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Cummings out with immediate effect – politicalbetting.com
Cummings out with immediate effect – politicalbetting.com
Dominic Cummings has now decided to leave Number 10 today for good – (subtle hint walking out with a box – Lee Cain also now out from today
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Great end to a terrible year for so many
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-coronavirus-outbreak/2020/11/13/610eebcc-2539-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html
Marvellous.
Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice!!!
No doubt we can expect a 10,000 word blog post early next year on how a clusterfsck Brexit is absolutely in no way his fault & was entirely due to everyone else. Which will be a bit rich coming from the man who complained endlessly on his blog about how civil servants would quit projects before they were properly implemented in order that they couldn’t be held accountable for what came after.
*for TSE
It's also unsurprising, sadly.
https://twitter.com/garyrosenWSJ/status/1327297893926055937
Edit, should read 130, not 150
is the short version. Trump didn’t care how many people he killed so long as he got re-elected.
https://twitter.com/REWearmouth/status/1327302923018268672
What an absolute bell end.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1327306263185797120?s=20
It's only 11 months since the GE, and it looks like there's a bit of chaos at the heart of government - it usually takes longer than that. Still, permanent revolution can be a good thing, I'm told. I'm struggling, though, to identify any real achievements since GE 2019. Brexit not really done yet - the microwave hasn't been working for the oven-ready deal. The Garden of England turned into a lorry park, Probably a lot more dead than there should have been. The Civil Service totally pissed off but not actually reformed. I don't think Dom's CV update will look that good.
But.... 2020 is now looking a whole lot better than it did a fortnight ago.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/expansive-white-house-covid-outbreak-sidelines-10-of-secret-service/
But also just so fucking trivial. We are about to face the most jarring disruption to our international trading relationships in decades, in the midst of a global pandemic that has already killed tens of thousands of British people, while UK GDP has fallen more than that of any other major economy and the Treasury has run up record amounts of debt, and here they all are, obsessed with this tawdry Oxford Union soap opera. Pathetic.
What a choice.
Maybe I'd just burn my ballot.
I do however take slight issue with the nest of vipers thing though, because by all accounts he proudly associates himself as the King Viper. He helped build the snake pit because he likes things that way. Such a man should expect a knife in the back, like a medieval spymaster.
Given the biggest change in ballot counts ever was 1200....
God who says Friday 13th is bad luck. First Sutcliffe and now this (the resignation of Cummings.)
Note James Forsyth (husband of Allegra Stratton, new No.10 press secretary who in turn is a close friend of Carrie) bigging up the need for a deal and highlighting the dangers of No Deal today.
I think the UK and EU are moving in on a final compromise, and yes I expect both sides to compromise.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/alex-salmond-inquiry-crisis-after-23006173
The thing is I'm bored with this election
and the Trump drama and can't be arsed anymore.
Even if it costs me £140 extra profit.
Any news on him, as that would impact the Brexit talks?
CLP section
9 reps elected are
Luke AKEHURST (Labour to Win)
Laura PIDCOCK (Grassroots Voice)
Johanna BAXTER (Labour to Win)
Gemma BOLTON (Grassroots Voice)
Gurinder Singh JOSAN (Labour to Win)
Ann BLACK (Open Labour)
Yasmine DAR (Grassroots Voice)
Nadia JAMA (Grassroots Voice)
Mish RAHMAN (Grassroots Voice)
For the first time they used STV for NEC elections.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7859059/Dominic-Cummings-48-sports-pair-low-slung-skater-jeans-way-Number-10-Downing-Street.html
Ellen Morrison (Left) won the NEC Disabled Members Representative place
Carwyn Jones (Labour to win) unseats Mick Antoniw for the Welsh Rep role.
Nick Forbes and Alice Perry (Labour to win) re-elected in the Local government section
Diana Holland re-elected as Treasurer
Its pretty extraordinary really.
All these people are desperate to come to the UK. Can't think why.
That ended my support and he should have been sacked
He has been sacked today so better late than never
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1327284033429114887?s=19
Now they're down to 5-4, so the far left have lost net 4.
Also, Carwyn Jones has replaced the Welsh Corbyn-supporting rep.
That's a big win for Starmer.
http://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1327313229807312898
I suppose the question now becomes how the Government's presentation and "tone" will adapt. Those that got Johnson into power are gone and he is now looking less Presidential and more like the leader of a collective Government (primus inter pares so to speak).
Is the parallel the departure of Sir Alan Walters from the Thatcher Government? Once again the lesson is politics is best left to the politicians - advisers can advise but that doesn't mean they are the Government. Ministers may feel a shade more empowered but a shade more exposed - that's no bad thing.
As for Johnson, I think this will help - he can be his own man (as long as he does what Allegra and Carrie tell him) but he has to now take that step forward and embrace the authority and the responsibility. It's been an incredibly difficult year and would have been for any PM but there's a huge opportunity to build on what has happened so that post-Covid Britain isn't just pre-Covid Britain.
The former were taken out. The latter were included.