Boris's Glorious Self Isolation

 

Hi folks, I’ve been instructed by our NHS Test & Trace scheme to self-isolate for two weeks, after being in contact with someone with Covid-19.

I’m in good health and have no symptoms, and will continue to lead on our response to the virus & our plans to #BuildBackBetter pic.twitter.com/yNgIme8lOz

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) November 16, 2020

PM message to MPs on Whatsapp tonight: “the rules are the rules” pic.twitter.com/9ZSrDOFRTP

— Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) November 15, 2020

The media are bleating that this messes up Boris's plans for the reset of his government.

Nonsense!

He can spend this time wisely considering what to do, and still maintain contact with Carrie via WhatsApp!

Media Wetting Themselves Over The Departure of Cummings - As Usual The Media Gets It Wrong!

 

The media are currently wetting themselves over the now formalised year end departure of Dominic Cummings.

Whilst this may be all very entertaining, if you are in the media or Westminster bubble, it rather ignores the elephant in the room.

His year end departure was known about, and reported on, back in May; eg as per The Metro:

"A source, who reportedly knows him well, told the Daily Mail he plans to step back from politics now Brexit has been achieved. 

They said: ‘Dominic has not decided what to do. He will stay in his job if it seems worthwhile and [he] can improve things – otherwise he probably won’t.’ 

The Spectator magazine, where Mr Cummings used to work and where his wife is a commissioning editor, also reported that he could consider himself ‘largely redundant’ by Christmas if he has completed reforms of Whitehall. "

The resignation is merely formalising what was already the plan.

The question is, once he goes who will become the object of the media's frenzied hatred?

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!

Sir John Bell Nails It - Don't Screw It Up!

 

Health select committee:

Sir John Bell says we have a "70 to 80 per cent chance" of reaching Easter having vaccinated the most vulnerable

"That's provided they don't screw up the distribution of the vaccine."

— Rowland Manthorpe (@rowlsmanthorpe) November 10, 2020

The American View of The World Is Remarkably Insular!

 

WATCH: Fireworks in London, Edinburgh as Biden win celebrated abroad https://t.co/dqPLRPso6i pic.twitter.com/xAOzXP79AU

— The Hill (@thehill) November 8, 2020

Handcock The Leaker Twists Reality

 

#Coronavirus has a very significant impact on mental health.@rcpsych said today: "allowing Covid to go unchecked would also have serious consequences for mental illness"

Supporting mental health is another reason to bring this virus under control. pic.twitter.com/zDr4etoT6Q

— Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) November 2, 2020

Handock really is a vile little man, he knows perfectly well that lockdowns cause untold psychological damage to many people!

Whilst I have your attention, he was the one who leaked the lockdown details on Saturday.

Brexit Party Relaunched as Reform Party

EXCLUSIVE
The Brexit Party is to be relaunched as an anti-lockdown party called Reform UK, in a move which could alarm Conservative MPs jittery about Covid-19 policy.
Plans to change the name of the Brexit Party to Reform UK were submitted to the Electoral Commission last week.

— Christopher Hope📝 (@christopherhope) November 1, 2020

 

 The cat has been put well and truly amongst the pigeons!