Mad Handjob gives us permission to hug our family from May 17th.
Matt Hancock today confirmed people in England will be able to hug their family from May 17 under Boris Johnson‘s lockdown exit strategy.
This nasty little man is being serious. I do not need his permission to hug anyone I choose, whenever I want. Handjob can stick his permission where the sun don’t shine. This is someone so puffed up with his own sense of self importance, he forgets that he is a public servant. He works for us, not the other way around. The sheer arrogance is staggering.
Is there anyone who takes this kind of shit seriously? The fact that he comes out with it strongly suggests that he’s a moron.
He appears to believe his own propaganda. So, yes somewhat intellectually challenged.
“he forgets that he is a public servant”
They all forgot that long ago. We’re way beyond the Government being servants
“Politicians are like the instruments on my car dashboard.
they tell me what is going on in the engine of state, but they do not control it.” Hoyle, 1957
Except these days, you don’t really have that much control over what the car internals do.
Case in point, a mate had just bought a BMW 3 series and was cruising on the motorway when a lorry next to him decided to come across into his lane. Having someone behind him meant the only way out was to jam his foot to the floor, kickdown (autos, who’d have one?), and get the hell out of there. Since it had a decent engine, this should have been nothing.
It was at this point that a gearbox issue decided to make itself known. So the car decided to go into limp mode, to protect the car internals. He couldn’t override it. It just suddenly lost most power, exactly when it was needed.
Never mind that such a policy can put people at risk, the car makes its own mind up and prioritizes protecting itself.
Luckily the guy behind was actually awake.
I’ve heard a few stories about things like this site to fuelling issues etc
So maybe the politicians are like the car ECU? They tell you the bare essentials about what’s going on, have too much control and then make decisions that might actively kill you, while saying it’s for your own good.
It’s been a long time since they told us honestly what’s going on: but then, it’s been a long time since they had any real idea what’s going on
Much as I dislike armchair psychology, I can’t help thinking that he’s not just bad, but mad – quite floridly insane, in fact.
He certainly gives Dunning Kruger plenty to work with.
Are ye ‘black effronted’?
This guy is seriously deranged. That clip on lTV (maybe BBC) shows he was, laughing, at us the British public and the media turned into a crying….moment. FGS, he couldn’t help himself, picking up his full wage, loathe.
Sackerson: Sorry, you can only be white affrontit’ these days. Any other affront is racist . . .
I’m rather restrained on hugs, kisses etc. However, Mad Hancock hasn’t stopped me hugging someone I know if the ask or suggest. I’ve ignored all Gov’t Covid crap and I’m still alive
One Gov’t fear propaganda that really angers me is the keep sterilising surfaces, clothes etc. Over 6 months ago US CDC said unnecessary and EU CDC says same
I’m somewhat reserved myself. However, I’ll be damned if some second rate politician thinks he has the authority to tell me when I can or can’t. Like you, I’ve done my best to ignore it where I can. As I’m reliant on the DVSA, I have been unable to work. Otherwise, I’ve done what I want to do and scoundrels like Hancock be damned.
I keep saying the following;-‘They are like children that have had too much sugar and we must now put them to bed’. All of them.
Shep, I would prefer if we ‘put them to sleep’
The thing is, ramping up the fear is easy to do because this bug is actually a genuine threat. Even if you are able to calculate the odds and tell yourself that the risk is small, that risk is still real. Up until recently the only person that I know personally who has had it was my daughter (23), she had a week or so similar to a not too bad flu followed by several weeks of not feeling fully well. A couple of weeks ago a guy that I know died from it. He was 22 and had nothing to suggest that he was vulnerable. I didn’t know him that well but the whole thing seems a lot more dangerous when someone you know dies.
Being a 62 year old diabetic, I had my first jab on Saturday. I haven’t felt any effects of any kind so far. I will report it if anything untoward happens.
This bug is no more a threat than ‘Flu which nobody worries about and only ‘at risk’ old or vulnerable are vaccinated. If it was such a threat supermarket workers would have died en masse and Sweden would be a desolate grave-yard
Chap 22 you knew. You don’t know if he was vulnerable, he might not have either. Fit healthy children, adults dropping dead during sport is relatively common. Post mortem usually reveals cardio vascular/respiratory problem
~1,700 die every day in UK, mostly the old. It doesn’t really matter if the cause was With heart, lung, kidney, cancer, flu, covid issue – they are near end of life and will die as we all do. As our dogs, cats, goldfish etc do too. We all die, accept it
I understand all that. If this young man had died suddenly at any other time it would have been regarded as just one of those things. Such tragedies happen. But people don’t handle things that logically and when the bug that is going around strikes closer to home it feels more of a threat than just a number that refers to anonymous other people.
@LR – are you the inspiration?
“It’s time to let us hug who we want whenever we damn well please” – The latest from Allison Pearson in the Telegraph