Irony overload as Dominic Cummings lays into Lammy

Dominic Cummings – remember him? – is back, and, with the irony-o-meter in danger of overheating, is accusing other people of getting over-promoted into their positions.

Cummings – the failed Russian airline operative turned think tank wonk who married his way into the British aristocracy – has turned his fire on David Lammy, the deputy prime minister, who endured a tough time in the Commons standing in for Keir Starmer on Wednesday.

Writing on, inevitably, X, Bad Dom wrote that Lammy “is the logical conclusion of ‘multiculturalism’ + DEI [Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] politics – a useless prick humiliating the country, the Commons and ‘black people’”, curiously choosing to put the last phrase in speechmarks.

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Doubling down on the successful SOAS and Harvard-educated lawyer, Cummings – who made it his life’s work to make Boris Johnson the most powerful man in the country, only to belatedly realise he was a lazy and incompetent charlatan – wrote that if Lammy were “were assistant manager in JD Sports the 18 yr old staff would say ‘over-promoted prick get rid of him’”.

Warming to his theme, the man who did more single-handedly to undermine faith in the government’s response to the most deadly pandemic in more than a century by strapping his son into the back of a car and driving around country roads to test his eyes, wrote: “If Labour keep putting him up they will destroy themselves even faster. Don’t believe me? Put that video in focus groups with swing voters outside London and see what they say.”

Finally, warning Labour of the sort of “hard rain” he once threatened civil servants with, before losing his Downing Street job just 16 months in after calling the prime minister’s girlfriend ‘Princess Nut Nut’, Cummings wrote that Lammy is “a perfect symbol of how our pathological institutions have destroyed confidence in themselves, why there’s unprecedented hatred for politicians, and why regime change is coming”.

Perhaps that regime change is coming from the new political party Cummings announced he was setting up back in May 2024? Except, like the airline he mysteriously spent a number of years trying to set up in Russia, it has yet to get off the ground.