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to think Dominic Cummings has to go?

999 replies

RoosterPie · 22/05/2020 20:39

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

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Bubbletrouble43 · 22/05/2020 22:28

I'm guessing by his age that his parents must be pretty old. And I cannot believe anyone with covid symptoms would deliberately risk passing it on to their parents ergo I believe he never had covid symptoms.

LilacTree1 · 22/05/2020 22:28

I still think there’ll be a fudge at the end of this and they’ll say “we never explicitly banned you from visiting people”.

Muminho · 22/05/2020 22:30

Anyone who thinks Cummings will resign does not understand the government we have.

Now more than ever before it's one rule for them and another for the stupid little people (ie us). I honestly think they don't see the rules as applying to them.

And is Boris Johnson going to sack the guy who runs the show? No chance, he'd be lost without Dom telling him what to do.

maresydoats · 22/05/2020 22:30

The UK has far too big a population. Discuss.

StoneofDestiny · 22/05/2020 22:31

He knows the location of many many skeletons and is 100% the kind of man who would take others with him if he goes down

Fabulous - more reason for him to go and take the other odious creatures with him.

we are all in this together?
The hell we are.

BilboBercow · 22/05/2020 22:31

He's 48, so I'm guessing his parents must be over 70, and he's taken an action which could kill them for the sake of childcare.

Yeah sounds like a great son.

Winterwoollies · 22/05/2020 22:32

He should go. He HAS to go. But he has got way too much on everyone in the Tory party for them to ever give him the boot. When and if he does go, it’ll be entirely on his terms.

He is a frightening and devious little puppet master...

maresydoats · 22/05/2020 22:33

Cummings has "something of the night" about him.

But Lazy Johnson will keep him there for obvious reasons. Honestly it is rule by the unelected now.

RoosterPie · 22/05/2020 22:34

Dispassionately thinking about it a family having grandparents come to help when both parents are wiped with the virus doesn’t feel like the worst thing in the world

I am nervous about what happens with caring for my toddler if I catch covid as I’ve heard you can be totally wiped out, so I can sympathise to an extent. On a personal level I wouldn’t want to risk my parents, but the bigger issue is that if this was a good reason to leave home and stay in another household then his own rules should have provided for it.

No one really cared per se that Prof Ferguson got laid while probably immune; it’s the fact he was involved in rules which he expected others to follow then didn’t himself. Same with a Dominic Cummings.

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LilacTree1 · 22/05/2020 22:34

mares not the thread for it

Also no discussion needed, just a fact. I don’t think Cummings is planning to help with that problem!

MaxNormal · 22/05/2020 22:37

What a stupid comment. Once a man is married he should stop giving a shit about his parents?

You think that the way of showing you give a shit about your parents is bringing them covid?
What a stupid comment Wink

chomalungma · 22/05/2020 22:38

So I wonder what Hancock and Brokenshire think:

Hancock said physical distancing rules were very important and everyone should follow them. He said he had supported the Scottish police warning to Dr Catherine Calderwood, the Scottish chief medical officer who visited her second home during lockdown.

He described Ferguson’s decision to flout lockdown rules as “extraordinary” and one that had left him “speechles

Asked whether he was speechless by the presenter, Kay Burley, he said: “I am.”

James Brokenshire, a Home Office minister, said Ferguson had made an “error of judgment” and was right to resign. He stressed that the government’s physical distancing guidelines must be followed by law and were “there to protect us all”.

He said Ferguson’s resignation had been “an appropriate course” because other people had tried so hard to stick to the lockdown, even though it had been hard not to see loved ones

maresydoats · 22/05/2020 22:39

LilacTree1

Not sure what you mean! thanks.

(Quote function would help but MN don't agree lol)

PotholeParadise · 22/05/2020 22:40

^You think that the way of showing you give a shit about your parents is bringing them covid?
What a stupid comment^

Well, of course. Certainly my husband rushed us all over to see his 70+ parents when we were isolating due to possible coronavirus.

Oh wait. No he didn't.

Alsohuman · 22/05/2020 22:41

Apparently there are a lot of Tory backbenchers baying for his resignation.

Boireannachlaidir · 22/05/2020 22:41

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

Are you really comparing a Chief Medical Officer who was advising the whole country to stay at home whilst visiting her holiday home not once but twice and the government's medical adviser whose advice led to the lockdown with Cummings?

I'm not a Boris supporter however he at least didn't insist on his medical adviser staying in post so all credit for that. Contrast with Nickla who'd have gained more respect if she's not tried to hang on to a CMO where party ideology comes before anything else.

Dominic Cummings is another issue entirely.

LizzyButton · 22/05/2020 22:42

Didn't his wife write an article where she gave him a more human side...

Yes, it was an empathetic piece and made him seem less two-dimensional.

maresydoats · 22/05/2020 22:43

Best to be in opposition these days.

PotholeParadise · 22/05/2020 22:44

An MNer made a thread about her mother insisting that article showed that ribena could treat coronavirus symptoms.

So we've got that to place on their heads, too.

colouringindoors · 22/05/2020 22:45

He absolutely Should go. But I'm not optimistic.

Even if he did Im not sure I'd be convinced he wasn't still an influencer.

Not that I don't trust him or Boris Confused

DateLoaf · 22/05/2020 22:45

I hope he goes.

chomalungma · 22/05/2020 22:46

Are you really comparing a Chief Medical Officer who was advising the whole country to stay at home whilst visiting her holiday home not once but twice and the government's medical adviser whose advice led to the lockdown with Cummings

Yes - high profile individual - who was also part of the SAGE group as well.

ChristmasCarcass · 22/05/2020 22:54

Boireann I thought the spin from Downing Street was that Saint Dominic “heroically intervened” in SAGE meetings, pushing for lockdown after seeing the models, when callous scientists wanted to let people die?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8268415/No10-chief-Dominic-Cummings-intervened-SAGE-meeting.html

He can’t have it both ways.

bobbiester · 22/05/2020 22:55

Boireannachlaidir - Are you really comparing a Chief Medical Officer who was advising the whole country to stay at home whilst visiting her holiday home not once but twice and the government's medical adviser whose advice led to the lockdown with Cummings?

Cummings was actually sick with COVID-19 at the time he made his trip - and his elderly parents were there at his destination.

CMO was not ill - and visiting an empty house.

Cummings' behaviour was way worse.

Everytimeref · 22/05/2020 22:58

He won't go as neither Boris or Cummings have any sense of morality.