Anyone else think F&@@ it after today's briefing?

[Sarahbeans]

After today's briefing, anyone else half thinking screw it, if Cummings can make up the rules as he goes, why the he'll can't I interpret them as I set fit too?

I have a clinically vulnerable child and have stayed indoors and been so strict the past 12 weeks, but even I'm now beginning to think what's the point? Clearly the govt does what it wants, why the hell should we listen to the govt any more? Lost all faith in them.

No - because I wouldn’t follow the example of a power mad lying Tory like Cummings or Johnson / those who were set to dismantle the NHS not too long ago.
Follow your own moral compass and reasonable laws / not the direction set by these amoral slobs

No where in the government guidelines does it say " disassenge your common sense '.
The police said there was no problem ...the problem is our press .What a terrible waste of time .

It’s another press and labour bullying farce, They want him out as he was the brains behind brexit. I hope he stands his ground.

I for one will be continuing to follow the rules because I have too much love and respect for my family and friends not to. Let all the morons carry on potentially spreading it round between them (like most of my neighbours) and me and my family will be safe indoors.

My friend sent me this.

‘People. Couldn’t. Hold. Their. Dying. Children.’

I cry every time I read it. So fuck Cummings. Fuck Boris. His situation was so far from exceptional it would be funny if it wasn’t so serious. And driving to test your eyesight? Come on. Don’t be misled by the master manipulator. It’s bullshit. He broke the rules. He should go.

Where was the outrage when and possibly still of the paedophiles of mainly Pakistani heritage raped & abused young schoolgirls up & down the country?

Where is the outrage of the cover-up from the top of government (Labour at the time) downwards, including the police and social services and local councils?

Nothing but faux outage from the media and left-wing apologists of a man looking after his family from health fears and threats/abuse.

Shame on every one of you involved in this #ScumMedia attempt to unsettle the sitting government!

As a key worker, i beg you to please stay adhering to the rules. Do not make my job harder than what it already is

One publicised idiot doesn't mean that its a free for all; and he should’ve known better!!! But what about all the photographers outside his home gathering in groups, touching each other and not social distancing? Theyre clearly as idiotic as the above!

Why so much outrage over one single family travelling internally yet very little concern about the hundreds of thousands of international travellers coming in to the UK? Unlike many other countries there are no checks or quarantine whatsoever. The fake quarantine planned from 8 June will see them travel across the UK likely on public transport and only after all that self isolating.

With this going on, what Cummings does doesn't matter.

Give it a rest with your inflammatory whataboutery glennamy.

People WERE outraged by the CSE and grooming cases.

But right now people are dying alone and parents aren't able to say goodbye to their children whilst Cummings has been travelling around the country doing whatever he likes and the Prime Minister has excused it.

Thousands more will probably die as a result of the population deciding to ignore lockdown rules because 'if they don't have to why should i', which conveniently pushes the herd immunity agenda that Cummings and Johnson wanted from the start.

Blimey, the whataboutery levers just cranked up a few hundred percent.

A man who is a member of a political party that has openly proclaimed that there’s no such thing as society, lied to the public repeatedly and which openly values individual freedom over collective responsibility has acted entirely as you would expect him to act.

To me the truly unbelievable fact is that this party was democratically voted in by the electorate. Who are then surprised that a bunch of cunts act like, well, a bunch of cunts.

I hope you're not including the extremely legitimate concerns over hundreds of thousands of international arrivals coming in with no checks as whataboutery?
It's a huge issue. If people are concerned about one family, they should be even more concerned about this.

Blimey, the whataboutery levers just cranked up a few hundred percent
More like a few thousand.

Maybe a few pages later we can have 'where was the outrage about genocide in Rwanda?! You're only calling him out because you're scared he's going to make our country great through Brexit and and criticism of his jollies is a sign you're all part of some remoaner conspiracy. Yes, I know I was positively Stasi about Johnson's lockdown rules a few weeks ago and said anyone who went out for 63 minutes was basically murdering people, but cut Cummings some slack why don't you'.

I hope you're not including the extremely legitimate concerns over hundreds of thousands of international arrivals coming in with no checks as whataboutery?
I'm not. I think it was a spectacular failure to allow arrivals to continue as usual.

No. People are responsible for their own actions and if you think that what he did was out of order, why would you want to behave like that yourself?

One person making an ill judged or daft decision doesn’t mean we all should be doing likewise.

If you are frothing about him and then doing similar because ‘if he can do it so can we’ then that makes you just as bad.

Boris has made the school boy error of thinking that he is dealing with fools

He is. He just didn't realise that his advisor was the foolish one.

He’s running the country and thinks can do whatever he wants. That’s Tories for you; they don’t have any principle. Feeling‘entitled’, that’s who they are.

The pictures of the beaches today were shocking.
This undermines any public support for govt policy putting us all at risk.
I’m disgusted.

Boris is losing control of govt, police and public.
I predict widespread public disorder, violence and rioting as the summer goes on.
I’m sorry but he has fatally undermined public confidence in govt and police. No one gives a f anymore.

Some beaches have been like that since before D.C.

The timing is interesting! Its come at a point where people are naturally reaching the end of the road with very strict social distancing anyway (there's a reason every country seems to start easing restrictions around the same point, and its not just about infection rates). I'm sceptical that all this is really 'undermining lockdown', because I think that's sliding anyway & that slide is basically inevitable. Very strict social distancing is just too at odds with our basic 'humanness'. People are citing Cummings as justification for things they were almost certainly going to do anyway. I still think he should resign, mostly because its just such a pointless bloody distraction, but I don't think he's made a bit of difference to the sustainability of lockdown

My husband listened to the briefing and thought, we’ll okay, fair enough.
(He also listened to Prince Andrew’s interview and thought he was innocent!)

Surely from 1 June there are no rules?

Good luck persuading peope markets can open but they can't have a BBQ with friends.