The Dominic Cummings file

[PD58]

This may have been said, but it is worth repeating, can you imagine the newspapers tomorrow if this had been the chief adviser to a Labour PM - so it should be an issue and will be intereting to see how the right-wing rags report this.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

He'll probably produce it when the gvt starts rubbishing his claims. That's what I'd do.

eta- if he has it.

eeta-the shifty cunt.

but what sort of person would hire a shifty cunt like Cummins?

(I don't think you need to answer that)

 

[Serge Forward]

I always thought the origin was the Ink Spots song Whispering Grass.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

One aspect that doesn't seem to attract much attention, what exactly were the spies at MI6 doing? If contagious diseases were a recognised risk, why the hell didn't we have a few tame Chinese doctors giving a heads up? it probably would only cost an Oxbridge place for their kids.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

by whom?

Matt Hancock should have been sacked for lying, says Dominic Cummings

Former No 10 aide accuses health secretary of ‘criminal’ behaviour, in string of incendiary allegations

www.theguardian.com

He singled out Hancock, saying he should have been fired for “at least 15 to 20 things – including lying to everybody on multiple occasions”. He said he had suggested this to the prime minister, as did the then cabinet secretary, Mark Sedwill.

Asked whether that meant some decision-makers should be worried about facing corporate manslaughter charges, Cummings said there was “no doubt at all that many senior people performed far, far disastrously below the standards which the country expects” – and that Hancock was “one of those people”.

Cummings replied that he didn't know about the law in relation to that, or some such.

 

[Edie]

Oh wow Cummings is stabbing Johnson in the back as we speak. Beautiful.

 

[killer b]

I think this counts as the front tbf

 

[JimW]

Few digs in the side ribs when the opening arises too.

 

[Edie]

Boris Johnson ‘like an out of control shopping trolley’ says Cummings Haha he’s blatantly been thinking of saying that for months every time he takes a shit or has five minutes gazing out the window to himself.

 

[JimW]

What was the story about her dog Carrie what's her name is supposed to have fumed about?

 

[ska invita]

is this still going on live? he started at 9am didnt he? thats a lot of dirt

 

[Edie]

He’s really fucking going for Hancock too. More blood. Destroy each other.

 

[killer b]

What was the story about her dog Carrie what's her name is supposed to have fumed about?

I have a vague recollection of them adopting a rescue dog last spring, but I don't remember the stories being anything but jolly fluff pieces

 

[brogdale]

...so what?

What is anybody going to do with all this?

The media will do it's usual breathless reporting of whatever they're told.

The Labour Party will continue to plummet in the polls. Not that if matters 'cos a General Election us years away and we've no way of forcing one...and even if we could there's almost no route to a majority for Labour anymore.

Nobody is batting an eyelid because everyone already knows that the Government are murdering public school bastards. It's not a shock anymore.

All we're left with is spectacle.


(Edit to add: I'm not hopeless about the potential for change btw. I just don't think it will come via anything like this)

I have a vague recollection of them adopting a rescue dog last spring, but I don't remember the stories being anything but jolly fluff pieces

Wasn't the story that they got rid of the thing?

 

[JimW]

I have a vague recollection of them adopting a rescue dog last spring, but I don't remember the stories being anything but jolly fluff pieces

That rings a bell now you say it. Sure whatever it is will get spelled out in due course; wonder if she'll ride out his more serious allegations?

 

[brogdale]

This was it...

 

[Steel Icarus]

Finished around an hour ago

 

[killer b]

wonder if she'll ride out his more serious allegations?

she doesn't have to does she - she's just his fiance, she doesn't have a formal position in government.

 

[JimW]

she doesn't have to does she - she's just his fiance, she doesn't have a formal position in government.

Is she not still some Tory party strategist? Thought it might mean a lower profile.

 

[killer b]

Is she not still some Tory party strategist? Thought it might mean a lower profile.

not for a few years.

TBH while I'm sure Symonds is a shit, I reckon most of the Carrie Symonds discourse is the standard misogyny that many wives of powerful men get.

 

[JimW]

not for a few years.

TBH while I'm sure Symonds is a shit, I reckon most of the Carrie Symonds discourse is the standard misogyny that many wives of powerful men get.

Get you point but isn't his thrust more to show Johnson as weak and led?

 

[killer b]

Get you point but isn't his thrust more to show Johnson as weak and led?

sure - everyone loves the controlling bitch girlfriend misogynist trope, so it's an easy way of demonstrating someone is weak and led.

 

[killer b]

let's be honest, if Dominic Cummings was your partner's most senior advisor, you'd have done your best to persuade them to ditch him too. You don't have to be a controlling bitch to spot he's a right cunt.

 

[JimW]

let's be honest, if Dominic Cummings was your partner's most senior advisor, you'd have done your best to persuade them to ditch him too. You don't have to be a controlling bitch to spot he's a right cunt.

He probably blogged about just such a scenario back in 2007.

 

[killer b]

also Boris Johnson is exactly the kind of prick who would roll his eyes and blame decisions he's made himself on the wife

 

[DJWrongspeed]

It's the qwerk of the pandemic, select committees and his sacking that created this situation for him remember.
He has a history of slagging off everyone he's been employed by. There's no loyalty.

I loved it when he said , in reference to "the bodies" quote that the BBC reported it correctly !

 

[DJWrongspeed]

This may have been said, but it is worth repeating, can you imagine the newspapers tomorrow if this had been the chief adviser to a Labour PM - so it should be an issue and will be intereting to see how the right-wing rags report this.

Absolutely, it will fascinating to see the response.

Here's the Mail onslaught

 

[JimW]

Can't access too many UK news portals here but it's all over Sky at the minute and pretty much all the headlines are his accusations. Still limited impact though I suppose.

 

[bimble]

Who convened this circus anyway ? What is the context - the official enquiry into the fuckup is not until 2029 or something so what is this, did Cummings just say I have some dirt please can i be live on tv all day long?

 

[killer b]

Who convened this circus anyway ? What is the context - the official enquiry into the fuckup is not until 2029 or something so what is this, did Cummings just say I have some dirt please can i be live on tv all day long?

there's a joint health/science committee thing going on, they called him to appear