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Statement regarding No10 claims today

The Prime Minister’s new Director of Communications Jack Doyle, at the PM’s request, has made a number of false accusations to the media......

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Inside Politics: Dominic Cummings threatens to reveal Covid crisis secrets

Attacking government secrecy, the former No 10 strategist is ready to spill the beans, writes Adam Forrest
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Inside Politics: Dominic Cummings threatens to reveal Covid crisis secrets​

Attacking government secrecy, the former No 10 strategist is ready to spill the beans.........
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Dominic Cummings seems to be speaking very freely at the moment. The former top adviser thinks the government has been far too secretive during the Covid crisis – making clear he intends to be a right pain in the a** for Boris Johnson at next week’s parliamentary inquiry.
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Centralscrutinizer said:
A maniac, shyster, narcissist and psychopath then.
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He's not a maniac. He is very calculated and does things for reasons which he thinks will benefit himself and his social equals.

Laughing said:
I am not sure he is a psychopath. Narcisist, absoloutely.
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He exhibists psycopathic traits. As we can't tell whether it's innate or an act he puts on the only conclusion we can come to is that he's a psycopath. There's not a great deal of difference between psycopathy and narcissism anyway.
 
No.
When you allow unelected people the keys to power, you are heading for trouble.
Cummings is not a psychopath: he has access to power and allies in Whitehall and is clearly the mouthpiece for a wider movement to undermine the Prime Minister.
The media are giving Cummings unbridled coverage, which suggests he has backers and ultimately will be the sacrificial lamb.
Those who support the current status quo have already attempted to smear and marginalise him, but the genie is out of the bottle.

Notice how the issue has become one of "personalities", not policies, but Boris already has some very serious questions to answer: a repeat of his usual Wednesday TV Show from Parliament wont suffice this time. Vague answers, avoidance and playing Flashman wont do.(n)
 
festa5 said:
I know someone who was in some of those early COBR meetings and he said at the time herd immunity was definitely the plan at first and a reason why we were so slow ramping up track and trace (if you're going for herd immunity, what's the point).

By the time it became evident T&T was needed we'd missed the boat, it was too widespread.
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Herd immunity is not a plan or a strategy, it is a biological phenomenon. Herd immunity just became politicised.

If it hadn't we may well have ended up in a very similar place with less destruction of jobs and the economy (which were always going to be hit in a major epidemic) and less constant frightening our the population.
 
FabioPorkpie said:
He’s going to town on Twitter at the moment, saying infection driven herd immunity was the goal and policy from the start and he’s got plenty of proof of it. Policy was being built around ‘letting it rip’. Disgraceful.
Highlights yet another Johnson lie, when he flat out denied that was ever under consideration.


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He's certainly waffling on twitter. Someone mentioned he's speaking at the select committee. I do hope Whitty and Valance (who I've been critical of) are speaking too to balance out what I suspect will be nonsense from him.

Tweet 46/ contains a slide from 9/3/20. By that point we were close to the spring peak (approx mid March) though obviously we didn't know it and we had absolutely no sight on the level of epidemic. The idea that we could have tracked and traced a respiratory virus at that point is almost comical looking back on it. There were estimated to be 10's of thousands of infections a day at that stage.
 
T_A_D said:
He's certainly waffling on twitter. Someone mentioned he's speaking at the select committee. I do hope Whitty and Valance (who I've been critical of) are speaking too to balance out what I suspect will be nonsense from him.

Tweet 46/ contains a slide from 9/3/20. By that point we were close to the spring peak (approx mid March) though obviously we didn't know it and we had absolutely no sight on the level of epidemic. The idea that we could have tracked and traced a respiratory virus at that point is almost comical looking back on it. There were estimated to be 10's of thousands of infections a day at that stage.
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Yep. If only we’d opted to lock down sooner, harder, faster rather than initially planning to let it rip, eh? Kept those numbers low enough to be manageable. What might have been. 😔
 
He's really blowing it all wide open on twitter, or at least confirming what a lot of people thought back then anyway.

The guy is a loose cannon, and clearly not afraid of anyone, and I bet the Tories are $hitting themselves about what he will say next, I wouldn't be surprised If he went "missing".

He's clearly a smart guy/ strategist, who has been privy to everything. It's becoming apparent to me that he's possibly not necessarily been the problem, it is the people who he's been employed by.
 
Cummings, like Farage, wants the responsibility of shaping policy without any of the accountability should that go wrong, if he was as principled and committed to the mistakes of the Government’s early Covid policy then he should have resigned and blew the whistle when something might have been able to change, the fact he’s doing it now looks like an act of self preservation, and although I do believe him, it just shows the abysmal level to which U.K. politics has fallen and how unfit for purpose this Government is to govern.
 
As others have said he's a self serving weapon, but credit where it is due, he's dead right about David Cameron's time as PM and about Iain Duncan Smith. And I share his simmering anger that this country is being led by chums and pals rather than any talented operators.

I think Weds will be a damp squib, and anyway, as has recently been seen, not enough people are paying attention, or would rather turn a blind eye to suspect behaviour as long as they are backing the 'winning side'. I'm sure some will contort his statements to make it Labour's fault.
 
I think it's clear he should never have been in the position he was, never given the amount of power he had and certainly not trusted as much as he was.

It's yet another damning indictment of the judgement and capability of this government that he was.

He was put into a leadership position and he's anything but. No time for people he disagrees with, can't be bothered convincing or influencing, very little idea of how to get people on board. Although he clearly doesn't care if people agree with him or not.

Fascinating bloke, as much as I dislike him. In amongst the arrogant, pretentious, waffle he comes out with he does have some brilliant ideas. He does think "differently" which can be invaluable, but his seeming complete lack of empathy or emotional intelligence means a lot of those ideas will end up going nowhere.

So not a leader and even as purely an advisor anyone with common sense wouldn't go anywhere near him as he can't be trusted. Probably best suited to a think tank type role, commenting from the outside. But you wouldn't rule out another Tory idiot (Gove being the prime candidate) bringing him back in at some point.
 
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