to think Dominic Cummings has to go?

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Dominic Cummings apparently travelled to his parents house while meant to be self isolating due to covid symptoms.

Given what happened with Neil Ferguson and Catherine Calderwood, AIBU to think his position ought to be untenable?

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/22/dominic-cummings-durham-trip-coronavirus-lockdown

Egghead he's part of the rule maker elite.

He broke the rules he helped draft.

He's either really stupid or really arrogant.

Sorry, Egghead, I picked up on what you quoted, not how you responded. Apologies.

Sharon oh dear! So DS are "case closed"
Luckily I think the UK will respond "no it's fucking not"

@detachablehoof I honestly don’t give a flying wotsit if he was ill before during or after when he got there. This man was present in SAGE meetings, he was there when the rules for lockdown were drawn up. He knows that what he did was flouting the rules.

Imagine being such a poor specimen as a father that you can’t countenance the idea of caring for your school age child when your wife is unwell. I’m embarrassed for him.

@itsgettingweird Haha yes! Let’s see what tomorrow brings. Its all a bit Trumpesque now!

Tbh I am more surprised that DC got caught doing this, I thought he was smarter than this.

At the end of the day, a lot of people have broken lock down rules, I bet you most of the people on this thread have but won't admit it on here. I think DC reasons were valid, he knew that him and his wife could get seriously ill and it is possible that they don't have anyone they trust nearer by to look after the kid (just because you have relatives that live nearby it doesn't mean they can step in to look after your kids, I couldn't ask my inlaws for instance). If I only had one family member I trusted with my kid I would have done the same.

However, he's a very prominent political figure and he knows that the left hate him because of Brexit and the recent election result, so he was very foolish in doing this in a not particularly discreet way.

YANBU. He really should but I bet he won’t. The other people in government who have been caught breaking lockdown all resigned but B & D seem arrogant enough to try to ride it out. If everyone did the same as him then we’d be up at peak levels again. Acting like the rules don’t apply to him is a real kick in the teeth for everyone who’s lost their jobs and not seen their family for months to keep everyone else safe.

@Noconceptofnormal do you also condone his wife implying that they stayed homed in London in her article and therefore lying?

Tbh I am more surprised that DC got caught doing this, I thought he was smarter than this. He really isn't

At the end of the day, a lot of people have broken lock down rules, I bet you most of the people on this thread have but won't admit it on here. I haven't, have you? Food shop once a week, pharmacy and post office visit both once during entire lockdown, not met up with anyone, have worked from home, local walk 3 times a week (and [prior to lockdown], I am usually a very active and outdoorsy person).

I haven’t broken lockdown.

I don't think Boris will sack him.
I think a statement will be issued that Boris has "regretfully accepted Dominic Cummings resignation." We will all know this means he's been sacked but Boris will let it look like DC has done the honourable thing. Then, when (if?) the dust settles, Boris will sneak him back in the Government somewhere.
I want him sacked, and I certainly won't have any time for this government if he maintains his post. It undermines everything they've told us to do from lockdown.
Bloody disgrace.

Will tolerate him if he reopens schools and lifts lockdown.

He's already negated his own authority as rule maker

Many cabinet ministers have gone into Twitter battle for DC.

Supposedly this was an order on high.
Those who didn't put on the chainmail seem to be...

Bowes Park
Buckland
Coffey
Eustice
Jack
Jenrick
Hart
Milling
Patel (!!)
Trevelyn
Truss
Wallace
Williamson

and Johnson himself, actually.

🤣 I might have known that the reason why people are outraged is because of ‘The left’ and not because this weasley useless bag of skin deliberately broke rules that were clearly never meant to be adhered to by the likes of him and were only for the commoners.

Sunday Times journo defending DC now on Sky News and also they’re front page tomorrow is a picture of DC holding his son in his arms. No mention of second visit to Durham in headline, unlike other papers.

Correction! Williamson & Amanda Milling are in the single retweet group.

What a hill to die on. Why ??

a lot of people have broken lock down rules, I bet you most of the people on this thread have but won't admit it on here.

This is the problem the government have created for themselves by defending Cummings.

They need the public to comply with rules for months to come, but the message is now 'don't bother with the rules, nobody else is'.

If you think that Cummings is indefensible
TELL YOUR MP
members.parliament.uk/members/Commons
Message them and tell them so
no matter who they are
but they work for you

Facebook posts and petitions are just pissing in the wind
making MPs reply directly and holding them to account
THAT is democracy

try it
it works

I havent broken lockdown either. We dont all live life by Cummings Standards.

@detachablehoof Your lot didnt mind politicising Corbyn wearing a raincoat to a Remembrance Day service.

So the Mail on Sunday are going to play dirty.

twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1264304509951582219?s=20

DH and I were discussed this exact situation. We have no help other than Parents so if we were both Ill we have very few options. It never even crossed my mind to drive two hours to my mum’s. We thought some combination of cebeebies, jam sandwiches and our ten year old as babysitter would have to do if we were incapacitated.

I really want to see my parents, but I thought the rules were clear. Turns out they aren’t.

This Government have Fucked almost every single aspect of this Covid situation up. I get that a lot of the choices they had to make were very complex and tough but this one bloody isn’t. He has to go.

I emailed my MP (Conservative) tonight and got a personal reply within 30 minutes.

Email your MP - they need to know how you feel and can make a difference.

@lljkk Priti Patel re-tweeted Dominic Raab's defensive tweet of Cummings

HelenaDove I don't see how that Mail headline is going to help Cumming's . No, he wasn't 'visiting a lover' it was much worse than that. He was knowingly taking the virus to another part of the country and coming into close contact with the group most vulnerable to CV - over 70's.

Plus all the lying of course..

No but it was obviously a dig at Neil Ferguson. Smacks of desperation.