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Post by londonpostie on May 25, 2020 7:37:52 GMT
You know.what will happen. He will eventually get sacked or resign and then Boris will reemploy him cash in hand and they will do all their business via Zoom and the public will never know. Whatever you think about his personality and what he did, Cummings is very special - the country needs many things and one of them is fundamental reform of the civil service. There is no one else you would want to shape that. He might be a fu$kwit and crap human being but he is the Lionel Messi in this Government. Without his mind, policy and reform will lose levels of potential, and the country would be much worse off in other long-term, even generational respects.
It's also true that Johnson and his second-rate team will be lost, so I'm sure there will be a way found for Cummings to *virtually* remain involved.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2020 7:53:14 GMT
In fact the more i think in my sleep deprived state that Boris will have to go. If there is a second lockdown needed in the future he now has no moral authority anymore. We will need someone else in place that at least we can have an illusion of trusting That is one of the most extraordinary things. The longer Cummings stays, the more it seems Boris will have to go too. Now I'm admit I'm not so familiar with politics that I'd know what would happen if Boris resigned. He'd remain in place until another Conservative leadership contest concluded, so even if he does resign (which I doubt), his obstinacy yesterday has bought him until close to Christmas at least given you have to factor in the summer recess. Cummings has to go though, anyone with any level of common sense can see his position is untenable. |
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Post by NeilVHughes on May 25, 2020 8:38:20 GMT
Susie Dent word of the day:
It’s that time again. A mumpsimus (16th century) is someone who refuses to budge/insists that they are right, despite clear evidence that they are wrong. Plural: mumpsimuses.
A freebie for a budding James Graham penning their magnum opus and were in need of a title.
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Post by Mark on May 25, 2020 9:13:29 GMT
In fact the more i think in my sleep deprived state that Boris will have to go. If there is a second lockdown needed in the future he now has no moral authority anymore. We will need someone else in place that at least we can have an illusion of trusting A second lockdown wouldn’t be followed. This whole thing is a sham |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on May 25, 2020 10:13:03 GMT
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Post by bordeaux on May 25, 2020 10:26:02 GMT
You know.what will happen. He will eventually get sacked or resign and then Boris will reemploy him cash in hand and they will do all their business via Zoom and the public will never know. Whatever you think about his personality and what he did, Cummings is very special - the country needs many things and one of them is fundamental reform of the civil service. There is no one else you would want to shape that. He might be a fu$kwit and crap human being but he is the Lionel Messi in this Government. Without his mind, policy and reform will lose levels of potential, and the country would be much worse off in other long-term, even generational respects.
It's also true that Johnson and his second-rate team will be lost, so I'm sure there will be a way found for Cummings to *virtually* remain involved.
He's not Lionel Messi. He's Eddie the Eagle. Why do we need fundamental reform of the civil service? So Cummings can bring it lots of like-minded believers in the genetic inferiority of the poor and race science? The man is a destructive idiot who has already done staggering amounts of damage. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2020 14:45:29 GMT
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jun 11, 2020 17:07:09 GMT
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Post by Someone in a tree on Jul 2, 2020 12:52:21 GMT
Apologies for not updating this thread sooner, I was too busy admiring.  |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 19, 2020 7:10:33 GMT
Screen grabs from two papers this morning. Oh where is our great leader?   |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 11:26:42 GMT
Screen grabs from two papers this morning. Oh where is our great leader? Not a paper I would go out of my way to read but the Daily Star’s front pages recently have been genuinely clever and caustically funny. |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 19, 2020 11:44:03 GMT
Absolutely. I feel a bit dirty for agreeing with you 😂
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Post by lynette on Aug 19, 2020 21:38:52 GMT
I love the word ‘omnishambles’. It combines classical learning and good old fashioned English. In olden times, the ‘shambles’ was the place where animals were slaughtered and butchered. There is a street called the shambles in Worcester that I know. Perfect word.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 20, 2020 5:18:23 GMT
York also has a beautiful ye olde street called The Shambles. Id prefer it not to be confused with BJ the clown...
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 21, 2020 8:46:04 GMT
And he is actually on holiday! I'm sure he very welcome in Scotland Good on the Mail for bashing him  |
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Post by lynette on Aug 21, 2020 17:13:41 GMT
The tent is for his ego. Maybe Carrie likes to put that outside. Look, he should have a holiday; he was poorly enough for hospital. The pity is his so called cabinet are not anywhere near good enough to steer the ship.
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 21, 2020 17:25:07 GMT
Very unlike Boris, it all looks very camp!!
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Post by djp on Aug 27, 2020 20:50:33 GMT
The tent is for his ego. Maybe Carrie likes to put that outside. Look, he should have a holiday; he was poorly enough for hospital. The pity is his so called cabinet are not anywhere near good enough to steer the ship. I think its a generational thing. Labour recently has been worse, or little better. There's a culture that's not good at detail, spotting issues , or rapid decision making , A wave of departures of the brightest from politics from both front benches in 2015-19 , didn't help. Johnson made it worse by sidelining both the Hunt and May supporters, and Starmer kept some of his most experienced and smarter people out of his shadow cabinet - like Yvette Cooper- possibly to get a less Blairite look , and to avoid them overshadowing him.
Gone are the days of top flyers ,people with external carrer success, and people who had succeeded in long treks through the ministerial ranks- and long gone are the days of cabinets that had learnt crisis management in wartime. And so what you have now knows enough not to go against its medical advice , which may be wrong, but its no good at the detail of the wider policy response . They also don't know what on earth algorithms mean and haven't got the sense to ask the right questions.
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Post by vdcni on Aug 27, 2020 21:54:18 GMT
I mean it's an interesting take to criticise politicians for not having outside careers behind them or not good on detail but still taking pot shots at Starmer who fills both those points.
And there's plenty of evidence that this government has ignored scientific advice.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 2, 2020 5:52:20 GMT
Just when you think he can't get any more warm and cuddly BBC News - Coronavirus: Boris Johnson 'heartless' for not meeting bereaved families www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53994162 |
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 14, 2020 14:25:48 GMT
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Post by theglenbucklaird on Sept 14, 2020 17:04:29 GMT
Makes sense why Starmer has gone missing, he wanted to cede to Ed Miliband for this debate so Miliband could serve up Johnson and regrout the walls of Westminster with the prime minister |
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Post by Someone in a tree on Sept 15, 2020 15:09:08 GMT
Our great leader ...  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2020 15:38:06 GMT
The birds look smarter than he does.
(Determining whether I mean "tidier" or "more intelligent" is left as an exercise for the reader.)
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Post by Someone in a tree on Oct 4, 2020 8:09:27 GMT
A couple of screen grabs of two of today's front pages   |
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