Was this a story before he got sacked? Because it passed me by if so - ThreadSky

onelifestand87.bsky.social • 20 days ago

Was this a story before he got sacked? Because it passed me by if so

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UK Health Minister Andrew Gwynne is sacked by PM and apologises for offence caused by "badly misjudged" messages on WhatsApp

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jlharrison.bsky.social•20 days ago

As far as I can tell it broke in the Mail literally this afternoon, so the government acted really quickly to avoid a protracted scandal.

onelifestand87.bsky.social•20 days ago

At least they’ve stopped dragging it out

cooraysmith.bsky.social•20 days ago

Don’t think so, no.

cooraysmith.bsky.social•20 days ago

Even the Heil’s story is that he’s been sacked.

matthewkilburn.bsky.social•20 days ago

I suspect that the Heil were going to expose him and told the PM's office, giving him the chance to sack Gwynne as they published.

cooraysmith.bsky.social•20 days ago

I don’t think they’ll have helped out #10, which as far as they’re concerned has been captured by Bolsheviks. Information probably took a more circumlocutious route.

matthewkilburn.bsky.social•20 days ago

I don't know - it's win-win, really. 'If I wanted to vote for bigots, I'd have voted Reform, so I might as well...'

onelifestand87.bsky.social•20 days ago

More likely they just went for comment

enlightbystand.bsky.social•20 days ago

The story has a 17:55 initial time, and then a 18:40ish update time, so I suspect they’ve done a quick rewrite of the top lines.

alunephraim.bsky.social•20 days ago

This has been handled quite well it seems: the idiot (he was always an idiot) who most people had never heard of is a puff of smoke before anyone has heard of him.

cooraysmith.bsky.social•20 days ago

Oh I agree; I was thinking much more of the inevitable high pitch online beef not noticed by 99.9r% even of the people who know a minister has just been sacked.

alunephraim.bsky.social•20 days ago

Ah yes. Beef issues are going to be complex: he's alienated just about everyone over the years I think (with the last plausible people who might have been interested in defending him being... er... some of the people he was slagging off, apparently). A real placeholder junior minister.

cooraysmith.bsky.social•20 days ago

If only the parliamentary party was fkn huge, eh?

michaelmills.bsky.social•20 days ago

Johnson would have ignored it, then claimed that it was fake news, then said that was real but didn’t matter, then said he was sad, then said he’d had a private apology and considered the matter closed, then sacked him.

tpgroberts.bsky.social•20 days ago

Nope. Tulip Siddiq is the only one who manages that

enlightbystand.bsky.social•20 days ago

Looks like the Mail had the scoop on them, and No10 was able to get the reaction out quick enough (presumably from being asked to comment, getting all other outlets to hold for the sacking rather than running about the Mail’s original?) that sacking was the story. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14375823/Labour-minister-SACKED-vile-jibe-saying-hopes-pensioners-dont-vote-party-die-election-expose-racist-sexist-messages.html

laelvista.bsky.social•20 days ago

Of course they lead with the pensioner comment. I assumed that would be the worst but crikey

aidan.skinner.me.uk•20 days ago

First I've heard of it

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