Hancock

So Matt Hancock is having an affair with Gina Coladangelo, who he appointed a non-executive director of the health department last year. That's just little tiny bit questionable, you'd think: reputable organisations tend to frown on people having affairs with people whose employment they control.

But he doesn't, of course, work for a reputable organisation, he works for the Johnson government. So no worries there: grope who you like, why don't you? Seriously, it's all just fine: a government mouthpiece said the appointment had happened 'in the usual way' and no rules had been broken. And Grant Shapps called it 'a personal matter'. Grant Shapps, of course is the person who, using a false name, used to sell get-rich-quick schemes, and who then lied about having done this. He is certainly to be trusted, I think.

Oh, but wait, there's this pandemic isn't there? There are, you know, social distancing rules. Groping people people kind of breaches those rules. Oh well, never min: obviously those rules are, you know, just rules for the little, ordinary people: not for the mighty Hancock or the other mighty ones who rule over us.

And so people will see what he has done and think, 'well, if he can do that with no consequences, so can I'. And more people will die. Just little people of course, not the great ones. Not Hancock, not any of his friends. Just people who don't really count. Not, perhaps, really people at all, just you know, statistics. He doesn't care. He can't, after all, count.

And is he going to resign? Of course he's not. Because of course he has no morals at all: he just does not care if his actions kill people. Is Johnson going to sack him? Who knows, but it doesn't really matter: that he's not immediately resigning tells you all you need to know.

And he's the health secretary. The health secretary.