Matt Hancock Crying

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I just watched the clip and I thought rather then crying it looked like he was laughing. Anyone else think it was weird. I was expecting him to be quietly emotional after this shit show of a year But no, it looked like he was covering up the giggles. Anyone else think this or am I on my own.

I think it’s entirely reasonable for him to react in an emotional day. What a year he has had. All that pressure and responsibility. I am sure it is a job that literally no one else in the country would have wanted to do. I don’t blame him for crying at all. He must feel huge relief.
It is lucky he is a generally positive , can do , half glass full sort. He must have a lot of resilience and a very caring wife

Perhaps he does the half laugh, half sob thing I do when very upset. Did it while the vet was putting my dog to sleep. Hugely embarrassing, but I was definitely upset and not finding it hysterically funny.

Sometimes trying to restrain tears can look like smothered giggles!
At the start of my wedding, I was trying so hard to cover up (happy) tears that everyone thought I was giggling!

I didn't see it but I've actually surprised myself with how I've reacted to the vaccine being rolled out so I can see why he may have been emotional. And I suffer with inappropriate giggling when I'm emotional too so maybe that's what happened to him.

Looked to me a mixture of happy relief & sadness. He lost a member of his extended family to Covid-19. Whatever he was doing, it's a good day for the country.

I'm no fan of Hancock, but I don't blame him for being emotional. He is human.

Relief, coupled with a bit of embarrassment at crying I thought.

Yeah, I think that's the odd face people can make when you end up crying despite your best efforts and you feel like a prat.

Matt Hancock is a pube, but I think it was a mixture of sadness, relief & happiness (I’m a happy, rarely a sad crier. I mean, it’s all the bloody time today).

There was a ‘beat’ in the edit I saw before he did the eye wiping/heaving shoulders bit, so the cynic in me is a bit triggered, but I’m in a good mood, so let’s chalk this catastrofuck as being truly emotional.

If he isn’t, please let me be the first one to give him a gentle push onto buttered stairs.

I think many in healthcare will recognise that - it's the point of hysteria that you reach when you finally see light at the end of a very long, very dark tunnel and this is the first time I've ever defended the man! It's strange, in HC we can see and do the most horrific things - children with significant burns, harmed by those meant to care for them, lives ended in a moment of madness, tragic accidents and we keep going. Then you lose your shit because someone moved your mug from the left hand side of the cupboard to the right and you find yourself sobbing in the staff room. I think his reaction to a gentleman called William Shakespeare from Warwickshire getting the vaccine over 400 years after William Shakespeare, of Warwickshire, who often saw himself out of acting work due to outbreaks of the plague, was his equivalent of someone moving his mug.

I genuinely think he is knackered and it was a moment of relief and emotion that finally there may be an end in sight to this nightmare.

I don't tend to buy into all this hate for ministers just because I may not share their politics. I suspect whichever party was in power, there would have been mistakes, criticisms, and sadly, lives lost. At the end of the day, many of them are humans just like us, and subject to the same emotions.

It must mean the absolute world to him to know that all the work he, the NHS, PHE, the scientists, Govt etc are putting in is coming to fruition. Crying can often look like laughing. I think he is a very genuine man and it is understandable that today is rather overwhelming for him and he is, rightly, proud to be British.

My sister let out a laugh as our Mother took her final breaths. Sadness and laughter emotions are similar in basis I believe.
I think at times of extreme emotion we can be excused some odd behaviour.

nb I can't stand the man but still.....

He does seem quite an emotional politician. I’m not sure if it is genuine or not.

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Matt Hancock is a pube, but I think it was a mixture of sadness, relief & happiness (I’m a happy, rarely a sad crier. I mean, it’s all the bloody time today).

There was a ‘beat’ in the edit I saw before he did the eye wiping/heaving shoulders bit, so the cynic in me is a bit triggered, but I’m in a good mood, so let’s chalk this catastrofuck as being truly emotional.

If he isn’t, please let me be the first one to give him a gentle push onto buttered stairs.

Almost exactly my thoughts!

I wouldn’t be surprised if he was that emotional to laugh /cry. Hellish time and mostly relief. And knowing it’s pretty much only way out.

I did exactly the same, laughed with joy and cried at the same time. I may not like politicians, but I do really think Matt Hancock has really had a hard task this year.

I think it is genuine relief that finally something positive has happened. He has had a hell of a year, some things have gone horribly wrong, those that know him, think he is quite a nice guy, with his heart in the right place.

I don't blame him. He has an utterly thankless task, a job no -one else would want to do and a dreadful year. Whatever I think of his politics, I'd like to think he is also human and capable of feeling relief and emotion at the advent of the vaccination programme.

I quite like him anyway, he's stayed relentlessly upbeat without sounding like a patronising twat, and bloody hell, what a job.

I unexpectedly got tears in my eyes listening to the news at lunchtime so god only knows how emotional he must have felt.

He’s also right to be hugely proud of the teams that made it possible. All that intensely hard work.

It’s all such a big deal. The only rotter is we have a while to go yet.

I felt a bit the same so can totally understand how he must have felt

Well if you can't cry when you're health secretary in the middle of a pandemic and a vaccine is finally administered, when can you?

Gosh I just saw it as hugely insincere. It was odd and didn't ring true. Not because of how I feel about him or the vaccine, because he just came across very strangely!