Westminstenders: Magical Thinking

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This week has seen reports of the government editing footage of Johnson to avoid embarrassing questions about the early government response.

We've been asked to accept that the rules were different to what we were told to excuse the law breaking behaviour of a senior government advisor. As Johnson said he was being a responsible father (as if Johnson knows what this is) and it wasn't as if he was visiting a lover (this Johnson would know all about). Let's be honest Johnson is the master of brazening out controversy.

We also have the ERG complaining they were lied to by Gove about the new Withdrawal Agreement and the border in the Irish Sea which surprises precisely no one else.

They appear to be a little upset by the Cummings debarkable too.

Appropriate Music:

Well I would drive five hundred* miles
And I would drive five hundred* more
Just to be the man who brings the Covid-19
Right down at your door.

*....and twenty.

I think the imperial March from star wars would be appropriate....

Indeed yoikes I beat you to it I think. 😂

Is not providing a time just another way of fucking with us all? Just to show he’s still in control.

Is not providing a time just another way of fucking with us all? Just to show he’s still in control.

We're subjects not citizens, and you would be well advised to bear that in mind ....

I am so angry , pissed off, fucked off .
I didn't watch BJ statement last night as we have just bought a new telly and can't afford to replace that.....

And then this thing about "Goings" statement- I am outraged about that - who the fuck does he, and everyone around him think he is...... he is answerable to the police, a judge and his Boss. He is not a fucking elected official - or the King..... it is just wrong.

As for his son being autistic- big fucking deal - I know, personally two families really struggling with lockdown with there autistic kids - both who have had to fight tooth and nail (with v expensive lawyers) just to try and get them some sort of education. It's fucking outrageous........

I should say expensive lawyers that they could barely afford.....
one now volunteers at a charity to help families with SEN children - and those who can't afford lawyers are fucked, completely fucked - and that the situation the tories have created. (I know not this government- but they have all been around like a bad smell haven't they)

To try and garner sympathy from people over having a SEN child - when there polices are so fucking obstructive......

I wonder if it will be a better version of what he said to the press yesterday "It's not about what YOU think that matters, is it?"

Telling that no one else will stand in to deflect any more though.
I guess they are worried enough about threats to his life not to set a time/place.

Anyone remember this story from about a week ago that the North East had a higher R value than most of the country?

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/15/regional-differences-in-covid-19-transmission-rate-emerge-in-england

I wondered why at the time

Back in the day, Dom was all for "accountability", and "a culture of
openness and facing errors"

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/donald-macintyres-sketch-the-mekon-dominic-cummings-thinks-dan-dare-tactics-would-knock-the-civil-9883122.html
25 November 2014
'Contrasting the extraordinary effectiveness of the airline industry with
what he sees as the chronic record of failure in Whitehall, Dominic
Cummings has painted a striking picture of the sort of accountability
culture he would like to see imposed on civil servants.

"Because the pilot goes down with the plane... he’s very strongly
incentivised to develop a culture of openness and facing errors. If you
don’t face reality, then you die. In the Department for Education if you
don’t face reality, you get promoted just the same."

Wrinkles linking that to Dominant is beyond worrying.
Where else has the bastard been?

Apparently Cummings statement at 4pm (originally 3pm but moved)

So, Cummings sister is a director of Idox, the company given the contract for track and trace app. She lives in Durham.

This is very interesting indeed. What is your source please DGRossetti?

Glaxo Smithkleine, the company sharing the contract to develop a covid vaccine are based in Barnard Castle

I think GSK have 10 UK sites. Is it confirmed that the Barnard Castle site is associated with the development of the covid vaccine, does anyone know?

In the Rose garden in Downing Street apparently.

He's not doing the briefing too, surely?

I've just come in for some cool air and to watch and now it's moved back to 4pm. dammit

Isn’t the autism story an unsubstantiated twitter rumour?

Gotta love Gary Lineker:

mobile.twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/1264620641296277505

So, Cummings sister is a director of Idox, the company given the contract for track and trace app. She lives in Durham.

This is very interesting indeed. What is your source please DGRossetti?

www.idoxgroup.com/archive/idox-partners-with-nhs-on-health-tech-to-streamline-covid-19-testing/

beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03984070/officers

CUMMINGS, Alice Sarah Louise

Correspondence address
2nd Floor, Waterside 1310, Arlington Business Park, Theale, Reading, RG7 4SA

Role ACTIVE
Director

Date of birth
November 1963

www.businesscloud.co.uk/news/listed-public-sector-software-firm-announced-new-ned

Piggy
there's a note on the PHE website re: yesterdays figures:

"The daily count under the new deaths measure (deaths in all settings) is 53 lower than the old measure (deaths in hospital). This is because some hospital deaths in the hospital-only data will include individuals who have already been included in the composite all settings count. Individual deaths that have already been reported in the all settings figures on previous days are not counted again."

Deaths in Hospitals = 171
Deaths in All settings = 118

that might explain why both of us saw different figures being reported before the BoZo show.

Starting to get a sneak preview of some press questions for Dom:

Laura Kuenssberg: Dominic, what is your favourite colour?

I do think BJ has found out too late that the job he's always wanted is actually a teensy bit more time-consuming and requires just a little bit more attention than he is willing to give.

If you recall, his real original ambition was to be "King of the World" - which wouldn't have involved the amount of work required by a PM

Thank you for those sources DGRossetti.

How very murky...are these facts being discussed in uk press? Has anyone raised concerns?

Dom at 16.00 and BJ at 17.00?

Are they really this dim?

"Right, so you've had all your questions answered, so let's talk about trams and getting back to school...."

Atty General Cruella Braverman says Dom has broken no rules.

(Thus ending any prospect of a prosecution.)

How does she know he hasn't broken any rules? Is it because he says he hasn't?