To think that "Princess Nut Nuts" is a rubbish insult?

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Honestly, if you're going to come up with a mean nickname for someone at least make it a good one. It sounds like something my young DS would come up with!

Have a feeling that Dom leaked the nickname to the press himself! Anyway I think there is far more to this story than meets the eye, for a start I’m not sure I even believe Carrie speaks to BoJo much anymore based on those holiday pics they released.

Interesting that the tittle tattle refers to calls and text messages from Carrie, not conversations with her fiancee.

I totally saw it as meaning she looks like a squirrel, which she does. A cute squirrel with expensive hair and clothes but a squirrel nevertheless.

What do we think about Boris now having to isolate?
It all just seems to get worse and worse.

I find it just a really odd thing for one adult to call another at all. It is the kind of thing my brother would have called me when we were about eight. As adults, we could think of many, many more funny and cutting nicknames than that (if we were that way inclined, which we aren´t).

I have heard being called "nuts" etc. used for both men and women, not something women specifically are called.

@oneglassandpuzzled

I thought the point about Cummings and Cain was that they weren’t public school types?

Dominic Mckenzie Cummings went to Durham School and Oxford

So public school

'A source told the Mail on Sunday that the nickname had been wrongly reported as 'Princess Nut Nuts'.

'It's Princess Nut Nut,' they said, before revealing that Ms Symonds' adversaries used the phrase so often during the general election that they started using an emoji of a princess followed by two peanuts instead of words in text messages.

Ms Symonds was reportedly labelled a 'princess' for what her foes claimed was regal behaviour while the 'nut' is believed to be a poor-taste joke about her being 'crazy'. [This bit has to be read out in a serious Chris Morris/Brass Eye voice]

Concerns have long been raised over the 'laddish' culture in Downing Street under Mr Cummings.

Aides use nicknames for each other such as 'Caino', 'Sonic' and 'Roxstar'.'

Caino? Caino is hardly a nickname. And who was getting the 'Roxstar' nickname out of this whole ugly (male and female) cabal. Laughable, the lot of them

@ViciousJackdaw

She's had sex with Boris Johnson, I'm really not surprised her sanity is in question.

I was going to say similar, but you put it so much better than I ever could @ViciousJackdaw!

RelightMyPfizer

Not all private schools are public school. My son went to a private boys' school but he isn't a public school boy.

And Oxford isn't a public school!
I went there and most certainly didn't go to a public school.

I think the point being made is Cummings is not some “man of the people”, he comes from an incredibly privileged background. As do most of this revolting government. Which is why it’s so laughable that they manage to give this “we understand you” vibe to those who have genuinely had to work for a living which none of them have had to do.

most oxford intake is from private school

@CoRhona

The joke's on this country, that's for sure.

'Left to his own devices, Boris will wander off from decisions and read Pliny or Pericles or eat or shag' Andrew Rawnsley in the Guardian

Just like Trump, it seems whoever was the last in their ears is the one they listen to.

Utter, utter fuckwits.

Boris will wander off from decisions and read Pliny or Pericles...

Go Boris! It’s hard to imagine Trump doing something as cerebral as this.

I'm no fan of Carrie but describing women has 'nuts' 'crazy' etc is incredibly misogynist - i.e. neurotic woman with no grip of reality - a tactic men use to denounce women. All of that said, she really shouldn't be as influential as she is but there we go - any semblance of democratic governance flew out the window as soon as Boris took office. Don't try to make everything misogyny, men get called nuts, nutter, nutjob all the time. Male partners of PMs also got stick in the press, was it OK for Mrs Thatcher and Mrs May to have support and views from a partner. Do you remember Dennis Thatcher being ridiculed as a hen pecked drunk? The Dear Bill column? Can we have a discussion about something without it being misogyny.

I totally saw it as meaning she looks like a squirrel, which she does. A cute squirrel with expensive hair and clothes but a squirrel nevertheless. That's interesting, I always thought she looked more like a chipmunk.

@Macncheeseballs

most oxford intake is from private school

68% of Oxford intake is started school.

State school.

And 70% of Cambridge intake is state school.

@oneglassandpuzzled

RelightMyPfizer

Not all private schools are public school. My son went to a private boys' school but he isn't a public school boy.

Durham is a public school, boarding and day school

It is one of the oldest schools in the country. Founded by the Bishop of Durham, Thomas Langley, in 1414, it received royal foundation by King Henry VIII in 1541 following the Dissolution of the Monasteries during the Protestant Reformation. It is the city's oldest institution of learning.

A public school in England and Wales is a fee-charging endowed school originally for older boys which was "public" in the sense of being open to pupils irrespective of locality, denomination or paternal trade or profession. The term was formalised by the Public Schools Act 1868,[1][2] which put into law most recommendations of the 1864 Clarendon Report. Nine prestigious schools were considered by Clarendon, and seven subsequently included in the Act.

I didn't suggest Oxford was a public school I was stating his education

42% of Oxford intake was from the independent sector in 2018- whereas about 7% of pupil are in independent schools at any point

I stand corrected, it isn't

St Paul's School and Merchant Taylors' School were omitted, as they argued successfully that their constitutions made them legally "private" schools and that their constitutions could not be altered by public legislation;[3][4][5] thus the act concerned itself with the other seven schools investigated by the Clarendon Commission:[6][7]

Charterhouse School
Eton College
Harrow School
Rugby School
Shrewsbury School
Westminster School
Winchester College

Princess Nut Nuts. Sounds like an insult an ornery child at an unsupervised soft play centre would shout out from the summit of a Little Tikes slide. In fact I think that's what's happened. I wonder if DC burned some rubber as he tore out of number 10 for the last time in his Little Tikes Cozy Coupe.

One layer on nut/s is she is holding BoJo by his...?

42% of Oxford intake was from the independent sector in 2018- whereas about 7% of pupil are in independent schools at any point

My figures are the 2020 entrance figures: 68% and 70% state school for Oxford and Cambridge, according to the BBC.

Of course Cummings would have been there much earlier on, so it’s academic anyway.

I think the point being made is Cummings is not some “man of the people”, he comes from an incredibly privileged background.

His father worked as an oil rig project manager and his mother was a teacher who specialised in behaviour. Not exactly aristocrats. Working in the oil industry is lucrative, so they could afford to send him to private school after state primary school, yes, but he's not upper class. You're kind of missing the point that he is very critical of the old-style public school Tories, and they hate him for trying to disrupt the system. I don't like him or his politics by the way, but you need to get your facts right.

In fairness, I'm quite sure they all have nasty nicknames for each other, nothing to do with misogyny at all