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God, for a moment there I genuinely thought Boris was going to announce Cummings had been let go. Absolute shitheads.
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Fuck sake.
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Christ. I can't believe that. Although I can, obvs.
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I am not remotely surprised, Johnson has no morals whatsoever. Time for Labour to crank up the pressure.
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He's done. Johnson has now fully lost public trust. No idea how this plays out, but this is where he loses us.
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Will there be questions from the public today?
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This is ludicrous. I'm not surprised but really. Lets hope Pippa Crerar has some photos to release.
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I really hope the press don’t let this drop. And that clear, indisputable evidence of Cummings flouting lockdown (if it doesn’t already exist) comes out.

Though it probably won’t make a difference. I’m so angry. My in-laws have been flouting lockdown since the beginning, and this sort of crap justifies them breaking lockdown (in their eyes).
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Mountain Goat wrote: Sun May 24, 2020 5:09 pm He's done. Johnson has now fully lost public trust. No idea how this plays out, but this is where he loses us.
I would love this to be the case but I honestly don't think that it matters what he does/they do. People still believe his shit, for some unfathomable reason.
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Agreed. They will just come out with something about Diane Abbott and numbers or Corbyn supporting terrorists. Utterly blind.
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I don't think they do with this, though. Usually, yes.
This is cutting right across the political spectrum, including people who don't much care about politics.
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I don't know, I think this has cut across political lines. So well done Boris, finally uniting the country :ella: :lol:
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I really hope you are both right, I just don't dare to hope :(
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I'm not sure it'll actually end his tenure or anything, but I do think this has or could be quite a marker in the weakening of it.
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I'm not sure there's even a mechanism for getting shot of him/them so I'm not hopeful of major change but I do think the tide has turned now in terms of public faith. Might just mean no-one bothers with lockdown though. :ella:
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Smal :clone: :lol:
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I'm so cross. I'm SO cross. Honestly, I have full sympathy with someone travelling for emegency childcare (even though that is bullshit and he was clearly just commuting) but I absolutely cannot forgive the cover up. They had one option: choose between protecting lockdown or protecting an advisor. The fact that they went with the latter is a stunning mistake and I wish they would pay for it dearly.
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Hilarious scenes of technical difficulties too. :woteva:
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Yes. I think the cover up is worse than the crime. If Cummings had apologised and said he panicked and made a bad decision, it'd be old news by now.
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He is just going to stand there and repeat the same shit over and over.
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