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Centralising all
Whitehall communications
mimicking POTUS
time for all to be worried
an absence of scrutiny
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by Scooj
… on the news that Dominic Cummings, er, (coughs) I mean Boris Johnson is going to centralise (control) all government communications departments so that instructions (news) can be given direct to the public, avoiding media (and therefore scrutiny), also involving many job losses. He wants to start holding Presidential style daily news conferences with hand picked journalists, who will be barred if they cause trouble. This is all leading the country in a very troubling direction, and what is most worrying is that these moves (‘sacking’ of Sir Mark Sedwill, Head of the Civil Service, removal of treasury advisors, merging of DFID with the Foreign Office) are happening while the nation is distracted with coronavirus or EU exit and so on.
well we voted for this as a nation so we will have to suffer the far-reaching consequences. The damage that is being done to honour, credibility, decency, openness, transparency, capacity and competency of our parliamentary system and governance is incalculable. Once again hard working decent folk will pay for it and have to pick up the pieces.
I reject Cummings and his cabinet. They do not represent me or have the best interests of The Many in this country. Well with the Mekon (DC) in charge what do you expect.
Or in other words . . .
We’re Fucked . . .
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I think so.
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I don’t suppose you happen to own a decent sized island somewhere in the Indian Ocean do you?
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In my dreams
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We American know the feeling only too well.
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I just don’t get what is going on.
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For us it is about re-election. Trump got elected on a message of getting rid of foreigners. Don’t ask me what that means. The economy is in the toilet so he has to really push the bye bye froeigners to get tr-elected.
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That is so terrible.
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I am an immigrant to the US. My family emigrated. I don’t get it. Everyone in the US is an immigrant.
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These are such troubled times.
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