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25 January 2016 is not a date that has gone down in history. Despite that, the events of that day were critical to Britain voting to leave the EU, with all that’s meant since. That morning, Dominic Cummings was summoned to a meeting that was intended to remove him from running the Vote Leave campaign.
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Why is that a particularly British sin?
I'd say it's a human one.
Or our greatest one?
https://twitter.com/bbcnickrobinson/status/1263922733458567168?s=20
On the other hand, Cummings has now become the story; he does not seem to have been much use in dealing with the pandemic; Boris will soon be on the wrong side of the Atlantic to protect Cummings. Since we cannot bet on it, I am happy to wait and see.
On topic,I get the impression that for todays 'hero' rules are for other people!
"Get Fit" would have been much better.
That's the one thing that people can do to reduce their likelihood of dying from coronavirus, and be much less likely to suffer from a whole lot of other diseases as well.
Or six words and an acronym.
They’re happy to destroy domestic businesses but they won’t stand for not being able to jet around the world as they please.
As far as Cummings himself is concerned, I don’t really give a damn whether he goes or stays - but it’s hardly going to enhance the credibility of the government, or its pandemic messaging, if he remains.
No doubt he’ll have his defenders, who will think it a demonstration of strength if Johnson retains him, but that kind of confrontational thinking is delusional for a government which needs the confidence of the whole nation.
ETA - Ummm, I mean severe. Not hard. Hard was the wrong word to choose.
The other point about his nebulous position is that it makes it easy for Boris to sack him as one thing and then reemploy him as another thing after a fairly short interval.
MPs could get May to sack Nick Timothy and whatever the other one was called because of her lack of a majority. Doesn't apply here. So this is a bit shit for Boris but not as bad as Mandelson's various transgressions were for Blair, and they didn't destroy him.
And he's a hero of a lot of the people who are gunning for Cummings.
Cuomo, de Blasio blame ignorance, but not themselves, in wake of damning report
https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2020/05/21/cuomo-de-blasio-blame-ignorance-but-not-themselves-in-wake-of-damning-report-1285383
... Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio deflected blame Thursday in the wake of a bombshell study confirming that New York’s elected leaders stalled when it was time to take action on battling the spread of the coronavirus.
An analysis by Columbia University released Wednesday night concluded that if New York acted even one week earlier in ordering people to stay home and mandating social distancing, it would have spared more than 17,000 lives in the New York metro area....
Also
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/05/22/boris-johnson-reduce-huaweis-role-britains-5g-network-wake-coronavirus/
This news seems to have been released about midnight. The deadest of dead cats, and meat and drink to tory backbench headbangers, designed to buy them off from going after Dom.
https://twitter.com/KiraNewmanMDPhD/status/1263952955884990464
I'd imagine Dom goes, continues to advise in secret from home and then perhaps returns in full form once CV has receded...
He does have friends.....?
Right now it is quite evident that camp Cummings is lying to us. The story makes no sense at all on his account. How could a man too ill to look after a child drive 250 miles?
And the previous accounts given by him and his wife (presumably on a paid basis) are wholly inconsistent with it. His wife talks about playing with their son while they were both ill. How is that possible if the grandparents were looking after the child in a different house? (Never mind that it slipped both of their minds to mention that they were not in London and, indeed, left the reader with the strong impression that was where they were.)
From this point, Boris Johnson has a power calculation to make. Is he stronger with a Dominic Cummings who is going to be an emblem of this government’s hypocrisy or without him?
And then there are the questions of what the Prime Minister knew and when, and why he did nothing, and whether lockdown policy was tweaked so that the flight of the Cummings was retrospectively blessed. If it was, all hell would break loose.
This story is going to have legs, even if Dominic Cummings resigns.
Nobel laureates and science groups demand NIH review decision to kill coronavirus grant
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/preposterous-77-nobel-laureates-blast-nih-decision-cancel-coronavirus-grant-demand
.... On 24 April, NIH informed the nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, led by wildlife disease specialist Peter Daszak, that it was ending a grant, first awarded in 2014 and renewed in 2019 because it no longer aligned with the agency’s priorities. The move came after Conservative U.S. politicians and media suggested—without evidence—that the coronavirus causing the pandemic escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, that employs a Chinese virologist who had received funding from the grant. The termination also came 1 week after President Donald Trump, when asked about the project at a press conference, said: “We will end that grant very quickly.”
In their letter, the Nobel laureates say they “are gravely concerned” about that decision. “We believe that this action sets a dangerous precedent by interfering in the conduct of science and jeopardizes public trust in the process of awarding federal funds for research. … Now is precisely the time when we need to support this kind of research if we aim to control the pandemic and prevent subsequent ones.”
They write that “despite the high relevance of the studies to the current pandemic, and despite the very high priority score that his application for renewal had received during peer review, the NIH informed Dr. Daszak and his colleagues that the grant was being terminated because ‘NIH does not believe that the current project outcomes align with the program goals and agency priorities.’ Such explanations are preposterous under the circumstances.”...
We’ve been asked to swallow a complete crock of shit from the pair of them.
British and American meddling has not turned out well, but neither has leaving them to their own devices.
Some problems have no solution. If there is a list of them, then the Middle East is at the top.
In the unlikely event that he goes though, it probably strengthens the kamikaze Brexit section of the cabinet.
Lolol.
It’s a long drive with a small child not to stop. Did they, while Coronapositive, stop off and come into contact with others?
As for this becoming a scandal that personally envelopes Johnson. No such luck. Earlier this week we had the news that Johnson would not be prosecuted over the Arcuri business. An announcement shrouded in the smokescreen of Johnson and Arcuri 'probably' having a sexual liaison. Who cares about that? The evidence was pointing to an abuse of public funds however despite the obvious, Johnson is unassailable, he knows it, but has he got the front or the bottle to tough it out for Dom? Probably not.
Both of them appear to have contravened the regulations, but in practical terms Ferguson's actions seem to have been far less irresponsible in every way. In Ferguson's case, no one involved should have been self-isolating, there was no long-distance travel and no endangerment of people at higher risk.
The pandemic could reshape the world order. Trump's chaotic strategy is accelerating US losses
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/23/world/pandemic-world-order-trump-intl/index.html
Hopefully this doesn’t have systemic effect on car loan finance...
And yet, someone was saying this week how little corruption there is here......
A government talks about wanting to help the left behind, but the reality is that the people the police will actually fine during this crisis are the left behind, even the non elite professional classes will talk themselves out of fines with an apologetic explanation and an attempt at justification.
In the list of examples in the 2020 CV regulations (sec 6) there are general example'excuses' about medical need, ministers going to their church, shopping for necessities, exercise and all sorts. But there is no general 'excuse' provision in the examples for 'the needs of child care'; except very narrow ones. There should have been.
Back In the real world for millions of people when schools and nurseries are closed, adults are working in odd and fragmented ways, and sometimes people have got or may have the virus the actual demands of child care is the absolute number one priority overriding all others.
If I were responsible for a child and were ill in ways that meant I could not rely on looking after it, or thought there was a real risk that I could not, I would take whatever steps necessary for the child regardless of the consequences.
If that is the case I have sympathy for Dominic and family. But the Abba dancing is a problem.
Pathetic lying toerags.
It's the same effect not throwing out Williamson had on Corbyn. Even though it was eventually done (although not by Corbyn), the damage had been done.
Unfortunately for Johnson, Starmer will make mincemeat of Cummings at PMQs over this.