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Desperately keeping Cummings (sorry)

(165 Posts)
GagaJo Thu 12-Nov-20 09:25:30

Fight with Carrie. One aide has left. Cummings threatening to walk out (let him go was the cry!). But still. Why is she interfering? They're bad enough without WAGS getting involved.

uk.yahoo.com/news/lee-cain-resigns-boris-johnsons-211237124.html

vegansrock Fri 13-Nov-20 17:53:28

He should have gone in April then we’d have more respect for Johnson.

Galaxy Fri 13-Nov-20 17:54:39

Well the results of the american election are certainly causing some pleasing ripples.

Lexisgranny Fri 13-Nov-20 17:59:13

Thank goodness

biba70 Fri 13-Nov-20 18:02:12

Hope the baby is a good sleeper ;)

vegansrock Fri 13-Nov-20 18:04:46

Muck out the stables
Drain the swamp
Get back some politicians with talent.

quizqueen Fri 13-Nov-20 18:05:31

Remind me what Carrie was elected to do!!!

varian Fri 13-Nov-20 18:06:26

How can we get back any decent MPs without a General Election?

ayse Fri 13-Nov-20 18:12:07

I wonder if the 1922 Committee read the riot act?

vegansrock Fri 13-Nov-20 18:19:19

Whats the betting Carrie gets a plum job ( unadvertised natch)

Davidhs Fri 13-Nov-20 18:28:50

Now Cummings has gone expect a change in Brexit strategy, maybe they will actually try to get a deal. Pressure from back benchers as well as the grandees meant change had to happen, another U turn ?.

Shropshirelass Fri 13-Nov-20 18:36:46

The PM’s advisers are not supposed to be in the public eye and are almost anonymous. I believe he is leaving after Christmas. Good job he is going after the damage he did during lockdown, he should have gone then, don’t know why they are waiting! Carrie is bound to tell Boris what she sees, after all Dennis was the voice behind Margaret Thatcher from what I have read.

Callistemon Fri 13-Nov-20 18:40:01

??

Galaxy Fri 13-Nov-20 18:40:37

Yes they will try to get a deal. They have seen the writing on the wall. People arent going to be interested in a mini Trump.

varian Fri 13-Nov-20 19:04:42

I'm not so sure. One of the most poisonous appointees of the Vote Leave government is this "Lord" David Frost, our so-called negotiator, who seems determined to force through a no-deal brexit.

eazybee Fri 13-Nov-20 19:06:09

We do have decent MPs as a direct result of the General Election; it was the dross was removed.

Voters are not nearly a stupid as some like to assume.

Elegran Fri 13-Nov-20 19:06:17

If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would be very suspicious of the combination of him saying that by December he would have done what he set out to do and the state of chaos he leaves behind him now (November) that he is departing. Just what did he set out to do?

Elegran Fri 13-Nov-20 19:07:06

By "him" I mean Cummings.

eazybee Fri 13-Nov-20 19:07:12

that was removed.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 13-Nov-20 19:10:19

varian

I'm not so sure. One of the most poisonous appointees of the Vote Leave government is this "Lord" David Frost, our so-called negotiator, who seems determined to force through a no-deal brexit.

I read somewhere that Frost was on the verge of resigning. I guess it is all to do with the war in No 10

vegansrock Fri 13-Nov-20 19:10:21

Has he left the country in a better place ? I think not.

lemongrove Fri 13-Nov-20 19:18:28

He’s not the only advisor left in Downing St you know?
Am sure they will manage without him.
He has no hand in the actual negotiating with the EU, he isn’t part of that team.
Covid is a crisis, but is a managed one, the NHS is coping, and we are no worse off than many other countries.

Whitewavemark2 Fri 13-Nov-20 19:29:23

Matthew Payne

Boris Johnson couldn't run a tap,Carrie Symonds shouldn't be running anything. Tory Government rotten and corrupt to the core. People dying by dozen whilst parasites cash in. Absolutely sick with or without Dominic Cummings. No masking that !

varian Fri 13-Nov-20 19:32:22

The UK has suffered very badly in the pandemic, because of our incompetent government, but we or they were never responsible for the covid pandemic arriving on our shores.

Brexit, on the other hand, is a self inflicted harmful disaster.

Davidhs Fri 13-Nov-20 19:42:18

Lemon, if Cummings wasn’t running Brexit policy, what do “you” think he was there for, he obviously wasn’t part of the negotiating team, he was the puppeteer pulling the strings.

Shropshirelass Fri 13-Nov-20 19:49:44

He has gone, seen leaving Downing Street with his box. Good riddance!