Not quite sure what Michael Heseltine has said or done to rate him as "obnoxious'.
And as a 'rich landowner' is he 'miffed' that he has lost an EU subsidy? Is he? Do we know that or is that simply an assumption?
So, in the interests of fairness, we should remind ourselves that Dominic Cummings, for the Durham farm which he co-owns with his family, had received between £208,000 and £250,000 in EU subsidies over 20 years prior to the UK leaving the EU.
On the subject of EU subsidies, Cummings wrote in 2015
... From public procurement to international trade, our membership of the EU undermines good government and sensible policy and wastes billions annually ...
And
...It is so slow moving that it remains stuck with agricultural subsidies dreamed up in the 1950's and 1960's that raise prices for the poor to subsidise rich farmers while damaging agriculture in Africa...
Breathtaking hypocrisy or just "obnoxious?"
Describing Cummings as a 'self-styled revolutionary menace', Heseltine has expanded on his own concerns by stating :
...We've got this guy, who is now in direct contact with the British media and briefing them on policies, scathingly attacking members of the House of Commons and parading himself as the mastermind behind the government.
That's an intolerable position for democracy.
It should be absolutely central that parliament should be able to call to account people who represent them as ministers and at the moment we're being told by a particular figure, who's proud of it, that he's more or less running the show...
Those are facts which were reported in the Guardian and the Independent.
My own real opinion of the current Government is unprintable. It's only slightly worse than the way in which the British public was scammed by the lies fed to them to 'get Brexit done' and further disgraceful behaviour in which no enthusiasm was ever mustered to properly present an honest assembly of facts to the British electorate, or to even consider that the then government was certainly in no position just to loaf around in a superior way, taking the view that things were just fine and nothing was ever going to change! Cameron just walking away humming is an image that will haunt many of us forever. Everything, IMHO, appeared to be founded on lies and that state of affairs has worsened and flourished which must surely now have caused almost irreparable damage to Britain's reputation. Cameron's government failed Britain, the unbelievable daily shambles that is Johnson and his government surely cannot be allowed to continue in the way that it has. Lies and hypocrisy must stop before Brexit can be considered a success.
