Why is Cummings goings?

[TwentyViginti]

Rat deserting the sinking ship? Pesonal damage control after the Durham fiasco? No longer wishing to be associated professionally with a failing PM?

www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/12/boris-johnson-on-last-chance-say-tory-mps-after-lee-cain-row

I'd say Cummings would rather not be around from 1st January 21 as he would have to answer for the shitstorm of Brexit, a monster he helped create.

The only reporting I read of Carrie cast her in quite a positive light; that she didn't support him being isolated from the party with only Cummings et al allowed to advise him. I thought it made her sound level headed.

From the former Financial Times editor Lionel Barber's new book of his diaries 'The Powerful and the Damned'

March 2016, Cummings and Vote Leave colleagues had lunch at the FT ahead of the referendum. Barber suggests that saving £350m a week (the Vote Leave Brexit claim), even if true, would be a drop in the ocean compared to the cost of Brexit. The diary goes on:

Cummings says he has no idea what damage such a shock might do. The figure is unknowable and the ordinary person in the street would have little understanding anyway.

The enormity of the faux pas sinks in. Cummings, momentarily flummoxed, says: “This conversation is off the record, right?”

I could throw him overboard but offer a lifeline of sorts. “That’s okay, Dominic, we have lots of people come to the FT and show contempt for ordinary people.”

He and Lee Cain went behind the PM's back and leaked to the press that a second lockdown was happening, befor the PM had made the final decision, in order to bounce the PM into doing it. For both Boris and Carrie, this was the final straw.

Definitely rat leaving sinking ship - Brexit is going to be grim, Covid is a disaster and at some point the £££ contracts handed out to friends has to hit the courts.
I'm sure he will be controlling the rhetoric rather than Johnson actually making a decision though, Carrie's influence or not.
Probably has something else lined up.

@Wildswim

He and Lee Cain went behind the PM's back and leaked to the press that a second lockdown was happening, befor the PM had made the final decision, in order to bounce the PM into doing it. For both Boris and Carrie, this was the final straw.

Wildswim where did you hear this?

I didn’t know he was so pro lockdown

I don’t care why Demonic Cummings is going. I am just glad that he’s going.

Read it in Daily Telegraph which has its ear on the ground wrt the Tory party.

Since catching Covid, Cummings has been very pro-lockdowns.

@Wildswim makes it all the more ironic that he didn’t personally comply with the stay at home instructions and his actions kickstarted a lot of the non-compliance with lockdown!

He's probably not enjoyed throwing his weight around as much since becoming a national laughing stock. It's a shame he's leaving on his own narcissistic terms. He should have got the shove a long time ago.

Hopefully he fucks back off to Epsilon 5.

He's gone. Chose to walk out of the front door in front of the press with his rucksack and cardboard box, he could have gone out of the back door. Look at meeeeee.

Why should he go out by the back door?

@SoupDragon

Why should he go out by the back door?

Wasn't he the hired help?

He can use any door he chooses. He chose the one that gets him the most attention.

There must be fifty ways to leave your PM
Fifty ways to leave your PM
You just slip out the back, Jack
Make a new plan, Stan
You don't need to be Coy, Roy
Just get yourself free
Go back where you're from Dom
You don't need to discuss much
Just drop off the key, Lee Cain
And get yourself free

He’s gone gone? Thought he was going at end of the year.

I will drink to that. He can lie doggo all he likes now.

I hope this means an end to No 10 making unilateral decisions and a return to governance through parliament including cross-party working groups on the pandemic and climate control.

Trump and now Cummings gone hoorah!

It’s all a distraction. He planned to go before no-deal Brexit anyway. Walking out the front door with his cardboard box is pure theatre and allows Boris to relaunch himself after a disastrous year. “Look! I do care about free school meals and dead Granny’s really! It was all that mean Svengali Cummings who advised me so badly”.

I wonder where he will go next ?

@frumpety

I wonder where he will go next ?

A job with his father in law probably.

Rishi 😂😂😂

I can't help but smell a (deserting) rat...🤔

Leaving before the s*t show he was integral in creating - Brexit truly hits the fan in Jan. I'm in NI and no idea what will happen. Thanks - a man of true integrity.

@the80sweregreat Oh do you think so ? Will he live up to the Wakefield motto, Be just and fear not ?

Apparently he's going because he called Carrie Symonds Princess Nut Nuts. Not because he's an incompetent bully who thinks the law doesn't apply to him and who has spent months funnelling government contracts to his cronies, that's all absolutely fine.