Dominic Cummings best of select committee appearance 26/5/21

Some highlights, of many, from Dominic Cummings' marathon four hour session in front of the House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee and Health and Social Care Committee.
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[@Dr.Hoffman]

New season of "The Thick of It" is a bit dry and family friendly. I prefer the earlier seasons. Bring back Capaldi.

[@Tom_murray89]

This government has given the bbc a great reason not to bring it back

[@mrbump28]

You're mad mate. The Carrie Symonds dog story was a piece of genius.

[@Dr.Hoffman]

@@mrbump28 Highlight of the show... Could've done more with the Jeff Goldblum bit as well as the glaring body language. I swear at one point he looked like someone about to run for an air raid shelter during the blitz 😅🤜🤛

[@yeetwchybaban]

lol

[@stevec700]

Now he needs to tell about the billions wasted, the kick back contracts to friends, and the corruption.

[@albertrobinson7392]

How scary and corrupt these bastards are.

[@stevec700]

@@albertrobinson7392 They have no honour or sense of allegiance. They will stab each other in the4 back at the drop of a hat. If they have this contempt for each other, just think of the contempt they have for us.

[@kristianneknights5584]

That's boris's job!

[@sbhatti534]

He, and his family, have also pocketed a lot of that money.

[@stevec700]

@@sbhatti534 They have spent billions during this pandemic on fuck all. It's all in their friends pockets. This has to stop. We need a clear out of all the incompetent, currupt, self serving usless shit heads. That should leave about 4 MPs.

[@ionaf9]

The writers of The Thick of It couldn't even come up with this stuff. Prime Minister, we need to have a meeting about the impending pandemic and make a decision today, but the US President also wants to know if we will support them in bombing the middle east by this evening, but there's this other pressing issue of your girlfriend having a tantrum about an article in the press about your dog.

[@laxeystu8096]

Respiratory virus that has killed hundreds and has Italian A&E wards backed-up into the car parks: Johnson: "I'll have have the chief medic inject me with it on live TV"

[@starlove8044]

@@laxeystu8096 excellent comment

[@donaldellis3609]

@@laxeystu8096 sounds about right😊

[@fatbelly27]

Deputy Cabinet Secretary; I've come here today to tell you that we're all completely f***ed

[@starlove8044]

@@fatbelly27 The only surprise was how long it took them for the penny to drop? Not too sharp are they?

[@josephbacon7493]

All this dirt being revealed it should be in a courtroom

[@annaheya2109]

What difference does it make 🤷

[@josephbacon7493]

@@annaheya2109 sentencing for committing murder for the economics

[@simonturner1]

It may well be repeated in a courtroom in the future.

[@paulclark4147]

Yep, a court in Nuremberg

[@drunkenpaddy6366]

How? None of this is factual proven and is just his personal opinion. Any one who takes what this clearly jaded man says at face value is obviously oblivious to the real world.

[@martinherts1967]

He has really opened pandora's box. He might be far from the nicest of people, but if he contributes to the immediate end of the worst government in known history, then the enemy of my enemy is temporarily a friend.

[@planetyes]

It's *so* fucking exciting. I've done sod all work today, absolutely glued to this.

[@castlelord8995]

@@planetyes I thought I would watch few minutes and get busy. Spent entire day in front of telly. Couldn't pull myself away

[@planetyes]

@@castlelord8995 It's incredible viewing

[@planetyes]

@@2241RYAN More of this sort of thing, I say!

[@Angela-by7qb]

@@planetyes me too lol

[@winstonsmith3690]

All those concerned should have all their finances scrutinised back to the beginning of this charade. Johnson, Sunak, Hancock etc...

[@casperwallace9685]

Judge lead all under oath.....

[@empierce8337]

The centre right leaning voters around the world have become unhinged, low IQ, conspiracy idiots who deny reality and continue to reward incompetence, lies and fraud!

[@thinkbig3384]

@@Ron-us1sp Calm down Ron..open your curtains...all IS happening out there fella x

[@misssocrates3442]

You do realise the good law project is doing exactly this...

[@havebadday7850]

I don’t think Sinai did anything wrong though

[@TheKermit2110]

The man who made the liar a king, now confirms the king’s a liar. But still, those who treat politics like sport will stand by the liar. It’s not a sport. It’s not a tribe. Changing opinion based on revealed facts does not discredit your integrity. Change for the better, not for a colour.

[@casperwallace9685]

It took a 5 min search of Johnson to see the kind of man he was. People still voted for him. Go fig

[@rhysbuxton5457]

You’ve articulated something I’ve been trying to process for years. At the end of the day, have the courage to be wrong

[@TheKermit2110]

@@casperwallace9685 shows Cummings did a brilliant king-maker job of matching the apathy of the average voter to dig for truth, vs the ease of accepting nativist slogans and false promises (of course with the pre-emptive 40-year anti-EU rhetoric of the tabloids stirring the pot helped).

[@tattylashes1664]

@@casperwallace9685 What would you have suggested Corbyn?

[@drifter402]

The people who vote Tory and then celebrate like they won the world cup because "still better than labour," infuriate me. My coloured team of corporatist shills beat yours

[@GeensQuambit]

Never thought 2021 would give us a Cummings redemption arc 🤣

[@AngeloLunch]

10:55 it’s definitely not redemption

[@toxicholygrenadethg9906]

@@AngeloLunch Correction; if you looked at the picture thoroughly enough, you will see him say, that he regretted it, as well as being angry with himself of not reacting quickly as he should.

[@yvonneburns2786]

Tell me this if Mr Cummings had kept his job, would he still testify here?

[@hoogmonster]

Would he f....

[@kk-yf4ew]

@@hoogmonster no not a chance

[@SkillBuilder]

@Jon They all have a book deal pending

[@lynncuthbert2307]

No!!

[@JW-zr4ju]

No

[@morever7055]

if nothing comes of this, then it just confirms that Bojo and the Conservatives will rule forever and they are fucking immune from criticism

[@jameshowlett2694]

It’s the trump effect. He doesn’t speak or look like a normal politician, most people know him by his first name, and he’s viewed more as a mate than anything, as a result the public are indifferent to his constant fuckups.

[@ocean5769]

It's because Labour have set the bar so low, will take much more.

[@jameshowlett2694]

Ocean it’s part of it, but the fact that Johnson’s approval rating is still quite high says that it’s much more to do with what I said in the first reply

[@thethirdman225]

You should see how it's playing out in Australia. The government lurches from scandal to scandal and nobody cares. They will be re-elected within a year and people will still complain about how bad politicians are. These are the nuffies who elected them. It's a kind of tragic cognitive dissonance.

[@thethirdman225]

@LibertarianV1 Libertarians are good at criticising because in their mind, anything that isn't what they want is socialism.

[@ShaneJoshua1980]

This is like a political Game of Thrones in fact it's better than season 8😂

[@TDubya811]

Literally everything is better than GOT season 8. Everything and anything.

[@thehorkerporkerttv7462]

Everything's better than season 8 lmao

[@user-pattt]

Never forget the betrayal from D&D for s8

[@yvonneburns2786]

Yes but who is Drogon and don't say Boris is Daenerys, you're not on!!!

[@ShaneJoshua1980]

@@yvonneburns2786 Rishi is Drogon😂

[@1million886]

1:28 "I've been told for years that there's a whole plan for this... there is no plan" WTF!

[@matsuz100]

Who thought there ever was a plan LMAO 🤣, IT'S Boris come on. Boris the scruffy lad with a catapult in his back pocket. Boris is still I think the best of a poor bunch.

[@azurenojito2251]

I see a movie about Cummings coming next, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, all about this Cluster Fuxit.

[@matsuz100]

@@azurenojito2251 Deep

[@mickkingston1450]

Johnsons girlfriend should have no say what so ever in anything !!! End off !!!!

[@polliebain7450]

And l can't help smiling when DC unfailingly downgrades Symonds from'fiancee' or 'mother of Johnson's youngest son' to......'girlfriend'.

[@martinmanifold2241]

He isnt wearing his glasses ....all those long drives mustve have done his eye balls good

[@yewchoob6575]

So we can see the crocodile tears

[@martinmanifold2241]

@Athos Aramis like every other government devolved or sovereign . Did you believe his specsavers story

[@falcosirrus8620]

Everything he is saying is what i suspected at the time. I have almost zero doubt that he is telling the truth.

[@BDaMonkey]

It's plausible. We know how badly this went.

[@fayestevenson7685]

i think the same thing. i don’t doubt he’s telling the truth but he should’ve said something earlier, just looks like he’s trying to save his own skin

[@clivedevlin6390]

So you watched the full review. Does this video mention the human rights and GDPR laws that where broken because that's what I caught in another video

[@BDaMonkey]

@@clivedevlin6390 Watch the video?

[@clivedevlin6390]

@@BDaMonkey this actual video. I seen it streamed live

[@stevenwilcox8631]

Incredible revelations from the PM's former right-hand man. It is unprecedented that an ex-senior advisor to be so open and comprehensively demolish both a sitting prime minister and health secretary is remarkably jaw-dropping.

[@napalmhotdog4365]

Oh come on, his been fired and he’s attacking the people who’ve fired him

[@JuniorDoug1982]

@@napalmhotdog4365 and that achieves?

[@glengraham7080]

@@napalmhotdog4365 Yes, he is just a snake.

[@napalmhotdog4365]

@@JuniorDoug1982 damage to the reputation of the government, which he would obviously want due to the fact that he was fired by them and so is bitter

[@stevenwilcox8631]

Someone said " Damage to the reputation of the government, " I think a series of blunders did that like nearly 130,000 deaths here in the UK, failure to act on locking down and closing the borders sooner, pensioners being sent back to care homes not tested, more or less treated as 'afterthought ' lack of proper PPE, endangering the lives of health sector workers trying to look after or save the lives of others. Billions of taxpayers money were given away to government contracts given to ministers friends: such as the £12 million to the PM's friend for the failed track & trace app that didn't work and a multi-million-pound contract to Hancock's former neighbour and pub landlord to produce millions of Covid vials despite no prior experience in medical supplies amongst other dodgy deals. I am not a fan of Cummings, but, at least, he's acknowledged his mistakes and apologized, that's more than can be said for our government who have consistently lied throughout this pandemic and took no responsibility for their mistakes.

[@adam-bailey]

He's more believable than Johnson and Hancock

[@misssocrates3442]

Yes he is!!!

[@bigb5681]

he admitted he failed thats better than most of the general population nevermind politicans

[@peterah7957]

There is a ring of truth to this

[@Terence-zb5cb]

Believe him yet he was hated by the media who wanted him sacked when he drove to his home then told his bullshit excuses

[@rdouthwaite]

That's a pretty low bar though...

[@db7314]

Thanks for this I didn’t want to watch 7 hours lol

[@boomerz2478]

Basic hive maintenance.

[@e.abrahamovich8981]

Epsilon 5 should be proud of this

[@Mightypi]

Lol bojo thought is was a Bailey comb change but it turned into a shook swarm.

[@douglasbutler6072]

Over 18 million people traveled in to England last year with no testing or quarantine being done that was a government decision.

[@davidmcintyre998]

Twenty thousand a month from India alone,no problem to me they are welcome to the place but during a pandemic its a bit stupid.

[@douglasbutler6072]

That's me being really nice as well, it's the government's own statistics if you look it up it's far worse than that, at a time when they chose to not test or quarantine at all that's a big mistake

[@detroittechno7904]

At least he answer the questions like a human being and not a dodgy politician

[@FF04RDF]

Government strategy will be just to deny or ignore this. PM will just wiff waff his way through this and nothing will change. UK broken.

[@lionheartthemuss]

100%

[@bodricthered]

Well now that's pessimistic... I predict a two point bump for the government...

[@lindabarker8208]

At least we should be glad that Boris is not just a "set of teeth" and can read a teleprompter - think about what the US is going through. Everything is relative!

[@FF04RDF]

@@lindabarker8208 I’ve no idea what you are talking about. Sets of teeth and teleprompter and the US. What has that got to do with what I wrote?

[@mrb6112]

Keep hearing 'you voted for him'....What the F was the alternative...Corbyn...?

[@PLAZMOHD]

This is the problem with the 2 party system we have in this country...

[@chilled99]

On balance, yes Corbyn would have been better.

[@noordinarylives7951]

When are David Cameron, Theresa May and Jeremy Hunt going to be questioned? Surely these people are responsible for the lack of preparedness.

[@DJWESG1]

They made the tough choices.. when the sun was shining.. to prepare for this. Oh wait..

[@cecilezell3590]

Don’t forget King Henry the VIII and Adam

[@hilarymiseroy3251]

The true criminal will remain the CCP

[@peterhickman6184]

In time it will happen I guess if Boris doesn’t repent his mistakes and crimes he will destroy the rest of the main Torys. It’s all about money the cost to take these wealthy tax crooks to court will be a lot but it will happen it’s just when so our country can be great again.

[@nearlyretired7005]

What is absolutely disgraceful is that Jerermy Hunt was asking questions.He was in charge of the NHS for seven years and never put in place anything to avert a pandemic disaster. He was responsible for reducing critical care beds and closing A & E wards. Having him asking questions is taking the pi.s He is guilty too.

[@asifdutchmaster8705]

Bojo will dodge this shit pie and get away with it.

[@wildskel6350]

Nothing'll happen. The tories and especially the Eton mob can do what they like.

[@davidmcintyre998]

Sadly i have to agree

[@thekingofra5063]

Sadly you're right.... Also the public are too weak to rise up and take matters into their own hands..

[@1292liam]

and they know it. Come the next Gen election, The HUGE politically ignorant portion of the electorate, will be distracted by the clowns papers (Telegraph, Sun, Mail, Express),

[@hashemfromthelandofophir3670]

Eton Mob is surely better than Corbyn's Hamas/Hezbollah mobs...

[@wildskel6350]

@@hashemfromthelandofophir3670 Oh Lordy! You realise that Corbyn's not been in charge of Labour party since April 2020?

[@janlievens6964]

I have more respect for D.C. now after watching the whole show,as far as i am concerned the full Gov. should resign 2 more., And this is not including Brexit as this is even a bigger disaster

[@LockStoppageSandwich]

Agree

[@WELLBRAN]

Resign...how sweet... they should be arrested

[@karenn2969]

The bad thing is that the British people are very forgiving .If we could go all the way to the PPE scandal then Hancock would be out of politics

[@riloken328]

At least he’s aware of his wrong doings. Matt Cockinhishands just outright denies any wrongdoing whatsoever!

[@xxnoxx-xp5bl]

It's a shrewd move on his party. Admitting some wrongdoing generates a level of sympathy that Johnson and his cronies now won't get.

[@veeforvendetta4126]

This is fucking beautiful

[@jibsmokestack1]

(Chef’s kiss) 😘

[@MarkHevingham]

Amazing how you can stay in a job when you are so perfect as Cummings and not call it out sooner? Never mind Independence Day - its more like that scene where Goldbum looks at a big pile of dinosaur **** to me.

[@cricketerfrench7501]

I thought I would hate him, but I didn't.

[@annaheya2109]

Same! It was pleasant to watch him speak throughout

[@manarmohammed8803]

The media made him look bad but he was trying to reveal what was happening

[@starlove8044]

He was very entertaining

[@annaheya2109]

@@starlove8044 Extremely entertaining lol his body language and facial expressions too good 👌

[@starlove8044]

@@annaheya2109 and when he compares it to 'Independence Day' with Geoff Goldblume etc. That cracked me up! Wish I'd been a fly on the wall.❤ Let's hope we never ever face a really hideous catastrophe with them in charge!

[@englandforever861]

Lesson for Boris here. If you keep a rattlesnake in the room, sooner or later you'll tread on it and get bitten.

[@lindabarker8208]

The point is they all have one.

[@jdjones4825]

Government intelligence should have had all of parliament informed and acting on the virus by end of January

[@Lawful_Rebel]

'Government intelligence', are you taking the piss? There is no such entity.

[@jdjones4825]

@@Lawful_Rebel it certainly seems that way....

[@PhilWhelanNow]

New Scientist published an in depth discussion about Covid-19 on Jan 31st. GCHQ would have been fully aware and making contingency plans, absolutely definitely.

[@Theunbiasvoice]

He’s played this one well. Talk about jumping before the iceberg hits.

[@BigHenFor]

@@rocklover7437 🤣 That's down to your plutocrats from Ronald Regan's administration onwards putting their profit before your welfare, and your electorate voting for it. Before Regan, offshore investment and investment was strictly regulated. Plus, you had functioning trade unions, decent worker protection laws, and wages that kept up with inflation for most. Now look what you've got. "You will own nothing except debt and be happy." Corporations and plutocrats write your laws; not you the people. Corporations and plutocrats offshore your jobs to poorer countries and pay those workers even less than you. Plutocrats and Corporations keep their money offshore in tax havens and pay little or no taxes. What are you going to do about that?

[@vincentvega1893]

@@BigHenFor what on Earth are you going on about you fool, do you not realise Ronald Reagan was a US president nothing to do with any UK prime minister or government let alone the covid pandemic🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@matthale5526]

Wow, the bot really broke down there didn't it 😂

[@casperwallace9685]

If these guys do all the work, whats the point of Boris and why do we pay him, for doing what exactly. Brushing over his bald spot ?

[@starlove8044]

The point of Boris: Waffling and choosing grossly over priced wall paper and keeping borders open when they clearly should be shut.

[@caravaggiosaccomplice7841]

While we still have a semblance of democracy, it's entertaining to see the drowning rats turning on each other.

[@jeffa6180]

Sorry I just can’t trust a man who was happy taking tax funded wages and he waits till now to speak out. What’s he been offered, besides a book deal? A lucrative job maybe? Cummings should be held just as accountable.

[@gordanjenson5148]

Well... that’s cost of voting for populism

[@adtastic1533]

Corbyn was more of a populist than Boris

[@GingahBish23]

@@adtastic1533 nearly had my eye out with that lie

[@gordanjenson5148]

@@adtastic1533 So I take it that Brexit wasn’t one of the largest populist movements in UK history then? The UK lead by “Get Brexit Done Boris” against the ‘Evil’ EU elite?

[@mrelba9176]

@@adtastic1533 He was, but he seemed to be much more principled.

[@adtastic1533]

@@gordanjenson5148 Brexit is populist but Brexit is a lot of things. Farage is a bigger populist than Corbyn, but Corbyn is still a bigger populist than Boris. What else would you call that "free shit for everyone" manifesto he ran with at the last election?

[@Me-bw6xi]

It shows the level of deceitfulness there is in this government and also why Boris is scared of a public enquiry.

[@maverick1080]

Well some one had to bring the building down. He's not going brick by brick he is crashing through in a bulldozer. Now its time for a new model of government as this one has failed the people massively.

[@janewilloughby4975]

No, parliament and all MPs need to be gone, too much wheeling and dealing in all governments........ politics has failed the people for many many years, it is a dead corporation trying to keep out of the grave that it belongs in

[@janewilloughby4975]

@Kate Åström no, absolutely has been proven too many times, we do not need any governments, they are all prone to greed and selfish desires

[@janewilloughby4975]

@Kate Åström not carrying on conversation, it makes absolute sense, only since politics has there been phenomenal amount of trouble..... politics has not always been around ...... work it out for yourself..... it's called people power ie those who want to be free of the threat of any form of war or tyranny

[@boilingfrog783]

Theatre to reinforce the narrative of a health crisis where one never existed.

[@B17tailgunner]

Thing is I believe a lot he says is the truth, despite him lying when he went on his jollies with his family last year. I wonder when Jeremy Hunt is going to be interviewed about Operation CYGNET???

[@zaftra]

So you chose to believe what you want to believe. as long as it's negative.

[@B17tailgunner]

@@zaftra what bit was negative in particular?

[@leslawrenson]

This sounds like a bloke who is trying to avoid the Nuremberg Trials that are coming.

[@mickleigh674]

Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming 💪

[@Player-jx9pd]

I thought that too haha

[@porto1st]

What is that if you don’t mind explaining ??

[@Scoobywoo7447]

Smeagle and golem at odds within the same body

[@starlove8044]

You couldn't make this stuff up. It's pure gold 🙏😁

[@ononewheellad]

Yes you could, and that’s what the liar is doing. 🙈

[@starlove8044]

@@ononewheellad when it got to the bit where they all knew how f****** they were, it all seemed so real...... 'There was no plan' that seemed accurate.

[@emmajones5075]

He is talking bullshit

[@starlove8044]

@@emmajones5075 of course he is. Everyone knows how well it all went DAH

[@mrspero4353]

@@emmajones5075 you donuts need to walk into the sea your bringing your country down

[@janllh24]

Still don't trust him at all, but he's the only person thus far who's been willing to acknowledge his culpability in the needles deaths of thousands. Through the looking glass when one can say this of Cummings, and the whole thing counts for nothing in terms of Johnson's popularity

[@MrAer85]

Well he ain't going to jail, cause he would have lawyered up.

[@koloqial]

This is an inquiry, not a trial.

[@omorabedin3648]

He has parliamentary privilege, its legal immunity enjoyed by members of the legislatures. Pretty much the legislators are granted protection against civil or criminal liability for actions done or statements made in the course of their legislative duties.

[@frankmoore993]

I don't know ANYONE who has or has had Covid19 I'm in Australia.

[@jdjones4825]

Jeremy hunt wants boris's job....what's he doing there?

[@who_is_Isaac]

Keeping appearances. If none of them were there, it would look a little bit suspicious to not have someone on his side quizzing Cummings

[@carlcookson9693]

Like him or loath him, at least he is man enough to admit his failings, and that of the Government

[@munix9351]

Facts. He a real G!!

[@Nappiolen]

Meh... Will all be forgotten when X Factor is back on...

[@steven161183]

We've been wondering for months what information Cummins had on Boris to keep his job through all the shit that happened during covid. Fuck me. This is it.

[@josharnold3450]

Thanks for pulling this together so quickly

[@roisinfahy3470]

I slagged him in the past but I admire him now for his bravery for being honest

[@dianaprince3176]

Bravery and honesty in gov’t officials should be the FLOOR, not something to praise

[@1292liam]

same

[@omgsurfer]

There is nothing brave here. He's been pulling the strings for years, this is just him cutting them.

[@TheArsenalgunner28]

I mean, the guy abused COVID restrictions himself whilst knowing it was wrong. I’m not saying he shouldn’t come clean, that’s good but don’t applaud this guy. He’s only doing now what he should have been doing in the first place (what they all should have been doing in the first place) He prioritised his job over his ethics but obviously now that doesn’t matter now because boris had to get rid of him or face backlash. If he hadn’t been thrown under the bus he wouldn’t be saying these things

[@lindabarker8208]

It reminds me of the Diana interview fiasco. They don't spill the beans unless they are enticed into it. But I really do wish Diana had not done it and perhaps Cummins will live to regret it! This is the only thing he will be remembered for, and the Covid trip, but he MAY have done some good, we will never know!

[@Taff2493]

And the strategy used was a much better alternative, HOW? The 1st order and carried on throughout the pandemic, should have been. Close all boarders! We are an island ffs, look at NZ.

[@govr6771]

In hindsight this sounds like such a great option, but 3 reasons mainly - UK citizens abroad (1 million people, NZ only had a few thousand which is easy to handle), imports of food, medicine etc and the fact that it was already far too late. Once the virus was in the population, stopping new incoming cases would have done nothing but delay peaks, not do anything to stop them. At the end of February 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) advised against travel bans, saying they were "usually not effective in preventing the importation of cases but may have a significant economic and social impact". It wasn't until April that WHO said it would update its "risk-based guidance" on Covid and international travel. The Home Office argued that by mid-March 2020 there was "significant transmission" in the UK and any extra travel restrictions at that time would have had a "very marginal" impact. At a meeting in February 2020, the government advisory committee Sage suggested that cutting the number of infections entering the UK by half would only delay the epidemic by five days. The scientists estimated that a 95% reduction in imported cases, which would have required "draconian" travel restrictions, would have pushed things back by a month. Fact is, there was no pandemic plan, the scientists/WHO were giving the wrong information/advice and the civil service was beyond incompetent and it doesn't matter who was in charge, what party was in power etc - the results would have been pretty much exactly the same, sadly.

[@murrayscott3513]

Watch Rees Mogg hatchet man go after Johnson. He will get his rewards when Rees Mogg makes Thatcher seem like a moderate. An other sad decade.

[@Dr.Hoffman]

I can't imagine who would vote for him. Am sure there are just enough to make life miserable for the rest though. Usually seems to be the case, especially when there isn't a viable option to vote for out of every party available (in such instance, people tend to stick to what they know rather than risk voting on someone new).

[@dominicc3107]

I want to say ‘Jacob Rees-Mogg is a joke and will never get near the PM job’... but... y’know.... Boris.

[@johnjono4929]

Rees mogg has been waiting patiently for this moment.

[@LockStoppageSandwich]

I think Mogg is more of a sniper from a distance. He manipulates and controls from afar. More of a ‘Kingmaker’ than a ‘King’.

[@jbconno]

@@LockStoppageSandwich JRM is a devout Catholic and therefore cant be PM. Blair had to convert after he'd left office.

[@occupier1]

I think the current government has done as well if not better than other countries in this struggle against covid. All this mud slinging is just not needed and frankly speaking depressing. We need to put some trust in our government who have got their act together now and are in course to vaccination for everyone who wants it bravo I say.

[@jaycain7598]

I actually believe him. Wasn’t sure before

[@thinkbig3384]

Really?

[@nearlyretired7005]

Are you being sarcastic? I hope you are. If not, then you are gullible,and that is what he wanted.

[@canisaybum]

@@nearlyretired7005he is whistle blowing he is telling the truth he was just has bad as the rest of them and he knows that! he is getting it out before a true enquiry and it is exposed for the true shambles it was

[@thornbird6768]

I believe him , he’s got nothing to lose ! He’s calm , coherent and apologetic . When have we seen any of these traits from Boris or Hancock ??

[@Deuron3]

@@thornbird6768 Yeah I agree. It's possible he's omitting information but I don't think he is outright lying.

[@jakenorris6189]

It's unusual to hear a politician not just avoiding answering questions and actually have content.

[@dannytoots6635]

eh?

[@hanskneesun123]

@@dannytoots6635 He's didn't take the obtuse dickhead stance and instead tried to provide clarity rather than bluster like the PM does under any scrutiny.

[@dannytoots6635]

@@hanskneesun123 I think you might be giving him a little too much credit haha I think this was closer to a vindictive rampage than a sincere attempt to shed light on the mishandling of the pandemic. Still, fun as hell to watch.

[@lolocaust4967]

​@dannytoots6635 doesn't matter really. Even if it's a rampage, it's the first time in quite some time I've heard someone in politics actually talk about a subject rather than skirting around it and never answering questions. That's what politics is supposed to be. Verbal conflict will ultimately lead to progress and solutions.

[@awsaldulaimi9137]

Why bombing Iraq ?

[@derekgillan7314]

DANGEROUS MAN, in his own opinion.

[@acsnutrition]

I’m so scared of losing my job........... but thousands could die......na......I keep quiet.....keep my job.....spill the beans later if I get caught out and claim mental health. Well done for stepping up now tell the whole truth about the whole pandemic the money and the reason behind it.

[@fingerspete1]

Why wasnt the nightingdale hospital fiasco mentioned

[@munix9351]

This is how majority of corporate companies look like. The exec just running around going to meetings and networking. Getting paid for nothing. Whilst the junior staff do all the proper work!

[@zaftra]

So, Boris was completely against lockdown but was forced into it by the severity of the lockdown; this bitter clown as just got Boris a load more supporters.

[@zaftra]

@@ulabosha4583 And I remember people complaining and protesting against any lockdown, I remember him being praise not rushing to it, I remember people moaning their Christmas was going to be stolen from them if there was a lockdown, suddenly, everybody is in favour of it and should have been done sooner.

[@bipolarminddroppings]

Way to throw everyone else under the bus while making yourself out to be a saint. He is just as much to blame as the rest.

[@ashash7251]

You lot were hammering him last year, now look absolute deep throating the man

[@maureentait8607]

I trust everything this man says.. Thank you so much for letting us the English people know what is really going on in this government...

[@avalon6467]

And while you are at it, the scottish, welsh and irish people too??

[@roisinfahy3470]

Now watch them grass each other up maybe the full truth might come out

[@paulsaville2528]

The guilty interviewing the guilty will only provide more guilt

[@monkeyboy7981]

And in the real world.. if you dislike Boris and the conservatives you will believe everything this man says.. if you don't dislike Boris and the conservatives you will think this man is full of shit. Also im sure at least half the voting population think Boris hasn't done too badly overall with Covid. Mistakes would have been made no matter who was in charge.

[@JoButterwick]

If Bodies Johnson thought the economy was the priority, he wouldn’t have done Brexit

[@ate1o]

Unless Brexit was political opportunism on his part to progress his career and get rid of Cameron should we leave. Then what we see here would be his actual views on lockdowns, etc. Explains the strong support he's had from the economically focused old ERG members and the current members of Covid Research Group

[@robgee4637]

All the hand gestures, head in hands, the mock guilt? Exasperation? The BBC will be on the phone they need a new shyster in eastenders. This is time to remove all 650 none are fit for purpose.

[@peterktori9116]

LOOK AT HIM. GOODY GOODY 2 👟 👟

[@lechpiotrowski2006]

Drenched in illusion .. looking for revenge and popularity, a poor little man .. look into his eyes and everything is known .. I feel sorry for him!!

[@astroflyinsights]

Would that Blair's Iraq enquiry had been like this.

[@MVDICE]

Pls elaborate

[@SUPERIDOLLOVER]

@@MVDICE he's saying that when Blair like started war with Iraq that the media wouldn't cover it like this or soemthing

[@MVDICE]

@@SUPERIDOLLOVER The Iraq inquiry was covered extensively though. And NOT that I am defending the Iraq war..... But 179 Brits died as a result of the Iraq war, that’s 8years in a hostile third world war zone (all a tragedy) due to a ruthless enemy conducting an insurgency. 129,000 brits have died within a year in our developed 1st world country, due to incompetence of our “leaders”. These are completely different subjects but if he wants to compare them, those are the numbers.

[@vaughanjones4149]

Hope we have one in Canada because Justin Trudeau will make Boris Johnstone look like a angel with the way he has totally fucked things in Canada

[@tuesdayschild8994]

11:58 Even if he didn't say lockdown cancel events, where was plan b anyway just in case. Cummings doesn't have to tell Boris. Boris as a leader should be thinking and planning. It doesn't sound like he made it his concern to keep on top of it.

[@robertovers1863]

working 100 hours a week ? that's more than 14 hours a day for 7 days call me stupid but i think that's a tiny lie

[@whatchwhatch628]

It's funny how he's been sacked and now he's waffled his guts out

[@Fezzy976]

he has nothing to lose, he either gets smashed by the tory owned media or he comes out and tells the truth. Much like he did with Brexit when he came out and literally explained how they lied, manipulated, and targeted older people on social media in order to win the referendum. He's a complete and utter scumbag, but at least he is an honest scumbag.

[@VisualiseTheFun]

@@Fezzy976 well I wouldn't call him honest. Sometimes he tells the truth and sometimes he lies. In this case, I believe he's telling the truth, because the truth in this case benefits him to the detriment of his adversaries.

[@nerosapien]

@@VisualiseTheFun Eloquently said !!

[@gaz4840]

@@VisualiseTheFun well put

[@HaiderShami12]

he didn't waffled his guts he exposing the truth

[@nathanjackson9112]

To be fair though, that's what most European countries regarded it as in February - they thought it would be like SARS.

[@pauljoneseyboy9615]

Wow was there actually some honesty in his statements?

[@davidwarburton-burley9967]

Certainly explains the dysfunctional planning

[@ReclusiveDuck]

_"In February the Prime Minister regarded this as just a scare story"_ ....You have got to be kidding!!! By the middle of February my wife & I went into our own lockdown because it was clear what was coming. It was clear that the outbreak in China was something different and very serious and a little internet digging revealed some quite detailed articles discussing how it probably originated in the lab in Wuhan. I'm not posting the above to sound clever, other people I know did exactly the same. But what is concerning is how the hell were ordinary people with nothing more than an internet connection and a little curiosity better informed than the British Prime Minister? That is an astounding level of incompetence.

[@drewetpa]

I signed a petition calling for a full lockdown in the week before it was announced. Me and 400,00 other people who are not in government and are not scientists could see how bad this was and it wasn't our 'job'.

[@1960Reem]

It is a scary world, where do we go?

[@MAAZAD]

His forehead is just phenomenal!! Can’t stop seeing him in the Spitting Image character he’s portrayed as with the throbbing head.

[@2002VICO]

All motivated by finances and fiancées ...

[@jonassoviecki6441]

The only honest person is Corbyn but people like to be treated as idiots by those liars

[@notmyrealname121]

A Very British Coup

[@Signals927]

If you believe this man then you are fool. Vengence is mine saith the Lord.

[@VivalaryMan]

You're not seriously saying you're believing Johnson over him? Whether it's true or not, it's been literally YEARS since anyone close to these clowns have said anything as believable as this. If you think he's lying you're definitely part of the problem. Without a shadow of doubt you're the reason we're stuck with these utter imbeciles. Shame on you if that's the case.

[@willbennett5780]

He’s like a bitter divorcee lol. He would’ve been held in a lot higher regard if he had just raised a few key things rather than endless, whiny rant. Back from whence you came now, Cummings.

[@patti4785]

He's next to bumped off, I hope he knows this!!

[@DR-pj7sr]

Wasn't the UK supposed to thrive once outside the EU ?

[@MattCharlie88]

Confirming what we already know then

[@terryharrigan7705]

He had eyesight problems now it is his hindsight total hippocryte.

[@clarkyno1311]

This is brilliant I knew this all along, a complete shambles.

[@jepacs8562]

Knew what?

[@cyberslim7955]

7:25 "Trump wants us to join bombing campaign" What an amazing special relationship!

[@markv559]

The Daily Mail has the letter Carrie wanted to send. Hilarious!

[@TheGreatPower365]

Why is no one asking why the flights from China were allowed to continue all the way into lockdown?

[@drewetpa]

Like the USA it wouldn't have made much difference. Most of our cases were imported from Europe. They can tell this by isolating and genomic sequencing. The correct thing would have been to do what Australia and New Zealand have tried to do and just shut the borders. There would be economic consequences to doing that but they would be less than the cost of furlough, Universal Credit, Grants, increased unemployment etc...