“Totally F***ing Hopeless” – Boris Johnson’s Verdict on Matt Hancock
Dominic Cummings has published a trove of confidential material on his Twitter and Substack accounts today, including a WhatsApp exchange between him and the Prime Minister in which Boris describes the Health Secretary as “Totally f***ing hopeless”. MailOnline has more.
In an exchange from March 27th last year Mr Cummings criticised the Health Secretary over the failure to ramp up testing. Mr Johnson replied: “Totally f***ing hopeless.” He then tried to call his senior aide three times without managing to get through.
Another from the same day saw Mr Cummings complain that the Department of Health had been turning down ventilators because “the price has been marked up”. Mr Johnson said: “It’s Hancock. He has been hopeless.”
On April 27, Mr Johnson apparently messaged Mr Cummings to say that PPE was a “disaster”, suggesting that Michael Gove should take charge instead.
“I can’t think of anything except taking Hancock off and putting Gove on.”
Mr Cummings dropped the incendiary revelations in a lengthy post on the Substack blogging platform just minutes before PMQs.
It included vicious passages condemning Mr Johnson for “telling rambling stories and jokes” instead of chairing crucial meetings properly, and a claim that the PM is intending to quit in order to “make money” rather than serving a full term if he wins the next election.
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Before anyone gets too excited by this, it looks like both Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson were referring to Hancock’s inability to impose even more testing, even more lockdowns, etc. Don’t think of this as Johnson admitting to the economic disaster they created, but rather as Johnson wishing for an even bigger economic disaster.
The greater disaster has been the death of liberty, rationality, honesty, science, truth, freedom of speech, democracy, a judiciary, media and opposition prepared to fight the power, independent institutions
It’s all nonsense to save Boris.. keep him and his teenage eco warrior girlfriend and his wife beating dad as the great reset leaders for longer…
Dom Cummings leaks are helping the pig dictatior. So they don’t have the ting of truth.
Not so hopeless as to be sacked.
Westminster tittle-tattle.
Cummings seems like a mad liar, though he may be telling the truth.
They are all liars and cheats, and all incompetent.
If the PM really said that, it’s a disgrace he didn’t sack Hancock, but note that the complaint is not executing futile measures well enough
Cummings wanted more lockdown, done more efficiently, and more expensive theatre
Anyway, the PM is f’ing useless himself, so he can’t talk
Honestly, what have the people of this country done to deserve this shower? Johnson, Hancock etc., they should all go, Totally incompetent, totally out of their depth, totally out of touch.
Sir Graham Brady and Jacob Rees-Mogg, please do the right thing and force these charlatans out.
And do it now, whilst there is still a country left to save.
It’s surely too late. Sovereign debt crisis at any moment.
If there isn’t one imminently, that’s evidence there’s hidden intervention.
Rees-Mogg? He’s not even making noises, unlike Sir Graham, who at least talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk. You are, I am sorry to say, deluded if you think Rees-Mogg is in any way likely to do anything.
Maybe, but someone within Parliament must have a conscience and some courage… Not sure where though.
Realisticaly Rishi Sunak would then seem most likely to become PM, and I’m not sure he’s much more pro freedom than Bojo. God forbid if it was Pritti Patel after some of the comments she’s made encouraging the police to be even tougher with lockdown rule breakers.
If you read Cummings’ account, he is just as wrong about everything related to COVID as the rest of the government, but if his efforts get Hancock out and cause Johnson a lot of difficulty I’m all for it.
His lies seem to be helping Stanley and Carrie and Klaus. I mean Boris.
What a shit-show!
Rats in a sack.
That Hancock is a wanker is no revelation. Nor is the deduction that Mr Toad is useless as a leader – or even a sentient being. That Cummings is a spiteful crackpot is a …. yawn … zzzz…….
Cummings vs Johnson vs Hancock, who cares who wins that one? They’re all a bunch of anti-freedom, pro technocracy snakes and this is a side show.
Well done for being the only person who has posted here that did not afford the criminal UK regime the pardon of claimed incompetence.
Yes indeed. But the remaining elephant in the room is the really evil and dangerous fucker – Gove. I feel he has been the one really pulling the strings and he is a bit smarter than the others making him doubly dangerous.
Spot on, could be out of the frying pan into the fire!
Exactly my thoughts. If the sperm donor sacked Hancock I doubt Gove would have accepted the poison chalice. They’re all happy for Hancock to be the fall guy. And Gove is hoping that Johnson also takes a big hit: there’s no love lost there.
Is that relative smartness or absolute smartness? Being ‘a bit smarter’ than Boris, Handcock etc is hardly something to crow about!
Gove is, and consistently proves himself to be, a shadow skulking weasel ready, willing, and able to betray ‘friends’ at the drop of a hat.
I think Cummings wins laurels for being the most bitter and twisted of this odious trio. As for Johnson planning to stay on a couple of years after winning the next election; it’s the stuff of nightmares for me, and I rather think that, in the same way various entertainers and their routines fall out of favour, he will pall, even with the faithful, some time before then.
Not much chance for any of these liars. They are all fucking useless and all should be tried for crimes against humanity.
Not a chance. Hancock is the whipping boy, already being painted as incompetent rather than evil. Meanwhile Johnson will be knighted by his successor – probably Sunak unless Gove succeeds in stitching him up.
He uses data to prove that the lockdowns are beneficial for society. Watch now how his usual detractors, the vast majority of people in the media, will now use him/this article as a bastion of dependable information, simply because he backs up their lockdown argument. The hypocrisy will be grotesque.
This is where I realise that, in fact, I don’t care if Lockdown works – I am simply dead against it. It’s opened Pandora’s Box and now we and future generations will suffer from instantaneous lockdowns. The only way to stop this trend is for the People to exercise their power by locking down Parliament, in a type of siege, something which will be construed and twisted into an act of domestic terrorism and an insurrection.
So … no point. The whole thing is so demoralising. Which is the end goal of these behavioural scientists anyway. Best way to crush our spirit and imprison our minds.
They can and will go to hell.
“I don’t care if Lockdown works – I am simply dead against it. It’s opened Pandora’s Box and now we and future generations will suffer from instantaneous lockdowns.”
Exactly. IMO this is the most powerful argument against actually. It’s clear that governments CANNOT be trusted with this power, so even in cases where it might help, it should be off the table. As has been discussed frequently here, in a true deadly pandemic that was threatening society, people would not need to be bullied into taking whatever measures they could to protect themselves.
As they say, Johnson should know F***ing hopeless when he sees it. I’ve heard so many horrific stories about babies being tested because they had a sniffle at nursery causing huge distress. People have lost their minds, they really have. I look forward to the day when these evil g*ts who think they are bullet proof are arrested, not just the ministers but the ordinary people who ‘were just following the guidelines’
If this wasn’t so serious it would be bleedin’ hilarious.
It is serious … and it is still f.ing hilarious.
(Even if only to those with a dark sense of humour) 🙂
People like me! 🙂
This story needs to be archived in the “distract the plebs” folder.
Cummings has become the very sort of self absorbed political operator that he claims to despise, trying to drag the entire country into his silly little power game with Boris Johnson.
Cummings, we don’t give a shit!!
Regardless of what this was or was not about – it proves one thing and one thing only …
Matt Hancock, the useful idiot’s useful idiot…
Pot/Kettle though
Probably the most accurate statement that Boris has made!
We shoos develop a traffic light system for ineptitude Hancock and Boris would both be on the ted list!
I’m trying to work out what the cunning Cummings’ plan is here. So he exposes Johnson calling Hancock ‘useless’. Are we to take from this that Hancock is useless (Johnson’s opinion correct) or that he isn’t useless (Johnson wrong) or that Johnson’s useless because he didn’t follow this up by sacking Hancock? Or something else, since he’s so cunning we could have missed it? Whatever, in the real world hell of lockdown who cares…
About the only true word that Johnson has spoken since March 2020.