Oct 2023
3:05pm, 31 Oct 2023
20,804 posts
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Chrisull
I dunno, I loved the Thick of it. And the swearing definitely was half of it: metro.co.uk Now we're reliving it for real. |
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Oct 2023
3:08pm, 31 Oct 2023
20,805 posts
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Chrisull
And as Ianucci points out, it reflects the culture. More people need to be fed up with it.
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Oct 2023
3:22pm, 31 Oct 2023
43,153 posts
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SPR
It's not the big deal you made it out to be in your original post. The substance of what he said has been reported. Of course as a comedy show rather than news then people can choose whether they want to watch and age appropriateness, etc.
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Oct 2023
4:27pm, 31 Oct 2023
3,601 posts
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paulcook
You can watch Cummings give evidence on iPlayer and nothing's being censored! If you want the gist of it - everyone is useless apart from him and the people he has appointed. He must be a nightmare to work with He’s certainly a character if you read more of his background. Eccentric. Unique. [insert some choice colourful expletive of his / your own] But also totally arrogant. I’ve seen before his blog is brilliantly accurate because he’s often edited it later on to represent how things really panned out. |
Oct 2023
4:34pm, 31 Oct 2023
25,833 posts
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Bazoaxe
Arse is the word you were looking for.
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Oct 2023
4:51pm, 31 Oct 2023
20,807 posts
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Chrisull
SPR - I dunno, I feel like "a la Thick of it", that one of them might become a punchy aphorism that could permanently attach to cabinet member, like "omnishambles" did to policy.
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Oct 2023
5:04pm, 31 Oct 2023
1,024 posts
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Dibble
I’ve seen before his blog is brilliantly accurate because he’s often edited it later on to represent how things really panned out. but stupid enough not to realise that it would be apparent that it had been edited. |
Oct 2023
5:05pm, 31 Oct 2023
22,485 posts
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larkim
The thing is, expletives have a time and a place where used effectively they generate impact. Reporting on them after the fact isn't particularly interesting; it's not as if he is sitting at the Inquiry desk giving evidence calmly to say "...and when that moron told me that the decision was [insert daft Johnson decision] I said I couldn't believe what that f*&king c*&t was doing." The discussion is around the language he used at the time, which was intentionally used to create some impact, one would assume - very much a la Peter Capaldi. |
Oct 2023
6:03pm, 31 Oct 2023
14,097 posts
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Little Nemo
I find it interesting that Cummings would rather get Boris Johnson made PM even though he knows he is *completely* unsuited to it than risk Jeremy Corbin being PM. To quote the man himself - what a fuckpig!!!
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Oct 2023
6:47pm, 31 Oct 2023
9,734 posts
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simbil
Cummings would have no chance controlling anyone principled - hence throwing his hat in with the trolley. Turned out he couldn't really control that either, the chap is a bit delusional I think.
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