Boy George is a more terrible person than Matt Hancock and I'm sick of people pretending he isn't

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Why does he get a pass for his brutal, clearly sexually motivated crime (he threatened the guy with whips and sex toys) and still have a career?

I'm so irritated I'm having to sound like I'm defending Hancock, a corrupt, inept Tory who cheated on his wife. He personifies everything wrong with Johnston's cabinet, but no he didn't kill thousands, Covid did. The decision to return vulnerable people from hospital to care homes was a terrible one, but we did the exact same thing in Scotland. He isn't a sex offender.

If Boy George had chained up a female sex worker and beat her with an iron bar and threatened to rape her with sex toys he wouldn't have ever had the opportunity to be on TV again.

He didn't though did he? He's not Putin. He didn't single-handedly make decisions. They acted on the advice the were given, as democratic governments do. It's not like as Health Secretary he got the final say on every decision made either. The thing he did wrong personally was to cheat on his wife, act in a sleazy manner and break social distancing laws. Plenty of people did and do those things without getting vilified.

BG's crime was not sexually motivated - in his cocaine induced paranoia he believed that his victim had 'done something' to his computer

BG isn't a 'sex offender. His victim was a sex worker'

BG is now apparently drug-free and served a prison sentence for the offences above

'I think rehabilitation is really important, but it does feel like prancing around in the jungle isn't really in the spirit of humble repentance.'

Exactly! We have drunk driver Ant sneering, BG sneering. It's all a bit pot and kettle.

I'm disgusted that Tyson has been forgiven too but he's largely an aberration. I HOPE he wouldn't be treated the same way had his crime been committed post Me Too.

This ^.

BG was convicted and sent to prison for his crime – he did his time and expressed remorse for what he did, which was under the influence of a crippling drug addiction he worked hard to get clean from. Yet you think he's worse than a man who oversaw the deaths of 10s of thousands of people on his watch when he ordered elderly patients to be sent back into care homes knowing they were infected by Covid, who gave contracts worth billions to his mates and who broke the very rules he demanded we lived by for the best part of two years to have an affair behind his wife's back.

I know who the bigger villain is here and it's not BG.

Yes, I don’t think Ant should be there n tv either. I’m guess there are some but I can’t think of any female celebs who’ve kept their jobs in family entertainment after similar violent actions / drug abuse.

Not convicted and debatable (but I am not going to debate it, that ship has sailed )
The others are convicted

Who did Matt Hancock 'torture'?

This

While you're correct that he believed his victim had stolen photographs from his computer, he threatened the man with whips and a box of sex toys. He wasn't convicted of a sexual assault but if you threatened someone with rape then let's not pretend there's no sexual motivation.

They can both be utter wankers. You don’t need to pick one. They’re both awful excuses for human beings.

Agree with this.

However I think it’s wrong that he’s there when he is currently an MP and should be available to his constituency.

To add, I don't think either of them should be on the show and being paid for it. I just don't think BG is as reprehensible as MH. We lost two family friends in the pandemic, an elderly couple who died within a week of each other, and when I watched him laughing about 'next slide, please' I wanted to reach into the telly and rip his tiny head off.

Sux - uk court found against jd.

You’re absolutely right.

A rose by any other name

This. He's an absolute disgrace.

Kirsty Gallacher kept hers after a ban for drink driving.

They're all a bit sneery about Matt Hancock but people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. I'm sure I remember Mike Tindall being banned for driving for a couple of years for drink driving. The reason George couldn't visit his mum in hospital wasn't because Matt was being mean in not allowing him to, it was to protect the sick. I had a family member in hospital and if I'd visited him and given him covid he would almost certainly have died.

The reason George couldn't visit his mum in hospital wasn't because Matt was being mean in not allowing him to, it was to protect the sick.

Exactly. It was to protect the vulnerable.

I don't think BG is upset because he thinks MH was mean putting in rules that prohibited him from seeing his mum. Pretty sure, like many of us, he's more furious that the Govt delayed lockdown because of Carrie's baby shower allowing the virus to spread in hospitals and then packed off infected patients back to care homes where it exploded. It's about the bigger picture, which MH as health secretary played a pivotal role in and now he's in the jungle eating sheep's arse and getting paid £400k and he wants our forgiveness? He can f* off. He's never getting it.

MH did not cause the pandemic, he was part of the team reacting to an unprecedented event. I don't agree with the way it was handled but I believe he did what he thought was best acting on advice. I feel sorry for those families who lost loved ones during the pandemic and for anyone who loses a loved one. I feel more sorry for the loss of those years for the young and the damage to their MH and life chances - that is not MH's fault.
I believe that most politicians want to make things better for people but have a different views ideology whilst their views on what is the ideal is different - I acknowledge that this can change and that ambition sometimes is not motivated by this.

I am honestly shocked at the attitudes towards MH on this thread. What short memories you have.

But he can’t do anything for his constituents while he’s in the jungle which is the reason I think he shouldn’t be there.

Matt threw millions at vaccine production. Pre-ordered many many vaccines so we were in with a chance of getting a decent working vaccine when they got approval.

I think some people remember a different pandemic to me.