The Dominic Cummings file

[Marty1]

Other than Boris & Gove - is anyone else defending Cummings?

 

[Humberto]

Other than Boris & Gove - is anyone else defending Cummings?

They are just lying. 'I understand but it's a matter of opinion'. Sooner or later we have to just say we aren't having it. 2 + 2 equals 4

 

[belboid]

Just in case you’ve had that thing on facefuck - Cummings sister is called Sarah, not Alice. She doesn’t work for idox

Fact check: Dominic Cummings does not have a sister working for the IT solutions company Idox

Social media users have widely shared incorrect claims that the sister of the British Prime Minister’s special advisor Dominic Cummings is a director in software solutions company Idox.

www.reuters.com

 

[Humberto]

It's the 'the best thing would be for me to be a totalitarian (but 'benevolent') dictator' bullshit. I 'get it'. Except these are little boys raised and instilled with ruling class sensibilities.

 

[Humberto]

They are all geniuses too, don't you know.

 

[Humberto]

Johnson is toast anyway. A seventy mile round trip to 'test your eye-sight', on your wife's birthday, with a four year old child in the back? Fuck off.

 

[quiet guy]

Emily Maitlis getting the message out on Newsnight

 

[The39thStep]

You don’t need a weatherman
To know which way the wind blows

My tenner on Stay at Home to be in Cummings speech or questions at 3-1 paid out

 

[Humberto]

Fucker brought his 4 year old son into it with no shame though.

 

[Humberto]

The absolute worst part? He thought he had Covid-19 and decided to visit a hospital on the other end of the country!

 

[Kaka Tim]

has a british government ever acted more ridiculously than this one? utter shambles.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Just in case you’ve had that thing on facefuck - Cummings sister is called Sarah, not Alice. She doesn’t work for idox

Fact check: Dominic Cummings does not have a sister working for the IT solutions company Idox

Social media users have widely shared incorrect claims that the sister of the British Prime Minister’s special advisor Dominic Cummings is a director in software solutions company Idox.

www.reuters.com

Oh shit FridgeMagnet, you're going to have to stick the Chief into the iso-cubes for a coupla weeks

 

[little_legs]

Doesn't matter what you think. It matters what 'the public' thinks. It'll fizz out and your opinion will remain as irrelevant as usual.

There will be a few tens of thousands less voters at the next election due to the government response. Because the government will have killed them.

 

[Streathamite]

Fair enough. It'll be important to get the indictment right

Also, tbf, Idox are a completely unexceptional, uncontroversial IT firm

 

[elbows]

has a british government ever acted more ridiculously than this one? utter shambles.

There have been moments, but in this 'once in a generation'* situation there is so much opportunity for bulk bungling and miscalculation multipliers.

All the same, I would mostly still say true to form, exhibit a:



*such complacency in a phrase like that, complacency that in this case was ongoing for decades, it cant happen here in this shiny modern world. Oh I remember too all that 'its the end of history' bollocks, how did that idea work out long term for the unipolar world fucknoids who promoted it post-Soviet collapse? Ha that didnt stand the test of time, but then what does, its mostly only ever a question of how much time. And in this pandemic the original criminal government response timing in the early months has probably affected the timing of their ultimate fate.

 

[Streathamite]

This seems to be his style though...avoid accusations of SM band wagon jumping and going it alone...He will be 'forensic' stating the fucking obvious again at PMQs tomorrow though

Ermm...no PMQs tomorrow
(e2a: damn just saw others beat me to it!)

 

[Raheem]

Fucker brought his 4 year old son into it with no shame though.

He at least has the decency not to tell us he was called Alexander Cedd. No-one needs a verb as their middle name.

 

[little_legs]

I don't think very many people here think we can 'win'. But brushing this off as purely a spectacle is wrong too - it lays bare some quite profound questions about the relationship between the governed and the government, and each twist of the story chips away at the moral authority of this government. In itself, not a fatal blow of course, and maybe in the long run insignificant - but also, maybe not.

Without presuming to speak for chilango, I think they are trying to say that a man called Dominic Cummings tried to kill his parents and it is the biggest story in British media for 5 days in a row. Because nothing else is happening.

 

[Streathamite]

I actually think Labour is being quite smart. As soon as they get involved the Tories will rally round. Atm they are killing themselves.

Precisely. I am deeply depressed that Starmer is Labour leader - but he has got this right.
If Starmer waded in now, Johnson would immediately recast it as a Labour v Tory battle, every Tory would fall into line behind them, and both Cummings and Johnson would be off the hook.
Instead, all he needs do is sit back and watch scores of Tory MPs doing his job for him.

 

[little_legs]

I think it's just that Cummings is central to the current government's strategic direction, and they've changed a lot of processes so that his removal would result in a power vacuum that couldn't be quickly or easily filled.

I am lazy to look this up but I think Coulson was also the glue guy for Hameron, and it took a few days for him to resign. Though admittedly the NoW scandal may have been more significant than some twat trying to kill his parents.

 

[Streathamite]

Other than Boris & Gove - is anyone else defending Cummings?

Hancock, in the presser

 

[little_legs]

I doubt many tory voters are especially fond of Cummings but Johnson is their man, he is very popular amongst the rank and file. Johnson going all in on Cummings will mean a lot in that regard.

at least we're not under Corbyn's socialism

 

[belboid]

I am lazy to look this up but I think Coulson was also the glue guy for Hameron, and it took a few days for him to resign. Though admittedly the NoW scandal may have been more significant than some twat trying to kill his parents.

Months. There'd been a big story then more drip drip rumour gossip until January. Cameron went big on defending him four days before his (Coulson's) resignation.

 

[ruffneck23]

Good morning all.

 

[MrSki]

 

[Chilli.s]

The absolute worst part? He thought he had Covid-19 and decided to visit a hospital on the other end of the country!

That's the thing that should have fucked him, spineless Boris should have sacked him for that alone, and the cops should be prosecuting. The main purpose of lockdown, protect the NHS. All the going to a holiday home and the rest is just additional selfishness.

 

[Dogsauce]

Good morning all.

significant that this is The Star, one of the more bootlicky papers. The even more toady Express is ignoring the story, while Murdoch’s Sun is still batting for the government, presumably to protect their asset Gove. How long can they hold out this editorial line before they end up looking ridiculous?

 

[bimble]

Well it hasn't gone away quite yet then.


Certainly helps that there hasn't been much news in the world for the last couple of months what with everyone else staying at home and having a focus for all the frustration and anger is well timed.

 

[phillm]

He at least has the decency not to tell us he was called Alexander Cedd. No-one needs a verb as their middle name.

Surprised he didn't call him Cuntlet - you know to be contrarian and in honour of his father.

 

[Tankus]

Has he gone yet ?