Meet the Other Phone. Protection built in.

Meet the Other Phone.
Protection built in.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To wonder where Matt Hancock is hiding?

153 replies

VeganFishFingers · 30/06/2021 17:42

Does anyone else find it odd that the press haven’t found him yet, given that they must be looking everywhere and most people would recognise him if they saw him now? Do you think someone is harbouring him somewhere? Why are they hounding his wife and not looking for him? I mean can’t hide forever can he, at some stage he’s got to come out of the woodwork and face the music instead of hiding like a coward.

OP posts:
Temp023 · 30/06/2021 18:00

Have you really god nothing better to worry about OP? Do you think he should be tarred and feathered, or may rolled around London on a tumbrel? He’s lost his job and been totally humiliated, leave the poor sod alone.

TeardropsFallingOnHotSand · 30/06/2021 18:04

Somewhere humid, dark and wet I think. The toadstool.

To be honest, I would be more concerned with the treatment of Chris Witty by the public and the police. Now he is metaphorically rolled around in the streets of London and the press just seem to love it.

Maskedpotato · 30/06/2021 18:05

I don't care where the weasel is.

Marguerite2000 · 30/06/2021 18:05

Why does it matter? He's resigned so it's not an issue anymore.

VeganFishFingers · 30/06/2021 18:06

No of course I don’t think he should be tarred and feathered, but I am pretty disgusted that he left his wife to deal that media storm. He could have faced the music and said ‘I’m sorry, I was an idiot’. But instead he has scuttled off to let her deal with it all. It’s pretty shitty behaviour.

OP posts:
sittingonacornflake · 30/06/2021 18:07

I am curious I have to say

Maskedpotato · 30/06/2021 18:08

The scum etc will harass his family anyway.

Orf1abc · 30/06/2021 18:08

He should be at work. Although reports suggest this has gone down very badly with his constituents, and even worse with local party members.

MaggieFS · 30/06/2021 18:08

Are they actually looking? I thought he was in his constituency? Who cares?

HandsSpaceArse · 30/06/2021 18:09

I can't believe its so quiet in the press about him. It's best for the children but how did they to orchestrate that?

Amboseli · 30/06/2021 18:09

He justifiably lost his job and should have been sacked much sooner for incompetence. He used taxpayers money to give his bit on the side a job, as well as giving her brother a multi million pound government contract. He failed to declare his interest in another company he awarded a multi million pound government contract to ie his sister's company.

He used his personal Gmail account to conduct government business so there can be no oversight or scrutiny of how and why these contracts were awarded.

So yes he should be hounded by the press and tarred and feathered and even that would be too good for the lying, hypocritical, weasel.

Sleepyblueocean · 30/06/2021 18:12

In his constituency hoping not to get deselected perhaps.

DogsSausages · 30/06/2021 18:13

Why would the press be looking for him everywhere, what are they going to do if they see him, he has resigned, he has left home, does it really matter. The safety of Chris Witty is more concerning.

DrSbaitso · 30/06/2021 18:14

There's not much to report on now.

VeganFishFingers · 30/06/2021 18:15

Constituency home is apparently locked up. Unless he’s hiding with the blinds closed and is sending out for takeaway/deliveries etc. But he’d still have to answer the door.. Or maybe he hasn’t left his wife at all and is in fact hiding in his creepy red office?

OP posts:
PerhapsCarriageGreen · 30/06/2021 18:17

He only resigned from government I think, not as an MP, so is still accountable.

FinallyFluid · 30/06/2021 18:19

He is certainly not hiding behind his morals and moral compass, it is not big enough to encompass even his scrawny frame.

SimonedeBeauvoirscat · 30/06/2021 18:20

He’s shacked up with the new bird, hasn’t he? She’s done a flit too.

Blossomtoes · 30/06/2021 18:21

Are you a pissed off journalist frustrated because your story’s died @VeganFishFingers?

CandyLeBonBon · 30/06/2021 18:23

The same place Cameron scuttled off to after the referendum I expect!

Bjarnum · 30/06/2021 18:24

'The longer the wait the sweeter the kiss" posted by Gina. Made my hackles rise - how sweet to put 6 kids through the wringer and betrayer your partners who trusted you. Sweet????

bubblebubblebubbletrouble · 30/06/2021 18:25

Somewhere on the green list probably - Barbados?
Although presumably since MP's aren't currently on their ridiculously long summer break never mention shortening that he should be working?

AlternativePerspective · 30/06/2021 18:26

I suspect the press have rightly kept quiet now because they were already sailing close to the wind by publishing the pictures of him where his (minor) children were able to see them.

Regardless of one’s feelings about Matt Hancock, the press should be brought to account legally over their handling of the situation, as should the person who sold them the story.

There are ways to report someone without having to have it splashed all over the tabloids.

As for tarring and feathering, how convenient it was that that story broke on the day when it emerged that hundreds of thousands of COVID tests had gone missing in the farce that is track and trace.

Every politician on earth has cheated on their partner, it was ever thus. It might not be particularly edifying to know that but Hancock has been used as a scapegoat.

However, the rest ought to be careful what they wish for. Without him in the picture the question has to be who will be next. They’re getting awfully close to Boris now, and with Hancock gone he isn’t going to have a scapegoat to blame.

LakieLady · 30/06/2021 18:27

Sorry to hear he's lying low.

I'm going to stay with a friend in Bury St Edmunds next week, and was hoping I might bump into the cheating Tory bastard and tell him what I think of him.

Drivingmeupthewall · 30/06/2021 18:33

He fucked off to his constituency house I thought, happily leaving his wife and abandoning her to manage the doorstep full of paps and press on her own. What a cunt.