Dominic Cummings

[bluethrunthru]

To be fair lockdown and the precautions are over with now sure. That's what Boris said tonight didn't he?

who the fuck knows? and thats the problem !

 

[mat]

To be fair lockdown and the precautions are over with now sure. That's what Boris said tonight didn't he?

Indeed.

I text my mate who runs a pub to say he might as well open now.

 

[mat]

Given that all of the front pages are out now, I’d say it’s probably not.

Maybe holding off for more rope?

We shall see.

The Boris sympathy bots are out in force on twatter and fb.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

I like the Hairy Bikers

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

I like the Hairy Bikers

Not a fan of the bald corona driver?

 

[johnnytapia]

A big part of being a civil servant is remaining apolitical in the face of provocation. The tweet was a failure in this respect, and they appeared to struggle during May's term with neutrality on brexit. The tweet today was not some sort of act of conscience by a whistleblower, it was a professional failure. Neutrality / confidentiality should be at the core of the civil service and the military. Once the military and civil service become politicised you risk a coup in extremis. This PM and govt are a shit show, but they are a democratically elected shit show that is above the commentary of some random civil servant. The fact that Cummings should not be near Govt and has no democratic mandate is another issue.

"Ordnung ist das halbe Leben".

 

[johnnytapia]

Who elected this guy and why does he have so much power and say over how the country is run?

Because, like Steve Bannon and his ilk, he's an election winning machine. He knows what gets votes. He masterminded the Leave win. He taps into the Zeitgeist and calculates what will play well with Joe Public. Hence, he's held in such high regard by Gove, Johnson and the Tory hawks. A flying fuck they could not give that he "broke the rules". Can he get them re-elected? That's all they'll be thinking about. We are truly moving ever closer to a Trumpian dystopia in this country. This pandemic has ripped Johnson clean bare of all the chutzpah, the rodomontade, the bravado - you can get away with that shit when it's an election. Not when it's a virus - viruses don't care about politics.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

"Ordnung ist das halbe Leben".

Boeuf a la mode

 

[bluemoon32]

This may be a minor point, but I'm going to put it out there; check how Dom the gutless is dressed, he is going to No10 for a will he wont he, chat with the guy who is supposed to be running the country, and he turns up in, a t-shirt and some what are they lounge trousers? All the signs of a man being asked to come in by someone who he sees as being beneath him in the organisation as a personal favour

 

[Vic]

A big part of being a civil servant is remaining apolitical in the face of provocation. The tweet was a failure in this respect, and they appeared to struggle during May's term with neutrality on brexit. The tweet today was not some sort of act of conscience by a whistleblower, it was a professional failure. Neutrality / confidentiality should be at the core of the civil service and the military. Once the military and civil service become politicised you risk a coup in extremis. This PM and govt are a shit show, but they are a democratically elected shit show that is above the commentary of some random civil servant. The fact that Cummings should not be near Govt and has no democratic mandate is another issue.

No politicisation of the military? Regimental briefings against Corbyn when he first became Labour leader? (Second hand but from a serving soldier.) But yes, they should both be neutral.