Dominic Cummings

[Serial_Apologist]

The plot thickens - as plots tend to do:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-51567265

Smith's replacement, the thick-set Brandon Lewis, always makes me think in terms of an owner of a chain of dodgy second-hand car dealers, for some reason.

[eighthobstruction]

Smith's replacement, the thick-set Brandon Lewis, always makes me think in terms of an owner of a chain of dodgy second-hand car dealers, for some reason.

....and who or what does Grant Shapps remind you of....??

[Serial_Apologist]

....and who or what does Grant Shapps remind you of....??

All of them - because they're all Schapps together. Incidentally, I believe Shapps Fell is somewhere not too far from you, eighth?

[oddoneout]

Smith's replacement, the thick-set Brandon Lewis, always makes me think in terms of an owner of a chain of dodgy second-hand car dealers, for some reason.

He's in the right party for it certainly...

[Serial_Apologist]

He's in the right party for it certainly...

Wiki-checking reveals he was born in Harold Wood in 1971, I'd assumed him to be much older - so, hewn from the same Chingford-Romford-Basildon triangle that has produced a number of self-stereotyping clones of the Norman Tebbitt type. He would have been about ten when Mrs T dropped in to take tea with one of the first households to buy its council house at a marked down price, and that was on the Harold Hill estate, just up his road. I'm not at all surprised.

[LMcD]

Smith's replacement, the thick-set Brandon Lewis, always makes me think in terms of an owner of a chain of dodgy second-hand car dealers, for some reason.

Anagrams of thick-set (with or without - ) welcome.

[cloughie]

All of them - because they're all Schapps together. Incidentally, I believe Shapps Fell is somewhere not too far from you, eighth?

He’s certainly heading for one - I maybe misjudge him and his mum probably loves him but he always appears always to be a smug knowall.

[eighthobstruction]

<<" Shap Wells Hotel puts the best of Shap at your fingertips ">>....apparently, but be careful not to step in Shap....

[Jazzrook]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/23/dominic-cummings-reign-shadowy-world-spads

JR

[Jazzrook]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/23/boris-johnson-is-the-ultimate-purveyor-of-fake-news

JR

[teamsaint]

I recently became aware of Accelerationism.

Anybody know much about it? Worth having a look at it, as I suspect that it , and similar philosophies, at some point inform the world view of people like Cummings.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/11/accelerationism-how-a-fringe-philosophy-predicted-the-future-we-live-in

[MrGongGong]

Careful folks
We can't be too nasty to the lovely Mr Cummings in here you know
it might offend the grown ups

[Bryn]

I recently became aware of Accelerationism.

Anybody know much about it? Worth having a look at it, as I suspect that it , and similar philosophies, at some point inform the world view of people like Cummings.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ure-we-live-in

See https://www.thealternative.org.uk/da...cummings-power

[teamsaint]

See https://www.thealternative.org.uk/da...cummings-power

Thanks Bryn, very interesting.

[LMcD]

I think Boris is to be congratulated on making it clear who's actually running things in Downing Street, and propose that the Blessed Dom be knighted at the same ceremony as Colonel Tom.