Why Matt Hancock's Latest Humiliation Matters
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 27 March 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Oh boy, does Matt Hancock have a humiliation kink or something? Along with some of his Tory colleagues, he"s been stung by Led By Donkeys, who posed as a South Korean firm offering to purchase his services: and this man does not come cheap! But rather than just bash Hancock, as fun as that is, this latest episode is indicative of a political system which is totally broken.
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| 0:00.0 | my handcock, what a plonker. Now, I try not to be overly personal when I'm talking about |
| 0:05.8 | objectionable politicians. The reason, of course, I object to them isn't because of their |
| 0:10.8 | personalities, even though many of them aren't exactly full of the milk of humankindness, |
| 0:15.0 | but because of the policies they impose and often very vulnerable and struggling people and, |
| 0:20.8 | frankly, the destruction, the social fabric of this country. I think that's pretty reasonable |
| 0:25.5 | grounds to object to a politician, but when it comes to Matt Hancock specifically, what else is |
| 0:31.2 | there to say? Now, I think plonker is more than reasonable given the circumstances, just a little |
| 0:36.9 | recap shall we? He is, of course, the former health secretary, who is one of the chief architects |
| 0:41.5 | of a catastrophic COVID policy, which led to the deaths, the avoidable deaths of many tens of thousands |
| 0:47.1 | of our fellow citizens. After breaking his own COVID rules by canoeing with a woman he was having |
| 0:52.4 | an affair with. He was, of course, forced to resign. Then in an attempt to whitewash his reputation, |
| 0:57.9 | he advocated his responsibilities as a constituency MP by getting a load of Dosh to go on, |
| 1:04.3 | I'm a celebrity, get me out of here, which involved eating the anuses of insects, that kind of thing. |
| 1:11.4 | He also handed his WhatsApp's on mass to Isabel Oakshot, the journalists who then proceeded to |
| 1:18.2 | leak them on mass with pretty humiliating consequences. Well, the Mac Hancock clown show never |
| 1:25.1 | ends and it's back in town. He's been caught in a sting by, led by donkeys. Let's just have a |
| 1:31.1 | little look shall we? So, we were wondering, do you have a daily rate at the moment? I do, yes, it's |
| 1:39.6 | 10,000 sterling. This is Seoul, home to the headquarters of Hanson Consulting, a South Korean |
| 1:45.9 | company with plans to expand into the UK and Europe. And this is Suyeon Lee, the company's |
| 1:51.4 | vice president of external affairs. She's trying to recruit British MPs to join the company's |
| 1:56.9 | International Advisory Board and has been conducting job interviews on Zoom. Can you see me? |
| 2:02.4 | Oh, I can't see you yet. |
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