Good news!

Ellianne

The reason this announcement was brought up as three different threads is possibly because the thread titles weren't specific enough. Most of the politics/news threads bear the name of the person to be discussed in the title .. Boris, Farage, Javid, Harry etc so there is no confusion from by glancing through the topics.

I really dislike none specific titles. Why do people do that?

Same here Pippa

Re Carrie. I do wonder what she sees in Johnson.
I could have understood his appeal about 15 years ago, (I know, I know…) but not now, I can’t imagine a worse prospect

Fanny I could say his position (no pun intended) but then what do we all see in our partners and vice versa?

Kindness; empathy; honesty; fidelity…

In a word…..power. It’s def an aphrodisiac for some people

Katek

In a word…..power. It’s def an aphrodisiac for some people

I can definitely understand that, but for someone in such high office, he just doesn’t come across as powerful.

If I were Carrie, I’d just find him incredibly annoying and frustrating.

It seems to me that it’s a ‘be careful what you wish for’ situation.

BlueSky 'She obviously wants a short gap in her children’s ages.'

I have 2 friends who wanted the same- both ended up with triplets ;) born when number 1 was 18 months.

I think he is probably very charming, I also imagine she thinks she will be the one to change him. It's not an uncommon scenario.

DH’s sons were born 11 months and 1 week apart!

Well....... thanks very much ladies. Haven't indulged in such a lovely chortle for ages. Just wondering if GG13 is still upright and that her curry made it!

I guess it’s the thought of all that hurrumphing and bodily fluid exchanges with Boris Johnson that turns the stomach.
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Kim19

Well....... thanks very much ladies. Haven't indulged in such a lovely chortle for ages. Just wondering if GG13 is still upright and that her curry made it!

Curry was delicious.

Definitely stayed upright, we have DD and GC staying for a mumcation so wine was limited ??

If you read Sasha Swire’s best selling book ‘Diary Of An MP’s Wife’, she writes about a dinner party where she was seated next to Boris. She said he was absolutely the best person to be sat next to, witty, charming, flirtatious, humorous.

Boris might be short, overweight, bumbling, untruthful, unfaithful, but he sounded extremely charismatic.

congratulations to them
a playmate for the little lad

Exactly Calendar! Luckily we don’t all like the same people/things or we would be fighting over them!

MayBee70

I do understand that some people want to have large families and that is their right. But I made a decision to only have two children because I was worried about world over population.

Indeed. This is not a criticism - I'm not child-free myself and I don't deny anyone's right to have the family they want - but there was an interesting study from Lund that showed that (at least in terms of carbon footprint) having a child was one of the most damaging things you could do.

Cars were the second worst, but roughly one child == 20 cars in terms of carbon footprint.

Of course the other side of the coin is that we're all stuck in this economic Ponzi scheme of eternal growth otherwise we can't pay off our debts.

Johnson may be good fun at a dinner party but that doesn’t mean you’d want him to drive you home.

vegansrock

Johnson may be good fun at a dinner party but that doesn’t mean you’d want him to drive you home.

I wouldn’t want him to sit next to me on a bus

I think I would find him quite appealing, actually.
Although I've heard that it's all a cleverly constructed persona in his case, I enjoy meeting eccentrics.

A few year’s back Dh went to a business dinner do where Boris was the invited speaker. He didn’t come over as a bumbling idiot but as a clever charismatic speaker. Dh isn’t easily impressed either.

vegansrock

I guess it’s the thought of all that hurrumphing and bodily fluid exchanges with Boris Johnson that turns the stomach.
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I suspect he jabs whilst she jabbers

Jane!!!

Sorry. Another Johnson child ( is that number eight, nine or ten or does BJ even have a clue?) is not a cause for celebration.

sorry I just like using his catchphrases

Why ????