Dominic Cummings

[MrGongGong]

So is there anyone who really (as opposed to "my party right or wrong... and if I don't support him i'm out of a job") thinks what he did was OK ?
I watched a bit then went to do something useful
but what strikes me is there isn't really robust questioning....do we really need to leave it to Bishops ?

[Cockney Sparrow]

Dominic Cummings, it appears, added his prescient blog posts on Coronavirus on 14 April 2020. So, in contradiction of what he said yesterday, and straight manipulation of data. Who'd have thought it?

"“coronavirus” quote made “2020-04-14 T20:55:20”

So same day he returned to work, after Durham"

https://twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1265034438645293056

[Serial_Apologist]

Yes driving with defective eyesight is a crime. Apparently, police officers already reporting Cummings conduct being raised when they are stopping people they suspect are breaching the Regs.

If he could read a can number plate at 20 metres - the minimum requirement, I believe - he could have done that without getting into his car.

[Dave2002]

I thought I'd check up on how much DC gets paid - and here is some "evidence" - https://www.itv.com/news/2019-12-21/...age-uk-salary/

This appears to refer to an official list of payments made to aides, so may be more or less correct. Surely that means that Mr Cummings is being paid around £100k out of taxpayers' monies - i.e. the public purse.

[Serial_Apologist]

So is there anyone who really (as opposed to "my party right or wrong... and if I don't support him i'm out of a job") thinks what he did was OK ?
I watched a bit then went to do something useful
but what strikes me is there isn't really robust questioning....do we really need to leave it to Bishops ?

One of whom - the Bish of Worcester (what sauce!) - being taken firmly to task by everlating Tory-friendly Justyn Webb on this morning's Toady, as in, was it his role as a Christian to criticise an individua? - or, almost worse, be political? Do you normally refer to him as Cummings without the mister? etc etc." Fortunately his Lordship was not so un-Inged as to cave in to this customary style and manner of interrogation.

[MrGongGong]

I thought I'd check up on how much DC gets paid - and here is some "evidence" - https://www.itv.com/news/2019-12-21/...age-uk-salary/

This appears to refer to an official list of payments made to aides, so may be more or less correct. Surely that means that Mr Cummings is being paid around £100k out of taxpayers' monies - i.e. the public purse.

Is he an "employee" ?
If not then he technically can't get "sacked"

[Dave2002]

If he could read a can number plate at 20 metres - the minimum requirement, I believe - he could have done that without getting into his car.

I'm not sure I could read a baked bean can at 20 metres, though they don't normally come with number plates. I could perhaps spot the pictures, though.

[Dave2002]

Is he an "employee" ?
If not then he technically can't get "sacked"

Is he a self employed consultant then, hired for specific jobs?

[MrGongGong]

Is he a self employed consultant then, hired for specific jobs?

I don't know...that's why I asked
when the whole "Clarkson" thing was kicking off it was assumed that he could be "sacked" but as he wasn't an employee he couldn't be "sacked". He COULD be not asked to do the work again.

[Serial_Apologist]

Dominic Cummings, it appears, added his prescient blog posts on Coronavirus on 14 April 2020. So, in contradiction of what he said yesterday, and straight manipulation of data. Who'd have thought it?

"“coronavirus” quote made “2020-04-14 T20:55:20”

So same day he returned to work, after Durham"

https://twitter.com/faisalislam/stat...34438645293056

They're asking Faisal if the BBC will take up his evidence on the News. Let's just see.....

[Serial_Apologist]

Is he an "employee" ?
If not then he technically can't get "sacked"

Breach of con trick?

[MrGongGong]

Write to you MP ?
(a total waste of time for me )

[Cockney Sparrow]

They're asking Faisal if the BBC will take up his evidence on the News. Let's just see.....

If this is authenticated, one would hope (in this time of topsey-turvey values and morality) this would be a clincher in Cummings being ditched. ( :Sigh: I know, too much to hope for......). Caught in the act? It looks as though those guys have the relevant screenshots before the data is got at again.......

I'm not up on Twitter so it took me some time to look at it in any detail (still not definitively, but then I'm not in the dock) . As the info is now out there, it will be followed up by ?The Guardian if not by the BBC. Some extracts :

"@faisalislam
Cummings today: “Last year I wrote about the possible threat of coronaviruses and the urgent need for planning”.. appears to be reference to this blog... actually about biolab accidents and giving a “Red Team” £1m to test security including honey traps .. "

"@faisalislam
And the account of the internet archive does check out - see the history here:
why would a reference to coronavirus be added in the last month?...
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://...."

"@jwiechers
put blog through Internet archive machine and reference to coronavirus, quote on coronavirus was not in the version of blog saved on Way Back MAchine on Apr 9 2020 ... but is there this month..."

" @faisalislam MORE: info on Way Bank machine internet archive corroborated by info on actual blog sitemap -hat tip @martbrow @exactlyaron and @jonwilliams80

edit that added “coronavirus” quote made “2020-04-14 T20:55:20” So same day he returned to work, after Durham

https://dominiccummings.com/sitemap.xml

"

[DracoM]

He was on R4 at lunchtime.

[MrGongGong]

If this is authenticated, one would hope (in this time of topsey-turvey values and morality) this would be a clincher in Cummings being ditched. ( :Sigh: I know, too much to hope for......). Caught in the act? It looks as though those guys have the relevant screenshots before the data is got at again.......

I'm not up on Twitter so it took me some time to look at it in any detail (still not definitively, but then I'm not in the dock) . As the info is now out there, it will be followed up by ?The Guardian if not by the BBC. Some extracts :

"@faisalislam
Cummings today: “Last year I wrote about the possible threat of coronaviruses and the urgent need for planning”.. appears to be reference to this blog... actually about biolab accidents and giving a “Red Team” £1m to test security including honey traps .. "

"@faisalislam
And the account of the internet archive does check out - see the history here:
why would a reference to coronavirus be added in the last month?...
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://...."

"@jwiechers
put blog through Internet archive machine and reference to coronavirus, quote on coronavirus was not in the version of blog saved on Way Back MAchine on Apr 9 2020 ... but is there this month..."

" @faisalislam MORE: info on Way Bank machine internet archive corroborated by info on actual blog sitemap -hat tip @martbrow @exactlyaron and @jonwilliams80

edit that added “coronavirus” quote made “2020-04-14 T20:55:20” So same day he returned to work, after Durham

https://dominiccummings.com/sitemap.xml

"

Beyond incompetent

Still waiting for someone to tell me why this person should still be allowed to be scissor monitor