For eight days now, The Telegraph has published the most breathtakingly damning stories about the misuse of power (and “science”) by Matt Hancock and his cabal during the pandemic. I don’t know about you, but having read so much about their callow political posturing and callous disregard, especially for children and the elderly, my Outrage Bucket is empty and I am reduced to throwing up bile.
And what has been the response to these horrors within the House of Commons? Not a dicky bird.
The WhatsApp messages revealed in The Telegraph’s Lockdown Files are not exactly lacking in material for our democratic representatives to shout about. Every day a new jaw-dropper.
I particularly enjoyed the WhatsApp exchange which revealed Matt Hancock’s enthusiasm for offering NHS beds to French Covid patients at a time when the Secretary of State for Health (a Mr Hancock) was telling the British people not to bother their health service lest it become “overwhelmed”.
Wasn’t the second lockdown we were all living under at that time enforced, quite aggressively as I recall, to prevent a “medical and moral disaster” if hospitals ran out of capacity? Did we perhaps sleep through the press briefing in which Matt divulged, as he did in a letter drawn up to his French counterpart, that the UK epidemic was “largely in the North of England” so there was some spare capacity in London and the South?
Sorry, silly me; I forgot. Matt said he wanted to “frighten the pants off everyone” to keep us all behaving like good boys and girls. So sharing reassuring news – “Our hospitals are coping surprisingly well with spare beds in the East and the South” – would have been out of the question because it would have weakened his control over us.
Read the full article here:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2023/03/07/matt-hancock-should-arrested-wilful-misconduct-public-office/