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I suppose it's handy the lobby press clearly loathe this guy and think he's a massive prick, because for once they're actually giving a modicum of scrutiny and asking pressing questions e: 135 miles will only get you as far as Lincolnshire (ish) Answers Me fucked around with this message at 17:03 on May 25, 2020 |
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Interesting that Cummings job is not to give advice as per his job title, but to make decisions.
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May 25, 2020 17:00
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He makes Johnson sound like a mob boss who'll bash your head in with a bowling ball if you waste two minutes of his time.
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namesake posted:I'm currently 100% okay with the Tory government going to war with the press to defend Cummings because that's going to be a messy civil war. "The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy and watching them tear chunks out of each other is just a really good time" isn't as catchy but far more accurate.
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May 25, 2020 17:00
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These questions are getting good now that laurak and Peston are gone.
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May 25, 2020 17:01
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He's like a deer caught in the headlights right now, this is great
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Magic Mango posted:These questions are getting good now that laurak and Peston are gone. Give it two minutes until they cut away to Boris.
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Wachter posted:This is less credible than Prince Andrew can't sweat. Whose idea was this 20-car pile up? well, is prince andrew in jail for noncing?
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May 25, 2020 17:01
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He gets minor credit for not saying "I have been clear" ad nauseum at least
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May 25, 2020 17:02
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A lawyer friend of mine has pointed out that Cummings timeline is full of verifiable claims about where he was and what he did so there's a huge chance Cummings gets owned by a chance photograph or very trustworthy witness.
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false stories driving people mad
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I'm still trying to understand which part of the story was palpably untrue, because hasn't he admitted to the whole thing now?
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This is literally 'it's regrettable that the media lied so much and made the people mad. No, I won't be specific about any of those lies.'
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"it seemed to me I was in an exceptional circumstance" - the tory manifesto
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I'm still trying to understand which part of the story was palpably untrue, because hasn't he admitted to the whole thing now? Him going back up to Durham after coming down to London, apparently. Everything else seems to be verified.
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May 25, 2020 17:04
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Websters dictionary defines 'lock down' as...
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Jesus, we have all played this guy at Warhammer.
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I'm still trying to understand which part of the story was palpably untrue, because hasn't he admitted to the whole thing now? It's the going back after he'd finished isolating that he denies.
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Marmaduke! posted:He gets minor credit for not saying "I have been clear" ad nauseum at least Uh, let me be clear, I uh, walked in my dad's woods,
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May 25, 2020 17:05
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I'm still trying to understand which part of the story was palpably untrue, because hasn't he admitted to the whole thing now? they forgot to report that it was all ok because cummies decided it was
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Gary Gibbon trying to sneak in a question that he absolutely was not allowed to ask there
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Coohoolin posted:boris johnson has never done a sociology course in his life Literally a degree about the Classics called 'humanities' 
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Well, she hadn’t been tested for COVID, you see, therefore
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Lol Dominic gets asked a difficult question. Writes something down (it’s the death warrant of that journalist)
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This is like the Prince Andrew interview: he’s giving a defence lawyer esque perfectly innocent explanation of the evidence and explaining how that means he’s innocent, while simultaneously sounding completely out of touch and completely insane.
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May 25, 2020 17:06
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Does he really think his parents owning a loving wood makes him look better?
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Hasn't he just catch 22'd himself? If he wasn't sure she had corona then there was even less reason to break the lockdown.
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May 25, 2020 17:07
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Amazed at how many people say Castle Barnard
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kid can't hold it in on a 30-minute round trip but both develop bladders of steel for 260 miles
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stev posted:Does he really think his parents owning a loving wood makes him look better? It’s the Tory version of the ten dollar banana, it’s amazing.
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Hallucinogenic Toreador posted:Hasn't he just catch 22'd himself? If he wasn't sure she had corona then there was even less reason to break the lockdown. he said earlier that he assumed she had it, that's why he was so worried in the first place
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May 25, 2020 17:08
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Oh god his fundamental argument is that he THOUGHT his actions were appropriate, he's hosed. He's got to be hosed. The only excuse has to be he felt he had no choice, otherwise he's choosing to break the rules to make things easier for himself.
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May 25, 2020 17:09
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Necrothatcher posted:he said earlier that he assumed she had it, that's why he was so worried in the first place But he also just said that she didn't have a cough and therefore knew she didn't have it. I mean if there was an actual journalist in the audience maybe they'd pick up on this.
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May 25, 2020 17:09
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is there medical advice from a doctor that's not "expert medical advice?"
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Ooh, I like the way this woman's opening her questioning. Feels like she's got something up her sleeve
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namesake posted:Oh god his fundamental argument is that he THOUGHT his actions were appropriate, he's hosed. He's got to be hosed. The only excuse has to be he felt he had no choice, otherwise he's choosing to break the rules to make things easier for himself. No he's not, he's going to be fine.
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Pesmerga posted:No he's not, he's going to be fine.
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he's running the successful strategy that won him the brex referendum and the general. i think it could work here too, basically you accept that the twittersphere and liberal media means literally loving nothing with regards to elections (at least for the right, it obvs matters quite a lot for the left coz people are more media credulous) and that everyone loving loathes the media he's right too, if given the choice between burying cummings in a hole or the UK media in a hole i'd be tearfully saying goodbye to owen jones like the GE and ref it all depends on the tory party holding together and not shaking apart under the media pressure
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so he decided he needed to leave London because they might have the coronavirus, but they didn't breach the lockdown because the symptoms weren't the ones (cough and temperature) that you needed to isolate for lol tbf he did get some pretty poor medical advice, apparently they told him he wasn't a danger to the public
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Necrothatcher posted:is there medical advice from a doctor that's not "expert medical advice?" Doctor of music?
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