Really? He seems to be keeping that on message
Asked if he was going to consider resigning following accusations he broke lockdown rules, Dominic Cummings said "obviously not."He added "You guys are probably as right about that as you are about Brexit, remember how right you were?"More: https://t.co/GnNiZQOga6 pic.twitter.com/oSLZwyxy7v— SkyNews (@SkyNews) May 23, 2020
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 23 May 2020 18:59 (four years ago) link
Lame. Again Trumplike.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
Yeah ico otm - he is trying that tactic in the video but it is going to fail. Leavers have also been following the rules (mostly).
― stet, Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:06 (four years ago) link
Of course he isn't going to resign, the question is whether he becomes so much of a liability that he gets fired and that depends on Johnson.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:07 (four years ago) link
read some fucking Tetlock you clueless cunts isn't cutting it anymore!
― calzino, Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:08 (four years ago) link
I don't think I'd really believed he held quite this much authority until now and I suspect a lot of people are having the same realisation
― plax (ico), Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
Johnson’s party position not that strong - ratings were already sinking before this.
― stet, Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
The galaxy brain take is that he leaked this himself to ensure everyone knows he's in charge.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
I’d like to see ol doms cumming wriggle his way out of THIS jam
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
His party political position among Tory MPs isn't that strong but if he is forced to go now it looks like THEY'VE fucked up. It's exactly what keeps mediocre out of their depth executives in jobs for a year minimum.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
also it re-ignites the war for succession
― mark s, Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
Telling use of 'probably' in that Cummings quote.
― nashwan, Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:34 (four years ago) link
lol lashing out at our...famously pro-Remain media
― nashwan, Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:35 (four years ago) link
“We were simply keen to visit Durham, with its famous castle and cathedral which has a 66m spire” pic.twitter.com/7UHBslbOOt— Andrew McQuillan (@ajmcq1993) May 23, 2020
― groovypanda, Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:57 (four years ago) link
I didn't say it was working, just that he was still working it.
I'm closer to stet than t.ross here - this is the thing that will let others go "oh now this is too much"
(also of course this retroactive "you don't have to follow the rules if you're being sensible or you really really want to" will get a lot of people killed and damaged)
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 23 May 2020 20:07 (four years ago) link
lmao xpost
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 23 May 2020 20:14 (four years ago) link
Sophy Ridge tweeting in advance questions she will ask Grant Shapps tomorrow morning if he turns up.
― nashwan, Saturday, 23 May 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
*Dead Zone vision of the future* the chemistry teacher who saw Cummings on his second trip & told the Mirror is about to get the full fury of the media establishment raining down on him, ain’t gonna be pretty— Keir Starmer's Field (@pgofton) May 23, 2020
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 23 May 2020 20:26 (four years ago) link
Oh shit story’s dead.
NEW: No 10 respond to latest Cummings allegations. pic.twitter.com/4GYWaBihgT— Joe Pike (@joepike) May 23, 2020
― stet, Saturday, 23 May 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link
🐦[in awe at keeping this back for a full 24 hours while everyone showed their asses defending him over the first story. god tier fishing https://t.co/hcxzACFXUM🕸— Stan The Golden Boy (@tristandross) May 23, 2020🕸]🐦
― gyac, Saturday, 23 May 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
(xp) What, he wasn't in Durham after all?
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Saturday, 23 May 2020 20:43 (four years ago) link
I am sincerely hoping they’ve got speed camera photos or pictures of him to pull out for Monday if this continues on a third day.
― gyac, Saturday, 23 May 2020 20:44 (four years ago) link
Of course he was there else he's being libelled
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 23 May 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYugSH9WkAESGd6?format=png&name=900x900
― gyac, Saturday, 23 May 2020 21:02 (four years ago) link
― stet, Saturday, 23 May 2020 21:06 (four years ago) link
just sack him and then bring him back on the qt in a few months
― ||||||||, Saturday, 23 May 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
🎵 Hey QT, heyThere's something I want to sayI have control of your countryThere's no getting rid of me 🎵
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 23 May 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
Nice to see the Tories get owned so hard, but I still remember Pippa Crerar coming out guns blazing to smear anyone opposed to social cleansing in Haringey, so she can remain shitted off.— I Am Damo Godzuki ⬛🔴 (@b11ckchps) May 23, 2020
― calzino, Saturday, 23 May 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link
Wait a second...his own dad called the coppers?!https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EYu77xHWoAAG72H?format=jpg&name=large
― gyac, Saturday, 23 May 2020 21:48 (four years ago) link
Yeah, the BBC said that too. That's ... quite the flex
― stet, Saturday, 23 May 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
👀
@bbclaurak Could you ask Boris why Dominic Cummings was in Durham today?— Simon Young (@iamsimonyoung) May 10, 2020
― gyac, Saturday, 23 May 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
Ha, that is pretty fucking funny. There has to be a photo out there.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 23 May 2020 22:18 (four years ago) link
domcum’s dad, go on trashfuture
― a denim head and an aficionado of Japanese craftsmanship (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 23 May 2020 22:50 (four years ago) link
What the fuck is that Bridget Jones thing about?
― Matt DC, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:35 (four years ago) link
she's choosing between boris and sir kier
― calzino, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
Even weirder considering the long-standing rumours that Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones is based on Sir Forensic.
― gyac, Saturday, 23 May 2020 23:45 (four years ago) link
I'm not actually paranoid enough to think this is the point, but I do wonder whether the story on the rightmost two columns of that front page would be bigger without this story.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:13 (four years ago) link
that story on the right has been loudly/quietly/rapidly and tragically unfolding for weeks now, some folks just like to clap and cheer - it's the human condition i'm afraid.
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:19 (four years ago) link
I'm not going to get too carried away with how much collateral damage these fucks will take from blundering Dom. Nothing seems to matter anymore!
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 01:26 (four years ago) link
Shapps / government line seems to be no comment on whether Cummings went to Barnard Castle but that anyone claiming he went back to Durham after the first trip is wrong.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 24 May 2020 08:36 (four years ago) link
I think this is a fantastic opportunity for the Tories.If they can make us put up with this, it'll crush the spirit of a lot of people. A lot of people will just give up.All they have to do is hold tight for a couple of weeks until our shoulders start to slouch. https://t.co/gwyAlGAXwv— Limmy (@DaftLimmy) May 23, 2020
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 24 May 2020 08:55 (four years ago) link
Through her mother, she is descended from Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, the Governor of Kenya during the Mau Mau Uprising, and Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, a Governor General of Canada, and through the latter, Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey, of the House of Grey and a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
his partner is from such a great family, her granddad was running a racial concentration camp and torture regime 15 years after the Nazis were defeated!
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 09:08 (four years ago) link
Remember Brexit? You love to see it.
Incredible admission by leadingTory Brexiteer Steve Baker. They were told to vote for WA without reading it “on the basis Michael Gove articulated: we could change it later”.So they voted for it. And now discover there will be an border in the Irish Sea. pic.twitter.com/RoqfWGgvLM— Jennifer Rankin (@JenniferMerode) May 24, 2020
― gyac, Sunday, 24 May 2020 09:30 (four years ago) link
(xp) He's done well for himself, this working class lad from a council estate in Shields, er.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Sunday, 24 May 2020 09:32 (four years ago) link
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 24 May 2020 bookmarkflaglink
Given that covid will run on till the rest of the year, at least, I don't see how that could be the case.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 24 May 2020 09:38 (four years ago) link
murdoch wants gove as pm and recognises a weakness
― mark s, Sunday, 24 May 2020 09:44 (four years ago) link
yeah the bookshelf is what finally convinced Murds
― nashwan, Sunday, 24 May 2020 09:51 (four years ago) link
anybody rooting for Domfall and the subsequent resignation of Johnson shd be thinking hard about a Gove presidency tbh
― come out you melts and bams (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 24 May 2020 09:59 (four years ago) link
I only just noticed last night that villainous cunt Norman Stone was an early mentor/supporter of Cummings, quelle surprise. There is someone whose relatively recent gravestone will already have a piss-bleached stripe down it, such was the love he brought to this world.
― calzino, Sunday, 24 May 2020 10:01 (four years ago) link
Despite everything the Boris brand is still pretty strong and the idea that Gove could command the same level of support from across the country feels borderline delusional.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 24 May 2020 10:05 (four years ago) link