The battle to learn lessons and defend reputations over Covid was always going to be intense, angry and passionate., which is currently at its very early stages.The simple political truth is the court of public opinion is opening and hearing evidence now, and will continue to in the coming days, via revelations in The Daily Telegraph.
We see, in a raw, unfiltered way, the nature and tone of their interactions, the rapidly changing evidence and arguments about what was deliverable. Isabel Oakeshott argues she is performing an important public service by publishing these exchanges now. Matt Hancock says what she has done is outrageous, partial and driven by an anti-lockdown agenda from her and the newspaper.It reminds me of the same paper's rolling revelations on MPs' expenses in 2009: a steady flow, day after day, of stories that dominated Westminster's agenda, forever moulding the reputation of many, many figures in politics.
ChrisMasonBBC Foresights a wonderful thing after the events - pity consecutive governments on all sides never learn
ChrisMasonBBC Does Matt Hancock think because he went on ‘I’m a celebrity….’ It makes him wonderful in the eyes of the public? That he can ‘get away’ with anything? That the British public will forgive him for the ‘mistakes’ he made during the pandemic? That cost people to lose loved ones?
ChrisMasonBBC Him and Tony Blair killed ten's of thousands. 🤔 Think any of them will see justice.😡
ChrisMasonBBC The biasedbbc using the Covid WhatsApp leak story to attack the Conservatives. defundthebbc
ChrisMasonBBC Now we know what he wanted that little bit of forgiveness for. Not likely sunshine
ChrisMasonBBC He’s going to need his jungle money to pay his barristers shortly.
ChrisMasonBBC That's because you the propaganda of the lockdown fanatics stopped any discussion and spread as much misinformation as possible. Hopefully a full enquiry sees editors in jail.
ChrisMasonBBC Lockdown was the biggest crime this country committed since slavery times
ChrisMasonBBC Hopefully this clown of an MP will be prosecuted for the thousands of lost lives over the course of the pandemic due to this mans incompetence of being in office, along with other senior figures!
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ChrisMasonBBC Boom!
ChrisMasonBBC Is he still promoting his book. Wonder how much he will give to charity.
ChrisMasonBBC The BBC told 3 years ago...there was insufcicient COVID TESTING..the GOVERNMENT agreed & said there were insufficient tests AVAILABLE! so prioritising was ESSENTIAL in the short term was essential!..WHATS FKN NEW!
ChrisMasonBBC The Covid scam is about to be blown wide open. 👍
ChrisMasonBBC If the BBC are involved, we can be sure of a cover up!
ChrisMasonBBC Just to clarify....Hancock entrusted IsabelOakeshott with his iffy message bundle...she releases them and now he's whining again because he's being incriminated ? You incriminated yourself MattHancock ! Your NDA is seemingly as effective as your 'protective nursing home ring'!
ChrisMasonBBC The Tories really don't want any focus on what they did and didn't do during Covid.
ChrisMasonBBC Chris Mason mentions the Telegraph's been working on the emails for 2 months but doesn't raise the obvious question of why this drip-feed of revelations now. So content to help whip up the firestorm of public anger but not to interrogate motives for such a political distraction.
ChrisMasonBBC He is simply a horrible little creep, with like all Tories lacking a soul
ChrisMasonBBC There were so many questions that the mainstream media should have been asking throughout the pandemic that it was left to so-called conspiracy theorists who were condemned for spreading 'disinformation' that turned out to be true.
BBCScotlandNews ChrisMasonBBC Jail the Tory basket
ChrisMasonBBC The small people who put their head above the parapet & queried anything were smeared/denounced while journalists,with access to MPs, huddled together & asked for lockdown measures & didn't challenge. Journalists have done Govt bidding since the beginning. They've been woeful.
ChrisMasonBBC Jail him!!!
ChrisMasonBBC People all over the UK in carehomes were sitting ducks and were dying. I am utterly dismayed that you chose only to focus on England. None of the quarters in the UK did well, but the report makes it look like only England was affected.
ChrisMasonBBC Hancock was too busy shagging.
ChrisMasonBBC Maybe Dec and Ant and ITV need to be less interested in publicity.
ChrisMasonBBC And what is the view on Covid of this woman who released the texts? Isn’t she a denier?
ChrisMasonBBC I don't need to hear any more to know Hancock and Johnson should be in prison.
ChrisMasonBBC He's guilty... Sorted.