Dominic Cummings

[Jazzrook]

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/26/dominic-cummings-debacle-exposed-weakness-dependency-boris-johnson

JR

[Count Boso]

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-boris-johnson

JR

Johnson produced his spectacles convincingly to support the claim that, yes, Covid could certainly, he thought, affect the eyesight, so Cummings's excuse was plausible, reasonable. So, a little tootle round some lesser used roads in the wilds might just have been an 'eyetest', but taking your wife and cherished young son with you to combine it with a sunny day out to a local beauty spot? Just a bitty hard to swallow, but worth a try, Dom.

Meanwhile, grotesquely, Johnson praises his colleague for his natural father's instincts. As if he has shown any such sentiment.

[muzzer]

Both sets of pants well and truly on fire. If they’re not, why don’t they sue to clear their names?

[Cockney Sparrow]

I appreciate its not hard, with this material, to write an eviscerating article. Marina Hyde's article in the Guardian is quite scathing :

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/26/dominic-cummings-boris-johnson-terrified-sack-him

Unfortunately, with Brazen, contemptuous defiance Johnson has decided to sit it out. I can't see a largely supine Tory party in its first year of office doing anything about it.
If Johnson won't lead effectively, for the sake of those at risk in a second or third spike, is there really no mechanism to rid ourselves of this dangerous government?

The story about the re-editing by Cummings to insert Coronavirus into his blog, is well and truly out there, I'm glad to say.

[MrGongGong]

Meanwhile, grotesquely, Johnson praises his colleague for his natural father's instincts. As if he has shown any such sentiment.

The "natural father's instinct" that makes you walk out on the mother of your children when she is diagnosed with cancer I suppose ?

as the Chumba's put it so eloquently.......

[oddoneout]

I appreciate its not hard, with this material, to write an eviscerating article. Marina Hyde's article in the Guardian is quite scathing :

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/26/dominic-cummings-boris-johnson-terrified-sack-him

Unfortunately, with Brazen, contemptuous defiance Johnson has decided to sit it out. I can't see a largely supine Tory party in its first year of office doing anything about it.
If Johnson won't lead effectively, for the sake of those at risk in a second or third spike, is there really no mechanism to rid ourselves of this dangerous government?

The story about the re-editing by Cummings to insert Coronavirus into his blog, is well and truly out there, I'm glad to say.

That's only partly the case though isn't it? The current line-up may be in its first year but we've had a Tory government wreaking havoc - and getting away with it - for enough years before that for them to consider themselves safe and therefore be complacent.

[MrGongGong]

Beyond incompetent

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

The only folks who might have said that seem to have

1: Been banned
or
2: Flounced off in a snit because they weren't being treated as special

Still, it would be interesting to hear from someone who really does think what DC did was ok

[DracoM]

<< Meanwhile, grotesquely, Johnson praises his colleague for his natural father's instincts. >>

Of all those who have fathered kids, and then to offer support.............

The sheer, gob smacking irony in that will NOT have eluded the press!

[Dave2002]

Matt Hancock shouldn't keep supporting those people. If he really thinks they're OK - well - he's clearly not in agreement with a majority of the population. OK - he thinks he owes them a favour maybe, but there are enough people thinking that he (MH) is not doing a good job - with tests not happening, and now it looks like there's a hiatus with the IOW testing. These factors may not be of his making, but he's apologising and defending the people who've set him up to fail. He should bail out now.

This tribal support for someone (DC) who doesn't deserve the position he has is madness. Before yesterday many would perhaps have given DC the benefit of the doubt, but I don't think many will now.

[ardcarp]

The Civil Service are generally very cross about the role of 'personal advisors'. So also are some ministers of state who feel undermined. No doubt they are dancing with glee at the dirt the press are dishing on DC.

[Count Boso]

Matt Hancock shouldn't keep supporting those people.

Meanwhile not a glimmer of recognition as to the significance, he answers a member of the public who asks whether the government will review fines for parents who breached lockdown regulations to get childcare. 'A very good question which the government will … look at … discussions with the Treasury … and so on.'

[muzzer]

Qs for DC I don’t see him as having been asked-
1. Do you have other family members in London who could have helped you with childcare so that you would not need to embark on a 260 mile journey whilst ill?
2. What’s the capacity of your car’s tank?
3. When did you last fill It up before the journey?
4. When did you next visit a petrol station?
5. What comfort break stops did you make on that long journey?
6. Did you buy anything apart from petrol on these breaks? Please check your bank statements and credit card receipts to help you remember.
7. What is the date of your mother’s birthday?
8. Did you think and then choose to mark the occasion in any way?
9. Is it the case that you are currently in contempt of Parliament for refusing to attend a Select Committee hearing?
10. I put it to you Mr Cummings that you are a serial liar no respect for the rule of law, who believes he is above those people whose futures he has been cynically manipulating. Do you have anything to say?

[johnb]

Matt Hancock shouldn't keep supporting those people. If he really thinks they're OK - well - he's clearly not in agreement with a majority of the population.

You forget, this is Matt Hancock you are talking about - the needy middle manager, desperately eager to please his boss (remember the Tory leadership election, the somewhat nauseating spectacle of MT instantly switching from being his own man to BJ biggest cheerleader).

... there are enough people thinking that he (MH) is not doing a good job - with tests not happening, and now it looks like there's a hiatus with the IOW testing. These factors may not be of his making...

When I last looked he was the Health Secretary. Either he formed a strategy and made decisions which turned out to be ... err ... less than ideal or he was told what to do by BJ/DC/etc and went along with it. Either way it doesn't exactly inspire confidence.

This tribal support for someone (DC) who doesn't deserve the position he has is madness.

Very true - but this is a government which is dominated by DC, Brexit idealogues, Johnson loyalists and is astonishingly short of experienced, capable ministers (then there is Suella Braverman - Attorney General for heaven's sake).

(I'm agreeing with you really.)

[Sir Velo]

Qs for DC I don’t see him as having been asked-

Possibly the most serious of all: did you not consider that driving with your eyesight potentially impaired showed a complete disregard for the safety of other road users?

[Andrew]

To quote the Leopold Amery, a Conservative M.P., during the Munich Crisis: "in the name of God, go!" Dominic Cummings is causing the credibility of this government to suffer and, more importantly, the rule of law, to be called into question. This is, by any standards, a disaster, and should be brought to an end now by either him doing the decent thing and resigning, or the Prime Minister sacking him. The longer this drags on, the worse it is for all of us!