Let's Get Political!

[pauld]

Thought this was quite good about why Johnson's cabal and the hard right money running the show behind them are so desperate to save Cummings

https://truepublica.org.uk/united-kingdom/dominic-cummings-a-cover-story-obscuring-something-far-darker/

[StfcRusty]

It is, she's not related to him. There's plenty of examples of nepotism under Cummings, not least the Track and Trace App contract being handed to one of his former Vote Leave cronies (which given their history of abusing data is in itself worrying, aside from the nepotism), but this isn't one of them

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-cummings-sister/fact-check-dominic-cummings-does-not-have-a-sister-working-for-the-it-solutions-company-idox-idUSKBN2322VB

Thanks Paul.  In that case I apologise to Cummings for the inference that he might have been involved in any shady dealings.

[pauld]

Thanks Paul.  In that case I apologise to Cummings for the inference that he might have been involved in any shady dealings.

tbf, I think you can trade this one in for all the dodgy shit we haven't found out about yet

[Batch]

soapy tit wank @ Chunkyhair..

Actually not soapy tit wank, its true. Bugger.

[pauld]

No idea how true this is, but an ex-Foreign Office official who still has some handy political connections apparently reckons George Eustice and Robert Buckland are two ministers putting a lot of pressure on over Cummings

"Hearing another minister has told Boris Johnson he will quit if Cummings stays.

A real ramping up of the pressure now.

@nicktolhurst
We now have (at least) two ministers:
George Eustice & Robert Buckland who have expressed their concerns “forcefully” to Nr. 10. regrading Dominc Cummings future position."

Whether that means Buckland has threatened to quit if Cummings doesn't go, who knows? I reckon Batch should write him a stiff letter

https://twitter.com/nicktolhurst/status/1265595287709548544

[pauld]

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/britain-eu-johnson-russian/

[horlock07]

As there is no PMQ's if you need a fix, Johnson is presently being skewered in the Liaison Committee.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-52815845

[brocklesby red]

So he’s seen loads of evidence that the allegations against Cummings are false but he can’t say what that is, says people are scoring party political points when it’s his own Tories that seem to be giving him the hardest time, says he doesn’t look at the scientific reports, just the main points. He really is not good under any sort of pressure

[horlock07]

"I've been forbidden from announcing any more deadlines," says the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom... Forbidden by whom he's the fucking Prime Minister!?

[pauld]

"I've been forbidden from announcing any more deadlines," says the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom... Forbidden by whom he's the fucking Prime Minister!?

He's not, he's a sock puppet.

[brocklesby red]

I can see why the PM doesn’t like appearing before this committee, he can’t brush off the questions like he does with journalists, these mps won’t let him off the hook so easily and insist on some detail. He certainly is being given an easy ride from his own party members

[Private Fraser]

I hope the Liaison Committee do the decent thing and find a really nice plate to hand him his ass on.

[brocklesby red]

I can see why the PM doesn’t like appearing before this committee, he can’t brush off the questions like he does with journalists, these mps won’t let him off the hook so easily and insist on some detail. He certainly is being given an easy ride from his own party members

Should have been ,he certainly isn’t being given an easy ride from his own party members

[pauld]

Should have been ,he certainly isn’t being given an easy ride from his own party members

Bernard Jenkin, the Johnson patsy they helicoptered in as committee chairman, deliberately excluded the ones they thought might give him a hard time as well. Are you sure they gave him a tough time or did he just make hard work of it? Didn't see it myself but from the sounds of it, he was floundering even on the easy stuff.

[brocklesby red]

I particularly liked Greg Clark and Jeremy Hunts contribution, obviously no love lost there. Greg Clark managing to get a dig in about Cummings while asking a question about Track and tracing of people who test positive for Covid 19, will they have to stay home or could they use their judgement