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New in the @SavantaGroup / @SavantaComRes #covid19 daily tracker:– Boris Johnson’s approval rating is now at -1%. It was at +19% four days ago.– Overall government approval is now at -2%, dropping 16 points in a day.More: https://t.co/5AzgxudsUl
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Whatever plan Dom has (as noted by @Monkeys, he certainly has some kind of plan), it's clear that Boris has none. Hence what would drive government? A sub-par PM who loses his strategic direction. Bad and bad.
Where does that leave government, and the country?
Might be one of my best threads.
We are running at 1400 new confirmed cases yesterday. And everyone seems to have gone back to normal up here.
Confirmed new cases on March 23 lockdown day...927.
The Prime Ministers’ decision.
!!!!!!
McLaren have been a success story over the past decade though, their automotive division making more than 5,000 supercars last year, and the product being reviewed favourably against their Italian competitors.
Good luck to those affected, there's going to be a lot more announcements of redundancies coming down the line from many business sectors hit by the shutdown.
Oh wait.
If Boris lets Cummings go (unless something new comes out) it will be out of weakness not strength.
Innovative ideas for getting out of this horrible lockdown would be much more interesting.
But apart from that, he's a really big fish
https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1265250693444706305
There.
I see even Jackson Carlaw has managed to call for Cummings to go now, so the Scottish Tories must have been in open revolt.
Them and us.
It was ever thus.
That said, a 2 year old 720S went for £150k at auction a couple of weeks ago, which is a huge bargain for the new buyer if not the original owner.
There is loads more bumbling ineptitude to come from Boris over the next few years. However I fear you are wrong, a lot of Tory MPs are not happy with things as they are, how long do you think they are going to sit back and watch Starmer hand him his arse on a plate every week at PMQ's?
Interestingly a lot of the unrest is coming from the new "red wall" Tory MPs because I suspect that the "one rule for the elite, one for the plebs" line is playing particularly badly in those areas.
If I see cabinet ministers resigning, I'll believe Cummings is actually in danger, at the moment I think the over-reaction of the Lobby mob acts in his favour.
https://twitter.com/ayhcheung/status/1265271635738755074
Big Dom considered his position already and likes it.
Them and us.
Which will look worse for Johnson?
Unless that main man has become a vote-losing liability who rather than occupy a weird blue-sky thinking space in your government, now serves only to give your opponents ammunition against you.
Them and us.
Boris could reclaim the "we can't have people lording over us all" mantle, especially as he is a survivor and managed to follow the rules. He would be golden.
That said, what would happen to government policy without its policy-maker? Gawd knows but that's a different issue.
https://twitter.com/tconnellyRTE/status/1265276233694101510?s=20
"Stay home. Protect the NHS. Save lives"
(then getting lost in a labyrinth of laughable excuses for it just makes it more politically damaging for Johnson).
It's not about sacking every "controversial person" because they are controversial.
News of a ministerial resignation or doctored blogposts aren't great, but they probably only prolong the peak rather than ramp it up.
I'm not sure I agree that it's stubbornness in the face of whining, though. But having invested this much political capital in hanging on to him, Cummings and Johnson are IMO not about to shrug their shoulders and announce they can't be arsed any more so Dom's going to spend more time with behavioural scientists.
It has no place in my conservative party and is most regrettable
In my days in Senior Management, you were obliged to give details of your holiday hotel phone number so you could be contacted abroad, in the years before mobile phones became widely used. The barstewards weren't afraid to call you either.
Does no one have the slightest particle of nerve? Just grow a spine and tough it out - no one's going to bite us.
Getting rid of a key person involved with policies will make governance worse not better and that is the issue not a different issue.
The government needs to get on with the job. Not pander to witch hunts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_Under-Secretary_of_State
Also this great quote:
"Of his tenure as an under-secretary in Macmillan's 1957–1963 Conservative government from the Lords, the Duke of Devonshire noted "No one who hasn't been a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State has any conception of how unimportant a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State is".[7]"
He's running an administration in a public health crisis.
The two are entirely different.
https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1265282772412686339?s=20
https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1265283659835363328?s=20
Hope someone else asks his questions:
https://twitter.com/Tobias_Ellwood/status/1265266323061424129?s=20
That would not be a wise decision on their part.