Hancock's Off

[Canary42]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/matt-hancock-stand-down-mp-133232327.html

[Mozz71]

No loss to anybody really.

[Gromit]

He has been instrumental in ruining the country, and has ruined his own career. So no surprise and glad he has gone.
He was the epitome of a Boris Minister. Selfish, dim and the political nouse of a kangaroos anus.

[ynnafymmi]

"Selfish,dim and the political nouse of a kangaroos anus"...the SNP will be contactimg him soon,they need an upgrade in their party right now.

[bobbinwales]

//He has been instrumental in ruining the country//
Its the right thing to do, his credability is shot.... but how do you justify that comment gromit??? test and trace and PPE was badly done .... but 'ruining the country'???? Nonesense

[naomi24]

I read somewhere his girlfriend said he was aiming to be a … ‘celebrity’. Oh dear…

[jno]

a few rats, or matts, leaving the sinking ship. Javid's on his way too: like Hancock he's made his name enough to look for bigger money elsewhere. Old voters will remember the dying days of the Major government when shysters like Hamilton and Aitken came to the fore.

[Peter Pedant]

He was the epitome of a Boris Minister. Selfish, dim and the political nouse of a kangaroos anus.

nous - but that is not the most impt thing. what IS a good minister - do they have to 'do' the subject on top of their ministry?
Doctor dept of Health, finance for treasury, be in work and have a pension for dept of work and pension
and ...( Naomi will love this ) be forrin or even speak forrin for the foreign office

someone who cd add wd be good for the Treasury - Anthony Barber 1974 ( who he den etc) had to use piles of matches

so Hanky - - - was he a bad minister?

[Peter Pedant]

well Kinnock after a zillion defeats, said - well there goes 20y of my life
he thinks or his con assoct thinks it is time to call it a day

[Gromit]

bobbinwales
The UK is in a worst state now than it has been for decades. Politically, economically and on the world stage. During this (fairly) rapid decline, Hancock has been there, in the cabinet, voting for it all.

[ynnafymmi]

SNP calling Hancock,SNP calling Hancock.Come to your natural home.Sex pests and total eejits always welcome.

[davebro]

Not much integrity/intelligence in today's politicians - or maybe they are just under more scrutiny.

[JDavis]

The upcoming 'star' of many reality TV shows?

[pastafreak]

How embarrassing

[bobbinwales]

still rubbish from you gromit... theres no way the country is ruined (its in a bad state and we need a change but its still one of the top economy's and is doing no worse than the rest of Europe... and he was no more to blame for any decline than lots of other Con ministers (or Union leaders or Putin or Brexiteers on all sides or anti Uk partys like the SNP

[Snackrite]

Lol, did someone say the uk is a top economy and is doing no worse than Europe?
https://www.voanews.com/amp/british-economy-worst-hit-in-g7-as-brexit-political-chaos-bite/6845814.html
This place is just as bad as Twitter for users who don’t do much research before typing

[bobbinwales]

thats just antibrexit stuff as you well know 'snackrite', lots of info available on high inflation and problems across europe if you take your Remain blinkers off which you dont seem to have lost

[Gromit]

bobbinwales
The Voice of America, and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development are not anti-Brexit Organisations. Dismissing them as such reveals your own bias.

[anneasquith]

Pantomime near you .

[bobbinwales]

Your confused gromit. Thats VoA cherrypicking info...yes Brexit has had negative impacts (but blame the public not Hancock) but still the rest of Europe is struggling just asmuch as us with inflation and unrest and US inflation is high.

[andy-hughes]

I think Mr Hancock is continuing to exhibit the absolute absence of judgement, to say nothing of basic awareness, that lost him his political career in the first place.

It's a bit rich writing to say he will not stand for Parliament, when his local constituency party have just passed a vote of No Confidence in him - he was never going to have the chance to run again anyway.

But what Mr Hancock fails to realise, having breathed in the heady fumes of reality television celebrity, is that such 'fame' is seriously short-lived.

I cannot think of one actual winner of the tawdry nonsensical show in which he disported himself for the amusement of the masses, who has actually genuinely used their victory to further their career in any meaningful way.

Since Mr Hancock has no television career whatsoever, and did not even win the show, his imagination that he is suddenly going to be a celebrity' is as likely to find fruition as his victory in a Handsome Young Man About Town contest.

What Mr Hancock fails to grasp, is that being beamed into the nation's living rooms on a show that would have registered every single viewer it had whether he was in it or not, is not going to translate into him being a requirement on any other television show, anywhere, ever.

He's talking of 'endless opportunities' ...

The man is a deluded idiot.