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danieldwilliam) wrote2020-05-26 11:18 am
danieldwilliam) wrote2020-05-26 11:18 am
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On PMQ's a Week on Wednesday and the Next General Election
Looks like Dominic Cummings is staying in post. At least for the time being. (1)
Good says I.
I've never seen Twitter so focused on one thing. Now, I definately have a Twitter feed with a bubble around it. It's largely political analysis, lawyers, economics, energy and drama with a few jokers. It's mostly but not entirely left leaning. The people I follow on Twitter are paying attention to daily politics in a way most people simply don't. There is no football. There are no cats. (2) However, I don't think this is going away. I don't think it would go away now even if Cummings were removed from post. I don't think people will forget. I don't think they will forgive. I don't think they will move one. (3)
What has been really striking are two things. The ratio on Tory MP's tweeting support for Dominic Cummings and the moving stories, retweeted thousands of times, from ordinary people about the journeys they have not taken because of the coronavirus, the regulations, the guidance and the shared endevour to protect the common good from a deadly, novel and not well understood virus. Dozens and dozens of people sharing vicerally painful accounts of not being able to sit with dying relatives or go to funerals or sitting alone, in an empty home, griefing. All of them having done so so they could follow the guidance and the regulations and the spirit and purpose of the rules and not spread a deadly disease around the country. I've never seen so much anger, so commonly shared on Twitter.
Fuck Dominic Cummings and what he's done to honesty in politics, to integrity, to reason and to the rule of law, but most of all fuck Dominic Cummings for what he's done to thousands of grieving people by making them feel stupid in their grief and loss.
But let him stay in post says I. For he's already done his damage to the grieving of Great Britan. Let him stay and damage the Tory Party who adopted him, despite him despising them, because he offered them a cheap and easy route to power.
Let him stay in post until after Keir Starmer has asked Boris Johnson all about at Prime Minister's Questions. Let him stay in post until after Ian Blackford has followed Keir Starmer a week on Wednesday. Let him stay in post for another week after that. Let him give Starmer a stick to beat Johnson with and Blackford a stick to beat the Union with.
Let him stay in post so the public can see government minister after government minister spin and lie and twist in press conference after press conference and interview after interview. Let us see them lie so obviously about something that is so obviously wrong.
Let him stay in post until he's the lead news story for weeks in a row. Let him stay in post and force every Tory Minister to dip their hands in the blood of all the people who died alone, just to to keep Dominic Cummings in post. Let him stay in post so everyone can see what the Tories under Johnson actually stand for and who they actually stand with.
Let his hubris break the Prime Minister and the Tory Party.
He should have gone last week, but seeing as he's staying, let him stay and hope some good will come of this staying and that he will take the rest of his stained and bloody cronies with him.
(1) I think he has done a bad, wrong thing. On the face of the facts as he has presented them and as I understand them its difficult to see how he hasn't infringed the coronavirus regulations. I think his behaviour has been unethical. I would not have done what he did. I appear not to be alone.
(2) I realise this makes me wrong, or at least in a minority, which in Brexit Britain is much the same thing.
(3) First polling on this shows a 20 point drop in Johnson's approval rating to net -2 and an 18 point drop in the government's approval rating.
Good says I.
I've never seen Twitter so focused on one thing. Now, I definately have a Twitter feed with a bubble around it. It's largely political analysis, lawyers, economics, energy and drama with a few jokers. It's mostly but not entirely left leaning. The people I follow on Twitter are paying attention to daily politics in a way most people simply don't. There is no football. There are no cats. (2) However, I don't think this is going away. I don't think it would go away now even if Cummings were removed from post. I don't think people will forget. I don't think they will forgive. I don't think they will move one. (3)
What has been really striking are two things. The ratio on Tory MP's tweeting support for Dominic Cummings and the moving stories, retweeted thousands of times, from ordinary people about the journeys they have not taken because of the coronavirus, the regulations, the guidance and the shared endevour to protect the common good from a deadly, novel and not well understood virus. Dozens and dozens of people sharing vicerally painful accounts of not being able to sit with dying relatives or go to funerals or sitting alone, in an empty home, griefing. All of them having done so so they could follow the guidance and the regulations and the spirit and purpose of the rules and not spread a deadly disease around the country. I've never seen so much anger, so commonly shared on Twitter.
Fuck Dominic Cummings and what he's done to honesty in politics, to integrity, to reason and to the rule of law, but most of all fuck Dominic Cummings for what he's done to thousands of grieving people by making them feel stupid in their grief and loss.
But let him stay in post says I. For he's already done his damage to the grieving of Great Britan. Let him stay and damage the Tory Party who adopted him, despite him despising them, because he offered them a cheap and easy route to power.
Let him stay in post until after Keir Starmer has asked Boris Johnson all about at Prime Minister's Questions. Let him stay in post until after Ian Blackford has followed Keir Starmer a week on Wednesday. Let him stay in post for another week after that. Let him give Starmer a stick to beat Johnson with and Blackford a stick to beat the Union with.
Let him stay in post so the public can see government minister after government minister spin and lie and twist in press conference after press conference and interview after interview. Let us see them lie so obviously about something that is so obviously wrong.
Let him stay in post until he's the lead news story for weeks in a row. Let him stay in post and force every Tory Minister to dip their hands in the blood of all the people who died alone, just to to keep Dominic Cummings in post. Let him stay in post so everyone can see what the Tories under Johnson actually stand for and who they actually stand with.
Let his hubris break the Prime Minister and the Tory Party.
He should have gone last week, but seeing as he's staying, let him stay and hope some good will come of this staying and that he will take the rest of his stained and bloody cronies with him.
(1) I think he has done a bad, wrong thing. On the face of the facts as he has presented them and as I understand them its difficult to see how he hasn't infringed the coronavirus regulations. I think his behaviour has been unethical. I would not have done what he did. I appear not to be alone.
(2) I realise this makes me wrong, or at least in a minority, which in Brexit Britain is much the same thing.
(3) First polling on this shows a 20 point drop in Johnson's approval rating to net -2 and an 18 point drop in the government's approval rating.
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They'll be saying: If he doesn't have to bother, why should I?
There's something just so unremittingly Tory about the rallying of the troops and the display of contempt for the public!
It's at times like the that the miner's granddaughter in me becomes really enraged!
The Tories- they do what it says on the tin............
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Instead of a national endevour where you and I and everyone else agree to stay about a two meters away from each other for the common good and as an act of collective love he's made it about measuring to see if the distance is 2.01 meters of 1.99 and if you can find a clever loop hole, well clever old you.
He's made this an exercise more akin to private tax avoidance rather than a public health response by the public.
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I honestly don't understand how any decent human being can argue he didn't break the rules. The exceptional circumstances exception is for people fleeing domestic violence, not 'I can't look after my 4 year old because I have to work and also I might be getting sick too'. I get that *he* thinks he is above the rules, but I don't understand why one of the many liars couldn't have claimed he was sorry and shouldn't have done it anyway, they lie about everything else quickly enough.
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And then lie after lie has been told.
My hope is that this issue is so viceral and obvious that it acts to reset the tribal blindspots that have developed after Brexit.
At least on their side. :-)
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