It’s quite shocking when one listens to the whole sorry saga, Hancock was out of control. Presumably he’s not the only one in Cabinet that is.
I think it’s clear that the government’s position regarding the Covid/NHS situation has been rather chaotic for some time.
Johnson seemed to be holding Hancock in place regardless of any actual or perceived deficiencies, and I wonder if he was doing that so he could eventually blame Hancock for the whole debacle and hope to absolve himself of any blame.
If I were Hancock in that situation, I think I’d probably engineer some stunt unrelated to health (eg snogging an aide directly under a cctv camera that an accomplice is recording) that would result in Johnson having to fire me. It And if he didn’t, I’d resign, confident that my reason for resignation was a personal failing rather than mismanaging the response to a pandemic…
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Are our politicians real that sophisticated / devious? Seems to me most of them just bumble along from crisis to crisis. It’s hardly Baldrick territory is it: “I have a cunning plan!”
Yes…
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IMHO the bastard Hancock deserves a good thrashing, as they say in the Tory party. But he really does.