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Feb 2020
1:04pm, 13 Feb 2020
19,166 posts
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DeeGee
Remember when this lot told us we had to leave the EU because they didn't want unelected bureaucrats telling our politicians what to do?
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Feb 2020
1:17pm, 13 Feb 2020
10,323 posts
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larkim
It's no great surprise that Cummings / Johnson want to exercise control from the centre, but it does surprise me that that has come to a head so quickly. The cabinet was a bit of a holding position after the election, so a fair few restructures are to be expected, but losing your chancellor is not ideal - unless it was expected / anticipated anyway.
The worrying bit is the narrative which is establishing the real power broker as being cummings rather than Johnson (not a new narrative of course - but it does seem to be coming more true by the day). It's as if they watched The Thick of It and decided that they preferred that, rather than The West Wing, as a model of how to govern.
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Feb 2020
1:34pm, 13 Feb 2020
2,455 posts
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Fellrunning
Just replacing one set of stiffs with another from what I can see.
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Feb 2020
2:02pm, 13 Feb 2020
10,325 posts
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larkim
Winchester College, Oxford PPE, married to billionaire's daughter. Unusual background for a Tory MP 
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Feb 2020
3:34pm, 13 Feb 2020
29,903 posts
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SPR
I'd call it constructive dismissal, lol.
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Feb 2020
7:25pm, 13 Feb 2020
3,054 posts
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FenlandRunner
In case you missed it, here are the key players in the new cabinet:
Chancellor - Dominic Cummings
Foreign Sec - Dominic Cummings
Home Sec - Dominic Cummings
Education - Dominic Cummings
Defence - Dominic Cummings
Prime Minister - Dominic Cummings
No 10 Cat - Dominic Cummings
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Feb 2020
7:27pm, 13 Feb 2020
3,055 posts
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FenlandRunner
You're spot on DeeGee, heading ever day nearer a complete and utter fascist dictatorship.
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Feb 2020
7:35pm, 13 Feb 2020
2,887 posts
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ThorntonRunner
Cummings the Grand Vizier scares me. Talk of politicising the civil service and restricting the judicial oversight of government would lead to a significant weakening of our checks and balances. Then we'll see the alt-right agenda in all its horror
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Feb 2020
8:07pm, 13 Feb 2020
3,056 posts
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FenlandRunner
Again, spot on, TR. The lunatics have overtaken the assylum.
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Feb 2020
9:07pm, 13 Feb 2020
23,041 posts
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Johnny Blaze
The knives will be out for him sooner or later. Probably sooner if he doesn't start to wind his neck in. Johnson is such a lazy bugger that
I daresay he sees Dom as his Grand Vizier - he'll do all the heavy lifting while Johnson mugs for the cameras and gets tugged by his girlfriends.
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