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politicalbetting.com » Blog Archive » In other news Starmer moves to a net 24% lead over Johnson in latest Opinium approval ratings
The latest Opinium poll carried out before the Cummings lockdown affair came out overnight and the big change has been in the approval ratings of the PM and LOTO. The charts above show the recent trends.
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Mind you, I expect the next iteration of this poll will be pretty Dom themed, and not in a good way.
So if Cummings is rational but not wholly truthful, maybe the more obvious explanation is that he thought the green fields of somewhere near Durham a better place to self-isolate for weeks or months than a terraced house in inner London.
Like lots of other people with two or more homes, for instance, other Cabinet members and politicians generally. If I were CCHQ I'd ask a tame journalist to find out where the Shadow Cabinet is holed up. After doing the same for the blue team. Perhaps an enterprising hack might even compare these with MPs' designated first homes on their mortgage and expense claims.
He is doing the Barry Gardiner job of defending the indefensible.
The problem is that you’re not allowed to do that, and certainly not when one person in the group is spewing virus everywhere.
https://twitter.com/MrHarryCole/status/1264460021557051393
Despite having a majority of 80, BoZo is weak, and potentially now rudderless.
I do think they fear the entire edifice will collapse.
After this I suspect MPs would have told him to piss off, "for the kids"...
Admittedly, that was in tourist season.
Unlike most PMs and advisors, I'm not too sure that either Boris or Dominic give a rat's arse that the advisor is the story - and the DC story's doing a great job of keeping the press pack engaged in trivialities.
(The assumption there is that the advisor has been totally honest with the PM - if that's not the case and it comes out, he'll be the proverbial cooked bread).
I find it easier when directing visitors to just go to the Bowes museum first as they are easier to spot on the way back out.
Parents will simply do "what is best for their kids" in their opinion and the government wont dare push them.
Thankfully we have a PM-in-waiting as this government slowly disintegrates over next year or so.
Instead of worrying about the PM going, perhaps the Cabinet should be welcoming such an eventuality.
Boris Johnson isn't up to the job. From a party political perspective, as well as a national one, the Conservatives are better off with someone else.
Popcorn on standby...
Looking at things from the other end, what actual value is Cummings adding right now? He's been involved in the pandemic response but most observers agree that has been a bit of a shambles and we are near the top of the covid-19 league tables. If Cummings is not doing anything useful, just shunt him sideways or kick him upstairs to be founding head of UKARPA or suchlike.
When Steve Baker sounds almost reasonable on a subject, there’s something very wrong somewhere.
In a list of stories the government would prefer everyone to be talking about this morning, SKS sending his own children to school while arguing that everyone else shouldn't have that choice is probably towards the top.
Which means one lot of people are going to want all their children in school and others won't want any there.
What he actually said was "not indispensable" btw.
I am watching Grant Shapps.
I can confirm there is now a car crash involved.
He has just said that if you are ill you should self isolate where you are.
And therefore he has just admitted Cummings broke the law...
Edit. - now he’s saying he can’t even answer questions when he’s been given the questions in advance because he doesn’t know the answers?
Dom's Rasputin moment coming up.
"Weak, weak, weak"
The reason for the PM standing by Cummings, is that the advisor is the architect of a lot of the reforms the government were planning for this year. Top of the list being a very unpopular (with those affected) turning upside-down of the senior civil service and standing bureaucracy/quangocracy. This article from yesterday gives an idea of what the PM and DC are thinking:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/05/22/covid-proves-urgently-need-new-quango-bonfire-starting-public/
Unbelievable.