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to think Dominic Cummings should go/thread 4

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SophieB100 · 27/05/2020 14:10

New thread to discuss the cummings and goings of the PM's chief adviser.

Previous thread:
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itsgettingweird · 31/05/2020 09:05

80's I have also had no reply.

itsgettingweird · 31/05/2020 09:08

Flies I think it was fewer words. "Please don't leave me" Wink

EvilPea · 31/05/2020 09:12

80’s I’ve had no response from my very polite email as well.

Violetparis · 31/05/2020 09:32

I think Alistair Campbell is the Remain version of Dominic Cummings, don't like or trust either of them.

Peregrina · 31/05/2020 09:46

I think Campbell would have had sufficient nous to know that a resignation was sensible. He could then have continued to pull the strings behind the scene.

Mumratheevergiving · 31/05/2020 10:07

FFS what is it going to take for this clown to resign or get sacked? Didn’t someone share a code of conduct that advisors shouldn’t become the story? Scientists are denouncing his actions as damaging to public health compliance. Totally untenable position. So angry that the Government are acting this way Angry

FliesandPies · 31/05/2020 10:13

Flies I think it was fewer words. "Please don't leave me"

Or maybe even less than that weird - "HELPPP!!!" Grin

bobtrain · 31/05/2020 10:21

Throughout history the political arena has been subject to corruption, and scandal so it does not surprise me that yet another politician has resigned. If the police have covered up damaging evidence in the D.C. issue then that needs investigation. Did the police send in community police to investigate or full timers. If you did crowd funding would all the petition signers donate enough to start a civil case?

FliesandPies · 31/05/2020 10:30

I think Campbell would have had sufficient nous to know that a resignation was sensible. He could then have continued to pull the strings behind the scene

Yes, Campbell is equally awful but much more wily - Cummings is far more transparent in the shit he pulls and his route-one approach has worked well so far. Cummings presumably couldn't stand to lose all his privileges and status by resigning.

Campbell has been very successful in using the 'poor me' stuff to rebrand himself - 'oh I was an alcoholic and a depressive and that's why I behaved so badly and look here's the Hutton whitewash report that fully exonerates me sob sob'. Cummings isn't up to that.

Roussette · 31/05/2020 10:35

I never liked Campbell but I never felt he had or has the arrogance that DC has.

Alsohuman · 31/05/2020 10:36

I think the difference between Campbell and Cummings is that the former knows his stuff. What kind of idiot tells journalists that looking good isn’t important and he doesn’t care what they think? On camera at that. Anyone with a scrap of political nouse knows how important the optics are.

Roussette · 31/05/2020 10:40

And I agree, DC is not wily, he is in fact quite stupid given his altering of his blog to say he predicted COVID.
He did that at 20.55 on the night he returned to London (14 April) after being in Durham.

Did he honestly think that wouldn't be discovered? That's the arrogance...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52808059

FliesandPies · 31/05/2020 11:04

Did he honestly think that wouldn't be discovered? That's the arrogance...

Blinded by arrogance, yes. He's so used to being surrounded by sycophants, and useless twats like Bozo who couldn't find his own fat arse with both hands, that he really believes all that cobblers about him being a genius.

bobtrain · 31/05/2020 11:08

Have you seen the Mail details regarding the supposed witness statements Tim Matthews and Robin Lee's. This story will end up as a film.

chomalungma · 31/05/2020 11:12

This story will end up as a film

The whole thing would be rejected as a film plot if someone wrote it.
Along with Trump

SabrinaThwaite · 31/05/2020 11:16

Have you seen the Mail details regarding the supposed witness statements Tim Matthews and Robin Lee's. This story will end up as a film

Matthews wasn’t one of the Guardian / Observer / Mirror sources and Lee collected his student daughter, which was permitted.

Roussette · 31/05/2020 11:19

I did think that his performance in the garden must have been absolutely excrutiating for him. Painful and horrible, because he is the most powerful unelected man in the country and he had to take it on the chin from the media who he so despises.

I've said before... I delight in the fact he will be followed around for the rest of his life with memes about driving miles with dodgy eyes!

Peregrina · 31/05/2020 11:24

I don't think the performance in the rose garden was excruciating. He no doubt thought that he could brazen it out, not realising the behaviour that works in a smallish Westminster bubble won't necessarily play well with the general public.

FliesandPies · 31/05/2020 11:27

This story will end up as a film

Seen it

to think Dominic Cummings should go/thread 4
Roussette · 31/05/2020 11:35

I think it was excrutiating for him. Not for us. It was good he had to answer to the public, that must be quite alien for him.

The second home scenario is building traction. He called it a cottage at one point. Well ... that cottage has no planning permission and pays no council tax. Oh, and he owns it.

FliesandPies · 31/05/2020 11:48

Well ... that cottage has no planning permission and pays no council tax

Is that allowed if it's on private land? Just wondering if there's some kind of 'rich bastard' loophole in the regulations..

Roussette · 31/05/2020 11:58

No. Definitely not. If it's habitable, you have to have planning permission and pay council tax.

Alsohuman · 31/05/2020 12:00

Planning permission is required regardless of ownership of the land. This looks as if it will run and run. Bet he wishes he’d just owned up and apologised last Saturday.

SabrinaThwaite · 31/05/2020 12:04

Is that allowed if it's on private land?

No. If it’s a separate dwelling then it’s liable to Council Tax.

And Cummings most specifically told us it was a separate cottage.

FliesandPies · 31/05/2020 12:08

Bet he wishes he’d just owned up and apologised last Saturday

It's really going to haunt him