Dear Sir,
Matt Hancock is to appear on the reality TV show ‘I’m A Celebrity . . . Get Me Out Of Here’, amid a national crisis, when more and more people are struggling to make ends meet and put food on the table.
The former Health Secretary has decided that now is the right time to abandon all pretence of working for his constituents and head to the jungle. Just half an hour after the news became public, Hancock lost the Tory whip – meaning that when he finally decides to turn up for his job, he will sit as an Independent MP.
Hancock is one of the more recognisable Tories, why? Because he was seemingly forever on our screens throughout the pandemic. The former Health Secretary is now cashing in on his role in the response to that pandemic – a response that landed the UK with one of the highest death tolls in Europe. Families of Covid victims are understandably outraged by his decision to jet off to the jungle just as the public inquiry, into how he and his colleagues bungled the response, gets underway.
A better quote should be ‘I’m A Failed Politician . . . Get Me Out Of Here’.
By the time the readers of the Newton News read this, local members of the Labour Party will have chosen the candidate for the next election.
Vince Crosby