Cummings

[Sadmum23]

Listening to Cummings on SKY and feeling the anger rise - well planned statement but as he takes the questions his attitude is appalling .

Journalists need to press him - Andrew Marr should be there !

I can’t believe he has all this air time ???

@Orchidflower1 he doesn’t think he is too important to say sorry. He thinks he isn’t in the wrong.

The "trial drive" makes it sound like he wasn't safe to be on the road and knew it!

Did you notice at the start his eyes were darting left & right. Sign of lying.

He won't say sorry, he doesn't believe he did anything wrong.

If you are not well you should not be driving - if you did not feel well and were genuinely driving to check - would you, if you were being the amazing parent he thinks he is bring your wife and son on this test to see if you were capable of driving (never mind the other road users he put at risk)

I think it has shown up the pathetic standard of British journalism sadly.

Drove 250 miles while he should be in isolation - against government advice

Planned to go to work after dropping wife off because he didn't have symptoms - government advice to isolate for 7 days

Went for a drive and sat by a river - against government advice, stopped again on the way home

Everyone with kids is shitting themselves worrying what to do if parent/s get sick. We have to follow government advice.

Why did he have to go back to London to work when government are/were working from home?

Handy that neither him nor Boris can remember the conversation they had about it.

He's full of it.

I don't remember even once being cross at DC about his entitled sojourn. He's just being himself.

But angry at the cabinet ministers who tried to twist the rules to suit what saves their own bottoms -- yup, I can muster fury at that. Plenty.

He went for a break away to his family's farm, don't believe for a second it was for medical reasons.

The word obdurate comes to mind.
In the words of Victor Meldrew:
Un-believable!

At the very least he has broken the SPAD code of conduct (see photo). He is vile and should be out on his arse.

I’ve heard rumours from pretty reliable sources that his son is autistic which would, I think, make actions far more explicable. At least, I’d have done the same... No idea if it’s true but I’ve seen references to his son having ‘particular needs’.

What annoyed me was the whole press conference was just one long justification, not one smidge of an apology or empathy with anyone who has clearly gone through worse. The Barnard Castle drive with his family to check if his eyes were working was just BS (he failed to say /share it was his wife's birthday that day).
Most people I know who got C19 and had children self isolated at home and from their family within the home. Their partner took over all childcare duties. If the 2nd adult then became ill with C19, the first adult was well enough again to take over childcare. This is just the obvious thing to do. Why didn't they do that? None of my friends drove 260 miles IN CASE they needed childcare. What a moron. And remember, he made the rules which we have all been abiding by.

Which Labour MP broke quarantine rules whilst self isolating?
Genuine question.
Ie not just the general lockdown rules which were for everyone, but the very specific rules for those who were infectious?

It is hypocritical for any public figure to break the rules, but to do so whilst believing you are highly infectious is a whole other level of wrong.

If he doesn't realise you can kill/seriously injured people driving a few feet down the road never mind 60 miles he shouldn't be behind a wheel. If you can drive 260 miles you can look after a child. Likewise if his wife felt so ill surely best to stay home in bed? Was it a surprise that the whole family became ill after 5 hours in a car together?

He didn't cover himself in glory but he should have admitted he messed up badly and given a sincere apology at the least.

Many people in the public eye seem unable to admit they were WRONG anymore, there is a trend of using woolly terminology e.g. it was an error of judgement. Give me a break, you make an error of judgement when you decide to hang the washing out even though the sky looks a bit dodgy and then your clothes get piss wet.

For those advocating the need to 'move on' ... I think we all would if he did the decent thing - apologised and resigned.

Yesterday 18:14LorelaiVictoriaGilmore

I’ve heard rumours from pretty reliable sources that his son is autistic which would, I think, make actions far more explicable. At least, I’d have done the same... No idea if it’s true but I’ve seen references to his son having ‘particular needs’

I have 2 children with autism (there are thousands of other parents also with autistic children - many who may also have had covid symptoms). I had symptoms of covid. I did not bundle me and my children in a car and travel 200 miles to my parents.

Autistic children generally like routine, uprooting them when they could easily stay in their home is ridiculous, especially when they already have the disruption of schools closing (and rightly closed I might add).

He has family only a couple of streets away, who could have stepped in if needed.

He and his puppet Johnson are a disgrace.

Bold fail and tag fail @LorelaiVictoriaGilmore my above post was for you.

His story was full of holes and held no water whatsoever. Firstly his wife called him at work and he raced home as she felt ill. However she has previously denied that version of events so hole number one. Theyshould at least have got their story straight!
Despite her having symptoms he returned to Dowwning Street immediately thereby breaking lockdown rules by failing to isolate straight away to avoid spreading it.
There was supposedly people threatening his home and people hanging round outside meaning they felt unsafe ! Well it was lockdown so who were these people and why did he not get the police to deal with it ? They would be easily apprehended on empty streets surely ?
Then despite not being ill he deemed it necessary to break the rules to travel to Durham. So he put his 4yr old in a car with his symptomatic wife and exposed him for several hours to a potentially fatal virus ? Breaking guidelines again.
He was then struck down the next morning and his wife made reference to how ill he was for 10 days. She watched his laboured breathing and unbelievably allowed her son to take daddy's temperature and nurse him by spooning fluids into his mouth despite knowing the virus is spread by close contact with people's mouths ! Great parenting again.
The child then got ill ( no surprise there ) but despite being unable to get out of bed the night before when his son was was taken in an ambulance accompanied by his wife (who presumably still had symptoms ) he got off his sick bed to collect them the next morning ( coronavirus now being ruled out for his son ) thereby giving himself a reason to be spotted driving his car in the area. Well why didn't one of the extended family go to get them as that was the whole reason they were supposedly there in the first place so wider family could help ?if he was that ill why was he driving anyway and he was thus breaking lockdown rules again ?
And on and on it went !
The final hilarity was claiming that they had a test drive to Barnard castle because his eyes were dodgy! Great safeguarding there again as their child went with them despite him not knowing he was safe to drive . Why not leave wife and child at home instead of risking them along with other members of the public? And no mention of his wife's birthday that day of course !
And his wife hasn't helped . She made no mention of leaving London in her written articles and spoke about coming out of quarantine into the London lockdown which must have taken some doing as the house they allegedly emerged from was 260 miles away!

They must think we are all idiots!

And if their story is true then it raises questions about their basic ability to care safely for their own child never mind advise on running a nation !

Exactly @flapjackfairy , well summed up!

I thought under fives weren't tested for covid something to do with the tests not being accurate in there age group....

And not that I would expect him to say my son autistic no one has confirmed that he is autistic so I'm assuming that's bs too

Plus it's rare to get a dx at four mine are 7 and 11 still waiting for an assessment my area is quite good for speedy assessment apparently 🤔