Goodbye And Good Riddance Hancock

[Bobbisox1]

https://news.sky.com/uk

[Prudie]

I feel those on this thread castigating posters for being angry at Hancock are totally missing the point. It's nothing to do with being squeaky clean or that he had an affair as if that's none of our business - it's the fact he has been physically touching someone he doesn't live with after telling the whole nation not to hug or touch anyone, however much they needed it if they don't live with us. To protect the NHS no less!

[New Judge]

//His job is to give out accurate information.//

But his job entails far more than that pixie. He has been the architect of Draconian legislation that has affected the entire population. His name appears at the bottom of the documents that impose the law. Lawmakers cannot be law breakers.

[pixie374]

Politicians aren't role models though. I would have been much more annoyed if he hadn't brought in sd rules, purely because he was having an affair.

[naomi24]

//I don’t see how Mr Hancock’s and Mrs Tress’s amorous clinch can fall within this guidance.//

I guess if they’d been conducting an affair for some time, which they had, social distancing wasn’t an issue for them - no more than it would be between any other long-term lovers. Yes, I know - he was instrumental in issuing guidelines - but this demand that he should have stopped kissing his lover - which is what it amounts to - really is utterly unrealistic and very petty…. in my opinion. He was pretty stupid in doing it so blatantly and getting caught - but this pedantic hysteria is irrational, unwarranted and, frankly, spiteful.

[Mamyalynne]

I wouldn't castigate anyone for feeling as they do, he has been a hypocrite and his position did become untenable.

Had I known he was off canoodling earlier, would I too have ignored the rules? No.

[pixie374]

Has he been? Has he publicised that he has followed all the rules, or just truthfully told us that is what we need to be doing?

[naomi24]

Neither would I, mamyalynne.

[pixie374]

I'm not actually defending him btw- I just see his position as giving us accurate information.

[naomi24]

^Me too.

[youngmafbog]

//but this pedantic hysteria is irrational, unwarranted and, frankly, spiteful.//

Well you would say that, I'm beginning to think if a blue rosette was on a pig you would vote for it.

All the comments relating to his hypocrisy are entirely justified.

[anneasquith]

Take yourselves back to the actual time Hancock was having a wee sneaky cuddle with his mistress in front of cctv. ( stupidity but not life threatening) . Did any of you whilst obeying the guidelines set by the health minister miss a cuddle, kiss, handshake, a last goodbye from a loved one . How many of you missed attending a funeral of a beloved friend. How many of you were too afraid to even go to the shops. And lastly how many people do you think have suffered mental health issues ( keeping to the guidelines set by this health minister ?

[Sqad]

Do what I say and not as I do.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Don't get caught as the consequences may be severe.

That sums it up for me.

Yes, he should have gone.
I agree with the comments of Martin, but just wonder as to the degree of hypocrisy on AB.

[Zacs-Master]

‘ wonder as to the degree of hypocrisy on AB’

It’s endemic.

[gness]

Most wouldn't have ignored the rules either, Mamya but the least excuse would have been seen as a free pass for lots.

My elderly aunt lives in the next village. I'd been visiting her regularly for probably as long as Hancock was kissing his aide. I had to stop visiting her.

[pixie374]

Wouldn't they have been in a bubble anyway for work?

[Zacs-Master]

You had to stop visiting Hancock’s Aide, Gness?

[teacake44]

You have to hand it to some on here still looking for a loop hole for Matt to be in the clear. :0))))

[pixie374]

TC, even NJ's post (i have only scanned through thread so far), only says //you will "usually" have to//. Were they in a bubble or not?

[douglas9401]

If he was going to swap spit in a secure monitored area he might have considered shielding or at least popped an umbrella up.

[Zacs-Master]

Cant see anyone whose stood up for Hancock, TC.