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Re: Ex-aide to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson launches scathing attack over Covid response

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 26 May 21 7:29 PM | 29 view(s)
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He's not crazy at all. Dominic Cummings is a very unpleasant man who thinks he's far smarter than everyone. No grey areas in his brain. Whatever Cummings says is right. Everyone else is a liar or a fool. It's actually him who is a bit like Trump. A dangerous narcissist.

He got fired. Now he is bitter and trying to do damage.

To the substance - no one knew what this thing was to begin with. We all know that nearly everyone got things wrong. A person running a country hears voices demanding different things. Boris chased vaccines as his main solution. It's worked out okay in terms of the timeline of recovery even if he was reluctant to lock the country down. But in real time, I think he was late by a week or two - easy mistake to make when dealing with uncertainties.

I admire the fact that he is flexible. His ideas change as new facts appear.

Now we have the wisdom of hindsight. That's all Dominic Cummings is wielding. To me, he's the political version of Prince Harry. Moans about everyone else. Needs a mirror.

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Ex-aide to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson launches scathing attack over Covid response
By: clo2 in ALEA
Wed, 26 May 21 4:47 PM 		Msg. 42247 of 54370

Boris sounds almost as crazy as Trump, with an accent.
The difference, at least after he had his near death brush with Covid he did a 180.

Ex-aide to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson launches scathing attack over Covid response
"When the public needed us most, the government failed," Dominic Cummings told British lawmakers.

May 26, 2021, 9:02 AM EDT
By Adela Suliman and The Associated Press

LONDON — A former chief adviser to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson lambasted the government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic Wednesday, arguing the response was inadequate.

Dominic Cummings, caricatured by British tabloids as a Svengali-like adviser to Johnson, was the leading strategist behind the 2016 Brexit campaign and Johnson's landslide election win in 2019. He was quizzed Wednesday by British lawmakers on the lessons learned from the pandemic.

In a blistering attack on the government he once served, Cummings said the United Kingdom's government had "failed" the public and "fell disastrously short" in its handling of Covid-19.

"The truth is that senior ministers, senior officials, senior advisers like me, fell disastrously short of the standards that the public has a right to expect of its government in a crisis like this," he said in testimony offered to Parliament's Science and Health Select Committee.

"When the public needed us most, the government failed," he said, adding that people "died unnecessarily" as a result.

Cummings delivered excoriating allegations of bad decisions and false assumptions made by Johnson's government, describing scenes of chaos in government as "like an out-of-control movie."

He said that in early 2020, the U.K. government "was not operating on a war footing on this in February in any way, shape or form. Lots of people were literally skiing."

Cummings said Johnson initially regarded the pandemic as "just a scare story" and said the prime minister even suggested at one point being injected live on TV with the virus to reassure the public. 

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http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ex-aide-british-prime-minister-boris-johnson-launches-scathing-attack-n1268603

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