Lee Cain Quits

[ichkeria]

Lee who? I hear you cry (or I might have had it not bee headline news today)

Is this the end of a power struggle at No 10 or the beginning of one?

https://news.sky.com/story/lee-cain-prime-ministers-director-of-communications-resigns-after-power-struggle-12130337

[Peter Pedant]

// Lee who? I hear you cry //
Lee - - who he den? - surely this is AB
Lee cain quit because - - - he was able

ay thenk yew - - others have broken ranks and commented
"you have no idea what it is like in there!"

so perhaps Brexit is drifting and no one cares what happens.

[Ellipsis]

On the radio this morning, I heard "Lee-cain out from number 10" and thought "Not again ..."

[ichkeria]

L Cain is out
In Washington Klain is in as chief of staff ...

[Ellipsis]

Leaking :-(

Sorry I have to explain this.

[gulliver1]

The Highest Covid death rate in EUROPE, and all the Cons are interested in is a party squabble at the TOP.
Now this is a real example of true Conservatism.
Party comes first, sod Joe Public

[Apc2604]

Gulliver, just for your information we don't have the highest death rate in Europe. The death rate is based on deaths per million not the amount of deaths. Belgium is way ahead of us, followed by Spain and then the UK.

Not really relevant to this thread though, is it?

[ichkeria]

Leaking :-(

Sorry I have to explain this.

I got it

Re gulliver's point about death rates, sorting out the PM's team is not a sideshow if it brings better presentation and advice to the top.
So far it has been shambolic: the icing on the cake surely the Biden (or was it Trump) congratulatory tweet. It takes genius of sorts to be that rubbish.

[Peter Pedant]

// Leaking :-( Sorry I have to explain this.//

many one liners dont work - this is after all AB ! -
just walk away and disown them
like - "I said that and didnt say that at the same time" everyone on AB will understand as they have read THAT before

BUT - tortured link no one will understand but so what - in an obit yesterday in the Times. Shakespeare producer had noticed that arroseur was the word for watering can end ( we have that the same in english) and also in 1580 slang to take a leak

a rose by any other name would smell as sweet - er like leek then ....The dead person the obit was about "was able to put new and unexpected aspects on shakespeare"

so that is what I thought when I heard this morning that Lee Cain had departed

[Ellipsis]

> I got it

Well done. I nearly didn't and I wrote it!

[gulliver1]

It looks like Dominic Cummings is also looking for a way to leave no 10 without losing face, as his vote leave Empire starts to crumble apart, after civil war within the Con Party.