'Accuracy is for snake-oil pussies': Vote Leave's campaign director defies MPs

[muriel_volestrangler]

I think this guy wants to be Donald Trump when he grows up ... this is Dominic Cummings is at the Treasury select committee:

Tyrie blinked. Earlier on he had been prepared to accept he might have been dealing with an idiot savant. It only now dawned on him that he was just dealing with an idiot complete.

“There are quite a lot of decimal points between £33bn and £16bn,” he pointed out.

“When you’re sitting in your slippers chatting to Mrs Tyrie...” Cummings diverged, worried that he had not yet been sufficiently offensive.

At this point several members of the committee started wondering if there was a doctor on call nearby, but Cummings was only just warming up. No, he couldn’t confirm whether a Vote Leave advert had been deliberately designed to look like an NHS brochure. No, he couldn’t confirm Britain was in the single market, because we definitely weren’t even though we definitely were. No he couldn’t confirm why Vote Leave was claiming that intra EU trade had fallen since 1999 when official figures showed it had actually gone up by 39%.

So it went on. No, he couldn’t confirm when Vote Leave would make the macro-economic case for Brexit because these figures were obviously top secret and if he were to make them public then they wouldn’t be secret any more. No, he couldn’t name the Goldman Sachs operatives who had bribed everyone in Brussels, because he’d be killed. No, he couldn’t name any of of the umpteen ambassadors who had told him at secret trysts that they really hated the EU because if he did they would all just say he was crazy.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/20/accuracy-is-for-snake-oil-pussies-vote-leaves-campaign-director-defies-mps

Thus setting up a punchline for Rachel Reeves. Read the whole thing. Extraordinary. And it backs up the idea that the worst thing about Brexit is the people in favour of it.

[LeftishBrit]

1. That is some serious craziness!

Though I suppose nothing should shock me when it concerns Dominic Cummins. He was Gove's main advisor on education policy - 'nuff said. Though I must say, the thought of him having been involved in deciding how kids should be taught maths, when he thinks that there are only a few decimal points between 16 bn. and 33 bn., makes my jaw drop practically to the floor!

[Ghost Dog]

2. Curiouser... n/t