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Previously on "The Official Dominic Supporters Thread"
The ruling Tory party will sit on this until the public forget about it as any further action would be damaging to them, much like the report on Russian interference and the Patel inquiry...Johnson, Cummings, et. al. will now exploit this as they will become more and more arrogant and believe that they are now invincible...
The media holding the powerful to account is the sign of a functioning democracy. You wouldn't see newspapers publishing this kind of article in mainland China.
Having said that if a Govt advisor in China pulled Cummings during lockdown he’d get more than losing a job - his family too will have consequences.
So nothing for Chinese newspapers to criticise here - because Govt there does its job
Yeh, not saying it's just lefties, everyone does it, but it isn't helpful.
The media holding the powerful to account is the sign of a functioning democracy. You wouldn't see newspapers publishing this kind of article in mainland China.
Originally posted by TheCyclingProgrammerView Post
Far left Twitter showing they're just as good as far right Twitter at spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation right now, in particular this gem: apparently Cumming's sister was made the director of Idox Group on 14 April and they were responsible for the contact tracing app. Except:
* Absolutely no evidence whatsoever that the director in question, Alice Cummings, is a relation. Because Cummings is such a rare surname? A few people have suggested his sister might be called Francesca or Sarah and I've seen some unverified evidence that Alice Cummings is her married name anyway, but no evidence that she is any kind of relation whatsoever. It fails the Google test for me - it should be pretty easy to verify a fact by googling and finding some kind of primary or reliable secondary source, but googling for this just gives loads of unrelated results or links to people reposting the same conspiracy.
* Idox have won some government contracts including an online booking system for COVID-19 testing (and postal voting systems in the past) but they didn't develop the app, that was VMWare Pivotal. This is easy to verify.
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