Quote Originally Posted by caytonmiller View Post
Think labour should be asking why Johnson didn't sack Cummings. It was obviouse the Tory ratings would take a bashing and that it's undermining the lockdown situation. So what's the real reason why the torys didn't remove Cummings. Obv the book stops at Johnson though it's not just his decision. Is it?
Cayton

There's shades here of the 1993 Black Wednesday crisis when Majors government started to lose popularity very sharply , that was four years from an election too but they never recovered and were routed by Blair in 97 .

Looking at some data last night on that period it showed the Tories losing votes to Labour and The Lib Dems which indeed played out at the 97 election , people often forget that the Lib Dems did very well in 97 too .

Looking at the data today the Tories are losing all their support to Labour , none of the other Party's are catching a wave on the present situation .

What Johnson hasn't seen is that this pandemic and the Cummings affair is playing out right before the electorates eyes , the people are consumed by it because it is affecting everyone of us .

Parliament has hardly had a stage as yet and the Tories have lost a 24% lead with Starmer only really landing a couple of decent punches as a consequence of which many of the electorate won't even have seen .

Many of the electorate won't even have known who Cummings was , now they do along with the Tory main faces every evening .

The problem with this for the Tories is that their failings are getting magnified on an unprecedented scale and not hidden on the inside pages of newspapers or 2 minute news bulletins .

There is very little good news and we are only at the start of a very long road .

I haven't even mentioned the trade deal with the EU or the findings in to the Russian inquiry .

Two massive political blunders from Johnson with out of touch with the electorate at the heart of them .

Having to be shamed in to a U Turn on the surcharge for foreign NHS medical staff , the NHS is untouchable at the moment and they saved his own life .

Not removing Cummings .

Absolute catastrophes for Johnson .