It's just the Prime Minister giving a press conference, he's just decided not to wear his usual sock puppet this time
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It's just the Prime Minister giving a press conference, he's just decided not to wear his usual sock puppet this time
He's going to distract us by finally ANNOUNCING POGBA. Or Sneidjer.
It backfired then since most folk are turning it around and pointing out that the last thing you should do with a child with autism (depending where on the spectrum his child is) is take them out of their known environment and screw up their routine. If the kid was already diagnosed at 4 then it would suggest severe autism. It's shite one way or the other
Very true, he wrote, or spoke at, many official Labour Government press conferences, and a whole host of informal 'pint-of-lager-and-packet of crisps' type press briefings... and he was very successful at it too, better than the 'Prince of Darkness' Peter Mandelson... but Campbell didn't become a Baron like Mandelson, both were capable of 'getting down and dirty' when necessary.
Good grief, they're removing their own posts on government websites, posts containing lockdown guidance that now embarrasses them in light of the Cummings/Johnson debacle.
Has there ever been a more shifty, make-it-up-on-the-fly British government than this? And 'shifty' is too kind and inappropriate a word really.
Has there ever been a more shifty, make-it-up-on-the-fly British government than this? And 'shifty' is too kind and inappropriate a word really.
Cummings taking questions is interesting given his often combative and disdainful relationship with journalists and the fact that coming across as sympathetic isn't exactly his forte. Wonder what tone exactly he's going to look to strike? Hope the journos are on their game.
Also wonder whose idea it is? Does he actually want to publicly respond or is he being pushed out front to try and save himself because nobody else wants to do it?
Also wonder whose idea it is? Does he actually want to publicly respond or is he being pushed out front to try and save himself because nobody else wants to do it?
I wouldn't be surprised if they've handpicked journos to ask simple questions he can bat away/play up the father instincts angle.
Every PM has their 'henchmen/woman' Wilson -Lady Faulkner; Thatcher -Ingram; Blair-Campbell; Brown -Balls; Cameron -Coulson; Boris-Cummings whats new about that, only Cameron lost his!
If he's anything like his employers - and he surely is - then he'll resent being questioned in both senses of that word. He isn't anti-elitist in his attitude of superiority, that's for sure.
Seriously?! That's shocking!
As for Cummings doing a press conference, isn't he a massive asshole with an incredibly short fuse? Putting him in front of the press seems extremely stupid.
It's also tricky given the current accusations that he's the one real power in the government. Giving his own press conference doesn't exactly play against that notion.
"And now we go on to the questions if anyone has any - from the Telegraph, The Sun and InfoWars only please."
Thanks... hope he's taking notes!
Is there evidence of this?
Probably, but I'm too lazy to find it.
Trump-esque is my prediction.
Think I’ve said this before but he was at the wedding of one of my best friends. His wife was a university pal of the bride. So weird. He had more hair then. Still a weaselly looking fecker.
its 'news' in that foreign media is now using this fact to mock Boris.
I was thinking the same, this is sabotage of the finest order or incredible naivety/daftness on part of the government.
Indeed.
Do you know what. I have written to my MP four times in the last few weeks asking him to respond on a specific issue.
Four times.
And has he had the decency to respond.
NO.
Not even an acknowledgement of my requests.
That is what you get when you elect a Tory MP.
Until of course they want your vote.
It's either going to be a carefully orchestrated press Q&A session or he's that desperate because Boris and co have been so utterly useless at defending him. At this point unless he reveals it was all a cover up and he was actually on his own working for MI6 taking down an evil terrorist organisation with the help of the IMF, and Tom Cruise himself provides video evidence of them both hanging off of a nuclear missile trying to stop it from detonating, this story isn't going to go away.
Thankfully I have a Labour MP. Will see what he comes back with.
That chosen style of dress; a very old trick:
'The *********** Diogenes was at the Athenian theatre one day. A group of youths from the wealthy city of Sybaris entered; all decked out in the finest clothes, jewellery and make up, striding through with the confidence that they were as natural as water or air. Diogenes, a confirmed critic of all excess, stood up and shouted at them “Affectation, affectation!”
A little later another group walk in; this time, the residents of Croton, known for their ascetic style of dress and life, who also walk with the confidence of supposed authenticity. Once again Diogenes shouted “More affectation!”'
I'm genuinely excited to find out what he does and says. This is what the lockdown has driven us to since there's no football.He doesn't do detail so no notes required.
The fact that Dominic Cummings son’s father is an autistic bastard with the emotional IQ of an amoeba is neither here nor there.
Cummings latest: "That money was just resting in my account."
How else could Boris and co defend him beyond what they have done (45 Tory MPs including many cabinet members tweeted in his support)?
The mistake was Boris's statements yesterday. He should have admitted that Cummings had made a mistake, was very sorry for that mistake, and understands how his decision looks in the current climate. But that he also empathised with Cummings situation and understood why he made the mistake under huge emotional duress. And then pleaded with public to understand his situation and ask them to empathise.
It still ends with Cummings being guilty but within totally different narrative (and a chance to fight) from the one now where Cummings is the most hated man in the country and whose position becomes untenable because of lack of credibility and integrity.
Im personally delighted, because I detest Cummings more than Boris. But it seems that the initial overt Tory support will end up being Cummings undoing.
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There is two ways this can go:
Orchestrated with right wing press which will be ridiculed and create even more controversy and public apathy.
Adhoc and he has the arrogance to believe he can handle it and he inevitably slips up because there’s no excuse for that he did.
Either way it’s going to be a shit show and more damaging.
I reckon there is more revelations and evidence to come too so it’s likely he’s going to be caught lying a few times.
Orchestrated with right wing press which will be ridiculed and create even more controversy and public apathy.
Adhoc and he has the arrogance to believe he can handle it and he inevitably slips up because there’s no excuse for that he did.
Either way it’s going to be a shit show and more damaging.
I reckon there is more revelations and evidence to come too so it’s likely he’s going to be caught lying a few times.
Fact that he is being allowed to use Downing Street as his stage tells us that Boris is still 100% behind him, and this will be an attempt to ride it out.
A fecking adviser?
The coordinated messaging from a bunch of the Conservative MPs told us that.
I wonder if the conference is in part to preempt the police inquiry. Cummings will know whether or not he did breach it a second time by going to Barnard Castle and if the police will prove this, so getting ahead of it would make sense to me. How he goes about doing that remains to be seen - or maybe he gets his denial in early and is going to play the ‘fake news’ route.
15. No paedophile rape/jokes before anyone thinks of posting any. Should go without saying but I know what some of you are like.
He will offer a half arsed orchestrated explanation which will be accepted by some of the people/press and they will start defending him after. I have no hope for the people of this country, he and Boris will just get away with it like all of the stuff they have got away with.