Cummings: into the realms of fiction
By Pete North - May 27, 2020
I’m completely bored to tears with absolutely everything being turned into a new front in a binary tribal culture war. Why do we have to pick a side and cheer for any of them?
They’re now telling us the outcry over Cummings’ hypocrisy is exclusively to do with Brexit. That’s the narrative they’re trying to weave. If they can turn it into a tribal issue then they can count on the unequivocal support of the bovine populist grunters who worship Boris. They’re now suggesting if Cummings goes, Brexit is under threat (perplexing being that we have already left). Though the Telegraph has it that :
“A deal to extend the transition in light of the crisis had been all but agreed at official level. The EU was to have spared the UK’s blushes by proposing it, rather than the other way around. This would have allowed the UK government to present the concession as a favour to the EU, rather than a climbdown.
“But then Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister’s chief adviser, returned and the plan, concocted by underlings while he and Boris Johnson were laid out on their sick beds, was scuppered.”
No doubt a extension plan, to be offered to the PM if requested, did exist but without repealing the lock in law and without a direct request from the PM an extension simply doesn’t happen. The Telegraph along with Breitbart and others want us to buy the notion that there’s a “deep state” rebellion against Brexit and Cummings is people’s defender while the PM is at half capacity. They will go to any lengths to keep Cummings.
I have an emerging suspicion that the most prolific liars in politics are beginning to believe they can tell substantially bigger lies without consequence or loss of support. They may even be right. Once you’ve claimed your corner of the swamp, you can tell the pondlife anything.
That’s essentially what politics is now. It’s between you, me and the swamp. You have your agenda, I have mine, the rest is all just a race to cultivate and leverage ignorance to your own ends. It’s become appallingly cynical, lacking any sense of ethics. No lie too big and any lie will do.
I don’t need the resignation or sacking of Cummings now though. I’ve got my pound of flesh; the open bankable admission that the PM is an empty vessel who can’t stand on his own initiative. That he’s willing to let his flagship Covid strategy collapse to save his stooge tells me everything.
As to the media, the simplest reform of British media is to simply let them carry on as they are but end the obligation for impartiality. That way they can be as vile as they want to be and we can judge them accordingly. They can all rot.