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To think that Hancock's had a brakedown & is making silly decisions

105 replies

Justgetitoverwith · 01/11/2022 20:01

To think, although self inflicted, partially, but maybe from the covid crisis stress he's just lost the plot completely by going on I'm a celeb? He's in no right mind is he!

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CantStartaFireWithoutaSpark · 01/11/2022 20:01

I think it’s brilliant! 😂

MrPoppysParka · 01/11/2022 20:02

Rumour has it he’s going on Celebrity SAS too!

Endwalker · 01/11/2022 20:03

He comes across as someone who desperately wants to be well liked which is a shame given that he's so fundamentally unlikeable.

feelthebeatfromthetangerine · 01/11/2022 20:03

It's a curious choice. Everyone knows that people hated by the public get voted to do all kinds of gross stuff. He must have enough self-awareness to know that he's going to have to do all of the horrid challenges?

Is this supposed to be some sort of redemption for the shit he pulled during lockdown?

NotAKnowitall · 01/11/2022 20:05

Did Nadine Dorries also have a breakdown or what? Why was she allowed but he isn't? Not that I like the man but it's clear as day he's being treated completely differently compared to a colleague who did the same thing.

Justgetitoverwith · 01/11/2022 20:06

He's the reason we all have better immunity thanks to the jabs though.... this really important fact has just been forgotten about.

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Endwalker · 01/11/2022 20:07

Dorries also lost the whip for going in but, like most of the indiscretions of the Conservatives, was eventually forgiven and got it back.

Endwalker · 01/11/2022 20:08

Justgetitoverwith · 01/11/2022 20:06

He's the reason we all have better immunity thanks to the jabs though.... this really important fact has just been forgotten about.

I didn't realise he was one of the scientists who developed them, he kept that quiet.

TinySaltLick · 01/11/2022 20:09

Justgetitoverwith · 01/11/2022 20:06

He's the reason we all have better immunity thanks to the jabs though.... this really important fact has just been forgotten about.

Are you trying to credit Matt Hancock with inventing the vaccine?

The roll out was in spite of him not due to him

mintywinter · 01/11/2022 20:11

We don't know him- he could have always been a dickhead. He never came across as especially intelligent. I do feel sorry for his ex wife and kids though.

Justgetitoverwith · 01/11/2022 20:11

No obviously he didn't make the vaccine but he secured us shares in enough vaccines to make most of the population safe. I know he's stupid by saying he watched a film about an outbreak and that's where he got the idea from but he did it.

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ohfourfoxache · 01/11/2022 20:12

im not going to comment on his “contribution” to the vaccine

But his contribution to horrendous numbers of deaths in care homes was something to behold

There are many of us who will never forgive him for what he did Angry

Justgetitoverwith · 01/11/2022 20:13

Oh he's definitely a fool for lots of things

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IntrovertedPenguin · 01/11/2022 20:13

I think he's trying to prove a point to the public that there's a likeable side to him.

I'm not a fan of I'm a celeb but I'm considering watching it now. 😂

Maybe they could also invite Truss?

Bestcatmum · 01/11/2022 20:14

I can't stand him after the way he publicly humiliated his wife and dumped his three kids for another woman. I won't be watching.
The man has zero dignity.

grayhairdontcare · 01/11/2022 20:15

He threw care home residents under a bus and now wants to be a celebrity....
He's a grade A cunt

Remainiac · 01/11/2022 20:16

Presumably he’s doing it for the money - he’ll be paying for an expensive divorce. You don’t get to publicly humiliate your wife without a big hit in the pocket.

ohfourfoxache · 01/11/2022 20:19

Perhaps they could do an extended series of IACGMOOH…..they could have Handcock, BJ, Cruella, Priti Heartless, J “haunted pencil” RM, Horse Heater - the whole fucking lot of them - in the jungle for months with no chance of being voted out

Possibly even house them in marquees? You know, give it that real “Kent” feel…

feelthebeatfromthetangerine · 01/11/2022 20:22

Justgetitoverwith · 01/11/2022 20:06

He's the reason we all have better immunity thanks to the jabs though.... this really important fact has just been forgotten about.

I'll save my gratitude for the scientists, doctors, nurses, other medical professionals, human trial guinea pigs, care home workers and volunteer army. My heart still breaks thinking of the people who died in the line of service, helping a greater good, and who weren't mourned properly, because their loved ones followed the rules.

People always hate politicians - it's why, for example, anyone who served as PM gets such a big public spending allowance for security - but there are some politicians who I don't think I'll ever forgive based on their behaviour during lockdown. I'm not saying Matt Hancock is the only one I can't stand, but he's right up there, and he'd have to be pretty stupid not to realise that a lot of people have similar views.

For a small fee, why wouldn't you vote to make someone like that eat bushtucker trial food and get covered by creepy crawlies?

I think to go on a challenge like I'm A Celeb, you either have to genuinely not be bothered by any of the gross stuff (I think that would be a very small minority!), believe you're popular enough to not get voted to do any of it (who is that confident?) or to want to subject yourself to that ordeal, because you think you deserve it (not convinced he fits into this category).

YellowAndGreenToBeSeen · 01/11/2022 20:31

Nah bollocks. Don’t confuse ‘breakdown’ with ‘ego’.

He’s a navel gazing, Nanny believing, never quite made Head Boy, insecure excuse of a man who puts himself before his constituents. He believes the hype, the producers (‘you’re our star booking Matty!’) and has been lured by the fame and filthy lucre. He ain’t the first (believe Limpet Opec had that honour. And then Dorries of course. What a club in which to be No3).

I hope he spends 2 weeks eating raw Wallaby balls, and thinking he’s the publics chosen ‘Fun One’, before the realisation he’s ridiculed and hated hits him like the punch of a 7ft male Kangaroo

Bluekerfuffle · 01/11/2022 20:34

No, I think this is a calculated move. He wants to go down the route of loveable rogue that gets gigs on game shows and even gets to present his own show if it goes well as his political career isn’t going so well any more. Hopefully no one will actually start thinking he’s not so bad and will tell him to piss off back under his rock instead.

Bluekerfuffle · 01/11/2022 20:36

And I hope he’s not voted to do any bush trials, I would rather he was just ignored and then voted out at the first opportunity.

DoubleDinnurs · 01/11/2022 20:37

I can't wait to see Boris doing a samba and Jacob Reese-Mogg attempting a rumba on strictly.

I think Carrie went on interior design masters, but got kicked out in the first week due to spending the entire budget on an egg cup.

DoubleDinnurs · 01/11/2022 20:39

ohfourfoxache · 01/11/2022 20:19

Perhaps they could do an extended series of IACGMOOH…..they could have Handcock, BJ, Cruella, Priti Heartless, J “haunted pencil” RM, Horse Heater - the whole fucking lot of them - in the jungle for months with no chance of being voted out

Possibly even house them in marquees? You know, give it that real “Kent” feel…

We could reboot Shipwrecked and sort of forget we've put them there?

PonyPatter44 · 01/11/2022 20:41

Man is an utter dick. I hope he has to eat the most disgusting things imaginable.