Desperately keeping Cummings (sorry)

Odious little person (Cummings) - I don't care who gives him the push, he should have gone months ago. His actions have cost lives...

Maybe Specsavers in Barnard Castle will make him an offer he can;t refuse .................we hope so !

Well, Cummings and Cain are appointed salaried employees and CS is not (so far as I know). IMO she should have not have the say in the matter that she seems to have. Experienced or not, if she resigned from her job she resigned from it. Kitchen cabinet indeed.?
I do agree about RJ. He is about the least credible spokesman they could find.

I had to think who the heck Carrie was at first.
You would seriously expect that grown adults would not start stamping their feet and spitting out their dummies but apparently not.
IMO Cummings should have gone long ago when he decided that he was such a special person that it was ok to travel for several hours to a different part of the country, as well as travel around that area like a tourist while most of the rest of the country was having to stay home as well as look after their own children even if unwell.
Noticed that since then he has been fairly inconspicuous .
I always wonder how people that have no apparent qualifications in a particular field such as politics are even allowed to get themselves in such a position of power and how much of their own beliefs control the person that they are supposedly advise? Still, it has been happening since the year dot and going back in time, it used to be that the only way that they were got rid of was either a stay in the Tower or being beheaded!

NoddingGanGan

Carrie needs to get back into the nursery. The country voted for Boris, not her.

Carrie did have a job in the PM's office before she and Boris got together. "Get back into the nursery" is a pretty damning thing to a clever woman and rather sexist. That baby has two parents, y'know. Also, nobody voted for Cummings either.

It seems that Boris relied on Cain a lot, he doesn’t seem able to keep any loyal friends by him and he hasn’t got what it takes to stand alone, nor the stamina, or, I suspect, the will. Everything has gone pearshaped, it will just be a case of salvaging what he can and mitigating the disasters falling about him (and anyone else who takes over the reins). I wonder if anyone else would even want to take over at the moment. Poor man, I guess he might fumble along a bit longer before throwing in the towel.

A senior Tory MP told the Standard: “If they have got rid of one of the Kray brothers, they have got to get rid of Cummings as well.

in the meantime, we have just days to get a Deal with EU- and just a few weeks to prepare - and they decide to play bad boys' musical chairs. Madness.

Yes, I know, we should trust, and wait , and see ...

And this is supposed to be our government!!!

We have hope perhaps to see the back of Cummings?? He obviously has ideas way beyond his station and believes rules are not for “the chosen one”. Fingers crossed he has some morals and goes too. Doubtful.

The term "when thieves fall out" comes to mind...??

Have I missed something? Was Carrie on the voting slips?

Cummings should go and work for the dvla, the sight test department

Cummings! No great loss there. I expect Carrie was utterly pi@@ed off at the way he behaved and made Boris look stupid for not sacking him. Disgusting excuse got a human being ???

Carrie Symonds has gone up in my estimation. I
As for the sexist comments suggesting she get back in the nursery we should remember the work she did before maternity leave. No she wasn't elected, neither was Cummings. I'd rather see him leave than Carrie

I agree with so many of you here. Cummings makes my skin crawl! ?

Whatever her problem it will be solved soon enough, because I don’t see Johnson staying PM long after Brexit day.
If the talk of infighting is true, wannabee’s will be lining up allies, so it could be sooner than my guess which is April

Who exactly briefed the press that Symonds influenced Johnson?

Davidhs

Whatever her problem it will be solved soon enough, because I don’t see Johnson staying PM long after Brexit day.
If the talk of infighting is true, wannabee’s will be lining up allies, so it could be sooner than my guess which is April

Rather than concentrating on the infighting in the cabinet office, I'm more interested in the back benches, where it would appear that there are three "rebel" groups, made up of some of the nastiest Tories.

Interesting,.. just been skim reading (again) the Lockdown thread... most people suggesting, these unusual times have made life difficult and challenging for most if not all of us..

ah!! politicians and Government aren`t human are they?

polnan

Interesting,.. just been skim reading (again) the Lockdown thread... most people suggesting, these unusual times have made life difficult and challenging for most if not all of us..

ah!! politicians and Government aren`t human are they?

No they are not and this present bunch have done much to make life far more challenging and difficult for us than it might have been - and it’s taken plenty of lives as well.

There is absolutely no evidence that Carrie Symonds has said anything at all. Has it occurred to some of you that she may be being briefed against by a journalist (or indeed, politician) for their own ends?

We need to get the facts straight before making any judgement about CS - first we hear that she 'advised' the PM but I've read that she was simply passing on the feeling of the two women in the team. As she and BJ live next door to No 10 (I think), she'll be in frequent contact with them and able to pick up their concerns, and it's a poor situation where the women themselves feel they won't be listened to by the PM because of the interference from DC and his crony. CS might just be the levelling influence BJ needs, and honestly if we don't accept that wags have always been influential in politics then we're not very politically astute. I'm not a Tory voter but I'll be happy if she can make BJ see some sense.

www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/carrie-symonds-announces-cabinet-reshuffle-20201112202451?fbclid=IwAR34wKpLipYcLJvajgHGkVafQI8i7RtfG2NLzu5P-f4MfJvU1676Z6bZfxQ

SuRu

There is absolutely no evidence that Carrie Symonds has said anything at all. Has it occurred to some of you that she may be being briefed against by a journalist (or indeed, politician) for their own ends?

Yes, it did occur to me. That's why I asked the question @ 13.57.15.