Nov 2020
12:08pm, 14 Nov 2020
24,085 posts
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Johnny Blaze
I was accused of being "a Stalin stan" yesterday. Me! I rather think Cummings has gone now as far as Johnson is concerned. Politics is one thing, but you don't come between a man and his woman (unless you are a kinky bugger - can't be ruled out with Old Bozza). I doubt Dom has pissed on his chips with Goevvels though. Quite the reverse. |
Nov 2020
12:45pm, 14 Nov 2020
8,974 posts
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simbil
Yep, he's clearly on gardening leave pending departure at the end of the year when BoJo can reinvent himself with a new team hoping all prior sins will be forgiven  That Cummings has not been embarrassed with sacking headlines is probably more to do with how much dirt he has from vote leave days. I've no doubt the exit out the front door and working from home lines were all negotiated to let him leave with a little dignity. |
Nov 2020
3:10pm, 14 Nov 2020
3,113 posts
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TomahawkMike
I heard a young person saying that Cummings will be looking for a new host. Like some sort of parasite I presume.
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Nov 2020
3:12pm, 14 Nov 2020
69,811 posts
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swittle
[^ Farage?]
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Nov 2020
3:16pm, 14 Nov 2020
12,259 posts
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rf_fozzy
No. Farage and Cummings cannot stand each other.
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Nov 2020
3:33pm, 14 Nov 2020
6,356 posts
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Dooogs
>>It might stop some of the attacks on the civil service too. I wish. Cummings might be gone but Francis Maude is still there as an advisor to Gove and the Cabinet Office on civil service reform, and Maude despises the CS. civilserviceworld.com More generally, as long as Gove is around, Cummingsism (if not Classic Dom himself) will still have some pervasive influence in Whitehall... |
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Nov 2020
4:49pm, 14 Nov 2020
24,086 posts
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Johnny Blaze
During the referendum campaign Cummings wanted to focus on costs, the NHS and taking back control. His deliberate strategy was to let Farage's team do the more distasteful racist/xenophobic/immigration scare story bits. That's called having your cake and eating it. It worked.
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Nov 2020
5:29pm, 14 Nov 2020
6,358 posts
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Dooogs
JB: I generally try to steer clear of Godwin's Law but that's almost late Weimar Republic... with Farage's lot being the thuggish SA brownshirts, who could be dismissed by VL afterwards with plausible deniabilty. The obvious follow-up question is whether the Vote Leave / Leave.EU carve-up was a deliberate strategy or just each team playing to their natural inclinations... |
Nov 2020
5:30pm, 14 Nov 2020
2,823 posts
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Fellrunning
Cummingsism. Isn't that something out of The Joy Of Sex? (Prefer handcuffs or baler twine myself.....) |
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Nov 2020
6:29pm, 14 Nov 2020
69,818 posts
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swittle
[Q.E.D., fozzy - and the reason why I suggested the bizarre coupling.]
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