I see Sajid David has got the gig.
No surprise there. When it comes to facilitating NHS money going to his circle, he already has an awful track record. He’s a shoe in to keep the flow of our money to their mates running as smoothly as possible.
Anyway…
https://twitter.com/spittingcat/status/1408860517003841536?s=21
1 down, 5 evil twisted liars to go (Patel, Rees-Mogg, Gove, Johnson, Kenrick)
No way he should have went over this matter.
I’d like to know the real reason he’s gone
There are a multitude of good reasons… this final one just happens to be the one the tabloids are happy to run and run with. If they won’t “move one”, then he has to. UK politics is that simple at times.
No way he should have went over this matter.
Really.
- really ?
This is the icing on the cake. This isn't how ever incompetence like the rest. It's deliberate ignorance of his own rules .
Live by sword die by sword.
Bye.
So in the midst of a global pandemic, on the eve of the third wave hitting we are without anyone 'running' the Department of Health. This is way beyond a joke.
I bet Boris is annoyed that he has lost his scapegoat before he outlived his usefulness.
That's my first thought at hearing he's resigned.
The second is who does Boris put there in his place? Someone remotely competent or someone else who can take the blame in a few years? One thing that is guaranteed though, there won't be a rush of applicants for that poisoned chalice!
we are without anyone ‘running’ the Department of Health
Javid is in, please keep up.
No way he should have went over this matter.
So you're OK with every aspect of his behaviour?
As jenrick was asked in last evening's Any Questions after yet more of his weasel words - what does a minister have to do to be sacked from this cabinet?
Moving on from that, javid must be desperate to have accepted to role; what a hero! Or probably not; just another compliant sycophant for johnson to play with.
Am I right in thinking Javid resigned as he wouldn't let Cummings dictate who his advisers were?
Bit surprised he's stepped back in now, had him down as another "keeping out of it ahead of the next leadership campaign" like Hunt.
He’ll be more competent … at making sure the NHS budget is a cash cow for those backing him and his party with the illusion of arm length decision making. The obvious ripe corruption will diminish, but the money will keep flowing out of a health system that really needs it. Read up on his past record on this. He’ll keep ****ing over the NHS, but in ways that’ll take real investigation years later to uncover, rather than Hancock’s very basic contracts for close contacts approach.
Ta dah Matty, you won't be missed. Don't let the door hit you on the arse on the way out. Now **** off you ineffectual little crook.
One down..... oh bloody hell, how many to go...?
Right, someone needs to blow the Gove thing wide open. But they'll face the wrath of Murdoch if they do...
Javed. Deutschebank, wasn't it?
He'll bleed the NHS dry for sure, but more slowly and carefully - which buys more time for the grownups to get rid of these bloodsucking bastards.
<Dreams>
Nah, Daz from Dagenham thinks Bozza is a lad and the NHS is for bedwetters and forrin freeloaders.
Still, nice to see one odious shit get his marching orders at least.
I prefer Matt Hancock to Sajid Javid. And I really don't like Matt Hancock.
Sajid Javid is a quisling imo. Anything to satisfy Tory bigots.
A fair few similarities with Priti Patel.
Resigning over a scandal? that’s refreshing.
Hancock has proved his worth as a Useful robot, he’ll be reinstated after 2024 as minister for ‘who ever causes the next sackable offence’
Really.
Yup
Can’t see it as any worse that the first minister and her face mask fiasco
I wouldn't be surprised if Bozo asked him to fall on his sword today after Bozo saying nothing to see here yesterday. Probably promised him another cabinet job in a year if he went of his own accord (had to go of his own accord as Bozo would have had a cheek sacking him for dipping his wick and he(Bozo) knew it)
I ran a business with my girlfriend who became my wife. The most business efficient collaboration I’ve ever worked in. In every business I’ve worked for, couples, whether official or not were extremely productive working with a complicity and efficiency well above the norm in the interests of the company.
There are always exceptions, though in my experience it almost always a disruption and causes back biting and cliques amongst colleagues. There’s always accusations of favouritism, whether true or not, which ultimately affects productivity. Additionally, as a participant I think you’re unlikely to admit that it caused issues, even if you were aware.
Ignoring his transgression, was yours a straight forward relationship? You mention that your ran a business together, which suggests a level of equality within the workplace. Is that a fair assumption? Im fairly certain you are not a member of parliament and Secretary of State for Health during the world’s biggest and most serious health crisis in living memory? I don’t think we’re comparing apples, are we?
He should’ve been concentrating on his job and ensuring his own family were safe.
The relationship is a distraction - for all we may know both wronged spouses may have given them their blessing.
It's whether the relationship was abused to get her a job, or award contracts etc.
I think there must be something wrong with me - I almost feel sorry for the little twerp. I’m sure I’ll get over it.
which suggests a level of equality within the workplace.
I always got to clean the bog but yup, we even took in turns to be gérant and gérant associé.
In Hancocks (ex) job I think ensuring the British population were safe (including his family) should have been his priority. I really don't think a quick grope and snog made him any less efficient. On the basis of people I've worked with, as everybody knew the score favouritism would have been harder rather than easier - no favours were gained. hancock though... . Some places have a corrupt corporate culture and otheres don't.
A couple of Madame's colleagues are now properly a couple, nobody is in the slightest bit bothered. I'd say it's a cultural thing but when I worked in the UK I had colleagues gently suggesting I get together with a colleague who apparently fancied me, they meant well but she wasn't my type, it certainly wasn't taboo. That was the early 80s though.
Reports coming in that he’s “left his wife, within an hour of telling her”.
He’s still a lying little shit. Good on her.
Is there an injunction on the (alleged) Gove story, or just no juicy pics to make it worth running?
Funny that you never get, say, the Sun reporting that a journalist at the Mail is carrying on with the intern or something similar? No journalist has ever been unfaithful?
Javid is in, please keep up.
Arse. We're ****ed.
Funny that you never get, say, the Sun reporting that a journalist at the Mail is carrying on with the intern or something similar?
Surely that down to two things:
A. The general public wouldn’t know who the person being outed is, in most cases. (Be no different to reporting about an affair in the plumbers merchant down the rd really)
B. An unwritten rule of not completely shafting each other, neither wants an arms race trying to spank the other. Not when they can go after a common enemy.
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Reports coming in that he’s “left his wife, within an hour of telling her”.
He’s still a lying little shit. Good on her.
Left his wife within an hour of telling her, for someone they’ve both been friends with for nearly 25 years. While apparently this is a recent thing I bet there are several people wondering if it’s been going on that long.
He apparently woke his 8yo up to tell them he was off.
His fancy piece has also been pictured packing her stuff into her car with her husband looking on.
I feel really sorry for his wife, her husband and their kids.
Any of us on STW could shout about govey govey's (alleged) infidelity but no-one would listen.
Diane Abbott using her media following to get the message out makes it just a little more difficult to ignore.
I saw the guardian article which referred to hancock leaving his wife - and family.
Question here is, I think, how much does Mrs Gina's husband want her back?
He has money; hancock doesn't.
He, presumably, has public support but neither his wife nor hancock do.
Would hancock's wife have him back?
What future will hancock have when his performance and honesty will be exposed in the covid public enquiry?
Note to matty - next time if there is one, make sure it's worthwhile when you bend or ignore the rules as this one wasn't worth it.
Further note to matty, don't get caught.
Murdoch press out to destroy Hancock
https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1408836391505645575?s=19
Headache for Johnson
He initially backed him
That covid inquiry can't come soon enough (sadly it'll be years away)
Short memories
Wonder if the Gove/Cummings affair rumours will turn out to be true after all! 😂
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-husband-s-gay-affair-with-gove
Late to the thread, and maybe it's been said already:
There's a lot of "I feel sorry for his wife comments" why? She was married to a Tory politician, this kind of behavior goes with the territory.
Once all those commissions are in he'll be dripping in it. You don't actually think he gave ginormous amounts of taxpayers' money to the testube specialist pub landlord, friends, rellies, donors out of magnanimous munificence do you? Johnson wants this matter closed as it could be, but unlikely, a gathering shitstorm. I think the only way we can get an inkling is by reading the foreign press, Jolyon Maugham seems to be the only one trying to hold them to account.
I prefer Matt Hancock to Sajid Javid. And I really don’t like Matt Hancock.
Same. He had to go though based not only breaking rules he hand a hand in but after the comments he made last year about another person doing pretty much the same.
Some people may think so what (if they ignore all the potential dogginess about Gina employment) but they would also think so what about anyone else breaking cover restrictions I suppose.
Is there going to be a class action type thing where anyone fined for anything Covid related over the last 18 months can just apologies and get their money back...
Apologies is this has been done, ive not read the entire thread.
I have to admit the first thought I had when I saw the footage was that it was fake. It doesn't even look like Hancock to me. Just a close resembling actor, and the biggest thing of all, WHY IS CCTV FOOTAGE SO SHAKEY? the camera is moving all over the place!
WHY IS CCTV FOOTAGE SO SHAKEY? the camera is moving all over the place!
Because the leaked video is from someone using their phone to film the footage off a monitor.
WHY IS CCTV FOOTAGE SO SHAKEY?
I expect it isn't THE footage - as in someone has taken the file off the CCTV system's computers. The person leaking the footage has filmed the CCTV screen with their phone
EDIT - well done for having faster fingers than me on a Sunday morning. Your turn to make the coffee
The highlight in the whole sorry saga for me.... Yesterday my gf had to explain to her 85 year old mum, in Tesco, exactly what the grainy image on the front of the Sun was, and who the people in it were, and what all the fuss was about. To which she replied "Liam Dutton would never do a thing like that".
Because the leaked video is from someone using their phone to film the footage off a monitor
makes more sense. Still think the "actors" look very fake.
Still think the “actors” look very fake.
Have you seen Matt Hancock doing absolutely anything and it not look like the result of bad acting?
There’s a lot of “I feel sorry for his wife comments” why? She was married to a Tory politician, this kind of behavior goes with the territory.
I have no idea what the stats say, or if they even exist, but I wouldn't assume that infidelity among Tory politicians is higher than in the general population. In fact my suspicion is that, for several reasons, it is probably lower.
