At least one Conservative MP has publicly called for Matt Hancock to resign today, as pressure mounts on the Health Secretary. Duncan Baker, the MP for North Norfolk, told the Eastern Daily Press that people in public office with positions of responsibility “should act with the appropriate moral and ethics that come with that role”. The Independent has more.
Mr Baker told the newspaper the health secretary should resign and said he had made his views known to Boris Johnson’s administration.
It comes after the prime minister attempted to save his beleaguered cabinet minister — declaring the matter “closed” on Friday — but questions have continued to mount over Mr Hancock’s conduct in office, after he was filmed embracing in his Whitehall office with a longtime friend he placed on the government payroll.
The Daily Telegraph also reported Conservative MPs were telling the prime minister to “pull the plug” on the health secretary, but, until now, have resisted from making their views publicly known.
Speaking on GB News on Saturday, Esther McVey, a former Tory cabinet minister also added to the intensifying pressure on Mr Hancock, saying: “If it had been me, I would have resigned myself.”
She added: “I’m hoping that Matt Hancock is thinking the same thing that he doesn’t have to have it pushed upon him it will be viewed far more admirably if he comes forward reassessing it and that’s what I’d like to see.”
I said the same thing on Twitter last night, arguing that he should resign for self-interested reasons.
Bill Clinton’s aides had a ’10-day rule’, meaning that if a politician manages to cling on for 10 days after a scandal breaks he can then survive because the media will inevitably get bored of the story and move on to something else. Alastair Campbell amended this to 11 days on the grounds that British journalists had a slightly longer attention span than their American counterparts. Eleven days from the Hancock story breaking in the Sun would be Monday July 5th. If I was a betting man – and I am – I’d say he’ll be gone by then.
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Steve Baker has a phd in “hot air”.
From fake eurosceptic to fake lockdown sceptic, this all round fake Tory backbench rebel makes career opportunism look effortless at times. Mind you, he is in good company.
Mr Crumble.
I ended all lockdown restrictions for myself ages ago.
So did I!
…..but then again, if the Prime Minister would like to take the time to invite me to number 10 and offer me the post of Junior Minister for Lockdown Enforcement I’d be quite prepared to argue for government measures to continue until the back end of 2023, at which point we can perhaps have a cabinet review of where things stand.”
As I posted earlier:
Masks, distancing, track and trace, mandatory tests, travel restrictions, caps on numbers, WFH guidance = lockdown
The 21st June will make no difference to my life. I do more or less exactly the same things now as I have done since lockdown started in March 2020, the only difference being the tennis club is open. Other than that, I don’t go anywhere or do anything that involves coronabollocks – which is more or less everything other than outdoor activity. I have continued to socialise privately, sometimes legally, sometimes illegally. But for the rest, life is over and will continue to be so, probably for decades.
Covid is great for jobswurfs. They love itvas an excuse for poor service.
Excellent !!!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd4GFaCXAKc&t=160s&ab_channel=IvorCummins
Apart from those over 80 who had two or more chronic diseases, SARS-CoV-2 has been LESS of a risk than ‘flu for the vast majority of people.
There is NO valid reason for anyone who is at minimal risk of harm from SARS-CoV-2 to have a “vaccine” for which there IS a risk of harm that is far from trivial.
The greatest danger to our long-term freedom is the “Covid Status Passport” or “Vaccine Passport”. The likes of Steve Baker, if they are not faux libetarians, must fight vigorously for the rights of everyone to refuse any medical intervention, especially any experimental drugs or treatments. It’s a fundamental right which a vaccine passport would remove whether or not that is the intention.
We MUST return to the pre-2020 way of assessing risk and the right of the individual to make their own risk assessment and not to be coerced into having a jab that carries a greater risk of harm than the disease must be protected at all costs.
After all, this is a respiratory virus that has resulted in the death rate for the UK in 2020 rising from slightly less than 1% to slightly more than 1%. This is not the “Doomsday Virus” that will, if it ever shows up, wipe out the greater part of humanity. For a virus that is essentially harmless to the vast majority of people under 65, an international vaccine passport that can be used to totally remove our rights in an instant is not needed, not warranted and must never happen.
We must not allow the medical business to gain total power over us all. Not now, not ever. It is a fundamental right that we’re allowed to refuse any forced procedure or treatment.
“Covid Status” documents ARE the end-point for this “emergency” and they have always been the plan. Resist this move to totalitarianism now while you still can.