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I think that is the end for Mr Mobot.
Might see enough disgusted Tories sit on their hands.
It's a race between CON staying at home and LAB staying at home!
Galloway won't win as his appeal is too limited...
If you were Burnham you would want Labour just to win, but still be behind in the polls for another year, so Starmer gets the boot and you can sweep in and save the day.
Japan is still very much behind the curve on Vaccination.
Where are the police now that its a Cabinet minister?
I think it's time for bed. Nite all.
That will be played over and over again on 24 hour news (unfortunately) and the pressure will be untenable for him. He'll be gone before the weekend is out.
I feel a teeny bit sorry for him. Maybe I should grow a pair.
or what?
How did it end up like this?
It was only a kiss, it was only a kiss
Now I'm falling asleep
And she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke
And she's taking a drag
Now they're going to bed
And my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head
But she's touching his chest now
He takes off her dress now
Let me go
And I just can't look, it's killing me
And taking control
Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
Swimming through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
'Cause I'm Mr. Brightside
And, I was Best Man at a wedding where, unbeknown to me, one of the bridesmaids intended to proclaim her lesbian passion for the bride, (this came as a complete surprise to the bride) only to get shut up by her friends.
When I see a baying mob led by Piers Morgan & the greasy hypocrites at the Daily Mail, my sympathies are always with the hunted.
It does feel vaguely insulting...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/15397278/matt-hancock-gina-coladangelo-date/
Her friend was there - the 2 girls started making out
He decided to leave - they said he didn't have to
He left anyway
I disowned him
Pressure grows on Boris Johnson to sack Matt Hancock as 60-seconds long footage of the scandal-hit Health Secretary's clinch with a married aide emerged tonight, with one Tory MP warning 'If the public want him out then he could be gone by Monday'
IF IF IF????
Bye Hancock!!!
He wants to keep us masked and locked up, regardless of what the data says.
Any last vestiges of sympathy I had for him - and a year ago I was prepared to cut him quite a bit of slack, poor hardworking bugger feeling his way through a crisis without precedent in his lifetime - evaporated then.
Meanwhile, thousands of little lives are made just that bit poorer - a cancelled trip here, a family not seen there, a restricted wedding, a pub's takings lost - because he is addicted to the power he wields.
He wanted to keep us locked up forever.
He deserves this kicking. And then another kicking. And another one after that. Kick him, and kick him, and kick him again until he goes away. And then send people round to kick him periodically to show him that we haven't forgotten.
The danger is this becomes "Hancock goes cos of sex scandal". Not "because of blatantly disregarding guidelines he helped draw up."
If the former impression takes hold, it will be open season on everyone else.
And I thought we were moving away from that kind of intrusive prurience.
For that reason he needs to be sacked. And it needs to be very firmly emphasised why.
Remember the Private Eye Diana cover;
"The papers are a disgrace."
"Yes, I couldn't get one anywhere."
At a human level, MH needs to just go and do a Profumo; rebuild his life by quietly doing good somewhere.
But politically... If he goes now, it establishes a level of media ordure that gets a minister out. And the government can't risk that.
If you make a promise/threat like Boris's "I don't give in to media pressure", you have to follow through no matter what- or you're done for.
I stand by what I said earlier about the kicking though. Because of what @dixiedean said - blatantly disregarding guidelines he helped raw up. And enforced with menaces. And because the guidelines are so wildly over-the-top and have caused such misery.
How long have they held it? Did Rupert ring Bojo “When do you want us to run it?”
To quote Iago: Oh, there's a big surprise! That's an incredib... I think I'm gonna have a heart attack and die from that surprise!
This Sun reader says 'Let them get on with it'
Thomas Hardy said he did not believe in marriage because people can naturally be very much in love with more than one person at a time. Unfortunately The Conservative Party has to believe in support for marriage and costs for adultery, so Hancock should be forced out to protect the sanctity of marriage.
I think if he goes, it will officerly be because of the hypocrisy, but that's a very dangerous president to set.
It took me quite a while to catch on to your habitually fine nuance. Think I have now.
So probably the whip hand is Mrs Hancock's.
In retrospect....
People favour rules for other people.
Exhibit A: Matt Hancock.
Enough already.
Unlock on 5 July and let human beings make their own judgements.
For the Health Secretary to then ignore the government's own rules by having an affair in the office on camera shows an impressive amount of contempt for everyone else
I know we are in a pandemic but rules should be defendable and followed by those in charge. If the rules are not viable to follow in practice, maybe they should have thought of that before making them.
The bottom line is simple. We have to respect the sanctity of marriage, especially as best for child rearing, otherwise it will result in chaos, very much anarchy in the UK. If Hancock doesn’t resolve this conflict in his private life the whole fabric of society will break apart.
I am disappointed by people who have affairs because it shows they are prepared to betray their other halves. I believe that the right of retribution lies with those other halves if it comes to light - and hence would not call for Hancock to go if these were normal times.
These are not normal times however. Hancock made rules for us to follow and has required people to resign for breaking them. He - and the government - have no right to expect others to follow those rules if he does not. This is weapons grade hypocrisy and he must resign. If he doesn't then he must be sacked. I'm pretty sure Boris realises this but is hoping that events will save him from making that decision. He may be a lucky general, but not this time.
For example
"We may require additional scientific knowledge to successfully collect on, analyze and characterize some of them."
In other words "we have no idea how that is even possible"
No.
That is an interesting admission to say the least.
I am sure some will find a way to defend Hancock's behaviour or somehow make it a Labour issue, I hope nobody here is the same.
Perhaps Starmer can just sit on his hands a bit longer
I doubt he'll get much sympathy either, though whilst some of the comments can be amusing others are going a bit hard on the 'disgust' angle frankly, particularly when it doesn't seem to be a joke.
So I think we can get over it.
How this translates into votes, I don't know. I mean, I lost any incilination to vote for the Tories 9 months ago, but I'm certainly not coming over to Labour because of this because they've supported every one of his pettifogging measures. I daresay for some this straw will be the last one though.