No Lizzie ..it is actually time now to stand up to the gutter press and show them that
a) They should report the news, not try and manufacture it with falsehoods
b) They don't run the country, the Government do
The "country" won't have a reaction ..... some idiots with no braincells will simply repeat, ad nauseum , what the gutter press put out
Yes, in a perfect World, but we are talking about politics here, not fairness or righteousness, just nasty, angry and cruel power games.
If Cummings had told his story days ago,
if Boris had played a different game on this then, yes, perhaps the situation would be very different. But, no, Boris played right into the media’s game of political destruction and backed a man who is not liked nor trusted by many, including in the Conservative Party, on a very dodgy wicket.
You cannot play the game of British politics badly and get away with it in our democracy; people here, not like in China or Russia, ask very direct and blunt questions and will keep digging the dirt and, like it or not, average Mr and Mrs Jo Public, will go with the flow. That is what happens in high business management to a large extent, but often without the press interference (unless you are British Steel, Network Rail, Northern Rail, Virgin, Debenhams, M&S etc!!), but in politics we should recognise the ruthlessness of it all. Many senior politicians in history have paid the price of not being Machiavellian enough.
No, as I have already implied, Boris, as any good general does, must regain the high ground, regroup, cut your losses for the greater good, and go on a fresh attack. The media can then be wrong footed, but if he keeps this current battle going, that he cannot win, then he will lose the war.
That is not good for the country.
Cummings must be history now.
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