So now we are allowed to visit second homes.......

[Loadsadosh]

Is this a case of do what I say, not what I do......
“The Chief Medical Officer in Scotland, Catherine Calderwood, 51, was snapped strolling across a golf course with her husband and kids after flouting lockdown advice by heading to her coastal property this weekend.”

The response from the Scottish Government......
”An SNP Government spokesman replied: “Since this start of this epidemic, the CMO has been working seven days a week preparing Scotland’s response.
“She took the opportunity this weekend to check on a family home in Fife as she knows she will not be back again until the crisis is over.
“She stayed overnight before returning to Edinburgh. In line with guidance she stayed within her own household group and observed social distancing with anyone she was in passing in the village.”

I am sure everyone else who has a second home would like to use it, or check on it, as well! Am I being unfair in thinking this is double standards and an absolute disgrace that this has been defended by a Government spokesman.

Is the status of the CMO in Scotland the same as elsewhere ie:I assume she's a highly paid paye employee. In this case she needs to be disciplined in the same way as any other employee.She's brought her office into disrepute.

Bad time to change CMO

She'll have a deputy
Usually deputy not chief becuse they are OK as a stand-in, but aren't quite as ready for the permanent job

Probably can't be legally sacked because of employment law,
not for a civil offence that only has a 60 quid fine
I'd be even more pissed off if we had to pay her a golden handshake because of that

She may resign out of embarassment anyway though

I suspect it might be after all be a welcome opportunity to escape the responsibility of the decisions and the deaths

Twice?

Our constituency MP, housing and communities minister Robert Jenrick, has two homes in London (his wife also works in the city, so imagine that's where they actually live and where the children go to school).

He also has a country house in Herefordshire, which is where he was pictured being interviewed on live tv a few days ago.

His actual constituency is in Newark, where he rents a place in order to be allowed to be 'our' MP.

You're absolutely right in saying it is one rule for them and another for everyone else.

For the Scottish government to hold onto any credibility this woman should be sacked .

What an appalling example she’s set. I’m glad she’s getting her arse handed to her, she thoroughly deserves it.

Same treatment for the royals too please. There absolutely shouldn’t be one rule for the powerful and one for everyone else.

Twice? She should be forced to resign. If she doesn’t people will lose trust in the First Minister. She has weakened the government’s position of authority in telling people what to do. I don’t believe she’s the only one able to do her job and no one else can step in to do it.

She's now made the SNP look like fools after the statement they made this morning.

She should resign,along with ridding ourselves of the parasitic Royal Family.

My tolerance for these people is at zero since this crisis began.

'I’d presume she has a deputy. If not, that’s piss poor planning during a global pandemic.'

Yes how strange Sturgeon whining on as if she's the only medical advisor she has. Chris Whitty has been off for over a week and his deputies have managed just fine.

The whole 'needed to check on her other home' when we now found they were there the weekend before was ridiculous.

I wish one of the journalists had asked why they did it, yes she's very sorry waaah waaah at getting caught but why did they go twice? is it because she thinks staying at home doesn't in fact matter after all, or is she just stupid and forgot her advice that she says repeatedly?!

It is entirely possible that had Catherine Calderwood not tweeted a photo of herself and her family clapping the NHS at their home in Edinburgh and had not decided to take her family for a stroll across the golf course in Elie a few days later then the Scottish Sun might not have picked up on it and we wouldn't be discussing this now. I hardly think the Sun journalists followed her all the way up the motorway. I think that the photographer was probably out and about looking for a story on people breaching lockdown in a seaside, recognised the family from the photo in her tweet and realised that they weren't where they were supposed to be. So she not only planned this overnight stay but she actually put herself out there to get caught by tweeting a picture of her family in Edinburgh to start with and by going out to "exercise" which wasn't necessary.

Don't personally care whether she gets sacked or not as it won't make a jot of difference to her sense of self entitlement. I DO care that the future of Scotland is being determined on the advice of someone who has clearly exhibited such rank stupidity. It's like robbing a Bank and telling everyone in the pub and then being surprised when somebody shops you.

It was a stupid thing to do

I don't want to be advised by a CMO who does stupid things. AIBU?

The car crash is not nearly over. I'm embarrassed for Scotland having this incompetent shower advising us.

I'm so disappointed. Her briefings have always been really well handled, but it's clear that somehow even as she is saying " Stay at home" she actually means for us plebs. I live in Edinburgh- if her main residence is in a nice area as I imagine it is - then her family will be within walking distance or a 5 minute drive of local forests and unused golf clubs.

None of our lives are private in this dreadful time, and I actually think she's worse than the RF decamping as they aren't the ones on TV telling everyone else to stay put because that's the official line.

I don't think she should resign now, but the morally right thing for her to do is agree to stay on through this and resign at at the end of it, and if she's to do any more public appearances she needs to apologise and explain why she thought the rules - that she was part of making - didn't apply to her.

If I had put it in the Bank or invested in shares you wouldn't have had a problem with it.

That's correct, because you wouldn't then be tying up an extra house when over 300,00 people in the UK are homeless.

If I hadn't bought it it would still be derelict and unliveable.

Unless you are the only person in the country with the ability to renovate a house, this simply can't be true.

300,000 people that should say.

It was definitely in the news advising people not to go to their second homes, the Queen and Prince Charles didnt get the memo either so shes in good company

It's very important for public health that she be sacked as she now has zero credibility and we are unable to trust what she says.

It's absolutely vital right now that the CMO has the trust of the public.

Shame on her, disgusting self centred and selfish behaviour.

She keeps saying it was a mistake, human error.... No, human error is breaking a glass or losing your specs, not getting in your car 2 WEEKENDS IN A ROW and driving 50 miles to your 2nd home

Sturgeon is looking very bad here and as someone who voted yes I'm pissed off she is backing this woman up.

Wrong wrong wrong

Prince Charles, the Queen and the Cambridges set the precedent.

Exactly this- they all escaped to their 2nd, 3rd, 10th home and shouldve led by example.

She went the first weekend of lock down with her husband and then went the second weekend with her family. Presumably she would have been going the 3rd weekend if the sun hadn't caught her out. So she told the Scottish government she was checking on her house, but she had been the weekend before.

No apologies from the royals though is there?
Instead we're all meant to listen to the queen's speech and doff our caps at them.

Apparently her dh is in the health field too. Unbelievable.

I have no intention of doffing my cap at the queen, however, I took the advice from our CMO very seriously and have complied with everything. If she isn’t following her own advice then why are we?