BoJos trusted adviser and architect of Election Victory and Brexit leaves 10 Downing Street.
A loss? Getting out before the sh*tstorm he had a hand in creating? More time to visit Barnard Castle?
It’s reported that one Conservative MPs response to the news was “Rejoice!”
Cummings And Goings
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“Fuckety Bye” – Malcolm Tucker, BBC The Thick of It.
Just like Cameron. The “difficult shit “ is coming and he’s off.
His exit has been reported as momentous but the same Government is still there. Don’t think for one moment that this changes anything.
We see pictures of him leaving No 10 carrying a cardboard box, just like they do in the movies when people are fired.
There will be a cynical, media-manipulating reason for doing thIs. Classic Dom, as they say.
Rats & sinking ships come to mind.
Quite. Leaving with a box of desk stuff through the front door. Do absolutely fuck off with that theatrical shit.
Wait until Boris and Carrie find the cot empty.
You mean Carrie. Boris would just say, “What’s missing?”
So Tweedle-Dom has followed Tweedle-Lee out the door and the core of the behind-the-scenes Vote Leave team has gone. How odd that they should go on the eve of what ought to be their greatest triumph. It’s almost as if they don’t want to be around when it actually happens.
It’s been a good 7 days for things to be hopeful about without being able to fully celebrate just yet though. Trump gone, Cummings out, very hopeful signs of a Covid vaccine and Scotland through to the Euros.
And I can’t help but wonder if was Carrie’s head in that box.
‘Trump gone’ you say?
Maybe Cummings has got a position in the ‘second Trump administration’ (Pompeo).
Certainly scope for a conspiracy theory. Baldy Dom has fed lines about the special relationship, the need to work together, the state visit, the seemingly closeness of Boris and Trump.
Perhaps Dom was a closet Trump admirer, and was willing to make the UK the 51st State if it meant delivering his Project, and now can’t face a future without him.
Nothing closet about it – Boris and Dom are fascinated by Trump. If you see the way that Boris throws sand in everyone’s eyes with his flurry of baseless assertions and made-up-on-the-spot policies, does it remind you of anyone?
“Build the wall/garden-bridge!” etc
Born 1971 (don’t laugh, I did once, but I think I got away with it), the f***** north is that way you 60s dodging, slap-head bastard, pile of puss. Don’t ever take a holiday away from Durham as you might end up in the the same holiday destination where I live, and that wouldn’t make for a pleasant holiday for you or your f***-wit family, believe me.
Funnily enough, reminiscent of Archer in the dire 1980s, I think I have more contempt for his wife.
Check out the lies she spouted in the Spectator to cover his tracks.
She should be in jail.
Vote Lib Dem!!
Hmmm.
Anything that makes Conservative MPs happy is normally bad – babies going under steamrollers and the like.
As for Dom, always be wary of a man who has gone bald early in life. Add describing yourself as “anti-establishment” and this is someone who needs to be put in a box for good.
I started to go bald at the age of twenty-one.
Likewise…
From my parents wedding photos, my dad was bald as a coot at the age of 30.
People were in those days though. Prior to about 1975 all football teams had at least one chrome-dome. Perhaps it was living through the war. The Luftwaffe would be enough to make anyone’s hair drop out.
I rest my case, your honour!
Not news, really. He was always going to move on once he’d done what he was there to do. The only questions are whether it’s no deal or a really bad one (we should know next week), and who replaces Johnson when he ducks out in February.
Gove …
Sunak, surely?
MG has been creeping (Heeping)? up to the throne for ten years and is extremely ruthless. Also, he was Vote Leave and most current Conservative MPs are essentially single-issue politicians.
They are, but that single issue is getting re-elected. RS is far more popular, for the moment at least.
He’s also more hawkish on wanting to get the economy moving / minimising the national debt, which also chimes more with the backbenchers.
I think Gove’s moment of opportunity is long gone. None of the others trust him now and, having seen what a clusterfuck the current leadership is, they’ll be looking for at least a semblance of competence.
I agree. I think the next leader might need to be a more seemingly-more-competent person. Although I’d like Matt Hancock to get the top job. He’s even more terrified by his job than Teresa May.
Gove. The next Tory manifesto will literally be Pob’s Programme.
Can you imagine Sarah Vain in number ten? Only Burnham Wood coming to Dunsinane can save us now.
Time for the bears to rise up.
The news is he was pushed rather than walking. He may have said he’d be gone by the end of the year but wasn’t acting like it.
The box-walk was an act. He’s working his notice from home.
Yes – a fabulously choreographed flounce. The only thing missing was a casual flick of his forelocks.
Marvelous clip of it on Twitter- someone sightly speeded it up and added the Benny Hill music.
(cough: it’s down there Twang. I found it earlier. Too good not to share)
Sorry RD I remembered the Twitter bit…credit where credit’s due it was here I saw it.
It’s a flounce? That means he’ll a) be looking in No. 10 every three days to see if anyone’s talking about him and b) will be back again in about three months with a different name.
And a wig.
PS. As Gove is going to end up as PM he needn’t bother with the disguise.
Not a flounce. He was told to go.
A pseudo flounce perhaps?
Otherwise he’d just have fucked the fuck off out the back door.
This is grandstanding of an extraordinary nature – Hestletines mace moment combined with Harvey Smith’s infamous gesture.
The current embodiment of UK statecraft.
What made me go “Eh?” were the reports that Bojo’s missus was involved in Cain’s goings. What’s she got to do with it? Someone – not me – voted for BoJo, but nobody voted for her.
Actually, they’re not married. Which means they’re going to hell anyway. Just sayin’.
I’m actually all right with that aspect. Your significant other should be the one you listen to most, no matter what position you hold.
Not always the case though. Trump is actually a mild-mannered and very humble man. Behind the scenes it’s Melania who goads him into saying such awful things.
The same Carrie Symonds who allegedly left her last role because of her inability to do a good job and possibly suss expenses management? That one?
Another empty vessel. Fits in perfectly with the rest of the no-hoper talent voids.
Cummings Leaves Number 10 to the Benny Hill Theme
Something I did back in May…
Really enjoyed that. Great stuff @Colin-H
Thank you Mart 🙂
I missed this at the time, @Colin-H – just watched it and it’s a cracker!
Thank you, Stokemeister 😀
This isn’t Dr Evil executing the next stage of his “plan”. He’s been told to go. And according to some sources I’ve read, denied the backdoor, media free exit he would have wanted. In a matter of weeks poor old Dom has gone from “Get-Brexit-Done” to “Fuck-Right-Off”.
When Johnson won, he knew from his days in May’s government that dissent and disloyalty could cripple him just like he had done his bit damaging her. And given his famous inability to manage detail, Cain and Cummings, the Beavis and Butthead of Brexit were the obvious choice. With no allegiance except to their own tight circle of Vote Leave chums, they had the ideological purity to drive Brexit home, unencumbered by party membership or electoral accountability. Their contempt for politicians ignored party lines and was felt more acutely amongst the Tories who found C&C had been gifted a remit that gave them more power than the Cabinet. A Cabinet who had been selected not for their competence, but their ability to stay on message and out of the way, allowing Johnson to bask in the limelight that C&C steadfastly avoid.
And it might have worked had it not been for the pandemic, which it turns out requires something more than popularist manipulation to protect the nation and it’s economy. Faced with issues outside of their prior experience they became a liability, leaving lame ducks like Williamson floundering and a PM forced into repeated U turns by a footballer. Despised by most Tory MPs and increasingly poor polling numbers plus an opposition party finally attaining some coherence, Johnson was losing support in the House and no doubt able to hear the sound of Sunak, Gove and Hunt (at the very least) sharpening knives.
Once C&C were overruled in the appointment of Allegra Stratton, their stranglehold on policy and communication was going to ebb. Cain’s role as Director of Communications was clearly going to be clipped and Cummings plan to hang on to power by elevating Cain to Chief of Staff clearly fell over somewhere.
Robert Peston describes Cummings dismissal as a change of government. Question is, given Johnson can barely wipe his own backside, who is going to become the real PM now?
If it’s Gove, Cummings will be straight back to unfuck the fuckup he fucked up in the first place
Corbyn, Trump, Cummings; it’s not been great couple of weeks for narcissists.
Will Donovan be retiring next…? 😀
First there is a deal, then there is No Deal, then there is
Kathy Burke said it best:
And David Allen Green was similarly dismissive.
All his genius at politics amounted to lying and three word slogans, his big picture megablogs fetishized grand science projects that couldn’t be transferred to the complexities of policy-making and his policy achievements were so slight, they fitted into a cardboard box.
He should be remembered for the smirk he gave as he left that Downing Street garden press conference.
It said: “I’ve just came out with a load of bollocks. I don’t care if anyone believes it. I can do what I want”. If he was such a genius, how come he gave that away so blatantly? I bet he spent his whole time at school telling people he was going to tell on them. And then not actually doing it.
We should have seen that coming after the contempt of parliament episode. The arrogant superiority complex was what won him the referendum and the 2019 vote, as well as the semis from Gove and Johnson, who recognized a fellow manipulative, bullying liar with better pattern recognition skillz, but even less scruples than them. Dom was openly rude about everyone, not just the opposition and civil servants, but their own back benchers (thick as mince, etc).
Corona has called their bluff and exposed their failings.
He singlehandedly torpedoed the most widespread sense of social cohesion built around a shared health concern, which I’ve seen in over 50 years…He’ll be OK, but lots of people won’t…The current PM locating a spine now is too little, too late.
The current lockdown is being half – arsedly observed and Messrs Cummmings and Johnson can share the credit for that.