Dominic Cummings branded Cabinet ‘useless f***pigs’ as he raged at ‘exhausting’ Boris Johnson over Covid response in WhatsApps – with the ex-No10 chief aide’s language condemned as ‘revolting’ by lawyer as he appears before official inquiry
by dailymail
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Feels to me like some serious rewriting of recent history is going on here. He was [widely alleged](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/22/no-10-denies-claim-dominic-cummings-argued-to-let-old-people-die) to have been against strict lockdown controls and to have said in relation to pursuing herd immunity that
>*“if that means some pensioners die, too bad”.*
He has always struck me as a rather petty and vindictive person with a superficial understanding of anything he stuck his nose into. Unfortunately he’s also eminently quotable and that dazzles journalists even when he makes it clear he loathes them.
I do love the performative pearl clutching at the bad language.
Anyway, what his testimony (and that of others) shows is the dysfunction not only of the Conservative government, but more importantly the dysfunctional decision making structures in our government. Clearly not fit for purpose.
Now this will get drowned out by the obviously political stuff, but the bigger issue is the failure of executive/decision making structures, particularly when it comes to emergencies. That’s the real story in Cumming’s testimony. Clearly Government structures are desperately unprepared to react to crises, whatever party is in power. It also means that when you get a group of rank incompetents in government like Johnson and his cabinet, these systems amplify that incompetence, rather than mitigate it.
feels like, he played a pretty big part in the lead up to that Government, and the Government itself.
This is The Thick of It stuff, but it’s real and hundreds of thousands died because of it.
Dude just admitted to playing an integral role in there not being a COBRA meeting that he goes on to say played a pretty major role in things going way South with COVID at the time.
Either a thick f***ing c*** himself or has retained the services of the shittiest solicitor. Or…both.
Had no issue going along with them all when it suited him though, self serving rat with zero morals or principles beyond looking out for number one. I hope no ones sucked into his attempt to brand himself as someone who in any way had the public interest at heart
After this, the main players should all be arrested and prosecuted for negligence. Johnson, Cummings, Hancock, Sunak – the whole fucking crew. Absolutely disgraceful what’s coming out of this enquiry. Even worse than what I thought would come out
Here’s a link from twitter with some of the footage of the inquiry – https://x.com/politicsjoe_uk/status/1719347361346887920?s=46&t=LJ4C-WUpRqUSSnaeZ0WIvA
He’s really just a British Elon Musk.
Massive ego but largely talentless except when it comes to convincing idiots he’s a genius.
Where’s the mainstream media on this enquiry? If I Google ‘UK news’ the main articles are about XL bullies and halloween peppermints..
After they spend shit tonnes of money on this, we’ll get the “lessons have been learnt and we must now move on and concentrate in delivering our promises to the people of Great Britain”.
I completely agree with the things Dominic Cummings has said but he is no better. He’s a complete moron.
The whole thing with Cummings and Johnson is very interesting. Cummings is clearly intelligent, but grew increasingly frustrated with the complete incompetence of the elected officials he worked for. To him, they were merely the pawns he needed to use to gain power. Cummings would never have become PM himself, he would never have won an election, but he used Johnson to be the campaigner, which Johnson is and has always been good at, the man won mayor of London as a Conservative, twice. But make no mistake, once Johnson was in office, it was Cummings who was running the country.
*But amateurs chase the sun and get burned. True power stays in the shadows.*
Cummings’s mistake was allowing himself to enter the limelight. Whether this was done intentionally because he wanted to get recognition, or unintentionally is hard to say, but once this happened his downfall was inevitable.
Being in the limelight put strain on the relationship between him and Johnson, and his true feelings towards Johnson, that he is not really his friend, but sees him as a useful idiot only serving as a vessel for Cummings to gain power, became more clear. This, as well as the newfound focus on Cummings and his activities, soured their relationship, and ultimately led to Cummings being ousted. While Cummings may have been the one truly running things, Johnson was still the PM, Cummings could do nothing to retain power once Johnson soured on him.
But even if their relationship hadn’t faltered, Cummings’s career was still condemned when he entered the limelight. It was inevitable that Johnson, being such a buffoon, would cause a controversy from which he would not recover (ultimately that was the Partygate scandal). If Cummings remained on the sidelines, he could simply jump to the next one, and let Johnson burn himself. But by being in the public eye, he became intrinsically attached to Johnson, if one goes down, so does the other. They became a single political entity in both the eyes of the public, and the eyes of the other top Tories. No other potential PM would want to work with Cummings, or allow him into their circle, both because they’d be wise to his game, but also because being linked to him would be political suicide, given that he was so closely associated with Johnson, Johnson would be the poisonous tree, Cummings his fruit.
Ultimately then, regardless of your views on the policies of the Johnson-Cummings partnership, Cummings was a intelligent man, he knew how to play those who were less intelligent but more charismatic than himself, and he knew how to use that to his advantage to gain power. He made only one critical mistake, he allowed himself to leave the shadows, and he got burned.
The dodgiest thing about Cummings imo is that he spent three years living in Russia before returning to the UK and getting involved in all sorts of anti-EU projects.
Anything he says cannot be taken seriously after what he did
So, let’s get this straight.
The lawyer considers the language to be ‘revolting’, which implies that it was unwarranted.
We had a government that was literally ‘fiddling as Rome burns’.
If anything, I’d say this is probably one of the only times such language is truly allowable – dealing with a bunch of slopey shouldered jobsworths who ran from responsibility as a potentially deadly virus made its way to our shores.
This isn’t Gordon Ramsey turning the air blue over substandard ravioli.
This was a very serious situation being treated with apathy by those who were meant to do something.
The pearl clutching is ridiculous.
Wether you like him or not, it’s highly likely Cummings was the cleverest man in the room at all times during that period.
After reading his reductive blogs, Cummings struck me as a self-loathing arts student who wishes he’d studied within a(ny) STEM field and let that completely warp his personality and attitudes to public life.
He appears superficially useful because, compared to the cunts with which he is associated, he is and he demonstrably can manage short-term operations effectively but beyond that, fundamentally, he’s an intellectually stunted, over-promoted, worm-ridden anal abscess and should be burned alive along with the entire abandonment of tories.
(With love)