Dominic Cummings said this on Twitter yesterday:
He added:
In other words, the Tories knowingly lied about both Brexit and its consequences for Northern Ireland to win the 2019 general election. They knew the deal was not 'oven ready'. They knew they would have to renegotiate because what they were signing was, as far as they were concerned, unacceptable. And they did not give a hint of that.
I agree with this comment from John Cotter, a law lecturer at Keele University on this:
Peace in Northern Ireland is too important for such games to be played. Lives are at stake.
And politics does require integrity.
If Cummings is right (and he may not be) both were treated as incidental to the gains that the Conservatives might make. No wonder politicians are held in contempt in that case.
Surely we can do better than that?
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I was listening to the early morning radio on the way to work this morning and all I heard was your view being consolidated before you even wrote the blog!
The ‘issue’ now is Frost is saying that the European Court cannot be involved in the ‘negotiations’!!!! So whose law governs the process then? So the UK wishes to negate the legal body governing a treaty.
The arrogance on display is frankly amazing.
But as we know with these people – they always try to create their OWN reality.
I wonder what the cousins across the Atlantic think about the latest ploy?
I can’t face morning radio very often, I admit
I use a wide range of written media instead..although Jacqueline now covers the broadcast media pretty thoroughly for me as well
What does the shopping trolley in Cummings text mean?
I understand ‘whacking Corbyn’ means a gangland assassination of JC.
The DS, he claims to be the opposite actually being the capos – DIcky Dearlove was just as explicit about ‘stopping Corbyn’ as was the US SecState Pompeo of the election interfering ‘Gauntlet’
All the kipper brained Brexiteer worshippers, softened by social media dark targeting and MSM daily reenforcing is who Cummings is aiming his iconography at.
The text is a typical Cummings concoction – more a spell than truth – perfected to deliver the stolen referenda and general election and now perfidy.
Unelected , never elected, banal technocrats, both Frost and Cummings are tried and trusted models of Empire grifters chosen for their psychopathic lack of human empathy and fairness and probity to deliver for their actual Masters of the Universe.
They are the assassins, liars, thieves and cheats.
They are exploiting the cultural mores and memes developed over generations. They have used the ‘perfidious Albion ‘ accusation as a game plan!
The shopping trolley icon is a reference to Dominic Cummings previously describing Boris Johnson as like a shopping trolley careening from one side of an aisle to the other
What do you expect from Johnson ? – he is a habitual liar – e.g. “if any NI business receives a Customs declaration form I will tell them to bin it ” – just wish that any such businesses that get a penalty from HMRC for non submission send it to No 10 Downing Street for him to pay !
“…held in contempt …” And yet people in England voted for known liars, knowing that any deceit of the EU was ‘deserved’ and thinking any consequences would be suffered by others, not themselves (until supply crisis – “When I voted for Brexit, I didn’t vote for this!”). What does that say about the electorate and the contempt WE are held in by politicians? For the likes of Cummings, politics IS a game and the electorate are just another player, to be duped, bribed, intimidated or cajoled.
I know there is no opposition worthy of the name, but while opinion polls still show anyone at all prepared to vote Tory, never mind a majority, do we really deserve a better kind of politician?
I remember being astounded by the Wirral agreement between Johnson and the Taioseach, and even more so when the ERG back benchers backed the final deal, having said they wouldnt go against the DUP. It only made sense a year later when it became clear they must have given the nod they had no intention of implementing the protocal they had negotiated and signed up to. Didnt think they would be that cynical – or stupid? Presumably you can really only do this once, other countries – or indeed EU will not be inclined to do further deals with this govt.?
I hope it can only be done once
Cummings is saying it is standard policy…
I am not sure he really knows about standards though
With Cummings as with Johnson, it is rarely worth listening to what they actually say to learn anything factual. Any congruence between their words and the truth is only coincidental.
Either will say whatever they think is most likely to achieve their aims – in the former case, to manipulate people into the position he wants, and in the latter to be as popular as possible.
Both think rules are for other people. Truth or lies is not even a secondary consideration: neither has any compunction about lying if the lie will serve them better than the truth.
The question is never “do I believe you?” but always “why are you telling me this?”
“The question is never “do I believe you?” but always “why are you telling me this?””
Yep, this, 100%.
Dominic Cummings isn’t telling us anything we didn’t know, or could have at least worked out for ourselves, at the time of the election.
It should have been obvious to everyone that the “oven ready” deal was an electoral gimmick. BJ and crew were going to resume ‘negotiations’ once the election was out of the way. There was no intention to accept the Northern Irish protocol for any longer than was needed to win a majority.
The opposition was at fault too. They didn’t call out BJ sufficiently on this. Instead they complained that the protocol created the Irish Sea border than BJ had vowed to prevent.