The chief advisor in Downing Street is supposed to bring every department in government together to thrash out all the potential stumbling blocks concerning policy and legislation before they arrive on the P.M.'s desk, but Cummings could not get himself out of hostile campaign mode, and as such, made enemies of pretty much everyone he has had to deal with All this at a time when Boris needs cooperative and useful allies more than ever. Has there ever been a time when professional administrators have been asked to do so much?
The rumour is that he has been allowed to work out his notice at home so he cannot orchestrate the complete collapse of the government (which he put in place) from the inside of Downing Street. This is the man who had armed police evict a female minister by escorting her to the front door, when she could have just walked out the back one, away from media attention. To say that he is not a nice man is an understatement.
So what is he going to do now? He would be lousy as an after dinner speaker, so that won't happen. He could write a book, but I don't think it could ever be made to portray him in a good light. To think that they made a film of him starring Cumberbatch. I don't think it was their intention, but some of Cumberbatch's glamour rubbed off. Truly terrible casting. His best chance at getting back into the news would be to advise Nigel Farage about his new 'Reform Britain' party.
They are very similar characters really.
He's off back to Epsilom 5, I mean Durham and good riddance. Maybe it's because Boris wouldn't let him eat the baby! (see Spitting Image). Enjoying your posts, thanks, Janx.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen the Spitting Image version yet. Thanks Jan, I am (so far) enjoying your comments too!
DeleteHis Spitting Image persona is excellent
DeleteCummings and director of communications Lee Cain,
ReplyDeletewho resigned on Thursday, will work out their notices
at home following tensions within No 10...
And..Labour said the PM could "rearrange the
deckchairs all he wants..but the responsibility
for this government's incompetence still lies
firmly at Boris Johnson's door"..
And back earlier in the year..Nigel Farage said
Dominic Cummings was a 'horrible nasty little man'
who 'must go' during an interview..!
And Farage recently stated “Seeing him leave Number
10 carrying a cardboard box tells me a Brexit sell-out
is close.”
My opinion..I've always wanted a complete break and
'no deal'.."Nuff Said"..!
And..It looks like Trump is done and dusted..his hair,
what there is of it..has turned grey, he's developed
wrinkles..and leaving his 'missus' seeking support from
a nearby soldier..holding onto him by the arm..
Trump is the pits..scum of the earth..HeHe! I'm trying
to keep it clean here..! ;).
To be slagged-off by Farage must constitute the equivalent of a beating with a wet lettuce.
DeleteJohn Bolton wrote a very self serving book and got it published too. Whatever he believes it did for his image is in his own mind. I think it made him look like someone who would make whatever concessions he needed to make to hold on to his corner of power. When it was ripped from his hands, only then did he sit down to write his book.
ReplyDeleteI would LOVE to have him on Desert Island Discs.
DeleteI disagree re the Bolton book. It was a tad dry but didn’t find it particularly self serving
DeleteHe refused to testify under oath. Then he published a book about it. He's a cowardly custard who wants paid for the very observations he refused to make under oath.
DeleteGood riddance to bad rubbish. He singlehandedly trashed the government's lockdown efforts and has many deaths on his hands as a result. Boris was accessory after the fact by letting him get away with it.
ReplyDeleteYes, it sounds dramatic, but some people are personally (but not criminally) responsible for the deaths of thousands.
DeletePeople like him always get out before the chaos they cause gets them.
ReplyDeleteLike Cameron.
DeleteHe was a particularly nasty piece of work. Good riddance to a person who had no humour or general good grace.
ReplyDeleteI think he was on the spectrum.
DeleteHorrible man.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't want to share a flat with him.
DeleteET go home
ReplyDeleteHe will be back.
DeleteI don’t get it
ReplyDeleteI don’t get why he’s going now and not when he made that painful
Press conference in the garden
Princess Nut Nut stepped in.
DeleteThere do seem to be a lot of useless politicians about at the moment.
ReplyDeleteJust when you don't need them.
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