The Dominic Cummings file

[Yossarian]

Not everyone apparently.

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It'd be a shame to waste such fine penmanship, think I might have opted for erasing everything between "Cummings" and the second "is" instead of just scrawling "CUNT" over it, which would have been my first instinct.

 

[Streathamite]

I guess one of the major differences between Trump and Johnson is that Trump is from outside the party system. Indeed, he's a former donor to Hilary Clinton's state campaign.

Maybe there's more synthesis between him and Cummings, as the supposed outsider, smashing the system from within.

I think you've nailed it. Trump is Trump's cummings, with the hapless circle around him - jared, Ivanka, Pompeo, Barr, McEmany, Donald Jr, Mnuxchin, Esper etc - are Johnson and his cabinet.
Trump is much, much more hands-on and in control than Johnson. Which is fucking scary.

 

[Roadkill]

Jonathan Freedland on Cummings' plans for reforming Whitehall.

It's a good thing that the likes of Freedland have picked up on this, but people like Carole Cadwalladr and David Hencke have been on it for months, despite sometimes being dismissed as borderline conspiracy loons and 'mad cat lady' (ugh), including by some who should know better.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Jim'll Paint It does his thing:

Please could you paint Dominic Cummings sat naked and bloody holding his own eyes (Event Horizon style) upon a throne of eyes at Barnard Castle, accompanied by various eye themed characters such as Mike Wazowski, Krumm, Alpha Centauri, the Harryhausen cyclops and that lad from Pans Labyrinth etc.

Spoiler: Mildly icky

 

[quiet guy]

The beanie hat is a nice touch.

 

[equationgirl]

Jim is very talented, if slightly disturbed...

 

[ska invita]

Jim'll Paint It does his thing:

Spoiler: Mildly icky

whats the purple one with red lips - its ringing a claymation bell - i cant place it

 

[Ground Elder]

whats the purple one with red lips - its ringing a claymation bell - i cant place it

 

[ska invita]

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Trap Door! What a class show! Im not sure its that though - I cant find a picture online that matches it?

 

[ska invita]

yes!!

 

[William of Walworth]

Too much laid back pisstaking and humour about Cummings in this thread lately

So for actual history :

Last Saturday, Andy Beckett compared Cummings to Thatcher's chief policy advisor, John Hoskyns :

This is the man in No 10 who inspired Cummings – and he didn't last long

John Hoskyns, Margaret Thatcher’s head of policy, also wanted to shake up Whitehall. He left, disappointed and frustrated

Will something similar happen with Cummings? His approach to reforming government seems more hurried and haphazard than Hoskyns’ – perhaps a sign of a more impatient age. But he also has more power, and that may keep him in Downing Street longer.
Yet his dominance is really a sign of current Conservatism’s underlying weakness. The Johnson government, unlike Thatcher’s, doesn’t contain many able politicians or fresh thinkers. Conservatism is no longer the rising movement it was in the 80s.
At some point, the irresistible force of Cummings will meet an immovable object: the widespread scepticism, among voters as much as civil servants, that Britain needs yet more disruptive rightwing government. There may be fireworks, or the frustration of his plans may be quieter. But it’s unlikely he’ll leave Downing Street a contented man.

Worth a full read!

 

[stavros]

Too much laid back pisstaking and humour about Cummings in this thread lately

So for actual history :

Last Saturday, Andy Beckett compared Cummings to Thatcher's chief policy advisor, John Hoskyns :





Worth a full read!

I'm not precisely sure what it would take to disrupt the ingrained system of governance we have in the UK, but I doubt that Cummings is it.

 

[elbows]

I wonder if the current tory cunts will enjoy their spitting image equivalents as much as some of Thatcher & Co apparently revelled in their puppets.

Boris Johnson: Spitting Image puppet unveiled ahead of relaunch

The TV programme, famous for its mockery of politicians, is set to be relaunched this autumn.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[stavros]

I wonder if the current tory cunts will enjoy their spitting image equivalents as much as some of Thatcher & Co apparently revelled in their puppets.

Boris Johnson: Spitting Image puppet unveiled ahead of relaunch

The TV programme, famous for its mockery of politicians, is set to be relaunched this autumn.

www.bbc.co.uk

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I fear that, given how he's fashioned his public persona over the past thirty years, I suspect whatever they do to Johnson will further embed the appeal he has to too many people.

 

[two sheds]

Yes a lot of people I think revel in his cuntishness

 

[Badgers]

Couple who claim they saw Dominic Cummings on second trip complain to watchdog

EXCLUSIVE: Number 10 are under pressure to produce the evidence Dominic Cummings did not make a second lockdown trip after new witnesses make claims

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[Badgers]

 

[Pickman's model]

Fortunately Cummings won't need to travel to Barnard castle to be hanged as there are lampposts on Whitehall which can bear his weight.

 

[quiet guy]

There's always Tower Bridge

 

[Pickman's model]

There's always Tower Bridge

And space enough there for even so inflated an ego as Johnson's

 

[agricola]

TBF I think Crerar et al are taking the wrong path there, demanding the evidence that No.10 has. - I am sure they (No.10) can prove that a phone was in London during the 19th of April and say it was Cummings' phone.

The ANPR of all the family vehicles during that time would be a much better thing to ask about, because we have already been given a list of his movements to check it against.

 

[Schmetterling]

I could be wrong but I do believe/hope the press has a lot more evidence but that they are playing the long game and allowing him, in his arrogance, to tie himself up in lies.
Letting him think he is getting away with it and then, boom, hitting him with the next indiscretion/breaking of the rules evidence they have - over and over - seems much more satisfying.

 

[Dogsauce]

It’s a weak weapon now though, the furore has passed and everyone knows he’s a cunt, doesn’t really do any more harm. They’ll laugh it off whatever is proven or otherwise.

 

[elbows]

It’s a weak weapon now though, the furore has passed and everyone knows he’s a cunt, doesn’t really do any more harm. They’ll laugh it off whatever is proven or otherwise.

Yeah. It hasnt stopped the Mirror from putting the story mentioned earlier on their front page, but I dont expect it to go anywhere really.

 

[William of Walworth]

Guardian version of the same story is here
(I think the Mirror and Guardian continue to collaborate on this particular story).

 

[weltweit]

Did Cummings state that he only made one trip? If he did state that but actually made two he could risk punishment because of a lie to the public.

If he didn't state that he only made one trip, two trips four it wouldn't really matter, he already stated that he didn't think one trip was outside the guidelines so two would also be within them according to him.

I don't see his number plate being scanned - that would be a wakeup call for personal freedoms, but the cell information for his mobile phone would clearly indicate where in the country he was on pretty much any day.

 

[Sue]

Did Cummings state that he only made one trip? If he did state that but actually made two he could risk punishment because of a lie to the public.

Seriously, risk punishment for lying to the public?

 

[philosophical]

As far as Boris Johncuntson is concerned Cummings could star in a three hour long TV special of kicking kittens in the face and still keep his job.

 

[existentialist]

Did Cummings state that he only made one trip? If he did state that but actually made two he could risk punishment because of a lie to the public.

The only reason that this is still a story is because Cummings insisted that he'd made only the one trip, but various witnesses claim to have seen him Up North on a separate occasion.

I don't see his number plate being scanned - that would be a wakeup call for personal freedoms, but the cell information for his mobile phone would clearly indicate where in the country he was on pretty much any day.

Er, ANPR is fairly routinely used in the UK in all kinds of situations: I think you may have overslept on the personal freedoms front . Not to mention that cell information from a mobile would be a far more fine-grained infringement of anyone's freedoms, so your reassuredness re ANPR vs mobile tracking is slightly counter-intuitive

 

[NoXion]

As far as Boris Johncuntson is concerned Cummings could star in a three hour long TV special of kicking kittens in the face and still keep his job.

I honestly don't understand how that makes Johnson look anything else but weak. Unable to do the job of PM without his Magic Eugenicist Cunt hanging around and working his shitwizardry.