The Dominic Cummings file

[platinumsage]

Is he leaving or is he just trolling the reporters?

 

[brogdale]

Is he leaving or is he just trolling the reporters?

He knew he'd get exactly that sort of tweet from the "journalists"

 

[Roadkill]

Peston's another Bluetooth speaker for him, so I wouldn't read anything whatsoever into this.

 

[brogdale]

But now Cummings actual PA (Kuennsberg) has formally announced that Elvis has, indeed, left the building (for the last time).

 

[Espresso]

He's going through the most photographed front door in the country in time for the teatime news. I think we can safely assume he's doing it for the lolz.

 

[brogdale]

Hooray!

The vermin will be nicer now.

 

[brogdale]

Here endeth the thread.

 

[brogdale]

Oh...but, hang on....

 

[Teaboy]

Is he leaving or is he just trolling the reporters?

Probably just stealing shit. He's pretty obviously a guy who will take anything that's not nailed down.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Not only verbally. I love the eighteenth-century satirists, and perhaps especially James Gillray. Given current events this gem of his from 1793 seems quite apt:

As good a grasp of geography as Johnson

 

[ska invita]

They just couldn't handle the vision

 

[gosub]

Is he leaving or is he just trolling the reporters?

Um, they just spent a fortune in the summer creating a control centre at 70 Whitehall, which is supposed to be where he works.....

 

[Badgers]

Probably got something in cyber

 

[Sprocket.]

Oh, what a shame. How long before dead leg Johnson follows him?

 

[killer b]

Oh, what a shame. How long before dead leg Johnson follows him?

three years, maybe a few more

 

[Roadkill]

Graun now reporting Cummings is going with immediate effect, so perhaps I was being unfair to Peston.

I suppose now we find out how important to the whole operation Cummings actually was...

 

[Badgers]

Oh, what a shame. How long before dead leg Johnson follows him?

He will claim a new dawn, do a load more stupid shit and then go in January once Brexit is in motion.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Isn’t this just Bozo getting ready to take a rogering from the EU after Biden reminded him of his commitments in Ireland..?

 

[not-bono-ever]

Awful lot of uncharacteristic bottle from Johnson if he has given him the arse and collar grip escort to the exit. So who actually told him to fuck off ?

 

[brogdale]

Isn’t this just Bozo getting ready to take a rogering from the EU after Biden reminded him of his commitments in Ireland..?

It is.

 

[not a trot]

But now Cummings actual PA (Kuennsberg) has formally announced that Elvis has, indeed, left the building (for the last time).

Fucked off to stay at Heartbreak Hotel.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Isn’t this just Bozo getting ready to take a rogering from the EU after Biden reminded him of his commitments in Ireland..?

That's how I read it, yes. Which is why I said it seemed obvious that this was nothing to do with leaks over Covid.

 

[mx wcfc]

Isn’t this just Bozo getting ready to take a rogering from the EU after Biden reminded him of his commitments in Ireland..?

It could well be Cummings finding an exit route before the post Brexit collapse, so he doesn't have to deal with the shitstorm he created. Johnson will wait till spring to quit.

 

[not a trot]

Awful lot of uncharacteristic bottle from Johnson if he has given him the arse and collar grip escort to the exit. So who actually told him to fuck off ?

Larry the Cat.

 

[Sprocket.]

Awful lot of uncharacteristic bottle from Johnson if he has given him the arse and collar grip escort to the exit. So who actually told him to fuck off ?

I think the term in Westminster circles is called being Malcolm Tuckered.

 

[Roadkill]

He will claim a new dawn, do a load more stupid shit and then go in January once Brexit is in motion.

I don't think he'll survive the fallout from Brexit. Even if there's a deal it's going to be disruptive, and if not it could be chaos for a while. I suspect one or two people - Rishi Sunak for one - are thinking they'll let him act as human shield for that and then defenestrate him afterwards. I give him until the spring.

The person I'm starting to wonder about is Michael Gove, who seems to be keeping a fairly low profile. Cummings was his protege at education and then henchman in the leave campaign, and I assume they're still pretty close, so what's his role in all this? Might chucking Cummings out even be Johnson trying to undermine Gove?

 

[Artaxerxes]

I don't think he'll survive the fallout from Brexit. Even if there's a deal it's going to be disruptive, and if not it could be chaos for a while. I suspect one or two people - Rishi Sunak for one - are thinking they'll let him act as human shield for that and then defenestrate him afterwards. I give him until the spring.

The person I'm starting to wonder about is Michael Gove, who seems to be keeping a fairly low profile. Cummings was his protege at education and then henchman in the leave campaign, and I assume they're still pretty close, so what's his role in all this? Might chucking Cummings out even be Johnson trying to undermine Gove?

I think we've not seen the last of Dom so he'll be back to help Boris next year or we'll see him working with Gove when the knives come out for Boris.

 

[eatmorecheese]

So off the pseudy, spoddy little fake scientist goes. I wonder if he had an algorithm for this outcome?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I don't think he'll survive the fallout from Brexit. Even if there's a deal it's going to be disruptive, and if not it could be chaos for a while. I suspect one or two people - Rishi Sunak for one - are thinking they'll let him act as human shield for that and then defenestrate him afterwards. I give him until the spring.

The person I'm starting to wonder about is Michael Gove, who seems to be keeping a fairly low profile. Cummings was his protege at education and then henchman in the leave campaign, and I assume they're still pretty close, so what's his role in all this? Might chucking Cummings out even be Johnson trying to undermine Gove?

I can't see Gove ever getting the top job. He's capable in a way that very few of his current colleagues are, and he's ruthless. But he's just so fundamentally dislikeable.

 

[Argonia]

Hurrah!