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David Blunkett. Sex Pest

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Our Lady Has Left the Building

11:10 / 19.12.04

As an epilogue to this chapter, this article in The Observer makes claims as to how Blunkett is going to play things in the immediate future...

* Blunkett claims he's a 'working class lad who's the voice of ordinary people' who is brought down by the scheming rich.
* They insist up to and probably after the Budd inquiry that civil servant Alan Budd has been 'mesmerised' by Blunkett's former lover Kimberly Quinn. Especially as The Observer claims Budd will announce that rules were broken (Blunkett created a 'climate of fear' in the Home Office apparently), although as we've had two Government enquiries this year that had evidence produced that showed the Government did bad things only for the presiding officer to clear the Government of all blame I'm not holding my breath.
* Lots of stories about how distressed Blunkett is about this whole episode, by people who in the next breath talk about how evil Quinn is.

sleazenation

20:12 / 20.12.04

Guardian and Spectator journalist simon Hoggart was also having an affair with Quinn around the same time as she was having an affair with Blunket details here... This story looks set to run and run...

Our Lady Has Left the Building

08:09 / 21.12.04

Unsurprisingly, Blunkett victim of cock-up, not conspiracy.

Worryingly, "Bring Back Blunkett" say public, "we didn't want our freedoms anyway."

Axolotl

11:05 / 21.12.04

When I saw that poll result in the Guardian I couldn't believe it. Blunkett is the most authoritarian Home Secretary in living memory and has just been ran out of office due to behaviour that would have ended the career of any female politician (you can imagine the headlines now) and that's even before you mention his inappropriate use of ministerial power and yet people still want him in power. It really makes you wonder what is going on in peoples minds.

Ariadne

22:17 / 04.03.05

I just saw a scrolling headline on the BBC saying that the kid's not his, but I can't find much else (I'm just in, maybe this is all over the TV). What happened? I have to confess to feeling an ounce of sympathy for the silly old git, despite all his failings.
To throw it all in, and then find it's for nothing? Ooosh, poor man.

sleazenation

22:22 / 04.03.05

But the older kid is his right?

Ariadne

22:28 / 04.03.05

well, I was just about to ask that. do we know that? Does he? I've been looking around - does anyone know?

Ariadne

22:30 / 04.03.05

Ah, looks like the first one is his, yes. This from the Telegraph:
David Blunkett, the former home secretary, has launched a legal challenge to try to prove that he is the father of the newborn son of his ex-lover, Kimberly Quinn.

Lawyers for Mrs Quinn, who gave birth to her second son on February 2, have received "six or seven" letters from Mr Blunkett's solicitors, Bindman and Partners, dated from around the time of the baby's birth.

The letters demand a DNA test to determine whether Mr Blunkett is, as he believes, the father of the boy. A similar test has already established that the MP is the father of Mrs Quinn's other son, two-year-old William.

sleazenation

22:34 / 04.03.05

David Blunkett not the father of Kimberly Quinn's son Lorcan.

Since Tony still like him this probably means that blunkett will be back in cabinet at the next reshuffle...

sleazenation

22:36 / 04.03.05

Mr Blunkett's solicitors, Bindman and Partners

I'm definitely going to hell for misreading that as blindman and partners...

Alex's Grandma

14:31 / 07.03.05

I wonder if Blunkett might have learned anything from this whole experience, ie, that his is not necessarily a huge ever growing pulsating brain that rules from the centre of the ultraworld, that he's not necessarily absolutely right about everything, all the time.

It's funny to think to so, isn't it ?

I'm just trying to enjoy this brief moment of Schadenfreude before he's reinstated in May, hopefully in a position where he won't be able to do quite so much damage, but I'm not holding my breath.

Spaniel

14:36 / 07.03.05

hopefully in a position where he won't be able to do quite so much damage

Well, they've got the real wrecking crew in the Home Office now, so...

sleazenation

19:25 / 07.03.05

Northern Ireland? Leader of the House?

I don't think they can put him in the F&CO after what he said about Jack Straw in his recent biography. I think it would be difficult to sack Gordon Brown at the moment... most other places he has either already been or would seem a bit of a demotion...

Alex's Grandma

15:22 / 08.03.05

I don't know if Nothern Ireland's quite the right place for Dave at the moment, given the man's particular talents, and unique personal style. Similarly, isn't he a bit too onoxious to be leader of the house ?

Those pesky head teachers probably need a damn good kicking right about now, but then he's already done that...

I don't know, 'Rottweiler at large' ? It's quite hard to picture him as anything other than Home Secretary - I was going to speculate as to how secure John Prescott's position is these days, but again, Blunkett seems a bit much for that role.

It'll be interesting to see what he does get though - At the moment it seems like he might actually have 'Blunketted' himself out of polite, civilsed society.

sleazenation

22:48 / 08.03.05

Here is a thought - the rumble is that if Labour win Blair is going to try and move Brown from number 11 - a position that Brown has proven so proficient in that he has been very difficult for blair to marginalize or sack. The whisper is that Blair might offer Brown the Foreign and Commonwealth Office job - both a far hotter political potato in the current climate than the relatively comfy and shielded environs of the treasury and a higher profile position. It is thought quite exceedingly possible that Brown would accept such a position... This could leave the way free for blunkett to re-enter the cabinet at number 11...

But I still think the Northern Ireland office is post he will return in - after all - it was where Mandelson reappeared when he returned to the cabinet...

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