Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

Yep, the deep state swinging into action. Next they’ll want to inject us with mind control nanorobots

This sounds promising!

https://twitter.com/pippacrerar/status/1264597652311879691?s=21

I know my twitter feed is most probably a small bubble, but I've never seen pretty much every tweet lining up in horror and anger at Johnson / Cummings in the same way. I think they have underestimated the public on this one.

Pretty sure everything they do is calculated and even data informed, they've not underestimated anything, they've worked out what they can get away with based on analysis of the nation, and the majority of people won't give a shit about this.

Pretty sure everything they do is calculated and even data informed

Ha - don't buy the hype.

I know my twitter feed is most probably a small bubble, but I've never seen pretty much every tweet lining up in horror and anger at Johnson / Cummings in the same way.

Power of internetz
#fuckweasel

Fair point, if not rigorously assessed, then basing things on the status quo

Get a rep in each county to do a random sample of 50 people

• sack him
  
• don't sack him
  
• don't give a fuck
  
  

see what comes back. Probably good enough.

shrugs

No surprises for me, it just wasn’t juicy enough to top him when he played the child care tosh

The 'people not adhering to social distancing/isolation' outcry is mainly a middle-class, curtain-twitching thing. It's considered a peccadillo by many, many think it's dictatorial and an infringement of their rights, and if people travel about by car, they're isolated, right? So you then get some people who don't have a lot of power, though they have some and some prominent responsibility, and who do have a certain measure of honour, who resign. Dominic Cummings, of course, has more power, probably as a sock puppet for worldwide oligarchs to implement totalitarian 'government' of some kind in which opposition and protest are made impossible by electoral manipulation, surveillance, and permanently-simmering undeclared-civil-war-like social division, and because he is backed by deep-seated corruption, of course he won't resign.

Even were something else to come out that might contradict what Johnson said today (but he probably checked with Cummings whether there is anything else), he could still feign ignorance, rely on it being said peccadillo, and do nothing. He won't be damaged by it except in the eyes of people who are already his political opponents. On the contrary, as he never apologises for anything, apologising being generally considered a mistake in politics (except decades too late when the apology has become fairly inconsequential), in doubling down he's going to be seen by many as 'strong' even though he is (again) being dishonourable. Again, we're still very far from an election. There's nothing Johnson has to worry about.

^ hope you're wrong. Please be wrong.

Local FB group, lockdown over.

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Here we go

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I was hoping for something a bit more explosive.

If Whity and Valance had any principles they would refuse to go on the briefings from now on as he has undermined their whole message for months

Yeah. Here's irrefutable video of Dom Abba dancing at Barnard Castle whilst not clapping for the NHS would've been stronger.

Yes, rehash of same facts. They need some proper evidence he wasn't where he said he was.

It's like the Gov has a massive head wound that it just pretends isn't there. Weird.

Uh oh.

https://twitter.com/alesisnitrodrum/status/1264638226750464002?s=19

Tough day for Dom
https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1264639247866265602

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-dominic-cummings-tweet-civil-service-arrogant-offensive-a9530706.html

UK civil service twitter account in a blinder

https://twitter.com/oliverleith/status/1264629762770833411?s=19

There's nothing Johnson has to worry about

He looked pretty downtrodden in the briefing for a man with nothing to worry about.