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/

Matt Hancock's words from May 2020:

"Professor Ferguson is a very eminent and impressive scientist and the science that he has done has been an important part of what we've listened to," Mr Hancock said.

"I think he took the right decision to resign."

Asked if he thought Prof Ferguson should have been prosecuted for his apparent breach of lockdown rules, the health secretary added: "It's a matter for the police, as a government minister I'm not allowed to get involved in the operational decisions of police matters.

"But I think the social distancing rules are very important and people should follow them."

He added: "They'll take their decisions independently from ministers - that's quite right, it's always been like that.

"And that's why, even though I've got a clear answer to what I think, as a minister, the way we run the police is that they make decisions like this.

"So I give them their space to make that decision, but I think he took the right decision to resign."

Asked if he had fought to keep Prof Ferguson on SAGE, the health secretary replied: "That's just not possible in these circumstances."

"So I asked exactly that question of the chief medical officer - 'can I behave differently because I've now had it? Do I still have to do the social distancing?'

"And the answer was very clear, which is 'yes, we all have to abide by social distancing'."

@MrsKrystalStubbs

This has nothing to do with party politics, Whitehall is rife with sex and always has been. It’s politics - show biz for ugly people. Everyone has always been at it, shagging colleagues, hiring their mates etc. Etc. Nothing new to see here. It’s just much harder to get away with it in the digital age.

Exactly! Why is everyone concentrating on that?! It's the nepotism taking advantage of a pandemic that should bother us, the endless delays and thousands of extra lives lost due to it and the £billions wasted to their friends. This has been in the news before but none of the main newspapers normally reports such things. If the Guardian does everyone sneers at them and doesn't bother to read it.

Gina Coladangelo, a shareholder in Luther Pendragon and marketing and comms director at Oliver Bonas, has benefited from her personal ties to health secretary Matt Hancock, according to newspaper reports at the weekend
www.prweek.com/article/1700784/hancock-faces-questions-luther-pendragon-shareholder-hired-advisory-role

@PicsInRed

Here's Rory on running the UK by assembly:

www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/11/rory-stewart-wants-change-way-british-democracy-works/601480/

Here's Rory on abortion:

wheredotheystand.org.uk/t/penrith-and-the-border/rory-stewart

inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/tory-leadership-contenders-election-candidates-abortion-jeremy-hunt-voting-record-how-voted-299673

This isn't great either. www.politicshome.com/news/article/rory-stewart-apologises-amid-fury-over-racist-description-of-black-men-as-minor-gangsters

He's not the answer.

Can't see that any of this is terrifying.

A self-serving government that routinely flouts its own rules, seeds Covid in care homes and seems to be the subject of sleaze investigations every other week seems more terrifying to me. Not to mention the stunning lack of collective or individual intelligence.

The only thing I find terrifying about Rory Stewart is how little place there is in today's politics for someone who is highly intelligent and has a strong moral framework.

@PermanentTemporary

Just feel a bit more low than I otherwise would. I don't really give much of a crap who Hancock has sex with, but it doesn't make me feel better about him. I hate that Cummings is still pulling our strings. I hate that our Prime Minister is so shonky and somehow this throws more light on that, they all seem the same at the moment and I don't normally say that. I hate that 'Grant Shapps' has appeared to make a statement like he's a serious human being. I hate that someone in the Dept of Health has flogged the CCTV footage for no doubt some sort of bribe. It just makes me feel really flat and uninterested in politics and life. They might as well pick politicians by lottery.

Agreed. I have no decent words to describe this beyond belief bunch of incompetent clowns who in the middle of a global medical pandemic are not just incompetent unfit for purpose (as per our UK world beating per capita Covid data!) and irresponsible with mass corruption, corporate manslaughter saving no lives but also systematically gaslighting as evidently taking the pi$$, incompetence in post when they are supposed to be on the job not any other side job or hustle with other mates/dates/supporters/colleagues/corrupt donors/future wives/future employers etc etc. Only expect the unexpected with this lot! All as bad as each other as race to the bottom. Perhaps yet another quickie secret wedding with latest squeeze? Can’t trust this lot to look after our collective health and wellbeing especially if they cannot remember their own share holdings in connected company that just happen to procure dodgy government contacts. What a joke but not even funny as more die daily because this lot are focused on very personal matters using tax payer funded time and resources in office. You could not make this up! F…ing hopeless off and next hopeful on? Possibly Liz Truss only one doing any actual tangible work. Nice job if you can enjoy the gravy train with the comedy act that keeps on giving. What’s next in this saga?

@Crowtooyo

His poor wife. I hate the media.

Did the media force Hancock to have an affair?

Tim Yeo, David Mellor, Johnathon Aitken …..all scandals that contributed to government downfall.

Remember a song about “Tim Yeo and his overactive scro”

Why hasn’t Archer been stripped of his peerage yet?

@Blossomtoes

It wasn’t the affair. It was fact he had lied to House of Commons and police investigation

Just like Hancock then, barring the police investigation. There’d have been nothing to lie about if he hadn’t had an affair.

Hancock has not lied to the House of Commons about having the affair

Read the case

There is a lot to the profomo case
It involves international diplomacy and the law

Hancock’s affair doesn’t

Blossomtoes

He want to change UK democracy to some sort of peoples committee system. He cites abortion reform by referendum on Ireland as a good outcome for committees...yet he actually voted to oppose assisting Northern Irish women himself.

He is sly and untrustworthy and I don't trust him at all.

I don't like the guy but I really couldn't care less about this sort of thing. Would rather the media just shut up so as not to humiliate his wife and kids.

@Moonme

I believe there’s still an ongoing inquiry in to the affair Johnson had with Ms Acuri... Who he is also accused of giving money to whilst in public office. He can’t exactly sack Matt Hancock for doing exactly the same. They are morally reprehensible and it’s a disgrace we have these weasels in charge of us.

I doubt if Johnson gives a flying fuck about beinf slated for hypocrisy.

He'll just add it to the list, along with adultery, mendacity, venality, negligence, indolence and a whole host of other failings that make him unfit to run a whelk stall, never mind a country.

I’m in the minority of not giving a flying fig about politician’s private lives. Not a fig.
If they do the job well, then I’m happy
And I think Hancock has done a decent job considering the utter enormity of the task he faced.

Matt! Between your job, your family and your mistress you don't have time to faff around on Mumsnet!

Just feel a bit more low than I otherwise would. I don't really give much of a crap who Hancock has sex with, but it doesn't make me feel better about him. I hate that Cummings is still pulling our strings. I hate that our Prime Minister is so shonky and somehow this throws more light on that, they all seem the same at the moment and I don't normally say that. I hate that 'Grant Shapps' has appeared to make a statement like he's a serious human being. I hate that someone in the Dept of Health has flogged the CCTV footage for no doubt some sort of bribe. It just makes me feel really flat and uninterested in politics and life. They might as well pick politicians by lottery.

I feel exactly the same. It's like it's all a big joke to them while real peoples lives are being badly affected by this pandemic. Just had dd sent home to isolate for 3rd time this year, she'll be missing her much looked forward to DofE trek amongst other things. And these vile MARRIED politicians are sneaking around snogging (and probably shagging) their aides behind their office doors.
Maybe put your todger away Matt HanCOCK and help sort out the schools debacle? Why are my kids educations still being disrupted 16 months on now the elderly and vulnerable are vaccinated?

I don't really know what my point is but I'm fucked off!

Am I alone on not automatically feeling sympathy for the other party when it comes to affairs being exposed
The children? Without hesitation

But the other party. No, I don’t.
I don’t know the situation re their relationship and, as we all know from mumsnet, there are some horrifying marriages out there behind closed doors

The Brexit muppets will keep on voting for them no matter what.

His adultery is his own affair, but the taxpayer should not be paying her.

Johnson does not have a leg to stand on.

Of course, all this is just a distraction.

Is it? Idiot Hancock doesn't know or care that he's feeling up his "special advisor" under CCTV. Underpaid and pissed-off HOC worker sees an excellent opportunity for a payday. Good for them. The delay was probably because of a bidding war.

@Gameofbones

Someone wrote on here that Matt Hancock looks like a freshly wanked cock.

It would appear that there has never been a truer statement.

I feel desperately sorry for his wife and all of their children.

The Tories really are shameless cunts. I imagine Dominic in his turrets pushing buttons on an enormous computer desk murmuring fly my pretties fly and emailing over another bombshell.

Loving this, and pmsl @ freshly wanked cock!

Piers morgan's Instagram.

Hands. Face. Arse.

Hancock has not lied to the House of Commons about having the affair

He’s lied about plenty else. He can’t really lie about the affair, can he? We’ve all seen the evidence.

@Brefugee

I’m in the minority of not giving a flying fig about politician’s private lives. Not a fig. If they do the job well, then I’m happy And I think Hancock has done a decent job considering the utter enormity of the task he faced.

Matt! Between your job, your family and your mistress you don't have time to faff around on Mumsnet!

@Blossomtoes

Hancock has not lied to the House of Commons about having the affair

He’s lied about plenty else. He can’t really lie about the affair, can he? We’ve all seen the evidence.

Read the proformo case

You will realise that Hancock’s affair really can’t remotely be compared to it

Look @Scaredycatmoo, you asked for an example of a government brought down by an affair. I gave you one. I read about it at the time in the papers. If Profumo hadn’t fucked Christine Keeler, none of it would have happened.

It’s not only Brexit muppets as you call them

Boris Johnson has always been popular with voters when that changes he will go but not until then. As soon as one election is over the Tories are looking to the next with the win last time and no real sign of him losing popularity he is staying

That’s a huge problem for Labour as they have not got a leader that has the same appeal I was hoping an opposite personality to Boris Johnson would win over supporters but it isn’t happening

We are in for a long time under Tory rule unless we get a solid opposition we need another Tony Blair type leader to take on Boris Johnson charisma so often trumps integrity in politics we only need to look at history to tell us this

Why can't men and women work together without having to fuck each other? What's wrong with people? Especially married ones.

People are so damn primitive.

@Blossomtoes

Look *@Scaredycatmoo*, you asked for an example of a government brought down by an affair. I gave you one. I read about it at the time in the papers. If Profumo hadn’t fucked Christine Keeler, none of it would have happened.

But as me and another pp pointed out

It wasn’t the affair that meant they lost the next election (it didn’t even “bring the government down” as you say)