The Dominic Cummings file
- Thread starter brogdale
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He was found in contempt of Parliament more than a year ago and that didn't do him any harm. The old norms of political behaviour would have had him resign for that alone, but what we've seen in the last few years is that they just don't apply, and the British constitution has no effective sanction against people breaking them. It's all based on the assumption people will behave like jolly good chaps, and if they don't there's nothing that can be done about it. BoJo (thinks he) needs Cummings, perhaps because he thinks he's brilliant or perhaps just because it's safer to have him inside the tent pissing out than vice versa. Breaking lockdown like this probably is going to cause more upset than sticking two fingers up at a select committee and from an image-management point of view it's more serious, but even so I can't see them doing anything other than brazening it out, although I'd love to be proved wrong. Perhaps then we'd find out just how important the 'career psychopath' actually is.
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platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
You're searching for usernames matching a hashtag...
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Yes I'm perfectly aware that if you search for tweets including the tag you get a more accurate picture.
Did you try this
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Should really say 'protecting you from a potentially nasty twat'.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
which part of the trending menu is that? got a link?
you're not just posting a normal search for a name, are you? Coz you'd have to be really fucking thick to be doing that in this context.
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Have you ticked the box to only search people you follow or something?
Why would you even think twitter are censoring searches for his name
they haven't made "#dominiccummings" the trending tag for this story because he is often in the news and that hashtag could apply to any number of stories; whereas the tags they picked are specific to this story.
It is just how twitter works, it is not a conspiracy (obviously)
It is just how twitter works, it is not a conspiracy (obviously)
platinumsage
HaveMyPassword123
Doubtless she makes her mistakes, but she's a good investigative journalist who seems to rattle most of the right cages.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Piers doesn't seem to mind being a cunt though.
keybored
Well done. You remember cat good.
I'm doing the same searches you were. It's already been explained to you by others why you're not seeing whatever it is you insist you should be seeing.
If you still don't get it there's not much more to say really
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
May well go, but as others have said it will probably take another revelation about him lying to tip the balance. I think you are right there will be revulsion about this, not least that he was happy to infect his parents (or whoever the fuck he really visited). I just don't get a sense of how that revulsion is manifest and mobilised at the moment. I don't do much social media, but all those channels are still in place. Just doesn't feel like we are in a place where that usual combination of bad press, popular anger and opposition politicians add up to a campaign. But what a fucking dishonest hypocrite he is. As is Johnson.
Edit: Roadkill says it better on this page.
I thought you'd have given him credit for the post though.
Of course it will. I think theres only the mirror pushing it.
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
Shapps looks like the product of a union between Robert Webb and Jack Dee
I've put the daily kick in the bollocks on, and I take it back... I don't think the meedya are going to let it go.
frogwoman
No amount of cajolery...
Shap is just one letter away from Sham. DotCommunist
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