Look at pictures of the two together. He is at least 4 inches taller than her, maybe more.
Then look at the cctv again.
No chance the pictures / video are faked, that would have been an easy denial and done, plus maybe a lucrative court case.
Unless Hancock himself was in on the fakery himself, which would be a very interesting conspiracy theory, publishing fake photos and releasing fake videos is likely to cost the Sun very huge amounts of money.
No chance the pictures / video are faked, that would have been an easy denial and done, plus maybe a lucrative court case.
Unless Boris has something bigger to hold over him, and this is being used as a way to get him to resign without leaking the real info that maybe implicates other cabinet members.
The matter was closed anyway.
He had the full backing of the PM so there’s no need he would have to go.(well other than the fact he was the face and voice of public distancing, there was no chance he could ever go back on ta telly after this)
If the video was faked he’d be quids in and er not leaving his wife.
Unless Boris has something bigger to hold over him, and this is being used as a way to get him to resign without leaking the real info that maybe implicates other cabinet members.
Hmm it’s all pretty much in plain sight.
How big does it have to be, ripping off his mask to expose the lizards living amongst us 🙂
It is a shame that Johnson hasn't had to fire him because of the reasons I outlined above.
"So, Prime Minister, what did you sack him for?"
Any explanation leads on to obvious questions that compare his behaviour with at least one other cabinet member and more often than not Johnson himself.
Hancock will be back. No way he would have resigned without compo. He's an experienced turncoat and opportunist.
Lucky bugger, he got to resign to save glorious leader, after a year in the wilderness he’ll be back to reap even greater rewards.
It doesn’t even look like Hancock to me. Just a close resembling actor
It doesn’t sound like him either to me. I’d swear that it was the voice of Steve Coogan doing Alan Partridge.
Have I got news for you, bravo. "BREAKING: Matt Hancock praised for dedication to social distancing guidelines after nobody turns up to his leaving drinks."
Unless Boris has something bigger to hold over him, and this is being used as a way to get him to resign without leaking the real info that maybe implicates other cabinet members.
Yes, all consistent with the theory that Boris is a Russian stooge, I mean 'Boris', come on, talk about obvious clues. Clearly this whole thing is a KGB/FSB set-up and it's not inconceivable that this so-called mistress is a Russian agent herself, a classic 'honey trap'.
Funny that Gina Coladangelo's surname is a weird mix of Coca Cola and Michelangelo, just the sort of thing that a KGB handler might slyly concoct after an evening out watching a Gina Lollobrigida film at the Moscow Odeon. Funny too that there seems precious little evidence of her existence pre-Oxford.
It would be classic spycraft to enmesh an obviously brilliant rising star like Hancock - talented, enigmatic, handsome and charismatic - in a web of deception so as to be able to influence him at a moment of their choosing. My take would be that Hancock rumbled the whole thing - how Boris, like Murdoch, is a clumsy, malfunctioning android directly controlled by Putin's FSB and was set to reveal the truth.
Emphatically not a conspiracy theorist here. Do your own research.
Hahah - Clevery got seriously owned over that stupid tweet:
https://twitter.com/UkSleepwalker/status/1408893566013919240?s=20
Saw a headline this morning that said he was in line for a 16 grand golden goodbye for leaving a ministerial post. Ka-ching.
Hancock will be back. No way he would have resigned without compo. He’s an experienced turncoat and opportunist.
Not politically. He will go to the back benches and get his nose firmly in the trough of "consultancies" and "non exec directorships" for all those healthcare companies.
This "doing government business on Gmail" thing really gets up my nose. I have to do compliance training at least twice a year and sign to say I understand.
Don't use personal email for company business is front and centre always.
If I was caught sending mails to and from my gmail account to any customer, never mind a public sector customer, my feet wouldn't even touch the ground as my arse was slung out the door.
Yet these clowns think they are above all this as they hand out contracts to their mates.
and get his nose firmly in the trough of “consultancies” and “non exec directorships”
Having his nose in the trough of a non executive director is what got him into this mess. 🙂
Johnson declaring the matter to be closed when clearly it wasn't seems to indicate a certain amount of drift around No. 10. The 600m 'unaccounted for' tests (paid for.....but like so much else), Hancock using his private email for public business, the Carrie On HR dept, must a least produce a few squeaky bums on the back benches. When the end comes it comes quickly.
If I was caught sending mails to and from my gmail account to any customer, never mind a public sector customer, my feet wouldn’t even touch the ground as my arse was slung out the
This!
I work with anonymised patient data and even I would be in serious crap if I use my non NHS email
Its also glaringly unprofessional, there's no way he wasn't deliberately doi g it because he knows it was dodgy
Yep it's not as though they didn't get a wedge for a home office set up, which presumably came with all the HMG security protocols.
Having his nose in the trough of a non executive director is what got him into this mess.
Lets not allow this to slip by without giving it any credit. Bravo.
I feel dirty but I've just read Sarah Vines piece in the mail about MPs that leave their wives
There's a whole lot to unpack, especially in light of the rumours that Gove has moved in with a bloke
Also funny that Johnson (allegedly Carrie-but I don't buy the mysoginistic lady macbeth stuff) has replaced Hancock with Javid
Who Cummings also despises, so we can expect him to start leaking whatsapps about the Saj shortly
My tory (ex-kipper) mouthpiece of an MP (Jenkinson) has managed to retweet Cleverley's tweet above but strangely not a word about Hancock's behaviour or how he (Jenky) was full of support for Cummings last year. Oh well...
Having his nose in the trough of a non executive director is what got him into this mess. 🙂
Deserves another airing (like little Matty's snout probably got after the event).
There’s a whole lot to unpack, especially in light of the rumours that Gove has moved in with a bloke
I thought he already had, but the other person in the picture turned out to be Sarah Vine.😂
I'm genuinely confused why the government won't investigate the leaker
https://twitter.com/AdamWagner1/status/1408909397615591426?s=19
^^^^
Loony stitches up crook.
It is a result either way, but you have to wonder what the other grownup nations in the world are making of this.....
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This “doing government business on Gmail” thing really gets up my nose. I have to do compliance training at least twice a year and sign to say I understand.Don’t use personal email for company business is front and centre always.
If I was caught sending mails to and from my gmail account to any customer, never mind a public sector customer, my feet wouldn’t even touch the ground as my arse was slung out the door.
Yet these clowns think they are above all this as they hand out contracts to their mates.
This ^^
I'm in public sector and we get internal and external audits, we have an external Scrutiny Committee, procurement goes through a standardised internal process with every stage documented. Any hint of someone using personal email to conduct company business and the only stop they made on the way out the door would be a high ranking disciplinary committee.
That's before you consider the rank incompetence and shagging a work colleague in company time.
And these clowns are just blatantly corrupt to the core. Every single one of them deserves a thorough slapping.
5 more points to the Tories on the monthly polls?
😂
It's like John Major's lot all over again.
Hancock gets classier
We already knew he was a contemptible piece of shit, so no surprises there.
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
You know, I really couldn't give a toss about Matt Hancock punching above his weight. JAFT getting caught with his pants almost down. Chop one down and it's like a hydra's head.
But I can't help but wonder why this little snippet isn't raising more questions. Someone has recorded CCTV footage using their mobile from a monitor in what one would sincerely hope should be a secure location within a government building. Leaving "oh, how convenient" aside for a moment, this is surely a massive security breach.
I'm assuming it's not authorised security personnel because they would have access to the actual footage, unless they were clever enough not to show their hand (or dim enough not to know how to access it I suppose). So we've got unauthorised people wandering round the security station. Who else might be able to just pop in for a cup of tea and a bit of light photography? The next visiting Russian delegate? Murdoch / Banks / any one of a number of other slippery shits who might have an interest in a blackmail angle?
This “doing government business on Gmail” thing really gets up my nose. I have to do compliance training at least twice a year and sign to say I understand.
It's been a few years since had a reliable source on this so it may be out-of-date info, but the government's systems are (were?) powered by the Google suite. So it's likely that their professional email is in fact Gmail.
@Cougar I have no way of knowing whether that is true, but using his personal mail account (assume Matt.Hancock@gmail.com or something) as opposed to the government one (assume Matt.Hancock@Uk.gov or something) is something that ICO needs to get in on.
If nothing else, there will/should be a DPA in place for the gov.uk account which there may not be for the personal one. If the mails he sent contained PII or confidential information, he is likely to be in a world of pain and that does not include the sanctions for breaking the rules on transparency in government.
This is conjecture by the way, GDPR is not my thing. I just have to help protect within its guidance.
It's getting boring now, the guy was caught having an affair with someone he works with, same thing that has happened pretty much everywhere on the planet, he's now resigned from his position and his life is pretty much in ruins just now.
Everything in the papers is just political scoring, fake outrage or just hatred towards the guy who is pretty much just a bog standard politician, an empty suit in the head position doing the press and political stuff.
I have no care for tories, or politicians, but this stuff just now is just the same old crap of everyone coming out of the woodwork to comment on this, hell the other day we're reading about how matt hancock stopped people seeing their grandparents but did this, honestly, as if he's stood outside the old folks home in a hi-viz vest, or responsible for pretty much any of the contractual stuff, MPs and cabinet members only care about when it goes wrong and they're in front of a committee, until then it's just daily briefs and the thousands in the back offices doing the actual work.
I don't consider myself old fashioned but I wouldn't vote for someone who cheated on their wife in this way. Labour/Tory or any other party.
Also why does it take an affair to bring out all this other stuff (email etc)?
Also why does it take an affair to bring out all this other stuff (email etc)?
Because all >50% of the 'great' British public are interested in is who has been going balls deep in who and in what sexual positions (they can get all outraged if it involved 'European' exotic stuff).
hell the other day we’re reading about how matt hancock stopped people seeing their grandparents but did this, honestly, as if he’s stood outside the old folks home in a hi-viz vest
You do understand how people who decide the rules works don't you?
The government has spent a lot of our money trying to stop legal challenges to uncover just how utterly corrupt this man is, and he’s not alone. All this “other stuff” has been coming out for months now, just ignored. Further uncovering of his dodgy deals isn’t because of the affair, it’s just more “newsworthy” because of the affair. He should have not only gone long ago, but the government (not this one, but the one that should be put in place instead of this corrupt bunch) should be trying to get money back from all the failed and overpriced contracts given to contacts of Hancock, Gove, Cummings… all of them, including Johnson.
using his personal mail account (assume Matt.Hancock@gmail.com or something) as opposed to the government one (assume Matt.Hancock@Uk.gov or something)
Correct. My point was, pedantically perhaps, that the problem isn't that it was a Gmail account but rather that was his personal account.
Who fancies a sweepstake on how long it takes before he oozes back? Will it be longer than the 201 days between Amber Rudd resigning in disgrace and being replaced by Sajid Javid, and her return?
his life is pretty much in ruins just now.
I'm not sure that claim is true.
Okay he has been demoted from Cabinet Minister to Backbencher, but a lot worse could have happened.
And apparently he has now embarked in a new life with his lover.
So I am not sure how deserving of sympathy he is.
How long did it take Priti Patel to get back in after being kicked out for privately negotiating with foreign governments behind the back of the UK government/diplomats?
And Gavin Williamson? He was fired for leaking. And Boris Johnson? Fired from the Tory front bench for lying (something easily forgotten considering how often he has been fired from positions for lying).
A surprisingly tasteful 623 days. Though, she spiced that up by breaking the ministerial code again just 2 months before she returned to the cabinet.
