Cummings did not say "it was the official plan".So according to Cummings:
- the Prime Minister, in Feb 2020, regarded the virus to be a 'scare story' and actually said, "It's swine flu, don't worry about it, I'm going to get (Chief Medical Officer) Chris Whitty to inject me live on TV with coronavirus so everyone realises it's nothing to be frightened of".
- he's "completely baffled" as to why the givernment have denied that herd immunity was the official plan last year.
- lockdown should have happened earlier and that he, "bitterly regret", not hitting the, "emergency panic button earlier". The situation in Downing Street in March was like, "a scene from Independence Day".
- 12th March was a, "crazy day"; "Part of the building was talking about bombing Iraq, part was talking about household restrictions, and "the prime minister's girlfriend was going completely crackers about something trivial"
- on the same day: "The cabinet secretary (Mark Sedwill) said 'Prime minister, you should go on TV tomorrow and explain the herd immunity plan and that it is like the old chicken pox parties. We need people to get this disease because that's how we get herd immunity by September.'
"And I said, 'Mark you have got to stop using this chicken pox analogy. It's not right.' And he said 'why?' And Ben Warner said: 'Because chicken pox is not spreading exponentially and killing hundreds of thousands of people'."
- Matt Hancock, "should have been fired for at least 15 to 20 things".
"I think there is no doubt at all that many senior people performed far, far - disastrously below the standards which the country has the right to expect. I think that the secretary of state for Health is certainly one of those people. I said repeatedly to the prime minister that he should be fired, so did the cabinet secretary, so did many other senior people."
- the political system is fucked: "There's a very profound question in the nature of our political system, any system that leaves people with the choice between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn is obviously a system that's gone extremely badly wrong."
Of course, this is all just Cummings version of events and his opinions. How much weight do the hold? Will his comments damage the government, or will they just brush his criticisms off whilst the general public continues to suffer from myopia and apathy?!
What I am wondering, cynical and paranoid git that I am, is if all this is just a deloiberate ploy to deflect attention away from the independent investigation into establishment corruption that bitch-face Patel is unlawfully blocking publication of? This whole Cummings thing would be a very effective smokescreen. Is Cummings in on it even?!
The whole entire thing stinks a foul stench and nobody seems to even give a fuck!
So according to Cummings:
- the Prime Minister, in Feb 2020, regarded the virus to be a 'scare story' and actually said, "It's swine flu, don't worry about it, I'm going to get (Chief Medical Officer) Chris Whitty to inject me live on TV with coronavirus so everyone realises it's nothing to be frightened of".
- he's "completely baffled" as to why the givernment have denied that herd immunity was the official plan last year.
- lockdown should have happened earlier and that he, "bitterly regret", not hitting the, "emergency panic button earlier". The situation in Downing Street in March was like, "a scene from Independence Day".
- 12th March was a, "crazy day"; "Part of the building was talking about bombing Iraq, part was talking about household restrictions, and "the prime minister's girlfriend was going completely crackers about something trivial"
- on the same day: "The cabinet secretary (Mark Sedwill) said 'Prime minister, you should go on TV tomorrow and explain the herd immunity plan and that it is like the old chicken pox parties. We need people to get this disease because that's how we get herd immunity by September.'
"And I said, 'Mark you have got to stop using this chicken pox analogy. It's not right.' And he said 'why?' And Ben Warner said: 'Because chicken pox is not spreading exponentially and killing hundreds of thousands of people'."
- Matt Hancock, "should have been fired for at least 15 to 20 things".
"I think there is no doubt at all that many senior people performed far, far - disastrously below the standards which the country has the right to expect. I think that the secretary of state for Health is certainly one of those people. I said repeatedly to the prime minister that he should be fired, so did the cabinet secretary, so did many other senior people."
- the political system is fucked: "There's a very profound question in the nature of our political system, any system that leaves people with the choice between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn is obviously a system that's gone extremely badly wrong."
Of course, this is all just Cummings version of events and his opinions. How much weight do the hold? Will his comments damage the government, or will they just brush his criticisms off whilst the general public continues to suffer from myopia and apathy?!
What I am wondering, cynical and paranoid git that I am, is if all this is just a deloiberate ploy to deflect attention away from the independent investigation into establishment corruption that bitch-face Patel is unlawfully blocking publication of? This whole Cummings thing would be a very effective smokescreen. Is Cummings in on it even?!
The whole entire thing stinks a foul stench and nobody seems to even give a fuck!
Re the Hancock not surviving, that fits in with Cummings' narrative about keeping Hancock on so as to blame/sack him later.I agree that the public will just let this float by and wash over him. He is loved by the public for some strange reason.
I can't see Hancock surviving though. A scapegoat is required and he'll fit Bozo's bill.
Some real damming stuff from Cummings but not a shock and actually that's the worst part. These revelations should bring a government down but they won't.
Agree with that. I haven't hit the panic button. Johnson was an attractive change of personnel/style to many but eventually his star will wane.Remember when Barcelona's tic-a-taca style was king of the roost and commentators saaid nothing could displace it, that perpetual dominance was here to stay and athletic football was done. All things must and do pass but calling the moment is an art not a science. One day and all of a sudden Bunter will be an acknowledged charlatan and way more people than ever voted against him will claim they knew so all along. We have been here before.
Agree. Will cash in and make a fortune writing more crap having damaged our country.The chances of Johnson fighting the next election is virtually nil, in my opinion.
He’ll just sneak away and go back to his writing.
I decided to wear a mask when out from day one Chris.I faced open hostility for wearing a mask 12 months ago. That was partly because of the response of government .
No one on here so far.So last year when Cummings was apparently running everything and Boris was just a puppet, Cummings was Lord Vordemort and not to be trusted.
This year now he has been kicked out and says he has evidence he is suddenly the most honest person and his testimonial is to be accepted as truth.
I have ringing in my ears from all the beeping of people reversing and doing u-turns
London Mayor Khan was a massive advocate of mask wearing from very early days but was poo-pooed.I faced open hostility for wearing a mask 12 months ago. That was partly because of the response of government .
So last year when Cummings was apparently running everything and Boris was just a puppet, Cummings was Lord Vordemort and not to be trusted.
This year now he has been kicked out and says he has evidence he is suddenly the most honest person and his testimonial is to be accepted as truth.
I have ringing in my ears from all the beeping of people reversing and doing u-turns
I believe the thinking at the start was this was a contact transmission virus rather than an airborne one, which is why the worry was with people thinking they were firstly immune themselves by wearing a mask, and secondly that they would be relaxed with regards to touching/adjusting/re-using it.I decided to wear a mask when out from day one Chris.
I got a few odd looks in Tesco but no hostility.
To me, it was logical and common sense.
I remember a discussion with my brother and him telling me that it would make it worse.
How could it I asked.
Well, it turns out that a Doctor on Jeremy Vine had said so
WTF ?