UK Politics Thread (Part 1)

It reads like a paranoid conspiracy blog, and most of the comments are from anti vax/anti lockdown lunatics.

I can’t say whether the information is legit, but I’ve honestly never heard of any source suggesting that LFTs are a health hazard due to nanotechnology. That seems a bit hysterical to me.

It’s the 5 year anniversary of the Brexit vote today and I think that we can all agree that it’s going very well. Thank God it wasn’t divisive.

The Queen referred to Health Secretary Matt Hancock as “poor man” at a meeting with Boris Johnson.

“I’ve just been talking to your secretary of state for health, poor man. He came for Privy Council,” she told the prime minister.

“He’s full of…”, she added. “Full of beans?”, offered Mr Johnson.

Beans. Yeah, that was the word she was searching for… :rofl:

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I can’t figure out if this is a dead cat or him getting thrown under the bus.

Perhaps both.

If he stays on it plays straight to the narrative one rule for them/different one for us. Makes a mockery of the morality displayed with Prof Ferguson

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So will Hancock get sacked for breaking social distancing laws? Bet the world fell out his arse this morning when he saw the CCTV imagines everywhere.

Surely giving his bit on the side a job is out of line too, or is that ok now? I’ve lost track of what’s considered immoral with this government.

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I’d imagine that’s the first time he’s ever been called a dude

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To be honest, I’d be fucked off if this prick managed to survive the catastrophe he’s overseen - throwing care homes under the bus, the testing fiasco’s, track and trace etc - and the grim death toll that’s led to, and finally got the boot for nobbing his advisor.

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The fact that they were friends at university makes this whole story even more sordid.

Perhaps its simply a case of fate, 2 old friends brought together, during a pandemic.

But you do have to wonder how someone with no health/goverment experience is employed by the department of health to become Hancocks closest aide. It again appears like croynism. Perhaps its just me failing to see the overlap with the clothing marketing world.

Who would bet against their affair pre-dating her employment ?

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Fixed it for you.

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Sorry, I know it’s all fun etc, but the idea that ‘it’s ok because they’re all like that’ ends up in moral turpitude. It’s an argument used by corrupt shysters all over the world. Luckily there are upstanding, idealistic politicians who believe in what they say and who do serve their electorates. If we truly believe they’re all the same we might as well give up and allow ourselves to be ruled by a dictatorship.

I do like your optimism.

Yes there have been some upstanding and idealistic politicians but they seem to be the exception to the rule. It seems that as soon as they are elected they lose all their idealism and moral compass. I guess though this has been a theme right back to Ancient Rome. George Orwell expressed this in Animal Farm, - snouts in the trough, disregard for their fellow creatures etc. It does beg the question - Are MP’s, as individuals, corrupting the system or is the system corrupting them?

I can think of two or three modern, idealistic MPs with integrity - John Smith, Tony Benn (both dead) and Andy Burnham. Apart from those three I struggle to think of a single MP that I could say - “Yes this is the person I can follow.”

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Hires his unqualified girlfriend to a lucrative role and breaks the Covid rules he was involved in writing so he could continue to fuck her behind his wife’s back.

And nothing will happen.

I think it was right first time. These bastards are off the scale. Politics has always been a cesspit, but Johnson’s Tories have found new depths to wallow in.

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Someone knew about the affair, installed a camera and made this video. Then waited for “the right time” to make it public.

This photo was taken in May. Why is it been released 26th June?

:thinking:

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He should have been sacked.

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Spicy with Hancock. Scoop dirty laundry by the dirtiest of dirty laundry vendors.

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It is an obvious set up. Some dagger thrusting into soft underbelly indeed. This is just too tasty and too damaging to reputation for a conservative MP, so someone wants to hurt him. Personally, I would ignore as long as it is voluntary and he is not taking advantage of her (which I have no way to know), but this is death for a Con MP. The Corona stuff is just pretext as Johnson would not have forced a minster out of government for such a corona breach under normal circumstances.
Well, such is life in politics. Not the way you want to go out for posterity though.

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