Cummings’s WhatsApp revelation shows up the shortcomings… of KEIR STARMER
Q: which one of these is “totally f***ing hopeless”? A: it was a trick question. They BOTH are.
About half an hour before Prime Minister’s Questions on June 16, Dominic Cummings published WhatsApp messages from March last year that appeared to show Boris Johnson stating that Death Health Secretary Matt Hancock was “totally f***ing hopeless”.
If that’s true, then Hancock should never have been allowed to remain as Health Secretary throughout a pandemic crisis. The incompetence he exhibited to the UK’s prime minister, and the PM’s lack of confidence in him, means he was always likely to preside over more than 100,000 (maybe more than 200,000, if some calculations prove correct) unnecessary deaths.
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner correctly identified this:
So the PM called the Health Secretary totally f***ing hopeless. I completely agree.
But this silly insult isn't what matters. What matters is the evidence of failures by the PM and Health Secretary that resulted in thousands of avoidable deaths, and evidence of lies & cover ups.
— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) June 16, 2021
But the Opposition leader, Keir Starmer, clearly didn’t – because he never mentioned it in Prime Minister’s Questions:
Keith Starmer missed a huge open goal at #PMQs today. He had 23 minutes following Cummings’ WhatsApp message release to come up with something to toast Johnson with, but he just isn’t fast enough on his feet, and his advisers are absolutely pants.
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) June 16, 2021
It’s a basic failure that shows Johnson and Hancock aren’t the only ones in Parliament who can’t do their job properly.
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I think Boris Johnson put Mat Hancock as health secretary so everything that goes wrong he can put the blame on him same with education secretary he as no clue again he can put the blame on him Boris Johnson as no intention of taking any blame he is a dead loss yet he remains in charge He knew about the Indian variant April so I read.
Why on earth didn’t he close our boarders straight away? He knew it was killing thousands daily in India it was sad to watch Matt Hancock should resign He failed the old people in care homes their relatives couldn’t be with them to say goodbye very sad .
He wasted billions on ppe that was not fit for purpose so Nurses Doctors died due to not having proper protection why on earth he is still in charge?