Tory "Mastermind" Dominic Cummings Reportedly Wandering Drunk around Parliament

[Denzil_DC]

Last edited Tue Sep 3, 2019, 10:35 PM - Edit history (1)

From the sounds of it, he's not taking Tuesday's events well ...

From Guardian Political Correspondent Peter Walker:

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Peter Walker ✔
@peterwalker99

I just bumped into Dominic Cummings, who was clutching a glass of red wine and wandering along the parliamentary press corridor, lost and looking for a particular newspaper office. This is not a usual occurrence.

Sunday Times Political Editor Tim Shipman later posted this tweet, then deleted it after Labour sources denied it happened:



But the "Labour sources" apparently didn't inform Labour MP Cat Smith, who witnessed the incident:

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Cat Smith ✔
@CatSmithMP

As one of several shadow cabinet members stood right next to Jeremy (who was on the phone at the time) I just thought there was some loud bloke who stunk of booze yelling at us.

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UPDATE: The story's now been picked up by the Mirror:

PM's guru Dominic Cummings goads Jeremy Corbyn after Boris Johnson Brexit defeat
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/pms-guru-dominic-cummings-goads-19400954

It's not clear how early in the day he started hitting the bottle:

Day of the Remainer purge: how Dominic Cummings ranted at Tory rebels in Downing Street

If the 15 Tory rebels who headed to 10 Downing Street were hoping that Boris Johnson and his team would 'love bomb' them with entreaties not to vote against the Government, they were sorely mistaken.

"I don't know who any of you are!" Mr Johnson's chief adviser Dominic Cummings yelled at a some of them as they waited to meet the Prime Minister outside the Cabinet room.

The former head of the Vote Leave campaign - wearing his trademark crumpled white shirt - continued to hector the smartly dressed MPs in this way for a "considerable period of time".

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/03/day-remainer-purge-dominic-cummings-ranted-tory-rebels-downing/

And the spite continues:

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Aubrey Allegretti ✔
@breeallegretti

Wow. Sam Gyimah, one of the Tory rebels, tells @SamCoatesSky that "coming in here this evening it looks like they've also disabled our passes, which is a hostile act".

That would be the rebels' parliamentary passes, without which they'll have trouble getting past security.

[BooScout]

1. Cummings thought up Boris's clusterfuck...

It gives me great pleasure to see it all come home to roost.

[Iliyah]

2. Brits, they are quite

entertaining.

[volstork]

4. To be fair,

they probably think the same thing about us...!

[RockRaven]

3. If Labour had chosen a leader less disliked than Corbyn, Boris would be scared shitless of

the possibility of an election. Instead, he thinks the Tories will actually pick up seats. Boris WANTS to be "forced" to have an election before the Brexit deadline because he thinks it will paradoxically turn out in his favor. This is all insane, however it turns out.

[sharedvalues]

6. Yes. Corbyn was a really bad choice.

Imagine if the US Democrats had a nominee who secretly liked Russia still today, and was actually onboard with Trump’s main policy agenda, say was pro-wall and anti-immigration while also being a general ass.

That would be similar to Corbyn.

Labour made a HUGE HUGE mistake choosing a Eurosceptic leader.

It’s idiocy.

[sharedvalues]

19. No.

Sanders doesn’t want the things Trump wants.

Corbyn is a disaster because he wants to leave too. He’s a left-wing euroskeptic. Disaster.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

7. "LESS disliked than Corbyn."

Is that even possible ?!?

[TubbersUK]

5. This is gratifying - thanks. n/t

[orangecrush]

8. ...

[First Speaker]

9. How did the country that gave us Pitt, Fox, Disraeli, Gladstone, Churchill, et al...

...manage to end up with a choice between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn?

[TygrBright]

11. I suspect that query is resonating throughout the scepter'd isle tonight... n/t

[LeftishBrit]

15. A bit of a decline from Churchill vs Attlee!

Unfortunately, if staff are incompetent or plain criminal, the employers are ultimately responsible. That would be US (the voters). Don't know what's gone wrong, really. The age of the sound-byte controlling everything?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

12. Tories and Republicans just have to be vindictive.

Potentially withdrawing the whip on the rebels and disabling their access passes - typical right-wing punitive measures for those that step out of line and don't sing the party song.



Tribalism at its worst.......

[tirebiter]

13. Makes Tony Blair seem like the voice of reason

Just sayin’...

[LeftishBrit]

16. Last week, I was heard to mutter 'Why can't we bring back John Major?'

Not a sentence I'd ever have expected to utter, in the dear distant days beyond recall, when I voted against him twice!

[LeftishBrit]

14. All nuttery!

[Denzil_DC]

17. Tim Shipman now confirms the report about the confrontation with Corbyn is true:

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Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound

Labour now confirms the incident

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. Tim Shipman hasn't exactly exerted himself in crossing out Kirsty's name, has he?

That actually looks like he printed it, took a felt-tip that's running out, scribbled a couple of times, thought "that'll do" and then took a photo of that.

[Denzil_DC]

21. Er ... nope.

He's being ribbed in the replies about that.

How low-tech!

[Ghost Dog]

18. Good work Denzil_DC! n/t