The Matt Hancock File
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Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
Always when there is some government shitstorm like this, that I can’t find the BBC newspaper review on the BBC news app. Most days it’s there quite prominently, but on bad news days for the government it’s just not shiwn on the selected articles. Also sometimes they omit the most damning front pages like the Star. Definitely seems to be a thing. Has anyone else noticed this?
The more conspiratorial part of my brain thinks this is why the ‘poking the bear’ story happened a couple of days ago, just that they got the timing wrong.
The more conspiratorial part of my brain thinks this is why the ‘poking the bear’ story happened a couple of days ago, just that they got the timing wrong.
Mation
real life adventure worth more than pieces of gold
It's not particularly shiny.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
This old cunt hancock, wears a plain tie and "silly" socks. That's the suited and booted equivalent of a mullet haircut, business at the front party round the back. Still, I bet he's earned, swindled and stolen enough money in the last couple of years to last a lifetime.
maomao
普費斯
Has any Johnson minister resigned due to any sort of scandal yet? There were a bunch of protest resignations when he got in but no minister has left as the result of external pressure yet have they?
Letting someone go as a result of their personal conduct would leave him a bit exposed given his own behaviour. I think he'll do what he did with Cummings and just brazen it out. The Tory press are after him this time though so it'll be a bit harder.
Another problem is that Johnson was widely rumoured to be having an affair last year and if true probably broke lockdown rules to pursue it.
I doubt it'll be the end of this government but it could be more protracted and heated than what happened with Cummings last year.
Letting someone go as a result of their personal conduct would leave him a bit exposed given his own behaviour. I think he'll do what he did with Cummings and just brazen it out. The Tory press are after him this time though so it'll be a bit harder.
Another problem is that Johnson was widely rumoured to be having an affair last year and if true probably broke lockdown rules to pursue it.
I doubt it'll be the end of this government but it could be more protracted and heated than what happened with Cummings last year.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Expensive tastes, it's why they always want more
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Some reports are saying Johnson was already planning a reshuffle of the cabinet, and that could be brought forward to allow Hancock a dignified way out.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
And, you are surprised by that?
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
LEGITIMATE WORK PURPOSES!!
Probably actually true when your ‘work’ is to funnel public cash to your mates as fast as you can before you get found out.
bimble
floofy
Yep this, I can’t help feeling like all the outrage is a bit pretend. After the motorway eye test thing this is just dull.
bimble
floofy
I deem the matter closed.
Honestly i think in the long run much better if he stays, would help make the government look more obviously ridiculous to people who might not yet be convinced, but yep i think he's most likely going to go.
I do feel a tiny bit sorry for the woman, i think her real job has to do with people thinking she has good taste so that's over.
Honestly i think in the long run much better if he stays, would help make the government look more obviously ridiculous to people who might not yet be convinced, but yep i think he's most likely going to go.
I do feel a tiny bit sorry for the woman, i think her real job has to do with people thinking she has good taste so that's over.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Reasons Matt Hancock should resign or be sacked... RANKED!
1. Corruption
2. Nepotism
3. Being "totally fucking hopeless"
4. Lying
5. Cheating on his wife
Since all those apply equally to Johnson, it's only his smug charmlessness that stops him being definate Tory leadership material.
1. Corruption
2. Nepotism
3. Being "totally fucking hopeless"
4. Lying
5. Cheating on his wife
Since all those apply equally to Johnson, it's only his smug charmlessness that stops him being definate Tory leadership material.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
...or be imprisoned.
steveo87
22/11/2022 - got a maths joke.
As an aside, it's always amazed me that in countless civilizations there inevitably come a point where someone makes a cock.
Talking about cocks, Boris Johnson has surrounded himself with people equally as dodgy as him, as a way of deflecting attention away from his own incompetence.
Matt Hancock will stay on just as a distraction.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Hung, drawn, quartered and buried upside down at a crossroads. Nice traditional English punishment.
Dogsauce
I’ve got Skol but I’m not a Scholar
I think Charlie Brooker nailed it with ‘your sister’s first boyfriend with a car’.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
I've voted no purely because it's rumbling on today with more pictures and video. Also because I think there will be a reshuffle and he'll be out that way. How he can give serious announcements and expect to be taken seriously when everyone's seen grainy pics/video of him with his hands on a woman's arse and necking her is beyond me. For that reason alone he's gotta go. I also think public support for them might start to breach its limits soon if there's more and no one's sacked over it.
I could of course be completely deluded.
I could of course be completely deluded.
LDC
On est tous des pangolins
I think he'll go, but of course it'll just be a pragmatic decision based on polls, focus groups, and whether he'll be able to do any briefings ever again without getting ripped apart rather than any actual concern or anger by the government for what he did.
I do find the coverage and media outrage a bit shit tbh, given he's presided over some monumental fuck-ups, widespread incompetence, lack of care for people's lives, and cronyism that's resulted in tens of thousands of avoidable deaths I'm a bit meh about the fact he broke some rules and/or had an affair of some sort.
I do find the coverage and media outrage a bit shit tbh, given he's presided over some monumental fuck-ups, widespread incompetence, lack of care for people's lives, and cronyism that's resulted in tens of thousands of avoidable deaths I'm a bit meh about the fact he broke some rules and/or had an affair of some sort.
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