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#IWouldHaveMadeAnExcellentSpinDoctor
PS: that should count as a first as TSE has insider knowledge.
Is it fair to say that the government is rocking out with its cock out?
https://twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/652949163576041472
They were Hancock's facilitators. They are Johnson's facilitators. They gave a cabal of politicians extraordinary powers that, unsurprisingly, have been abused. As they were always going to be.
This does not just reflect badly on the Hancock and the government. It reflects badly on all the MPs who voted, several times, to endow these powers.
This is as much their fault as it is Hancock's.
John Rentoul
@JohnRentoul
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5h
Boris Johnson will keep Matt Hancock for now – and then reshuffle him. My Sunday article for
@Independent
Also, of course, entirely wrong, yet again, in my judgement of how things were going to pan out.
Stig Abell
@StigAbell
This will be an unpopular view but I do think that Hancock has had an incredibly difficult year, where he has worked against the odds in a sometimes impossible job. I am sure he tried his best. He definitely needed to go, but this sort of family angst is hard to gloat over.
Allison Pearson
@AllisonPearson
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14m
Are you kidding? He was responsible for the deaths of thousands of elderly people discharged from hospital into care homes. He lied and said he’d put a “ring of steel” around them!
He imposed harsh, cruel rules on others which he was happy to break himself.
I had written a thread at 11pm on the 2012 Presidential election to publish at 3am. Whilst I was asleep a plethora of new (and closer) polls (nationwide and state) had come out and Mike rightly decided to cover those.
Putting your mistress on the payroll at the taxpayer's expense seems to be a spooky coincidence.
Makes you wonder what the News Of The.. sorry Sun On Sunday has got ready to roll...
The Telegraph suggests that security in government buildings is usually handled by private companies. Remarkable if true.
At 9pm he rang up to ask if everything had gone OK. ‘No it bloody well didn’t,’ came the irritable reply. ‘The missing figures were 14 and 10. We had to rewrite it.’
More here:
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/rewind-to-1983-when-surrey-were-bowled-out-for-14-468576
Well, that’s me done with bacon, Carlsberg and bleak crime drama.
Lego can fuck off as well
https://twitter.com/elisjames/status/1408837477868126219
https://twitter.com/elisjames/status/1408845984910749701
Cheerio.
https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1408848743080894470?s=20
Yes its a big promotion, but it would set a principle of do well - get promoted, which is good, his old job is coming to an end so this would be a simple things to do, no need for a big reshuffle, and his past job will have given him some experience of dealing with the NHS/heath department, so less time needed to get him fully briefed up at what is a busy time for the NHS.
I spoke to some people who where at his selection to be the Tory candidate, apparently he came across as head and shoulders above all the rest, one chap who was on the committee told me, a (safe) seat like ours has an obligation to find people who can be good cabinet ministers one day.
Noticed @TSE asked about possible successors elsewhere, I'm not sure that Hunt should be in the running. He may have been Health Secretary for ages, but he did leave a poisoned chalice when it came to the outbreak of the covid19 pandemic.
*burps*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PktZ9R5XZas
https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1408847204631171074?s=20
https://twitter.com/ladyhaja/status/1408849441147265031
I do agree with Stig Abell, actually, that he put a lot of effort in. I have never seen a minister look so tired.
He did break his own stupid rules though.
@Keir_Starmer
Matt Hancock is right to resign. But Boris Johnson should have sacked him.
Can you follow suit please Keir
This time something made me stay my hand and I did not bet.
Feeling pretty happy right now.
He needs cutting down to size ASAP
It’s pretty much perfect, and they’re going Green on Wednesday. No quarantine. You don’t even need a test to come out
@tompeck
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19m
If Hancock’s looking for work, the barman from his local owes him a favour…
Cheapest lower primates available do the work, for peanuts.
Profits go to ...
@ShippersUnbound
NEW: Gina Coladangelo is leaving her position on the board of the department of health
Now can someone find out why she was employed (no health experience etc) and what she was doing all the time?
But my God you are welcome. They are overjoyed to see tourists
Jo Maugham
@JolyonMaugham
Why we are referring a series of transactions involving the Prime Minister's advisor Munira Mirza, Priti Patel and Matt Hancock to the Serious Fraud Office. THREA
Harding has no experience of testing.
They had - other qualifications. As in, they were friends of the right people.
Although even by those low standards this appointment was a blatant one.
As Charles insists, they definitely aren't RICO and its all above board as demonstrated by her removal as soon as he quit...
Normally, an early exit for the England team minimises the amount of vandalism, racism & violence associated with any given tournament.
Oh, I am sorry. I remember.
When the Scots and Welsh support ABE, that is evidence of our bad anti-English attitude.
Nick Clegg sized.
Might have tried to cling on otherwise. The response on Any Answers was both quite amusing and utterly brutal.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/sofia-twenty20-2021-1267300/romania-vs-serbia-1st-semi-final-1267310/full-scorecard
They absolutely adore Trump, hypocrites that they are.
https://www.betfair.com/exchange/plus/politics/market/1.183248116
This government has already declared all such mandatory resignation transgressions to be OK behaviour, cheered on by the remaining PB Tories. That a couple of them now claim to be on the moral high ground is a joke like the notion of propriety in a public office.
More likely, the release of the snog tape was to shape the optics of Hancock's fall.
When a person bribes a public official, the person is guilty of bribery and the official of corruption. Similar thinking should prevail when a minister negotiates mega-contracts using a private email account.
There must surely be a poll out, 7 is amazing otherwise
It depends if link between infection and hospital treatment and death is broken. Some say proven. Some say not proven yet.
Vaccines seem to be working at breaking that link in my opinion. If the next couple of weeks prove they are not, the government may have to lock us down even more than we currently are. That will deflate all of us.
The disappointing thing could turn out to be, racing ahead of the rest of the world in vaccination allows variants too much freedom to form elsewhere and then stop us from relaxing and declaring victory. 😕
BREAKING: Nadhim Zahawi will be Hancock’s replacement
Make of this what you will.