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First a declaration of my view of Dominic Cummings.
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That's an excellent piece. Thanks Richard
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/brexit-the-uncivil-war
Has he left?
Or did he resign?
On the contrary, it looks to me as though he went out on trips at the weekend because he thought he was above the law. I think the reason he went to Durham in the first place is that he thought it would be a more pleasant place to self-isolate in. The story about his child being in danger was just a convenient lie.
But your second point is decisive. Even if you take a forgiving view of his personal decision, he has wrecked the public health message. To restore it, he has to go. As you say, lives depend on this.
I bet Keir is drunk as shit tonight
There will be more.
This is an attempt by his enemies to claim a political scalp, nothing more, nothing less. But he is too valuable to the Conservative Party. That is why his enemies are so desperate to see him go. And for that reason alone, he should stay. Because he still has much work to do.
However, I respect Richard's opinion immensely. This is a great thread header.
Thank you for expressing your views on this
But I think this is still the era of bluster - although people might prefer the bluster of someone else.
Because I don't think people want to face reality about the unsustainability of much of our lifestyles and economics.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/23/trump-golf-course-coronavirus
"Donald Trump teed up fresh controversy on Saturday, by leaving the White House for his golf course in Virginia.
Early on a fine morning in Washington DC, the president was seen by reporters “in his typical golf wear of white polo shirt and white baseball cap … before he departed the White House” for an undisclosed location. Secret Service agents accompanying the president were photographed wearing masks. Trump was not seen to cover his face."
It's harsh, but I don't think it unfair to hold people in power, or in positions of high influence to those who are in power, to a high standard of public duty. We'd all hope we would live up to it and suspect we would not, but it doesn't make a failure to do so ok.
Sod that. I don't believe that in my personal life, and I don't believe it in my politics. Cummings should stay - damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
Democratic White House candidate Joe Biden is in damage limitation mode after saying African Americans "ain't black" if they even consider voting for President Donald Trump over him.
Gaffe-prone Mr Biden made the remark in an interview on Friday with a prominent black radio host, Charlamagne Tha God, about his outreach to black voters.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52773555
I don't know, he does make gaffes, I'm just a little surprised it would be so direct about it.
The longer this goes on, the stronger the inference that Boris Johnson knew all along and sanctioned Dominic Cummings’ behaviour.
Voluntary work in in a leper colony that he's bought, rescuing droopy bees and reviving them with sugar water, whatever, it's gonnae be YOOOGE.
The principal danger to Boris here is nothing to do with covid at all, it's that people will draw conclusions about Brexit from the fact that its chief architect turns out to be a lying little creep. Everything he has ever touched is retrospectively defiled.
Added to which Biden looks pitiful to most people - a dismal old man without even the monstrous entertainment value Trump provides.
I think they see this as their chance to get back into 'the influencing the public view' realm, at the same time as literally trying to save their own papers. Hence the hysteria of recent weeks.
I see the papers decided to censor the monthly circulations. Any idea what they showed? I'd be amazed if they weren't 80% down during lockdown....
The Sunday Times is going to be the one to watch for. The best investigative team on “Fleet Street” and not one that enjoys being scooped by the Guardian and Mirror.
A bit like Tony Blair playing at International Statesman whilst Gordon Brown more or less seemed to be PM, but in the shadows
Enjoy the show!
3 years 10 months is an awful long time in politics.
Edit to add - even this time last year I was recovering from a brusing local election campaign at which we lost the local council, and to add insult to injury, were about to get (rightly, in this case) pummelled in elections that should never have happened.
But what about website hits? This is a period of time when people are unusually attentive to the news.
Are people that attentive? Most people I know have given up on the news right now, because of the constant, mindnumbing tedium of having a single story to report....
Edit to add, and the advertisers won't be happy at the low circs - obvs.
Thank you and well done.
Boris is saying “at least he wasn’t visiting a lover”.
Boris. Bonking Boris.
Irony is dead.
Go for it lads, give it laldy.
Perked me right up
I remember it clear as day. Sombre government ministers saying, "Do not leave home to visit your lover. Everything else is fine, though. Pop up to Durham as much as you like - it's nice at this time of year."
If you think this is just a non story, then fine......
I think with the first argument, if Cummings felt he had to break the lockdown for the sake of his family he should have resigned first.
Are you a Russian Bot?
I'm glad I do not put my bank details on the site...
So yes, I think quite a lot can happen in the time you've set out, and what Dom did or didn't do will be but a distant memory by then. Which is why he should hang on. He's today's news, but today's news is tomorrow's fish and chip wrapper.
The example of the CMO in Scotland is a good case in point because it did cause a great deal of consternation for the scottish government and personal criticism of the First Minister for not acting sooner as more details emerged, so the reaction to similar stories is clearly not solely about the person of Cummings. That he is seemingly very pleased to be a bogeyman to the media and many political figures (given how he chooses to interact with them, far from shunning the limelight) makes the scale of and intensity of the reaction at him personally being the focus here something that ultimately is his own fault.
He likes being the story, and it gives him greater profile and influence than many in his position. This is the flip side of that.
If the Cabinet cannot see how damning this situation is they are even more tin-eared than I imagined.
Should imagine they're having an early night with all that furious tweeting earlier in the day.
Run out of steam.
I wonder if he will be delighted to see the man who made these laws breaking those self-same laws?
I rather doubt it.