Yep they had to wait until after B&S byelection
Break up announced.
Request for privacy, eh?
https://twitter.com/brianmoore666/status/1411000302858350595
Brian Moore has it. Vine is such a hate spewing piece of work.
Gotta hand it to Gove
https://twitter.com/mikegove12/status/1411057872218296322?s=19
That he's been living with his aide has apparently been an open secret in Westminster for months
Now it's released immediately after B&s byelection and on a weekend when (whatever the score) Sunday front pages will be dominated by footy
Weird how the Mail doesn't seem to have the Gove/Vine story on the front page. I thought it would be right up their street.... 😆
If ever a post needed a Trigger Warning, I just tripped over this (from 2016):
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-husband-s-gay-affair-with-gove
"A few weeks ago I discovered that while he should have been focused on the fight of his life during the referendum campaign, David Cameron was instead obsessing over whether or not his justice secretary, Michael Gove, had had an affair with my husband, Dom Cummings, campaign director of Vote Leave."
Poor Hancock… it’s not enough that he lost his job, it he’s now being blamed for the by-election defeats as well.
What would be known as a super scapegoat. Was Brexit not going to plan his fault too?
gove was known to have a strong penchant for charlie
I see the press today are focusing on football and Gove, and not the call from the BMA to follow the data not dates when easing restrictions.....
What would be known as a super scapegoat
I did wonder how much they might have paid his aide for the right ‘result’ 🤭
Of course this is pure speculation for entertainment value only. Not to take away from the man’s many observable charms and/or sexy-time attributes (neither the aide’s good character)
Gove got aides?
Homes raided in inquiry into Matt Hancock CCTV leak
The UK press makes very free and easy use of 'anonymous sources' and although we're mostly supposed to imagine some shadowy Watergate 'Deepthroat' character ..... the reason sources are usually un-named is because if you knew who they were it would detract from the validity of story as its usually either a public relations consultant or just some general know-nothing or (as happened to a friend of mine who was unfairly smeared by a local paper) the 'source' is someone sitting at the next desk from the journalist writing the article who happens to feel a bit slighted.
I have very mixed feelings about the use of anonymous sources for stories but....
The Sun says an "angry whistleblower" first alerted it to the images.
But the newspaper's editor, Victoria Newton, has stated she would rather go to prison than reveal the leaker's identity.
On that basis alone I'm quite happy in this instance for the whistleblower's identity not to be revealed 🙂
Yup the Guardian editor grassed up "an angry whistleblower" and got Sarah Tisdall a six months prison sentence when threatened by a court.
Can't see the Sun's editor not doing the same when everyone knows that the Guardian occupies the lofty high moral ground.
they did clive ponting over as well did they not? disgusting behaviour
What crime has been committed here, anyone know?
What crime has been committed here, anyone know?
The cctv would count as personal identifiable information since its safe to be say they can be identified.
So be possible unlawful access to that and then unlawful sharing and variations along that theme.
I’m wondering if that was the only CCTV footage the ‘leaker’ has. Flushing them out might not be the best move politically.
If (when) they arrest someone, Mancock will be back in the headlines. When they inevitably get a ludicrously long sentence Mancock will be back in the headlines - neither will be in a good way for him or the party.
Happy to dob the perp/s a tenner for legal costs, if required and possible.
However, I hope Mancock gets let back into the inner circle as Defence sec. so some jolly wag can get the thick chopper to do a photo op in a Challenger.
If (when) they arrest someone, Mancock will be back in the headlines. When they inevitably get a ludicrously long sentence Mancock will be back in the headlines – neither will be in a good way for him or the party.
It will be great for the party if its on a day that Covid rates rocket, or deaths reach a significant number, or Boris's superinjunction runs out....
Johnson and Hancock back in happier times (when thousands were dying as they prepared to battle the boffins to save Christmas)…
Yup the Guardian editor grassed up “an angry whistleblower” and got Sarah Tisdall a six months prison sentence when threatened by a court.
After winning the first court case that was immediately overturned on appeal by the Attorney General. The editor of the Guardian was prepared to go to prison for not revealing his source, but was advised by lawyers that the likely punishment was going to be a large fine, that would increase the longer he refused to give up the name, faced with the possible bankruptcy and closure of the paper, and following the paper's stated policy at the time of always obeying the law; he gave the name to the court. Preston resigned immediately afterwards. Tisdall got sentenced to six months, served four
is the less obviously slanted story.
So it looks like they are prosecuting the whistleblowers - but taking no action over the actual law breaker they blew the whistle on.
Great.
What crime has been committed here, anyone know?
Misconduct in public office?
Oh, sorry you meant the data breach - well its either a covert surveillance system installed in a Whitehall office or someone leaked Personal Data from a UK Government server for commercial/political gain. Whilst it might seem OK that they leaked the sleezy ministers data, what if they had data on you that they just decide to give to the media? Who is the arbiter of when its in the public interest to give personal data to the Sun?
The cctv would count as personal identifiable information since its safe to be say they can be identified.
UK law has no concept of personally identifiable information - we have "Personal Data" - the two are subtly different, although in this case it is certainly Personal Data too; indeed its almost certainly "Special Category Personal Data" which has even higher requirements for processing/storing it.
So it looks like they are prosecuting the whistleblowers – but taking no action over the actual law breaker they blew the whistle on.
They are sending out a message load and clear here. This lot have got an awful lot to hide, so the last thing they want is whistleblowers.
Anyone of even thinking of going to the press with any dirt on ministers will have to think long and hard about doing so, watching this. And also that they are a law unto themselves anyway, so is it worth taking that risk when absolutely nothing will be done to them as a result of it.
Job jobbed!
Interesting, I only know some gdpr stuff, which isn't criminal AFAIK
can't imagine there's too much for this lot to be worried about, seems the senior Civil Service is pretty much part of the Cabal.
Good news - I'm sure the new ethics watchdog will be all over this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57860969
oh wait.
Nothing to see here - move along plebs.
This is the same bullingdon boys group who ripped up/burnt £50 notes in front of homeless beggars in the street?, the appointment is par for the course so I’m not surprised.
So what do we think of this?
"Government rules out searching Matt Hancock's private emails"
"The campaign group Good Law Project argued his inbox should be checked for the sake of transparency.
But the government rejected this, saying a sweep of emails was "neither necessary nor proportionate"."
It seems quite shocking to me that private email use relating to awarding of significant contracts is allowed to slide. What is being hidden?
It appears to me quite necessary in order to determine no wrongdoing has occurred and also proportionate as in using his personal email for government business he's implicitly broken the line between personal and professional, hence a search of personal emails seems reasonable.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57930820
Just crap isn't it - and an MP gets punished for pointing out the fact that the PM lied.
So what do we think of this?
“Government rules out searching Matt Hancock’s private emails”
With the amount of abuse going on in this government it would probably be an absolute can of worms for a whole lot of tory ministers.
Yep, imagine what other private email accounts Hancocks private email are going to. Get a view of his and you get a view of theirs.
WTAF is going on here!
Signed up to I'm a Celebrity... and had the whip suspended. Reported by the Guardian.
Why don't these people get on with the job they were elected to - represent their constituents!
Absolute farce and just add to the mounting evidence that Sunak is totally out of control of his party.
Yet more ammunition for Labour.
With the 24hr cameras we'll find out if he is Little Matty Handjob or not
😱
From throwing up a protective ring to throwing up an ostrich anus in just a matter of months. Life comes at you fast.
Another MP putting fame before constituents.....
There is atleast one other celebrity on the show that will likely rip into him on his record in government.
Could be... entertaining.
Why don’t these people get on with the job they were elected to – represent their constituents!
He's been busy writing a book as well about what a wonderful job he did during the pandemic...
https://twitter.com/JimMFelton/status/1587366422367215617?t=bBcPEbZHo6N3G6ravKThIQ&s=19
He will get absolutely battered on there.
He will get every single trial.
from Sky news -
Members of Matt Hancock's local Tory Party are less than pleased about his decision to fly to Australia to appear on I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.
Andy Drummond, the deputy chairman of West Suffolk Conservative Association, told the PA news agency: "I'm looking forward to him eating a kangaroo's penis.
"Quote me. You can quote me [on] that."
And SNP MP Pete Wishart said: "It speaks volumes that Matt Hancock would rather be stranded in a remote jungle eating kangaroo testicles than spend a moment longer on the Tory benches at Westminster, as Rishi Sunak's government lurches from one crisis to another."
He will get absolutely battered on there.
He will get every single trial.
Yip! He’s about to discover that the good old British public are a vengeful and sadistic lot and he’s about to get one hell of a shoeing
