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Post by staffordshrew on Nov 2, 2022 23:09:30 GMT 1
They didn't suspend Boris when he buggered off on holiday though did they?
Boy George apparently going in too - but he doesn't have to eat animal bits 'cos he's a vegan. Peace!
No animal should die for the "entertainment" of making Hancock suffer. Except, maybe, he should be forced to eat Ant and Dec.
The whole format needs a revamp anyway - save money and make a better programme too - put Cabinet ministers, Braverman, etc. into I'm a Government Minister, get me out of here, based in the Manston migrant centre.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2022 15:54:38 GMT 1
It’s being widely reported he’ll be earning £400k for his time in the jungle, as much as I’m looking forward to seeing him suffer that’s obscene. It’s nearly five times the annual MP salary, for 2/3 weeks ‘work’.
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Post by staffordshrew on Nov 4, 2022 16:04:56 GMT 1
It’s being widely reported he’ll be earning £400k for his time in the jungle, as much as I’m looking forward to seeing him suffer that’s obscene. It’s nearly five times the annual MP salary, for 2/3 weeks ‘work’.
I wonder if Boy George will be doing something useful with his reputed £500K? Surely can't need the money.
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Post by kenwood on Nov 4, 2022 17:25:26 GMT 1
The whole format needs a revamp anyway - save money and make a better programme too - put Cabinet ministers, Braverman, etc. into I'm a Government Minister, get me out of here, based in the Manston migrant centre.
Based in Rwanda would be a better bet . |
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Post by staffordshrew on Nov 6, 2022 14:30:43 GMT 1
Are they flying in some animal " delicacies" from the Wuhan market to feed to Hancock?
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Post by northwestman on Nov 7, 2022 16:54:42 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Nov 7, 2022 18:45:49 GMT 1
On the subject of Hancock, I seem to have overlooked this article from February 2022. goodlawproject.org/update/dido-harding-mike-coupe-unlawful/In a landmark verdict, the High Court has found that the process leading to the appointments of both Dido Harding and Mike Coupe was unlawful. It held that Matt Hancock broke the law in appointing Dido Harding as Chair of the National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP) and in appointing Mike Coupe as Director of Testing at Test and Trace (NHSTT). The High Court was also clear that the Prime Minister broke the law in appointing Dido Harding as Chair of Test and Trace. |
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Post by northwestman on Nov 9, 2022 16:34:45 GMT 1
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Post by northwestman on Nov 10, 2022 12:50:59 GMT 1
www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/10/im-a-celebrity-mps-and-peers-vote-for-matt-hancock-to-do-grim-tasks-says-ministerA large number of politicians in parliament are voting for Matt Hancock to perform “grim” tasks on I’m A Celebrity, a senior minister has suggested. After the former Conservative health secretary was pelted with sludge and insects on his first night in the Australian jungle, a former cabinet colleague said even technophobic peers back home in Britain were downloading an app used to vote contestants into performing gruesome “bushtucker trials”. Immediately after Hancock joined the show on Wednesday, the public voted for the MP to face another grisly challenge the following day – named the “tentacles of terror”. Chris Heaton-Harris, the Northern Ireland secretary, said that “quite a lot of people” in the Commons and Lords were taking to downloading the app, and added with a grin: “I’m not sure if that’s a good thing.” Though he stressed he had not watched the show, Heaton-Harris said he was familiar with the format, adding: “It looks grim.” There are “lots of peers I know who’ve never been au fait with technology, who are downloading a certain app now so they can vote in something”, he told LBC radio. MPs are doing the same, Heaton-Harris also told Sky News – though he stressed he had not yet downloaded the app himself. As he listened to clips of Hancock singing to his fellow campmates, Heaton-Harris quipped: “That deserves a vote.” The former chief whip did not hide his disdain for Hancock flying out to Australia and skipping days when the Commons is sitting, saying he “should be here with us, voting and debating in parliament”. Despite Hancock’s insistence that he had joined the jungle to show a more human side to politicians, Heaton-Harris stressed: “Matt should be representing his constituents. You can prove you’re human by being a good constituency MP.”
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Post by Valerioch on Nov 10, 2022 21:42:50 GMT 1
Catching up on yesterdays episode. All seems a bit surreal seeing him on this, given the only other time we’ve had this level of access to him when we he stole our Civil liberties for 15 months
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Post by northwestman on Nov 11, 2022 13:09:33 GMT 1
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Post by frankwellshrews on Nov 11, 2022 14:25:42 GMT 1
Much as I enjoy bagging on Hancock, this article misses the obvious point: Matt has an expensive divorce coming up and needs the money. Everything else is just him trying to distract from the obvious. |
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Post by northwestman on Nov 11, 2022 16:37:52 GMT 1
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/11/cringey-matt-hancock-bushtucker-trial-im-a-celebrityTwo and a half years after the start of the pandemic, it says something about the utter absurdity of our politics that the ONLY place we have seen even mild confrontation happen is on a jungle-based light entertainment format. Our pandemic overlords’ lack of accountability to people who aren’t fellow politicians has been so total that we’re now reduced to hoping ex-con Boy George or tax dodger Chris Moyles sticks it to Hancock and gets some answers. Which brings me to the other horror show on offer: Conservative MPs queueing up to pour scorn on Hancock now. Have you clocked this tendency? It’s exemplified by an actual secretary of state, Chris Heaton-Harris, repeatedly going on telly yesterday to smugly claim that “hundreds of MPs and peers” were downloading the I’m a Celebrity app and voting for Hancock to face unpleasant trials. To which the only possible response is: oh NOW you’re voting against him, is it? Sorry, but where were you lot before? Where were you lot every time it turned out one of Hancock’s mates had got a PPE contract? Where were you when he threw “a protective ring” around care homes, which was an odd way to talk about discharging untested residents from hospital back into them, resulting in a vast death toll? Where were you when he lied about this? Where were you when he lied about the fact there had been a PPE shortage? Where were you when Dominic Cummings was writing to Boris Johnson about Hancock’s hopelessness, saying “I think we are negligently killing the most vulnerable who we are supposed to be shielding and I am extremely worried about it”? Where were you for any of this? Where were you when it mattered? The fact that these people have discovered what they imagine is a backbone only when Matt Hancock is washed up and doing reality TV tells you everything about their calibre and conviction. MPs who troop obediently through the government lobbies for any old s**t currently imagine themselves to have the moral high ground because they’re voting on an app for Matt Hancock to face a bushtucker trial. I can’t think of anything more pathetic and depressing – it’s literally worse than Hancock going on the show. So spare me so much as one further barb about Hancock from the people who kept stumm when it was a matter of life or death. They’ve got even fewer balls than the kangaroo he’ll be tucking into.
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Post by zenfootball2 on Nov 11, 2022 21:32:54 GMT 1
On the subject of Hancock, I seem to have overlooked this article from February 2022. goodlawproject.org/update/dido-harding-mike-coupe-unlawful/In a landmark verdict, the High Court has found that the process leading to the appointments of both Dido Harding and Mike Coupe was unlawful. It held that Matt Hancock broke the law in appointing Dido Harding as Chair of the National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP) and in appointing Mike Coupe as Director of Testing at Test and Trace (NHSTT). The High Court was also clear that the Prime Minister broke the law in appointing Dido Harding as Chair of Test and Trace. but nothing will be done about it |
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Post by zenfootball2 on Nov 11, 2022 21:33:48 GMT 1
i want him to stay in for a long as possible and gets to every vial challenge they can think about.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 11, 2022 21:45:49 GMT 1
He’s comes across as very socially awkward and that, along with the reaction of other camp mates to him and just the pure surealness of seeing him on there is making it a very weird watch.
I’d hope itv don’t try and sell a rendemption, or zero-to-hero narrative even if he goes on to smash every trial.
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Post by cabanas2017 on Nov 12, 2022 11:01:10 GMT 1
A lot of hypocrisy out there, albeit Hancock is doing well in the program…..and getting what he wants out of it.
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Post by shrewder on Nov 12, 2022 11:22:11 GMT 1
Never ever watched the programme and having Matt Hancock on it makes it even more likely I will never watch it .
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Post by northwestman on Nov 12, 2022 11:24:40 GMT 1
On Friday’s show, Hancock ate part of a camel’s penis, sheep’s vagina and cow’s anus in the first eating trial of the series alongside singer Boy George.
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Post by northwestman on Nov 13, 2022 15:59:23 GMT 1
Matt Hancock searches through a trough of offal inside a room containing thousands of flies in his latest trial on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
The public voted on Saturday night for the former health secretary, 44, to take part in his fifth consecutive challenge since joining the ITV show on Wednesday.
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Post by staffordshrew on Nov 13, 2022 16:18:37 GMT 1
On Friday’s show, Hancock ate part of a camel’s penis, sheep’s vagina and cow’s anus in the first eating trial of the series alongside singer Boy George. Disgusting! Isn't Boy Gaorge exempt from the meat eating due to being vegan?
What a sick society we live in when this is "entertainment".
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Post by northwestman on Nov 13, 2022 16:25:32 GMT 1
On Friday’s show, Hancock ate part of a camel’s penis, sheep’s vagina and cow’s anus in the first eating trial of the series alongside singer Boy George. Disgusting! Isn't Boy Gaorge exempt from the meat eating due to being vegan?
What a sick society we live in when this is "entertainment".
I remember many years ago Chris Tarrant fronting a series that showcased TV programmes in other countries. He showed a clip from Japanese TV where a guy was sitting in a portable toilet with his trousers down when the door and walls were blown off. I remember thinking that could never happen here - how wrong I was. |
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Post by staffordshrew on Nov 13, 2022 16:31:34 GMT 1
Disgusting! Isn't Boy Gaorge exempt from the meat eating due to being vegan?
What a sick society we live in when this is "entertainment".
I remember many years ago Chris Tarrant fronting a series that showcased TV programmes in other countries. He showed a clip from Japanese TV where a guy was sitting in a portable toilet with his trousers down when the door and walls were blown off. I remember thinking that could never happen here - how wrong I was. I remember when taking the mickey out of dimples Des O'Conner on Morecombe and Wise was as nasty as it got....
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Post by cabanas2017 on Nov 13, 2022 23:10:36 GMT 1
Matt Hancock now Leader of the camp looking very smug ……
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Post by northwestman on Nov 14, 2022 11:35:48 GMT 1
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Post by staffordshrew on Nov 14, 2022 11:59:11 GMT 1
Matt Hancock now Leader of the camp looking very smug …… He's going some to be beating Boy George to being leader of the "camp"! |
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Post by martinshrew on Nov 15, 2022 11:32:43 GMT 1
He's nailing it to be fair, you can't knock his performance in the jungle.
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Post by ssshrew on Nov 15, 2022 14:50:44 GMT 1
If he’s that good perhaos he’d better stay there and not come back to somewhere where he is regarded as second rate. He’s obviously found his level and place in the world.
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Post by northwestman on Nov 15, 2022 16:55:07 GMT 1
Parliamentary commissioner for standards suggests Hancock's I'm a Celebrity appearance has demeaned politics
Kathryn Stone, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, has suggested that Matt Hancock’s decision to take part in I’m a Celebrity has demeaned politics.
She is giving evidence to the Commons standards committee about her work and Chris Bryant, the chairman, started by asking her to set out what she found frustrating about her job.
She said one problem was people complaining about matters that fell outside the code of conduct, and she said Hancock was an example. She had received dozens of complaints about his appearance on the reality TV show, she said. She said she could not deal with them because what he was doing was not in breach of the code of conduct for MPs. But she suggested she sympathised with the points people were making. She told the committee:
[The case] raises really important questions about members’ proper activities while they’re supposed to be fulfilling their parliamentary duties, and representing their constituents.
If I may, I’d like to share some correspondence that I heard from a member of the public on this matter. One member of the public contrasted the dignity of veterans on Remembrance Sunday with a former secretary of state, and they said this individual was “waiting for a buffet of animal genitalia” and they wondered what had happened to the dignity of public office.
Stone said the case did raise the question as to what activities MPs should engage in when parliament is sitting. She suggested that was something the committee should consider.
Stone said another aspect she found frustrating was the large number of complaints she was getting about ministers. She suggested this was linked to the absence of an independent adviser on ministers’ interests. And she said the largest volume of complaints she received – just under 1,500 – were about the Partygate fines issued to Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak. She said these were outside her remit, but people complained to her because they had nowhere else to go, she said.
The Guardian.
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