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Matt Hancock affair (2)

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TheoMeo · 25/06/2021 19:22

Looks like we might need a new thread.

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Blossomtoes · 26/06/2021 18:36

@Roussette

Please not Dowden, he is a right plonker
Agreed. Zahawi would be the best of a bad lot, he comes across as halfway competent.
Ostara212 · 26/06/2021 18:36

@MagicSummer

Well, I am sorry he has gone. I liked him and thought he would have gone on to higher office. Silly man letting lust overcome him.
That was and is my biggest nightmare.
Roussette · 26/06/2021 18:37

Yes, Zahawi is better than most of this shower

MrsBunHat · 26/06/2021 18:37

Well, I am sorry he has gone. I liked him and thought he would have gone on to higher office.

What? Are we talking about the same person? The office he had was already very much too high for his capabilities.

Piggywaspushed · 26/06/2021 18:38

Zahawi is the one that couldn't tell the months apart when talking about vaccinations and said May was before March iirc...

Lampzade · 26/06/2021 18:40

Don’t think that the other woman will leave her husband or kids for Matt Hancock.

Quartz2208 · 26/06/2021 18:40

@C8H10N4O2

Those resignation/reply letters between Hancock and the PM were plainly drafted and ready to go whilst Buckland and Lewis were still saying "nothing to see here" on the duty round this weekend.
If they were then they should have been drafted a lot better. Matt Hancock has quite a few errors in it (need be rather than need to be, missing commas etc) and Boris Johnson's though better needed a further proof reading.
JackieWeaverHandforthCouncil · 26/06/2021 18:40

‘Ridiculous. 150,000 dead but resigns over an extra-marital affair.’

This. The affair is the least one of these dicks should have resigned over. I don’t give a fuck about his marriage. I give a fuck about unnecessary deaths, entire industries like the nighttime industry (multi billion) left to die, bullshit culture wars ignited to rile up dumbasses, the economic suicide which is Brexit and unbelievable levels of corruption.

The U.K. has entered the last days of Rome territory.

When are people going to resign over all of this?

BiscoffAddict · 26/06/2021 18:41

@Lampzade

Don’t think that the other woman will leave her husband or kids for Matt Hancock.
Yeah I find that hard to believe as well, and Martha hardly looks like a woman who’s husband has just announced he’s leaving her.
DysonSphere · 26/06/2021 18:41

@MargaretThatcherMilkSnatcher

Jesus. Apparently he told his wife on Thursday night that he was having an affair and that he was leaving her. And he resigned yesterday evening...???
He's leaving her???

How nasty, his ego couldn't stand to be thrown out... no he had to kick her further by getting the upper hand and announcing he was dumping her as well!!

I give his soon-to-be-ex-wife kudos, she hasn't hidden away, she went out in front of the paps and walked the dog regardless. Not changing her routine. Brave woman.
I would have been in bed with the duvet over my head!!

woodfort · 26/06/2021 18:42

@Lampzade

Don’t think that the other woman will leave her husband or kids for Matt Hancock.
Yep, no way she stays with him.

He will come to regret not fighting for his marriage I think.

Ostara212 · 26/06/2021 18:42

@mathanxiety

"Non-executive directors hold advisory roles and also have no role in awarding NHS contracts," the insider said.

Someone must think the British public are a bunch of tax paying numpties.

Um....
BiscoffAddict · 26/06/2021 18:42

Where are people reading he’s leaving her?

EleanorOlephantisjustfine · 26/06/2021 18:42

He’s just resigned.

ResIpsaLoquiturInterAlia · 26/06/2021 18:43

Owen ready generic letters done so who’s next? Can’t an MP with an actual medical scientific background be more involved?

Hope it’s not hopeless on hopeful on! We need a wholesale change as the lot of them are too unfit for purpose as making even Trump look good at times.

Clavinova · 26/06/2021 18:44

Roussette
OK, so the affair would've had to start last May.
How ridiculous
What about this last winter's lockdown?

No - I posted last year "definitely" - "April/May this year I'm undecided." Last winter's lockdown yes - if they were meeting up during that time.

He's resigned!!

At least I don't have to decide.

Treehaus · 26/06/2021 18:44

He'sleavingher???

Pretty much like he resigned before he was fired from his job.

Blossomtoes · 26/06/2021 18:44

@EleanorOlephantisjustfine

He’s just resigned.
No shit.
Roussette · 26/06/2021 18:44

@JackieWeaverHandforthCouncil

Agree. It's not the affair, it's everything else.

(p.s. just have to mention that the real Jackie Weaver has liked three of my tweets lol, I was made up, she's quality!)

woodfort · 26/06/2021 18:45

Yeah I find that hard to believe as well, and Martha hardly looks like a woman who’s husband has just announced he’s leaving her. Well we know from his statement and his resignation letter that he doesn’t even reference her. And the whole “I need to spend time with my children” bit. He’s not even trying is he? I think The Times has it right.
What a dick.

MercyBooth · 26/06/2021 18:45

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MargaretThatcherMilkSnatcher · 26/06/2021 18:46

@BiscoffAddict

Where are people reading he’s leaving her?
Headline article on the Times website
JackieWeaverHandforthCouncil · 26/06/2021 18:46

DH and I have always believed he was a pasty. We think this was set up with or without his agreement. We’re coming out of the crisis, they want a line drawn under all of this. Why is nobody asking why this footage from May has now come out? Do security normally save every frame of footage for months?

He will leave government and be a highly paid director of an external firm before years end.

TurquoiseLemur · 26/06/2021 18:46

@mathanxiety

"Non-executive directors hold advisory roles and also have no role in awarding NHS contracts," the insider said.

Someone must think the British public are a bunch of tax paying numpties.

Unfortunately, some of the British public ARE numpties.

They have accepted a lot of lies without complaining. They have made excuses for corruption. Etc etc

The evidence is everywhere.

mathanxiety · 26/06/2021 18:47

Did someone secretly film him or is there CCTV in that office?

@Andante57
Yes, there was CCTV.

He even fucked up the basics of having an affair.