Re: Hancock
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 10:11 pm
Yeah but everyone loves the gibbering Ant and Dec
Abernathy wrote:£400K for Hancock? That can't be right, surly? I've never watched the show myself but don't contestants usually just get the low five figures at best if they are particularly well known?Oboogie wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 5:04 pm You know what I'm not seeing in this story?
Where's the backlash against ITV for their role in a blatant attempt to rehabilitate Hancock (and by implication Johnson)?
If Hancock had been invited onto a BBC show (eg Strictly), Twitter would be a sea of froth demanding sackings and privatisation.
But it's good old ITV, so they get a free pass.
I also feel some sympathy for Hancock's campmates. I don't actually know who they are, but I can't imagine they're happy. They signed up to eat anus and crawl through insects, nobody warned them they were going to be asked to be civil to that cunt. There's grounds for appearance fee renegotiations.
I so agree. It is fucking disgraceful that some ITV executive actually signed off on paying a disgraced former minister 400 fucking grand to duck out of parliament and attempt to rehabilitate himself on a shit celeb “reality” show. Fucking disgraceful. Cunt should be in the fucking gaol.
Appaerently, Boy George isn’t happy. He can’t be the only one.
I can’t feel good about the ritual humiliation of the hapless Matt Hancock on ITV. Apparently he was symbolically tarred and feathered last night for his £400k bid for simultaneous loot and absolution.
This is an unworthy, bottom feeding, program that diminishes everyone involved in creating it, participating or watching. There is no catharsis for the needlessly dead.
The real issue, that of the many failures of the Government during the Covid pandemic, were frankly largely hard-wired into our situation, long before Matt Hancock showed up. and predictably wasn’t fully up to it.
We approached the coming storm with our hospital beds at 95% capacity, while Germany’s were at 50%. We had 25% of their ICU capacity too. We had elected an incompetent, lazy, narcissistic, bumbling, bluffer to be our leader. He in turn failed to see what was coming and also promoted the smooth talking, inexperienced, overconfident Hancock to the job. The consequence was all almost too inevitable given our collective failure to take our politics more seriously.
That we now seem happier to participate in ritual scapegoating rather than a serious public inquiry and allow ourselves to be distracted by this fifth rate televisual bollocks rather than notice what our Westminster weasels are getting up to, suggests we still deserve the third rate government we’ve got. 30% turn outs for our MEP elections gave Farage his fascistic wrecking platform. The perfect storm has been building for a long time. And now we’re almost in the eye of it, it appears that we’d rather trivialise and scapegoat than take a clear, detached look at the mess we made. We need public inquiries with sharp teeth and we need responsive government.
Hancock should be quietly seeking his long rocky path to some semblance of redemption somewhere without cameras or our unthinking collusion. These tawdry sulphuric pacts by so called celebrities are not even palliatives… they are, in the name of “a harmless bit of fun” both depraved and corrupting … And for myself, I am having none of it.
Watchman wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 7:29 pm I’m calling bollox, there’s no way a risk assessor or their insurance underwriters would allow them to be that exposedLike Littlejohn's good old east end gangsters, they only attack their own sort.
EXCLUSIVE: I'm A Celeb's Matt Hancock is stung by a SCORPION and treated by medics - after being voted for his FOURTH trial of the series
Nwww.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11422629/Im-Celebs-Matt-Hancock-bitten-SCORPION-treated-shows-medics.html
Matt Hancock is driven by the urge to resist self-knowledge at all costs. Matt Hancock is a fugitive from self-reflection; a flight risk from the truth; a guy compelled to loudly self-narrate in order to drown out the real story.
Last year, when he learned the story of his affair was going to break, that youngest child was got out of bed and brought downstairs to be told the news along with the others, followed by the revelation that Hancock was leaving the family home.That's something that really bugs me - for all his "I fell in love" protestations, it takes a certain level of callousness - no, wrong word, psychosis - to just call time on your own family like that.
In general, I think it best never to even mention the children of politicians – but in this case, it feels like the entire point. How can a parent who put them through the pain and indignities of “that” photo and its immense fallout – barely 18 months ago – now be actively choosing to make an arse of himself on an immensely high-profile ITV reality format night after night?
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?They sense weakness and pile on. Fuck 'em all.
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 shit currently imagine themselves to have the moral high ground because they’re voting on an app for Matt Hancock to face a bushtucker trial.