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Populists have to be popular and have an easily demonised scapegoat.
Yesterday afternoon dePfeffel invested his entire effort declaring 'Cummings is not the scapegoat!'
This did not satisfy those who are ready to brandish their (online) pitchforks and light their pyre igniting torches. The Boris they voted for always gives them a target, 'doomsters & gloomsters', ' the EU', 'dreadful disease', so yesterdays attempt to exonerate Cummings failed on many levels,
and, failed to extinguish the ire.
Greatest pity is that we are dependent upon the Daily Mail to keep Cummings' Durham Dash a front page story, as 'a No. 10 spokesperson' can just ignore campaigning newspapers and the supine BBC.