Westministenders: The Truth Isn't A Made Up Concept

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“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

Not George Orwell but often attributed to him. But a powerful statement with resonance nonetheless

PMK

The cavalier changes engineered by Cummings in the recent revisions to GCSE and A Levels (the first year to sit those exams had to live with the worst results in years). Now, we're living through the chaotic mismanagement of the pandemic led by the genius allegedly in love with science and big data. Most recently, we witnessed his belief in his exceptionalism in the Durham debacle and how he's the one deciding what the PM hears every day. None of these are filling me with confidence about how he's planning to manage our exit from the EU.

Mrs no, twas Cummings house. Mine is much more humble and northern so it won't matter

Starmer is playing a dignified and respectful hand atm. Allowing the loathsome twosome to be roasted on the spit of public opinion, as they fully deserve.

Or... I could just say what Yoikes said. Nail on head with that succinct summary

You're welcome

Yoikes I think we all get like that. I physically could not watch todays briefing. DH did, and said I was right to avoid it. He likes having a working TV and a wife that hasn't blown several gaskets.

Blackbird
My whole family have been negatively impacted by the shitstorm that Cummings and Gove brought to state school education.

Cummings is now bringing his black black black view to the whole country.

Yoikes is spot on

I'm considering buying a balaclava and standing on street corners yelling into the void.

Might as well. Would pass the time...

It's just incredible how someone who's managed to inflict so much misery on so many people is in charge of the country at a time of the greatest upheaval of the past 50 years. God, how did we get here.

I just feel so very sorry for the teachers/TAs that are being abused on so many threads over the last couple of weeks.
They can either risk their health and work in a bubble petri dish or work as normal 🤷🏻‍♀️ - either way it will be their fault if Petronella or Dominic becomes ill/fails a violin exam.

Thanks for that article @Snowjive2 - it's spot on.

Yes, it was clear the MP responding wasn't a Tory, Louise Collins.

The clear grasp of the facts and their implications in the current public health emergency made it very obvious.

In that quote DGR posted eleventy-five posts ago, it's quite telling that Sheldon says DC "thought he did what was best" rather than "did what he thought was best"...
Spot of cognitive dissonance there, Cllr Sheldon?

Lots of Edinburgh tenements have what might be called turrets, as shown (gratuitous excuse for me to go down memory lane...).
Never seen a bloody tapestry room, though.

We’ve been tossed the morsels of Track & Trace and ‘meeting in groups of 6’ - to divert us from Cummings. I hope the scientists okayed the latter; it’s less strict than the ‘double bubble’ measure we heard we’d get. (There could be 3 or more households in a group of 6.)

Began this epidemic sincerely wishing this government the best, now can't shake the feeling that everything being done is not to save lives but to move the story on from the behaviour of Dominic Cummings.

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My area is a nasty little bubble in the South Midlands of a high infection rate, and I don't think most locals know . We were one of the last areas to record a case , so there are high levels of complacency. The media narrative that it's over in the London area and worst in the North isn't helping. the easing of lockdown is worrying me . It was like Piccadilly in my village shop today.

In fact, the infection rate is the same as Durham's, so it's a local joke that if DC stopped it must have been at Toddington services.

Sir Roger Gale, member of the 1922 Committee, was just on Radio 4 The World Tonight.

He's hopping mad and thinks Cummings must go and Johnson has "squandered considerable political capital.' Said that the 1922 C'ttee will be meeting next week and if other members share his perspective, then it would be a very brave PM who ignored them.

Worth a listen, was on around 2215.

Just went out for a walk.
THere is nowhere to go of an evening so nobody is making a noise
except the one house that is regularly in the paper for breaking lockdown
No cars
No buses
No planes

The Dom effect is being offset by the Bollocks to Dom, I know what is sensible effect
{snigger}

Good. I’m glad I copied Graham Brady into my emails to my (fence sitting) MP.

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Small thing but Coronavirus - and the lack of government intervention, particularly with regard to planning and funding - has widened inequality between schools and thus between pupils.
I've been talking about it elsewhere but ... I just have to off-load.
People really have no idea - the lockdown makes it hard to compare your own experience and that if other people and there is so much other stuff going on.
But it's a huge issue - especially for any child due to dot exams next year.
Provision both during and after lockdown has and will vary enormously.
It's going to worsen inequality.

I could scream.

And we're heading for a no-Deal brexit, too, aren't we?

I keep thinking that this is a huge factor in why Cummings had to be kept, at all costs.

I have no insights into the current situation - irrespective of the actions of others - my eye is on my local ball.

I live in a District with one of the lowest R-rates in the UK (not Cornwall ). I have little doubt that this will change, as restrictions ease and many people, quite rightly, gravitate this way in need of some fresh air, etc.

I don't blame them for coming here (not too many oher places they can go) - I'lll just tighten up my 'measures' and ride it out.

Apparently the Brexit Negotiations are at an impasse, Fishing is involved - neither side is moving with both demanding the other side is flexible.

There's really not long to prevent No Deal - but of course let's focus on DC and Durham instead....

No Deal is not hard to avoid - BJ just needs to ask for an extension

There is not enough time for a deal

We should never roll over and accept one law for the powerful and one law for the rest of us

Nobody is that irreplaceable
especially not someone whose thought processes lead to an eye test of driving his family 30 miles

There's really not long to prevent No Deal - but of course let's focus on DC and Durham instead....

How can no deal be prevented Hate? Government is saying it won’t take any potential extension offered in its haste to Get Brexit Done? UK has left the EU and the Tories are in charge, so what can anyone else do?