Following Matt Hancock’s resignation, the Prime Minister has appointed former Chancellor Sajid Javid as the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. BBC News has the story.
In a letter to the Prime Minister, [Hancock] said the Government “owe it to people who have sacrificed so much in this pandemic to be honest when we have let them down”.
Boris Johnson said he was “sorry” to receive the resignation.
Former Chancellor Sajid Javid has been confirmed as the new Health Secretary, Downing Street said.
Mr Hancock had been under increasing pressure to quit, after the Sun published pictures of Mr Hancock and Gina Coladangelo, who are both married with three children, kissing. The newspaper said they had been taken inside the Department of Health on May 6th.
Fellow Tory MPs, as well as Labour and the Covid Bereaved Families for Justice group, had called for the Health Secretary to be sacked.
BBC Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg said Number 10 had stressed that it had been Mr Hancock’s decision to go and that he had not been pushed out by the Prime Minister.
She said Ms Coladangelo was also leaving her role as a Non-Executive Director of the Department of Health.
In a video posted on Twitter, Mr Hancock said: “I have been to see the Prime Minister to resign as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.”
“I understand the enormous sacrifices that everybody in this country has made, that you have made, and those of us who make these rules have got to stick by them and that’s why I have got to resign.”
Hancock’s full letter of resignation to the PM can be read below:
The BBC News report is worth reading in full.
Stop Press: According to MailOnline it’s a love match between Matt and Gina and the ex-Health Secretary told his wife on Thursday evening that the marriage was over and he intended to leave her.
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But can Javid do parkour?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1013786371096547328
You couldn’t parody WanCock, he’s such an idiot.
All in all this is probably neutral to the cause of lockdown scepticism. He couldn’t be worse than Gove.
Anyone know if the new health minister is part of the Build Back Better cabal?
Yes
The “chumocracy” element is despicable and seems to have got worse, but pales into insignificance in the face of the destruction wrought by the coronamadness. Everything else is a distraction at present.
His letter makes me want to vomit, no apology for the millions he has caused distress to, no apology for the thousands he left to die alone because of HIS isolation rules, no apologies for the families of those who commited suicide because of his rules, no apologies to the elderly he consigned to death in care homes. I can go on we all know what he has done. Resignation must not be the end for this man, nothing less than criminal charges and a court case along with the rest in the cabinet and their advisors. Time the cess pit was dredged
Yes, the letter was more lies, beginning to end, “Sacrifces” the British have made. We made no sacrifices, there is no voluntary element: we were sacrificed. And it is still so.
He advertises his great success when he killed tens of thousands.
Mrs Hancock is probably in great shock and distress, not least for her young sons. But she is fortunate to be delivered from a psychopathic man, and I hope she can protect them from his influence as much as possible.
She married the shit.
Johnson, with his Davos Globalist ‘Build Back Better’ wouldn’t appoint someone who didnt want to, would he?
In his actual tv speech about his resignation, yes I felt physically sick watching it and listening to it, Hancock was openly defiant.
This resignation is a charade.
Hancock actually said that he would support the Governments efforts to “build back better” from the back benches.
The global cabal cannot resist telling us what they are actually doing.
But still too many sheep can’t or won’t acknowledge that.
Cut off the Medusa’s head, it grows another one. We seem to be plagued by a never-ending succession of monsters. My mythology knowledge fails me at the moment, how was the Medusa finally bumped off?
I don’t think we can expect the Mirror to help
Quite!
Where is Perseus when you need him? Someone like him would do
Hate to say but the blonde fat bloke in charge of this carnage would know. Ah just looked it up! It was Perseus who cut her head off apparently.
Okay so they are replacing one mad bastard with another. The fight continues.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire……
Has anyone asked Sajid Javid if he has a ‘bit on the side’?
If not he will be given one shortly to keep him on side.
I had the impression (in late March 2020) that Mr Javid was forced out as Chancellor in early 2020 as he had baulked at the lockdown plans being drawn up because of the spending implications of furlough etc., with Mr Sunak being drafted in. So let’s see if he is a believer in the Almighty, Omniscient, Benevolent State. I think I have answered my own question.
I thought the issue was that he had been told to sack his team and replace them with Cummings approved advisors?
Reading in between the lines, it sounds like we are fucked…
And there’s a truly constructive remark. Thank you so very, very much.
Relevant to understand what is going on in British politics:
Yuri Bezmenov – Ideological Subversion. KGB Defector
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEefbbApuaE
Relevant to understand what is going on in British politics:
The Communist Takeover Explained (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3LTrqv3sFE
Looking at the themes described in the Communist Takeover clip above and how it relates to what is playing out right before our eyes. Richard Grannon explains – a decent warrior.
The Takeover has Already Begun – A Secret Video Reveals All
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhCaZLLhls4&t=0s
Good riddance to Hancock – I think he actually believed his own hype. My only concern is that he could be allowed back in to a position of responsibility after a short period on the back benches.
I would like to think that Javid, as a former chancellor, must be aware of the immense collateral damage of ‘lockdowns’. He now has a golden opportunity to declare the pandemic over and earn the gratitude of the nation. Will he take it? We’ll find out next month!
HandyCocokInHerHand taking the ultimate piss.
Even in his resignation speech, the tosser manages to pontificate the ultimate message:
“BUILD BACK BETTER”
My response
“FUCK OFF”
Still building back better to the bitter bellend.
Another serial crook and incompetent. Be careful what you wish for.
Scumbag replaces scumbag. Bankster scumfuck to run UK health. Deutsche Bank lowlife. Javid’s wiki page says he took a 98% pay cut to get into politics. Purer than pure reasons no doubt about it.
Hancock made sure, even in his resignation speech, to get in the Build Back Better for the team.
Almost nobody could be worse than Hancock, even Gove. Hancock is what is sometimes referred to as a ‘gamma male’. You know the ones who are obsessed about prestige. I met him once ages ago in a private setting and though I didn’t speak to him it was well known in that circle that he ‘wanted to be a politician’. At the time I thought ‘another one, great’..little did I know. Javid…well realistically we weren’t going to get Steve Baker or Charles Walker. Best thing that can be said is that he isn’t a fanatic and shouldn’t personally feel attached to past policy.
All a distraction I’m afraid. The big turds throwing a little shit under the bus to deflect the attention.
I understand and concur with the concerns about Javid but Gove would have been far worse. So my take is that regrettably it’s the lesser of two very evils
I have to say, the video of Hancock and whats-her-face has been posted on Twitter all day and looks so odd I think it might be staged.
https://twitter.com/ladyhaja/status/1408523194596737026
There’s nothing natural about the way they move – it’s like watching really bad actors at a university drama.
Hancock is a psychopath, he never stops acting because it’s his normal demeanour.
Although I still tend to agree the whole thing is fishy.
I came on here to say exactly that. It’s like “right, let’s have a clinch and make it look like we are having an affair”
No lust, no passion. Very odd.
Yes, I agree. It looked set up. No passion whatsoever and so terribly lukewarm.
And not knowing about the hidden camera sounds a bit naff to me. And he didn’t look that upset giving his resignation speech either.
That embrase looks so awkward and that hand isn’t comfortable where it is. This was the first thing I saw when I saw it. And if you were after a cheeky snog you wouldn’t do it where there is CCTV. This is a setup for sure.
Or maybe it’s just that he’s a poor lover? Don’t read on if you’ve just had your breakfast, but he looks to me as though he’s probably enthusiastic but lacks finesse. It’s that overgrown-schoolboy schtick.
Exactly my thoughts. Wet fish Hancock is so passionless, an affair seems beyond him. His true desire lays in his lust for power. I have been so sick of him over the years, way before he was conveniently made health secretary before the scamdemic hit. He was the one, always coming out on the BBC, defending bad policy after bad policy. The epitome of the unprincipled brown-nosing suck up politician that infests our parliament.
This ‘affair’ has been staged for a reason that has yet to reveal itself. Whatever it is though, it won’t be a good one.
I suspect that Hancock was already getting too toxic – he’s the one getting all the hate.
None of these policies are coming from the UK government anyway. I’m going to post a video link here tomorrow (I need to make the video first) showing some pretty disturbing proof of corruption and criminality by the police that is happening in both The Netherlands and the UK.
Ever heard of cops taking drugs while managing a protest? It’s a new one on me.
You mean like the Nazis and amphetamines?
My thoughts exactly, yes.
Deck chairs on the Titanic
So, one maniac nonentity gone. Another put in his place. The mystery is how and why we accept that such obvious self-regarding half-wits should ever be MPs in the first place. And then, dear God, made senior members of the government, allowed in their sneering, ignorant way to order us all about until! halleujah!, their vast feet of clay are made public. Not that it wasn’t obvious from the start that these were and are grotesque inadequates, patently incapable of understanding that their grasping for power is precisely why they should never be allowed anywhere near any sort of state office. I am not sure sure even Evelyn Waugh could have parodied so absolute an arse, smug and patently stupid, as Hancock. And then let us all consider the damage this preening parakeet has inflicted.
Trying to be a bit optimistic about this nonsense, I do get the feeling that the Powers that Be have been trying to find a way to back out of all this, they seem to have been embarrassed by the ever increasing dodgy ‘case’ numbers. It just maybe that a new face will be a cue for a revised approach to testing and a rolling back of this ridiculous distribution of DIY test kits to school children and young people.
We live in hope.
I have lost count of the times I have thought along similar lines over the last 16 months…
Yep, we’ve had a lot of false dawns. Sadly I think this will be another one.
Don’t worry, Gates promised another.
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Of course he won’t be quarantining! He’s the PM for God’s sake, not a mere pleb hopefully to be eradicated before too long. One rule for us and one rule for them. Look at the G7 conference and those disgusting hypocrites cavorting about in plain sight, devoid of restrictions.
I wish Matt all the best!
NOT!