Jessica Elgot, Nadia Khomami and Henry Dyer – The Guardian Nov 1, 2022
Matt Hancock has had the Tory whip suspended after it emerged he was entering the jungle for I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!
The former UK health secretary will be the 12th contestant to enter the ITV reality show, which features famous faces performing gruelling tasks such as being smothered in insects or eating kangaroo penis.
But the MP for West Suffolk faced a backlash from Conservative MPs and his constituency party over his taking part – and will now sit as an independent. The show overlaps with time when the Commons is sitting.
The Conservative chief whip, Simon Hart, said he believed the matter was “serious enough to warrant suspension of the whip with immediate effect”, while Andy Drummond, the deputy chair of the West Suffolk Conservative Association, said: “I’m looking forward to him eating a kangaroo’s penis. You can quote me on that.”
Then Minister of Health Matt Hancock sheds tears over reports that the first Britons received Covid-19 jabs. Regardless of the fact that the vaccine will impair or shorten the lives of many.
Rishi Sunak’s spokesperson said the prime minister believed that “at a challenging time for the country, MPs should be working hard for their constituents, whether that’s in the house or in their constituency”.
This week, Hancock pulled out of the running to chair the Treasury select committee and announced a new book, Pandemic Diaries, on his experiences as health secretary during the Covid crisis. The Guardian understands he has already filmed another reality TV show this year – Channel 4’s Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins.
Hancock resigned as health secretary last year after CCTV footage was leaked showing him kissing his closest aide, Gina Coladangelo, in his ministerial office, in breach of his own Covid rules on social distancing.
One source close to the minister said the show’s producers had agreed for his constituents to continue communicating with him on urgent matters while he was in the jungle.
They also said Hancock did not expect to serve in the cabinet again. “I’m a Celeb is the most watched show on TV. Matt doesn’t expect to serve in government again, so it’s an incredible opportunity for him to engage with the 12 million Brits who tune in every single night,” they said.
Hancock reportedly turned down an offer to appear on the show initially but reconsidered after the demise of Liz Truss’s premiership, with the government restored to a semblance of stability. Hancock backed Sunak in the leadership contest but was not asked to return to the cabinet.
“When he was first approached to take part, while he was flattered and naturally curious, it didn’t take him too long to turn the opportunity down because of the instability government was facing at the time,” the ally of Hancock said. “Now, though, the government is stable.”
Apparently, there are stories that HandCock will be interrogated by other C class celebrities.
These could all be setup, as these shows are scripted down to last grub. But there is a slim chance that during a ‘live’, HandCock will slip up, and the producer will let it ride.
There’s also the chance that HandCock wants to slip up, becauae when he’s out of office, he’s going to do the book deal, & and after dinner speaking lush.
He doesn’t see this just in terms of his human side, or the paycheck. He sees this as a stepping stone to more riches.
And those ‘tears’ are about as sincere as a weeping crocodile on stilts. I certainly have no pride in being able to see through a painfully contrived Made For TV Mini-Series as it’s a byproduct of not owning a TV for over twenty-five years. The narratives of consensus reality become ever more transparent. And now for the bad news…THERE WILL BE NO ‘NUCLEAR WAR’.
Another deliberate ploy to further smear the image of the conservatives, in order to ensure that unelectable Kier Starmer appears as the best choice in a general election. Even so that no one is surprised if he is corruptly shoe horned in.
Ugliness is Nature’s warning to “keep clear”, and to me there are few individuals uglier than Hancock, apart from George Soros.
I won’t be watching the programme, though I do hope this thoroughly evil bastard will be humiliated in every way possible.
It’s rumoured that he’ll be paid £350,000 for appearing in the programme, the greedy bastard who’s already made millions from the “covid” SCAM.
What a grubby little scum bag! Typical of the types who lord it over us. In a just system this rat would be hanged in front of a cheering crowd.
who on earth would want to watch this bullshit ?
anyone even with the brains of a footballer knows its all scripted bullshit
That’s all he’s ever been, isn’t it: a D-list actor.
Ha… beta testing cold showers..one pair of underpants..and insect cuisine.. for his uncle klaus..
Eat ze bugz ‘ancock….. Eat ze bugz….
Das bug iz Guuuuut ya….
hopefully the imbecile will contract cholera….
I’d pay good money to meet that smirking scumbag in a dark alleyway some day… preferably at 2 or 3 in the morning… as the garbage-trucks are rolling by to muffle the sound..
I believe this man is in a sort of denial that hopes to avoid the inner voice of whatever conscience he has by submerging in himself in a project – and the limelight – further…
He is a mass murderer in the company of mass murderers. At least Maria Hindley did something useful and got a degree after her “career”…
Midazolam Matt smirking tears of goy for mass modernering the most vulnerable in cursing homes
When that unbearable program Big Brother first came along years ago I said it was all about conditioning people to spy on each other and in time they’d consider watching others to be as natural as watching where you walk. Now people watch people in jungles, coupling and breaking up on love islands, in prisons and even watching people watching telly. It’s 1984 sinister but people call it harmless entertainment. wtfu!
Mole: you can’t smear the Tory party, because the Tory Party was dissolved after Brexit.
I think you’re referring to the Nazi Party of Great Britain.
If the populous had the ability to get their heads out of their a**es and prosecute this f***ing (((shit sack))) for treason, he’d executed immediately.
The EU was designed as the new Soviet Union & the intention was & is that such regional organizations form the basis for the ultimate plan of one world government.
Although the UK voted to leave in 2016, virtually nothing has been done by the ‘Conservative’ governments to take advantage of the many opportunities which Brexit presented – freed from the stifling EU embrace.
Clearly the UK Establishment ,which includes all Westminster Parties , have no intention of carrying out the democratic will of the British people.
Proportional representation might help but the task is huge – a fish rots from its head as has the UK Establishment.
this sneaky smeary guy for me is the typical
british gentry i hate like i hated Thatcher+Kohl.
Randolph is on the right track in his comment above, but I’d rather that reeking xxxx smear Handcock suffer excruciating pain and paralyzing fear for a while rather than immediate execution.
That treasonous psycho fully deserves to be violently sodomized by Tyrone and the Migrant Boys, have his tongue ripped out and nailed to the door of No. 10, be stripped naked, dragged through the streets by his ankles, be vigorously flogged and rolled in pig shit and salt in front of Buckingham Palace, have each one of his digits sawed off and shoved down his throat, be forced to watch his parents raped by baboons then disemboweled, then stuff him in a small cage for two weeks and drag him out to feed him slowly into a wood-chipper feet-first. Followed by Priti Patel, Sadiq Khan, Neil Ferguson, Boris Johnstein, 90% of the MPs, Rishi the Street-shitter, and EVERY stinking Rothschild.