To care more that Matt Hancock cheated on his wife than disregarded his own Covid guidance

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I don't watch I'm a Celebrity, but I have read this BBC article: Matt Hancock asks for forgiveness
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-63604403

When he said he "fell in love", did any of his fellow contestants point out that he had a wife and kids, who were probably more traumatised by his humiliation than he was, because they lost a husband and father? I wonder if they are now watching the show with forgiveness in mind?

But actually I really don't care that Matt Hancock had an affair, that's his personal business, not mine. But I do care that he openly disregarded the rules that everyone else was being forced into blindly following.

I don't care about Sean Walsh having one tiny kiss with a dancer which has pretty much destroyed his career. Talk about blowing shit out of proportion. Not helped by Rebecca Humphries STILL banging on about it in the media.

I don’t give a shit he had an affair.

I do care that I have missed over 2 years of my mam’s life basically trapped in a care home. I couldn’t visit for months and then when I could I was allowed 1/2 hour every 4-6 weeks. Inhumane.

People died alone. People couldn’t attend funerals etc. The list goes on.

I can’t understand why you’re more bothered about his affair. Guessing you weren’t affected by any of the above.

Were you out marching against the rules at the time or did you call those who did ‘anti lockdowners’ and berate them?

@hamstersarse check my posting history. Never supported any of this from the very beginning.

Exactly what i think. My question to him would be and how do you think your wife felt seeing you groping your affair partner for all the world to see? How about her humiliation?

Fucking twat.

I don't really care about his affair, that's between him and his family.

I do care that he's a sitting MP who's decided fuck it, I'm going to go earn a ridiculous amount of money on a TV show instead of his actual job.

I care about the ppe breaches and lies, the care homes.

I care that he said he believed one of the women that came out about Boris groping women and was like eh, fuck it I will work in his cabinet anyway.

Matt hancock has shown throughout his career he is a self-serving selfish arse, so well suited to the George Galloway, lembit opik career path, but he should have resigned first if he wanted to piss about doing im a celeb and celebrity sas.

yep public demand was so high, so many threads here wanting harsher restrictions and lockdown

Nope, I definitely care more about his professional fuck ups which cost actual lives. Don’t get me wrong, the way he treated his wife and by extension his children, is appalling but that is their business. I do feel very sorry for the kids though as their dad is set to make a knob of himself yet again.

I am angry at him for his hypocrisy in office and appalled that he couldn't spare his children (ages 15,13 and seven) this tawdry spectacle. If he had any decency at all, surely he would keep out of the limelight and lay low with his new love interest, rather than reignite press interest in him and his family again. And he should be using what political skill he has, if any, to do charity work or involve himself in some worthwhile project helping others if he feels a shred of remorse about his conduct in office and all of those people who couldn't visit their family members in hospitals or care homes.

Really? Most people struggling at work would be too stressed out to even think "oh what would make this all a bit easier is to have a quick snog and grope in the office right now". If you are PROPERLY stressed about work then sex is the last thing in your mind, especially sex AT work.

To me the fact that he even had the mental capacity to think about the affair is very telling of how little he actually cared.

@hamstersarse I can only speak for myself but as presumably one of those ‘people’ it’s the breaking of their own rules not the rules themselves. The government have been found guilty of breaking covid laws with much bigger consequences than the pyjama party stuff that’s been various peoples downfalls news.sky.com/story/amp/covid-19-what-it-was-really-like-in-care-homes-as-govt-found-guilty-of-breaking-law-during-early-stages-of-pandemic-12600323

OP - it’s possible to have more than one grievance against someone, especially when they appear hard wired to be a twat.

I also dislike boy George’s rehabilitation as some sort of nations sweetheart when he’s shown he’s capable of horrific behaviour towards people.

I do not care one fig about his marriage, that is not my affair to concern myself with. What bothers me is the lies he told to keep people in check, and the fact that he is able to just carry on regardless, without even seeming to care that people were not able to be with their loved ones, as they died alone.

I don’t know, trauma bonding is a real ‘thing’ and it’s not completely unusual for people to seek physical closeness in stress and/or grief.

Doesn’t make it any less of a dick move if any party is married though.

Hancock’s personal, marital failings are between him & Mrs Hancock.

He should be held to account for his political failings though. Disgusting little man.

The programme is edited to how ITV want us to view things. Maybe they did mention his wife and it wasn’t shown. Probably not appropriate for him to go to into detail about to all given it’s still fairly recent. I agree that Hancock isn’t the only person in there who has made mistakes. The fact he was having an affair to someone he was working closely with anyone doesn’t disgust me in the same way it does others. Some people seem to be blaming Hancock for covid, he didn’t create the virus. Ant & Dec are bordering on bullying and need to tone it down. I wouldn’t be surprised if he wins to be honest.

I also imagine he was working 12-15 hour days away from home, it’s full on affair territory. Especially in the height of his obvious mid life crisis.

Anyway, are people now saying all the rules were insane? I swear that’s what I’m hearing, and that’s some turnaround from the past 2 years on mn

The problem with Walsh wasn't the snog, it was the emotional abuse and gaslighting which went with it. He's clearly a very troubled man, but he apparently put Humphries through hell and I think she was entitled to tell her side and not be forced into "dignified silence".

I hope you all have the same energy for Boris who won’t even state how many children he has.

Matt seems like a lovely guy to me. Hope he wins it.

I don't see how you can say the children lost a father OP. I say that as someone who's parents divorced and I've never felt like I lost my father.

He's not the first person to have an affair and he won't be the last. It's no one's business because no one apart from himself and his ex wife know what state their marriage was in and what goes on behind closed doors.

He didn't die the kids haven't lost him. Not unless he's walked out and never seen them again

I'm pretty sure a lot of the footage of Hancock, the parties etc was Dominic Cumming's revenge.

I can't blame MH for the PPE. Like he said, the whole world was wanting more PPE than it had ever wanted before, at the same time as us.

I don't think the U.K. govt handled Covid and better or any worse than any other country. In some European countries there were armed soldiers and police patrolling the streets to make sure people adhered to lockdown rules and much more rigid curfews.

There'll be an enquiry which will help us learn lessons for if something similar happens again (god forbid).

I don't care about his marriage, we have no idea what their relationship was like. Its turning into the MH show but that's the fault of the producers and presenters, I dislike the way they keep singing BG songs, he has a nasty history and his name is George, not BG.

It really is Sleaze Island this year!

However, I do fully believe him regarding the fact that he "fell in love" and had to sacrifice everything stable in his life to make it happen.

China are still locking down whole cities and our lockdown was not as strict as some other countries .

i also hope the enquiry will suggest alternatives for some of the inhumane things people had to go through , I also lost relatives in a care home . But staff also could have bought covid in and that was heartbreaking for them as well because at that stage the virus would rip through an environment like that .

i also had to arrange a double funeral with only 8 of us allowed to go with people watching from home . But also know people who caught covid at funerals and were extremely Ill.

A lot of what happened was guidance from WHO , are people blaming them ?