The Dominic Cummings file

[stavros]

We know how the government can test their ability to have a "very hard look"...

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

We know how the government can test their ability to have a "very hard look"...

Gonna need a bigger car park up at Barnard Castle.

 

[elbows]

For him the failings he wants attention drawn to, and the way he frames them, are a seamless fit for his agenda regarding the civil service.

 

[teqniq]

Anyone who thinks that Cummings is no longer involved in running stuff has taken their eye off the ball:

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Anyone who thinks that Cummings is no longer involved in running stuff has taken their eye off the ball:

Presumably he's not doing this out of the goodness of his cold heart? So, a: who's paying the cunt? b: who's giving him access to Westminster/asking his opinion? c: Can't we just throw him down a well?

 

[stavros]

Alas there will not be a statue erected in his honour in Barnard Castle; just the Telegraph having a bit of laugh on 1 April.

I don't suppose there's anything stopping anyone doing a pop-up version. Two fans created one of Alan Partridge outside Norwich City Council's offices, before the humourless council wonks took it down.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I don't suppose there's anything stopping anyone doing a pop-up version. Two fans created one of Alan Partridge outside Norwich City Council's offices, before the humourless council wonks took it down.

TYPICAL BLOODY COUNCIL

“And with the time fast approaching six-oh-five in the post meridian - oooh reminds me of Fish...”
“...fish?”
“Fish, yes Tim, FISH. Bloody nice guy - we're opening the lines and asking, ‘What's the best type of “counselling”: elected local representation, fixing mad people’...”
“I really don't think you can say that, Alan...”
“Okay, ‘mental people’...”
“Alan...”
“‘MENTALLY UNWELL PEOPLE’, happy now? - ‘or livestock auctioneers?’”
“Alan?”
“...”
“...’
“...‘Cow'n'selling’. COUNSELLING.”
“Right.”
“It's now six minutes past six and six seconds...”
“The time of the beast...”
“...and here's Michael Jackson with ‘Rockin' Robin’...”

 

[DaveCinzano]

Five Dimensional Chess - Blogger's Edition

Statement regarding No10 claims today

The Prime Minister’s new Director of Communications Jack Doyle, at the PM’s request, has made a number of false accusations to the media. 1. Re Dyson. I do have some WhatsApp messages between…

dominiccummings.com

 

[elbows]

Indeed. He has some nerve to talk about pandemic conduct but since this government fucked the pandemic response up I do hope this shit helps expose more detail.

Dominic Cummings launches attack on Boris Johnson's integrity

Boris Johnson's one-time closest ally makes a string of explosive allegations about the PM's conduct.

www.bbc.co.uk

Mr Cummings writes on his blog: "I was not directly or indirectly a/the source for the BBC/Kuenssberg story on the PM/Dyson texts."

He adds: "I am happy to meet with the cabinet secretary and for him to search my phone for Dyson messages. "

Mr Cummings continues: "I am happy for No 10 to publish every email I received and sent July 2019-November 2020 (with no exceptions other than, obviously, some national security/intelligence issues)."

He also calls for an "urgent parliamentary inquiry into the government's conduct over the Covid crisis", adding that he thinks Mr Johnson has fallen "far below" the standards the "country deserves".

 

[agricola]

Indeed. He has some nerve to talk about pandemic conduct but since this government fucked the pandemic response up I do hope this shit helps expose more detail.

Dominic Cummings launches attack on Boris Johnson's integrity

Boris Johnson's one-time closest ally makes a string of explosive allegations about the PM's conduct.

www.bbc.co.uk

these Corbynite holdouts get everywhere

 

[David Clapson]

It's all kicking off! From the FT, one hour ago: Subscribe to read | Financial Times

Cummings accuses Johnson of ‘possibly illegal’ acts in broadside against PM
Former adviser takes aim at Johnson with string of damaging allegations

Dominic Cummings has accused Boris Johnson of “possibly illegal” behaviour by “secretly” using Tory donors to pay for the renovation of his flat at Number 11 Downing Street, in an extraordinary broadside from the prime minister’s former top adviser. In a blog published on Friday evening, Cummings — who quit Number 10 in December — claimed that he had refused to help organise the payments. “The PM stopped speaking to me about this matter in 2020 as I told him I thought his plans to have donors secretly pay for the renovation were unethical, foolish, possibly illegal and almost certainly broke the rules on proper disclosure of political donations if conducted in the way he intended,” he wrote. “My knowledge about them is therefore limited.” Number 10 has repeatedly refused to deny that the cost of the project — thought to be up to £200,000 — was funded by the Conservative party and Tory donors. The work on the renovation has been overseen by Carrie Symonds, the prime minister’s fiancé. Previous prime ministers have received about £30,000 apiece to spend on decorating the flat to their own liking. Cummings also claimed on his blog that Johnson sought to abandon an inquiry into a leak last autumn about plans for a new Covid lockdown when its findings suggested Henry Newman, now one of Johnson’s advisers, may have been the source. “The PM was very upset about this,” Cummings wrote. “He said to me afterwards, if Newman is confirmed as the leaker then I will have to fire him, and this will cause me very serious problems with Carrie as they’re best friends . . .[pause] perhaps we could get the cabinet secretary to stop the leak inquiry?” Cummings claimed that he told Johnson that this would be “mad” and unethical given that the prime minister had ordered the inquiry and authorised the cabinet secretary to use “more invasive” methods than usual. “I told him that he could not possibly cancel an inquiry about a leak that affected millions of people, just because it might implicate his girlfriend’s friends,” he wrote. “It is sad to see the PM and his office fall so far below the standards of competence and integrity the country deserves,” he added. Cummings also used the blog to deny being the source of Johnson’s leaked text communications with industrialist Sir James Dyson, which were reported by the BBC earlier this week. The former adviser responded after three newspapers claimed on Friday morning that the prime minister was angry and disappointed with him for being the apparent source of the leak. “I was not directly or indirectly a/the source for the BBC/Kuenssberg story on the PM/Dyson texts,” Cummings wrote on his blog. More to come . . . 

 

[DaveCinzano]

It's all kicking off! From the FT, one hour ago: Subscribe to read | Financial Times

Cummings accuses Johnson of ‘possibly illegal’ acts in broadside against PM
Former adviser takes aim at Johnson with string of damaging allegations

Err, the FT story is just summarising Cummings' own blog post, which is linked to above

 

[David Clapson]

Yes, but the fact that the FT has run it makes it more damaging. The Guardian has it too, but then you'd expect them to be anti-Johnson. The FT is pretty balanced. The fairest and most reputable quality paper in the UK these days.

‘Mad and totally unethical’: Dominic Cummings hits out at Boris Johnson

Former chief aide alleges PM tried to quash a leak inquiry as it implicated an ally

www.theguardian.com

 

[two sheds]

Johnson MUST REPLY

with as much dirt as he can throw

slanging match between them was always on the cards

 

[stavros]

Shit doesn't stick to Johnson, especially if it's thrown by someone with optical difficulties.

 

[Ted Striker]

Capable yet isolated Dom, vs the Incompetent Boris with an army of media mouthpieces....It might get interesting, no?

 

[MrSki]

Isn't just Cummings trying to get his mate Gove the top seat?

 

[eatmorecheese]

Christ this is dismal. Why am I minded of an A-Team style improvised ballistics delivery system flinging dead cats around?

 

[teuchter]

Christ this is dismal. Why am I minded of an A-Team style improvised ballistics delivery system flinging dead cats around?

I too have seen better commentary on other discussion boards.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Christ this is dismal. Why am I minded of an A-Team style improvised ballistics delivery system flinging dead cats around?

Not so much Thunderdome as Plonkershed

 

[Treacle Toes]

Christ this is dismal. Why am I minded of an A-Team style improvised ballistics delivery system flinging dead cats around?

Yeah, I don't believe any of it. Pretending Cumface and Knobson are no longer friends is about distraction from the evil shit they are all still up to, together.

 

[Raheem]

Nah, I don't think they're still in cahoots. But Dom's cock is on the block over Covid contracts, which really is threatening to be an enormous scandal. Think he's trying to muddy the waters by establishing an enmity between him and everyone else. So that of course they would want to make him into a scapegoat.

 

[Badgers]

 

[Badgers]

 

[Sue]

Cummings accusing someone else (Johnson) of being 'totally unethical' and saying:

'It is sad to see the PM and his office fall so far below the standards of competence and integrity the country deserves.'

That's some brassneck. Where's my popcorn..?

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Unethical, useless, bullshitting toerag, etc. Does Cumstain not have any fresh revelations for us?

 

[Sue]

I too have seen better commentary on other discussion boards.

Seriously teuchter, what's with the constant snideyness? You sound like a disgruntled teenager.

 

[Sue]

Unethical, useless, bullshitting toerag, etc. Does Cumstain not have any fresh revelations for us?

Given he's such a weasel, my expectations are pretty high.

 

[rubbershoes]

Seriously teuchter, what's with the constant snideyness? You sound like a disgruntled teenager.

I think he's just constipated

 

[MickiQ]

This seems to be a bit of a non story to me, Cummings (hardly the most trustworthy of individuals) is basically saying that BoZo suggested some dodgy things that he didn't actually do.
It definitely gives the impression of sour grapes and shit stirring purely out of spite.
BoZo does give off a sleazebag vibe and I think that has got a lot of people hoping that the next revelation is the one that finishes him.
Not going to be this though