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Takeaways from last night’s BloJo show.
As ever the PM thought that talking down the story like a member of the Bullingdon Club telling a waiter not to make a fuss about a trashed reatauarant was a good look.
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Takeaways from last night’s BloJo show.
As ever the PM thought that talking down the story like a member of the Bullingdon Club telling a waiter not to make a fuss about a trashed reatauarant was a good look.
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He placed more importance on saving one man than he has on the lives of millions who may now be looking at the government advice and wondering why they’ve been doing as they were told when they could flout the rules and use their own “judgment” and “integrity”.
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He tried to convince a jaded public that by packing his infected family into a car & driving 250 miles (in contravention of the guidance that said people dispalying symptoms should NOT leave the house & NOT seek to isolated somwhere else) Dominic Cumming was “saving lives.”
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Yes he actually said that. He actually had the brass neck to paint Cummings has some kind of national hero and said a car full of potentially virus- carrying people driving 250 miles to break quarantine was “saving lives.”
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Because heaven forbid, living in that rural backwater that is Islington, the socially-mobile and professionally well connected Cummings family didn’t have a network of friends or acquaintances who could have stepped in if needs be.
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We have no idea how many times they stopped for petrol, where they stopped for toilet breaks, snacks etc... and what would’ve been the situation if they had broken down? They would have been putting the lives of the rescue services at risk.
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But I think what was most telling were the eyes of BloJo. That haunted desperate look. look. It was his rabbit-caught-in-the-headlights moment. He knows his grasp of power is solely dependent on this unelected Rasputin figure.
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Similarly Teflon Dom knows his grasp of power is solely dependent on BloJo remaining PM as there are plenty in the Tory Party - and yes, I do speak to Tories - who, frankly, despise Cummings.
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So we had classic BloJo, all piss and wind but with no substance, no credibility, no authority.
Be under no doubt that his own party are probably already making moves against him. They’ll deny it of course, just like they denied there was any coup against Theresa May.
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Be under no doubt that his own party are probably already making moves against him. They’ll deny it of course, just like they denied there was any coup against Theresa May.
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If BloJo thought he could berate the story away, he’s wrong. If he thinks he can turn the story into it being about a politically motivated media out to get him, he’s wrong.
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People had to stay home while loved ones died in isolation, stay away from funerals, miss births, birthdays etc... We were told - quite literally - that we would have to put a natural instincts on hold in order to safeguard the country.
We were told the advice was clear.
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We were told the advice was clear.
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Except now it seems there was plenty of wiggle room, it was just never explained at the daily briefings. Dominic Cummings has risen to power by feeding people the idea that their lives are blighted by a metropolitan Islington elite that are out of touch with the zeitgeist.
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And yet Dominic Cummings is the epitome of a metropolitan Islington elite out of touch. He’s from a well connected family. His lack of contrition for what he did his utter contempt to be questioned tells you all you need to know.
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And perhaps the saddest, most pathetic thing last night was the likelihood that every single word that Boris Johnson said in defence of Dominic Cummings was probably written for him... by Dominic Cummings.
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