The Dominic Cummings file

[bimble]

Exclusive: Dominic Cummings’ parents defend their son as he faces demands to resign

They told me what no one has yet reported: Cummings' time in Durham coincided with his uncle's death in London.

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That’s just not going to help them at all though is it. Childcare is the line they’ve chosen not grieving family. And there are plenty of people who missed funerals couldn’t comfort relatives because lockdown. Really just going to make it worse I think.

 

[AverageJoe]

This is getting to Sidney Lumet levels of anger. This was from a 1976 program called Network (later sample by a band called Maybeshewill, which is where I first heard it) but is incredibly similar to how people are feeling now.

 

[platinumsage]

That's verbatim; the psychopath actually equated Cummings and a dead NHS employee...just new levels of cuntery.

No, the Oxford Mail journo's second question was about a doctor self-isolating who she contrasted with Cummings. Johnson was refering to the doctor when talking about Cummings, not the porter in her first question who died.

Why don't you watch it for yourself?

 

[MrSki]

Not so popular with the neighbours.

 

[teqniq]

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[Roadkill]

Oh look, another dead cat.

 

[brogdale]

Different angle only...but well worth watching twice anyway

 

[tommers]

He actually said this...

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They've mixed the doctors up. He was talking about a doctor who had stayed at home with his son whilst ill at that point. Not the guy who died after complaining of no PPE.

 

[Epona]

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Aye (just to reiterate a point I made earlier) the person who posted that deserves a medal but is probably getting a gross misconduct letter and a P45, yet Cummings remains in fucking post.

 

[Plumdaff]

That’s just not going to help them at all though is it. Childcare is the line they’ve chosen not grieving family. And there are plenty of people who missed funerals couldn’t comfort relatives because of lockdown. Really just going to make it worse I think.

60,000 odd people have lost loved ones and not been able to grieve together as families. They didn't break lockdown. That article also quotes a cousin who lives in London saying they are a small tight-knit family. Not so fucking tight-knit that she could go round and help out then? It's more BS isn't it? More asking us to make an exception of the sadly unexceptional.

 

[cyril_smear]

Not so popular with the neighbours.

wanky little shit

 

[brogdale]

No, the Oxford Mail journo's second question was about a doctor self-isolating who she contrasted with Cummings. Johnson was refering to the doctor when talking about Cummings, not the porter in her first question who died.

Why don't you watch it for yourself?

Yes, that's correct.
Apologies for the error.

 

[planetgeli]

But I also don't think it has to be true in order to make sense of what has happened. Johnson allowed Cummings to basically design the Government around himself, and the consequence is that he has become a linchpin of decision making with no peers or rivals. Because Johnson has clear limitations as a leader, the result is that it is very hard to take Cummings out of the equation without risking the government becoming unable to function.

While it's undoubtedly true that Cummings has designed the Cabinet and the path I don't buy the bit in bold. John Major had clear limitations as a leader but with the machine that is in place around all Tory party leaders, and with help from the civil service, he somehow managed to survive and even win an election.

The government still has that machine, an 80 majority, and, crucially at this point, a massive lead in the polls. Thatcher was undone because she was seen to be losing the party and the electorate. She was 14% behind Labour when ousted. Johnson has none of that problem. He can be world King (his favoured term) with or without Cummings. I'm sure he'd prefer it to be with, things would be easier. But it would not be impossible in the current situation to be without Cummings. This is not a government anywhere near falling at this point.

Therefore I'm struggling to move beyond the buried bodies theory at this point.

 

[Smangus]

Nice to see the revival of that fine ancient tradition, the London Mob.

 

[MickiQ]

exactly. if you only defence to fall back on in "my actions were technically not illegal" you've already lost the argument. you're not defending th substance of what you've done.

Bit like Bill Clinton claiming a blow job isn't sex.

 

[equationgirl]

That’s just not going to help them at all though is it. Childcare is the line they’ve chosen not grieving family. And there are plenty of people who missed funerals couldn’t comfort relatives because lockdown. Really just going to make it worse I think.

I think you're right, considering that there are thousands of grieving families who couldn't grieve with loved ones precisely because of the government's actions.

And is he really saying he couldn't find the right kind of childcare in the biggest city in the UK? Get to fuck.

 

[kenny g]

Are you fucking serious? You actually think what he did was reasonable given the whole fucking country was on lockdown?

For fucks sake..

I think he is mentioning we don't know if the legislation is enforceable due to the amount of caveats it includes. It is particularly badly drafted and to add to the confusion people seem to be quoting an earlier version at times.

 

[equationgirl]

I think he is mentioning we don't know if the legislation is enforceable due to the amount of caveats it includes. It is particularly badly drafted and to add to the confusion people seem to be quoting an earlier version at times.

There's been enough people fined under it, one person got a £10k fine for repeatedly breaching, so certainly the police are enforcing it badly written or not.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

That’s just not going to help them at all though is it. Childcare is the line they’ve chosen not grieving family. And there are plenty of people who missed funerals couldn’t comfort relatives because lockdown. Really just going to make it worse I think.

It definitely makes it worse - that’s why I posted it!

 

[not-bono-ever]

Young dom used to like standing on the door of the worst nightclub in the world with the bouncers - Klute in Durham - luckily his dad and uncle owned it

You never know all you Durham types, he may have rabbit punched you as the big boys bundled you out of the fire escape

I Went To The Worst Nightclub In Europe

It was No. 2—but then No. 1 burnt down.

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[Plumdaff]

The uncle who died, died in............(wait for it).................................London.

But of course, he loves his family more, grieves more, than the little people do.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

Hahahahah

 

[phillm]

Different angle only...but well worth watching twice anyway

 

[D'wards]

I'm still a little confused about all this.

So Cummings thought he had the Corona, so went to isolate at his parents house in Durham so they could look after his kid?

Whilst there they all had a lovely day trip to a castle?

Or did he drop the kid off then pick them up later?

Either way isn't visiting your (presumably) elderly parents when you have Corona a shockingly dangerous thing to do to kitchen parents, regardless of the law?

 

[brogdale]

I'm assuming that if Cummings/Johnson continue to call out the OB as liars a simple phone location check could resolve the dispute? Isn't that what the OB do?

 

[MickiQ]

surely they would have fired the gun 1 second after the conference earlier this evening.

When my daughter and her boyfriend went to New York a couple of years ago, they encountered a guy in their hotel who insisted she was an actress from an American TV show, I have to admit there is some resemblance but it wouldn't fool anyone who might actually know either of them (like me) for a second. But apparently the guy just wouldn't believe my daughter that she wasn't who he thought she was.
Unless Mr Lees actually knows Cummings and knows him well (and perhaps he does maybe he used to be Dom's teacher and always thought he was a little shit) then his eyewitness sighting isn't worth anything. Cummings car on the other hand is a different matter altogether, Cars are uniquely identifiable if you can read the number plate. If the Plod can find CCTV or dashcam footage with Cummings car on it then the cunt is as they say "Bang to rights"

 

[phillm]

I'm assuming that if Cummings/Johnson continue to call out the OB as liars a simple phone location check could resolve the dispute? Isn't that what the OB do?

 

[two sheds]

Different angle only...but well worth watching twice anyway

Fair comment there:

Cummings will be enjoying this, given his contempt for the general public. Sociopaths thrive on attention and they don’t care how they get it

 

[bimble]

Hahahahah

That’s amazing.

 

[brogdale]

Hahahahah

Johnson has so fucked up he's lost the Mail