Dominic Cummings

[LMcD]

The only person I can think of who could outwit and/or subdue DC would be 'Humpy', as portrayed by the late lamented Nigel Hawthorne.

[cloughie]

The only person I can think of who could outwit and/or subdue DC would be 'Humpy', as portrayed by the late lamented Nigel Hawthorne.

I think the best description of DC is a Teflon Nasty.

[Bryn]

Bryn - your mailbox seems to be full.

Less so now.

[Serial_Apologist]

I think the best description of DC is a Teflon Nasty.

I'm not sure from everday footage of him leaving his home which part of London he lives in. From the early Victorian architecture it could possibly be Kingsland or Hackney, or Peckham. I hope to read of his being mugged for his Gucci bobble hat.

[Globaltruth]

We’ll let this thread run for now, but I’ve had to delete one post already. So please express views with care.

Can I just remind people of this post from earlier on in this thread

[Bryn]

The phrase "pseudointellectual" might as well have been created for Cummings— "The dumb person's idea of a smart person".

It's a pity that in Johnson's cabinet, and in the Tory party more generally, there is such a deep, rich fertiliser of stupidity and ignorance to buoy up this hubristic dilettante. I suppose next to people like IDS, Leadsom and Francois, to name but a few, it's easy to feel like a comparative genius. Must be like watching a goldfish bowl.

My guess is that like Liar Johnson, Cummings will continue to avoid getting into debates with experts or anyone else who actually understands what they're talking about, because his superficial grasp and misunderstandings would be embarrassingly exposed.

He still puts me in mind of an undergrad physics student who's just discovered amphetamines, and thinks he's on the brink of profundity and greatness because of "insights" ... that will be mysteriously beyond him when the powder has worn off.

Bit of a metaphor for the Brexit iceberg that is about to hole the Tory ship below the waterline: first, the delusions and fantasies; then, out of your depth in freezing water.

10 Feb 2020 9:14 'Milton' Guardian comment re. Steve Bell's cartoon of that day.

[Beresford]

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[LMcD]

I'm not sure from everday footage of him leaving his home which part of London he lives in. From the early Victorian architecture it could possibly be Kingsland or Hackney, or Peckham. I hope to read of his being mugged for his Gucci bobble hat.

Apparently he lives in a town house in Islington - where else? - worth £1.6 million.
His father-in-law owns what is claimed to be Britain's most haunted castle (Chillingham).

[Frances_iom]

How exactly does one use this script?

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[Serial_Apologist]

Apparently he lives in a town house in Islington - where else? - worth £1.6 million.
His father-in-law owns what is claimed to be Britain's most haunted castle (Chillingham).

Ah - thanks; so, just west of Kingsland but historically the same territory.

Chillingham - rather a good name for a haunted castle! We need a suitable place name for a should-be haunted conscience - maybe Billingham?

PS - Cummings ist der Diktator. Have we already had that one?

[cloughie]

Ah - thanks; so, just west of Kingsland but historically the same territory.

Chillingham - rather a good name for a haunted castle! We need a suitable place name for a should-be haunted conscience - maybe Billingham?

PS - Cummings ist der Diktator. Have we already had that one?

Isn’t Billingham in one of the ‘newly blue’ NE constituencies!

[Serial_Apologist]

Isn’t Billingham in one of the ‘newly blue’ NE constituencies!

That was what I was getting at, the idea of billing 'em - heavy irony emoticon!

[oddoneout]

Chillingham is home to other feral creatures... https://www.rbst.org.uk/the-chillingham-wild

[LMcD]

[QUOTE=Serial_Apologist;779871]Ah - thanks; so, just west of Kingsland but historically the same territory.

Chillingham - rather a good name for a haunted castle! We need a suitable place name for a should-be haunted conscience - maybe Billingham?
PS -


See #51 for Cummings/Diktator (but a reminder won't come amiss I'm sure!)

[Padraig]

Here in NI Julian Smith was highly thought of by many people too, 8th. But I guess that he was sacked because of his loyalty to Theresa May rather than for succeeding in restoring devolution at Stormont when four other Tories had failed. I suppose success is not as important as being perceived as either a weirdo or a misfit, which obviously Julian Smith was not.

The plot thickens - as plots tend to do:

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