When I read “a backlog of criminal cases” I was hoping they were going to be against Hancock. Unfortunately not……..yet.
At least he has now proved the Peter Principle, by reaching his true level of competence while leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.
I hope he chokes on the wombat testicles.
Last edited 1 year ago by Rocky Martiano
Dougie Undersub
1 year ago
What else is a disposable clinical apron but a bin liner with an inflated price tag?
Sam Hill
1 year ago
‘Much easier to forget those nightmares, and to laugh once more, at Matt Hancock.’ Yes…but isn’t there a rather less flippant point to be made about how political figures have started to use reality TV as a personal tool to, if not sanitise, then to reinvent themselves to some extent? It’s not just I’m a Celebrity…, in the US we saw politicians appear on the US version of Come Dancing. Alan Johnson was on The Masked Singer. It’s as if appearing on reality TV does indeed act to engage politicans on a pop culture level and simultaneously scrub the past. Hancock might just be a ghastly example but he’s not alone. Far from it.
JR Stoker
1 year ago
Good article. Says it all. Thank you
Claire D
1 year ago
Liz Truss on next year’s Strictly Come Dancing, anyone up for a bet ?
Ian Stewart
1 year ago
Yeah it was all Hancock’s fault for absolutely everything covid related. As the nexus of evil he probably spawned the virus too.
He’s hated by millions whipped up by the media, like this article (which is beneath Unherd, unless it actually analysed the man); so going on the jungle programme is a lovely “**** you!” to the world. I like that.
Nothing in the article suggests he’s evil (although you could make a case for the dodgy procurement contracts). He’d probably make a decent mid-level civil servant, but the man was totally out of his depth as the key government minister fighting a health crisis. Evil, probably not; incompetent undoubtedly.
When I read “a backlog of criminal cases” I was hoping they were going to be against Hancock. Unfortunately not……..yet.
At least he has now proved the Peter Principle, by reaching his true level of competence while leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.
I hope he chokes on the wombat testicles.
What else is a disposable clinical apron but a bin liner with an inflated price tag?
‘Much easier to forget those nightmares, and to laugh once more, at Matt Hancock.’
Yes…but isn’t there a rather less flippant point to be made about how political figures have started to use reality TV as a personal tool to, if not sanitise, then to reinvent themselves to some extent?
It’s not just I’m a Celebrity…, in the US we saw politicians appear on the US version of Come Dancing. Alan Johnson was on The Masked Singer.
It’s as if appearing on reality TV does indeed act to engage politicans on a pop culture level and simultaneously scrub the past. Hancock might just be a ghastly example but he’s not alone. Far from it.
Good article. Says it all. Thank you
Liz Truss on next year’s Strictly Come Dancing, anyone up for a bet ?
Yeah it was all Hancock’s fault for absolutely everything covid related. As the nexus of evil he probably spawned the virus too.
He’s hated by millions whipped up by the media, like this article (which is beneath Unherd, unless it actually analysed the man); so going on the jungle programme is a lovely “**** you!” to the world. I like that.
Nothing in the article suggests he’s evil (although you could make a case for the dodgy procurement contracts). He’d probably make a decent mid-level civil servant, but the man was totally out of his depth as the key government minister fighting a health crisis. Evil, probably not; incompetent undoubtedly.