The Dominic Cummings file

[teqniq]

* holds nose *

Revealed: Dominic Cummings firm paid Vote Leave's AI firm £260,000

Boris Johnson’s chief adviser declines to explain reason for payments to Faculty

www.theguardian.com

 

[Saul Goodman]

* holds nose *

Revealed: Dominic Cummings firm paid Vote Leave's AI firm £260,000

Boris Johnson’s chief adviser declines to explain reason for payments to Faculty

www.theguardian.com

Move along. Nothing to see here.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Did you see what's written on the lanyard around the cunt's neck?

 

[two sheds]

All others we monitor?

 

[teqniq]

No, I hadn't, someone else has noticed too:

 

[tim]

He is a minister without portfolio, and will soon purge senior military officers to bring them into line with the future needs of the British state to conduct large-scale violence against its citizens. Transparent governance is a nice phrase but meaningless given the majority of the largest ethnic group repeatedly vote for this shit.

A Very British Coup? Former Royal Navy Trident Submarine Commander Assesses

Dr Andrew Corbett, of the Joint Services Command and Staff College, delves into evidence that the Government is actively undermining British democracy

bylinetimes.com

Your specific claims do not match with what is said in the article. It's written by a former Trident Commander but does't claim either that the military command will be purged or that the British army is going to be sent out to shoot us. Can give us a link that backs up your claim?

More specifically:

Could you explain more specifically what the future needs of the British state are?
Do you also have a statistically reliable demographic breakdown showing what shit the "majority of the largest ethnic group", presumably knowingly, vote repeatedly for?
Could you also explain who this "largest ethnic group" are?
What are the parameters for inclusion or exclusion from this group?
Would the large scale violence you know will happen exclude this group?
If so, how will it be done?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Did you see what's written on the lanyard around the cunt's neck?

Indeed

 

[Pickman's model]

It would be entirely appropriate that the training manual would contain innumerable errors, contradictory guidance and outdated, misunderstood data that let to a botched first attempt

A worthy successor to the clumsy Jack Ketch who eventually executed the Duke of Monmouth

 

[Poi E]

Your specific claims do not match with what is said in the article. It's written by a former Trident Commander but does't claim either that the military command will be purged or that the British army is going to be sent out to shoot us. Can give us a link that backs up your claim?

More specifically:

Could you explain more specifically what the future needs of the British state are?
Do you also have a statistically reliable demographic breakdown showing what shit the "majority of the largest ethnic group", presumably knowingly, vote repeatedly for?
Could you also explain who this "largest ethnic group" are?
What are the parameters for inclusion or exclusion from this group?
Would the large scale violence you know will happen exclude this group?
If so, how will it be done?

Working in ex-Yugoslavia. This place is heading towards disaster.

Nothing to see here. No nationalism at all. All just a few bad apples. I get it.

 

[Saul Goodman]

 

[tim]

Working in ex-Yugoslavia. This place is heading towards disaster.

Nothing to see here. No nationalism at all. All just a few bad apples. I get it.

A fair amount of nationalism, but there's nothing new in that and nothing particularly unique about it. I can't think of any country that I've lived in that is much different on that score, if anything worse than here. We have an incompetent and divided government. Cummings and his cunning schemes being part of that.

What I don't see is the conspiranoid scenario that you are pushing. It's bad enough trying to cope with the reality as it is .

If things are as you say they are, expose my stupid complacency by making a coherent argument. If you can draw realistic parallels with ex-Yugoslavia, it would be all the more compelling.

 

[two sheds]

Interesting e-mail from Good Law Project (my bold):

On 11 July, we issued judicial review proceedings against Michael Gove for awarding an £840,000 contract to long-time associates of his and Mr Cummings'. You can read the documents relating to that claim here.

In those proceedings we said that Mr Gove had broken the law in bypassing the normal procurement rules, rules that exist to ensure fair competition and to guard against croney-ism. We also said that Mr Cummings and/or Mr Gove had acted with apparent bias, just as had his cabinet colleague Mr Jenrick.

Last night we received a response, which you can read here. It is a remarkable letter in its tone – unrepentant and bad-tempered. But its content is even more striking.

It attacks Good Law Project's ‘standing' – its interest in the proper administration of public funds. It asks why no other communications firms challenged the award of a contract they were never told the scope of or given an opportunity to bid for. And it ignores the climate that this Government itself has created – one where businesses understand very well that if they raise their voices in opposition they will pay a heavy commercial price.

But it makes no attempt, none at all, to defend the lawfulness of Mr Gove and/or Mr Cummings' actions. We, the letter seems to suggest, do not need to explain ourselves; we are above the law.

The experienced public law solicitors we instruct have never seen its like before from central Government.

We will file a fully particularised claim form, with supporting evidence, on or before 30 July. And we have asked the Administrative Court to address our claim urgently. We will, of course, keep you fully informed.

 

[stavros]

it makes no attempt, none at all, to defend the lawfulness of Mr Gove and/or Mr Cummings' actions...

The experienced public law solicitors we instruct have never seen its like before from central Government.

Really? They obviously haven't seen a cabinet minister interview in the last year.

 

[BCBlues]

The freak gets everywhere. Hes in goal for Chelsea today

 

[existentialist]

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The freak gets everywhere. Hes in goal for Chelsea today

Hope his eyesight is up to it.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Hope his eyesight is up to it.

Probably choke

 

[Badgers]

Dear Badgers,

On 11 July, we issued judicial review proceedings against Michael Gove for awarding an £840,000 contract to long-time associates of his and Mr Cummings'. You can read the documents relating to that claim here.

In those proceedings we said that Mr Gove had broken the law in bypassing the normal procurement rules, rules that exist to ensure fair competition and to guard against croney-ism. We also said that Mr Cummings and/or Mr Gove had acted with apparent bias, just as had his cabinet colleague Mr Jenrick.

Last night we received a response, which you can read here. It is a remarkable letter in its tone – unrepentant and bad-tempered. But its content is even more striking.

It attacks Good Law Project's ‘standing' – its interest in the proper administration of public funds. It asks why no other communications firms challenged the award of a contract they were never told the scope of or given an opportunity to bid for. And it ignores the climate that this Government itself has created – one where businesses understand very well that if they raise their voices in opposition they will pay a heavy commercial price.

But it makes no attempt, none at all, to defend the lawfulness of Mr Gove and/or Mr Cummings' actions. We, the letter seems to suggest, do not need to explain ourselves; we are above the law.

The experienced public law solicitors we instruct have never seen its like before from central Government.

We will file a fully particularised claim form, with supporting evidence, on or before 30 July. And we have asked the Administrative Court to address our claim urgently. We will, of course, keep you fully informed.

Thank you,
Jolyon Maugham
Director

 

[Saul Goodman]

But it makes no attempt, none at all, to defend the lawfulness of Mr Gove and/or Mr Cummings' actions. We, the letter seems to suggest, do not need to explain ourselves; we are above the law.

That's exactly the way they see themselves, and they probably are.

 

[Badgers]

Cummings trips damaged UK lockdown unity, study suggests

Scandal over adviser’s journey to Durham broke trust in lockdown measures and politicians, report says

www.theguardian.com

The study notes: “The perception that the prime minister’s adviser, Dominic Cummings, had broken lockdown rules was a highly salient issue that appeared to damage trust in politicians.”

Participants in the research grew “noticeably angrier” about politicians after the revelations, although it also served to create fresh consensus. “It was not, however, as divisive an incident as might be thought. Most people, irrespective of their political views, appeared to disapprove of Cummings’ action.”

 

[brogdale]

Cummings trips damaged UK lockdown unity, study suggests

Scandal over adviser’s journey to Durham broke trust in lockdown measures and politicians, report says

www.theguardian.com

That's some grade A cuntery to achieve focus-group consensus of disapproval.

 

[Chilli.s]

Everyone knows he undermined the whole lockdown strategy and procedure. The garden performance just rubbed a load of fuck you salt into it.

 

[two sheds]

“It was not, however, as divisive an incident as might be thought. Most people, irrespective of their political views, appeared to disapprove of Cummings’ action.”

not at all divisive, every fucker hates him

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Not everyone apparently.

 

[gosub]

“It was not, however, as divisive an incident as might be thought. Most people, irrespective of their political views, appeared to disapprove of Cummings’ action.”

not at all divisive, every fucker hates him

Which, given where we sort of were at the time,makes what he did slighty more understandable

 

[stavros]

Jonathan Freedland on Cummings' plans for reforming Whitehall.

 

[equationgirl]

That's some grade A cuntery to achieve focus-group consensus of disapproval.

It's a bit like when urban vigorously agrees unanimously on a thread. Doesn't often happen, but it's usually some high grade cuntery that does it.

 

[two sheds]

Larry

 

[Streathamite]

Cummings will sort you out

Why is everyone scared/assumes anyone us scared of him?

I'd say because he has too much power, zero accountability and there are practically no circumstances in which Johnson won't have his back .
That, and his governmentalo style is of a quasi-maoist human wrecking ball who believes the best thing you can do with most of the machinery of government is to smash it to pieces as comp-letely and as quickly as is humanly possible

 

[Streathamite]

He is a minister without portfolio, and will soon purge senior military officers to bring them into line with the future needs of the British state to conduct large-scale violence against its citizens. Transparent governance is a nice phrase but meaningless given the majority of the largest ethnic group repeatedly vote for this shit.

A Very British Coup? Former Royal Navy Trident Submarine Commander Assesses

Dr Andrew Corbett, of the Joint Services Command and Staff College, delves into evidence that the Government is actively undermining British democracy

bylinetimes.com

Thast article (and the attachments it leads to) is both fascinating and terrifying

 

[Streathamite]

He is a minister without portfolio, and will soon purge senior military officers to bring them into line with the future needs of the British state to conduct large-scale violence against its citizens. Transparent governance is a nice phrase but meaningless given the majority of the largest ethnic group repeatedly vote for this shit.

A Very British Coup? Former Royal Navy Trident Submarine Commander Assesses

Dr Andrew Corbett, of the Joint Services Command and Staff College, delves into evidence that the Government is actively undermining British democracy

bylinetimes.com

In truth, it's a lot more about class, social conaservatism and brexit fever than it is to do with ethnicity.
That article you put up is fascinating, btw, ditto the pages it links to. Also quite chilling.