James Gray, MP for North Wiltshire, may face deselection after leaving his wife. More here.
He is whining on about always having been a good MP and can't understand why this has happened. He's right, marriages break up all the time, people have affairs all the time and it's sad but it doesn't affect their ability to do a good job. I think that what members of the local association have found unpalatable is the fact that despite carrying on an affair while his wife was suffering from cancer, he still had the hypocrisy to stand up in a church and ask people to pray for his wife during the 2005 election campaign.
If you use your family as a political tool then you have to be prepared to face the consequences when the reality isn't the same as the perfection you portray. And if you are prepared to use your ill wife as a vote-getting exercise while you're sleeping someone elses wife, certainly don't be surprised when people tell you that they don't want to be represented by a liar and a cheat.
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Don't get me wrong, if I were a local Tory (shudder!) I would call for his deselection, but that said, I get the impression that people who go through these things are under the most awful pressure and sometimes have some kind of split of personality (not to be confused with SPD), so I am sure that at that moment in church, Gray was being sincere! It's just a pity that he has not shown the love and care for his wife that she needs and needed and that he fails to realise just how unacceptable his behaviour has been!
GOOD TO GET THIS PERSON OUT...
Anonymous - I haven't published your comment as some of the language was exceptionally intemperate. If you want to resubmit something less colourful I'll publish
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