I’d expected the rattle-some Michael Gove to be the first casualty in Boris’s Cabinet.
Along the lines of the Dominic Cummings inspired 'select scapegoat’.
Gove is a more obvious puppet of the regime and can be reliably dispatched to prattle on radio or television whilst holding the
Instead, we get the surprise of Dominic Cummings summoning one of Chancellor Sajid Javid’s special advisers (SpAds) to a meeting in Downing Street, where she was accused of leaking secrets about No Deal preparations to Philip Hammond, her former employer.
Despite denials and a formal refutation, she was fired, her security pass removed, and she was escorted out of Downing Street by an (armed) police officer. Sajid David wasn’t informed of this second member of his staff to be fired by Cummings.
Cummings is now operating bullying copycat Steve Bannon measures to attempt to secure his own authority.
Itemise the actions deployed by unelected Cummings to undermine Javid’s position: cancelling Javid's speech on the economy, pre-briefing on Treasury-led fuel duty cuts and firing two of Javid's advisors. Cumming’s paranoia is weeding out any advisors he thinks dicey as an looming precedent to more fundamental scraps.
Cummings likes loops*. He’s doing his best to remove certain players from his own twisted one.
* his considered OODA (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) loop is flailing though. He just executed PDCA(plan-do-check-adjust)
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