This is just so insulting to the public’s intelligence. pic.twitter.com/WVH3YmVqRj— Ash Sarkar (@AyoCaesar) May 26, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 09:22 (four years ago) link
They are all complicit in this and it’s time to prove it beyond reasonable doubt.
― santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 bookmarkflaglink
This is proved about 10 times a day every day on a number of issues. Yet to see any consequences.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 09:23 (four years ago) link
This is humiliating.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 09:24 (four years ago) link
Make that man PM
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 09:27 (four years ago) link
ppl are like "careful what you wish for, we might have a Gove govt" and my stance is well, we'll have a terrible fucking tory govt no matter what, at least a Gove one would provide more genuine lols
(open to being schooled on what Gove would be more damaging on than Boris/Cummings are tho)
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 09:28 (four years ago) link
He proposed that central govt 1) expropriate all state schools and the land they are built from the local councils who run them and 2) hand them to the private academy sector for free
is the thing I keep remembering about his ambitions as education secretary. I mean, at least the Russian govt got nominal market rates from its cronies in the form of bribes when it sold off USSR assets. The man's a craven idiot
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link
"prof"
We're at quite a pivot point/historic hinge here. If nothing happens and we all move on, then political accountability in this country - at least between, if not actually at, elections - is essentially over. Anybody in a position of power will be able to do pretty much anything.— Tim Bale (@ProfTimBale) May 26, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link
Johnson is terrible news but fundamentally lazy and wants to be loved, which are two massive opportunities for an opposition. Gove is neither, and he's damagingly stupid in that Thatcherite way. Coupled with Cummings he managed to wreak some enormous damage at Education: the curriculum is still suffering as a result.But he'd be yet another unelected PM, presumably without Cummings at first, and with Brexit waiting to murder him, so I think we'd be OK for a spell.
― stet, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 09:35 (four years ago) link
Gove is more dangerous than Johnson ideologically. Johnson more dangerous on a practical level.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 09:54 (four years ago) link
anvil became the story, very unprofessional
― imago, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 09:58 (four years ago) link
Never, ever expect heroics from backbench Tory MPs but they can generally be relied upon to do what it takes to save their own skins. There are a lot of them on thin majorities with absolutely livid constituents right now. "No one will give a shit by the next election" depends heavily on whether you're sitting on a majority of 80 seats or 200 votes. So the number of Tory MPs who pipe up now matters.
It's very evident by now that the PM has decided that Cummings is still more of an asset than a liability to the government but it would be a gigantic mistake for anyone to rely on the unwavering loyalty of Boris Johnson so everything depends on where that line is. I think it's quite likely that Cummings will just be able to ride this out - assuming there are no more revelations, and he has made too many enemies within the civil service, the British establishment and the wider country to prevent anything else coming to light.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 10:34 (four years ago) link
He was shockingly unlucky to have been spotted and recognised by random members of the public if they were his only two trips out of the house.
The fun will really start if proof comes to light, as is suspected, that half the cabinet were all at it too.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 10:39 (four years ago) link
I would prefer Gove as PM, because it would represent failure and humiliation for scumbag BJ. And because I would be slightly more confident about Labour beating Gove.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 10:45 (four years ago) link
I mean, the head on him. Even if you didn’t know who he was, you’d remember seeing him. He’s a gift to investigators, between his head and the way he dresses.
― gyac, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 10:46 (four years ago) link
that head on him in full
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2Fa2%2Fa7%2Fbe%2Fa2a7be3d6405c7deea282b1ca0440b6b.jpg&f=1&nofb=1
― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 10:48 (four years ago) link
I heard Sarah Vine once describing him as an alpha-male and suddenly i felt like Cary Grant
― calzino, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 10:49 (four years ago) link
sniper's dream amirite
― Boris the Spreader (NickB), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 10:50 (four years ago) link
If I was a Tory govt doing a points matrix of Pathetic arse licking client journalists Pesto would score pretty low for his inability to ask a simple and direct question when that is all that is required. He's a fucking mess!
Precisely but let's not let that get in the way of allowing anvil perform his customary "You might think that but..." routine.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 10:51 (four years ago) link
This fiasco just mirrors the pandemic response as a whole - if you fuck it up at the beginning, any further attempt at justification just digs a deeper and deeper hole. All they can do now is front it out, which they may well manage to do. Still, a thinker like Cummings only comes along once in a generation, so why sacrifice the opportunity of bathing in his superior intellect for the sake of a few junior minister resignations?
― some infected evening (Matt #2), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 10:52 (four years ago) link
sarah vine providing vital outreach to incels by showing that no matter how much of a disgusting mutant you are, no matter how vile your views, someone out there will find you hot
― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 10:53 (four years ago) link
That cuts both ways there tbh.
― gyac, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:08 (four years ago) link
I still think it was more of an achievement for Gove to find someone who agreed to have sex with him tbh.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:13 (four years ago) link
i'm still o_O at the way he kept talking about the inaccurate reports in the press where the problem seemed to be that he hadn't made an unnecessary 5 hour trip in his car after being exposed to coronovirus at work to visit his parents as reported, he'd actually made an unnecessary 5 hour trip in his car after being exposed to coronovirus at work to visit his *niece*.
that gove interview.
― koogs, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:21 (four years ago) link
lol owned
My mum: “Are you going to be doing more stuff defending Cummings”. Me: “Yes”. My mum: “Then you’re an idiot”. So that’s going well then...— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) May 26, 2020
― gyac, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:31 (four years ago) link
get Dan Hodges's mum on Twitter
― Children of Bo-Dom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:33 (four years ago) link
OK I hadn't realised he was Glenda's boy, must be a tense lockdown
― some infected evening (Matt #2), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:35 (four years ago) link
Glenda Jackson OTM. She must have spent the past decade silently dying of embarrassment.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:36 (four years ago) link
Glenda iirc was very in line with Corbyn in many of her views? But yeah, the double Oscar winner and her large adult (still living at home) idiot son is a lockdown I’d pay to watch.
"Why is Dan in a newsagents buying Lynx" you wonder. Therein lies a tale. My mum: "When you're out, get me some cigarettes". Me: "I'm your only child. If I make an extra trip I may catch the virus". Mum: "With the sacrifices I've made you don't want to go there". I buy the fags.— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) April 24, 2020
― gyac, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:39 (four years ago) link
Got to get around to watching 'Women in Love' one of these days..
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:41 (four years ago) link
Lads if you want a few laughs this afternoon search the word mum on his account, you could write a dissertation on the material.
― gyac, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:42 (four years ago) link
Big LJ energy here (he’s talking about cricket)
My wife got a bit angry with me because I was listening so intently I started to drive away from RHS Wisley with my mum still hanging out the side of the car...— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) August 27, 2019
― gyac, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:44 (four years ago) link
Hodges has also been busy in the Mail supporting Farage's attempts to get the government to sink boats of people crossing the Channel. Maybe Glenda doesn't mind that.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:44 (four years ago) link
i'd've disowned the cunt long ago not joking
― Children of Bo-Dom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:46 (four years ago) link
Glenda Jackson was in the Blair government for a couple of years but those early cabinets were quite different to the later ones. She was probably closer to the likes of Robin Cook and Mo Mowlam than Corbyn (but probably to the left of both).
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
if hodges had been given the ilx hazing treatment aged 19-30 he might've turned out like me 😇
― imago, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
I like to think Glenda is sitting there smoking and drinking, regardless of the hour, only acknowledging Dan when she absolutely has to.
@Ginabellman You think that's bad. I recently found out my mum has been spelling my middle name wrong for 47 years...— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) March 9, 2016
― gyac, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:48 (four years ago) link
wait is he 50 omg
― imago, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:49 (four years ago) link
ahhahaha he is FIFTY
This is how I feel realising you’re only a couple of years younger than me.
― gyac, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:51 (four years ago) link
:o
― imago, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:51 (four years ago) link
One MP has received 1,000 emails overnight complaining about Dominic Cummings. I’m told this extract is typical of most of them. MPs worried this is causing irreparable damage. pic.twitter.com/O3ZJbYpUZw— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) May 26, 2020
― gyac, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:52 (four years ago) link
sorry your culture-war dog-whistle didn't work
NEW - YouGov poll59% think Dominic Cummings should resign (up from 52% at the weekend) pic.twitter.com/h0Jxch9poJ— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) May 26, 2020
― stet, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 11:59 (four years ago) link
#AccidentalPartridge pic.twitter.com/GJrLC6tzA4— Accidental Partridge (@AccidentalP) May 26, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:09 (four years ago) link
lol
Downing Street lobby briefingNo10 spokesman said that when they said Dominic Cummings was “at home” through April, he didn’t actually know where he was and just knew he wasn’t at work. “It was very obvious at the time that what I was setting out was that he wasn’t at work”. 🧐— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) May 26, 2020
― gyac, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:09 (four years ago) link
Read that as Dominic Cummings didn't actually know where he was - which would explain the phone conversation with Johnson that neither could remember any details of.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
I must admit I can absolutely believe Cummings shitting himself, freaking out and losing his marbles when he thought he had the 'rona.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
That's pretty much what happened.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
Looks like it. Have a word with him, Tracer Hand.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:33 (four years ago) link
That would have been totally survivable though – "I panicked when I got the Rona and made a bad mistake and I'm sorry" would have more than done the job (and might have covered the birthday trip when it inevitably came up). It's the arrogance that's done for him
― stet, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:39 (four years ago) link
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:39 (four years ago) link