The Dominic Cummings file

[Shechemite]

Let's post a feel good tweet to gee up the nation and make them feel solidarity about the poverty and hardship we're all facing.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Nice bit of trolling from KFC.

 

[Roadkill]

This is hardly surprising, but also dumps more shit on Johnson, isn't it all going so well?

Police commissioner says lockdown breakers are using Cummings as an excuse

West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson says it's 'almost impossible' for officers to do their job

www.mirror.co.uk

I can't laugh at that tbh. The consequences are potentially horrific.

 

[two sheds]

By ‘discredited sister’ do you mean in relation to the BIG PHARMA DEAL conspirosphere stuff?

Because the issue with that is that there is an Alice Cummings (no relation) who is a director of various private sector medical equipment/services companies, who was conflated by some with an Alice Cummings in the Durham area, and assumed to be Dom's sibling.

Which doesn't negate his actually having a sister (but not called Alice).

Aha!! In that case ....

I don't know

 

[cupid_stunt]

I can't laugh at that tbh. The consequences are potentially horrific.

Of course it's serious, but it was predicted, I am just laughing at the mess Johnson has made and how it's coming back to haunt him.

 

[existentialist]

I can't laugh at that tbh. The consequences are potentially horrific.

And it didn't happen in a vacuum. Johnson's previous burblings about lockdown had already undermined it - this was the perfect suckerpunch to follow that.

 

[8ball]

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I don't know if it's the angle or lighting or something, but Meghan Markle and Gary Shandling look a bit kinda weird in that pic.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Six of this week's ten top trending PR Week stories:

PR leaders: ‘Trumpian’ Cummings defence a ‘Government comms disaster that could prove deadly’

PR leaders: ‘Trumpian’ Cummings defence a ‘Government comms disaster that could prove deadly’. From PR Week

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From ‘poorly polishing a turd’ to ‘a lesson in self preservation’ - PR chiefs react to Cummings press conference

From ‘poorly polishing a turd’ to ‘a lesson in self preservation’ - PR chiefs react to Cummings press conference. From PR Week

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Has the Government’s decision to back Dominic Cummings ‘trashed’ its own public health message?

Has the Government’s decision to back Dominic Cummings ‘trashed’ its own public health message?. From PR Week

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‘More people likely to bend the rules after Cummings transgression’ - behavioural scientist

‘More people likely to bend the rules after Cummings transgression’ - behavioural scientist. From PR Week

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The Government’s failure to keep ‘on message’ could be a matter of life and death

The Government’s failure to keep ‘on message’ could be a matter of life and death. From PR Week

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The PR Show podcast: 'Government urgently needs new approach to coronavirus comms'

The PR Show podcast: 'Government urgently needs new approach to coronavirus comms'. From PR Week

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[discokermit]

no one keeps their car fuel tank full. my jag has a four litre engine and the tank has a range of four hundred miles. the only times i have had more than half a tank in it is when going on a long journey. it is rarely over a quarter full, otherwise you are carrying weight around for nothing.
the reason cummings is vague about what would have been a legitimate fuel stop on the way back is that it never happened. hes hoping no one will check on a legitimate stop.
i reckon its odds on that he topped up before the return journey.

 

[8ball]

 

[Treacle Toes]

Yes, this roadsign declaring the rules don't apply to Dominic Cummings is real

The sign appeared underneath an official sign urging people to follow government guidance

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[cupid_stunt]

The countdown is on, Johnson starts his select committee performance at 4 pm.

I think I'll record it, it will probably deserve a second viewing for a laugh.

 

[equationgirl]

Someone I know with detailed knowledge of the street and area in question tells me that DC has an aide who lives a couple of streets away from him and his brother-in-law very slightly beyond that. In addition the street has a very strong sense of community, I'm told, so the decision not to seek help available locally seems increasingly perverse

Someone from the local group posted to say they'd have been happy to help, had they been asked.

 

[8ball]

The countdown is on, Johnson starts his select committee performance at 4 pm.

I think I'll record it, it will probably deserve a second viewing for a laugh.

I don't think I've ever watched 2 of these things in a row before.

 

[agricola]

Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this, but surely even they* wouldn't do something as obviously wrong as this just to try and get the Cummings story off the top of every news agenda?

Text message tells vulnerable people in UK they are dropped from shielding list

Outcry after some in England told they would lose government support without doctors being able to talk to them first

www.theguardian.com

* i know, i know

 

[planetgeli]

Sorry if this is the wrong thread for this, but surely even they* wouldn't do something as obviously wrong as this just to try and get the Cummings story off the top of every news agenda?

Text message tells vulnerable people in UK they are dropped from shielding list

Outcry after some in England told they would lose government support without doctors being able to talk to them first

www.theguardian.com

* i know, i know

I've already put that in the coronavirus UK thread fwiw.

 

[phillm]

Whatever you say about Trump at least he had balls and dumped his Rasputin Bannon soonest to show who was in charge. Johnson utter contemptible coward can't even clean up his own shitshow. He's going to survive this current onslaught I fear but with a gaping wound.

 

[agricola]

I've already put that in the coronavirus UK thread fwiw.

Which is the right place for it, but I just thought it looked and sounded like a dead cat all day long. Even for them its absolutely indefensible.

 

[editor]

 

[Part-timah]

Someone I know with detailed knowledge of the street and area in question tells me that DC has an aide who lives a couple of streets away from him and his brother-in-law very slightly beyond that. In addition the street has a very strong sense of community, I'm told, so the decision not to seek help available locally seems increasingly perverse

It’s almost as if he’s a lying little toad.

 

[Pickman's model]

Whatever you say about Trump at least he had balls and dumped his Rasputin Bannon soonest to show who was in charge. Johnson utter contemptible coward can't even clean up his own shitshow. He's going to survive this current onslaught I fear but with a gaping wound.

The difference between trump and Johnson is that trump is in charge

 

[agricola]

(wrong thread)

 

[The39thStep]

The difference between trump and Johnson is that trump is in charge

If Johnson isn't who is?

 

[planetgeli]

If Johnson isn't who is?

Is this a trick question?

 

[Raheem]

If Johnson isn't who is?

Well, he couldn't even make Cummings give an insincere half apology.

 

[The39thStep]

Is this a trick question?

Yes and then I want to explore the how

 

[The39thStep]

Well, he couldn't even make Cummings give an insincere half apology.

What makes you think that he tried?

 

[Raheem]

What makes you think that he tried?

Not trying to be in charge would just be another way of not being in charge.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Hardly surprising, all the questions about Cummings were answered with flimflam, and the new slogan, which no doubt DC came up with, 'time to move on.'

 

[planetgeli]

Yes and then I want to explore the how

OK, I'll bite. There's a quote in this thread somewhere to the order of Cummings saying it is he who decides the agenda by determining what and what does not go into Johnson's in-tray ("across his desk" is the phrase Cummings uses I believe).

On top of that, we have an inept PM. At work, I have an inept centre manager. Nominally, he is in charge. But he's so useless that in real terms the centre is run on a day to day basis by us, his underlings. Nobody describes him anymore as 'being in charge' because to all intents and purposes, he isn't, despite what his JD says.