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You set your sights low, by my reckoning, you'd be £3 richer, maybe £4 by the time I press submit!
Razzoo
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It's a pint!
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
It’s all in the Public domain. The news outlets are full of it.
The funniest thing is that the full extent was known by some sections of the press but they only revealed part of it. The cabinet ministers left to Cummings defence etc etc
Then the press revealed he had done it twice going back to London in the meantime.
Even the Spectator, his wife’s employer, has piled in.
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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Not true, clearly from the number 10 statement it was his wife who only had symptoms at the time.
..Owing to his wife being infected with suspected coronavirus and the high likelihood that he would himself become unwell
A likelihood increased by travelling a long distance in an enclosed space with a potentially infected person and this is the important point.
He has increased the likelihood of himself and his child being infected. He would know that having sat on the SAGE committee.
But that didn't happen did it, else his relatives would have traveled to him.
Cummings has completely re-written the rules: If a member of your family has symptoms, but you currently have not - you can drive to the other end of the country in case both of you eventually have it and need child care.
It's nonsense anyway. He's currently the second most powerful person in the Government and would have had a number of options available to him.
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Badger Boy
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- Jan 28, 2016
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In all seriousness, I don't like the man. He seems like an odious little man running around behind the scenes basically determining policy without going through any public vetting.
But the media hysteria about this "story" is pathetic. It's another case of the media deciding what to report and generating news rather than reporting on it. They have time to fill, so they've picked a story of no importance whatsoever and it's shameful. They realise the country are now bored of the wall to wall Covid-19 overreaction and now they need something new to feed them. Disgraceful.
But the media hysteria about this "story" is pathetic. It's another case of the media deciding what to report and generating news rather than reporting on it. They have time to fill, so they've picked a story of no importance whatsoever and it's shameful. They realise the country are now bored of the wall to wall Covid-19 overreaction and now they need something new to feed them. Disgraceful.
Happy to take your point on Brexit. I haven't seen all of DC's doorstep with the press today so wasn't aware he'd referenced the B-word. And I am sure there is nothing more he would like more than this very straightforward issue of crass hypocrisy and arrogance to be obscured by a re-run of the Brexit arguments. That works for him. I guess he's lots of things but he's not stupid.
But the point about racism 100% stands but I know you wouldn't have an issue with that anyway.
I think you may have confused Brexit per se, which has relevance to how we got here and The Brexit Thread which is full of the same dozen or so diehards insulting each other.
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To be fair, I understood his mother needed help organizing her 71st birthday party, allegedly!!!
Agreed......clearly not much else negative on the Covid front to report......
The thought had crossed my mind. The question is what would get rid of this ghastly life-shortening criminally negligent 'government' the most quickly? One thing that is certain is the tories won't go to the pipple (first quiz question, which tory leader pronounced 'people' like that? And who wrote his rabid failure of a manifesto?) until they think they can win. That will be at the last minute before never by the look of it. So we are in for a five year term.
So do we want Boris to stay or go as leader of the party?
I fear that if Boris loses Cummings he may wilt like a stick of celery left in the sun, and move on to money and pasture new. Then the tories would elect someone more competent and less charismatic. Win for the country, so I'm in.
If Cummings stays it means he will have shown he is a winner, and only if the media decide to kill him will the house of fun collapse. It's a 'no' from me.
It may take a Major Tom moment to oust this shit, Cummings, though. Perhaps if the nation's favourite 'sir' (with apologies to [MENTION=3385]crodonilson[/MENTION] for mining the valley of bathos) might raise an eyebrow or more and Boris may feel a bit of shame....sorry, no, what was I thinking, and I have hardly had anything to drink. Yet.
And the longer it goes on the more time we have to forget......no I'd like Cummings gone now. Partly for the same reason that if a cat shits on my lawn I get the shovel out, and dispatch it yonder. We don't want shit lying about. Not even lying shit. And if he drags Boris with him it would be even more pleasing. Actually the country needs it. Trumpian dystopia just doesn't work in the UK.
- Jul 10, 2003
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LOL
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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I haven't confused anything at all and not sure that "closing ranks" is a good look today. The comment about the Brexit Thread was clearly separated into two points:
On point (a) You can't separate Brexit from anything Cummings does or says. He isn't able to himself and that was the point I was making. On a wider point they are clearly parallels with his "it's up to the individual" lock-down defence with the neo-liberal position than underpins Brexit.
On point (b) There clearly are racist posters on NSC both past and present. NSC generally takes the line they will "argued out" and looked stupid within the "debate". I tend to agree with that position generally (because racists are generally stupid) although in the past I would argue there has a little bit of self-indulgence allowing the more "intelligent" racists to post for far too long. That of course is a personal view.
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Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
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They appear to be so craven that even if they found him hanging out the back of their old nan they'd still ask him if he needed a cushion to kneel on, and if he fancied a cup of tea and a slice of cake.
Actually until one of our more rabid knee jerk dimbots on here holds his soppy hands up and admits that enough is enough, signalling a sea change in dimbot thinking, the grimmer twins (Boris Jagger and Dom Richards) will soldier manfully on.
cjd
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Ha ha! Most certainly not.
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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Absolute bonkers new response from Number 10 (sorry Cummings)
Pure Trump and now accusing the Guardian and the Mirror of "fake news".
They've forgotten two very important points
1) The UK press is overwhelmingly right wing. Even the Mail and the Spectator are running stories that make Cummings look like a hypocritical dick.
2) Irrespective of their paper's "political position", Journalists close ranks too. We saw that today in the press conference.
Pure Trump and now accusing the Guardian and the Mirror of "fake news".
They've forgotten two very important points
1) The UK press is overwhelmingly right wing. Even the Mail and the Spectator are running stories that make Cummings look like a hypocritical dick.
2) Irrespective of their paper's "political position", Journalists close ranks too. We saw that today in the press conference.