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Original poster

To think Matt Hancock should have been voted off

332 replies

Wtactualfuck · 26/11/2022 22:21

He broke the covid rules he helped put in place. He cheated on his wife and left his children for the OW. Why the actual fuck are people voting for this Tory to stay?

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MsMcGonagall · 26/11/2022 22:51

it's a mischievous vote to wind people up, I'm afraid

mumonherphone · 26/11/2022 22:53

He gives me the ick but I think people are voting for him to wind up left wing people so this outrage is exactly what they want.

I'm voting for Jill.

DeeCeeCherry · 26/11/2022 22:53

Never mind his callousness during covid towards the public and his family - All he has to be is a good entertainer and thats enough for the shallow/dull-minded/schadenfreude hounds to love him. + his demographic always falls upwards. He knows how to play the game, it'll be women rooting for him the most.

MsMcGonagall · 26/11/2022 22:54

I'd clarify - I'm not voting for him. but I see that people are doing a "one in the eye" type vote

StarbucksSmarterSister · 26/11/2022 23:08

You're right but people "like him". The same people who thought "Boris is doing his best" .
🤢

Tescoheslth · 26/11/2022 23:10

Readaboutyourself · 26/11/2022 22:39

I couldn’t give a toss. More alarming is the voting off of anyone not white or male 😐

Except Jill is still there and quite likely to win....

Devoutspoken · 26/11/2022 23:11

It amazes me that posters who are so bored by the subject still feel compelled to comment with yawny faces, why bother?

user164865329 · 26/11/2022 23:14

There seems to be an obsession on this forum about him

ancientgran · 26/11/2022 23:15

UmbilicusProfundus · 26/11/2022 22:45

Irrespective of the politics, I don’t actually understand why lots of you are saying he is great to watch and doing well etc etc. He’s quite boring, slighty awkward, and with no obviously redeeming qualities. Notable that his highlight was him getting 11 stars - essentially needing to feed his ego, nothing more personal or reflective.

mike has been far more entertaining and impressive. As have all the others in my view

And you were free to vote for Mike or anyone else in there just like the people who voted for MH. The more people slag other people off for voting for him the more they vote for him.

ancientgran · 26/11/2022 23:17

DeeCeeCherry · 26/11/2022 22:53

Never mind his callousness during covid towards the public and his family - All he has to be is a good entertainer and thats enough for the shallow/dull-minded/schadenfreude hounds to love him. + his demographic always falls upwards. He knows how to play the game, it'll be women rooting for him the most.

A good entertainer on an entertainment show and doing well. How utterly amazing.

TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum · 26/11/2022 23:17

Yanbu. His appearance on this moronic programme was carefully designed to rehabilitate his public reputation and judging by many of the comments on here it has worked a treat.

As someone whose life has been destroyed by long covid (April 2020 and counting...) I find this deeply offensive.

ancientgran · 26/11/2022 23:18

mumonherphone · 26/11/2022 22:53

He gives me the ick but I think people are voting for him to wind up left wing people so this outrage is exactly what they want.

I'm voting for Jill.

Really? I'm voting for him to wind up the outraged Conservatives.

ancientgran · 26/11/2022 23:19

TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum · 26/11/2022 23:17

Yanbu. His appearance on this moronic programme was carefully designed to rehabilitate his public reputation and judging by many of the comments on here it has worked a treat.

As someone whose life has been destroyed by long covid (April 2020 and counting...) I find this deeply offensive.

I'm suffering from long covid, I blame covid myself.

bringincrazyback · 26/11/2022 23:19

VladmirsPoutine · 26/11/2022 22:28

Brits love suffering. He'll be on Strictly next and all will be forgotten. The type of people who were damaged, whose lives were irreparably changed by his actions aren't the type to be sitting pretty on a Saturday night with a takeaway chuckling at his antics on Get me Out of Here.

THIS.

bringincrazyback · 26/11/2022 23:21

Seems to me like the British public will forgive a person anything if they're 'entertaining' enough. It's so depressing. I'm with you OP.

user164865329 · 26/11/2022 23:21

I'm voting for him because I want to see him on that throne with his crown with a big fat smile over his chops.

Dacadactyl · 26/11/2022 23:22

I'm no fan of Matt Hancock at all. In fact, a lot of people on here would probably describe me as a rule breaking anti vaxxer.

But I actually think he's coming across ok. Better than I expected him too. Thought I'd have hated him.

Wouldn't waste my time or money voting for any of them though.

MajesticWhine · 26/11/2022 23:22

Matt Hancock didn't cause long covid.

MarshaMelrose · 26/11/2022 23:28

Never before has a vote for someone wound up self important celebrities, theTory govt, left wingers and all the media, which have continually lied about what's happened in the jungle, I have to add. And Ant & Dec. This is not what ITV planned I'm sure. 😂😂

MarshaMelrose · 26/11/2022 23:29

bringincrazyback · 26/11/2022 23:21

Seems to me like the British public will forgive a person anything if they're 'entertaining' enough. It's so depressing. I'm with you OP.

He's not entertaining. Everyone else's outrage is entertaining. 😁

Coolyule · 26/11/2022 23:31

People are fickle with short memories. Matt Hancock isn’t stupid. He’s played the British public like a fiddle. Sadly the British public are happy to be played.

Lavenderpolish · 26/11/2022 23:32

He should be at home doing the job he’s paid to do. Anybody else here in a job that lets them walk off whenever they feel like it for a holiday?

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Wtactualfuck · 26/11/2022 23:35

I have assumed that the voting was rigged too 😂 but realistically, as many posters have pointed out, we’re a country that continually vote Tory and voted to leave the EU… so it’s more likely that people actually like him… we’re going to hell in a handbasket

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userxx · 26/11/2022 23:37

Coolyule · 26/11/2022 23:31

People are fickle with short memories. Matt Hancock isn’t stupid. He’s played the British public like a fiddle. Sadly the British public are happy to be played.

It's quite unbelievable isn't it.

user164865329 · 26/11/2022 23:37

I voted to piss people like you off, OP

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