Time to give Dom a slap, Boris!

That's the problem with fanatics, they never know when to stop!  By and large, taken the round and all that sort of thing, Dominic Cummings is probably "A Good Thing".  The sclerotic swamp that is our government needs a good stir from time to time but it needs to be conducted with some finesse, or dare I say, intelligence.

Take for example that gang of scrofulous, down-at-heel, dandruff-ridden rat-bags who form our press corps.  Not exactly, or even nearly, a disciplined body of clear, intellectual thinkers because, alas and alack, they in their way represent us, 'The Peeps', in all our multi-faceted divisions!  However, they remain our one and only source of information as to what our government is up to.

I remember in my days as a member of the Intelligence Corps (a misnomer if ever there was one!) that we had to grade any intelligence we received in two ways.  First the source, then the information: thus 'A1' meant an impeccable source and totally reliable information.  At the other end, F6 meant, in effect, that the source was a lying liar and the information was crap!  Thus it is with our news reporters!  However, and this is critical, it is, to misquote a famous American phrase, 'We the Peeps' who decide on the quality or otherwise of what we receive via the 'meeja', not a swivel-eyed loon like Dominic Cummings for whom not a single subject of 'Her Maj' voted in the last election!

So get a grip, Boris, and don't let Cummings pick and choose which members of the 'rat-pack' are to be invited to government briefings.  Dammit, Sir, you are the Prime Minister, not him!

 

 

Comments

[Whyaxye]

I think that the government are currently softening up the media in general; warning them that hostility will be repaid by non-cooperation.

I would be more radical. Provide a live video link in all press briefings. Why do we need accounts of government activity to be mediated by a pack of biased liars? Let people make up their own minds, and let politicians beware because it all stays on the record for ever. The hacks can ask the difficult questions, of course, and the public can also see who is biased in their reporting

[Whitewall]

Too much of the 'free press' have thrown in with those in power and against the average citizen. The media needs watching every bit as much as those elected and unelected.

[Timbo]

Trump would have lasted as long as a fart in a hammock, were it not for his ability to make his case directly to the unwashed masses.

[Glesga]

Timbo how right you are. The problem with our press and media is they think they run the country and should make the agenda. Old style newsreaders have been replaced by self styled media personality actors. The media here in the UK set about attacking brexit because of their own personal views and not in the interest of balanced news. Trump was switched on to the media. He knew he would be assaulted big style and dealt with it.