To think if Boris won't sack Dominic Cummings then Boris should go?

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Boris Johnson will have known Dominic Cummings broke all the rules of lockdown and self-isolation by taking his covid-19 wife to County Durham 260 miles away to his elderly parents' home.

Boris will have known that Dominic Cummings then went back again two weeks later.

Boris has told the rest of the cabinet to defend Dominic Cummings now he's been found out.

AIBU to think Boris should go too?

The people still defending Boris need to get their heads checked.

telling use of the word 'politician'

hes an advisor - just as the other advisors were who resigned.

He still isn't sorry

I got more and more frustrated by that. I was constantly refreshing Twitter, seeing all of the short, precise questions that journalists should have been asking and then having to listen to the usual long winded woolly 3-questions-in-one rubbish that they come out with at the daily briefings. It was a missed opportunity.

I'm getting very angry at the repeated assertions from Johnson, Cummings et al that anybody who hears his excuses will surely understand why he acted as he did. Well actually, no. I have heard everything they've had to say and it's still absolutely, categorically clear that he is in the wrong and did not act within he guidelines that we were all bound by. I don't accept the excuses and I don't appreciate them speaking on my behalf and assuming that I do.

As an aside, I'm flabbergasted that he would also admit to driving a car on a public road for several miles when he was unsure whether it was safe for him to do so, thereby risking the safety of anybody else who happened to be using the road. He really does hold the law and the public in complete contempt.

Who's going to sack Boris then , himself ? The tories have a majority and they aren't calling for him to be removed or a vote of no confidence so he won't be going anywhere just yet it's not how it works

@sharon then why did they not take a picture to prove ? Without photographic evidence I don't think we can know for sure as you could probably get his car reg from looking up especially if he somehow took the reg and then looked up
Surely most have phones now so a picture wouldn't be too hard and there is no denying a picture

Driving with his wife and young child.... To test his eyesight omg 🤓

It’s laughable and shameful all at the same time.

then why did they not take a picture to prove ? Without photographic evidence I don't think we can know for sure as you could probably get his car reg from looking up especially if he somehow took the reg and then looked up

Did you miss that Dominic Cummings admitted to driving there, and then going for a walk, and then seeing a gentleman he thought recognised him, who his wife exchanged a greeting with? We don't need further proof when he (finally) admitted it. Probably right before the CCTV footage leaked...

I'm not supporting Dominic Cummings but Boris is our legally elected PM so as far as I am concerned it's his decision to make not the Sun or the Mail or twitter. Apart from anything else when did we start expecting politicians to be perfect? They're just men doing a job the same as the rest of us and like the rest of us they misjudge things sometimes.

Cummings isn't a politician, he's a paid advisor.

I don't expect infallibility, but I also don't expect the string of lies and obfuscations that we've heard from Cummings. The fact that he expects us to believe the Barnard Castle story shows that both that he is utterly stupid and that he thinks we are too. The fact that he is spinning the story so that he's claiming the official advice doesn't say what it actually does say is bloody dangerous.

No one is expecting perfection

That really come across as an attempt to set up is a false dichotomy.

A combination of poor management of COVID 19, too much support for an advisor who has now been caught breaking the regulations, a major recession like none of us have ever experienced and the likelihood of a no deal Brexit = end of this Tory government.

it's his decision to make

Not alone it isn't. He is not an absolute ruler - not supposed to be, at any rate. This is when the emphasis of recent years upon the premiership alone, and the limitations to the power of Parliament, bites us hard.

We do not want an absolute ruler. This is supposed to be a democracy - according to Johnson himself - and I will not accept His Royal Favourites being above the law. Is this turning into the beginnings of Rubicon? Johnson Caesar??

Another Cummings story in the news: www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jun/01/government-fails-to-distance-dominic-cummings-from-sex-discrimination-case-boris-johnson

Poll in the Mail showing the disastrous effect on Tories and BJ personally of the Cummings scandal.

Parliament back tomorrow..