The Dominic Cummings file

[agricola]

I really hope for the country's sake that Johnson has sacked him.

If the PM stands up there, insists Cummings did nothing wrong and says that Cummings did not go back there subsequently, and is then challenged with absolute proof that he did by the Mirror and Guardian, then he is going to have to resign never mind Cummings.

 

[planetgeli]

I just keep seeing it when I see Cummings in those sunglasses.

Is that Johnny Depp playing Hunter S Thompson?

If so, I have a similar tale. That picture of Cummings in the car spent the whole day yesterday reminding me of Duke from Doonesbury when he was turned into a zombie. And Duke is based on HST.

 

[maomao]

But still not actually calling for him to go.

 

[editor]

Wham!

 

[cupid_stunt]

I wonder if the Mirror and Guardian are holding back on more information, for their Monday editions.

*fingers crossed *

 

[Raheem]

He'll say it's been referred and it's not appropriate for him to go into detail.

 

[Lord Camomile]

<edit: sorry, just caught up and seen we already know.

 

[Wilf]

I really hope for the country's sake that Johnson has sacked him.

If the PM stands up there, insists Cummings did nothing wrong and says that Cummings did not go back there subsequently, and is then challenged with absolute proof that he did by the Mirror and Guardian, then he is going to have to resign never mind Cummings.

Don't think we are in that kind of world any more.

 

[Steel Icarus]

He'll say it's been referred and it's not appropriate for him to go into detail.

Sadly I think this is the most likely thing

 

[maomao]

if cummings survives, we are edging into trump or berlusconi territory

We're pretty much there all ready. A drunk man won the biggest majority in decades by saying get brexit done a lot and then spent six months doing fuck all through the biggest crisis in 75 years.

 

[bimble]

He'll say it's been referred and it's not appropriate for him to go into detail.

Think so too but if he does so with that smile on as if everyone’s being silly and it’s all a bit of a laugh I don’t think it will work for him.

 

[Wilf]

We're pretty much there all ready. A drunk man won the biggest majority in decades by saying get brexit done a lot and then spent six months doing fuck all through the biggest crisis in 75 years.

He's certainly killed more brits than thatcher in the falklands or blair in the middle east.

 

[rubbershoes]

Johnson doesn't care what the public thinks. He's got a large commons majority and no election for 4 years.

The only pressure that can get rid of Cummings is from, within the tory party, and there'll be a load of behind the scenes pressure on MPs from the whips.

I think he'll stay

 

[brogdale]

Remember all the furore when Boris published the letterbox article? There were loads of calls for him to go or be sacked by the same quarters who are calling for Cummings head.
He just kept his head down and carried on regardless.

Remember the Tories only need to please tory voters, not Guardian and Mirror journalists and readers

Problem = many, older Tory voters not at all impressed by this episode; hence so many backwoodsmen up in arms.

 

[maomao]

He's certainly killed more brits than thatcher in the falklands or blair in the middle east.

Far more than Thatcher killed Brits and Argies put together but Blair wins with the million or so foreigners he bombed.

 

[chilango]

I wouldn't put it past Johnson to rock up with a smirk and announce the lifting of lockdown.

 

[Wilf]

Far more than Thatcher killed Brits and Argies put together but Blair wins with the million or so foreigners he bombed.

'Look, y'know, guys...'

 

[editor]

You'll never guess what Spiked's take on it is...

Dominic Cummings broke the lockdown? Good

The hysteria over his trip to his parents' home is driven by nothing more than Remainer revenge.

www.spiked-online.com

 

[agricola]

Johnson doesn't care what the public thinks. He's got a large commons majority and no election for 4 years.

The only pressure that can get rid of Cummings is from, within the tory party, and there'll be a load of behind the scenes pressure on MPs from the whips.

I think he'll stay

the problem with this is that its the Tories who have a large commons majority, not him - if he becomes a liability (which he is becoming) then he will be out on his ear to recover his health / enjoy fatherhood really quickly

 

[rubbershoes]

He'll say it's been referred and it's not appropriate for him to go into detail.

The Cabinet Office could release their findings at the same time as the Russia report. So, never

 

[Part-timah]

Where’s best to watch this briefing?

 

[cupid_stunt]

Where’s best to watch this briefing?

I would suggest Sky News, sometimes the BBC cuts away from it, before the end.

 

[planetgeli]

"I'm going to do what the Labour Party have asked and instigate an inquiry and I'll be taking no further questions on Dominic because I can't pre-empt that inquiry."

Must be a decent bet.

 

[agricola]

The Cabinet Office could release their findings at the same time as the Russia report. So, never

They could, but unlike most other political scandals where there is a degree of nuance and so on this is basically he either went there repeatedly or he didn't.

If there is evidence he was there, they continue to insist that he wasn't and the paper have evidence he was, no amount of whitewash or delay is going to work.

 

[co-op]

Wham!

He's obviously blotted the years 1992-1997 from his memory then.

 

[maomao]

"I'm going to do what the Labour Party have asked and instigate an inquiry and I'll be taking no further questions on Dominic because I can't pre-empt that inquiry."

Must be a decent bet.

Which would make it even more infuriating they' ve only asked for an enquiry not his head on a stick.

 

[cyril_smear]

it's being suggesyed it was his mams birthday... did I miss that or has it just come about.

 

[agricola]

it's being suggesyed it was his mams birthday... did I miss that or has it just come about.

was mentioned on here by a few posters - I think someone said one of the subsequent visits was on his wifes birthday too

 

[maomao]

was mentioned on here by a few posters - I think someone said one of the subsequent visits was on his wifes birthday too

Wotsit castle on his mrs' birthday and back to Durham (after having been back to London) for his mum's.

 

[cyril_smear]

was mentioned on here by a few posters - I think someone said one of the subsequent visits was on his wifes birthday too

what an absolute c word!!!