of a landmark in such matters.

I don’t give a stuff about politicians’ private lives as long as they don’t use public money to pay for their little bits on the side! BJ should be held to account for what he did and be made to pay it back.

Yes I dont care about who he sleeps with but that's not what this is about.

I don't like the double standards. If he was a woman with various husbands, bits of the side, kids with different men he wouldn't be prime minister. I do think people need to behave appropriately in their private lives if they are in positions of power but I am a bit old fashioned like that. I do agree this is different though

The difference between now and the time of the Profumo affair was that then ministers resigned. Now they don't - with the exception of Johnny Mercer.

I should have added that Mercer didn't resign because of a scandal but because of concerns over the treatment/prosecution of soldiers.

According to Johny Mercer this government is "a cesspit full of lies"

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/johnny-mercer-government-cesspit-johnson_uk_6080542ae4b017537f0e14cb