It is a year since this Tweet was posted on the official UK Civil Service Twitter account:
The post did not survive online for long, but the image has survived. And rightly so. The Tweet spoke of the truth, and it addressed itself to power.
It also so happens that today is the anniversary of the infamous Downing Street press conference during which Dominic Cumnmings defended his 'eye-testing' trip to Barnard Castle.
A year ago Cimmings seemingly had Westminster in the palm of his hand.
A year on he has gone, and so have almost all those who supported Johnson at that time, leaving him politically friendless at the centre of power.
But the truth twisting has not ended, except on Cuimmings part, where a sudden desire to tell the truth seems to be very apparent.
So why has Cummings changed heart? Could it be that he has sensed that someone will one day pay the price for having permitted so many people to die unnecessarily early and that he was prime candidate for scapegoat? Maybe he senses that now is the time to shift the blame to someone else, with Johnson his primary target?
I am finding it hard to form another view. Cummings realises just how recklessly irresponsible the government was a year ago, and how recklessly irresponsible it remains. And he is determined not to be the fall guy. In a very odd way we might have to think him for that. In saving his own skin he will, quite possibly, nail these truth twisters down. For the first time ever he might be doing a public service. But it does not exonerate him.
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Wasn’t Cummings formerly associated with Gove ?
Perhaps he’s anticipating a regime change and is positioning himself accordingly ?
I have very little time for Cummings as a person, given his attitude towards the BBC, and the Civil Service, and, worst of all, his creation of the ‘take back control’ lie as which helped to bring about the Brexit disaster, but we might have something to be grateful to him for if he dumps the dirt on Johnson and his appalling government.
We have to keep fighting on and resist these lying ********, by getting the truth out there. And if it takes someone like Cummings to help do it, fine.
I return only to report this excellent piece which nails it by Aditya.
“In a country that as late as 2019 considered itself to be among the best prepared on Earth to handle a pandemic, hundreds of thousands of families are today struggling with premature death or the nursing of a chronically ill loved one, and the loss of vital income. Forget the blame game being played on Downing Street, this is an indictment of an entire governing class: lethal in its complacency, cocksure despite its manifest inadequacy, and forever blocking its eyes and ears to the lessons from history, or even the TV pictures from hospitals across northern Italy.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/26/dominic-cummings-circus-indictment-governing-class-failures-uk
“Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist”
He won’t be for much longer if he carries on writing more stuff like that. I’d say he is just about the only vestige of the make believe Guardian conscience still allowed to exist in that Kings Place. They’ll find some excuse to suddenly eject him.
From a BBC Reality Check team report last 30th May 2020
‘Mr Cummings said: “For years I have warned of the dangers of pandemics. Last year I wrote about the possible threat from coronaviruses and the urgent need for planning.”
‘Journalists quickly found a blog by the adviser from last year that mentioned SARS a single time. But it was soon established by a bit of internet sleuthing that the blog had been edited to contain this coronavirus reference on the evening of 14 April this year, the day Mr Cummings returned to work from Durham. When originally published it had contained just a link to another article.’
‘Mr Cummings has not revealed why he made the edit when he did.’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/52828076
Will that be the first answer he will be asked to give?
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I have said for several years now having studied Cummings self promoting blogs on BrexShit, before he started changing them, his character and supremacist ideals are best described by the creation of the geniuses, Kubrick and Sellars, of Dr Strangelove.
My personal opinion on whatever he is doing – it will only be in furtherance of the ‘Great Project’ he has been intimately involved in for decades. Which he delivered by hook and crook (especially PV crookedness). He is only doing his same old smelly doody for his Masters – because he can’t trust anyone else to be as clever as himself!
Well I haven’t seen any report that Cummings has answered or was even asked the question above.
I have noted that the narrative is being manufactured and the reality of the decisions, process and even Cummings and his fellow henchman on SAGE and their input has not been inquired.
What we are witnessing is a subtle rewrite and the call for a Inquiry? Cummings doesn’t want a Judicial one!
Of course not.
Because then they can get away with murder after being blatant about their criminality as ably shown today with the dropping of case against the Hillsborough police and solicitors by the judge today – citing exactly that reasoning.
I’ll leave it at that – I won’t carry on supping the Cummings KoolAid and the collusion by the committees.