On Speculating About Speculation

[danieldwilliam]

Speculation rages on twitter about the identities  of the two political figures at the centre of revelations about an affair which has said to have stunned the Prime Minister and rocked Downing Street.

I say rages – a few dozen tweets.

A few brave individuals (1) have even gone as far as to name two potential figures (2).

Generally I’m not that interested in the sexual relationships of politicians (3) – unless they are exposing themselves as hypocrites I fully expect them to behave much like other people and, whilst I don’t exactly approve of adultery it doesn’t particularly affect the ability of the people involved.

But in this case I think it might.

If we ever find out.




(1) utterly stupid in the light of the MacApline – Bercow case

(2) including one wag who suffixed his tweet of “If it were X and Y that would interesting.” with  *innocent face* clearly not having grasped the implications of the Bercow decision or the Attorney General’s recent note on the applicability of the contempt of court for cases sub judice

(3) as distinct from sexually harassing folk. Or sleeping with someone connected with Russian intelligence.

Comments

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

"The goods" would have been any names at all! Lots of "I know something you don't know", no one saying what that was.

[danieldwilliam.livejournal.com]

Yeah – I was unsure how much of this was people who did know being reluctant to spread the rumour in case they were MacAplined or folk just bigging themselves up.

I saw someone mention some names - which if true would actually be really difficult.