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If you were annoyed at Dominic Cummings before

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NoMoreReluctantCustodians · 26/05/2020 07:41

How has his performance in the rose garden affected your opinion?

YANBU it's made things worse
YABU its cleared things up for me

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GetOffYourHighHorse · 28/05/2020 10:28

'This scandal has revealed who’s running the country '

Scandal? Confused. He is a senior advisor he isn't running the country, you sound like that Blackford idiot.

As I said we are still in the middle of a crisis. The msm focusing on this rather than the next phase are the ones who are detracting from important issues, not Cummings. He shouldn't have gone it was unwise and the reaction should've been predicted. However he did, there isn't anything else to say.

LaurieMarlow · 28/05/2020 10:34

The msm focusing on this rather than the next phase are the ones who are detracting from important issues, not Cummings.

Nope.

Cummings resigns, this goes away, the government has a leg to stand on when it comes to implementing their strategy. Simple.

Mittens030869 · 28/05/2020 10:35

Sadly, this isn’t going to end until the Tory Party act to throw out Boris Johnson. The’1922 Committee’ (I never did understand the name) will take action eventually. BoJo ignores Tory Party anger at his peril. It’s what happened to Thatcher over the poll tax, when she had a very big majority in Parliament.

Alsohuman · 28/05/2020 10:37

@Mittens030869

Sadly, this isn’t going to end until the Tory Party act to throw out Boris Johnson. The’1922 Committee’ (I never did understand the name) will take action eventually. BoJo ignores Tory Party anger at his peril. It’s what happened to Thatcher over the poll tax, when she had a very big majority in Parliament.
Spot on. Cummings will take Johnson down too unless he gets rid very soon.
MarshaBradyo · 28/05/2020 10:38

If they had handled it differently he wouldn’t even have to go. It’s stupidly misjudging how annoyed people would be.

So it doesn’t go away because the public would like the press (and MPs) to ask a direct and straight question.

When the government can’t answer there’s an issue.

SabrinaThwaite · 28/05/2020 10:42

I’ve written to my MP several times over this, and made sure I copied Sir Graham Brady in on them.

itsgettingweird · 28/05/2020 11:41

Get off but he is running it. Any questions over that were confirmed yesterday when BK in his own words said he'd been told he wasn't to announce his own targets anymore.

itsgettingweird · 28/05/2020 11:43

Marsha I'm not sure it's stupidly misjudging people.

I think it was misjudging people as stupid Wink

Mumratheevergiving · 28/05/2020 11:49

Dear Central Government,

Is it time to move on?

I agree it is tedious that you are drawing this out longer than necessary, but each and every time the PM or a cabinet member appears and fails to answer questions or offer an apology you are stoking the flames.

During lockdown my instincts have been to go and comfort my Mum who is grieving alone. I haven't done so as I want to protect her and others. I understand I have to do my part in the national effort to get through the pandemic by not moving about the country to stop the spread of the disease. You owe me and millions of others an apology. DC acted in self interest but the appalling part of it is how you attempted to mislead the public about it and refuse to acknowledge our response that it was unacceptable and damaging to the country.

The list of people that don't think we should be stonewalled is growing: University of Oxford scientists, doctors who say they will resign if DC won't, bishops, your colleagues including the man who was Chancellor of the Exchequer until February, your own party members oh and the general public.

We await your response and it better be bloody good.

thea543 · 28/05/2020 11:51

Sociopath traits
symptoms:
Superficial charm and good "intelligence"
Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking
Absence of "nervousness" or psychoneurotic manifestations
Unreliability
Untruthfulness and insincerity
Lack of remorse or shame
Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior
Poor judgment and failure to learn by experience

MarshaBradyo · 28/05/2020 11:52

Itsgetting ha yep!

I got sick of being the ‘stupid ones’ they can take the title back.

thea543 · 28/05/2020 11:54

Sociopath:
Untruthfulness and insincerity
This is one of the more important sociopath symptoms because they show such a remarkable disregard for truth that you cannot trust what they say happened, what they promise will happen or what they say their intentions are now.
They lie very convincingly. Whether they think they won't be caught out in a lie, or whether there's a high probability that they will be caught, they do the same impressive job. They can look trustworthy and look somebody in the eye and tell barefaced lies.

SabrinaThwaite · 28/05/2020 12:32

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If you were annoyed at Dominic Cummings before
SabrinaThwaite · 28/05/2020 12:49

BREAKING: A Durham Police investigation has concluded that Dominic Cummings DID breach lockdown rules when he drove to Barnard Castle, the Telegraph has learned.

^^ From Torygraph crime correspondent.

TheWordWomanIsTaken · 28/05/2020 12:49

@Alsohuman

Johnson promised to unite the country. Be careful what you wish for!
A promise is a comfort to a fool. If Johnson told me it was raining I would look out the window. He is a liar. Nothing that comes out of his mouth is likely to be true unless it advantages him.
TheWordWomanIsTaken · 28/05/2020 12:51

@SabrinaThwaite

BREAKING: A Durham Police investigation has concluded that Dominic Cummings DID breach lockdown rules when he drove to Barnard Castle, the Telegraph has learned.

^^ From Torygraph crime correspondent.

Good, even though most of us knew that despite the desperate attempts to gaslight us, I'm pleased that the police in Durham are acting properly.
MarshaBradyo · 28/05/2020 12:52

I say good too. Tg someone looked properly.

SabrinaThwaite · 28/05/2020 12:52

That’s going to be a bit awkward for Johnson and Braverman, who both insisted Cummings had acted legally.

TheWordWomanIsTaken · 28/05/2020 12:53

Johnson and Braverman both need to go as well.

MarshaBradyo · 28/05/2020 12:54

This is so much bigger than it needed to be. Twits.

SabrinaThwaite · 28/05/2020 12:55

They won’t. At least not willingly. They’ll try and style it out and keep chanting “time to move on”.

Alsohuman · 28/05/2020 12:55

I think you misinterpreted what I said @Thewordwomanistaken. Johnson promised to unite the country. He has. I don’t think he meant we’d be united in quite this way.

ITonyah · 28/05/2020 12:56

I expect dc will now apologise.

Alsohuman · 28/05/2020 12:57

@ITonyah

I expect dc will now apologise.
Too late. Way too late. And I don’t think he will, we’re about a week further on than that.
MarshaBradyo · 28/05/2020 12:58

I don’t know that he will. It will be against every fibre of his being.

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