Cummings Turns on Sunak

 

The Sunak interview is dangerous rubbish, reads like a man whose epicly bad campaign has melted his brain & he’s about to quit politics. Also pins blame *unfairly* on 🛒 & others. Will blog laterhttps://t.co/PG0YLZq5cZ

— Dominic Cummings (@Dominic2306) August 25, 2022

 

This truly is the end of days, not only has Cummings turned on Sunak (who he was supporting) he has defended Boris!

The Moving Finger Writes - The Magic Threshold of 54

 

There are several ways in which a sitting Tory PM can be removed from office:

- illness/death

- resignation

- 15% of Tory MPs (in this case 54) write to the chair of the backbench 1922 Committee saying they no longer have confidence in the PM

- the public, via a general election

- the Tories lose a motion of no confidence in the House.

Thanks to a combination of hysteria whipped up by certain sections of the hypocritical media and the drip feed of tittle tattle from an embittered ex employee, it looks as though the magic threshold of 54 letters might be reached.

There are potentially many reasons (eg energy costs, migrants, housing, the economy etc) why, at some stage in the coming year, Boris might need to step aside to allow someone else to lead the party into the next election. 

However, at this stage, #BYOBGate pushed front and centre by the media at the behest of Cummings is not the right reason nor the right time.

Cummings is an embittered ex employee consumed by anger, obsession and vindictiveness which is feeding his drive to unseat Boris. In the event he succeeds, he will increase the risk of a future Labour government aligning the country with the EU (something that would be an anathema to Cummings). All that he will then have left is is own self loathing. 

How on earth will that have benefited Cummings?

Therefore those MPs who have been quick to pen a letter should take note, they may well regret this later at their leisure.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

Cain, Cummings and Carrie

Lee Cain and Dominic Cummings

A No10 spad messages this morning. No love lost, it appears: “Literally no one in here is mourning Lee this morning. A rude, needlessly abrasive, insecure clown with no brain for govt, who crashed Boris’s comms into the ground before flouncing off in a huff without an apology”.

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) November 12, 2020

 

There are currently shenanigans aplenty in Number 10, as Boris tries to wrestle with the competing egos and factions within his "in house" team.

Having first promised a sop job to Lee Cain, Boris has had to unpromise it as a result of an outcry from others including Carrie.

Cain has now flounced off, and Cummings is pondering doing the same; with rumours that David Frost may also go. 

I doubt very much that Frost will go until the Brexit endgame is over. However, be that as it may, nonsense like this in the middle of a national crisis (partially self inflicted) and so close to Brexit deal/no deal is an utter disgrace. It reflects very poorly on the prima donnas involved, and poorly on Boris for allowing this to happen.

Shape up or ship out Boris, you have until year end to sort yourself and your team out!

Banquo Won't Be Vanquished!

Banquo who crafted the plans that drove the Brexit campaign, and played a major role in the victory of the king in the December battle for the soul of Albion is under seige.

Many in the royal court, and the lickspittles in the media that feed on the royal court's plots and intrigues, are jealous and angry with Banquo; they burn with hatred for his sleights and his success, and have been waiting for a slip.

Such a slip came when, fearing plague would rob him of his son, Banquo made an ill fated and ill judged journey to Durham and then to a Northern castle during Eostremonat.

It should be noted that Banquo's journey was first publicly Tweeted on 1 April to the high priestess of the BBC News Laura Keunssberg, and also SMS'd to those who think they are journalists (such as Owen Jones); yet the people of Albion (outside of the bubble) knew nothing of it at that stage.

But read on.

The king had also been struck down with the plague, leaving the way open for plots and intrigues aplenty in the royal court.

On learning of the plots Banquo returned to court, he put down a revolt by the Dark Knight Sedwill and his supine lackeys to extend the Brexit transition period. Spun by the disloyal courtiers and their media lickspittles as a pragmatic tactic in the wake of the plague, Banquo knew that it would entangle Albion in a seven year budget cycle that would in the end entrap Albion forever in the clutches of the emperors across the water.

The courtiers were not pleased and, together with their media lickspittles, they outed Banquo's journey and made merry with the people of England's righteous anger.

The king defended Banquo but the people, weary from the plague, needed someone to blame for their misery. The lickspittles in the media whispered and tweeted their poisonous words so sweetly and eloquently that that people's anger rose to fever pitch.

A weary Banquo donned his tarnished armour and did defend himself in the Garden of Roses.

Yet the people's anger was strong, and was further tempered in the furnace of the lickspittles' poisonous writings, tweetings and Countess Maitlis's monologues.

The Dark Knight Sedwill (who himself was to be vanquished by Banquo), the lickspittles in the media, Countess Gina and those who would feign loyalty to the king in his own cabinet are working behind the scenes to vanquish Banquo and lay the way open to Albion being handed over to the emperors across the water.

The people of Albion need to be aware that, whilst their anger at Banquo's mistake was justified, their anger is being used by others to steal from them what they most most desired in the first place.

The lickspittles and their masters (Dark Knight Sedwill et al) need to be made aware that Banquo will not be vanquished.

I will leave the final words to Banquo himself.

Man Savours The Roses On a Sunny Bank Holiday Monday

On a sunny Bank Holiday Monday a thin, pale faced, balding man (who very few people outside of Westminster had ever heard of a week ago) decided to savour the roses in the garden and invited some of his chums (including Beth, Bobbie and Laura) from the media around to share the experience.

During the gathering he entertained them by providing them with a detailed account (down to the very minutiae) of a trip he took with his wife and kid to Durham back at the tail end of March, rounding it off with his "novel" and "unique" method of checking eyesight - henceforth known as the Barnard Method.

NB: as the police have correctly and wisely stated, the Barnard Method is not to be recommended as a means for testing your eyesight.

Anyhoo, so engrossed were his chums in his story that not only did they sit through it in the blazing sun, without complaint, but they asked detailed questions afterwards about the trip and the Barnard Method.

As to what the general public make of all of this is very much down to them. In retrospect the trip was highly unwise (for all manner of reasons) and the "optics", for want of a better word, are terrible. The media, and certain sections of the Twitterverse, are out for blood and (for the moment) do not intend to talk about anything else.

However, in four years time, when the general public vote in the next general election the country will be very different from how it is now. Their views, opinion and judgement on the government (and whoever is leading it) will be based on how well or badly the government has rebooted the economy post covid crash, on whether the manifesto promises (eg levelling up) have been kept and the overall landscape (social, political, economic, health, mood etc) of Britain. The actions (unwise as they may have been) of a SPAD will not be the primary thought in their minds when they vote.

As for the media and Twitterverse, this has moved on from a "simple" political scandal to a rehash of the Brexit battle where people are seeking to settle old scores and grudges - even Gina Miller has resurfaced!

Whilst the public may well be angry (with due cause) about the apparent hypocrisy of the Durham trip, they will also become tired of the same attack lines being used day in day out and will  begin to feel revulsion at the sight of a pack of journalists baying for blood encamped outside the family home of Cummings and the home of his parents.

Oh, and for those in the media who keep saying he didn't apologise, wash your ears out he did apologise - at the very beginning of his Rose garden lecture, when he said sorry for keeping you waiting!