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Originally Posted by Pierre
. This is nothing, absolutely nothing. A side show and distraction which has actually taken a lot of heat off the Government. From other issues.
This will be forgotten about in days, not weeks.
Steamer will gain no advantage, Brexit is still unfinished that is where Starmer will battle Johnson......and Johnson will want his man next to him.
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I think this is a bit naive. This is a story that people noticed and it'll leave a sour taste in the mouth. Every pollster that has polled on this has found people are unhappy about it and they think he broke the rules. The Government's polling collapse over the weekend has been dramatic:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/poli...-a4451501.html
This is something people noticed, this is something they were upset about.
The polling will likely recover but it won't be completely forgotten. Governments are rarely critically harmed by a single scandal but they can only get so many before the cumulative effect begins to tell. People are less willing to give the benefit of the doubt later, people remember the previous ones when another one pops up, their image of the party takes a hit in their minds.
As hits go, this was a bad one to take. You rarely get something as powerful as this which has as big as an impact as this did in the poll. As I said the number will ease over time but it's far from 'a sideshow' which has taken heat from the Government. Johnson paid the price to keep Cummings.