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Hancock has the look of a man who cries when he cums, or whips himself with a belt like that geezer out of boardwalk empire.

Boris Johnson is @PVA and I claim my five pounds:

Christ, I feel a bit sick

Philosorapter said:

Hancock having an affair is not an issue.

Hancock breaking social-distancing rules whilst being the health secretary is. He must resign.

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tbf, neither is as morally wrong as acting against the code and riding over government procurement policy in an effort to give Cummings' mates half a million quid. Direct breach of the SCS, and he needs to uphold those standards.

Mental that people are talking about the covid breach rather than the corruption.

clint van damme said:

That's why someone's trying to get him binned now in my opinion

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Would it be more palatable to get rid now.
Boris brings new minister in,avoids all the theatrics at the inquiry next year?

Edit:- that picture ,how long has that been sat on. Staged?
I assume a long time?

By golly he certainly had a handful of her posterior.

wingy said:

Would it be more palatable to get rid now.
Boris brings new minister in,avoids all the theatrics at the inquiry next year?

Edit:- that picture ,how long has that been sat on. Staged?
I assume a long time?

By golly he certainly had a handful of her posterior.

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He takes his role of Secretary of State very seriously which is why he takes on a hands on approach.

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If a married tory minister was caught dogging with a woman who was in government employ and it emerged that he was giving lucrative contracts to her brother?
I'm guessing he'd only be in trouble if he was parked on a double yellow line.
That's how far standards in public life have sunk.

Grendel said:

Hancock will go - there will be more revelations - Johnson would like to hold onto him but can’t fit much longer

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Yes but only after he has absorbed as much media flak as Johnson wishes him to

Evo1883 said:

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Is she behind the lecturn?

It’s amazing now on here how all the lefties/Labour supporters now believe what’s printed in the Sun newspaper.

If he isn't going to resign or be sacked I suspect this is going to be in the news, and more, over the weekend. Can't see any news editors going to take the suggestion that this is now closed. Probably a maelstrom of shit coming their way in the Sunday papers.

It’sabatch87 said:

It’s amazing now on here how all the lefties/Labour supporters now believe what’s printed in the Sun newspaper.

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He’s admitted it?

shmmeee said:

He’s admitted it?

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I mean there’s literal photographic evidence of it

PVA said:

Johnson has said he won't be sacked and the matter is closed.

I wonder what story will appear in the papers over the weekend to deflect. Something about immigrants probably, that usually works.

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PVA said:

Isn't it pretty galling that we all follow the rules and obey the law, or face the consequences if we don't while those who tell us to follow the rules and obey the law can do as they please with no consequences.

Fuck this government and fuck this shitty banana republic they are turning us into.

But they don't like brown people, so CON +5

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Really weird take.

Ccfcisparks said:

I mean there’s literal photographic evidence of it

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I know just amazing how the sun is a rag when you want it to be now your printing stories from it on here!!

Earlsdon_Skyblue1 said:

Really weird take.

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he who doth protest too much

It’sabatch87 said:

I know just amazing how the sun is a rag when you want it to be now your printing stories from it on here!!

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No you are right it’s total bollocks

hill83 said:

I'd pay at least a tenner to see him as a nightclub special guest in a couple of years.

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The answer to your question is yes.

Grendel said:

Having affairs itself is not a problem. Arcuri before he was even back as an MP - it’s the creation of moral codes to others and breaching yourself that’s the issue

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I actually agree with you on that point. But he has talked about stuff like family values etc

And although he may not have been an MP he was in a high ranking public office (London Mayor) and she did get over £100k in govt grants and went on three trade junkets at tax payer expense.

It’sabatch87 said:

It’s amazing now on here how all the lefties/Labour supporters now believe what’s printed in the Sun newspaper.

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The evidence does look quite compelling

PVA said:

Johnson has said he won't be sacked and the matter is closed.

I wonder what story will appear in the papers over the weekend to deflect. Something about immigrants probably, that usually works.

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Warship sent to intercept a tiny dinghy and in doing so warn a load of French fishing trawler not to enter our waters.

Jobs a good'un.

shmmeee said:

Boris Johnson is @PVA and I claim my five pounds:

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If you had have said that on here last April you would been hit with a chorus of “would you rather live in Italy” from the resident plebs.

It’sabatch87 said:

It’s amazing now on here how all the lefties/Labour supporters now believe what’s printed in the Sun newspaper.

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You mean aside from the fact he’s admitted it given he couldn’t deny it because of the very clear evidence by way of a still from a CCTV camera.

It’sabatch87 said:

I know just amazing how the sun is a rag when you want it to be now your printing stories from it on here!!

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I merely shared its ‘blockbuster’ that they’ve sat on until they were told to release it. It merely solidifies the ‘rag’ status.

PVA said:

How is it?

A fair chunk of Tories don't like brown people (the PM, for one example), neither do a chunk of their voters.

Release some story about asylum seekers, take away from all the Hancock shit, CONS +6.

They literally do it all the time

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had your car cleaned this week mate?

Boosh said:

had your car cleaned this week mate?

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I haven't actually. Might do it this weekend. You?

CON +15

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Even the Telegraph are after him


Hypocrisy is too small a word for Matt Hancock’s betrayal of the public’s trust
Those who govern us are drunk on absolute power, and it's made men like Hancock reckless


On the 6th May 2020, Kay Burley, the Sky News presenter, asked Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health, for his reaction to the news that Neil “Professor Lockdown” Ferguson had broken Covid rules he had a big hand in imposing on the British people by inviting his mistress over for the afternoon. “It’s extraordinary,” said Hancock, that look of faux-concern furrowing his blameless brow, “I am speechless. Professor Ferguson took the right decision to resign.” The social distancing rules, he said, “are there for everyone and are deadly serious.”

On 6th May 2021, exactly a year later, Matt Hancock was caught on CCTV giving his aide, Gina Coladangelo, a sixth-form-disco snog in the corridor outside his office. Old friends from Oxford, the pair’s “brazen” affair has apparently been the talk of the health department during the pandemic. This time, it was our turn to be speechless.

When the image appeared on the front page of The Sun on Friday, the breakfast tables of Britain spontaneously combusted. The marmalade hit the roof, well, it did at Pearson Towers. Thousands of people posted reactions on social media. Some were bitterly mocking the official mantras: “Hands, Face, Back to My Place”. “Saving Lives, Shagging Wives”.

Others were simply devastating: “I wasn’t even allowed to kiss my dying father because of Hancock.”
The anger and disbelief were palpable. Was this really the minister who told us on the 17th May that, after fourteen months of physical and emotional self-denial, we were free to hug our loved ones, when, a fortnight earlier, he’d been giving mouth-to-mouth to some glamorous chum he’d put on the public payroll? Knowing Hancock, he’d call it First Aide.



At least we know why he’s had that manic smirk on his face for the last year. How exhausting it must be to deliver pious, finger-wagging homilies to the nation, warning the doubly-vaccinated that they still aren’t in the clear (breaking an earlier Hancock promise). Then, after menacing people to carry on observing the rules, there’s just time for a quick “pilot scheme” with the mistress before dashing home to the wife and three kids in north London. Apparently, Mr Hancock was happy to run the risk of giving “this lethal virus” to his poor family, even though such behaviour was strictly prohibited under his own regulations.

After an initial claim that the Health Secretary had “no comment on personal matters” and “no rules have been broken”, with public fury growing Mr Hancock had no choice but to apologise. “I accept that I have breached the social distancing guidance in these circumstances,” he said, “I have let people down and am very sorry… I would be grateful for privacy for my family on this personal matter.”
Seriously, does he think that will do? Why would he, who has interfered in every crevice of our personal and family lives, expect privacy for his own? It was the Prime Minister who visited a biscuit factory this week, but it’s his Health Secretary who’s the artful Jammie Dodger, trying to squirm his way out of trouble. You see, Mr Hancock didn’t just breach “guidance”.

The snogging session with Mrs Coladangelo happened during Step 2 of lockdown. Under the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) Regulations 2021, gatherings of two or more indoors were illegal except for permitted purposes such as “work”. But a work gathering had to be “reasonably necessary” to fall within the exception and be legal. We know that Matt Hancock has more front than Blackpool, but even he wouldn’t dare claim that his bit on the side was either reasonable or necessary. The minister broke the law and he must resign immediately or be sacked.

Am I being too harsh? “Give the guy a break!,” I hear some readers cry. At a time of national emergency, Mr Hancock has had one of the most stressful jobs. The pressure must have been immense. Surely, we can extend some leeway if he strayed.

Under normal circumstances, I would agree. We are all humble sinners and a man or woman’s private peccadillos shouldn’t disqualify them from doing their job. But no such understanding or humanity – not a sliver of mercy - has been shown by the Secretary of State or this Government to members of the public who have broken often cruel and arbitrary rules. Remember how we watched in horror as police arrested a retired nurse as she tried to drive her 97-year-old mother away from a care home. Hundreds of thousands of people have departed this life without a last touch or kiss from their best beloveds because the restrictions forbade it so relatives sobbed in the carpark because Matt Hancock said it must be so. Almost 30,000 children have been put on anti-depressants yet just one positive test (without any Covid symptoms) can still send an entire year group home to self-isolate for ten lonely days. Parents know this is insanity, but they must suck it up because that prating popinjay Hancock tells them it’s vital to keep us “safe”.

Do the authorities turn a blind eye to the suicidal publican who tries to find wriggle room in the guidance so he can pay bills that loom like warships in his nightmares? They do not. What do the couples who have to fill in a 25-page risk assessment this weekend so their guests can sit masked and far apart at their wedding, and not “mingle” or dance like the morning suits at Royal Ascot for fear of a £10,000 fine, think of the conduct of Matthew Hancock?

“I hate him,” says one bride simply. I hate him too. How dare Matt Hancock think he can flout the rules with impunity, rules which have caused an ocean of suffering to the good people of this country who have strived to do as they were told by this utter charlatan. Hypocrisy is too small a word for this betrayal of public trust.

I will leave it to others to plumb the murky depths of how Ms Coladangelo, who has a pitiful smattering of qualifications on her LinkedIn profile, landed such a juicy position with her old friend in Government. One thing, however, is crystal clear. The Hancock scandal has broken at the exact moment when even the meekest citizen is starting to question the Prime Minister’s prevarication over lifting restrictions and the ever more flagrant Them and Us application of exemptions.

If I had a gasket left to blow it would have exploded when Culture and Sports minister John Whittingdale explained this week how up to 3,000 Uefa officials will be allowed to arrive in the UK, without quarantine, for the Euro semis and finals. “We’ve always said that for some people who are important…”, said the hapless minister, accounting for the fact that normal people would be held to different standards.
“All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.” I never ever thought George Orwell’s satirical take in Animal Farm on an arrogant, unaccountable elite patronising the masses would apply in our country. More fool me. We’re all in this together, eh, Matt?

You know what I think happened? They got drunk on power in Downing Street. Maybe we can’t blame them. How intoxicating it must be to have absolute control over a previously strong-minded populace. Suddenly, we were jittery puppets on their string. But absolute power made men like Hancock reckless. If he could say and do anything he liked then why not have a thrillingly illicit affair while telling young people they couldn’t meet and fall in love, or have sex, for a year? Was the pleasure even greater when you knew it was denied to others?

We were told to stay in our bubbles. The Secretary of State for Health stayed in a bubble alright - a bubble of his own monumental self-regard and arrogant delusion. When the Prime Minister told Dominic Cummings that Hancock was “totally fucking hopeless” he was right. For the mass deaths in the care homes, for the glib fibs about PPE, for allowing the NHS to become the National Covid Service, creating a waiting list over 5 million long. He should have been sacked for any or all of those things.
Now, with fresh and overwhelming proof of his unfitness for high office, it seems that the PM still won’t fire him. What more will it take? The statement from Number 10 said: “The Health Secretary accepts that he has broken the social distancing guidelines. The Prime Minister has accepted the Health Secretary's apology and considers the matter closed.”

Trust me, it’s not closed. There are millions of us, and we are raging now, and we will not allow it to be closed. If the Government permits one law for Hancock and “important people” and another for the rest of us then it is morally bankrupt. Boris must act this very day to restore the people’s faith, to prove that we haven’t been mugs.

“What about Ferguson staying on?,” Kay Burley asked Matt Hancock after Professor Lockdown broke the rules.
“That’s just not possible in the circumstances,” replied the Secretary of State.

dubed said:

So, after this

Matt Hancock broke ministerial code over family firm given NHS contract

Health secretary breached code ‘in technical terms’, new adviser on standards concludes

www.theguardian.com

and this

Cummings told officials to bypass procedures on £530k grant to data team, leak reveals

we now have this

Matt Hancock 'affair': Aide Gina Coladangelo's brother has top job at company with NHS contracts

Roberto Coladangelo is the strategy director of Partnering Health Limited, which has several NHS contracts, Sky News can reveal.

news.sky.com

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If Johnson doesn’t have a quiet word this weekend (either you resign saying it was necessary ‘after stressful time, let people down, need to spend time with family blah blah’ or I sack you) this will severely damage the government

Hancock has always been a mixture of idiot/toxicity...now he’s just toxic

dubed said:

So, after this

Matt Hancock broke ministerial code over family firm given NHS contract

Health secretary breached code ‘in technical terms’, new adviser on standards concludes

www.theguardian.com

and this

Cummings told officials to bypass procedures on £530k grant to data team, leak reveals

we now have this

Matt Hancock 'affair': Aide Gina Coladangelo's brother has top job at company with NHS contracts

Roberto Coladangelo is the strategy director of Partnering Health Limited, which has several NHS contracts, Sky News can reveal.

news.sky.com

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He has to go .. it simply cannot be allowed to continue .

Apart from anything else, unless he resigns and adopts a low profile for a long time, he couldn't be taken seriously in any interview. All you'd be able to focus on on is "what a cock" (yes, yes..}. I know Boris needs him for the inquiry, but he would be seriously damaging his party if he didn't have him resign.

dubed said:

Apart from anything else, unless he resigns and adopts a low profile for a long time, he couldn't be taken seriously in any interview. All you'd be able to focus on on is "what a cock" (yes, yes..}. I know Boris needs him for the inquiry, but he would be seriously damaging his party if he didn't have him resign.

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Agreed, although not sure Johnson needs him for the inquiry. Cummings has already hung him out to dry, he’s got no credibility etc etc and I never thought he’d still be in position by then anyway. Also that inquiry is going to finger pointing all round (everyone covering their own arses). As you say, far more damaging to keep him. The public as a whole are rightly livid

CCFCSteve said:

Agreed, although not sure Johnson needs him for the inquiry. Cummings has already hung him out to dry, he’s got no credibility etc etc and I never thought he’d still be in position by then anyway. Also that inquiry is going to finger pointing all round (everyone covering their own arses). As you say, far more damaging to keep him. The public as a whole are rightly livid

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Isn’t the point that Boris needs Hancock for the enquiry so Hancock doesn’t also hang him out to dry? No honour amongst thieves and all that. If MHancock is no longer in the team who would he be protecting other than himself? I doubt his ego will allow him to not use the enquiry as an opportunity to try and rebuild his own personal reputation.