Look, Cummings is not in a high profile public job, his actual role is to slide around in the undergrowth making his boss look good. He is neither elected nor selected by the public services commission, he is an advisor to someone who was.
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I'm afraid you are wrong again. Cummings is about as high profile as it gets, he is instrumental in the governments approach to dealing with the Coronavirus situation.
that's the job for the media adviser.
Cummings deals with government policies. That's what earned him £800 millions in this year's budget for his pet project 'blue skies' or whatever happens next after brexit.
And you miss the point yet again, whenever an advisor becomes the story , they need replacing.
Only because those who don't like him made him so for those wrong reasons.
His job is not high profile, that position belongs to his mouthpiece, Boris Johnson.
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Your opening line was, Cummings is not in a high profile public job. He is. Advisor to the Prime Minister is a high profile post, the person occupying such a position is bound to have the spotlight of public attention on them. For that reason it’s imperative that they maintain a high standard of conduct. The Scottish medical advisor realised this and actually behaved in a very dignified manner when her rule breaking was disclosed.
I disagree. The job of advising the Prime Minister is always likely to attract public attention.
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Tell me now how many of the Permanent Secretaries of Government Departments can you name?. Or their advisors, the Undersecretaries?.
..I rest my case.
They are the people entrusted by you to actually offer advice. These Special advisors are political appointees, to be seen and not heard...They are not public appointments.
Since my limit in explaining things is three times, you have now exhausted your quota on this topic.
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I rest my case
Who the **** do you think you are, Rumpole of the Bailey? You are a silly Leprechaun who misunderstands everything and gets everything wrong. Like it or not, Cummings is in a high profile role with public attention focused on him. The role of PM’s advisor always will have public attention. It was the same for Blair, May and now Johnson.
Stop being a twat. Repeating the same thing three times magnifies your twatishness by a factor of three, it doesn’t suddenly make you correct.
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No, it was media attention due to their dislike of Cummings. The public would barely have raised a yawn without the media provocation.
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Not so, the public were scarcely aware of Nick Timothy who was the nearest to being an advisor of Theresa May, though not one.
And the only reason they were aware of Blair's Alistair Campbell was again the Media stirring up trouble since they didn't like his being one of them who swapped sides. In any case Campbell was a campaign director and later press secretary, jobs quite unlike Cumming's.
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These are all SPAD`s in the Johnson ministry,
with the exception of Cummings they`re not names that easily roll off the tongue.
For whatever reasons Cummings had become a hate figure especially for the media, unfortunately people have been swept along by this media driven witch hunt......some who really should know better have bought into that.
with the exception of Cummings they`re not names that easily roll off the tongue.
For whatever reasons Cummings had become a hate figure especially for the media, unfortunately people have been swept along by this media driven witch hunt......some who really should know better have bought into that.
| Special Adviser | Role |
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| Lee Cain | Downing Street Director of Communications |
| Dominic Cummings | Chief/Senior Adviser[10][11] |
| Nikki Da Costa | Director of Legislative Affairs |
| David Frost | Prime Minister's Europe Advisor |
| Andrew Griffith | Prime Minister's Chief Business Advisor |
| Sir Ed Lister | Prime Minister's Chief Strategic Advisor[12] |
| Munira Mirza | Director of Number 10 Policy Unit |
I think you have just proven my point, all were in the public spotlight, it goes with the job these days. Maybe not in years gone by, but in the modern world these posts are subjected to media and hence public scrutiny and that is why high standards of behaviour are essential.
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I’m aware of all of those except one. They all need to tread carefully, these sorts of people attract the focus of public attention if the step out of line. It goes with the job.
I was also well aware of Fiona Hill.
Both they and those around them were aware that even when they were trying to keep a low profile, anything they did or said could very quickly escalate and become "the story".
Cummings needs to put an end to this story....Admitting he had oral sex with a pig should do it.
Didn't work with Cameron though did it?Cummings needs to put an end to this story....Admitting he had oral sex with a pig should do it.
Cummings should have admitted that with hindsight he made a poor decision. I thought we were all coming down with CV, I was worried about the family, looking back it would have been better to remain in London etc etc. Barnard Castle: We’d all just got over CV, all a bit down, wife’s birthday, decided to go for a drive, we did stop by the river, didn’t go near anyone, can see why people are disappointed about this, looking back now wouldn’t do the same, sorry. People would have forgiven that, it’s the BS story and taking folks for idiots that has caused the issues. It’s as simple as that, no witch hunting.Cummings needs to put an end to this story....Admitting he had oral sex with a pig should do it.