And so arrive the anonymous sources backing Victoria Blunt, soon-to-be ex-wife of British prisons minister Crispin Blunt, who just came out. Which is fine; the lady deserves some dignity after all sheâs been through. And us, too!
Says one unnamed ally of Victoria, a former banker and âdaughter of a wealthy American,â and mother to she and Crispinâs two teenage kids: âShe is completely traumatised. She has devoted most of her married life to playing the politicianâs wife and it was all built on a lie.â And another: âShe gave up everything for him. She is the perfect MPâs wife and would attend every fete and garden party when Crispin was at the Commons. She did it all for free. She was never employed by him.â
Guess who else is traumatised? (Yes, Iâm stealing the British spelling.)
The gays!
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After all, Crispin Blunt (uncle to actress Emily Blunt, if that matters) is a man LGBT Brits long ago added to their shit list when, back when he was a lawmaker and debating before Parliament in 1998 over equality legislation (including lowering the age of consent for same-sex relations), he said thing like: âIt is also clear that there is a much greater strand of homosexuality than of heterosexuality which depends for its gratification on the exploitation of youth. ⌠I believe it right that our law should discriminate in that limited way between homosexual and heterosexual practice. While I accept that, in law, we should tolerate peopleâs choices to follow a homosexual life style and practice, I maintain that those are not equivalent to heterosexuality â nor should we pretend that they are.â
Bluntâs legislative record, according to News Of The World, includes voting to deny gay couples the ability to adopt, and supporting a bill that wouldâve discriminated against lesbians in access to IVF treatments. He also opposed the effort to repeal Englandâs ban on gays serving openly in the military, in which he once served. (He did support civil unions and anti-discrimination measures.)
So for now, Iâm on Team Victoria. Glad that Crispin has âcome to termsâ with his homosexuality, but the guy is a monster.
L.
The guy is a big-calibre arsehole, but he did not “torture” anyone. Words have power, and meaning, let’s not misuse them.
He worked against equality, that’s a bad enough crime.
(Apparently, the Cabinet minister referred to in the Torygraph is Hague, not Blunt.)
ROB
Yeah, Blunt was in the closet, but not in the Cabinet; he’s just a minister (in the second tier of government).
And it’s the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, who’s supposedly shtupping his hot-ish aide. Power really must be an aphrodisiac, as Hague gets more grotesque with age (and this was the guy accurately, if tastelessly, described as a ‘foetus’ by the late MP Tony Banks).
Why All the h8? (John from England)
@ROB:
True but he was a front bencher.
Hague gay? No shock!
I meddled in political parties for a while and man, do they not get what the big deal is about when people are angry with their behaviour.
Bru
you really ought to know or at least try to learn how to use “she” and “her” coprectly.
jason
Blunt is a cunt. Nuff said.
L.
@ROB: Hague being a foetus should be enough top turn Phelps pro-choice đ
@Bru: Unintentional irony is the best.
SouLKid
lol @Bru.
You have know business being the spelling/grammar police out here.
Tru
I don’t see how she can be traumatized. She got exactly what she wanted. She supported “traditional” marriage and she got it. I guess trying to pigeon hole homosexuals into a “traditional” marriage or else isn’t as fun or practical as her ignorance made it out to be. Marriage is not about men and women. It’s about compatibility. And realizing the bitterness of her own medicine, pairing a homosexual with a hetrosexual in “holy” matrimony in a “traditional” marrige is about as UN-compatible as it gets. Pro-family? Try again!
EM
Hmm, William Hague has always been a huge homophobe. He has spoken at length about how he does not want gays to have the right to adopt chldren blah blah blah. And yet he and his wife have been married for decades and have never had a child or adopted one. I used to think his stance was based on an infertile straight man’s jealously but perhaps he is gay and closeted? Would anything surprise anyone these days?