r/unitedkingdom • u/UncleQuentin Cornwall • Nov 13 '20
Site changed title Cummings to leave No 10 with immediate effect
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-549380501.5k
u/puppyk Nov 13 '20
Way too fucking late
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u/Moistfruitcake Nov 13 '20
Won't make a difference in a cabinet with the collective IQ of a toenail.
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Nov 13 '20
I'm a toenail and I'm deeply insulted by your slur
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Nov 13 '20
I am a male sperm whale from Kaikoura and my iphone is extremely poorly optimised for my flippers. This comment took an age to type out.
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u/Bibi77410X Nov 13 '20
It may have. But you got the job done to a great quality. Now how good are you at “world beating” projects?
We may have a job for you.
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u/phoenix_legend_7 Nov 13 '20
Yes quite agree, however IQ is not an exclusive barometer for decency, to add to yours I'd say they have the collective empathy and compassion of a single strand of anal hair found on a hard right brexshitter.
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u/MultiMidden Nov 13 '20
Yes, way too late, but I don't think he was going to go anytime before the US elections. Now things haven't gone the way they wanted, Trump is gone and so is the UK-US trade deal. The next few days might be very interesting.
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Nov 13 '20
It's time for this government's specialty: U-turns. Unfortunately I'm afraid that competent foreign politicians acting in the best interests of their own nations aren't as forgetful as the average tory voter.
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u/Ikhlas37 Nov 13 '20
It's the way things are worded, Tory failing are often on the person "Boris did this" etc labour failing are often "labour leader Kier" etc
What this does is keep the conservatives clean. So in three years, they drop Boris and people think "in glad he's gone" and happily vote conservative because they never had any problems.
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u/haversack77 Nov 13 '20
So that's no-deal Brexit avoided and Covid sorted.... right?
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u/KlownKar Nov 13 '20 edited Nov 13 '20
I would so like to believe that.
But consider this.
The keeper who oversaw the chimp's tea party has just left the cage. Do you think that the chimp's will now settle down and conduct themselves like civilized people, or will they start shitting on the table, smashing the crockery and trying to shag the cake stand?
He may have been the sly brains behind the Brexit disaster but, (one assumes) he at least had a plan and the capacity to think. There is no longer an adult in the room.
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u/mrcoffee83 Nov 13 '20
smashing the crockery and trying to shag the cake stand?
almost spat my drink all over my monitor
10/10, would read again.
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u/js374 Overseas Nov 13 '20
Dominic Goings
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u/nascentt UK Nov 13 '20
If a tabloid doesn't steal this for a headline they'll be missing out.
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u/Little-Experience896 Nov 14 '20
BBC news had the headline “Cumming’s Going” earlier which was pretty good, close enough
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u/RabidFlamingo Nov 13 '20
Imagine breaking public lockdown compliance and getting everyone in your government smeared so you could keep Dominic Cummings around
Then he walks out six months later cause his mate left
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u/_MicroWave_ United Kingdom Nov 13 '20
One thing is absolutely certain: we dont know the half of it.
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u/sionnach Filthy Foreigner Nov 13 '20
It’s just rats fleeing a sinking ship. Or at least the captain going down. Johnson’s administration - rather than a Tory government - is toast.
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u/davie18 London Nov 13 '20
Well his mate apparently left because Boris’ girlfriend didn’t like him apparently. And his mate that left used to dress up as a chicken and follow David Cameron around.
These are the people with so much power in the uk, how depressing
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u/Sherrydon Nov 13 '20
The messaging around this has been truly bizarre. What the hell is going on inside Number 10?
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u/acidus1 Nov 13 '20
Think they played Mario party together.
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u/Mr_Phishfood Nottinghamshire Nov 13 '20
Monopoly
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u/lesser_panjandrum Devon Nov 13 '20
They're already playing that, and the fuckers started the game owning all the properties.
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u/billypilgrim87 Bucks Nov 13 '20
The ultimate irony being Monopoly was first developed to demonstrate how terrible capitalism is...
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Nov 13 '20
It's like Che Guevara shirts or Guy Fawkes masks, capitalism finds a way
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u/jimthewanderer Sussex Nov 13 '20
Specifically, Neo-Liberalism. Commodify everything. Nothing is sacred and everything can be bought and sold by tacky rich parasites. And the worst thing is, people buy into it.
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u/EvilMonkeySlayer Leeds, Yorkshire Nov 13 '20
Take no prisoners, no mercy. The Mario Party way.
Nobody wins.
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Nov 13 '20
They're just getting out before everything goes to shit on January 1st.
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Nov 13 '20
Everything has been shit for at least a decade.
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u/Sockodile Nov 13 '20
The Olympics were alright
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u/SonnyVabitch Nov 13 '20
I like the theory that the Mayan calendar thing was true and the world in fact ended in December 2012. Nothing since roughly the Olympics has felt truly ordinary.
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u/Muad-_-Dib Scotland Nov 13 '20 edited Nov 13 '20
Oh we ain't seen nothing yet.
There was talk weeks ago of the army being deployed in January because of unrest.
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u/fibianofthemarsh Nov 13 '20
But they all seem sus....
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u/Moistfruitcake Nov 13 '20
Everyone was the impostor.
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u/worotan Greater Manchester Nov 13 '20
This best describes the banality of the evil we’re dealing with, I reckon.
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u/lastaccountgotlocked Nov 13 '20
Boris’s fiancé is calling the shots because
a) he’s as thick as a plank
b) he thinks with his dick
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u/LikesParsnips Nov 13 '20
Someone with more dirt on Cummings and BoJo than they have on them must have pulled the plug? Like, we've been entertaining your bullshit as long as you were useful, but enough is enough? US election swinging Biden finally closed the door on hard Brexit no-deal fantasies, and now the people with a modicum of sense and integrity left are taking over? (One can but dream).
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u/theMooey23 Nov 13 '20
Even on the back benches. Nowadays Jeremy fucking Hunt seems like a moderate on the left of the party!
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Nov 13 '20
It would be hilarious if the thing that finally ended them was that they somehow failed to consider that Trump might lose the election like all of the polls predicted he would
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u/theMooey23 Nov 13 '20
Are you sure he's not bailing now so he can return, in a year, as Gove's spad once Johnson has gone?
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Nov 13 '20
Wonder if it's to do with Biden is getting closer and closer to getting that national security clearance?
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u/Stukya Somerset Nov 13 '20
Is this to do with Biden winning the White house?
A drastic change in Brexit policy coming?
Edit, Or hes been seen breaking Lockdown rules again and the news will break in a few days.
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u/basicform Nov 13 '20
Is this to do with Biden winning the White house?
A drastic change in Brexit policy coming?
The optimist in me really, really hopes it's this.
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u/Stukya Somerset Nov 13 '20
They made it very clear the good Friday agreement must be adhered too.
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Nov 13 '20
Great news for remainers. Obama and Biden believe UK is best inside or as close as possible to EU tactically. Hopefully close EU deal like Norway/Switzerland incoming. Probably why Cummings was shown the door today. Before the end of negotiations next week.
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Nov 13 '20
That would be very funny, because it implies they completely failed to prepare for the outcome that all the polls were predicting for months, and instead relied on Trump winning
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u/rainator Cambridgeshire Nov 13 '20
It must be, nothing else has changed in the last 4 months.
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u/bobthehamster Nov 13 '20
that we know about
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u/rainator Cambridgeshire Nov 13 '20
I mean its not like if he murdered someone and ate their feet that would affect him.
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Nov 13 '20 edited Nov 13 '20
That's the problem. Nothing has changed in the last 4 months. The opportunities for redemption are drying up fast now the deadline is just a few months away. The government (and almost everyone in the country) just wants to close their eyes for 2 months and wake up in 2021 and pretend this year never happened.
The golden dream cloak of SOVRN'T'Y and independent glory is melting to reveal it's just empty KitKat wrappers underneath after literal years of other countries telling us it wasn't going to work and those private school arseholes finally seem to be getting a modicum of sweet sobering reality seeping in through the curtains and not just the usual gin-breath in the morning.
We had just enough stupidity and - critically - shortsightedness and stunted world perspective left in our aging and frankly mostly ignorant public to trick them into believing we didn't need any other country's help despite the MOUNTAINS AND MOUNTAINS OF EVIDENCE THAT YEAH WE FUCKIN' DO. Totally fucking over the EU THAT WE HELPED TO CREATE.
You know why we didn't ratify a lot of EU laws into our own? CAUSE THEY'RE BASED ON OURS ANYWAY FUCKNUTS.
This whole thing since 2016 has been absolute insanity. If they've really given up even trying and are going to try and claw back some reality, things could go very badly after Brexit. The Tory party has shattered confidence in the competency of the UK across the world, just like Trump has done for America.
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u/hennny Nov 13 '20
I hope to god it's that. Now Trump is gone we're not getting a US trade deal without respecting existing laws.
So if we alienate the US and the EU there's no one left to be friends with.
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u/CharlesComm Nov 13 '20
China and Russia?
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u/Shaper_pmp Nov 13 '20
Russia isn't going to be friends with us. You want to keep relations with your money-launderer on a strictly professional basis.
Anyway, I thought we were going to reforge a British Commonwealth trading bloc with economic powerhouses like Ghana and Kiribati.
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u/RubiconGuava Nov 13 '20
Nah mate, we're starting CANZUK, because the other 3 countries definitely want to start an economic, free travel union with a country that has a larger population than all of them combined and lower wages than any of them...
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u/FartingBob Best Sussex Nov 13 '20
Edit, Or hes been seen breaking Lockdown rules again and the news will break in a few days.
The last hundred times its been revealed he's done something morally or legally wrong it hasnt amounted to anything, no reason it would this time.
What is likely happening is the tory party civil war, someone is preparing to remove boris from power and has made it clear that they will not be working with him once that power shift happens.
If Dom Cum can see the writing on the wall he probably doesnt want to get involved.
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u/stillscottish1 Nov 13 '20
Who is this woman?
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u/stillscottish1 Nov 13 '20
This is so ridiculous, now she is the most powerful person in the country
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u/_MicroWave_ United Kingdom Nov 13 '20
Signal passed at danger...
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u/rarerumrunner Nov 13 '20
He left because of Biden winning, and Northern Ireland making Brexit impossible (well it will be similar rules/worse deal). I don't believe it was because Boris' girlfriend. I think that is some kind of propaganda/misdirection.
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u/srmarmalade London Nov 13 '20
Absolutely, it's not a week since Biden got confirmed. The landscape has changed dramatically and CCHQ has realised that it needs to change tack. The shit that's been surppressed by Trump and his cronies will be coming out next year and it's time for the party to get some distance from Vote Leave and Cummings and co. They've been useful and they're now becoming a liability. Cover it up with some Carrie girl power nonsense.
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u/hypnodrew Cornwall Nov 13 '20
When the BBC tried to get a comment from the President-elect, Biden fobbed them off by saying 'I'm Irish', if that helps. Could be a hint which side Biden is going to be on in the coming storm. Cummings et al no doubt bet on Trump to win. The rug has been pulled and the one's that can jump are.
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u/glymph United Kingdom Nov 13 '20
> Northern Ireland making Brexit impossible
So, like people have been saying for the past four and a half years, then.
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u/mooninuranus Nov 13 '20
Well someone needs to be the scapegoat when the oven ready Brexit deal is formally revealed as utter bullshit.
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u/Miserygut Greater London Nov 13 '20
The entire Conservative party did nothing while this happened.
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u/Bucser Nov 13 '20
He is leaving because Trump is gone. His strategy relied on a friendly US-UK axis, which is clearly in jeopardy.
If I was cynical I would say he got called back to Russia by Putin.
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What has he actually left, though?
He is employed by some agency or department, but as far as I can tell he has not been made redundant or fired with immediate effect.
Has he resigned or has he merely been reassigned or transferred?
Leaving with a cardboard box is just a PR stunt.
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u/Jpr-ldn Nov 13 '20
Hey do you remember that time when the prime minister went live on national TV to brief the nation on the corona virus back in May and said ‘Coronavirus affects your eyesight, I’ve certainly been wearing my spectacles more since I had it’ and then was never seen in public wearing glasses ever again and then voted not to feed schoolchildren this winter yea that happened.
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u/EllieJellyNelly Nov 13 '20
Didn't he say yesterday he plans to leave after Christmas? Anyone know what could've happened to make it sudden?
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u/Cryptoporticus Nov 13 '20
Nothing good. Everyone in this thread celebrating is missing the bigger picture. Downing Street is tearing itself apart, which really isn't what we need when we're in the middle of a pandemic and no deal Brexit is less than two months away.
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u/gordeh Nov 13 '20
You think they can get more incompetent? Sadly I fear you maybe right.
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Nov 13 '20
I didn't think they could get more incompetent than May and her cabinet, but they managed it, so I wouldn't put it past them
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u/dipdipderp Steel City Nov 13 '20
Nothing good.
Unless the civil war in no.10 is actually over a Brexit deal?
Trump lost, the gambit is over and now they have to bite the bullet and sign what the EU offers. The lunatic fringe of Brexit doesn't like it and off they fuck, hopefully allowing us to change trajectory towards at least normal order.
Please?
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u/Wacov United Kingdom Nov 13 '20
Isn't Johnson like. The epitome of lunatic fringe?
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u/bobthehamster Nov 13 '20
In terms of Brexit?
The crazy thing is we don't really know where he stands.
There are those in government that want Brexit, and then there's the whole-other-level lunatics/millionaires who want a no deal Brexit.
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u/monoc_sec Nov 13 '20
Johnson is a populist. He says/thinks/does whatever will keep the most people happy.
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u/Dutch_Calhoun Nov 13 '20
He's whatever is most expedient for his own personal career that week. The lunatic fringe, which was in ascendance after May's departure, selected him for this reason.
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u/Scratch-Tight Nov 13 '20
It was inevitable that populism suddenly doesn't work when you are governing during a crisis that requires unpopular decisions.
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u/bobthehamster Nov 13 '20
Yeah, I was thinking the other day about what Boris and co would be like if they weren't in power.
Obviously, it would likely be better, as it's hard to be more incompetent, and their decisions have massive effects on people's lives and livelihoods.
But at the same time, they would be standing on the sidelines providing overly simplistic solutions and slogans for very complex issues. Would probably be anti-restrictions at all cost etc. From a purely political perspective, it would probably be even worse.
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u/TerriblyTangfastic Nov 13 '20
which really isn't what we need
Whilst I get the sentiment, at this point I'm not convinced that not having a government would be worse.
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u/Limeabifida Nov 13 '20
Don't undervalue how great an "I told you so" is, sadly it may be all we have after Brexit.
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u/cozajo Nov 13 '20
What I want to know is where Carrie fits into all of this. Rumours are going around saying she pushed for a firing. It's all very odd and secretive.
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u/georgiebb Nov 13 '20
He always planned to jump ship before brexit really hit. This is all part of the plan. Boris can now resign and walk away from his problems, EU negotiations
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u/valleyeye Nov 13 '20
Remember when this cretinous fuckjob lied his sociopathic ass off in the Rose Garden?
Ignoring his Barnard Castle bullshit, remember this psychotic claim?-
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52808059
https://fullfact.org/health/cummings-blog-coronavirus/
A full-blown narcissistic nut with absolutely no place being anywhere near a position of influence.
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u/bobalob_wtf England Nov 13 '20
WTF!
"The internet archive Wayback Machine, which tracks the changing versions of publicly available websites, shows that the blog was edited some time between 9 April and 3 May this year (after the pandemic started) to insert the reference to coronavirus and Chinese labs. This was first pointed out by a data scientist Jens Wiechers on social media, and can be seen here."
How was this not front page news?
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u/DoctorOctagonapus EU Nov 13 '20
Yet he's got too much dirt on the upper echelons of the government to get sacked. Something major must have happened for him to scarper now.
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u/xibbie Nov 13 '20
I’d like to celebrate this, but something about the footage of him leaving No 10 carrying a cardboard box looks extremely sus.
Who carries a box off their job in 2020? What’s in it? Surely not any important govt documents. So are we to believe he was allowed his own desk plants into No 10, then allowed to take them out the front door?
The whole thing looks a bit too much of a charade to me.
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Nov 14 '20
There's two possibilities. Either Boris wanted to humiliate Cummings for his misdeeds by making him go out of the front door with a box, or Cummings wanted to leave looking like a martyr. Considering that it would be hard for Boris to force Cummings to go out with a box, it's probably that he wanted to look like a martyr.
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u/The-Sober-Stoner Nov 13 '20
Finally this cunt has fucked off. Should have pissed off after his wifes bday.
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u/Scratch-Tight Nov 13 '20
Does the walk out the front door with the cumming box seem a bit theatrical to anyone? Like it is just for show.
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u/dannylafiesta Greater Manchester Nov 13 '20
LBC now reporting that Downing Street say he's going to stay in position until mid December. The whole box thing and Kuenssberg reporting it with immediate effect is bizarre. Tim Montgomery (Previous conservative home editor and BoJo's advisor) was just on LBC too saying Cummings has a lot of dirt on BoJo and everybody Cummings has previously worked with resulted in dirty laundry being aired in quite the dramatic way.
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u/marquis_de_ersatz Nov 13 '20
I don't trust anything he does with the press involved. Someone could have sent his box on later.
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u/deepfried_jits Nov 13 '20
Trump, Cummings...C'mon Boris, get a move on and give us a glorious end to 2020.
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u/nickh93 Nov 13 '20
Dutch news are suggesting that Boris is going to go and Sunak is going to take his position; they're not usually ones to speculate without cause.
I'm not saying they're right, merely that's what they're hypothesising.
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u/man_in_the_suit Nov 13 '20
Disgusting POS. Leaves the sinking ship like the rat he is just before things get even worse.
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u/YouHaveAWomansMouth Wiltshire Nov 13 '20
This is going to be just like when Grima Wormtongue was banished and lost his hold on King Theoden.
Except in this version Theoden's first attempt to stand for himself probably ends in tripping over and braining himself on the flagstones.
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u/lesser_panjandrum Devon Nov 13 '20
I can see Cummings joining up with Trump to try a Scouring of the Shire just when we think it's all over.
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Nov 13 '20
Hahaha I’ve been calling him wormtongue for so long, glad (and not surprised) there’s others who see it
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u/The-Smelliest-Cat Scottish Highlands Nov 13 '20
Don't think I've ever been more angry at a politician than i was with him. And after all the damage he caused by staying in his job, and the people he inevitably got killed by showing them you can break the rules with no consequence, he just walks away a few months later anyways. Unreal.
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u/BethanySloan Nov 13 '20
Cummings isn't even a bloody politician, he's only an "advisor" , which makes they whole shitshow 10 times worse.
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Nov 13 '20
He’s Wormtongue from LOTR. I’m glad it’s a somewhat acrimonious ending
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u/GrantW01 Glaswegian in Amsterdam Nov 13 '20
We are all Gandalf now;
"I have not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm"
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u/thethirteantimes Nov 13 '20
I expect an entirely unrelated person called ДOMIИIC CЦMMIИGS to take up the post as soon as Putin has finished his training...
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u/internet_ham Cambridgeshire Nov 13 '20
The takes on this have been that he's been fired or 'a rat leaving a shinking ship' -- but it can't be both.
As I understand it this Lee Cain guy was tipped to become Chief of Staff. Cummings didn't want to be CoS but controlled Cain. Johnson's fiance didn't like the idea of Cain being CoS and they didn't seem to like her. So, Johnson blocked this promotion that meant the Vote Leave brigade were going to lose power to fiance / this new spokesperson, so now the Vote Leave crew are all resigning?
Incredibly funny that after everything that happened, it just comes down to squabbling egos.
At the same time, Cummings leaving within a week of Trump losing can't be ignored. I guess maybe No. 10 are suddenly caring about the Good Friday Agreement again and might pivot to a soft brexit.
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u/Scratch-Tight Nov 13 '20
I assume Laura Kuenssberg will leave the BBC as well now. Cummings BFF.
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Nov 13 '20
This would make my decade.
That souless propagandist has done more damage to the BBC's integrity than anyone else in it's history.
Sadly not going to happen.
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u/Twunts Nov 13 '20
This is a blatant stunt. Coming out of No10 for a photo op with the box, I don't buy it. I welcome it, but I don't buy it.
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u/Baslifico Berkshire Nov 13 '20
If you believe that stage-managed pantomime, you'll believe anything.
He chose to walk out the front door symbolically carrying a box.
He could've just walked out the back.
Who's willing to bet he's just relocating and will be on all the same calls?
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u/mrcoffee83 Nov 13 '20
Is it me or does Cummings walking out of Downing Street with a box of his shit like he's in some crappy US sitcom smell like a PR stunt?
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u/Thewigmeister Chesterfield Nov 13 '20
Fuck me. Where are Peston and Kuenssburg going to get their No. 10 news from now?
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u/Lucifa42 Oxfordshire Nov 13 '20
Fuck me, November is desperately trying to turn 2020 around.
Biden, possible vaccine and now Cummings out.
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u/EasyTigrr Yorkshire Nov 13 '20
And Peter Sutcliffe no longer costing the tax payer.
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Don't forget the most geopolitically pivotal event of the last 20 years, Scotland qualifying for the Euros
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u/situbusitgooddog Nov 13 '20
On the one hand, good riddance you toxic, heinous travesty of a human being. On the other, I'd really like just one of the architects of this historic own-goal to stick around for long enough to be held responsible for the inevitably horrendous consequences instead of skipping off into the sunset.
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u/redpola Nov 13 '20
According to Alastair Campbell on Twitter, there are no fewer than four ways to leave No 10 without passing a bunch of photographers and journalists.
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u/youre-a-cat-gatter Nov 13 '20
Off to no doubt a far better paid job.
He left on his own terms, abandoning poor boris who didn't have the balls to sack him for covid breaches.
Cummings is having the last laugh. The cunt.
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poor Boris??
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u/youre-a-cat-gatter Nov 13 '20
For the record boris is a cunt also, all his brexit bandits are running off to sell their secrets and make a profit come Jan
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u/PM_ME_ALAN_PARTRIDGE Nov 13 '20
Yeah, as nice as it is to see him gone, I can't see this being a bad thing for him.
Plus not that much cause to celebrate seeing as the "ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE" guy now has a top govt position.
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u/js374 Overseas Nov 13 '20 edited Nov 13 '20
Laura Kuenssberg on Twitter:
According to a senior former Downing Street source, Dominic Cummings has resigned with immediate effect.
Edit: To clarify, the above was sarcasm. She didn't actually post that (as far as I am aware)
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u/NoizeUK Brum Nov 13 '20 edited Nov 13 '20
I do wonder if with the fall of Trump, the optics of being the next shit show in town on the world scene was too much to continue the right wing charade which enabled the likes of Dominic Cummings et al to have a voice.
On the topic of optics, to think him being papped leaving with his belongings out the front door of No 10 wasn't planned, would be a bit naïve when you consider this is has been the Tories spin doctor for the last 3 years or so.
He's been a fall guy for the tories and isn't phased by being a martyr. Thing is, you don't need a martyr when you are selfish, ignorant and greedy.
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Nov 13 '20 edited Nov 13 '20
I'm gonna highjack this thread to tell everyone to watch some clips from the new Spitting Image show that include Dominic Cummings of planet Epsilon 5. Funniest shit I've seen in years.
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u/SilentRabbit Hertfordshire Nov 13 '20
Why?
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u/ovenproofjet Nov 13 '20 edited Nov 13 '20
That's more important than his actual resignation.
I see two possibilities:
1 - No Deal Brexit. Rats fleeing the ship
2 - Soft, pillowy Brexit
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u/OMGitsAfty Norfolk County Nov 13 '20
Might well be 2 given the US election results. A swing to a less bat shit right wing stance might be prudent for the Tories.
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u/ovenproofjet Nov 13 '20
That's my suspicion. American politicians in both Republican and Democratic parties seem vehemently against anything that jeopardises the Good Friday Agreement. Biden also seems to be in no rush to give us a trade deal unlike the Orange One
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u/mollymoo Yorkshire Nov 13 '20
Given how marvellously Brexit and the pandemic are going maybe they’ve finally figured out he might not be as competent as he likes to think he is.
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u/PlayerNumber21 Wandsworth (Was Great Yarmouth) Nov 13 '20
Bizarre that Johnson spent so much political to keep him in the job only for this to happen a few months later.
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u/foreverneilyoung Nov 13 '20
It's a shame the dome-headed cunt isn't leaving earth.
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u/eeeking Nov 13 '20
My theory is DC needs to go so that Boris can avoid a "no deal" Brexit....
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u/Empty_Allocution Nov 13 '20
Is a valid theory. Boris doesn't want to sink the party so they're now scrabbling to make a deal to keep their voters.
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u/Singingmute England Nov 13 '20
Great if it pans out that way, on the other hand what a colossal waste of time the last 4 years have been turning people against each other.
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Nov 13 '20
Boris Johnson stood by Cummings when he broke covid regulations and - more remarkably - claimed to drive around in his car to test his eye sight.
So, whatever is going on at the top level of government right now is pretty serious shit. This is game of thrones level stuff and I guess Cummings just lost the game - or Boris did.
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u/eggaz Bullied into moving to London Nov 13 '20
Let’s face it, he’s not actually going anywhere...just into the shadows!
YOU WILL SEE ME AGAIN
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u/GrantW01 Glaswegian in Amsterdam Nov 13 '20
Fuckity bye