The 'twist' is the key to this all. It's a f***ing, both literally and metaphorically, pantomine. They are playing us like idiotic punters.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

I voted Conservative at the last election fearing that the alternative was going to be worse - what a mistake that was I absolutely loathe Johnson/Hancock/any Tory MP now - they are serial liars, completely incompetent, mass corruption in feeding contracts to their mates/donors.

The hypocrisy is off the scale - G7/UEFA/Ascot/ CV rules do not apply however for for the rest of us wear your masks/social distance - #imdone.

Unfortunately there is no effective opposition now so I am politically homeless.

If you get the chance look at the Peter Stefanovic video on Twitter of Johnson lying multiple times in the HoC - never covered on any Uk mainstream media…

I was amused - as was the Any Questions audience last night - to hear that dissembling waste of space Robert Jenrick (Housing Minister) defending Hancock, pointing out, with reference to the pandemic, that he was "on the job"!

LOL. Not sure if I am flattered or insulted by this.

This story though is becoming about far more than some tawdry affair.

Interesting spin being put out this morning.

This photograph apparently has come from a ceiling camera. Number 10 are putting out that there is no need for an inquiry into the leak because they know who did it.

Key to it all is this camera and who installed it because my understanding is that this not standard practice.

So it's either a foreign agency, a newspaper or else somebody from within the department itself. In terms of some dodgy goings-on by the FSB or similar, then I think we can discount that. Hancock's remit is solely domestic and the point of such actions would be to blackmail, not sell to the Sun for release on a Friday (and yes, I am boring about the day but it is crucial in my opinion). Makes little if any sense. Hancock is a dead man walking anyway in terms of politics so I cannot imagine any fiendish foreign spy chief giving a flying f***.

Meaning it could be the newspapers. I am sure they would have no hesitation in planting such a camera but the downsides of being exposed are massive. Not only would they piss of the Government but people like MI5 and the Police, who are tasked with preventing this kind of crap, would have them on the top of their s*** lists. If it is a free-lancer then, once again, a ton of crap would be heading their way. Just cannot see that either.

Leaving somebody in the department. Which is the official spin. And whose identity they know. Now could it be somebody in the pay/thrall of the Labour party? Not sure what the pay-off would be. Hancock is a t***, of that there is no doubt. If anything, him being caught in this kind of sting actually gives him a bit of glamour in many peoples eyes. Once again, Labour knows he is a dead man walking and being able to hold him up, time and time again, to the public gaze actually suits them. Better to have him still in office than out.

My theory is this.

Hancock wants out but does not want to go based on how he reacted to Covid. So he stages this 'scandal'.

Goes to BJ, offers his resignation. But BJ refuses to accept it and warns him they know it is all a fit-up. Might have even been expecting this. Wants him in office for a little bit longer so that even more s*** can be hung around his neck. Hence the spin this morning as a warning to him. Play the game or we make you look even more of a t*** than you are already.

Hancock therefore has to stay in situ.

Of course, it's possible I am reading to much into this all and really should have better things to do with my time but this all stinks. And once again, the Friday bit. This is a Sunday splash. Not what you put out when most people are just looking forward to the weekend.

Break the story on the Friday, resign, bow out of the public gaze for six months and then return, with a tell-all book and a speaking tour and so on.

Wheels within wheels within wheels.

But the key is that camera. It should not have been there.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.

Be flattered and insulted. Like being aroused but feeling grubby.

I think you‘re on to something.

More likely a disgruntled civil servant or advisor goes to the tabloids and they supply the camera?

One more point