Originally Posted by
pr00ne
Easy Street,
Well, if you think that sacking a day rate contractor for lying is "exercising firm control of the agenda across Whitehall", then you have just proved that you know nothing about how a Cabinet Government operates or how Special Advisors (Spads) working for Ministers are employed.
So, he really really REALLY isn't!
You appear to be confusing ‘control of the agenda’ with ‘decision-making’. And following a speculative ‘if’ with a definitive ‘then’ and a concluding ‘so’ makes for a very poor straw man indeed. Of course I was referring to the reinstatement of the spending review, the prorogation and the announcement of billions in additional funding for schools... and if you don’t think that Cummings is orchestrating all that according to his own intricately-wargamed plan* then I’d suggest it’s you who’s ill-informed.
* Yes, his plan needs Cabinet approval, but you can see the extent to which they’re involved with or understand it when our Secretary of State gets slapped down by No10 for ‘mis-speaking’ about the prorogation while on a hot mic...