So how do you have a socially distanced affair?

[LivinLaVidaLoki]

Apparently no covid laws/guidance were broken. What kind of bubble does it fall under?

www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/matt-hancock-gina-coladangelo-affair-b1872505.html%3famp

He's such a slimy weak twatty idiot. Yuck. His poor wife.

But @Aposterhasnohome surely he is in an established relationship with his wife? They are the 'couple'? The aide is an add on I would have thought.
Grim all round anyway.

They’re the best kind of affair surely!
What a Wally though

A mistress funded by the tax payer
Broke social distancing and moral decency.
Proves he lies not to be trusted.
Who is this shady lobby firm influencing decisions made at the health department.
Apart from getting up close and personal with this stud muffin, 15k expenses in 6months! What else is she getting out of it?
It is our business and hope hes gone.
Clearly he has no intention of resigning.

Not the main point I realise, but can’t believe he did that if he knew there was CCTV! or was it hidden camera?

Resignation by Monday I reckon. This won't be all the dirt that the "whistleblower" has on him.

I think the tables are really turning at the moment, I've seen a lot more people in the public eye speaking out against restrictions. The constant contradictions and the every day person continuing to suffer. I think this really takes the final biscuit now!! Dirty dog!

I know it’s DM but he’s caught snogging on cctv, his poor wife

www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

Poor poor kids of both families (and spouses)

My dad had an affair with close family friend when I was 10 and it utterly fucked me up, am still scarred by the horrible fallout 30+ years later and I didn’t even have the hideousness of it being all over the papers

Ewww who would want to touch Matt Hancock🤮 mind you who would go near Borris

@Againstmachine

Isn't it funny when ever he was questioned about anything he said he was busy saving lifes. Nope was busy getting his end away.

A comment on the daily Mail

Up to his pineapples 😂😂😂
I’ll never look at pineapples in the same way 😂

@SinkGirl

Surely not. He’s already found one woman to have sex with him, a second seems an impossibility.

His poor wife, either way.

I really detest these bastards.

He was punching above his weight with her also

While the rest of the country was falling apart at the seams I always thought he had a ‘’oooh I’m going to see Gina today’ spring in his step about him.

So Ferguson met up with his girlfriend during lockdown, technically breaking the rules, but since both lived alone, it effectively was one household divided between two dwellings - yet he resigned and the government agreed this was the right decision

So given Hancock's sin was worse, I'm sure he'll do the right thing now and hand in his notice too....

Boris Johnson considers the matter closed and accepted Matt Hancock's apology.
That's ok then ..

I bet how seriously he’s going to be taken next time he appears on tv urging the public to use caution, and obey by the rules….

Btw, the BBC keeps on referring to “pictures of an embrace”. It’s lunchtime so I’m reluctant to post the pictures, but in my world a granny embraces his grandkid, I’m embracing my son. The hand on the a-se and the rest is not quite only an embrace…

How fucking dare he. Meanwhile woman were alone in hospital having miscarriages, alone after traumatic labour, isolated during their maternity leave but he thinks he can go and do whatever the hell he likes.

@Aposterhasnoname

what kind of bubble does it fall under

I’m not defending what he’s done as it’s shit, but couples in “established relationships” have been allowed to meet up since last September.

That's incorrect.

The established relationships guidance was introduced in about September last year but was withdrawn again at the start of the November lockdown. From then until 17th May (with the exception of the few places which were briefly in tier 1 in December such as Cornwall), it was illegal to gather indoors with any person from another household unless a specific exemption applied. There was no exemption for couples.

Support bubbles were an exemption, which some couples could use, but only if they met the very specific, legally-prescribed, qualifying criteria for a support bubble such as living alone.

There are many couples in established relationships but not qualifying for a support bubble (eg because they live with other adults such as parents or housemates) who have been prohibited by law from meeting indoors for most of the past year, by legislation with Hancock's signature on it.

See mobile.twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1408322242115682306

This level of government intrusion into people's private lives is far beyond what has been imposed in most other similar countries, where typically Covid laws have either not reached into the private home at all or exemptions have been made for close family and couples.

Hancock has by all accounts been one of the main advocates and architects of particularly extreme legislative approach to private gatherings that has been persued in this country, and he has been well and truly hoist by his own petard here.

@cherin well I haven't been taking them seriously since dom went to test his eye sight on a drive.

The fundamental issue of trust!
I’ve been following the rules to the letter until now, but for the sake of all that’s sacred, if my kids lose any more school and opportunities because of the mistakes and incompetence these DONKEYS who prioritise sex, silverstone and beer gardens…
Well, they never had my vote before. But they surely would not have it now.

@cherin Donkeys are kind and are faithful. Unlike Mr Johnson or Mr Hancock.

A competent Tory government would have acted so much quicker at each stage that your children would have had at least six weeks less home schooling.

What is it about politicians and their aides/assistants?

Within weeks of his divorce, George Osborne went public with his relationship with his former aide (who he's now having a baby with and engaged to be married).

Something in the Parliament water?

Agreed @newnortherner111

Donkeys are lovely. Much nicer than most humans.

So sad.
Dogs are nicer than people. At least his wife has a dog.