General Chat

I don’t, Maggie, however ….. there’s no way her husband could not have known what was going on as far as tenders (or not, as the case may be) are concerned if he and his officers were doing their jobs properly. Even if they did not work on that particular aspect of the job it was fairly obvious to the public. (Investigative journalism is good.)

Perhaps their perception of corruption is different from mine or more likely I think someone’s voice was going unheard.

I think the list of possible whistleblowers grows longer every day. :-0

Someone, somewhere, with a lot of patience, must have been exasperated by the utter waste of public money and perhaps with the thoughts of having to pay it back via direct and indirect tax rises.

Do you ever get the impression that many think of us as plebs?

Fighting the world pandemic seems not to have been a high priority.

I was just making the observation re his affair not his other behaviour ZZzzz. You were one of the lucky ones :-)

Well said LG, my thoughts exactly, we had marital problems but luckily be mended our marriage and are happy now.

I find it strange that Dido Harding can actualy apply for Government funded jobs, when her husband is the Government Anti-Corruption Champion!

Peter Hitchins :-D

Any little thing to catch out someone who is abusing his position in the way that Maggie wrote above.

It shows the calibre of some of our devious politicians who grab at anything to try to excuse their behaviour when it comes to handing out millions of our cash to family and friends. It also shows what they really think of the general public - disdain at the very least.

Most of us knew about the situation but could do nothing (until the next election) about it if other ministers disregarded the wrongdoing.

One person must have patiently waited his/her chance - probably as fed up as we were in watching certain people and firms making millions out of the taxpayer in a most underhanded, inexcusable way.

If the marriages already had their problems, that implies Hancock employed his mistress, and gave her brother a rather lucrative contract, with no tendering!

This is on top of his giving a firm his sister owns, and that he has (at the time undeclared) shares in, a contract - again, with no tendering.
This is a shredding firm, so the usual excuse for giving jobs to friends and family, of
'it was necessary to get health equipment as soon as possible so tendering was out' doesn't apply.

I wonder if anyone has considers that the marriages already had their problems and both sought love elsewhere. In my experience this is usually the case as nobody knows what goes on in a marriage behind closed doors

Mind you, this made me chuckle by Peter Hitchins in the MoS


"What an illustration of the uselessness of British politics. Matt Hancock wildly over-reacts to a virus outbreak and condemns the country to a multiple disaster of NHS breakdown, house arrest, endless debt, destroyed business, wrecked education, inflation and grasping taxation. And nobody cares. But when he is pictured kissing a woman, everyone calls for his resignation – not because she's not his wife but because he's allegedly breaking social distancing rules.

Life, as a whole, is becoming increasingly like Care in the Community. If it goes on like this, even I will need counselling."

And in the Mail this morning.

"Now it has come to light that the former Health Secretary told his wife, Martha, he would be leaving her on Thursday night - immediately after discovering that his affair with Gina Coladangelo was about to be laid bare. "

Apparently he told his wife on Thursday that he would be leaving her.

Stupid man, ruining his career and also probably his marriage for an adolescent 'mistake'. In a way, I feel sorry for him, nobody should be spied on in their own office. Yes our leaders should be above board but they are also human and to me this was nasty on the part of somebody obviously gunning for him. No before anyone jumps I am not defending his actions, I have said they were stupid, and unfair to his family, but not criminal. However, they need to find out who did send that photo. Imagine if it was any of the top politicians holding top level meetings in their office. I think they may have forgotten there are still 'enemies' out there. They need to be more vigilant.

These days, an honest politician is considered exciting news.

Public opinion is often more fearful than the law.

And now the other half of the hapless duo has gone.

Transpires, Hancock used his personal phone/email for the covid contracts he made, rather than his 'work' phone.
I wonder why?

As Boris is OK with unelected ministers, then perhaps Dido Harding could be considered. :-|

I agree Names, a thankless job :-(

Well,I suppose Hancock now won't have to explain the dodgy deals between friends and landlords!

I don’t suppose there are many queueing up to take on the job.

Good. I am sick of the holier-than-thou, do as I say, not as I do attitude of some of our ministers and cohorts.

The woman In the pic is unlikely to resign from her paid non-directorship exec position in National Health. Unless she’s pushed.

She ought to resign as it’s National Health but if I were her I’d only go if pushed as I think I’d look upon it as recompense for putting up with him.

It takes two to tango, I know but telling us how to behave during covid while misbehaving yourself smacks of over-privileged idiocy.

As I wrote elsewhere, they didn’t even have the nous to find a broom cupboard. ;-)

The whole situation stinks :-|