What a lot of power Dominic Cummings thinks he has...

Parsley3

Why give any publicity to a person who is not only unelected but is not even an official? It is not Cummings place or duty to remove a PM.

Agree with you Parsley, nor is it the duty of the media to try to dislodge an incumbent PM although alongside DC they’re having a very good try. Neither DC nor the press are elected. BJ will be deposed either by his own party or an election.

Imagine the loyal employee who was all the while keeping copious notes and copies of emails etc that might one day come in useful.

Parsley3

Why give any publicity to a person who is not only unelected but is not even an official? It is not Cummings place or duty to remove a PM.

He can’t, but he can provide evidence on which to judge Johnson’s behaviour.

Why give any publicity to a person who is not only unelected but is not even an official? It is not Cummings place or duty to remove a PM.

Chewbacca

Cummings is a weasel of a man. Devious, sly, slippery and prone to being forgetful that he's hardly been a paragon of honesty and openness. He's an odious little man who was clearly happy to lie, deceive and cheat the public when it suited him. His revelations since being kicked out have nothing to do with him having an ounce of integrity and everything to do with him being scorned.

Couldn’t agree more.

Shame that Johnson has acted with such lack of integrity that the little weasel has so much fuel to heap on the fire.

You sum up the little toad perfectly Chew.

Riverwalk

'Dom' used to have a lot of fans on Gransnet.

He still has lots of friends on GN...just a different set now?

Riverwalk

'Dom' used to have a lot of fans on Gransnet.

Really? Can’t say I’ve noticed that. When DC broke Covid rules himself, Gransnetters were rightly outraged. In my opinion he is a nasty and vindictive man. Possibly narcissistic. Given BJ’s record over the Covid period, I’m amazed that he didn’t see the writing on the wall when he sacked DC.

Cummings is a weasel of a man. Devious, sly, slippery and prone to being forgetful that he's hardly been a paragon of honesty and openness. He's an odious little man who was clearly happy to lie, deceive and cheat the public when it suited him. His revelations since being kicked out have nothing to do with him having an ounce of integrity and everything to do with him being scorned.

Ghastly little weasel.

But whatever you think of Cummings he was brought in to mastermind Brexit by Johnson.

GrannyGravy13

I do think that the MSM need to stop giving him airtime / print inches etc. he is a man who appears to need the oxygen of publicity to survive.

That would be censorship - he's not doing anything illegal at present, merely giving his opinion on a political situation that he was for a number of years very closely involved in.

'Dom' used to have a lot of fans on Gransnet.

Since when did Cummings know what duty was? Certainly not when he went to Barnards Castle during lockdown. He seems nasty and vindictive to me.

GagaJo

Boris isn't capable of PM'ing on his own. As we can see. He needed Cummings so tolerated almost anything.

Quite!

I do love it when "duty" comes into a sentence. I do wonder if BJ will stay a bit longer as nobody else wants the job just at this moment whatever they say. I think DC sounds rather like an angry five year old at times, language aside!

Blimey, is he still trying to justify his own shortcomings ? He's like a dog with a bone.
Something radically wrong with the man.

Some of the things DC writes are quite amusing he talks of getting rid of Johnson like “ cleaning the drains” and that BJ was only interested in self aggrandisement through vanity projects. The fact that Johnson followed Cummings direction for so long does speak to his lack of judgement.

Gillycats

The media need to stop giving Cummings a voice. There’s an agenda there. I think he’s forgotten that he too broke rules and is a known liar. All this Partygate is getting ridiculous now. There are much more important things going on that the government need to concentrate on. Let the investigation’s take their course and worry about the terrible issues the actually matter.

The most important thing facing our country at the moment is that our PM is a duplicitous, self centred dolt with no leadership abilities whatsoever. Being in that situation is what is making all the other issues - Covid, Brexit, Ukraine - much, much worse than they need to be.

He needs to be replaced because he is unfit for office.

Is Cummings too powerful? Maybe. Should the MSM ignore him? Maybe.

But if everything he has said wasn't true, we'd be ignoring him already.

I do think that the MSM need to stop giving him airtime / print inches etc. he is a man who appears to need the oxygen of publicity to survive.

The media need to stop giving Cummings a voice. There’s an agenda there. I think he’s forgotten that he too broke rules and is a known liar. All this Partygate is getting ridiculous now. There are much more important things going on that the government need to concentrate on. Let the investigation’s take their course and worry about the terrible issues the actually matter.

janeainsworth I had no intention of comparing them - each are so special in their own alarming way, and the only thing they share as far as I can see is a sense of their own God like importance to this country.

Boris isn't capable of PM'ing on his own. As we can see. He needed Cummings so tolerated almost anything.

Riverwalk

Not quite irrelevant - Barnard Castle had its best year ever and the tourist board put it down to all the publicity!

I hadn't realised there had been so many people with eye problems that year.

Not quite irrelevant - Barnard Castle had its best year ever and the tourist board put it down to all the publicity!