Coming to bury Caesar
It would be easy to
mock Matt Hancock but there is much more for which he should be justifiably
excoriated. His resignation yesterday came as a surprise to many of us and like
I had indicated before, that would not suddenly mean integrity has found some
exposure in Boris Johnson’s government, Matt Hancock’s position just became
increasingly untenable, there was no other option than for him to resign.
In my view, Matt
Hancock’s tenure as the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care was
marked by abject failure damningly exposed by the pandemic from the poor PPE
provision, the lack of adequate testing, the seeding of care homes with
infected discharged persons from the hospitals, the failed and exorbitant track
and trace system, the multiple waves of infections all resulting in the highest
deaths from the COVID-19 in Europe.
Torched by a fling
If there is any
commendation to be given, it is that the NHS was allowed to run the vaccination programme
rather than farm it out to friends of the Tories. Yet, none of those failings
in office were enough to hold Matt Hancock to account until he was caught in a
clinch. Something is wrong with our systems of accountability in public office
if peccadillos matter more than performance.
Matt Hancock’s
situation is maybe a personal human tragedy of the absence of self-control with
far-reaching ramifications that cannot in any way begin to compensate for his
professional failings and political misjudgement, his wife apparently is not
available to stand by her man and play the doting Tory wife.
And so he got away
He is ensconced in
their constituency home in what suggests the end of their marriage. The other
lady who got squeezed and snuggled, has resigned from the posting that gave them
proximity in his office and one can only wonder what story would result from
this sordid saga.
There is no more to
add to this tale than to feel Matt Hancock has escaped essential scrutiny for
monumental catastrophe on his watch, he according to his boss, Boris Johnson “fucking
hopeless” and Boris might have said that whilst he was shaving too.
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