| Hancock 12:32 - Jun 25 with 7301 views | hype313 |
"I accept that I breached the social distancing guidance in these circumstances,"
"I have let people down and am very sorry.
"I remain focused on working to get the country out of this pandemic, and would be grateful for privacy for my family on this personal matter."
How has he not resigned?
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| Hancock on 15:06 - Jun 25 with 1668 views | m14_blue |
| Hancock on 13:49 - Jun 25 by HighgateBlue |
That's true. Hancock is an idiot and obviously a cheat.
But:
(i) there's a difference between breaking the law and not adhering to guidance. The media is lazy on this and just talks of "the rules" because it doesn't understand the distinction in many cases;
(ii) Ferguson was, in the language of the legislation, having a "gathering" which was unlawful;
(iii) Hancock was, as I understand it, working with this woman. So it was lawful for them to be in the same room;
(iv) the kiss was not a breach of any law. It was a failure to adhere to social distancing guidance, just as bumping elbows is also a breach of that same guidance. That happens all the time, including at G7 summits with the world watching.
So, if we are going to be indignant, we need to work out why.
Should Hancock lose his job for:
(a) being a Tory? No. However much you might hate them, we need a Health Secretary and they will all be Tories until a different party forms a government;
(b) breaking the law? No. He hasn't.
(c) being a hypocrite in saying that a different person was right to resign after breaking the law? No. Hancock has not broken the law.
(d) having an affair? No. I don't believe that someone should lose their job for having an affair.
People can feel free to hate this guy, of course, but I'm not sure there is any ground for calling for resignation. Hugging one's parents or grandparents was illegal in circumstances where they lived in a different household. Hancock meeting this woman and kissing this woman was not illegal. It's that simple. |
Jesus, they really have lowered standards and expectations so much that people actually believe stuff like this. |  | | |
| Hancock on 15:14 - Jun 25 with 1644 views | BlueBadger |
| Hancock on 14:06 - Jun 25 by chicoazul |
He allegedly is pictured kissing a subordinate at work which may amount to gross misconduct. |
Gross, definitely. |  |
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| Hancock on 15:15 - Jun 25 with 1638 views | DanTheMan |
| Hancock on 15:06 - Jun 25 by m14_blue |
Jesus, they really have lowered standards and expectations so much that people actually believe stuff like this. |
Having an affair at work with someone you hired?
Yeah that's totally cool, carry on everyone. Just a quick apology needed. We've all done it. |  |
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| Hancock on 15:17 - Jun 25 with 1636 views | hype313 |
Gets worse...
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| Hancock on 15:19 - Jun 25 with 1619 views | hype313 |
| Hancock on 15:15 - Jun 25 by DanTheMan |
Having an affair at work with someone you hired?
Yeah that's totally cool, carry on everyone. Just a quick apology needed. We've all done it. |
Also, not an ounce of remorse for the hurt he's caused his wife and children.
Absolute sh1tweasel of the highest order. | |
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| Hancock on 15:20 - Jun 25 with 1616 views | StokieBlue |
Given that Boris doesn't resign whenever he's caught out I guess he can't force his underlings to resign for following his example.
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| Hancock on 15:28 - Jun 25 with 1576 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Hancock on 13:40 - Jun 25 by ElderGrizzly |
Could Boris really do anything different given he did exactly the same as Mayor of London, if not worse
They are all absolutely morally bankrupt |
Well yeah, apart from the affair itself, Hancock broke the social distancing rules he's been urging us all to follow. This is worse than Cummings because Hancock is the Health Secretary.
If he doesn't get fired, or resigns, over this, then the Tories can literally just do what they want. |  |
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| Hancock on 16:32 - Jun 25 with 1496 views | ghostofescobar |
Hancock's diary (from the Daily Mash):
DURING the past 16 months, health secretary Matt Hancock has been tirelessly protecting public health while getting his dick wet. Here’s how it went down:
March 16, 2020
Covid-19 situation looking a bit iffy. Prime minister warning everyone not to go to pubs or clubs and avoid non-essential travel. Unprecedented and disastrous until I realise there might be a shag in this.
March 23, 2020
Lockdown announced by PM. Think he’s probably going to deal with the whole thing himself so next six months should be pretty relaxed. Might be a good time to hire that aide I fancy.
March 27, 2020
Contracted Covid. Call Chris Whitty explaining that a friend has caught it and needs to know if it’s sexually transmitted. He says coincidence, he’s just had the same call from Boris.
April 18, 2020
Deaths at record levels. PPE shortages critical. The whole country locked in their homes. Still on the bright side I just made third base and I feel f**king great.
May 1, 2020
Proudly confirm to Parliament that I’ve met my 100,000 tests a day target, by cheating. Proudly confirm to Boris that I had sex five times yesterday, by cheating.
June 15, 2020
As lockdown restrictions end, sadly explain that so must our illicit liaison. She takes it well. Add that if there’s a second lockdown we’re back on.
October 31, 2020
PM announces second lockdown. Greet aide holding bouquet with trousers round ankles.
December 16, 2020
Explain to aide I won’t be able to see her over Christmas because regulations will be relaxed for five days for groups of up to three households to meet. She asks if I believe that bollox. I affirm that it will definitely, without a doubt, happen.
December 25, 2020
Spend day shagging aide in office.
February 18, 2021
Wife asks why I have lipstick on collar. Accuse her of playing petty politics when we should be talking about our world-beating vaccine rollout.
June 16, 2021
Johnson described me as ‘f**king useless’. Rees-Mogg describes me as a ‘successful genius’. Aide confirms one of these is a filthy lie.
June 25, 2021
Leak footage of me squeezing aide’s @rse to Sun. If Johnson won’t do the right thing for Britain and fire me, I’ll have to force his hand. Also, look! I’m shagging! |  |
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| Hancock on 16:36 - Jun 25 with 1480 views | catch74 |
| Hancock on 16:32 - Jun 25 by ghostofescobar |
Hancock's diary (from the Daily Mash):
DURING the past 16 months, health secretary Matt Hancock has been tirelessly protecting public health while getting his dick wet. Here’s how it went down:
March 16, 2020
Covid-19 situation looking a bit iffy. Prime minister warning everyone not to go to pubs or clubs and avoid non-essential travel. Unprecedented and disastrous until I realise there might be a shag in this.
March 23, 2020
Lockdown announced by PM. Think he’s probably going to deal with the whole thing himself so next six months should be pretty relaxed. Might be a good time to hire that aide I fancy.
March 27, 2020
Contracted Covid. Call Chris Whitty explaining that a friend has caught it and needs to know if it’s sexually transmitted. He says coincidence, he’s just had the same call from Boris.
April 18, 2020
Deaths at record levels. PPE shortages critical. The whole country locked in their homes. Still on the bright side I just made third base and I feel f**king great.
May 1, 2020
Proudly confirm to Parliament that I’ve met my 100,000 tests a day target, by cheating. Proudly confirm to Boris that I had sex five times yesterday, by cheating.
June 15, 2020
As lockdown restrictions end, sadly explain that so must our illicit liaison. She takes it well. Add that if there’s a second lockdown we’re back on.
October 31, 2020
PM announces second lockdown. Greet aide holding bouquet with trousers round ankles.
December 16, 2020
Explain to aide I won’t be able to see her over Christmas because regulations will be relaxed for five days for groups of up to three households to meet. She asks if I believe that bollox. I affirm that it will definitely, without a doubt, happen.
December 25, 2020
Spend day shagging aide in office.
February 18, 2021
Wife asks why I have lipstick on collar. Accuse her of playing petty politics when we should be talking about our world-beating vaccine rollout.
June 16, 2021
Johnson described me as ‘f**king useless’. Rees-Mogg describes me as a ‘successful genius’. Aide confirms one of these is a filthy lie.
June 25, 2021
Leak footage of me squeezing aide’s @rse to Sun. If Johnson won’t do the right thing for Britain and fire me, I’ll have to force his hand. Also, look! I’m shagging! |
https://news.sky.com/story/matt-hancock-affair-aide-gina-coladangelos-relative-h |  |
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| Hancock on 16:38 - Jun 25 with 1473 views | hype313 |
They might aswell throw everything at him now, clearly he can't carry on so might aswell be used for cannon fodder.
I do wonder if they were hoping to keep him for a little longer, just for contingencies... | |
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| Hancock on 17:32 - Jun 25 with 1410 views | Pinewoodblue |
| Hancock on 16:38 - Jun 25 by hype313 |
They might aswell throw everything at him now, clearly he can't carry on so might aswell be used for cannon fodder.
I do wonder if they were hoping to keep him for a little longer, just for contingencies... |
Who would you appoint as replacement? Presumably not Jeremy Hunt? |  |
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| Hancock on 18:08 - Jun 25 with 1391 views | NthQldITFC |
| Hancock on 17:32 - Jun 25 by Pinewoodblue |
Who would you appoint as replacement? Presumably not Jeremy Hunt? |
Homer Simpson. |  |
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| Hancock on 19:32 - Jun 25 with 1328 views | bluejacko |
Not often or indeed ever that I agree with some people on here!
This however transcends politics no doubt about it he should be gone. | | | |
| Hancock on 19:47 - Jun 25 with 1316 views | BlueBadger |
| Hancock on 19:32 - Jun 25 by bluejacko |
Not often or indeed ever that I agree with some people on here!
This however transcends politics no doubt about it he should be gone. |
You were cool with all the incompetence and corruption but this is the last straw? | |
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| Hancock on 20:01 - Jun 25 with 1304 views | bluejacko |
| Hancock on 19:47 - Jun 25 by BlueBadger |
You were cool with all the incompetence and corruption but this is the last straw? |
Can’t say I agree with you😀
However to stand in front of the nation spouting all the rules and regulations and then chucking them in the public’s faces while ignoring his own rules🤬 | | | |
| Hancock on 21:33 - Jun 25 with 1265 views | You_Bloo_Right |
| Hancock on 13:49 - Jun 25 by HighgateBlue |
That's true. Hancock is an idiot and obviously a cheat.
But:
(i) there's a difference between breaking the law and not adhering to guidance. The media is lazy on this and just talks of "the rules" because it doesn't understand the distinction in many cases;
(ii) Ferguson was, in the language of the legislation, having a "gathering" which was unlawful;
(iii) Hancock was, as I understand it, working with this woman. So it was lawful for them to be in the same room;
(iv) the kiss was not a breach of any law. It was a failure to adhere to social distancing guidance, just as bumping elbows is also a breach of that same guidance. That happens all the time, including at G7 summits with the world watching.
So, if we are going to be indignant, we need to work out why.
Should Hancock lose his job for:
(a) being a Tory? No. However much you might hate them, we need a Health Secretary and they will all be Tories until a different party forms a government;
(b) breaking the law? No. He hasn't.
(c) being a hypocrite in saying that a different person was right to resign after breaking the law? No. Hancock has not broken the law.
(d) having an affair? No. I don't believe that someone should lose their job for having an affair.
People can feel free to hate this guy, of course, but I'm not sure there is any ground for calling for resignation. Hugging one's parents or grandparents was illegal in circumstances where they lived in a different household. Hancock meeting this woman and kissing this woman was not illegal. It's that simple. |
One has to wonder how many contracts were awarded to Hancock's aide's brother and whether this had any bearing on the relationship (or if you like, vice versa).
Illegal? I really do not know enough about the law to say but a resignation matter? In my view, certainly. |  |
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| Hancock on 06:53 - Jun 26 with 1187 views | Ryorry |
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| Hancock on 07:31 - Jun 26 with 1157 views | solomon |
| Hancock on 12:52 - Jun 25 by Timefliesbyintheblue |
Mainly because people like you footers (and a few others who frequent social media often), with the intelligence, education, aptitude, professionalism, sincerity, humility, loyalty, humour and dedication, never put themselves up for such high office - or prefer to judge others rather than let others judge them. Such a shame. |
I think it’s a simple as this really
He’s broken rules put in place to protect lives and minimise the risk. At that moment he decided it wasn’t important and worth the risk.
And on that fact alone (regardless of how you feel about him or our government) he has to go.
The naughty step won’t do on this one. [Post edited 26 Jun 2021 7:55]
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| Hancock on 07:57 - Jun 26 with 1129 views | bluejacko |
| Hancock on 07:31 - Jun 26 by solomon |
I think it’s a simple as this really
He’s broken rules put in place to protect lives and minimise the risk. At that moment he decided it wasn’t important and worth the risk.
And on that fact alone (regardless of how you feel about him or our government) he has to go.
The naughty step won’t do on this one. [Post edited 26 Jun 2021 7:55]
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The very fact that he broke the rules gives him no credibility whatsoever when trying to enforce any more ‘rules’
The stock questions from the media will be why? You didn’t follow them! | | | |
| Hancock on 08:17 - Jun 26 with 1117 views | eireblue |
| Hancock on 07:57 - Jun 26 by bluejacko |
The very fact that he broke the rules gives him no credibility whatsoever when trying to enforce any more ‘rules’
The stock questions from the media will be why? You didn’t follow them! |
It should also demonstrate that his boss, Johnson, is equally dismissive of the electorate. |  | | |
| Hancock on 09:21 - Jun 26 with 1082 views | StochesStotasBlewe |
| Hancock on 13:22 - Jun 25 by footers |
Catholic school.
Still, I'm a big name in the seminary to this day. |
You're big in the seminary?. Surely that is an ecumenical matter dear boy. |  |
| We have no village green, or a shop.
It's very, very quiet.
I can walk to the pub. |
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| Hancock on 11:54 - Jun 26 with 1007 views | Ryorry |
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| Hancock on 11:56 - Jun 26 with 1004 views | footers |
| Hancock on 11:54 - Jun 26 by Ryorry |
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Surely the good people of West Suffolk will do the right thing at the next...
Ah who am I kidding. |  |
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| Hancock on 12:16 - Jun 26 with 976 views | Ewan_Oozami |
| Hancock on 12:52 - Jun 25 by Timefliesbyintheblue |
Mainly because people like you footers (and a few others who frequent social media often), with the intelligence, education, aptitude, professionalism, sincerity, humility, loyalty, humour and dedication, never put themselves up for such high office - or prefer to judge others rather than let others judge them. Such a shame. |
People don't vote for " intelligence, education, aptitude, professionalism, sincerity, humility, loyalty, humour and dedication", that's why... |  |
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| Hancock on 12:24 - Jun 26 with 960 views | Ryorry |
| Hancock on 12:16 - Jun 26 by Ewan_Oozami |
People don't vote for " intelligence, education, aptitude, professionalism, sincerity, humility, loyalty, humour and dedication", that's why... |
Yep, we know that at least 52% of the population are gullible suckers. | |
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