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
if he apologised he would be failing in his mission to act as a lightning rod, trolling the media & making them look incompetent, & making everyone talk about him instead of rona
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:42 (four years ago) link
Talking about him is talking about rona though.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:43 (four years ago) link
Tory MPs in marginals getting jumpy is one thing, Tories in safe seats is another.
― gyac, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
indirectly, it's a sideshow, an outlet for public anger that might otherwise have a more politically useful target, as he gets to play the maverick villainous arrogant bad egg while making clear none of the rest of the govt had any idea. whether he eventually gets sacrificed or not the longer this goes on the less time the uk death toll is in the headlines
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:47 (four years ago) link
I note starmer is really going hard on the nandy-concerned-eyebrows in his rona-related weirdly slow, cloying announcements. this shows more humility than the more imperious, disdainful furrowed brow of blair
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:49 (four years ago) link
if I was starmzy I’d be tempted to just bunt johnson’s line back at him by saying “people can make their own minds up and don’t think any reasonable observer would support what he’s done, particularly in light of all the sacrifices ordinary people have made for two months up and down the country.”
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:55 (four years ago) link
There is no way this shitshow is 5D chess. The rona isn't going anywhere while this plays out; it's just waiting in the queue
― stet, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 12:58 (four years ago) link
Not really convinced the sacrificial lamb tactic is viable when everything is about the pandemic. Public anger at Cummings' behaviour is directly connected with the government's handling of the crisis.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
meh, while Cummings stays in post it kind of is, if he goes over this - sacked, resigns, shot by concerned passerby with silver bullet - it'll not be thought of as a government failing by anybody who matters after a fortnight
― Children of Bo-Dom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link
Well he isn't going is he?
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link
and the effect will be broadly the same i suspect, forgotten given time, not directly linked to poor, too loyal BoJo and way down the list of this government's demonstrable faults and failings by the time another election comes round
― Children of Bo-Dom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 13:09 (four years ago) link
it's not that he shouldn't be sacked and it's not that people aren't angry but it's not the kind of anger amongst the kind of people at the kind of time that will effect much political change. it slots neatly into the one-thought-at-a-time functioning of our news media, is all
― Children of Bo-Dom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 13:11 (four years ago) link
Sorry, I forgot that everyone itt is thinking about the next election when I'm thinking no further than the end of the week. Mea culpa.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 13:12 (four years ago) link
sadly enough the likely best outcome from a Starmzfront Labour point of view would be for him to stay in post and then this to be revisited in a legit post-Rona enquiry but i can't build up much excitement for that prospect
― Children of Bo-Dom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 13:13 (four years ago) link
I've not recovered from the last election, I feel like my synapses, or whatever, have been so burnt out I can barely even process the word 'election'.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 13:14 (four years ago) link
yeah i'm not saying anybody is "wrong" to be angry. i broadly agree that this kind of public anger is fuel to a Cummings and distracts from what the government are actually doing and what they want to do but i wouldn't make a whole shtick out of that.
― Children of Bo-Dom (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link