If Boris think s he can lead us in trying to get a Brexit deal done when everyone thinks he's powerless he should think again.
Cummings must go today or any slither of respectability the UK has at any negotiating table is gone.
Taking the Mr Burns lizard overlord jokes out of it, how does STW think he’s going to play it?
He’ll give us the finger without a sniff of contrition.
All PM needs to do is stand firm with worse case scenario getting Cummings to pay the £60 fine. Case close.
No need to sack or to fire anyone else.
I wouldn't be at all surprised if he walked out clutching the aforementioned child and gave a "won't anyone think of the baby robins" defence.
He'll continue to dance on the graves of the Coronavirus dead without the merest flicker of remorse.
If the press don't tear into him like a pack of wolves after anything other than his resignation then this country is truly broken.
@crazy-legs. Almost too convenient to be true; but she apparently is not his sister, just shares the same surname.
no chance of a resignation
I expect a fully defiant "explanation" and no contrition
Cummings must go today or any slither of respectability the UK has at any negotiating table is gone.
If he "goes", he'll set himself up as Director of Political Advisory Company within a week and then the Government will appoint Political Advisory Company as their lead negotiator in all future dealings.
The only way he'll "go away" is if he dies and even then o bet his "teachings" will live on for the next 20 years.
I can't watch, it will make me too angry.
I can just about stand to find out what happened afterwards, since I'm expecting "sorry everyone was offended, won't happen again, sod the papers, they're awful liars"
I'm also in the camp of wtf is a spad doing "addressing the nation", when he should by now be skulking away jobless.
Why is the BBC giving prime airtime over to right wing nut jobs like Tom Harwood, as if they’re in any way credible commentator?
He’s on now giving it the full ‘boo hoo, poor Dom being picked on’
****!!!
All PM needs to do is stand firm with worse case scenario getting Cummings to pay the £60 fine. Case close.
No need to sack or to fire anyone else.
Bit early to be on acid, isn't it?
What the foreign press think.
Not sure about others I certainly don't trust any press.
If Boris think s he can lead us in trying to get a Brexit deal done when everyone thinks he’s powerless he should think again.
Those anti-Brexiters have always been anti-Brexit regardless. It is not as if they have been convinced over regarding Brexit before ...
Cummings must go today or any slither of respectability the UK has at any negotiating table is gone.
Cummings should stay. What can you do about it? Don't vote for Tory party?
No Deal. I really hope it is No Deal.
Why is the BBC giving prime airtime over to right wing nut jobs like Tom Harwood, as if they’re in any way credible?
Because Dominic told them too?
Hope you’re ready for a pasty run TJ? 😃
I think this is going to be an anticlimax, hope not.
Why is the BBC giving prime airtime over to right wing nut jobs like Tom Harwood, as if they’re in any way credible?
Because the BBC/press has been starved of "interesting" news during the lockdown period; and now developed into frothing rabid behaviour fighting for left over of tiny fragment of bones.
Talking toey heads making it look like we are about to be told to know our place
I'm watching with a strangely horrified fascination.
I have a nice evening planned to calm down if this slimy shit doesn't resign.
If someone can get me a a 54" 4K TV in tonights riots and leave it on my doorstep than that'd be grand.
I'd get it myself but I'm self isolating.
I can’t watch, it will make me too angry.
I can just about stand to find out what happened afterwards
Same here!
Please, pretty please an someone do a killfile for IOS
Hope you’re ready for a pasty run TJ? 😃
Don't taste your pasties before I have bought them! Still got till Sunday!
I've changed my mind.
I think he's going to balls this out.
Hope the Graun have got something more to nail this arrogant unelected bastard.
do a killfile for IOS
Not needed. Just laugh and don’t reply.
I think he’s going to balls this out.
Of course he is. In his mind it’s a proof of power, strength and worthiness do not say sorry or act with contrition.
Not going to watch that vile man live, I think what he is going to say and not resign will spoil the rest of my day.
Why the hell cant they start on time? I’m annoyed already, and that’s before he’s uttered a single word.
I've trained myself to skip over them without reading - I don't always look at the poster's name before I read a post, but the first line always gives it away
Also re Johnson; you’re right why isn’t he there? For whatever reason, he’s no longer able to do this job. He’s a (political) dead man walking.
As John Crace said in the Guardian yesterday, if Johnson sacks Cummings, he's effectively sacking himself. He's basically a narcissistic sock-puppet for Cummings, without his hand up Johnson's fat butt, there's nothing going on except a desperate desire to be important.
We really don't need any political news regardless during this pandemic as people are already stressed out.
The press is not really doing the people any good. Blame the press.
I’ve trained myself to skip over them without reading – I don’t always look at the poster’s name before I read a post, but the first line always gives it away
Yeh, I usually do that but this one had been quiet for a while so I’d got out of the habit
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what do you read into the delay? That they're still arguing over whether he goes or not?
Already over 10 minutes late - complete contempt for the public!
Goings is looking at the live BBC viewing figures and waiting for record numbers, so he makes himself feel far more important than he really is.
Already over 10 minutes late
His kid needs to pee-pee.
Durham Police restating that they spoke to Cummings father in April who said his son and immediate family were at his property and had symptoms and were self isolating there.
Complete power play.
Maybe they realised it's against ministerial code and trying to tell Boris he have to do it
Heh. It’s the one time in recent memory they have done good.
Press is always press so no surprise there even during this period.
Goings is looking at the live BBC viewing figures and waiting for record numbers, so he makes himself feel far more important than he really is.
BBC needs the rating as they have not been able to produce anything "interesting" for a while and with all the criticism towards them, they are fighting back ...
Is there a CV briefing today, or we getting this "instead"...?
Wouldn’t put it past him not to do the press conference now, and claim that he never said he would do one… deny what “sources close to the PM’s advisor” have said, again.
Stuck in traffic southbound on the M1?
He's only appearing so we can all apologise to him for the way he's been treated.
Is this going to run into the daily briefing?
Expecting doubling down and righteous anger.
