Matt Hancock affair

[TheoMeo]

AIBU to be utterly peed off that another one of our Ministers - rather than devoting his time and effort to getting the country out of this mess - is busy carrying on with an aide (which he appointed at great expense to the tax payer) - aaaaaaag.
www.thesun.co.uk/

I feel grubby for reading The Sun, but it seems the earliest of the evidence they've got hold of is from a month ago.

We don't know if any infection-control restrictions were breached, and can't really tell from what's been published

And of course, if she was single, and the Hancocks had no other bubble, it's possible that no regulations were breached even if the affair began earlier (many MNers were quite keen on recommending bubbles, including frequentlymchageabie ones, so that closer contact could be passed off as OK)

I like to think someone's private life where reasonable can remain private but I can't accept this one, how could his mind be fully focused when he was having an affair, and the nature of her appointment looks odd to me. Hes a gonner I think but stranger things have happened...

*woman

It’s also psychology isn’t it. They want us all to rebel and say fuck the rules, if he can do it so can I. Much easier to remove all restrictions without a load of flack on 19th then.

@LightasaBreeze

I hope it wasn't before May 17th when he deemed hugging was allowed

Apparently it was on May 6th that those pics were taken as everyone else was occupied with the local elections.

@AllPowerfulLizardPerson

I feel grubby for reading The Sun, but it seems the earliest of the evidence they've got hold of is from a month ago.

We don't know if any infection-control restrictions were breached, and can't really tell from what's been published

And of course, if she was single, and the Hancocks had no other bubble, it's possible that no regulations were breached even if the affair began earlier (many MNers were quite keen on recommending bubbles, including frequentlymchageabie ones, so that closer contact could be passed off as OK)

She’s married with 3 kids apparently.

His poor wife and kids.

Just goes to show he's a lying fucking snake.

Also, poor husband of the other lady.

Disgraceful.

The way he clenched her bum. Give me the sick bucket.

@Francescaisstressed

His poor wife and kids. I do think this coming out is weird, definitely some people behind the scenes trying to take him down. His own fault though!

Or even BJ. It wasn’t me it was all Matt’s fault.

These actors are always having affairs.

I liked him. I no longer ikea him. He has joined the chorus of absolute knob ends.

They are all utterly shameless and corrupt, I couldn’t give a toss about the lot of them.

But what is Cummings going to do next for money when he’s exhausted all the cabinet’s secrets.

This doesn't sit with BJ's agenda does it, if MHancock is 'in his pocket' on whom to dump on when we get the review into this govt's response to Covid.

Mr Hancock will not be sacked for this. Though I expect you won't see him doing Downing Street press conferences for a while.

It’s shocking that’s he’s that stupid and I really feel for his wife. How did the Sun get cctv footage (that’s what it looks like and they mention it’s a video) inside the department of health? Some decent money changing hands there. What I think is a sackable offence is the fact he’s using taxpayer money to pay the woman he’s shagging. Surely that’s some kind of misconduct? He won’t be sacked of course because his boss has done exactly the same thing!

BJ will be gone, he’s wanted out for a long time. Gotta get those last restrictions released first!

'Poor man' - the queen's comment about MH.
I agreed, poor man, such a hard job, being targetted by Boris etc

OMG I hope he goes.

I’d be more concerned about why he is able to hire his mates .. nepotism at its finest.

Are there any male tories who aren't absolute shit-spangled arse warts?

My first thought too, @musicalfrog.

Bunch of hypocritical scumbags.

No rules broken… It’s a pilot study…

Guess he's following his leader. Probably asked him for a few tips.

@StealthPolarBear

And apparently no covid rules were broken, maybe they bumped elbows for a bit longer than with other people?

I feel he doth protest too much. Bit like when you catch a toddler with chocolate all over their mouth and the first thing they say is 'me no eat chocolate'

They're talking about it on Times Radio now.
Not on the BBC

Maybe it was all tantric, over zoom

Good grief, those photos

Mortifying.

He'll probably get a pay rise.

@Fromage regardless of whether you agree with their policies, there are some capable Tories. Probably Ben Wallace is the only capable one who is in the government though.

Chris Grayling is the only Tory not in government who is worse than the current crop of ministers.