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Literally everyone missing the point... this isn’t the Con leadership thread. The key point is the pandemic. Cummings should go because the hypocrisy, message management and arrogance in relation to the broad importance of community cooperation is massively significant. To begin to debate the political ramifications is to fall into the same trap as this morning’s Guardian and pretty much all USA press ever - which is to go on a binary, polemic, tribal sabotage mission.
At the moment, for one of the first times in recent history the country is (relatively) united over its basic attitudes and responsibilities to a global problem. To make it a game of blue and red completely undermines the essential issue. The incumbents are fucking it up and need to adjust immediately. If they gain any confidence that this is only about upsetting people they never had sway over at all they’ll give much less of a shit. I honestly think moments like this are potentially powerful in defining the tactical shape of political responsibility going forward.