The Dominic Cummings file

[DaveCinzano]

You bastard, I've just splattered my laptop with lager.

Just imagine the carnage on Dom's

 

[planetgeli]

It's starting to, I posted the link to the Metro above, now both The Times & The New Statesman have picked-up on it, and for some strange reason the Salisbury Journal, which is part of the Newsquest regional & local newspaper group, so that will spread across their titles.

The blog edit is on the Guardian live blog, entered at 11.25am. The discrepancy in his statement compared to his wife's, about not being able to get out of bed yet somehow driving to the hospital, has been taken up by Beth Rigby of Sky, who was one of the better journalists yesterday.

 

[Sprocket.]

Does Cummings remind anyone else of the Thick of It's Stuart Pearson?
Maybe it will end like this.
NSFW
Bit sweary.

 

[Lurdan]

YouGov poll conducted today

Here at their site together with those for the identical poll questions three days ago. Clearly that interview worked out well

Those charts in full :

Spoiler: chart one

Spoiler: Chart Two

Spoiler: Chart Three

 

[littlebabyjesus]

The blog edit is on the Guardian live blog, entered at 11.25am. The discrepancy in his statement compared to his wife's, about not being able to get out of bed yet somehow driving to the hospital, has been taken up by Beth Rigby of Sky, who was one of the better journalists yesterday.

And that's one thing I've learned from this. Never watched Sky before yesterday. I have a mate who works for them and have always been a bit scoffy about it - he moved from BBC News for a big fat pay rise. But I can see his points about them now - beside doubling his salary. They do have some semblance of editorial independence.

 

[Jeremiah18.17]

Have people not the teentsiest suspicion that some of this ridiculous lying is deliberate- in the Trump/Bannon playbook? I.e “Look at the ridiculous shit we can get away with. You can’t do shit about it. We have the power. LOSERS. Suckers”
And some of their base, the batshit national-populist-Brexit-obsessed wannabe blackshirts LOVE it. “See us own the Libtards and lefties. See the sweet lefty tears”
It is a gamble, yes, as is everything Johnson, Trump, Bolsonaro, Modi, Erdogan, Putin and the rest of the criminal gang do. But they are still there, and still gaslighting the world.
Just saying

 

[The39thStep]

Does Cummings remind anyone else of the Thick of It's Stuart Pearson?
Maybe it will end like this.
NSFW
Bit sweary.

That was modelled on Steve Hilton

 

[Part-timah]

Does Cummings remind anyone else of the Thick of It's Stuart Pearson?
Maybe it will end like this.
NSFW
Bit sweary.

Stuart Pearson had some redeeming features Cummings does not.

 

[Raheem]

I bet Cummings is totally confused that the one bit of the story that's actually true is the bit everyone finds hysterically ridiculous.

 

[frogwoman]

Yep exactly, front it out like Bolsonaro. 'So what'.

 

[editor]

Does Cummings remind anyone else of the Thick of It's Stuart Pearson?
Maybe it will end like this.
NSFW
Bit sweary.

"Walking thought pod"

 

[Mogden]

We should make Cummings interview again with no forewarning and see if the story is the same.

 

[cupid_stunt]

The blog edit is on the Guardian live blog, entered at 11.25am. The discrepancy in his statement compared to his wife's, about not being able to get out of bed yet somehow driving to the hospital, has been taken up by Beth Rigby of Sky, who was one of the better journalists yesterday.

And that's one thing I've learned from this. Never watched Sky before yesterday. I have a mate who works for them and have always been a bit scoffy about it - he moved from BBC News for a big fat pay rise. But I can see his points about them now - beside doubling his salary. They do have some semblance of editorial independence.

I've always been impressed with Beth Rigby, and Sky News has grown on me in in the last couple of years, which is in line with when Sky got taken over, and Murdoch was gone.

They certainly seem to be enjoying themselves with this story.

 

[Sprocket.]

Stuart Pearson had some redeeming features Cummings does not.

Yes, Pearson is fictional.

 

[maomao]

Well he doesn't seem to have persuaded anyone:

 

[Raheem]

Well he doesn't seem to have persuaded anyone:

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Crazy thing is, turning round those numbers is now going to be a central task of government.

 

[Smangus]

I fancy Beth

 

[teqniq]

Apologies if already posted. This is a pretty damning piece:

Cummings' actions show government cannot be trusted, says adviser

Sage scientist condemns ‘vacuum in the heart of government’

www.theguardian.com

 

[teuchter]

So, the majority of conservative voters don't think he should resign.

 

[Shirl]

I fancy Beth

And me, I spotted her a while back. Red lippy and clever

 

[Mogden]

Plenty of lies highlighted here.

 

[Roadkill]

He should have asked Chris Huhne to give him a lift, I'm told he has some experience in such matters .

Right on cue:

 

[frogwoman]

It's Evenly split 46 v 46

 

[cupid_stunt]

It's kicking off in Scotland now.

SCOTTISH Tory leader Jackson Carlaw is now facing an open rebellion after four of the most senior members of his Holyrood team broke ranks over the Dominic Cummings saga.

Murdo Fraser, Donald Cameron, Graham Simpson and Adam Tomkins have spoken out over the Prime Minister's decision not to sack his chief aide – despite their boss Carlaw insisting it is a matter for Boris Johnson.

The three men are central figures in Carlaw's frontbench team. Fraser covers the constitution portfolio, Cameron, finance, Tomkins the social society brief, while Simpson holds the housing brief.

Jackson Carlaw facing open rebellion over stance on Cummings scandal

SCOTTISH Tory leader Jackson Carlaw is now facing an open rebellion after four of the most senior members of his Holyrood team broke ranks over…

www.thenational.scot

Oh dear, what a shame, never mind.

 

[Pickman's model]

Cummings said yesterday that he decides what does or doesn't cross Johnson's desk.
He is the one running the gaff.
He is a lying creep who regards you and I as units to be exploited or disregarded or sacrificed.
And for what exactly?
Like he is some kind of visionary?
Yet he doesn't trust his own vision enough he must subject it to the Barnard Castle eye test.
In my own clumsy way I am trying to point out to the converted already that Cummings is an utter cunt.

frankly number ten sounds completely chaotic

 

[brogdale]

Right on cue:

Yeah, what a funny guy...the one who sent his Mrs down in Holloway.
Massive cunt.

 

[maomao]

Plenty of lies highlighted here.

This story is nothing. Wakefield is not a politician and is not obliged to tell the truth in Spectator articles.

 

[Shechemite]

You bastard, I've just splattered my laptop with lager.

Yes. With lager.

 

[Roadkill]

Yeah, what a funny guy...the one who sent his Mrs down in Holloway.
Massive cunt.

You won't find me disagreeing there, but even a massive cunt can have a point from time to time...

 

[Teaboy]

Bit of a bind for Scottish tories. They went in pretty hard on the Calderwood thing which is at best the same thing as Cummings did.