Dazzled By His Own Brilliance - The Damp Squid That is Dominic Cummings

 

Today the chattering classes and those in the Westminster bubble are having all their Christmasses in one ecstatic 4 hours; as Cummings gives vent to his personal vendetta against Westminster, Boris, Hancock and the civil service in front of a hearing of the Commons Health and Social Care and Science and Technology committees.

Meanwhile the country is looking forward to post lockdown  life, and has already been informed about what went on in Cabinet on a regular basis by 

-Cummings (via a 64 post tweet), 

-Peston (the official spokesman of Cummings) 

-and the rest of the MSM during the course of last year's leaks (presumably from Cummings).

Thus, aside from the breathless media, this will not be the shock and awe that Cummings and Gove had hoped for.

Meanwhile spare a thought for those in the media and in politics who up until now have totally despised Cummings, and have stated how many times that he is not to be trusted, as they now feed on every word he utters!

#CumGate - A Gate To Nowhere

The inhabitants of the Westminster bubble (namely the journalists and politicians who feed upon each other) are in a feeding frenzy over what Cummings has hinted he knows, and what he may reveal to Parliament next month.

Thusfar it has been pretty thin gruel a.o.:

- the PM may, or may not, have vociferously resisted a third lockdown (which he ended up imposing)

- the PM may, or may not, have wanted someone else to pay for the redecoration of Number 11 (which he ended up paying for)

- Chatty Rat may or may not be Cummings or Henry Newman

The fact is, no one outside of the Westminster bubble gives a toss about these issues that have been in the public domain for some months now.

As the pandemic restrictions are eased, people will want to put the whole experience behind them (as they did after the 1919 flu pandemic). What will matter to the people who actually do matter (ie the voters) will be

- the state of the economy (exceptional growth now predicted), 

- the functioning of the NHS(which has been found wanting), 

- education, 

- housing and 

- law & order.