[Boiler]

The more I think about this, the more I think the only person to be damaged by all this is Cummings himself. A couple of polls show that 75% of people disbelieve him, as opposed to about 55% for Johnson. A few will seek to discredit what he has said but in a couple of days of the news cycle it'll be forgotten and it will become the metaphorical wrapping for fish and chips. I can see him returning as an adviser should Johnson be replaced by Gove, though.

Question is: what has been sneaked under the wire today?

[kreuzberger]

Yebbut, whilst the furore of Cumm's shots may well die down, Hancock is due before them in two weeks' time. Then there's the report to be published. Drip, drip.

[Boiler]

I dunno how familiar you are with Star Trek (the original series) but do you get the feeling Hancock is wearing a red shirt right now?

[Youngian]

Doubt Bones would want him working in the sick bay.

[Son Of Hand]

... quite the sudden blind spot ...

I will laugh my knackers off if Murdoch croaks tonight.

Only tonight?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Nice to see you here on the new board.

Is Hancock going to put up with this? Any sign of his friends hitting the media? That's when it'll really kick off, one presumes.

[Tubby Isaacs]

How many people exactly were skiing in February, as Cummings says? That would sound like a reasonably easy thing to check.

[Andy McDandy]

Ha ha, Hancock, friends.

He's spent the last 15 months looking like an imperial officer who's just trodden on Darth Vader's cloak.

[kreuzberger]

How many people exactly were skiing in February, as Cummings says? That would sound like a reasonably easy thing to check.

Standard half-term fare, I would have thought, especially in the more senior ranks of the civil service and parliament, and amongst those who dismissed the unfolding body count as a prime case for Chicken-Pox parties.

[Youngian]

Nice to see you here on the new board.

Is Hancock going to put up with this? Any sign of his friends hitting the media? That's when it'll really kick off, one presumes.

There was a discussion at the whippet racing club based in Newmarket and a local flyball team about having a dog sport open day to drum up some publicity. Weighing up whether inviting Hancock to swing by would have any positive publicity value whatsoever. Given today’s events there’s potential for amusing pathos in photos of Hancock in the local paper with the whippet racers. It’ll look like even the local horse fraternity are giving him a wide birth.

[Youngian]

Standard half-term fare, I would have thought, especially in the more senior ranks of the civil service and parliament, and amongst those who dismissed the unfolding body count as a prime case for Chicken-Pox parties.

From now on the Tories will be known as the Chicken Pox Party. Pass it on.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

There was a discussion at the whippet racing club

I love Mailwatch...

[kreuzberger]

...Hancock... giving him a wide birth.

That's gonna take a lot more than a few NOx maskfuls to be even remotely doable.

[Youngian]

There was a discussion at the whippet racing club

I love Mailwatch...

A cheerful slightly eccentric woman from Epping turned up the other week with two whippets and was enjoying chatting to her until I heard her say she was a local councillor. It was a fair assumption that from Epping she was a Tory or worse and gave a wide birth for the rest of the day. I looked her up and she’s a Lib Dem so I shall enjoy resuming our chats after all. I’m such a bigot.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Hancock is so worried that he'll be turning up himself for the UQ tmrw.

[Bones McCoy]

She called out the comments about Asians as well.

What was that, TWA? I'm trying to contain my rage by just looking on here but obviously that's one I've missed?

It was about Asians being more naturally obedient.

Very very obedient, until they sink your fleet and invade Singapore.

[Bones McCoy]

Murdoch will live forever.

Keith Richard is Murdoch's horocrux

[Bones McCoy]

Doubt Bones would want him working in the sick bay.

I'd have Scotty teleport him to the first plague moon we passed.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Funny how Patel escaped blame for the border, isn't it?

[Bones McCoy]

Bloke from SAGE on Radio 5 live just now, utterly eviscerating Cummings' statements on lockdown and discharge to care homes.

Cummings stated that everybody else was wrong and only mega-mind knew the true answer.
SAGE dude rebuts this with minutes form meetings, dates, times and quotations.
Also notes of attendees - not including Cummings in several cases.

Day down, dust settled.
Polls showing trust in Cummings at 12%, Trust in Joon-son around 30%.

Face it, anybody from the left who expected Cummings to morph into John Wayne at teh head of the US Cavalry has been sadly deluded.
I'll stick with my mid-morning call of Alan Partridge meets Father "Golden Cleric" Ted.



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