Govt leak strategy

Widgetone

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Do you think ( bitter ) Dom is the source of Dyson text leak as suggested?

Have felt in recent years that the govt of the day does its own 'leaking' prior to any official statement or informing parliament to test the water. Been loads of cases of the media reporting a policy before Boris or a lackey opens his/her mouth.

European League clubs should have done the same prior to this weeks debacle..
 
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I won't wade into the subject of the latest leaks, but I will say that there needs to be a clamp down on it. Practically every government policy is leaked to the press before it's finalised and nothing is ever done about it. Practically every day the line "it is understood that x said y" appears in the news. It makes a total mockery of other professions where confidentiality actually means something.
 

Muck Spreader

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I won't wade into the subject of the latest leaks, but I will say that there needs to be a clamp down on it. Practically every government policy is leaked to the press before it's finalised and nothing is ever done about it. Practically every day the line "it is understood that x said y" appears in the news. It makes a total mockery of other professions where confidentiality actually means something.

Nothing is done about it, because 70-80% of the time it's the government who is actually doing the leaking.
 
Nothing is done about it, because 70-80% of the time it's the government who is actually doing the leaking.
I don't disagree with you on that but if government wants to test an idea they should simply announce it as a "proposal" and guage the reaction just the same. It seems at the moment that things are leaked with impunity with or without an unofficial nod from the relevant minister.
 

arcobob

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I don't disagree with you on that but if government wants to test an idea they should simply announce it as a "proposal" and guage the reaction just the same. It seems at the moment that things are leaked with impunity with or without an unofficial nod from the relevant minister.
I understand the testing the water strategy but when the leak is concerning a past event that does not hold water, if you will pardon the pun. The Dyson leak is sour grapes and malicious and something that I believe Cummings is well capable of. There is a long standing suspicion that Cummings had some hold on Boris so there may be more where that came from.
Cummings irresponsible behaviour over his northern foray marked him as a loose canon and a threat to anyone who relied upon him for rational behaviour.
 

Muck Spreader

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I understand the testing the water strategy but when the leak is concerning a past event that does not hold water, if you will pardon the pun. The Dyson leak is sour grapes and malicious and something that I believe Cummings is well capable of. There is a long standing suspicion that Cummings had some hold on Boris so there may be more where that came from.
Cummings irresponsible behaviour over his northern foray marked him as a loose canon and a threat to anyone who relied upon him for rational behaviour.
Cumming's has denied its anything to do with him, but he has always been Gove's man so maybe that's where you should be looking. :scratchhead:
 

caveman

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It'll be somebody from the civil service who had the chance to get a squint at Boris's WhatsApp somehow.
They must be well pi55ed off that they don't control his phone...or it's capabilities.
 

ISCO

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If I was Bojo the very last person I would want to upset would be Cummings. To have done so shows how dim.he really is.
I bet Dom has more dirt on Bojo, he seems the sort to have kept detailed evidence of every indiscretion he knew of.
 
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