Can we get Demonic Cummings to trend?

That sounds like something from Urotsukidoji: Legend of the Overfiend (any fans of dodgy 90s Manga/Anime will now what I mean)

Any idea on which minister will be doing the Corona briefing this afternoon? Obviously it should be BoJo but he’ll be hiding in a fridge somewhere or hammering his frozen sausage into LK again.

For what it’s worth, I’ve lost both parents in the last month. Not entirely unexpected. I accepted the lockdown might mean I didn’t see them alive again.
Their care home acted sensibly locking down before 23-3-20 and segregating staff to certain areas / residents.
Even so CoViD definitely got one parent though the other was less clear cut on the death certificate (not tested – breathing and heart problems).
I haven’t been able to go up to Glasgow from York. I will do the journey there and back in a day this week for the joint funeral.

Dominic, you’re probably not listening, but I’m unimpressed. Deeply unimpressed.

The boy also shouldn’t be used as a human shield by his father to deflect from his escape to the country antics. Every time DC appears carrying a “look, I’m a father with a young child” prop when going to and from work he’s doing just that. He has dragged his child into this with his gangster “breaking the rules to be a good father” spin defence, and no one else.

The cynic in me says that him standing outside his house with the tricke & the ball was just that..

Sorry to hear that igm. Awful time for you and your family.

Anyone else think that LKs understudy on the BBC earlier was looking particularly smug?

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He has a 4 year old son. The boy shouldn’t have to witness that sort of goings-on outside his own house, regardless of who his father is.

If you read the comments, the reporter who tweeted the video said that his wife and kids had left. Maybe the people responsible for the video knew that??

That is awful igm, really sorry to hear that

That is hard igm. Thoughts with you and yours.

Apologies – I’m not trawling for sympathy, though I will accept it gracefully. Plenty of other folk have lost people recently.
My parents had fantastic lives, went great places, did and saw wonderful things.
They weren’t in good health and their time was coming one way or another.
The send off my father got in particular, STV news and Times obituaries, nice words from Nicola Sturgeon, was touching. Equally so, though more private, with my mother.
I’m choosing to remember great and loving lives – not deaths in crazy times.

Still annoys me that it’s one rule for Dom and one for the rest of us.

Focus on the lives, not the endings. Alway wise igm. Sometimes hard to do, but definitely the right thing to try and do.

@IGM a terrible thing to go through. I can’t think of anything to say which would be remotely adequate to the awfulness of those circumstances.

Why doesn’t Dum Cum just **** off?

He’ll easily get a job with trump.

*Breaking* – police have turned up at Dominic Cumming's house. pic.twitter.com/eNYY5zgv5Z

— Sam Holder (@samholdertv) May 24, 2020

I’m not sure if that’s a stunt; the Met a) know exactly where he is and b) know there are a load of press hanging about outside his house.

I’m sure if they wanted a discreet word that could have been arranged…

His missus will have called to whine about press harassment, nowt to do with his lockdown tour of the NE.

Johnson doing tonight’s briefing

The PM is breaking cover for today’s press conference. I’m genuinely surprised.

The boy also shouldn’t be used as a human shield by his father to deflect from his escape to the country antics. Every time DC appears carrying a “look, I’m a father with a young child” prop when going to and from work he’s doing just that. He has dragged his child into this with his gangster “breaking the rules to be a good father” spin defence, and no one else.

This is a Jacob Rees Mog tactic as well

Johnson doing tonight’s briefing

Pushed back to 5pm.   This’ll be a prepared Churchillian bombastic “this isn’t helpful at this time” FU to to the British Public and you can bet your life questions will be cut short or very selective.  Needs an open audience and they’ll hope to defer anything until a well prepared PMQ’s happens on Wednesday.

It won’t; parliament is in recess so no PMQs.

I’m sure if they wanted a discreet word that could have been arranged…

Not quite sure why you think law enforcement should be sneaking in the back door?

I know it is tough to lose a trusted adviser at the height of crisis, but when it’s a choice of that or integrity of vital public health advice, the latter must come first. That’s the judgment I and, to her credit, Catherine Calderwood reached. PM and Cummings should do likewise.

— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) May 24, 2020

are we going to get public questions tonight. Because there’s a clear one that I think the public want to ask, and I’d be ‘very surprised’ if at least one if not both are on this subject.

We demand to know! When is the A66 going to be a dual carriageway!

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@mrlebowksi I don’t, but I also think they were making a point.

@mrlebowksi I don’t, but I also think they were making a point.

Go in the back door – accusations of a cover up & something underhand at work.
Go in the front door – accusations of being provocative.

Can’t win can they?

Equally I never said they were doing anything wrong.

Go in the back door – accusations of a cover up & something underhand at work.
Go in the front door – accusations of being provocative.

Can’t win can they?

Difficult job dealing with bare-faced liars. I’m sure they’ve had plenty of practice, though.

I’m genuinely nervous about this briefing.

If Joris backs him I am very, very frightened about who is really in charge here and where this leads.

Genuinely.

It looks about 50/50 in here, I think I want to see big Dom stick it out unless there is more to this.
It’s a crazy media frenzy over nothing imo. Bonkers.

unless there is more to this.

Apparently there is more to come or so its been tweeted,

It’s a crazy media frenzy over nothing imo. Bonkers.

No, it really isn’t, and to say it is is really quite offensive.

I wonder if every other minister has simply refused to go out there and defend the indefensible

If Joris backs him I am very, very frightened about who is really in charge here and where this leads.

Genuinely.

This.

Just started.

Bugger

Defend vehemently by Boris using the word “integrity”.   Flippin’ ‘eck…

And he’s backing him…

‘In every respect he has acted legally, responsibly and with integrity…’

FFS

Boris Johnson: “one rule for us, one for you lot”

He won’t be sacking Cummings. Complete and utter ****. Both if them.

Shit the bed! He survives. Praised indeed.

Surely Boris has to go now?

This is bonkers.

Unfucking believable!