It is slightly disappointing that there is not more of a kinky, salacious angle to this story like the tabloid God David Mellor. I was hoping that he might have been discovered dressing up in PPE or something.
He can't even do a Tory sex scandal well. ****ing hopeless!
The affair part is irrelevant, anybody is free to have an affair. The 2 questions that need to be addressed are;
Breaking government guidance - social distancing, hugging
Employing a friend - was this a fair interview process, was the friend really the best person for the job based on the interview process. The friend was also a lobbyist so that may be conflict of interest too.
The affair is very relevant.
It shows he's willing to be dishonest and therefore open to manipulation.
Now, whether he, his bosses or the voting public actually care is another thing. We already know he's willing to be dishonest as in holding shares and an enterprise that directly benefits from his position.
I feel slightly ill having used manipulation and position in a post about lil Matty's sex scandal.
"Minister for NHS fails workplace Heimlich assessment"
Senior politicians engaging in secretive illicit affairs puts them very seriously at risk of manipulation and blackmail
Doesn't that rely somewhat on the blackmailee being in possession of some sort of sense of shame or guilt?
you see... thats where the whole thing falls down
Saw her name and could think only of this. Please, someone with faceswap software do the decent thing.
What the hell is "exotic sounding" meant to mean, it sounds exactly like racism to me. @Mogrim, if that wasn't the meaning you were trying to communicate, perhaps you would like to clarify.
Oh, and shagging happens, it's great fun and if you no one is coerced into it or using it to get a job advantage, I can't see an issue.
Oh goody, another chance to divert our eyes towards Matt Hancock weeping on GMTV while the government get another 5 minutes of nobody looking at the utter balls up they continue to make of things in the name of "no losing face over Freedom Day and lets buy a pointless boat"
is the lady Priti Patel?
From elsewhere I've just seen
Hands
Face
Arse
What the hell is “exotic sounding” meant to mean, it sounds exactly like racism to me. @Mogrim, if that wasn’t the meaning you were trying to communicate, perhaps you would like to clarify.
You're reading far too much into this, it's not racism, just sounds foreign and vaguely exotic. Unless the fact that it conjures up (to me at least) images of dark-haired Italian women is racist, in which case guilty as charged.
sounds exactly like racism to me.
FFS
Grant Shapps has given an interview and insisted that everything is above board and Gina got her role following a "rigorous process".
Not the mental image I wanted this morning...
Mogrim isn't far off, and with a surname like "Coladangelo" he could be forgiven for the Italian assumption.
Oh, and shagging happens, it’s great fun and if you no one is coerced into it or using it to get a job advantage, I can’t see an issue.
So leaving his personal and professional judgment and conduct aside, we're totally fine that the Health Secretary has been conducting an affair with a director, shareholder and lobbyist for Luther Pendragon, a 'communications' agency that includes amongst its clients one that was recently awarded £2.5 million of public money for helping build the NHS Covid app? That's not in the slightest bit iffy?
I don't care about the affair in itself but how long has it been going on? Have they been braking COVID rules?
Hancock said that Ferguson was right to resign last year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52553229
I did wonder if "exotic" was just trying to sell the story, or undermine the self confidence of any "plain Janes" or might be code for "foreign"
To be fair, if I was a plain Jane and worked with Hancock, I'd be mightily relieved to know he preferred his ladies to be "exotic"
Another boost in the polls for the Tories in this inverse reality we now live.
An exotic Italian name is not exotic in Italy.
I'd forgotten the Ferguson story - that does put a slightly different slant on his position.
An exotic Italian name is not exotic in Italy.
I'm pretty sure Westminster is not in Italy, however.
What the hell is “exotic sounding” meant to mean, it sounds exactly like racism to me.
Oh here we go. Who let the fundamentalist in?
on making her a non-executive director of the health department.....
A government spokesman said the appointment had been made "in the usual way"
requires a bit of clarification really - is that 'usual' in terms of the typical practices of our current government or 'usual' by anyone else's standards.
So leaving his personal and professional judgment and conduct aside, we’re totally fine that the Health Secretary has been conducting an affair with a director, shareholder and lobbyist for Luther Pendragon, a ‘communications’ agency that includes amongst its clients one that was recently awarded £2.5 million of public money for helping build the NHS Covid app? That’s not in the slightest bit iffy?
this
I don’t care about the affair in itself but how long has it been going on? Have they been braking COVID rules?
Hancock said that Ferguson was right to resign last year.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52553229
/blockquote>and this
Add a healthy dollop of being a useless **** -tard and I really do hope his wife is currently emptying his bank accounts and shredding his wardrobe. Because his boss is not going to do the job. He can't do the job and sack him because the level of hypocrisy required would melt the space time continuum.
https://news-24.fr/qui-est-lassistante-de-matt-hancock-gina-coladangelo/
Married, rich, successful in her own right and now famous. 🙂
Statement from Luther Pendragon this morning...
Media stories today concerning Gina Coladangelo contain a number of inaccuracies about Luther Pendragon. The facts are as follows:
Gina Coladangelo ceased to be an employee of Luther Pendragon in 2014 and resigned as a Director in 2017. She has no involvement in the day to day running of Luther Pendragon, nor does she carry out any client work on behalf of Luther Pendragon. She receives no remuneration from Luther Pendragon, and has not done so since she ceased being an employee. She is a minor, not a major, shareholder in Luther Pendragon. It is factually incorrect to suggest otherwise.
He was 'working round the clock'. Or something like that.
She has no involvement in the day to day running of Luther Pendragon, nor does she carry out any client work on behalf of Luther Pendragon. She receives no remuneration from Luther Pendragon, and has not done so since she ceased being an employee. She is a minor, not a major, shareholder in Luther Pendragon. It is factually incorrect to suggest otherwise.
Nicely written, definitely cleared by a lawyer, and noticeably none of that contradicts the possiblity that she was lobbying actively for them.
A friend of mine was, in part, first attracted to her now wife because of her ‘exotic accent’.
Said wife has a very strong Lancastrian accent.
The sad thing is he has a wife and three small kids, so the fallout isn't going to be pretty for many people.
Also, he has the small matter of trying to do his job.
Nicely written...
Would you expect anything else?
Luther Pendragon is a London-based communications agency with a 25 year track record of ensuring clients tell their stories to the people that matter.
Edit: I didn't realise he'd got 3 little kids. What a total ****ing ****!
The affair is very relevant.
It shows he’s willing to be dishonest and therefore open to manipulation.
Willing to be dishonest is a given as a Tory MP and willing to be dishonest is not going to stand up in court. Like I said, the key 2 points are;
- Breaking government guidance – social distancing, hugging
- Employing a friend. Was this a fair interview process, was the friend really the best person for the job based on the interview process. The friend was also a lobbyist so that may be conflict of interest too.
2 pages in & no one is curious about Matt's ability to attract women?
I mean look at him? He's a pathetic human.
Luther Pendragon establishing a bit of “please don’t link us to this debacle” distance I think.
Shows their view of it.
I mean look at him? He’s a pathetic human.
Look at him? How shallow.
I am sure that the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care is an amazing person with an amazing personality.
2 pages in & no one is curious about Matt’s ability to attract women?
I mean look at him? He’s a pathetic human.
Dammit man, he works for Johnson! An overweight, dishonest, lying, cheating sack of lard in a badly fitting suit, that seems to find it impossible to stay away from women (if his child and affair count is to be believed).
If you have money or power, some members of the opposite sex will find that more attractive than the vessel that money or power resides in.
As for Matty, this may not impact his clearance, but it may cause questions next time he has to renew. It _will_ have left him open to 5e possibility of manipulation and people have been removed from post because of it.
It's hard not to see this as planned strategy.
Hancock caught on mysteriously leaked CCTV at the same time there's a big story about billions of missing tests in the ongoing Track & Trace Dido scandal?
After the Ferguson statements, the door has been kicked open to force Hancock to grovel an apology, resign and take with him a lot of the unanswered questions and heat for the Covid scandal.
All a little convenient for the government.
So leaving his personal and professional judgment and conduct aside, we’re totally fine that the Health Secretary has been conducting an affair with a director, shareholder and lobbyist for Luther Pendragon, a ‘communications’ agency that includes amongst its clients one that was recently awarded £2.5 million of public money for helping build the NHS Covid app? That’s not in the slightest bit iffy?
I'd assume that if someone was working full time in Westminster, practically everyone they met during the working day would be pushing some sort of agenda, be it party political, commercial, lobby or otherwise. So it might be iffy to you, but it isn't to me.
I'm glad that mogrim has cleared up the issue of his dog whistle racist language, I thought initially he had used it in error.
The idea that Labour politics now comes to losing election after election through their own collapse into wokeism, antisemitism and self destruction but then try to destroy the business of government by endless personal attacks and attempts to manufacture scandal where there is no reason for it in a sex-positive society is nasty. Kinder, gentler politics, eh?
It’s hard not to see this as planned strategy.
The received wisdom is that No 10 wanted to keep him around to take the fall for Covid cock-ups around PPE, care homes etc.
Resignation over this would muddy the water as to the reasons for his departure and deprive Johnson of his human shield.
I reckon he'll try to tough it out anyway. He appears to have no shame.
Not sure he can resign/be sacked given Boris's track record, but he is already firmly established as the whipping boy for the pandemic failures so he is expendable now.
I’m glad that mogrim has cleared up the issue of his dog whistle racist language
their own collapse into wokeism
I found the combination of these two lines in one post quite interesting.
The received wisdom is that No 10 wanted to keep him around to take the fall for Covid cock-ups around PPE, care homes etc.
I wonder if they're just so blinkered and self-motivated that they think if Hancock goes that we'll all just shrug our shoulders and just go 'fair enough, must have been his fault'
I wonder if they’re just so blinkered and self-motivated that they think if Hancock goes that we’ll all just shrug our shoulders and just go ‘fair enough, must have been his fault’
Got it in one. Well, the majority, anyway.
2 pages in & no one is curious about Matt’s ability to attract women?
I mean look at him? He’s a pathetic human.
See this:
So leaving his personal and professional judgment and conduct aside, we’re totally fine that the Health Secretary has been conducting an affair with a director, shareholder and lobbyist for Luther Pendragon, a ‘communications’ agency that includes amongst its clients one that was recently awarded £2.5 million of public money for helping build the NHS Covid app? That’s not in the slightest bit iffy?
Oldest trick in the book.
