Tony Curtis has died... there's a real surprise, thought he'd live forever... politicians can marry or not, I'm not bothered, though I know joeluke is all upset
If a man aspires to be the Prime Minister of his country, I'd like to be able to judge him by the weight he puts on his family values. Being too busy to marry the mother of your child or even turn up at the Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths to put your name of your child's birth certificate certainly doesn't tick any boxes for me.
I don't care if he's married or not but he should have cared , because many people do.
By not getting married he showed lack of foresight for a political leader.
By failing to have his name on his childs birth certificate and by not even turning up
at the registrar's was irresponsible and showed a lack of empathy with his partner and
the electorate.
I'm glad he won because we need a strong opposition in our democracy and we only get it
when we the electorate can see a clear difference in the parties. The last thing we want is this nonsense about his private life.
If, before the leadership election, I had been shown photographs of the five candidates and asked to identify them I would only have been able to name two, viz David Miliband (with or without the banana) and Diane Abbott. I consider myself to be quite politically aware, so that must say something!