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BBC removing selected clips and programmes from its public search facility “deemed too critical of the govt”.

These include @BBCNewsnight programs.
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Love how this thread is filling up with people claiming I made this up by myself...

....even as large numbers of people in the media are confirming the truth of this elsewhere....
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Dominc Cummings father-in-law lecturing on eugenics.
His daughter Mary Wakefield is thus also the granddaughter of Baron Howick who played the key role in the bloody suppression of Africans in the Mau Mau uprising & was rewarded with a peerage for covering up massacres in Kenya.
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Anti-elite Cummings & the incredibly aristocratic Wakefield family seem to have a shared interest in Eugenics & a history of racial politics.

Remember the film “A United Kingdom”?
It was Baron Horwick behind the plot to stop Seretse becoming king as he married a white woman.
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No, one shouldn’t judge people by their parents or grandparents but..

...when one presents oneself as an anti-elitist with a history of racially motivated politics & obsession with eugenics it would be remiss not to look at the background in which those views were formed.
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One of the reasons why Cummings scandal not dying down is MPs know once Cummings knows which MPs spoke out against him he will attempt to destroy them.

In this sense the struggle dynamics resemble a coup against a leader more than say a scandal-ridden minister being picked off.
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In this context even if Dominic Cummings survives this scandal it will merely be the 1st hit in a war.

Cummings will attempt to crush all those that tried to topple him - the situation will be like Thatcher after the first leadership challenge - a cold truce at best.
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People confused that so many pro Brexit Tory MPs are trying to force Cummings out need to understand...

For Boris Johnson - Cummings is a tool to obtain & keep power.

For pro Brexit MPs - Cummings was a tool merely to get Brexit.

The two things are not the same.
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To be honest I was complacent on COVID.

I knew Johnson’s record would be appalling..but I thought we’d “stumble through to Summer” and somehow things would calm down.

But with lockdown dissolving & govt incompetent beyond precedent I’ve a really bad feeling about autumn now.
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I want to be measured not alarmist on COVID but it does look like UK lockdown “fizzling” out at a much earlier rate than other EU countries who were ahead of UK on curve.

Given this it’s not a surprise UK curve not flattening rapidly enough - yet schools re-opening...
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Many Brits generally have a bit of an anti authority leaning & unlike some EU countries, pride fairness over more active socialist measures.

I can’t help feeling that these 2 otherwise useful attributes combined with Cummings excuse is now toxic for COVID strategy.
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