Dominic Cummings - your thoughts?

[Zak33]

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-br...-idUKKCN1VV1N4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Cummings
He was Advisor to Michael Gove, Direcoted the Leave Campaign and seems to keep his face out of the lime light .....

He's top advisor to Boris now.... and there are plenty of haters out there.

your take?

[kalniel]

Never met him.

[Zak33]

Never met him.

i sorted that.. he's popping over to yours for tea tonight.. expect him around 7ish

[Smudger]

If he's an 'Advisor', how come he's allowed to sack a Minister's staff member without that Minister's knowledge.

Ironic really that we've got an unelected bureaucrat pulling the strings in Downing Street.

Is he still in contempt of Parliament?

[Zak33]

If he's an 'Advisor', how come he's allowed to sack a Minister's staff member without that Minister's knowledge.

Ironic really that we've got an unelected bureaucrat pulling the strings in Downing Street.

Is he still in contempt of Parliament?

he IS still in contempt of Paliament and yet he now has an access pass to Westminster

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-security-pass

[neonplanet40]

He's a snake. With Bojo in charge, he also has too much power for his position.

[Corky34]

I know this is really shallow of me but christ on a bike he has a mahoosive head.

[Spreadie]

He's a snake.

Yup.

I know this is really shallow of me but christ on a bike he has a mahoosive head.

He needs extra room to store his ego.

[peterb]

If he's an 'Advisor', how come he's allowed to sack a Minister's staff member without that Minister's knowledge.

Ironic really that we've got an unelected bureaucrat pulling the strings in Downing Street.

Is he still in contempt of Parliament?

He's a snake. With Bojo in charge, he also has too much power for his position.

It is nothing new - the Blair Government and Downing Street was full of unelected but appointed political advisors with excessive power.

[TeePee]

It is nothing new - the Blair Government and Downing Street was full of unelected but appointed political advisors with excessive power.

This is true, but I'm not sure the Blair Government should be an example of what is an appropriate way for government to behave. After the Chilcot report, Blair and his co-conspirators should be in prison. The fact that the Labour Party still exists, let alone currently polling with a little over 20%, is shocking.

[Top_gun]

Cummings sums up Boris Johnson' party. A thug in Number 10. A perfect combination with the Prince of Darkness, Michael Gove, back stabber supreme.

[peterb]

Cummings sums up Boris Johnson' party. A thug in Number 10. A perfect combination with the Prince of Darkness, Michael Gove, back stabber supreme.

Funny, I always think of Peter Mandelson as the “Prince of Darkness”

[Saracen999]

If he's an 'Advisor', how come he's allowed to sack a Minister's staff member without that Minister's knowledge.

....

You do know how No. 10 works, right?

Look up Jon Mendelsohn , Dwmuan McBride, Alastair Campbell, and many others. They, by the way. are all Labour government .... "fixers" from the Blair/Brown era, but I've picked them just to show both sides do it, and could as easily have picked Tory ones. It's a phenomenon going back at a minimum many decades, and is inherited from centuries of Kings and Queens, all of whom had "staff" to do the dirty work.

Classc example .... "Will nobody rid me of this turbulent priest?"

That was a death sentence just issued.

[jimborae]

Funny, I always think of Peter Mandelson as the “Prince of Darkness”

He got deposed & stabbed in the back by Govey..........All hail the the new Prince of Darkness.

As for Cummings I don't think the Hexus swear filter can cope with the expletives I have for that poisonous piece of excrement.

[kalniel]

i sorted that.. he's popping over to yours for tea tonight.. expect him around 7ish

He didn't show. I therefore declare him a caddish knave and bite my thumb at him.

[Spreadie]

He got deposed & stabbed in the back by Govey..........All hail the the new Prince of Darkness.

As for Cummings I don't think the Hexus swear filter can cope with the expletives I have for that poisonous piece of excrement.

Gove and Mandelson are in opposition - how did he stab him in the back?