The Dominic Cummings file

[brogdale]

People who are lying blink a lot.

 

[neonwilderness]

"Did you or did you not advise that pubs and restaurants should be shut? Yes or no."

 

[MrSki]

I liked the quote from the deputy cabinet secretary coming into the room 'We're fucked'

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Oooh, he doesn't like that nice Mr Handcock much...

 

[LDC]

PM told to say it's like chicken pox... FFS.

I have to say I think the fall-out from this is going to be interesting.

 

[Smangus]

 

[Raheem]

I liked the quote from the deputy cabinet secretary coming into the room 'We're fucked'

 

[LDC]

It's like 'The Office' mixed with 'Threads'. Brain storming on a whiteboard. No fucking clue. Panic. No plan. Crisis.

 

[LDC]

FFS, if even half of what he says is true the people in charge are so incompetent it's quite frightening. That it's all some massive efficient conspiracy to control us would almost be welcome, at least that would mean they're competent at something!

They need putting up against the wall and shooting, but they'd probably get lost on the way there.

 

[Supine]

This Dom interview is a gold mine. And lol at the bbc apologising for him saying fucking.

 

[brogdale]

Turns out that some of the politicians were lying to each other!

 

[philosophical]

BBC apologising for Cummings saying ‘fucked’.
Like that’s the biggest problem about this hearing.

 

[spitfire]

I've got loads of work to do but fuck me. Stabby stabby. Right in the front.

"He says Matt Hancock should have been fired for at least 20 things, “including lying to everybody in multiple occasions in meeting after meeting in the cabinet room and publicly”.

He says the cabinet secretary also told the PM Hancock should be fired, as did other senior people."

 

[MickiQ]

Yep, this won't damage Johnson at all in the eyes of those who support him. And if Johnson was making these choices and they were so fucking terrible, what was Cumface doing, seeing as he was Johnson's #1 strategic advisor...

In a startling revelation today, the British people were shocked to discover their Prime Minister is an idiot and doesn't really know what he's doing

 

[teqniq]

Thanks for the updates folks

 

[neonwilderness]

Oooh, he doesn't like that nice Mr Handcock much...

He's seems to be a fan of Sunak though

 

[not-bono-ever]

I’m quite enjoying this. I don’t think he’s really lying a huge amount either. Seriously

 

[Sue]

It's like 'The Office' mixed with 'Threads'. Brain storming on a whiteboard. No fucking clue. Panic. No plan. Crisis.

Still at least it wasn't about anything important...

 

[philosophical]

They cut away for Hillsborough news at a crucial point.
Who is pulling whose strings?

 

[brogdale]

Clark skewered him about leaking and Cummings moves the attention to Kuennsberg

 

[Steel Icarus]

Egomaniac gets revenge
Winder what the fallout will be. Three days of headlines then "Look over there!"

 

[maomao]

Proper uncomfortable wriggling now.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Forgive me, I've been working and playing hard lately and don't know what this is about. Who's asked Cummings to do this, what's it all about?

 

[philosophical]

So one establishment view was the sturdy Brits had nothing to learn from the Oriental approach.
Racist cunts.
Try telling the bereaved families that China, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore got it wrong, but this corrupt establishment got it right.
Oh and those in charge are ‘deeply’ sorry about about deaths.
I am fucking sick about the constant use of ‘deeply’ by these hypocrites.

 

[brogdale]

Kuennsberg has stopped live tweeting for a bit.

 

[MrSki]

They cut away for Hillsborough news at a crucial point.
Who is pulling whose strings?

Watch on the Parliament Channel 232

 

[Steel Icarus]

I don't get it. Wasn't the fact Johnson missed several COBRA meetings common knowledge?

 

[steeplejack]

Expect lots of mad plans to be announced in the next few days, re-introducing grizzly bears to the Western Highlands and Snowdonia, Boris personally piloting a midget submarine to clear the WW2 munitions dump that is holding up his Scotland-Northern Ireland bridge / tunnel / fluorescent hovercraft, an electric-powered Spitfire to be re-introduced to RAF fighter squadrons within the next decade, as a result of a James Dyson blue skies thinking commission, British history to be taught in all primary schools by an open-source hologram of Charles Hawtrey, etc

will be full deflect deflect deflect and a torrential downpour of dead felines

 

[DotCommunist]

did he just reference the fucking spiderman meme

 

[ska invita]

PM told to say it's like chicken pox... FFS.

I have to say I think the fall-out from this is going to be interesting.

will make zero difference to polling i expect - Tories are teflon at the moment, no meaningful opposition and support based on identity rather than substance - plus these Tories are brazen about shrugging everything off