Et tu Dominic? Political loyalty that didn’t last.,,

[VaVaGloom]

So Johnson and Cummings are at each other’s throats. Anyone else think that it’s karma for them being such self serving, conniving, utter shit weasels last year? It’s so fitting that they are self destructing their own abominable empire.

United they stood, divided they fall.

No wonder they say we get the Govt we deserve

Might turn out to be the Gove we deserve...

Doesn’t everyone hate Gove though? Trying to get the Tory Party to select Gove as leader is going to be very different to trying to get them to select Boris.

Wash your foul mouth out with soap. TWICE!!!!!!

Though I am still sniggering at Liz Truss's "tittle tattle". It really reduces Cummings to a silly insignificance.

Poor Liz did get the short straw today.

Johnson's untouchable though isn't he. It doesn't seem to matter what he does, it seems his "loveable" buffoonery still keeps the public enthralled

Having said that. Gove. Save our souls.

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

Poor Liz did get the short straw today.

And yet that smile stayed on!!!

That’s probably because she hasn’t realised she got the short straw.

@CloudPop

Johnson's untouchable though isn't he. It doesn't seem to matter what he does, it seems his "loveable" buffoonery still keeps the public enthralled

Yep, the only person that has held him remotely to account is footballer Daniel Marcus Rashford

@RafaIsTheKingOfClay

That’s probably because she hasn’t realised she got the short straw.

I don't think she recovered from 'pork products' did she?

No. But she never comes across as the sharpest tool in the box whenever I see her interviewed.

She just sort of carries on grinning inanely even when she’s being absolutely steamrollered by the interviewer. Perhaps she just hasn’t mastered the ‘tell obvious lies and just wing it technique’ well enough.

Fucking hell Daily Mail front page tomorrow:

"Boris Johnson said he would rather see ‘bodies pile high in their thousands’ than order a third lockdown, it was claimed last night"

Story deliberately positions Michael Gove in opposition to this.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9510133/Boris-Johnson-said-bodies-pile-high-order-lockdown-sources-claim.html

Don't know about Gove, but the rest has more than an element of truth about it. And I can absolutely imagine him saying that.

That Nov lockdown came at the absolute last possible moment before the health service was in huge huge trouble with staff sickness and an enormous wave of covid patients if cases didn't stop rising. There was a reason why Whitty and Vallance kept answering questions with 'we give the advice, the government make the decisions' last autumn.

It's a bit unfortunate that Downing Street's response was 'it's just another lie' which reminds us that a lot of the other lies have come from Johnson himself.

This could be a lie, but you really can't tell.

It could be a lie, but in the absence of any evidence either way, we have to go with the balance of probabilities. I can well believe that Boris might have said that.

It is quite damming that you can’t tell if it’s a lie because you can imagine him saying it.
He does have form for this too.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-41490174?__twitter_impression=true

So where has this quote come from? Gove or Cummings?

Gove's wife works for the Mail....

Neither of them had any integrity to start with.

The Daily Mail have been trying to make Gove happen for ages, because his wife works there.

In some ways, I kind of hope he does replace Boris, because Gove is absolute electoral poison and that is probably the best hope we have of getting this shower of spivs out of power. Sunak would be too popular, at least for another couple of years.

DC is really not looking like much of a Dark Lord of Media Manipulation (or Disruption, or whatever it was he sold himself as). He is just looking like a disgruntled ex-employee. I thought similar after the Barnard Castle interview - that surely nobody could be stupid enough to think that press conference was a good idea, or would come across as anything other than a “fuck you” to the electorate and to the rest of the Tory party. Even if they manage to finagle Gove into No 10, DC is not going to be able to return now is he?

This is politics like a 1970s African Dictatorship.

Only this government is more corrupt.

Says the man who is condemning the procedure he helped orchestrate and has been sacked.

Gove wanted soldiers outside hospitals... not sure that is any less incendiary!

There's bound to be a lot of this. All it proves is somethings we already know: Cummings is a self serving weasel; a pandemic is a fucking horrendous thing to have to try and manage and everybody involved is human, has a temper and is as fuckwitted as anyone else.

It doesn't actually change anything.

And is really only a very blunt version of what is suggested here and across SM every day - all those lovely ageist posts railing about "don't kill granny".

I don't think I could care much less. A falling out between thieves, as the saying goes.

Government isn't ever going to be PM. The Conservatives know what electoral poison he would be and will not vote for him.

Just like Labour voted for Starmer, I predict the next Conservative leader will be slightly dull.

Sorry should have said Gove will never be PM. Damn autocorrect.

Borris is a prolific liar.
I’m not really interested in DC. He isn’t the elected PM.
I want Borris held account over the stealing of public money. Why was he allowed to spend public money on trying to shag that American woman ( whilst married)?
Why has he not been reprimanded over trying to steal public money on having his house decorated and renovated.
Who owns the shit show and waste of public money that is track and trace?
Then there is the Jane’s Dyson fraud. James Dyson who now operates his empire from outside the UK thus avoiding paying UK tax. Plenty of smaller UK firms viyed for contracts but were rejected, not being Tory downers of course.
Why do people not hold Borris Johnson to account?
Why was Pritti Patel paid over £70,000 for having her eyebrows done, at a time when the company was banned from doing eyebrows and the company was not even trading?
Why was she allowed to claim over £5000 for expenses from Primark? Yes as if she ever steps foot in there, ffs at least make your claims plausible, Primark? Come on.

@TheSandman

This is politics like a 1970s African Dictatorship.

Only this government is more corrupt.

Exactly