Crispin Blunt comes out

RichardH

I'll say this before Rod blogs on it.

Just assume anyone called Crispin is gay and you won't go far wrong.

alexsandr

I bet his missus didn't know which way to turn

Vulture

Quelle surprise - and we all thought it was another married member of the Cabinet who was abt to come ( or be pushed) out.

Look, wouldn't it save time & trouble if Dave drew up and published a (short, obviously) list of his Ministers who AREN'T gay?

John Steed

Just assume anyone called Blunt is gay too

DavidDP

Sympathies to them both. Hopefully they'll be able to come through this difficult time relatively unscathed.

Verity

Richard H - Agreed. He has the absolutely pefect name for a spy, too. Very Bondian. James Bondian.

Anyway, David Blackburn, care to tell us who he is?

So many names (and, on Coffee House, so many acronyms) ...

David Blackburn

Verity,

He is the prisons minister. He made a gaffe recently about preserving taxpayer funded entertainment for prisoners.

Tankus

Voted a mixture of for and against equal gay rights.....

hmmm

Richard of York

Wonder if he sits next to Grayling in the cabinet?

MaxSceptic

So were his family political 'props'?

Verity

David B - thank you.

My sympathies are with him in some senses, but gay men should not get married unless their wives are complicit in the cover up.

David Ossitt

I feel so very sorry for his wife, they have been married for twenty years, she, must be feeling dreadful, to now find out that he has been living a lie for all of this time, she will feel humiliated.

They have two teenage children, a daughter of eighteen and a son who is sixteen, both of them must be in a state of shock, they both might be subjected to some cruel and nasty comments from fellow pupils; let us hope that as a family they can help each other.

I think that he has been very selfish man.

TrevorsDen

Strange to see the homophobic comments coming from supporters of the party of Tom Dryberg...

How loud were they when Rob Davis resigned?

Im coming to turns with being middle class and straight

Annoyingly, you lot have already noticed that being called Crispin and Blunt the chances of him being heterosexual were slim to vanishing.

Beer Moth

A funny phrase, this 'coming out'. As if into the light. An awakening. Such that anyone who has not yet tasted the delights of homosexual sex, is somehow incomplete - at least, devoid of imagination.

All those toilet encounters missed whilst I thought I was enjoying myself shagging all those dreadful women in their beds.

David Booth

"There is no third party involvement" bleats Crispin Blunt, and if we believe that we would have to believe that his wife didn't know exactly what (or who) he was up too.
Wake up Crispin, wives are not the gullible fools that closet gays think they are.
Watch this space for the love of Mr Blunts life to emerge from the shadows in the next few weeks or so.

The Engineer

Richard of York

Crispin Blunt does not sit in the cabinet - his Sec of Sate is the Lord Chancellor Ken Clarke!

Dennis Churchill

Crispin Blunt? I blame his parents; imagine calling your son “Crispin”. He would either win a VC or be homosexual---maybe both.
Now if they had called him Harold...

Moraymint

"I doubt anyone saw this coming"

Unfortunate turn of phrase.

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

Richard H: Just assume anyone called Crispin is gay and you won't go far wrong.
Well, I'll be buggered, it's St. Crispin's Day!

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

Gastric Banding is the latest miracle cure for gluttony (which is called politely obese). Isn't there a similar banding procedure for political chappies who can't keep their pants shut?

Tiberius

Your latest ruse is fast running out of steam, TGF.

Alex Creel

@ Beer Moth. Your interpretation of 'coming out' says far more about your yearnings than it does about the meaning if the phrase.

Noa Zrk

"I hope their privacy is respected, and his".

Don't you think this smacks more of an obituary than political reportage?

And of course it is, as we see again and with depressing regularity the death of a political career and the destruction of a family as a result of continuing deception.

Biggestaspidistra

I know no gay Crispins, actually I know no Crispins, but I couldn't count the number of gay Richards I've come across.

TomTom

Laws, Huhne, Blunt....drip, drip, drip.....secrets the voters did not know when voting in May. How much more will tumble out of the cupboards as this government adds another 3 months to its term ?

Beer Moth

Alex Creel

Here he is with his pocket psychology. Yeah you saw right through my yearnings there mate. If only I could pluck up the courage to bite that pillow.

strapworld

This has been posed before but it needs to be asked.

If he can lie to his wife of twenty years, his constituents and his party. What hope have we the people got with him as a minister?

Was there another reason for his call for more leniency within prisons recently?

I am sorry but Cameron has to sack this man and let him come to terms with his homosexuality in his own time and not as a Minister.

Victor Southern

No problem here as I see it. Is it not becoming almost obligatory for Conservative and LibDem MPs to be homosexuals? On the Labour side less so but they are well represented by lesbian MPs.

Wait a score of years and there will newspaper headlines [assuming that any newspapers still exist] "Government Minister outed as a heterosexual".

Frank P

AWK1

Excellent! - Riposte of the Week, if not indeed the Year!

Heh, heh, heh.

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

Moraymint
August 27th, 2010 9:19pm

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"I doubt anyone saw this coming"

Unfortunate turn of phrase

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

Blunt, Crispin....
The Second Coming

Verity

Beer Moth ... Be fair. The term "coming out" means coming out of the closet.

Verity

Strapworld, no offence, but how on earth do you know he had been lying to his wife? She may have known all along, or thought he was bi.

Anne Wotana Kaye 1

In the long distant past when I was a gal, 'coming out' had very different social connotations. Oh, well a girl can dream!

Archie

Two observations: this "coming out" after years of marriage and children is commonplace, and women are absolutely hopeless, by and large, at spotting a gay man.