Let me explain, son.
Thing is; Shapps might be a duplicitous, venal spiv, but he's a political survivor and knows exactly how to wriggle. Listening to his answers was a case study in keeping his options open; very nearly all "Well, Mr Cummings has said..." such that when the lies/cover-up are revealed Shapps will have left little trace of any expressed support.
He's 24/7, not just a Saturday pm
Thing is, I have a good mate who was in a similar position if you can believe any of this (both of them really ill with likely covid, two young kids) and her sister moved in with them rather than them travel, and she's still there and will stay for the foreseeable because we're in a fucking lockdown and she's not an irresponsible wanker. No seeing grandparents, no driving around the country symptomatic, and no fucking Abba.
I can't quite believe they'll manage to front this out. It's nice to know there still are depths we can plumb
Too much of the old booger sugar son? The point was that he was not showing as trending, when he obviously was trending..
your recent point - the one you've been defending for the last two pages - is that it wasn't showing up in a search.
Whose the They in this story dexter just out of mild interest?
I don't think Cummings himself is particularly politically skilled, quite the opposite - people hate everything he says, but he is good at getting the support of certain people within the Tory party certainly, and some of them are skilled. I would say that a lot of Tories don't like him at all though, so it really depends on which factions think he's worth defending and how much. It seems to be a lot of them so far, sure, but it's not him that's doing it.
I think this is one of the reasons why it might not fly in the end - for a huge number of families - possibly a majority - one of the key issues with the lockdown has been not being able to drop the kids off at their grandparents for a bit. They've had to find ways of coping without the substantial crutch grandparents often provide, and it has been, for many of them, incredibly hard work. My brother, into week 8 with just him, his pregnant wife and his two year old, was weeping on the phone to me the other night he's struggling so bad.
There's a large number of Tory MPs keeping very quiet.
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They're still Tories so don't care about the ethics of the situation and also want to preserve the party. But there will be (more) internal division. Which is good.
Except in that situation Campbell was Cummings and he wouldn't have sacked himself. May well have not done anything so stupid in the first place mind you.
