"Downing St. considers the Dominic Cummings matter closed". AIBU that that statement, more than the actions of Cummings himself, makes my blood boil?

[JovialNickname]

I'm assuming the "so you can all fuck off" at the end of the statement is implied.

[mondaynoon]

TheWordWomanIsTaken

I completely agree with you.

What can we do now? I'm getting more angry every day.

[onanotherday]

So many people have experienced such tragedy and loss, moving on and forget it is an insult... hope people will remember this and the shambolic way the government have dealt with the virus when we next get to vote. Their decisions have cost lives.

[LexMitior]

@DippyAvocado

Don’t you understand that the new rule is that there is absolutely no accountability for anything and you can not even bother paying lip service to it?

I hope the media do keep tagging on the PM. Otherwise they will be irrelevant. The PM would much rather do all his media via his own people. Even then, there is only so much they can do to make him look and sound reasonable.

[CendrillonSings]

YABU.

The endless moaning has to stop at some point before the heat death of the universe consumes us all.

[Hingeandbracket]

If the journalists only asked questions that didn't suit me, I'd stop talking to them.
The Donald Trump School of "democracy"

[MonkeyToesOfDoom]

Ita like he government is an abusive and physically.violent partner.
They've lied to us, hurt us, gaslighted us and now expect us to move on and not mention it again.
I font think people will forget as easily as they hope.

[AgeLikeWine]

@Haffiana

This is a Prime Minister right at the beginning of a 4 year office. He is gambling that in 4 years, at election time, this will have been completely forgotten about.

He is correct of course. We will have forgotten. Problem is, that we will be in such full-on shit in 4 years time (Brexit, recession etc) that his party have no hope of getting re-elected.

Agreed.

What Johnson & Cummings are also doing is drawing a line in the sand to show the media that they will not be pushed around. They have proved that bullying the BBC works, now they are trying the same with the press.

[PseudoBadger]

That presser tonight was disgusting. Cutting off journalists mid question is not a good look.

[mondaynoon]

The endless moaning has to stop at some point before the heat death of the universe consumes us all.

Maybe the suffragettes should have stopped moaning about not having the vote. The women from Dagenham who fought for equal pay should have just moved on.

[CendrillonSings]

Eh? We all have a vote, and used it collectively in December to give Boris and the Conservatives a landslide. Everyone will have the opportunity to vote again in 2024.

[june2007]

Think he should have stepped down, but too much focus on him. I think we need to focus on other things. I think he well and truelly got the message. What would the police have done any way?

[pointythings]

Cendrillon so in your universe you get to vote in a General Election and then you have to shut up for 5 years and aren't allowed to voice any objection to anything the government does... And this applies whether or not you voted for said government.

A very odd definition of what democracy is.

[CendrillonSings]

Oh, you can say whatever you like between elections ... and the rest of us are allowed to say you’re boring the stuffing out of us. Free speech for everyone.

[Happygirl79]

I 100% agree with you OP
There will be no enquiry because Boris says its a waste of time (we're supposed to take his word for it)
He may as well have stuck two fingers up to us about the whole Dominic Cummings affair
He is more of a dictator than a PM
Arrogance at its highest degree from the pair of them
I am more furious than ever
Its an almighty cover up and not a good one either
Its a moral issue now and I will continue emailing my MP

[CendrillonSings]

He is more of a dictator than a PM

Yes, dictators often win large majorities in free and fair elections. Well-known fact, that

[BeatrixPottersAlterEgo]

Wtf has this guy got on them all

If Boris wasn't such a womaniser I'd honestly think they were having an affair

[JudyCoolibar]

I think we all need to move on and focus on more important matters

Torybots not needed.

[JudyCoolibar]

he rest of us are allowed to say you’re boring the stuffing out of us

So why exactly are you on this thread?

[PerkingFaintly]

I think he well and truelly got the message.

Yes. He got the message he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants. He got the message that he's untouchable.

Which he believed anyway (see his comments to journalists before his appalling use of the Downing Street garden for his statement). That's now been reinforced.

[BiggerBoat1]

The matter could have been closed if he'd sacked Cummings.

[DuesToTheDirt]

My blood is so boiled it's all evaporated.

[PotholeParadise]

Downing Street do not get to say this matter is closed. This is not a relationship.

Johnson is an MP and elected leader of a parliamentary party. He works for us, the people. We are his bosses, not his subjects.

You don't tell your bosses you're drawing a line under your latest fuck-up. We need to keep shouting.

[TooSadToSay]

Bit freaked out by the whole thing now tbh. What the hell has he got on BJ and the rest of the front bench? It's worrying that someone unelected clearly has so much power. This doesn't feel like BJ facing up to the press, it feels like he is desperately scrabbling because he can't do it without Cummings. I mean I knew he had influence, but is BJ just a puppet really?

[CendrillonSings]

So why exactly are you on this thread?

To tell you you’re boring the stuffing out of me. Duh!