Why is everybody fretting about Dominic Cummings now? Nobody believed him when he sat in a garden and told us about his essential trip to Durham during the first lockdown, whilst we cancelled our weddings, our holidays and closed our businesses. We didn’t believe in him 20 mins after the Brexit result was called and we were told that the £350m we were told would be saved a week wouldn’t, in fact, be going to the NHS. Bus? What bus? But now he’s being reported as fact. They’re all liars. All of them. The only difference is that he’ll hide behind the others and only when dragged out of the dark will look you in the eye and lie to your face. Better? Or worse?
He's obviously one of life's do'ers who just wants to make things happen
I think that for a lot of British people, raised to believe they live in one of the best governed and fairest countries on earth, the fact that a series of avoidable errors killed 30 or 40 *thousand* people is too much to contemplate.
Party politics aside (I really don't care how good or bad anyone looks), listening to the testimony I quite like Cummings's attitude. He's obviously one of life's do'ers who just wants to make things happen and he obviously has a hatred of - what he considers - unnecessary rules and restrictive bureaucracy. He appears to see things in a fairly black/white way, almost the antithesis of the way politics works.
Quote from: petejh on May 26, 2021, 03:05:34 pmParty politics aside (I really don't care how good or bad anyone looks), listening to the testimony I quite like Cummings's attitude. He's obviously one of life's do'ers who just wants to make things happen and he obviously has a hatred of - what he considers - unnecessary rules and restrictive bureaucracy. He appears to see things in a fairly black/white way, almost the antithesis of the way politics works. Hmmm, really? If you want a do-er, it's Gove imho. Like him or not, when he decides to implement policy and change, it happens. Look at education and justice (especially justice, he was only in post 12 months). What has Cummings actually implemented? He's seems more like an "ideas guy" and for someone who has been in the government inner circle since 2007 at least what has he done? Been a part of Brexit?
Quote from: seankenny on May 26, 2021, 10:52:45 pmI think that for a lot of British people, raised to believe they live in one of the best governed and fairest countries on earth, the fact that a series of avoidable errors killed 30 or 40 *thousand* people is too much to contemplate.I'm not so sure. The populist politics game is to get groups of people upset with other groups of people instead of focussing on the c*nts in charge. The political classes are obsessed with the soap opera but too many people know unnecessary death, suffering and economic damage from this government's incompetent covid response.This is a recent positive example of what can happen if you look at public policy with the public:https://fabians.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Going-with-the-grain-Fabian-Society-lowres.pdf
Bring back General Franco, I say. #OneOfLifesDoers
But wasn’t Cummings Gove’s spad at education?
I don't think he's lying, just "presenting a creatively selected suite of facts" to show himself in the best possible light and damn others.
Quote from: SA Chris on May 27, 2021, 11:46:53 pmI don't think he's lying, just "presenting a creatively selected suite of facts" to show himself in the best possible light and damn others.Agreed. He was being selectively candid.