William Hague ‘harshly treated’ by media (From York Press)
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William Hague ‘harshly treated’ by media
9:31am Monday 6th September 2010 in
IT SEEMS to be a very British thing to build somebody or something up, and then to enjoy knocking them down again.
William Hague, Conservative MP for Richmond, has suffered this fate several times. I am no fan of the Conservative Party, especially not its foreign policies, but I do feel that Hague and his wife, Ffion, have been very harshly treated by the UK media and numerous folk on the internet, as regards his possible “inappropriate relationship” with his young political adviser, Christopher Myers.
William and Ffion have been forced to reveal many extremely intimate and private details about their attempts to have children. No other person has a right to know all this. All we should be certain of is: can our Foreign Secretary carry out his job and responsibilities to our nation, in the best possible way to benefit the UK? It should not matter what he does in private, so long as it is legal and non violent.
As for John Redwood accusing Hague of a lack of judgment, is it any worse than being Secretary of State for Wales and pretending to sing in Welsh by miming the Welsh national anthem on TV?
David Quarrie, Lynden Way, Holgate, York.
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sheps lad
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8:46pm Mon 6 Sep 10
Silver
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12:49pm Tue 7 Sep 10
Zetkin wrote:Ok I'm no fan of the tories but even if he was gay the only thing that would matter is that he should have left his wife. Instead his wife has revealed how she's had a number of miscarriages. Why should that sort of thing have to come out? It's incredibly private and doesn't have a thing to do with competency of the job. Very homophobic of you. I've got gay friends who were in relationships with women and left their female partners, and I've got no idea of how many of my female friends have miscarriages because they don't want to talk about it. Zetkin normally you make a bit of sense but the election is over so he can't win any votes and sympathy? No one is being sympathetic to William Hague I think everyone with an ounce of morality supports his wife who has had to divulge something incredibly personal that she shouldn't have had too in the first place.
Tough. ' He belongs to a party that pretends to support 'family values' whatever the hell that means, and is happy to use his family when he thinks it can win him votes or sympathy. ' Live by media spin, die by media spin...
Von_Dutch
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1:04pm Tue 7 Sep 10
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Zetkin says...
5:50pm Mon 6 Sep 10
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He belongs to a party that pretends to support 'family values' whatever the hell that means, and is happy to use his family when he thinks it can win him votes or sympathy.
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Live by media spin, die by media spin...