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Matt Hancock affair (3)

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TheoMeo · 27/06/2021 08:05

Surely you would have cameras in a Government building and surely pointing it at doorways between different areas or departments isn't a bad idea.
It looks like a screenshot of a cctv security camera monitor.

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Roussette · 28/06/2021 22:05

And a hard hat over that stylish hair, let's not forget that!

LittleBearPad · 28/06/2021 22:09

@the80sweregreat

Tories pretending to be ' one of the people' is always annoying. Boris Johnson loves these high vis jackets though doesn't he? Must have a cupboard full of them. ( I bet Carrie loves him dressed up in one !) Mind boggles.
In one of the many pictures of MH’s office there was a high vis vest and hard hat with NHS on it hanging on the coat rack.

Berk.

the80sweregreat · 28/06/2021 22:10

I bet he wears the hats and the high vis without a t shirt on underneath , Chippendale style.
( without the six pack or good looks to carry it off )
Magic Boris ..

LittleBearPad · 28/06/2021 22:22

@the80sweregreat

I bet he wears the hats and the high vis without a t shirt on underneath , Chippendale style. ( without the six pack or good looks to carry it off ) Magic Boris ..
🤢🤮
BiscoffAddict · 28/06/2021 22:24

Press now reporting that not only has she left her husband, they’re living together. That moved quick!

jgw1 · 28/06/2021 22:26

@BiscoffAddict

Press now reporting that not only has she left her husband, they’re living together. That moved quick!
I thought they had been together for a year or two. Why else was he paying her so much?
BiscoffAddict · 28/06/2021 22:28

It makes me wonder if this has been an open secret and both spouses knew about it?

poshme · 28/06/2021 22:33

@BiscoffAddict

It makes me wonder if this has been an open secret and both spouses knew about it?
No. His wife had no idea.
Blossomtoes · 28/06/2021 22:41

@Lemonmelonsun

Oh no!! Not a catch!

No!!

Exactly. You’ve got very low standards if you think he’s a catch @the80sweregreat.
DrManhattan · 28/06/2021 22:42

Hes such a bell.

A total bell. Makes me feel sick

the80sweregreat · 28/06/2021 22:44

I was talking about Ginas husband !
No, Hancock isn't a catch at all.

Blossomtoes · 28/06/2021 22:47

@the80sweregreat

I was talking about Ginas husband ! No, Hancock isn't a catch at all.
Sorry, I misunderstood.

So she’s got through two husbands now - not bad going at 42.

HaveringWavering · 28/06/2021 22:48

I haven’t read every single post but the fact that there are SIX children as collateral damage in this whole sordid affair is so sad. Apparently it’s serious and they are in lurve, but will she really be happy to live apart from her children? Otherwise Matt Hancock’s poor kids will be faced with the prospect of their Dad living with someone else’s children. Though perhaps hers will refuse to live with them, not sure how old they are. Imagine being prepared to sacrifice your home life with your children so you could shag Matt Hancock. Insane.

the80sweregreat · 28/06/2021 22:49

Yes, I did read that she had been married twice.
( I know she isn't divorced yet from number 2)
I Hope Ginas husband finds someone nice in time. I'm sure he won't be single for too long.

BuckleupVIP · 28/06/2021 23:01

Maybe they were both just very unhappy in their marriages and found love with each other?

In many ways, it's none of our business. Yes, I think they are both bad people, but they obviously think they are doing it for the right reasons.

To think the Queen referred to MH has "poor man" only recently. Maybe she knew more about what was about to come out than she was letting on! lol

BuckleupVIP · 28/06/2021 23:02

*as

HaveringWavering · 28/06/2021 23:05

@BuckleupVIP

Maybe they were both just very unhappy in their marriages and found love with each other?

In many ways, it's none of our business. Yes, I think they are both bad people, but they obviously think they are doing it for the right reasons.

To think the Queen referred to MH has "poor man" only recently. Maybe she knew more about what was about to come out than she was letting on! lol

I’m sorry but I don’t care how unhappy your marriage is or how much in love you are, snogging in the office is grim, unprofessional and juvenile. By all means have an affair with your colleague but don’t conduct it when you are meant to be working and other colleagues are around. Yuck.
JackieWeaverHandforthCouncil · 28/06/2021 23:10

Did anyone read last weeks Popbitch newsletter about rumours with Gove’s marriage?

Sarah Vines column on the issues in political marriages the other day makes more sense now. The rumour involves Gove allegedly playing away with the trade negotiator (rhymes with ‘Puss’.

ScribblyBaller · 28/06/2021 23:14

There are all sorts of rumours about Gove going around at the moment. I've read that one, but I've also read very different rumours.

ScribblyBaller · 28/06/2021 23:17

In many ways, it's none of our business. Yes, I think they are both bad people, but they obviously think they are doing it for the right reasons.

That's a very charitable take! The Matts and Ginas in these situations are doing it because they are in love/lust and they're putting their infatuation before everything else. No doubt they square it all off in their minds as being 'the best for everyone' but no one believes that. Not even them.

JanFebAnyMonth · 28/06/2021 23:19

I’m sure HMQ was saying “Poor man, he’s full of cold!” (not “of beans”, as the chief jester interjected!)

BuckleupVIP · 28/06/2021 23:26

@HaveringWavering

I agree with what you're saying but trying to see from their perspective too. They obviously don't care. If they did care, then they wouldn't be moving in together to show the world their solidarity despite being called out for bad behaviour.

There's a new Netflix show called 'Sex/Life' with a similar theme. Housewife is dissatisfied with her lovely life in the suburbs and fantasises for the excitement of risk she experienced in her glory days.
Really hard to empathise with her, but the storyline is making a point about 'having it all'.

TeddingtonTrashbag · 29/06/2021 03:52

he'll go for 20% over asking before his listing even goes live
Grin
Love witty mumsnetty!

TeddingtonTrashbag · 29/06/2021 04:14

The thing is that husbands in this situation do take the wives back. The fact that Oliver helped her load the car makes him already seem like s decenter sort than MH.

Awful that this pair walk out and leave the shocked spouse to deal with bewildered children as well as managing their own devastation.
MH maybe saw his boss and George Osborne loved up with their respective colleagues (tho’ GO romance reportedly on the rocks despite the baby according to the Spectator podcast last week) ) and thought it would the right move. But It is one thing to to leave a wife and grown up children (tho’ reportedly it was Marina who decided she had had enough and threw him out) for a hot young thing with no baggage of her own -entirely different ghastly complicated mess to leave two sets lof young children very suddenly with all the endless planning - not to mention expense - that entails. And Gina will be menopausal soon - same time as his STBXW…
MH will be very ruefully regretting this before long -if not already.
Peeps are saying there is loads of money sloshing around as he earns £80k /not sure how far that goes with all those kids. Gina’s family reportedly much more loaded -so you have disparity there. Will she pay his kids’ school fees? Or they go state snd hers private? Resentment - much?
What a nightmare - say her kids live with G&M with visits from M’s kids at weekends when hers are with their father. Resentment-much? Imagine the logistics. Holidays etc. Always have to live close to the two other families unless boarding school for all.
Not much time for lovehoney.
The reason they were groping at work anyway is maybe that their live are pretty busy so difficult to grope in their own time even before the split.
Guessing before long it will be ‘married sex’.
Wonder if he’s regretting it already?

tropicalwaterdiver · 29/06/2021 06:08

I don't think they would leave their spouses if the affair was not exposed. It looks like it was going on from 2019.