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How did Mat Hancock ever get his job and how does he keep it?

How would you do it better?

Like the governments in other countries, Germany, New Zealand etc

By at least being able to spell the name of the person he's criticising

Matt.

Sorry stand corrected. I’ve haven’t said I could do it better, but just listened to him on BBC news he never answers a question properly. At least in my job I am able to give an answer over a decision that I have made.
He just repeats the same old rhetoric.

Probably by having a skill set and attitude that we’re required by his bosses ( ie the people who chose him over other candidates to represent them in Parliament and Boris who gave him his role in Government), pretty much like any other job I guess.

If you think you can do I better job, knock yourself out and send in your CV to Mr B Johnson, 10 Downing Street. I’m sure he will be interested to hear how you would manage a global pandemic. Good luck with the job.

Just was your update, in your job do you get interrogated by twatty journalists With a clear agenda? Or are you one?

Thank God for twatty journalists. Part of democracy and all that.

But not answering questions properly is the number one desired attribute for politicians. Watching Patel on Sky I thought how good at it she was as well.

That's a point about journalists - they aren't clarifying the information when they interview mps they are trying to trip them up so what the politican says is next day's headline.

There are some programmes where this doesn't happen but most are like this.

The amazing gift of not losing your temper with the moronic, self seeking questions asked at coronavirus briefings alone should place him firmly in his job.

I get sick to death of people criticising historical actions retrospectively (I'm looking at you, Piers Morgan) with regard to this man and this government.

Sadly, the crystal ball wasn't working at the beginning of this thing and they did the best they could whilst flying blind. Admittedly Cheltenham and football were huge errors, but the rest has been responsive, calm and timely.

I think some people have missed the point that your health is in your hands and it shouldn't require a legal mandate to keep you 6 feet from others and to wear a mask in close quarters, or just plain stay at home when you can.

The Dominic Cummings saga shouldn't mean that we all flood into the street and start partying.
Certainly the members of Government should be modelling good behaviour but if they fail, we as individuals should use our brains and realise that the guidance is there to protect us not please the PM, or make Matt Hancock proud.

Some countries have done better than others and I'm sure there will be a washup in the months to come to establish which societal elements affected the governmental approach and made it more or less successful, but until then, unless you have strong desire to take on this poisoned chalice of management of a pandemic and all that it entails (and most of us have NO idea of the the frantic workings going on behind the scenes) I would shut up and be grateful that your income was maintained and you had free healthcare if you needed it.

I'm also a bit in love with Rishi Sunak.

I think Matt Hancock is doing ok. Particularly as he's been ill, and also because he probably hasn't had a lot of sleep these last few months.
Managing a pandemic when you're the Health Minister isn't a walk in the park, and journalists are always looking for sensationalist headlines so do their best to trip politicians up.

Total incompetent.

I think he has been promoted well above his ability.

He isn't capable of doing the job.

And before the clever arses pipe up, no neither am I able to do it.

It should be the best person for the job, and it isn't him.

Then again, we have a PM in the same position, so what are you going do?

He has worn the same navy suit and pink tie since the start of the pandemic. You’d think, if nobody else, his wife would tell him to change?

I think he means well, but the fact stands, we have the highest deaths per capita in the world. Who would want that on their ministerial record?

But the most shocking one of them all is Gavin Williamson. By a loooooong mile.

Never answering a question properly is prerequisite to be in BJ's cabinet - after all, he's the grand master of it.
Yes, some of the questions at the daily briefings were inane, but BJ's the same at pmqs, and he's no doubt very pleased with Matt for his world-beating ability to not answer questions.

He’s quite skilled at being a little Johnson.
He tells porkies without blinking
He laughs after taking about the deaths
He gives incoherent waffle instead of answers
He ignores advice and warnings
He sides with corruption

Perfect to be a fall guy for Cummings and come the review he will be required to fall, probably in return for a seat in the Lords.

We now have the most corrupt government ever where they can get away with almost anything. Those that challenge are silenced. It is the use of propaganda to give power to a small group who benefits hugely from others tragedies.

Sadly, the crystal ball wasn't working at the beginning of this thing and they did the best they could whilst flying blind. Admittedly Cheltenham and football were huge errors, but the rest has been responsive, calm and timely

What on earth, @Stifledlife Anyone who seriously believes this hasn't been following the news. Think about the PPE mess, the lies around testing, the number of health professionals who have died, claiming that Cummings did nothing wrong, the track and trace debacle, the most recent insanity around claiming that student nurses don't provide a service. And they weren't flying blind, because we were behind the curve initially they had an awful lot of information via the experience of other countries.

And look at that death rate. How on earth is that a government doing "the best they could"? ?

The Dominic Cummings saga shouldn't mean that we all flood into the street and start partying.

Maybe it wouldn't have, if he'd done the sensible thing and accepted he did an incredibly dangerous thing in direct breach of the guidance, and resigned. Maybe it wouldn't have if members of the cabinet, including Hancock, hadn't all lined up to say what he did was perfectly fine, of course we must all follow our instincts and ignore the guidance, it's perfectly reasonable to drive 260 miles with coronavirus, and doesn't everyone drive 60 miles when they think their eyesight is dodgy.

He doesn’t look well to me at all. His face is drawn and he’s lost quite a bit of weight.

Yes I totally agree Duine. They lost all credibility over the DC affair. It wasn’t the fact of what Cummings did, it’s was the disingenuous response by the govt afterwards. It was actually painful to watch them trying to gaslight the public.

He's perfectly skilled at being as useless as the PM. That's how OP. The guy is a blithering buffoon.

And why is Priti Patel Home Secretary? Is that the best the Tories can do?

Made me laugh when at the height of the pandemic .Alexander Armstrong explaining how the Pointless ratings increased if MH was on the Daily Lockdown briefing!

Admittedly Cheltenham was an error. It really wasn’t. It was a deliberate and considered act to allow profits to be made for Cronies like Dido Harding and let me think......Oh, yes, Matt Hancock.