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Eh? I am a democratic socialist with green instincts who isn't racist. What I said is 100% consistent with that. 'sorry to break that to you'

Fair point

Which is great. But I have been told by several people in a position to know, that it will be the angry letters and emails from individual constituents pouring in that will have MPs in a panic. They are not used to real people actually giving a genuine sh*t about stuff. And when it happens it...

Lot's of genuine, personal messages, from angry constituents are about the only thing guaranteed to get the attention of MPs. Orchestrated email campaigns have to hit the million + mark before they get close to the impact of a few hundred angry local voters.

By resigning as a member of the government he will have taken a significant hit to his salary I think? There's a very big difference between being a member of parliament and a member of the government. Especially when that government is so clearly under the thumb of a particular 'advisor'. If...

Sun and the Times have been given, and met, their brief: Focus on shops opening, draw a line under the Cummings story. Everyone with half a brain cell knows full well his story is a crock of sh*t. But we've had all the information we are going to get, and since we've accepted that brazen lying...

The print media have a few more hours to work out how to say he's lying, without actually saying he's lying. And it's not exactly hard to spot the holes in the story is it!? They can keep this going easily if they choose. And at the individual level they will want to - no love lost for Cummings...

You missed the cummings on Hampstead Heath? Maybe try a little later in the evening next time?

I can only assume Dominic Cummings considered Prince Andrew's interview to be a case study in media management.

Precisely What he actually did is now the least of his problems. Everyone F*cks up, especially under that kind of pressure. If he'd just put his hands up and say we got it wrong - and then quietly resigned, this could have been managed without too much drama. He'd have been back in months...

This. This and this again.

It is horrible. But this is very much a case of live by the sword, die by the sword. Reap what you sow Etc etc Cummings dragged politics in this country into the gutter. I hate what he has done to our tone of political debate. He did in knowingly and deliberately, and for self serving...

This is also possible

Is that your guess, or has that been 'leaked' in some way? Sounds possible. And could genuinely explain why they did what they did. But surely they should have known that a cover-up was always going to be damaging and got the explanation out early. I guess they can now 'reluctantly' release...

It's genuinely puzzling. Back in November one thing was made clear to me, time after time in discussions 'on the doorstep'. Almost nobody was voting Tory out of a love for Boris and chums. There was certainly some element of distrust of Corbyn as a person, despite people liking many of his...

Capital is global. The 'working class' is global and includes immigrants. I work to protect the rights of workers globally. Not just the ones that happen to sound or look like me.

Dear Mr Fergus, Thank you for helping me to argue my political-studies thesis. I have provisionally titled it: 'The economic or social problem has yet to be discovered that some right-wing **** has not tried to blame on immigrants'

Except that they made it worse by instead choosing to double down, demand that cabinet ministers publicly defend him and have Boris say nothing. Shapps has been made to look a complete idiot by Marr without any effort at all. Which means the problem is now bigger than just what Cummings did...

This is what I am really wondering about. Why else would they not simply 'sack' him now and then quietly bring him back when its died down. Standard practice. Cummings on the outside pissing in could get...interesting.