It just annoys me sometimes that the UK is these days so obsessed with being so "morally correct". I am not a fan of Blunkett or indeed of Labour, but give this poor guy a break....its bad enough getting your dirty laundry aired in public without the papers twisting and make mountains out of the so-called allegations. Lets face it, people in government have been using that "power" to their advantage for years, it happens everywhere else in the world, its just that in the UK, we claim to be whiter than white. ???
Blunkett poked the pie, now he has to pay for it. No-one forced him to have an affair with a married woman, or get her pregnant. Twice. He knew the risks, he also knew this woman wasn't exactly the sort you could trust (cheated on her first husband and cheating on her second after 9 weeks with Blunkers), now it's all gone tits up, he has, really, only got himself to blame. If he can't stand the heat, he shoulda stayed out the kitchen.
He also gave his illicit lover free first class rail tickets, despite clearly knowing they were only allowed to be given to spouses. He's blind, not illiterate. Exactly which part of "spouse" did he not understand?
I'm not too fussed with the "morals" of whether he had an affair, although I don't have much sympathy if he wants to bleat on about it now it's all gone sour - but as far as I'm concerned, that's up to him (and to his credit, he hasn't done much moaning about his woes, not in public anyway). But dishing out his first class rail tickets (that we pay for), just to impress her, and quite possibly using his position to jump the system - that is the sort of thing which, as a taxpayer, people do, rightfully, care about. Just as I would if a director of a company, of which I was a shareholder, misused company funds and "bent" company rules to gain personal advantage.
No one is "whiter than white". However, just because corruption and malpractice happen in other countries, it doesn't mean we should just shrug our shoulders and tolerate it here. Many countries, including this one, have at one time practised apartheid. Should the same logic be thus applied to enable us to all turn a blind eye to it, just because it happens elsewhere and has been going on for years?
