What would you do in his situation.

This story has fascinated me. You have a high powered Cabinet Minister who was having an affair with a married woman. She is now allegedly expecting his baby. And if that is not bad enough - the 'perks' that Blunkett dealt out to his mistress is splashed headline news, and a lead story on all the news channels! [Quite honestly stuff future documentaries and films are made of]

Personally I find it all a bit distasteful, and for the husband so utterly humiliating.

I am not sure what I would do in his situation.

I read today that The husband is not interested in paternity, it will be his child, his marriage is for the long haul and he believes the marriage will survive. This sort of thing happens in life and so be it. Blunkett is apparently seeking paternity.
I dislike Blunkett intensly and feel he is not challenged enough his time as education secetary was horrendous and hius record on prisons is also abysmal. He needs to go and for once I hope this affair gets him the long overdue shove thats needed

It's a fascinating and repulsive story simultaneously. Blunkett, to my mind and reports I've read in The Times this week, seems so obviously guilty of hypocrisy, stupidity and above all arrogance. I am sure that much will be made of him paying back Mrs Quinn's bus fare (or whatever it was!), but we all know it runs much much deeper than that. He KNEW that he should never have let her have the first class rail pass as she is not his spouse. He KNEW and if he says anything else he is a liar. He wont be the first arrogant politician to be brought down by his own vanity and sadly he wont be the last either.

Kimberley Quinn is a frightening woman- did anyone read India Knight's column in The Times today? She really gives her a verbal walloping.

All very cynical stuff- apparently she pressed her husband to begin fertility treatment after she started the affair with Blunkett (ensuring the 'alibi,' I suppose). It sounds like she simply used him for a visa... and to father her kids. I do feel for her husband a bit, but really, I'm sure he didn't believe she was marrying him for either his looks or abundant charisma.

I read today that The husband is not interested in paternity, it will be his child, his marriage is for the long haul and he believes the marriage will survive. This sort of thing happens in life and so be it. Blunkett is apparently seeking paternity.
I dislike Blunkett intensly and feel he is not challenged enough his time as education secetary was horrendous and hius record on prisons is also abysmal. He needs to go and for once I hope this affair gets him the long overdue shove thats needed
I agree with you Sheoque. Apart from his record as Education Secretary, he's turning into an utter fascist of a Home Secretary. The only good thing I'd say for him is that at least he's trying to take some responsibility for his child(ren) rather than the normal course of denying everything.

Kimberley Quinn is a frightening woman- did anyone read India Knight's column in The Times today? She really gives her a verbal walloping.

All very cynical stuff- apparently she pressed her husband to begin fertility treatment after she started the affair with Blunkett (ensuring the 'alibi,' I suppose). It sounds like she simply used him for a visa... and to father her kids. I do feel for her husband a bit, but really, I'm sure he didn't believe she was marrying him for either his looks or abundant charisma.

I read it - i thought it was very interesting and yes India slated Mrs Quinn all right - she painted the picture of a self obsessed, attention seeking, limelighting chasing virago!

I feel really sorry for her husbend - more fool him for standing by her. I feel sorry for Blunkett top though - she seems like a manipulative cow.

What is the public perception of Blunkett in the UK and what was it before all this?? I dont know much about him

Kimberley Quinn is a frightening woman- did anyone read India Knight's column in The Times today? She really gives her a verbal walloping.
....ummmm somehow I feel a bit cynical about any peice that Ms Knight writes. i find her a horrible snotty condescending person most of the time. And in the bitch eat bitch world of female journalism I wouldn't pay too much heed to Ms Knight's depiction of another female journalist!

Going back to Flips original comment - I am amazed the marriage appears to be surviving but well done to them if it does. Starting an affair after a few months of marriage seems a bit extreme particularly when she eveidently got married to have kids.
BTW what was Blunkett thinking of getting a new wife pregnant - he does know where babies come from - and I guess he would know of her desire for kids (unless they had avery skewed relationship). The more I think about it the more layers there are.
The husband does seem a bit of a saint though

I guess he didnt see it coming Tobule


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Naughty Marmoset!!!!!

Well he's resigned.

I feel really sorry for him, he seems like the type of guy where work was his life and now he has pretty much nothing.

I know its a typical reaction to blame the woman in situations like this ... and i feel bad for doing so... but i do!!

That woman has wrecked people's lives, ruined Blunkett's life, totally humiliated her husbend, has subjected her kids to a probable bitter custody battle... just for an affair conducted apparently to boost her already inflated ego.

what a deceitful stupid cow

Well he's resigned.

I feel really sorry for him, he seems like the type of guy where work was his life and now he has pretty much nothing.

I know its a typical reaction to blame the woman in situations like this ... and i feel bad for doing so... but i do!!

That woman has wrecked people's lives, ruined Blunkett's life, totally humiliated her husbend, has subjected her kids to a probable bitter custody battle... just for an affair conducted apparently to boost her already inflated ego.

what a deceitful stupid cow

I dont know all the facts here, but i do agree with you. I do think Tony Blair thought a lot of Blunkett, but he probably had no choice but to ask him to resign.

From what i understand it was the lover who told the press that he had fast tracked the visa's - which is totally wrong of him BUT perhaps she should of kept the info to herself. I mean, it wasnt as though he did it for every tom, dick or harry - he did it for one person who was linked to her. He probably did it to make her happy, which doesnt excuse it, but some people will go to any lengths for love.

The lover is also denying the DNA tests to see if her children are his.

Im sorry, but she seems very cold to me. At the end of the day i feel those children have a right to know who their parents are.

Many many relationships fail, but why is she making life so hard for her 3 year lover who obviously thought the world of her ?

He was at the do I went to on Monday night and spent quite a bit of time doing the rounds.....I can't help but wonder if something was said that put the final nail in the coffin...a bit of a shame really as I thought he was doing an alright job! :sad:

I am so not a Labour fan at the mo. Yet I feel heartily sorry for Blunkett - yes Coastie I also thought he was doing an alright job. He was tough and unforgiving, yet fair IMO.

BUT - he did abuse his position in the cabinet, and any other mere mortal caught redhanded abusing thier positions are oft out of a job - so him going really was the right thing.

But it was the way it all came out that I find distasteful. And yes CL - I do also blame the woman. The initial slam dunk was leaked from her camp - which I think started off as a 'woman scorned' sort of leak - but which inevitably led to the downfall of the Home Secretary and her obvious failing health ... sorry but she has no-one else to blame but herself.

And her poor husband and child in all of this??

I am so not a Labour fan at the mo. Yet I feel heartily sorry for Blunkett - yes Coastie I also thought he was doing an alright job. He was tough and unforgiving, yet fair IMO.

BUT - he did abuse his position in the cabinet, and any other mere mortal caught redhanded abusing thier positions are oft out of a job - so him going really was the right thing.

But it was the way it all came out that I find distasteful. And yes CL - I do also blame the woman. The initial slam dunk was leaked from her camp - which I think started off as a 'woman scorned' sort of leak - but which inevitably led to the downfall of the Home Secretary and her obvious failing health ... sorry but she has no-one else to blame but herself.

And her poor husband and child in all of this??


And also the child to be, let's hope that her baby will come out of this okay.

I liked David Blunkett and to be honest it really is none of our business how many children he has fathered or indeed how many women he is seeing. I cannot stand the gutter press who have went to the ends of the earth to rake up as much dirt, and this is what they come up with.

I think it is unfair that he has resigned, I think in any other job, he may have been suspended or something similar, but there was no need to lose his job.

This sort of thing goes on all the time, it is a case of who you know not what you know. There are loads of people who have been given jobs, a step up the ladder etc because of that scenario and they haven't lost their jobs. I think the majority of people are really fed up with the gutter press and the stories they print, I know for I am.

I was reading in the paper that apparently Mrs Quinn was well known around the houses of parliament, knew a few of the mp's and was clued up on how to project herself in that envioronment.

It does make me wonder though, cynical me, if there was anyone behind her pushing her to reveal certain things.

I know what you mean about the gutter press, and indeed the press in general Bella. But they were being fed this info from an as yet unknown source, rumoured to be the Quinn camp. And they were reporting the possible hypocrisy of the Labour Government. And in particular Blunkett's hard stand on law and order.

He was always of the opinion that you did something wrong you paid for it - which is what I meant about him being tough and unforgiving, so really it would have been hugely hypocritical if he was allowed to stay, or indeed wanted to stay. Not only would his position as Home Secretary be compromised, the Labour Gov. would, once again, be seen as 'one rule for us and one rule for them', HYPOCRITICAL LIARS in other words.

At least with Blunkett going - the government has retained what little integrity it has left.

The people who uphold the law and are seen to uphold the law - always have the biggest fall, far more so than others. Take the police for example, if they are convicted of a criminal offence you can bet your last penny that their sentence will be twice or more than that of your average criminal. Because they were put in a position of trust; they should have known better the law and the consequences of breaking the law; and once the trust is broken it is near on impossible to regain.

So back to Blunkett - had he been an ordinary civil servant having away days with Mrs Quinn [but she obv. aims higher than 'ordinary'] - then perhaps he wouldn't have lost his job. But it is his position that ultimately led to his demise.

I am going to disagree here and say that IMO the final nail in the coffin for Blunkett was the comments that he made about his fellow cabinet members in his biography. I just think that it was the last straw on top of the already existing scandal.

I am going to disagree here and say that IMO the final nail in the coffin for Blunkett was the comments that he made about his fellow cabinet members in his biography. I just think that it was the last straw on top of the already existing scandal.
OMG - yes of course, I knew there was something else!!!

Did you see the interview he did with Richard and Judy last November about Edwina Currie's book and subsequent revelations?? He was saying how dreadful etc etc etc - it was that she made revelations that could have brought down the goverment [had the Conservatives still been in power], and how that HE WOULD NEVER DO THAT!!!

Yes Tigger - you are right this was the last nail in the coffin. Hypocritical!!

I still feel sorry for him, however, he was just a man in love - and did some silly silly things, and seemingly will continue to do silly things for the sake of the children - or is it his own sake??

Well the news of the latest affair has emerged this morning. Interesting she doesn't seem to be able to keep her trousers on.

I've noticed something, the press are turning against her. I think she may live to regret what she has done to Dr Blunkett.

I think so too Claire. The papers (although they have been known to be wrong !!) say that she had 3 lovers. The woman had only been married a few weeks before she started sleeping around, which is gobsmaking !!!

She must think the world of her husband *raises eyes*

her husband is a multi-millionaire. the publisher of vogue magazine. what makes you think she is simply there riding the gravy train?

i don't like a woman who does things like that, what she has done to mr blunkett is dispicable in my opinion. he was wrong to have an affair with a married woman, but you know how us women can talk a guy into anything. she probably seduced him. its not like he spotted her and made moves, he can't even see! Im sure it had to be innitiated by her.

Apparently when they first met she was asking him "I wonder what it's like to have sex with a blind man" She's not all innocent in this thing, she knew what she was doing.

she's sick in the head. how can you do that to a disabled person? i don't know much about him, but i have utmost respect for a person who gets somewhere despite a severe disability and she has taken that away out of vengance- why?- because he wants to see his own biological son, i mean isn't that terrible of him! i don't get revved up about much, but i find this angers me.