Dominic Cummings tells MPs Johnson ‘unfit’ to be PM
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- In an epic session to MPs, the prime minister's former chief adviser Dominic Cummings turned on his former boss, accusing him of not being fit to run the country. He compared Boris Johnson to a broken shopping trolley, and claimed chaos in the government's Covid decision making resulted in tens of thousands of people dying "who didn't need to". (Subscribe: bit.ly/C4_News...)
Herd immunity, in which hundreds of thousands more would have died, had been the policy until he made them change it, he said.
Mr Cummings painted a picture of an imploding government, lacking data and following bad scientific advice. He went on to accuse the health secretary of lying repeatedly about PPE, medical treatment and the supposed shield around care homes.
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Now he needs to tell about the billions wasted, the kick back contracts to friends, and the corruption.
Absolutely.
On contracts he seemed to take the view that governments should be able to ignore the rules when there is an emergency. The rules are there to ensure good value and protect against corruption. There is usually a procedure for fast track contracts in emergency, and of the £37bn contracts that the government handed to friends and supporters, without competitive tendering, the only legal requirement on them was to publish the contracts afterwards for the public to see, but the government has not done that. Also there's usually a list kept of approved contractors who are already checked according to various criteria before going on the list. They should have picked contractors from the approved list if they were not going to have competitive tendering, so I disagree with Cummings' attitude there that in an emergency you just throw the rules out of the window. Part of the problem is the huge cuts the government made to civil servants since 2010. There's no spare capacity now. The Department of Health and Social Care is only about 2000 strong in terms of permanent staff (civil servants) and with Covid and Brexit on top of the day job in the same year they would be overloaded. It's a false economy anyway because the government now deals with demands it can't manage by bringing in expensive consultants on separate contracts.
Canary website all the names , dates , how much , overseas bank accounts , Tory party donors , family members with no experience of delivery and indeed no supply , roll up biggest scam in town .
It is in his and his friends pocket!
absolutely the corruption of course...NHS, and the business contract portal, can show you evidence that exist of corruption working in these areas myself down the years.
The WORST kind of enemy is a former friend / colleague !! They know where the bodies are buried !
Keep your friends close, but your enemies even closer. Think about that!
Andrew Walton .. And wasn't all this kicked off by Boris trying to blame Cummings for leaks?
Talk about bad judgement and insane incompetence!
For that foolishness alone Boris is unfit. Unfit for anything.
@@Must_not_say_that But there is one thing that they are doing right and it is the roll out of the vaccine. The best thing bringing forward the 2nd vaccine from 12 weeks to now 8 weeks for the top 9 vulnerable groups. Also fast roll out of the vaccine down the age groups especially for India variant hot spots. There could be other variants in future as there was already the Kent variant. Also, they are pushing track and trace in hospitality. Also testing is being given a bigger platform. Should stop all travel to and flights and ships from India including commercial. Cummings is particularly negative and we are desparate for positivity. DC also doesn't mention Gove or Sunak. What about Sunak's Eat Out to Help Out 50% discount scheme?
@ Well you make some points although they have failed lamentably on the original track and trace.
The only thing is that, yes, they have been pushing the vaccine for all they are worth, but they have at the same time been actively suppressing other far more effective remedies.
I wonder why that might be, do you suppose?
Not only where their buried ,who put them there to
This won’t stick, because literally everyone knows this. It was clear beyond any shadow of a doubt.
I agree. People who want Boris as PM know he’s unfit for the job - however as long as the tax havens are protected and taxes remain low to none-existent for the likes of Amazon it’s gonna be BAU for until the next election - When BoJo gets his second majority, it’s all fucking grim.
If it sticks, we'll get Rishi Sunak and Labour can say goodbye to the rest of their Indian voters.
@Daniel Banks apparently odds are in Sunak's favour. But regardless, I'm up for a new approach tbh. I'd like to see a change of leadership, see where we go.
@Daniel Banks Raab C. Nesbitt as PM? He’s as thick as Johnson. Really a plank. It would be a disaster.
@@TesterAnimal1 😂😂😂😂😂
*WATCHED ALL 7 HOURS OF IT* it was unbelievably stunning...
QUOTE: “Any system that allows people as totally incompetent as myself and Boris Johnson to be in charge of a nation let alone a nation in the middle of a pandemic is very clearly BROKEN"
Same here
At least Cummings is prepared to own his wrongs unlike the rest of the corrupt ones who lie to cover their backsides. Produce the documents Cummings and your text and you will get the support.
@@Sneezy563 - 100% agree...
Not really. if it was truly broken we would have got Corbyn - and very shortly afterwards DEATH to us all.
And you think kier starmmer is the right man for the job 🤥
'We put a protective ring around care homes' , that was really disgusting , deliberately sticking the middle finger up to greiving families.
P Ring ? Aye, 'we gotem, yo caint ser em no more', more like.
Yeah, in one carehome in Walton, Liverpool fithteen healthy residents died of CD-19, within two weeks of an NHS infected patient having been transfered into there from Aintree, Trust Hospital? In another Walton carehome less than 1,000 metres away, another five residents died after another NHS patient, had been place there by the same hospital?
It's disgusting isn't it.
@@jeffreybresnahan healthy residents in carehomes? More like old people with underlying health conditions. Not a good asset for the system, more like burden.
@@mikes9753 So you knew all of those resident's that were infected by the patient who was placed there by the NHS? Two of their care staff were also infected by CD-19, those two lady carer's were in their early fithties? Concerning them being a "Burden on the system," they were all British citizen's who's average age was 69yrs. British citizen's who probably worked all their lives, and who had retired into the the care of their local carehome?
To have base "Shite" which you clearly are, to call them a "Burden," is unacceptable especially from an ignorant Pleb, which you also are!!
I can't believe the number of fools who happily give Johnson pass after pass after pass on his and his Government's lies and absolute incompetence.
Have never had less faith in any PM than Boris. Cannot understand why on earth anyone would ever vote for him.
people don t care enough to do anything about it. thats the UK
That’s England you mean. If he was in my neck of the woods he wouldn’t have stood a chance of getting in.
Brainwashing, plain and simple. If Boris's slogan hadn't been 'Get Brexit Done' he wouldn't have rallied up so many stupid supporters.
Like the electorate for example Lol !!!!
we all accused Bj and his cronies of complacency in the light of Covid. Lies are his mother tongue
I remember my late Grandfather saying exactly the same back in the 1970's. He used to get really mad listening to parliament and said they were all liars.
Hancock under the bus, Boris washes his hands from the thousands care home deaths , PPE, track and trace mess.
37 billion track and trace system abandoned and surge testing is now being done by local health authorities.
How can Hancock be the patsy when Dominic clearly said BJ wouldnt listen to anyone? Hancock looked scared and out his depth most the time but didnt want to let the side down do did as he was told.
@@Mikha_el Why are you defending a man who was more interested in giving contracts to his friends than saving lives and spent 37 billion on a track and trace system?
mophine & midazolam DNR matt ?.. belongs under a ton of buses
@@Mikha_el his fake crocodile tears told it all ... dirty rat
It's just sad that people are surprised/shocked by stuff like this, yet the majority keeps voting Tory.
Most of the press and mass media is owned by the Tories, Labour keep letting their core voters down, nobody seems to care about manners, intelligence and integrity anymore. Such a shitshow.
fear the guy who has nothing to lose
@Cliff Adams Exactly, so the likes of Boris Johnson step in and pretend to care about their wellbeing despite having a track record of demonising and relentlessly ruining the lives of the working classes. Unfortunately, a lot of them are too blind to see it.
@Cliff Adams As I said, Labour are dangerously out of touch with those in the so called red heartlands that they've switched without much thought. The Lib Dems and Greens don't mean anything in the grand scheme of things.
@Ajaxduo .Who else would you vote for ? Labour 😂😂😂
Important issue but not to many sitting in the House of commons yes our political system is not credible and has not been so for decades.
if boris didn't see this coming, he really is unfit to be PM
He's never been fit for PM lol
I did and put on fb on 26th April got banned again !
@ Aint that the truth
@J M.
@J M.
The last genuine threat to a sitting Government was assassinated. Rest In Peace, Dr David Kelly.
Martin mate absolutely right....Poor Dr. Kelly i remember about the Iraq mess they created 😡😡😡
Absolutely correct.
There was something very sinister about what happened to Dr David Kelly.
Extraordinary. "We sent people with covid back to care homes."
To ease up the pressure on the D SS budget, a 1/3 of whixh goes on pensions.
@@suzyqualcast6269 Don't think they did it on purpose. It was just incompetence.
Are you surprised? If so please explain because just saying incompetent would mean you know its a shite government anyway
@@stevennewlands2978 I didn't vote for them. If you ask me to find someone to vote for in the current parliament, I couldn't. There's literally no choice.
I am sure that was on the ADVICE of Dormitory Cummings. It was a test to see if it was safe for Dummick Cummings to wander around Barnard Castle and the rest of County Durham "checking" on the Lock Down which HE took credit for ! All was well except One Mr Cummings BREAKING THE RULES AGAIN ! Dom the Plank, "no one believes anything you say" BLAME it all on Santa ! Santa GIVES You TAKE, TAKE and TAKE !
Mr Hancok, the most important thing you MUST do is answer to the people who pays your salary .
The only person he answers to is Bill Gates.
@@eyesopen6797 lol
@@eyesopen6797 So right!
He's going to answer don't worry, with his life! The bastards going to be strung up, with all his Globalist friends.
Does anyone even watch those daily covid updates? Who wants to listen to the weasle matt Hancock, never mind about covid...
I like watching the journalist bit to see if they can find a new tactic to get around the mute button.
@phil Curtis good point. If people really watch mainstream tv, then they deserve to be lied to .....directly to their faces.
ONS shows that there were no ‘extra deaths’ for 2020, they were in line with the previous 10 years. Some years were even higher than 2020. It’s all there to see on the government website.
The causes of deaths were all classified as covid.
No I've never watched these criminals. I despise them liars and cheats all of them..
@@jaijai5250 Not only do people watch mainstream TV and get lied to, they pay handsomely for the pleasure.
Tone Loc From the outset I've identified the Brexit losers, who labelled everyone who voted out as idiots, take up the narrative even to the point of labelling dissenters Covidiots. This economically immune middle management class and professional class haven't been drastically affected by the measures that killed other businesses. They have no other mission but to be right whatever the price to others.
What’s new most of us already knew Boris was unfit to be a PM. As for the rest of the conservatives off with their heads I say but first start with the biggest bully Priti Patel 😂😂
Yeh, cornershop element for that lots takeover.
Who’s “most of ::us::?”, or are you Scottish?
Most of Scotland knew, and consequently didn’t vote for blonde ambition and the shower he assembled with him.
England, on the other hand…
well you know the rest,
and those were the numbers that placed him in number 10.
People lied,
some people believed him,
not least on brexit,
and (too) many,
far too many have died as a direct consequence.
If anecdotally,
as stated in this piece,
the consensus in England is…
never mind guv, bulldog spirit…
stop picking on him…
give BLo Jo a pass,
regardless,
it beggars belief,
and that in fact is a sign of a chronic fundamental problem in english society.
In a choice between corbyn and BJ,
self sabotage like choosing this shower of pathological liars…england needs to have a word with itself, and work out who’s kidding who.
Sadly, most of the electorate voted for the filth. I wholeheartedly agree with you on the beheadings though
Teresa May had Priti Patels number sacked her rightfully for the sneaky luring behaviour over Israel. Boris & his cabinet are all alike incompetent liars
@@belleepoque2979 Belle you couldn’t have put it better. Spot on 🙏
I could have told you he was unfit when he was hiding in fridges
And illegally prorogueing parliament
@ true
I could’ve told you he was unfit for office when he got sacked from the Times for making up quotes in 1988 and I wasn’t born until 1993.
@ Oh well that's fine then. Who cares about democracy anyway? 🙄
send all these scammers to the dock.
Elect a clown 🤡 expect a circus
I liked this comment. But I voted for Boris only because I couldn’t bring myself to vote for Corbyn. A circus was inevitable as we had to choose between 2 clowns…….
@@john6995 I agree but starmer seems like an logical choice.
@@john6995 Have you ever heard of voting for nobody? You can hand in a voting ballot without ticking anyone's name. Why vote for Boris?
Hes so right the system is broken the choice between giant duche or turd sandwich!
....or pooh trifle !!!!
We should put them all in the same cell. 1 hour of light per day. Put them on show and we can charge tourists.
Just make them homeless. Let them suffer
I'd prefer making some profit from their suffering. We could sell rotting fruit. Tourists could throw it. Make some money and encourage tourism. Homelessness is TOO good for them. They took our liberties we should do the same.
@@brianbrian1769 rotting fruit? Human waste would be appropriate.
Sterilisation so they cannot procreate either.....
@Andrew Philips Philips You throw shite by all means. Then they'd get sick pretty quickly and die. I am serious about the tourist draw and you don't kill exhibits. And I want them in cages until old age kills them. Sorry if you don't appreciate the long game. Or justice. Or sustainable tourism. 😉
String them up. 600 of em. All scum.
Unfit to be PM,
Unfit to be a father
Unfit to be a husband
unfit to be.....
list is to long to bother typing
@Joe S Stupid stuff, Joe S.
"You'll be glad to know I shook hands with everybody and will continue to do so."
Not sure how easily it is transmitted by shaking hands. They now think it is not that easily transmitted by touching surfaces.
@@dragonfly6908 This is a quote from Boris Johnson when visiting a hospital with Covid patients. It's insane, undefendable.
@@cg986 Lot's of untruths. The "Let the bodies pile high" comment allegedly made by Boris was reported in a lot of newspapers and Dominic Cummings said The Sunday Times story about this was not accurate.
@@dragonfly6908 Are you a bot? I didn't talk about the"let the bodies pile high comment". Hmmm....
@@cg986 A Bot Bot?.
He is right when he says the system is broken when it produces a choice between Corbyn and Johnson.
Johnson and Hancock make Trump look like Nostradamus
Haha very true!
I think everyone makes Trump look like Nostradamus - a babbling idiot who's only correct by accident
Boris looks to me like a fool. So he could be right. But it is up to you, Engeland.
The people that voted in this lot are the fools
@Tone Loc I hope you get it then. We’ll see if you’re all gangster then boy.
We didn’t need DC to tell us this, we already knew.
Also does the governments think were stupid... WE ARE WELL AWARE !!!
To be fair - a lot of the population ARE stupid.
Or to put it more kindly. Ill-informed, prone to rash judgement, closed minded. Irrational. Easily swayed.
And, more recently, conspiracy theorist who believe any damn thing they read on the Internet as long as it gives them that ego buzz of 'insider knowledge', 'feeling special' and delusional superiority.
Same goes for those reading the newspapers and watching the news. The newsman goes “boo” and the next day you see empty shelves in shops.
@@nikajinpusno9563 Right!
@john abruzzi Not everyone's but it has certainly has empowered the 'hard of thinking'
New zealand had the answers and implemented them. Zero covid for a long time and economy been very normal for 6 months.
At what cost?
@@robertmckinnon6564 Borders closed and not open. The people seem pleased with that.
@@bigpants6121 so no tourism industry. Possibly not ever.
@@robertmckinnon6564 Crikey. Save the melodrama 🙄 Have you seen NZ? It's stunning. The tourists will go back.
@@rachelm1816 I know it's stunning, but tell me how the tourists going to go back if they won't let them in?
I think it’s time to leave office sweetie pie (Boris).
Any alternative?
“The British system is not set up to deal with a SoS who repeatedly lies in meetings.” What the actual... maybe there should be more accountability in the system then.
People used to resign on a matter of honour. Nobody knows what that is now, least of all Bodger.
Wasn’t this guy sacked ‘they should all be sacked’
They can’t control this virus if it effects someone it takes over otherwise ur in the clear !
@@hazmughal8676 Not true. There are antivirals but govt too dumb or too greedy to use them.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.18.423104v1.full.pdf
Should be on trial in The Hague.
If Slobodan Milosevic can be tried for mass murders, then Johnson should have the same treatment.
Carrie got him sacked because she has her own advisors in No 10 yes the adulterous girlfriend has advisors the one who was sacked for fiddling her expenses when working for the conservative party
It's time to rejoin the EU.
Undo the damage.
Yous can feck off with yourselves, the eu is so much better off without u lot , Brexit means Brexit
@@martinbyrne6643 Nice try, but it'll happen.
how can the chancer who has cost so many lives stay as leader he must resign his attics in the commons where a disgrace smirking and joking when he was asked to answer for the disaster he made of protecting peoples lives during the covid crisis cummins has laid bare to us all what a total mess the tory ministers made during this disaster
That smirk is Johnsons "tell" that he has told another whopper and he's got away with it.
Hancock, anytime he has tough questions to answer or put on the spot he uses his 'get out of jail free card'. I'm busy saving lives. He needs to be arrested.
We already knew that.
I am a care worker and worked throughout this pandemic and can confirm all he said was true. We had no PPE for the first lockdown, we were receiving users back from the hospital who tested positive for covid. If the user was over 75 then it was almost impossible to get any medical help for them. I have a lot to say about my company but during this pandemic they asked for help from everyone and no one listened. We lost people and many of my coworkers and residents are still dealing with long covid. Someone has to be held accountable for this last year
Have a look at the medical experts and scientists who advised the government.
I'm looing forward to the book!
Anyone see this coming?
Wooooow…. What a mess.
That’s correct , he is not
This is the bloke who drove 200 miles to test his eyesight
If you're comparing a mistake of breaking lockdown with the failures Boris has made you're a clown
Yes and Tories defended him
according to him . . .
No. That's the best he could come up with to justify his actions. Says a lot about him...
I'd drive 200 miles away from that lot lol
Having watched the full 7 hours, Dominic accepts responsibility and has apologised. However, we should be thanking him and other brave individuals in the civil service who had the courage to walk into the PM's office and say the plan isn't working. The plan of "herd immunity" was backed by scientific consensus in SAGE and backed by the Prime Minister up until shortly before the first lockdown. To go against scientific consensus is obviously not an easy thing to do, given the climate of "believe the science" and anyone who questions it is relegated to being of no relevance. Ultimately the scientific modelling and the code should have been made public so outside experts could analyse the merits of Herd Immunity.
Gove's been very quiet, hasn't he...
biding his time needs some dirt on sunak first
He’s back in the lab in his machuration tank 👍🏻
@@1man1bike1road Cummings was Gove's man from the very beginning, Sunak will almost certainly play along and support Gove. When it comes it will be quick. Gove is nothing if not meticulous and efficient.
Personally I think he looks like Pob from... whenever that was. 🙂
Murdoch's next in line
@@paintMonkey_ Pob was 87/88. I know this as it was my son's go to nursery tv show. You're right though, I see the resemblance 😁👍
Yes boris should be removed from being the PM the people of the UK have had enough of him. Hancock and boris the lot of them it’s time to go. Loads of people have died and it’s because of there decisions absolutely pathetic
Pure pantomime
Well said Dominic Cummings. Gotcha Boris. Now do the right thing and depart with the rest
Of your hangers on.
He's a little late to the disco; we all already knew this. The British public wanted a Poundland Donald Trump, that's what they got!
It’s extraordinary that Johnson could think the mayor in Jaws is someone to admire. He’s a character who puts profit above lives and isn’t depicted favourably in the film at all.
Oh another who thinks he is the smartest person in The room .The arrogance knows no bounds.
He joins the list under Blair
e'll be writing a book next ... .
We didn't need Commings to tell us Johnson is incompetent.
Why is it not possible to arrest BJ and MH or at least start a criminal investigation. Those with the highest powers in our society should be held to the highest standards and therefore severe penalties
Don’t worry everyone. We live in a democracy... nothings going to happen to any minister who either committed a crime or broke the law.
God!!!! Who would have thought bozo is unfit to be PM... ???
Who needs reality tv when you have British politics?
So the bungling buffoon,isn't an act.Well knock me down with a feather!
Every bitcoin investor right now is just smiling at the price of bitcoin as it held strong and indeed valuable enough to generating good ROI. More persons are gonna become millionaires and we have bitcoin thanks for that
Bitcoin is the future investing in it now is the wisest thing to do especially with the current rise... for real it’s very profitable
@@jeffybrowny2075 I agree on your opinion man, generally I always look out for it to dumb so I can purchase some more truly I believe it has come to stay
What's really the idea behind this bitcoin investment anyway, because all I do is buy when it falls and sell when it goes high
@Bitcoin investment is just like every other form of speculative investment where you trade commodities to determine which gains or losses against another in order to make profits, just like in forex trading
Relating Bitcoin investment to forex trading definitely means they are risk involved, and just how do you take appropriate risk measures
As I recall, Hancock had a bet with Nick Ferrari of LBC that he would achieve 100k tests a day by the end of April 2020 despite doing around half that number at the time of the interview/bet.
That target was reached at the end of April 2020 - then promptly fell to below the magic number.
Strange that.
Told you they shouldn't have taken his bicycle away from him.
Public enquiry now please. Boris this IS the British public speaking.
About 5million Scots had the same opinion years before Cummings .
Cummings believes in his head that he is the King maker. He seems to believe he alone can decide who is worthy of his validation and endorsement. Reality beckons.
Yet we see over and over his bad judgement, disrespect to his position and how he presents himself, now desperation for relevance. He does not seem very bright to me.
In a profit making environment he would have been dispensed with a long time ago. How many more like him are employed by the government ?
You can fool some of the people some of the time.
They all need to be held accountable
Many colleagues of Trump described him in exactly the same way that he describes Johnson...brothers from another mother...god help us
wasn't this the guy that orchestrated brexit? if he took a job he was unfit for, how can we assume that he helped plan a brexit he knew anything about....
better late than never to realise he was a terrible choice. The man has no backbone to stick to his words
Ahhhhh! Now the biting makes sense!! (Like we didn't know that they didn't have a Scooby-Doo) treating the nation like idiots with their Nandos chart *smh
Ssssh Jeffrey's home early!
@@bigpants6121 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤭
No, really? His own schoolmaster said the same and if it weren't for Russia we would have let him know our thoughts clearly.
This is the tragic flaw of democracy which is an Aristotelian tragedy being enacted in US(trump),india, Brazil, turkey etc.
It's almost tragic that these revelations are coming from this man, of all people. Going to be hard to get people on side regardless of how honest he's being on this occasion.
Except we all thought it anyway. Cummings is just confirming and giving some details.
He admitted he lied about his trip, so why is he telling the truth about anything else? No such things said at time which he could have done when he resigned. All these wonderful people with hindsight now knowing what should have been done in a unique situation.
@@audreyblack8629 Come on. We've know about all this before. He is simply confirming it from the inside. It is not like it is a stunning new revelation.
Do people REALLY think Boris has done a good job???????
Bungling Boris is the snack-time equivalent of a hastily made basin of RockyRoad!
Brexit is a bad decision and this man is preaching about how bad Boris is. 🙄
Quite an actor. I find it hard to believe that he’s genuinely contrite; anymore than I’d believe Johnson or Hancock.
Never ever mess with Wrong guy!
You didn't believe him for his Barnard castle trip, now you believe him implicitly for this!
You do understand that it is perfectly possible to lie about one thing and then tell the truth about another? Everything he said yesterday is plausible, given how badly they handled this.
Spitting image brought me here 😂 😂
Boris.. Hancock.
Do the Honorable Resign..
The Cult of Boris. Borisade. Cheers, folks.
Well done Mr Cummings for revealing the truth
This title should say, "Bitter man who has little to no credibility tells us stuff we already know".
Everyone and his dog knows Johnson is unfit to be PM. Most of us suffer because of that but many also benefit and profit from that and so continue to support him.
There's no future for this government nor the senior civil servants that failed us all.
Johnson became prime minister through the old saying “
It’s not what you know but who you know “. British politics are run that way and always will.
bullingdon boris
One narcissist attacking another. Painful 😥
Yes ! We know that .....
Many innocent people died because of this unfit people in government, 😭😭😭😭😭
Cominic Dummins....He's incompetent, tell us something we dont know.
We already know that this Government is completely inept except one or two. And we know that they sent thousands of the elderly back to care-home without being testing causing a sub-pandemic because of their precious N.H.S.
Boris needs to resign immediately !!
Jail the lot of them! Criminals!
While his motivations for telling the truth are vengeful, I'm just glad we're finally getting irrefutable proof of just how disastrous this government really is.
So - did Cummings really drive to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight lol...
I'm loving the supermarket trolley analogy. Who will clean up this spaff stain in aisle 10?
Something we already knew.
Some 1 finally admits hes not fit for office in the cabnet
Well UK voted in a clown - they got a circus......the world laughs.
Cummings ....... A great ally, a very bad enemy. Cummings broke the lockdown rules, and Johnson had to deal with it publically, whilst removing egg from his face, directly as a result of Cummings' actions. Probably heavily disciplined in number10 for leaving the Tories so exposed and open to allegations of one rule for the people, another for Parliament. Perhaps had Cummings stuck to the original plan (which may well have been agreed with Johnson beforehand in his unique circumstances) and not gone out on his family trip to Barnard Castle for what he used the most stupid and pathetic reasons, with even more dangerous consequences to other drivers - to test his eyesight for driving back to London - he might well have got away with it. Inste4ad, he was caught, it was made public, and Johnson HAD to be seen to punish him and rightly so. Cummings has since had a lot of time to construct a story leaving him unblemished, and Johnson is now on the receiving end of what many other Number 10 workers literally feared and hated Cummings for. He is a bad apple and better off out of the whole operation.
One final thing I do have to agree with Cummings over though is Matt Hancock. He comes across as the most gormless of beings and not worthy of holding a position of such responsibility. I have never had any confidence in what he says is true, and agree with Cummings on this occasion that Hancock should have been sacked long ago. We shall see how Johnson reacts to the allegations at his next Cabinet reshuffle.
I actually believe Dominic Cummings! Matt Hancock's handling of the pandemic.. he should be sacked! Our prime minister lost his plot a while back to be honest!! I thank Dom Cummings for being honest..... he's really showing what 'stinks' in our current government, civil service and parliament!
The truth always comes out in the end for those who were in denial from the beginning..