When "Cummings to Durham" broke I immediately chucked 100 quid on him staying.
This time something made me stay my hand and I did not bet.
Feeling pretty happy right now.
Yes, Wales getting hammered makes all happy now.
I am sure England will get hammered by Germany, and everyone bar the English will be absolutely delighted. (After all, England's lumbering attack has scored fewer goals than the Welsh).
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.
You need to be more like Mark Drakeford.
Those who understand Wales realised he was an awesome guy as well as politician and would do well, unlike you.
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
An outrageous accusation. Handing out £107m contracts without tender to your friends, patrons, mum and pub landlord is entirely above board as BigG and Charles endlessly insist.
It had to be done in a hurry or else we would be in the mess the EU are in, whose policy Labour fought for us to join, successfully seen off by the wisdom of Boris.
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 · 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.
You can side with the human being or you can side with Allison Pearson. Your decision is a mark of whether you have common humanity.
It leaves open the question of who put the camera there, which is probably not the same as who leaked it to the Sun.
The Telegraph suggests that security in government buildings is usually handled by private companies. Remarkable if true.
Is there much of a defence of national interest, or should those who likely received a huge pay day from the sun whilst also breaking their terms of employment and the OSA be perused and fired, or even jailed?
No they have done the nation a favour getting rid of a complete lying no good crooked chancer. Medal more appropriate.
If you want a holibobs, book the Balearics NOW. They are desperate for business, you can get 4 star hotels for 2-3 star prices, the hotels are 30% full in July so you can enjoy superb service and empty pools
It’s pretty much perfect, and they’re going Green on Wednesday. No quarantine. You don’t even need a test to come out
I'm on Barra and it's pretty fucking cool. Just back from St Kilda so it feels like New York. It has cars! Human inhabitants! Two bars!!
Enjoy! I shall be back there in September. Tis wonderful.
(Although jealous about St. Kilda. On the Bucket List....)
BREAKING: Nadhim Zahawi will be Hancock’s replacement
Make of this what you will.
Sounds like a good chose to me, the minister that led the one part of our Pandemic response that has rightly been a widely acclaimed successes.
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 of the people who was on the committee told me, a (safe) seat like ours has an obligation to find people who can be good cabinet ministers, and that why they chose him.
So let me understand. On Thursday night Hancock announced he's leaving his family, for his Mistress, who is on the government payroll, on his say so. And he, and the PM thought he could brazen it out? We need to be told exactly how long this has been going on.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that this is a Charles/Camilla thing and has been going on and for years/decade.
Like Hancock, Prince Charles went to the University of Cambridge.
What is it with the finest university in the world producing so many fornicators and adulterers?
Tbf, they do produce some quite exceptional shits.
Underneath all this is a small human tragedy. Broken marriage, kids in pain, it is sad. Can’t feel any satisfaction at Hancock going even if he absolutely HAD to go
He really didn't. He has done nothing that Shagger or the Traitor or himself have already done without even a slap on the wrist. Breaking the code? No penalty. Lying and cheating? No penalty. Lying to and bullying your colleagues? No penalty.
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.
This, a hundred times over - a reminder for the many right-wing dimwits who live on this blog.
If Hancock has resigned why hasn't the disingenuous racist fat fornicator (many times over)?
Agreed and his successor needs to confirm freedom on the 19th July
Virus permitting. That little virus has been rather forgotten in Tory discourse of late. (But it would be nice, I entirely agree.)
Infection rates are certainly upwardly mobile, not just in UK but outside. In some UK places hospitalisation rates doubling, though from a low base number.
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. 😕
Seems unlikely. It's always worth repeating that the evidence from the places that have been hit soonest and hardest by Delta, allied to that showing very high rates of protection from the vaccines against serious illness, points to a satisfactory outcome. The disease is undoubtedly going to seek out and kill some of the remaining vulnerable - overwhelmingly amongst the unvaccinated, and old people for whom vaccines haven't worked that well - but there's nothing to suggest at this stage that the hospitals will get swamped or come anywhere close to so being. And, without that, there's no excuse for domestic restrictions, because the ongoing harm that they cause will exceed their residual benefit.
If you want a holibobs, book the Balearics NOW. They are desperate for business, you can get 4 star hotels for 2-3 star prices, the hotels are 30% full in July so you can enjoy superb service and empty pools
It’s pretty much perfect, and they’re going Green on Wednesday. No quarantine. You don’t even need a test to come out
I'm on Barra and it's pretty fucking cool. Just back from St Kilda so it feels like New York. It has cars! Human inhabitants! Two bars!!
Enjoy! I shall be back there in September. Tis wonderful.
(Although jealous about St. Kilda. On the Bucket List....)
Got dive bombed by skuas and vomited at by a fulmar. Fucking birds. On the plus side saw and heard a corncrake on pabbay this morning.
Get to St Kilda, whatever it takes. It is magical.
When "Cummings to Durham" broke I immediately chucked 100 quid on him staying.
This time something made me stay my hand and I did not bet.
Feeling pretty happy right now.
Yes, Wales getting hammered makes all happy now.
I am sure England will get hammered by Germany, and everyone bar the English will be absolutely delighted. (After all, England's lumbering attack has scored fewer goals than the Welsh).
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.
You need to be more like Mark Drakeford.
Those who understand Wales realised he was an awesome guy as well as politician and would do well, unlike you.
Ah yes, now let me see. Our last little exchange was on George Osborne's jobs.
You promised little George only had the one job, honour bright.
Galloway is for British Muslims what Trump is for American Evangelicals. Someone that gives them permission for their bigotry and they adore him for it.
Except that American Evangelicals did not adore Trump. VP Mike Pence was the Evangelicals' man. You might recall Trump, for whom everything is transactional, publicly complaining that Evangelicals had not rewarded him for his Israel policy.
What Galloway will do is play the division card to get the Islamic vote, and then claim Starmer is out of step with Labour supporters. It really is the most shallow and dishonest politics, to burn and spurn and sow disunity and division rather than the hard work of building and uniting. For turning his back on doing the right thing he doesn’t deserve a single vote. Even Tories and Tory press should support the Labour candidate here to ensure Galloway does not end up with the biggest grin.
The Tories will be supporting the Conservative candidate, who’s now the clear favourite with the left vote split.
When "Cummings to Durham" broke I immediately chucked 100 quid on him staying.
This time something made me stay my hand and I did not bet.
Feeling pretty happy right now.
Yes, Wales getting hammered makes all happy now.
I am sure England will get hammered by Germany, and everyone bar the English will be absolutely delighted. (After all, England's lumbering attack has scored fewer goals than the Welsh).
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.
You need to be more like Mark Drakeford.
Those who understand Wales realised he was an awesome guy as well as politician and would do well, unlike you.
Ah yes, now let me see. Our last little exchange was on George Osborne's jobs.
You promised little George only had the one job, honour bright.
If you want a holibobs, book the Balearics NOW. They are desperate for business, you can get 4 star hotels for 2-3 star prices, the hotels are 30% full in July so you can enjoy superb service and empty pools
It’s pretty much perfect, and they’re going Green on Wednesday. No quarantine. You don’t even need a test to come out
I'm on Barra and it's pretty fucking cool. Just back from St Kilda so it feels like New York. It has cars! Human inhabitants! Two bars!!
After you’re done you must come to Majorca (or similar)
It’s like the Mediterranean 50 years ago. So quiet, so blissfully peaceful. And yet with modern restaurants and bars
The next few weeks will be a unique chance to see this perfect corner of the world, as it once was (yet with sushi bars). Later in the summer, certainly next year, the tourist hordes will be back, and this enchanted mood will disperse forever
Underneath all this is a small human tragedy. Broken marriage, kids in pain, it is sad. Can’t feel any satisfaction at Hancock going even if he absolutely HAD to go
He really didn't. He has done nothing that Shagger or the Traitor or himself have already done without even a slap on the wrist. Breaking the code? No penalty. Lying and cheating? No penalty. Lying to and bullying your colleagues? No penalty.
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.
This, a hundred times over - a reminder for the many right-wing dimwits who live on this blog.
If Hancock has resigned why hasn't the disingenuous racist fat fornicator (many times over)?
You do know he resigned over breaching his own covid rules not his affair
As so many have said on here his adultery is not the reason for his resignation and if it was, just how many politicians of all political persuasions would have to resign
When "Cummings to Durham" broke I immediately chucked 100 quid on him staying.
This time something made me stay my hand and I did not bet.
Feeling pretty happy right now.
Yes, Wales getting hammered makes all happy now.
I am sure England will get hammered by Germany, and everyone bar the English will be absolutely delighted. (After all, England's lumbering attack has scored fewer goals than the Welsh).
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.
You need to be more like Mark Drakeford.
Those who understand Wales realised he was an awesome guy as well as politician and would do well, unlike you.
Ah yes, now let me see. Our last little exchange was on George Osborne's jobs.
You promised little George only had the one job, honour bright.
When "Cummings to Durham" broke I immediately chucked 100 quid on him staying.
This time something made me stay my hand and I did not bet.
Feeling pretty happy right now.
Yes, Wales getting hammered makes all happy now.
I am sure England will get hammered by Germany, and everyone bar the English will be absolutely delighted. (After all, England's lumbering attack has scored fewer goals than the Welsh).
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.
You need to be more like Mark Drakeford.
Those who understand Wales realised he was an awesome guy as well as politician and would do well, unlike you.
Ah yes, now let me see. Our last little exchange was on George Osborne's jobs.
You promised little George only had the one job, honour bright.
PM appoints former chancellor Sajid Javid as new health secretary
Saturday 26 June 2021 19:51, UK
Why you can trust Sky News
Former chancellor Sajid Javid has been appointed health secretary after the resignation of Matt Hancock, Downing Street says.
The Bromsgrove MP previously served as home secretary from 2018 to 2019 - and then as chancellor until February last year, when he was replaced by Rishi Sunak.
In the middle of a pandemic you surely want a safe pair of hand, someone who knows the dept/area. I suppose Johnson still hasn't buried the hatched with Hunt.
Rightly, given Cummings was a liar, a bully, a crook, a forger and on his own admission presided over a system that was totally inadequate and unfit for purpose.
Underneath all this is a small human tragedy. Broken marriage, kids in pain, it is sad. Can’t feel any satisfaction at Hancock going even if he absolutely HAD to go
He really didn't. He has done nothing that Shagger or the Traitor or himself have already done without even a slap on the wrist. Breaking the code? No penalty. Lying and cheating? No penalty. Lying to and bullying your colleagues? No penalty.
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.
This, a hundred times over - a reminder for the many right-wing dimwits who live on this blog.
If Hancock has resigned why hasn't the disingenuous racist fat fornicator (many times over)?
Dimwits? Can't recall any posts of yours which suggest an IQ in the 3 figures.
Underneath all this is a small human tragedy. Broken marriage, kids in pain, it is sad. Can’t feel any satisfaction at Hancock going even if he absolutely HAD to go
He really didn't. He has done nothing that Shagger or the Traitor or himself have already done without even a slap on the wrist. Breaking the code? No penalty. Lying and cheating? No penalty. Lying to and bullying your colleagues? No penalty.
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.
Whatever. You lefties are just evil
I agree Hancock had to go. No question. Said it 24 hours ago. On here. Boris was a fool to even delay it
But Hancock seems a decent man doing his best who has majorly fucked up in a global crisis and comes across as a massive hypocrite. He now faces a broken family and kids that might hate him. I cannot gloat or exult in this situation, unlike you. Love and sex make people do stupid things. And, if pushed, I’d rather a man break the law and the rules for love, than money
He’s gone. It is done. Let him repair his life, if he can, in private
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
That thread is well worth a read. Maugham is obviously receiving lots of leaked emails etc. from within government, which suggests there's several whistleblowers around in the Civil Service (probably - it can't all be Cummings). As there should be - it really does smack of a) corruption, and b) massive wastage of taxpayers' money.
If you want a holibobs, book the Balearics NOW. They are desperate for business, you can get 4 star hotels for 2-3 star prices, the hotels are 30% full in July so you can enjoy superb service and empty pools
It’s pretty much perfect, and they’re going Green on Wednesday. No quarantine. You don’t even need a test to come out
I'm on Barra and it's pretty fucking cool. Just back from St Kilda so it feels like New York. It has cars! Human inhabitants! Two bars!!
After you’re done you must come to Majorca (or similar)
It’s like the Mediterranean 50 years ago. So quiet, so blissfully peaceful. And yet with modern restaurants and bars
The next few weeks will be a unique chance to see this perfect corner of the world, as it once was (yet with sushi bars). Later in the summer, certainly next year, the tourist hordes will be back, and this enchanted mood will disperse forever
Agreed and his successor needs to confirm freedom on the 19th July
Virus permitting. That little virus has been rather forgotten in Tory discourse of late. (But it would be nice, I entirely agree.)
Infection rates are certainly upwardly mobile, not just in UK but outside. In some UK places hospitalisation rates doubling, though from a low base number.
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. 😕
Seems unlikely. It's always worth repeating that the evidence from the places that have been hit soonest and hardest by Delta, allied to that showing very high rates of protection from the vaccines against serious illness, points to a satisfactory outcome. The disease is undoubtedly going to seek out and kill some of the remaining vulnerable - overwhelmingly amongst the unvaccinated, and old people for whom vaccines haven't worked that well - but there's nothing to suggest at this stage that the hospitals will get swamped or come anywhere close to so being. And, without that, there's no excuse for domestic restrictions, because the ongoing harm that they cause will exceed their residual benefit.
I’m not arguing. Insaid my reading of it vaccines are breaking that link. I’m certainly not anti vax, nor even sceptical of vaccines working to break that link.
But neither yourself or government defines swamped hospitals or acceptable number of corpses piled in street as different from unacceptable number of corpses piled up in street. Nor define the degree being under restrictions helps the success of vaccines to break the link.
And in terms of being ready for future variants, you are what percentage sure we are out of the woods? How do you know that?
In the middle of a pandemic you surely want a safe pair of hand, someone who knows the dept/area. I suppose Johnson still hasn't buried the hatched with Hunt.
Javid isn’t the greatest of ministers, but he is also unlikely to be the worst. Probably a sensible appointment.
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
An outrageous accusation. Handing out £107m contracts without tender to your friends, patrons, mum and pub landlord is entirely above board as BigG and Charles endlessly insist.
If you want a holibobs, book the Balearics NOW. They are desperate for business, you can get 4 star hotels for 2-3 star prices, the hotels are 30% full in July so you can enjoy superb service and empty pools
It’s pretty much perfect, and they’re going Green on Wednesday. No quarantine. You don’t even need a test to come out
I'm on Barra and it's pretty fucking cool. Just back from St Kilda so it feels like New York. It has cars! Human inhabitants! Two bars!!
Agreed and his successor needs to confirm freedom on the 19th July
Virus permitting. That little virus has been rather forgotten in Tory discourse of late. (But it would be nice, I entirely agree.)
Infection rates are certainly upwardly mobile, not just in UK but outside. In some UK places hospitalisation rates doubling, though from a low base number.
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. 😕
Seems unlikely. It's always worth repeating that the evidence from the places that have been hit soonest and hardest by Delta, allied to that showing very high rates of protection from the vaccines against serious illness, points to a satisfactory outcome. The disease is undoubtedly going to seek out and kill some of the remaining vulnerable - overwhelmingly amongst the unvaccinated, and old people for whom vaccines haven't worked that well - but there's nothing to suggest at this stage that the hospitals will get swamped or come anywhere close to so being. And, without that, there's no excuse for domestic restrictions, because the ongoing harm that they cause will exceed their residual benefit.
If a person is unvaccinated, does it matter whether they catch the infection from another unvaccinated person or from a vaccinated person whose symptoms have been caused by the vaccine to be only mild (assuming quantitatively similar viral load)?
In the middle of a pandemic you surely want a safe pair of hand, someone who knows the dept/area. I suppose Johnson still hasn't buried the hatched with Hunt.
Javid isn’t the greatest of ministers, but he is also unlikely to be the worst. Probably a sensible appointment.
Yeah, not a terrible appointment. I'm just saying Hunt might have been a better choice given his previous and current roles.
Underneath all this is a small human tragedy. Broken marriage, kids in pain, it is sad. Can’t feel any satisfaction at Hancock going even if he absolutely HAD to go
He really didn't. He has done nothing that Shagger or the Traitor or himself have already done without even a slap on the wrist. Breaking the code? No penalty. Lying and cheating? No penalty. Lying to and bullying your colleagues? No penalty.
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.
This, a hundred times over - a reminder for the many right-wing dimwits who live on this blog.
If Hancock has resigned why hasn't the disingenuous racist fat fornicator (many times over)?
You do know he resigned over breaching his own covid rules not his affair
As so many have said on here his adultery is not the reason for his resignation and if it was, just how many politicians of all political persuasions would have to resign
I am not talking about the liar's adultery. I am talking about his lying, his racism, his dog whistle politics, his contribution to the breakup of our country. The man only cares about himself. This is our PM - the worst PM this country has ever had. I have a young son and the disingenuous t*at is no role model for him.
I couldn't care less if he shagged a thousand women.
If you want a holibobs, book the Balearics NOW. They are desperate for business, you can get 4 star hotels for 2-3 star prices, the hotels are 30% full in July so you can enjoy superb service and empty pools
It’s pretty much perfect, and they’re going Green on Wednesday. No quarantine. You don’t even need a test to come out
Thanks for the tip.
The only faff is Palma airport: long queues for passport - mainly covid with a hint of Brexit. Make sure you get a QR code by filling in the Spanish form online - takes about 10 minutes. Some chaos around baggage etc. The staff all look like people coming out of hibernation
But my God you are welcome. They are overjoyed to see tourists
But who is going to make the flint dildoes in Camden?
BREAKING: Nadhim Zahawi will be Hancock’s replacement
Make of this what you will.
Is that account ever accurate?
No. Sajid Javid has got the gig.
Health Sec is a hospital pass right now (pun). But Saj has got experience leading a biggish team in a shit storm at DB and is honourable. Let’s see how he does.
Hopefully Zahawi gets another cabinet position instead, teeing him up to go head to head with Rishi for the leadership next year.
Underneath all this is a small human tragedy. Broken marriage, kids in pain, it is sad. Can’t feel any satisfaction at Hancock going even if he absolutely HAD to go
In the middle of a pandemic you surely want a safe pair of hand, someone who knows the dept/area. I suppose Johnson still hasn't buried the hatched with Hunt.
Javid isn’t the greatest of ministers, but he is also unlikely to be the worst. Probably a sensible appointment.
Yeah, not a terrible appointment. I'm just saying Hunt might have been a better choice given his previous and current roles.
Not disagreeing. But boring competence even if it’s not inspired leadership would make a pleasant change.
So let me understand. On Thursday night Hancock announced he's leaving his family, for his Mistress, who is on the government payroll, on his say so. And he, and the PM thought he could brazen it out? We need to be told exactly how long this has been going on.
I wouldn't be surprised to learn that this is a Charles/Camilla thing and has been going on and for years/decade.
Like Hancock, Prince Charles went to the University of Cambridge.
What is it with the finest university in the world producing so many fornicators and adulterers?
Tbf, they do produce some quite exceptional shits.
Underneath all this is a small human tragedy. Broken marriage, kids in pain, it is sad. Can’t feel any satisfaction at Hancock going even if he absolutely HAD to go
He really didn't. He has done nothing that Shagger or the Traitor or himself have already done without even a slap on the wrist. Breaking the code? No penalty. Lying and cheating? No penalty. Lying to and bullying your colleagues? No penalty.
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.
Whatever. You lefties are just evil
I agree Hancock had to go. No question. Said it 24 hours ago. On here. Boris was a fool to even delay it
But Hancock seems a decent man doing his best who has majorly fucked up in a global crisis and comes across as a massive hypocrite. He now faces a broken family and kids that might hate him. I cannot gloat or exult in this situation, unlike you. Love and sex make people do stupid things. And, if pushed, I’d rather a man break the law and the rules for love, than money
He’s gone. It is done. Let him repair his life, if he can, in private
It is *awful* for his kids. Truly awful. Not that he gives a fuck.
How am I gloating about his resignation? Since this broke I have said repeatedly that he shouldn't go and I still think that. What he has done is no different to what the PM and Home Secretary and himself have done without sanction.
I suppose what may ultimately have counted for Javid is that there is no other appointment needs reshuffling. No junior ministerial ranks to change. No select committees to reorganise. Just Javid returning.
Galloway is for British Muslims what Trump is for American Evangelicals. Someone that gives them permission for their bigotry and they adore him for it.
Except that American Evangelicals did not adore Trump. VP Mike Pence was the Evangelicals' man. You might recall Trump, for whom everything is transactional, publicly complaining that Evangelicals had not rewarded him for his Israel policy.
What Galloway will do is play the division card to get the Islamic vote, and then claim Starmer is out of step with Labour supporters. It really is the most shallow and dishonest politics, to burn and spurn and sow disunity and division rather than the hard work of building and uniting. For turning his back on doing the right thing he doesn’t deserve a single vote. Even Tories and Tory press should support the Labour candidate here to ensure Galloway does not end up with the biggest grin.
The Tories will be supporting the Conservative candidate, who’s now the clear favourite with the left vote split.
But look just how the left vote has been split. The Conservative will gain due to someone presenting no solution to Israel and Palestine tension, just supping from it. At the very least the winning Conservative Party and their commentariat need to acknowledge this is distasteful, not do the easy thing and just ignore it.
Underneath all this is a small human tragedy. Broken marriage, kids in pain, it is sad. Can’t feel any satisfaction at Hancock going even if he absolutely HAD to go
He really didn't. He has done nothing that Shagger or the Traitor or himself have already done without even a slap on the wrist. Breaking the code? No penalty. Lying and cheating? No penalty. Lying to and bullying your colleagues? No penalty.
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.
This, a hundred times over - a reminder for the many right-wing dimwits who live on this blog.
If Hancock has resigned why hasn't the disingenuous racist fat fornicator (many times over)?
You do know he resigned over breaching his own covid rules not his affair
As so many have said on here his adultery is not the reason for his resignation and if it was, just how many politicians of all political persuasions would have to resign
I am not talking about the liar's adultery. I am talking about his lying, his racism, his dog whistle politics, his contribution to the breakup of our country. The man only cares about himself. This is our PM - the worst PM this country has ever had. I have a young son and the disingenuous t*at is no role model for him.
I couldn't care less if he shagged a thousand women.
I suppose what may ultimately have counted for Javid is that there is no other appointment needs reshuffling. No junior ministerial ranks to change. No select committees to reorganise. Just Javid returning.
Glad it is him and not Gove though.
Agreed. Hopefully the camera man has got a video of Gove with his trousers down too.
Weirdly, Boris is sticking to him and effectively accusing the public of hounding him out of the job. He's such a cock.
Unfortunately Boris has got far too big for his boots with this 80 seat majority. In just 18 months he's already like Blair was around 2003 and Maggie was in 1988.
He needs cutting down to size ASAP
I don't think people yet appreciate quite what a pure unadulterated charlatan the guy is. It's all a game to him, literally nothing more than that. Personal gratification drives all decisions. Unless you're a hard core leaver or bluest of blue partisans I expect this truth to dawn by at latest this time next year.
Agreed and his successor needs to confirm freedom on the 19th July
Virus permitting. That little virus has been rather forgotten in Tory discourse of late. (But it would be nice, I entirely agree.)
Infection rates are certainly upwardly mobile, not just in UK but outside. In some UK places hospitalisation rates doubling, though from a low base number.
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. 😕
Seems unlikely. It's always worth repeating that the evidence from the places that have been hit soonest and hardest by Delta, allied to that showing very high rates of protection from the vaccines against serious illness, points to a satisfactory outcome. The disease is undoubtedly going to seek out and kill some of the remaining vulnerable - overwhelmingly amongst the unvaccinated, and old people for whom vaccines haven't worked that well - but there's nothing to suggest at this stage that the hospitals will get swamped or come anywhere close to so being. And, without that, there's no excuse for domestic restrictions, because the ongoing harm that they cause will exceed their residual benefit.
I’m not arguing. Insaid my reading of it vaccines are breaking that link. I’m certainly not anti vax, nor even sceptical of vaccines working to break that link.
But neither yourself or government defines swamped hospitals or acceptable number of corpses piled in street as different from unacceptable number of corpses piled up in street. Nor define the degree being under restrictions helps the success of vaccines to break the link.
And in terms of being ready for future variants, you are what percentage sure we are out of the woods? How do you know that?
I would imagine that the Government will backtrack if the hospital numbers begin to surge in such a way as to suggest the threat of tents full of dying old people in hospital car parks has returned. So long as the victims aren't filling up intensive care capacity all over the country at once then they'll just keep going, and we're a very, very long way from that.
Nobody can be absolutely certain that we're safe from all future variants, but if you're concerned about one that substantially evades the vaccines and resets the clock to zero, then you're effectively talking about a whole new pandemic. If we lived in such terror of outbreaks of new respiratory illnesses that we decided to use socio-economic garrotting as a pre-emptive measure against their emergence then clearly we'd be living with masks and social distancing and the rest of it forever, and that obviously isn't sustainable.
Once there's reasonable cause to believe that the worst of the threat has gone then, for the sake both of averting economic collapse and collective nervous breakdown, the rules need to be dumped.
Underneath all this is a small human tragedy. Broken marriage, kids in pain, it is sad. Can’t feel any satisfaction at Hancock going even if he absolutely HAD to go
I suppose what may ultimately have counted for Javid is that there is no other appointment needs reshuffling. No junior ministerial ranks to change. No select committees to reorganise. Just Javid returning.
Glad it is him and not Gove though.
Agreed. Hopefully the camera man has got a video of Gove with his trousers down too.
BREAKING: Nadhim Zahawi will be Hancock’s replacement
Make of this what you will.
Is that account ever accurate?
No. Sajid Javid has got the gig.
Health Sec is a hospital pass right now (pun). But Saj has got experience leading a biggish team in a shit storm at DB and is honourable. Let’s see how he does.
Hopefully Zahawi gets another cabinet position instead, teeing him up to go head to head with Rishi for the leadership next year.
Certainly looking very diversity heavy at the top of the Conservative Party....
Some people on Twitter seem to think that Michael Gove is poised to take over from Matt Hancock. But are they confident that Gove’s private life is beyond reproach? Maybe Sarah Vine can shed some light on this #BacktoBasics
I suppose what may ultimately have counted for Javid is that there is no other appointment needs reshuffling. No junior ministerial ranks to change. No select committees to reorganise. Just Javid returning.
Glad it is him and not Gove though.
Agreed. Hopefully the camera man has got a video of Gove with his trousers down too.
Underneath all this is a small human tragedy. Broken marriage, kids in pain, it is sad. Can’t feel any satisfaction at Hancock going even if he absolutely HAD to go
He really didn't. He has done nothing that Shagger or the Traitor or himself have already done without even a slap on the wrist. Breaking the code? No penalty. Lying and cheating? No penalty. Lying to and bullying your colleagues? No penalty.
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.
Whatever. You lefties are just evil
I agree Hancock had to go. No question. Said it 24 hours ago. On here. Boris was a fool to even delay it
But Hancock seems a decent man doing his best who has majorly fucked up in a global crisis and comes across as a massive hypocrite. He now faces a broken family and kids that might hate him. I cannot gloat or exult in this situation, unlike you. Love and sex make people do stupid things. And, if pushed, I’d rather a man break the law and the rules for love, than money
He’s gone. It is done. Let him repair his life, if he can, in private
It is *awful* for his kids. Truly awful. Not that he gives a fuck.
How am I gloating about his resignation? Since this broke I have said repeatedly that he shouldn't go and I still think that. What he has done is no different to what the PM and Home Secretary and himself have done without sanction.
“It is *awful* for his kids. Truly awful. Not that he gives a fuck”
So, do tell, how do you know Matt Hancock “doesn’t give a fuck about his kids”?
You just don’t, do you? You absolutely have no idea, no proof, no nothing, no inside information, you make a vile assertion without any evidence because, well, that’s what lefties like you do, isn’t it?
So you be you. And maybe wonder - one day - if you are any better than the people you love to despise
Some people on Twitter seem to think that Michael Gove is poised to take over from Matt Hancock. But are they confident that Gove’s private life is beyond reproach? Maybe Sarah Vine can shed some light on this #BacktoBasics
Agreed and his successor needs to confirm freedom on the 19th July
Virus permitting. That little virus has been rather forgotten in Tory discourse of late. (But it would be nice, I entirely agree.)
Infection rates are certainly upwardly mobile, not just in UK but outside. In some UK places hospitalisation rates doubling, though from a low base number.
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. 😕
Seems unlikely. It's always worth repeating that the evidence from the places that have been hit soonest and hardest by Delta, allied to that showing very high rates of protection from the vaccines against serious illness, points to a satisfactory outcome. The disease is undoubtedly going to seek out and kill some of the remaining vulnerable - overwhelmingly amongst the unvaccinated, and old people for whom vaccines haven't worked that well - but there's nothing to suggest at this stage that the hospitals will get swamped or come anywhere close to so being. And, without that, there's no excuse for domestic restrictions, because the ongoing harm that they cause will exceed their residual benefit.
If a person is unvaccinated, does it matter whether they catch the infection from another unvaccinated person or from a vaccinated person whose symptoms have been caused by the vaccine to be only mild (assuming quantitatively similar viral load)?
I think you're answering your own question there - there will generally be a smaller viral load if you are unlucky enough to catch it from someone vaccinated.
Underneath all this is a small human tragedy. Broken marriage, kids in pain, it is sad. Can’t feel any satisfaction at Hancock going even if he absolutely HAD to go
He really didn't. He has done nothing that Shagger or the Traitor or himself have already done without even a slap on the wrist. Breaking the code? No penalty. Lying and cheating? No penalty. Lying to and bullying your colleagues? No penalty.
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.
Whatever. You lefties are just evil
I agree Hancock had to go. No question. Said it 24 hours ago. On here. Boris was a fool to even delay it
But Hancock seems a decent man doing his best who has majorly fucked up in a global crisis and comes across as a massive hypocrite. He now faces a broken family and kids that might hate him. I cannot gloat or exult in this situation, unlike you. Love and sex make people do stupid things. And, if pushed, I’d rather a man break the law and the rules for love, than money
He’s gone. It is done. Let him repair his life, if he can, in private
It is *awful* for his kids. Truly awful. Not that he gives a fuck.
How am I gloating about his resignation? Since this broke I have said repeatedly that he shouldn't go and I still think that. What he has done is no different to what the PM and Home Secretary and himself have done without sanction.
“It is *awful* for his kids. Truly awful. Not that he gives a fuck”
So, do tell, how do you know Matt Hancock “doesn’t give a fuck about his kids”?
You just don’t, do you? You absolutely have no idea, no proof, no nothing, no inside information, you make a vile assertion without any evidence because, well, that’s what lefties like you do, isn’t it?
So you be you. And maybe wonder - one day - if you are any better than the people you love to despise
This springs to mind - 'you who are without sin first cast the stone'
Underneath all this is a small human tragedy. Broken marriage, kids in pain, it is sad. Can’t feel any satisfaction at Hancock going even if he absolutely HAD to go
He really didn't. He has done nothing that Shagger or the Traitor or himself have already done without even a slap on the wrist. Breaking the code? No penalty. Lying and cheating? No penalty. Lying to and bullying your colleagues? No penalty.
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.
Whatever. You lefties are just evil
I agree Hancock had to go. No question. Said it 24 hours ago. On here. Boris was a fool to even delay it
But Hancock seems a decent man doing his best who has majorly fucked up in a global crisis and comes across as a massive hypocrite. He now faces a broken family and kids that might hate him. I cannot gloat or exult in this situation, unlike you. Love and sex make people do stupid things. And, if pushed, I’d rather a man break the law and the rules for love, than money
He’s gone. It is done. Let him repair his life, if he can, in private
It is *awful* for his kids. Truly awful. Not that he gives a fuck.
How on do you know he doesn't give a fuck ?
We know nothing of the private circumstances surrounding Hancock's marriage.
Unpopular though it is on pb.com, some gentleness is needed in these matters.
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Those who understand Wales realised he was an awesome guy as well as politician and would do well, unlike you.
'Hancock can survive if England beat Germany on Tuesday.'
Probably same for Corby.
(Although jealous about St. Kilda. On the Bucket List....)
And I believe his profession was in chemical engineering
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 of the people who was on the committee told me, a (safe) seat like ours has an obligation to find people who can be good cabinet ministers, and that why they chose him.
Boris Johnson's reply to Matt Hancock's resignation letter.
This is how Boris Johnson signs his name:
But those are rare circumstances.
If Hancock has resigned why hasn't the disingenuous racist fat fornicator (many times over)?
Get to St Kilda, whatever it takes. It is magical.
You promised little George only had the one job, honour bright.
https://tinyurl.com/ymj9jszd
It was the usual pile of offal from TSE.
That job was offered to him two days ago.
It’s like the Mediterranean 50 years ago. So quiet, so blissfully peaceful. And yet with modern restaurants and bars
The next few weeks will be a unique chance to see this perfect corner of the world, as it once was (yet with sushi bars). Later in the summer, certainly next year, the tourist hordes will be back, and this enchanted mood will disperse forever
6 point lead in the only poll here, seems amazing Labour are 6/1, esp with all this Tory sleaze gwan on
As so many have said on here his adultery is not the reason for his resignation and if it was, just how many politicians of all political persuasions would have to resign
... Actually a Johnson?
I'm on quite a roll today! 😉
CALLED IT.
Legendary modesty klaxon time.
How many jobs has Little George got?
Zahawi for Education Secretary, perhaps?
Saturday 26 June 2021 19:51, UK
Why you can trust Sky News
Former chancellor Sajid Javid has been appointed health secretary after the resignation of Matt Hancock, Downing Street says.
The Bromsgrove MP previously served as home secretary from 2018 to 2019 - and then as chancellor until February last year, when he was replaced by Rishi Sunak.
Whatever. You lefties are just evil
I agree Hancock had to go. No question. Said it 24 hours ago. On here. Boris was a fool to even delay it
But Hancock seems a decent man doing his best who has majorly fucked up in a global crisis and comes across as a massive hypocrite. He now faces a broken family and kids that might hate him. I cannot gloat or exult in this situation, unlike you. Love and sex make people do stupid things. And, if pushed, I’d rather a man break the law and the rules for love, than money
He’s gone. It is done. Let him repair his life, if he can, in private
https://castellsonclaret.com/gastronomy/olivera-restaurant-in-castell-son-claret-mallorca/
Hopefully its standards haven't slipped during Covid. We have never been disappointed.
https://twitter.com/TSEofPB/status/1408840754529804292
But neither yourself or government defines swamped hospitals or acceptable number of corpses piled in street as different from unacceptable number of corpses piled up in street. Nor define the degree being under restrictions helps the success of vaccines to break the link.
And in terms of being ready for future variants, you are what percentage sure we are out of the woods? How do you know that?
I don't believe it!
I couldn't care less if he shagged a thousand women.
Thoughts and prayers with the Labour party and the racists who hate darkies/don't think immigrants integrate.
https://vf.politicalbetting.com/discussion/comment/3454885
Edit - although if others tipped him yesterday when I was working I will concede their superiority.
Hopefully Zahawi gets another cabinet position instead, teeing him up to go head to head with Rishi for the leadership next year.
And all of it of Hancock’s making.
I get quite turned on by the Italian players singing their national anthem.
Muffle that klaxon....
How am I gloating about his resignation? Since this broke I have said repeatedly that he shouldn't go and I still think that. What he has done is no different to what the PM and Home Secretary and himself have done without sanction.
Glad it is him and not Gove though.
Edit: but wrong. Javid also a safe pair of hands.
Nobody can be absolutely certain that we're safe from all future variants, but if you're concerned about one that substantially evades the vaccines and resets the clock to zero, then you're effectively talking about a whole new pandemic. If we lived in such terror of outbreaks of new respiratory illnesses that we decided to use socio-economic garrotting as a pre-emptive measure against their emergence then clearly we'd be living with masks and social distancing and the rest of it forever, and that obviously isn't sustainable.
Once there's reasonable cause to believe that the worst of the threat has gone then, for the sake both of averting economic collapse and collective nervous breakdown, the rules need to be dumped.
In any case, surely the camera would have broken?
Some people on Twitter seem to think that Michael Gove is poised to take over from Matt Hancock. But are they confident that Gove’s private life is beyond reproach? Maybe Sarah Vine can shed some light on this #BacktoBasics
https://twitter.com/HackneyAbbott/status/1408852539202752514?s=20
But they aren't typical
It is common knowledge in Westminster and beyond.
Just don't ask how I know this.
“It is *awful* for his kids. Truly awful. Not that he gives a fuck”
So, do tell, how do you know Matt Hancock “doesn’t give a fuck about his kids”?
You just don’t, do you? You absolutely have no idea, no proof, no nothing, no inside information, you make a vile assertion without any evidence because, well, that’s what lefties like you do, isn’t it?
So you be you. And maybe wonder - one day - if you are any better than the people you love to despise
We know nothing of the private circumstances surrounding Hancock's marriage.
Unpopular though it is on pb.com, some gentleness is needed in these matters.