More Control from No.10

I think we have to give Cummings a bit of a go with his 'radical thinkers'. I compare it to what is happening here in Germany. AKK (I can't be bothered to write her full name) was the chosen one to succeed Merkel. She really was Merkel MKII. However, she has had to resign. There is a huge conflab in German politics as they just don't know what to do with the rise of the AfD. What we see night in and night out on the tv is old, grey men in suits talking about what they will do, yet they cannot see that it is the old men in grey suits who are the problem. They expect to just carry on in the same vein and they seem totally unaware that if they do that then it will change nothing and the AfD will only grow stronger.  People want something different than the same old policies with the same old results. Maybe Cummings and his 'radical thinkers' are an attempt to change things?

PS - I am not saying that Cummings is like the AfD. It's just a comparable situation.

Surprise surprise
He has resigned...another humpty bites the dust.

The only questions BJ will have to answer will come at the next election. He will avoid any difficult interviews and will not face anyone who will ask him detailed questions. He’ll bumble his way through any situation without going into detail, throw in a few platitudes and chuck money at big projects and if anything goes wrong he’ll just sack the minister whose responsibility it will be. Him and Cummings will swagger around with a rich man’s arrogance and live in a Downing Street bubble. That will be his policy for the next year. Once the Labour Party elect a leader it may get a bit harder but not much. Get used to it, it’s what his majority allows him to do.

Popcorn time?

Home Office boss Sir Philip Rutnam has quit and says he will sue the government after being the 'target of a vicious and orchestrated briefing campaign'.

news.sky.com/story/top-home-office-civil-servant-sir-philip-rutnam-quits-and-will-sue-government-11946136

Lovely. Is it pick on an ethnic minority MP day?

No, he cannot.

Whether she has “bullied” staff in the HO or not will count for very little. BJ will support her, will probably say, behind closed doors, to tone down her behaviour but she will be made very aware that she has to get this migration policy done and delivered. BJ won’t worry too much about the means to do it. If a few people in the HO Have bruised egos then that’s nothing to BJ. By the end of April it will be forgotten. Priti Patel maybe a hard person to work for and she may have had an argument that with hindsight may have been a mistake but I bet she won’t make the same mistake (if it was) again. She’s had a bad week but I don’t think she’s going anywhere.

I suspect after a few weeks, perhaps a month, someone else would have replaced Rutnum and it will be replaced in the news by something else. Everyone needs to get wise to the probability that working practices, arrangements under this government will be very different so the Civil Service esp will need to wise up. It is all about the end and sod the means of how you get there. Having lost a Chancellor he is certainly not going to be getting rid of a Home Secretary within weeks of each other.

I’m not saying that is correct or right but I certainly think it is the way that BJ will be doing things because he can.

Just tell the truth Boris

amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/07/parliamentary-watchdog-investigates-johnson-caribbean-holiday?__twitter_impression=true

Even if the parliamentary watchdog comes out against BJ it won’t be a major setback. As for holidays well, Tony B did very similar and it never worked against him until he messed up over Iraq and then he lost his magic touch. BJ will apologise, if he has anything to answer, but those who support him will continue to support him and will be left unaffected by whatever people say. This will continue because at the moment the press and media are the official opposition in the absence of a credible Labour Party. His majority allows him a pretty free rein.

Whilst the truth, as we understand it, may be a stranger to BJ he is able to “laugh” off any criticism as he appears to be learning how to deal with criticism or opposition from his observations of Donald Trump. I’m not saying they are the same but BJ deals in a similar way as Trump does except he is not obsessed with being unpleasant on twitter. So yes he may be criticised but I’m not expecting him to be seriously hurt by it.