Cummings

[Paigntonian]

Assertions damning. Matt Hancock in serious trouble.

[Peter Pedant]

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He has been called to testify to a hearing of the Commons Health and Social Care and Science and Technology committees.

What do you expect him to do,//

give evidence as to what he did - life is full of - - someone said do X which was correct and they didnt and people DDDIIIIIEEEEDDDD!

basically people take bad decisions - for excellent reasons at the time

(look at Bolton and vacca for chrissakes)

[burlyshirley]

Ellipsis I couldn't care less what he does, stop getting your knickers in a twist.

[emmie]

untitled, Boris mistake was hiring him in the first place. I doubt that he was universally liked.

[Ken4155]

I do believe he apologised for his shortcomings at the very beginning of the session.
Yes, he is a rat, but let's not forget that the PM appeared to hang on his every word for quite a considerable time. And, but for Carrie, he may well still have been Johnson's BFF.

[Ken4155]

Much of Johnson's success in the Brexit referendum and the General Election is due in no small part to Cummings. So can hiring him really be considered a mistake.

[emmie]

i missed the beginning, and won't watch anymore. He is there to answer questions, whether he tells the truth, who knows.

[Ellipsis]

> Ellipsis I couldn't care less what he does, stop getting your knickers in a twist.

Perfectly calm here, unlike you it seems. Quite what I said to earn that response, I have no idea.

[emmie]

so that dismisses all the people that spent all those years, getting Brexit sorted.

[Ken4155]

^
What?

[EdmundD]

Sour grapes.

[ichkeria]

The most damning thing you can say about Johnson is that he was foolish enough to employ this individual in the first place.
It was plainly high-risk given Cummings reputation as an anarchist and someone plainly poised to turn the tables on anyone who crosses him. The Brexit campaign chiefs who tried to sack him know this only too well. They ended up going and he took over!

[Ken4155]

Yes, Edmund, sour grapes indeed. But is he telling the truth and will the truth hurt anyone?

[emmie]

what? you said that Brexit was largely down to DC, and the GE election, but there's a raft of people doing the donkey work presumably. Perhaps Boris's big mistake was keeping him on for so long. Yes he had the PM's ear, maybe that shouldn't have happened so often.

[ichkeria]

“ Much of Johnson's success in the Brexit referendum and the General Election is due in no small part to Cummings. So can hiring him really be considered a mistake.”

Plainly a huge mistake. The referendum was before Johnson became PM. Cummings was vital to that but a lot less vital to the election. It’s hard to believe even a group of ministers as haplessly incompetent as this lot couldn’t have found someone to take on Corbyn :-)

[emmie]

In Boris they got the leader they wanted, i wish that perhaps with a huge dollop of hindsight, that we had never heard of DC.

[Ken4155]

ich, do you think Johnson would have become PM without Brexit? The point i was trying to make is that with Cummings by his side, Johnson successfully led the Brexit campaign and his stock rose considerably. So much so that he is now our PM. Perhaps it could be argued that the best day's work Johnson did was to hire Cummings in the first place?

[saintpeter48]

Hell has no fury as a former government advisor scorned!!

[andy-hughes]

Mr Cummings will enjoy his moment in the sun - gettinsg some much-needed attention, which has been missing for a while.

The government will say the equivalent of "So what?" and Mr Cumming sill return to whatever he is doing now, with his power, such as it was, obliterated.

[johnny.5]

does anyone really care what he has to say at the moment ?
get it out in the open we all know Boris is a liar and we all have accepted that we are happy to have a liar as our prime minister

[lankeela]

So now he says he had all the answers.