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Cummings evidence today

999 replies

Dirtystreetpie · 26/05/2021 09:57

Anyone listening?

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Changechangychange · 26/05/2021 14:09

The Barnard Castle stuff is obviously more rubbish to try to make himself look better. If he had thought of the “security threat” excuse in May, he’d have used it in the Rose Garden. I don’t believe it for a minute.

We do seem to be moving into “it’s all Princess Nut-Nut’s fault” territory here Hmm

iminthegarden · 26/05/2021 14:09

WHO still denied face-mask efficacy in March!!! Them and global scientists should've been more decisive from the start, govts new very little about what they should've have done at that point. The 2021 wave still hit hard despite an abundance of PPE and ventilators. Made very little difference, the virus is extremely virulent and wouldn't have been stopped in its tracks last year.

Blossomtoes · 26/05/2021 14:10

@DuncinToffee

Tweet by Adam Bienkov

Boris Johnson's spokesman doesn't deny the PM

  • Called Covid a scare story
  • Said UK shouldn't lockdown because Covid 'is only killing 80-yr-olds
  • Considered sacking Hancock
  • Wanted to get infected with Covid on TV

Says 'I'm not going to get into every allegation made today'

That’s quite telling. Must mean there’s evidence for those “allegations”.
MarshaBradyo · 26/05/2021 14:17

Fast legal procurement is a good point

SueSaid · 26/05/2021 14:17

@Cailleach1

He is rather less directly answering the questions asked as holding court and allowed to visit al the houses until he is where he wants to be.

The Dominic Cummings show.

This! What a load of meandering egotistical crap.

I keep checking if is still actually live he just seems to be on a loop of 'I'm sorry waaah I should've done more boo hoo, but it's all Hancock fault'

peachgreen · 26/05/2021 14:19

It's all very Kendall Roy publicly denouncing his father after he gets sacked, innit? All arseholes all round, but I'm still glad he's throwing them all under the bus because they deserve it.

the80sweregreat · 26/05/2021 14:25

'Lessons will be learned'
They never are though :(

Belindabelle · 26/05/2021 14:26

Oh Cummings will have evidence.

He will wait to see how his testimony has come over before making his next move. He wants to see how Johnson, NO10, the press and the public react before he goes further.

the80sweregreat · 26/05/2021 14:27

Will Matt Hancock resign?

DuncinToffee · 26/05/2021 14:28

More from No 10

PM has full confidence in Hancock after Cummings's claim he repeatedly lied in meetings

Boris Johnson's spokesman has been speaking to journalists and addressing some of the Dominic Cummings claims.

This is some of what's been said:

PM believes Matt Hancock has always told him the truth and they have been working closely together throughout the pandemic
He has full confidence in the health secretary
The PM won't engage with every claim made

Doesn't deny PM considered sacking him though.

FrankensteinIsTheMonster · 26/05/2021 14:28

Ay Zee vaccine? Hmm

fruityorange · 26/05/2021 14:28

@iminthegarden no they did not. They did not want the public buying masks and said the priority was for healthcare workers.
A lot of rewriting of history going on in these threads.

Changechangychange · 26/05/2021 14:28

@the80sweregreat

Will Matt Hancock resign?
Doubt it, why would he? We know Boris would never sack him 🤷‍♀️
SueSaid · 26/05/2021 14:29

'I should've done more', 'I should've pushed more' ad nauseam..

Why we they giving him so much time just answer the question and move on.

'Oh Cummings will have evidence.'

Of what though, I'm struggling to see what he has revealed other than opinions varied regarding timings etc.

tabulahrasa · 26/05/2021 14:29

Random and very minor...

Is that how Ebola is pronounced? Because that’s not how I say it...

FrankensteinIsTheMonster · 26/05/2021 14:29

@tabulahrasa

Random and very minor...

Is that how Ebola is pronounced? Because that’s not how I say it...

No.
MarshaBradyo · 26/05/2021 14:29

@the80sweregreat

Will Matt Hancock resign?
I very much doubt it

I also think DC has a personal agenda on him

It’d be a different story in reality

He’s trying so hard to paint himself in best light

MarshaBradyo · 26/05/2021 14:30

@JaniieJones

'I should've done more', 'I should've pushed more' ad nauseam..

Why we they giving him so much time just answer the question and move on.

'Oh Cummings will have evidence.'

Of what though, I'm struggling to see what he has revealed other than opinions varied regarding timings etc.

Me too

The winter peak was a good point it was just scuppered by reality of NHS limit, as new data came in

MaudBaileysGreenTurban · 26/05/2021 14:32

He has full confidence in the health secretary

Hancock's toast then.

SueSaid · 26/05/2021 14:33

He seems to be coming across as a scorned man with an axe to grind.

Of course none of it went smoothly last year but his narrative that he couldn't be heard or couldn't act and he's so very sorry just seems unbelievable.

viques · 26/05/2021 14:33

Just had an email from Suzanne Moore. Nothing personal I am signed up to them! She is writing about how useless Twitter is about dealing with the abuse women get, this is relevant because she too has been watching DC this morning.

I quote

“I am just watching Dominic Cummings give evidence.
When working for Gove , Cummings used to send me abuse on Twitter alongside his sidekick Henry de Zoete because I was critical of Grove’s education policies. This ended up with their mate James Delingpole tweeting rape threats to me .
I complained to a lawyer and that twat wrote a grovelling apology which I have somewhere. Just like Dom I too keep records.”

When Cummings looks soulful and says he doesn’t understand how this country ends up having to choose between Johnson and Corbyn he conveniently forgets that spiteful scratch my back chum opportunists like him depend on people like Johnson and Corbyn for their bread and butter and that moreover he only rose to great heights because he was, at the time, prepared to pick up Johnson’s shit with his bare hands.

I hope lots of people have kept records, proper records, not just Cummings recollections of “conversations” and vague memories of messages he might or might not be able to remember, or find, or be prepared to allow to be retrieved from his private phone .

BeastfromtheNorthEast · 26/05/2021 14:36

It's a bit embarrasing how in thrall Cummings is to his data guys. It's like he wants to hang out with the cool kids,sorry Dom you are one and the same as the old saddos in the establishment. In fact you've given them a firmer foothold. Congrats.

tabulahrasa · 26/05/2021 14:36

@FrankensteinIsTheMonster

Thanks... like I said random and minor, but it’s stopped me sitting here going, Ebola? Repeatedly in different ways Confused

GoldenOmber · 26/05/2021 14:38

I missed that bit, how did he pronounce Ebola?

(now saying it to myself. EBB-o-la? eb-OH-la?)

SueSaid · 26/05/2021 14:39

Eee- bow- la?

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