to think Dominic Cummings should go/thread 2

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New thread to continue previous one, hope you don't mind original OP!

According to this no -
mobile.twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1264682792429989891

Good. Thanks for that Carolyn. I don't follow Twitter.

So he hasn't exactly laid his cards on the table either.

Hopefully he gets inundated with emails enough to sway his opinion. He's supposed to represent his constituents goddamit.

Thing is stormzy if the child does in fact have autism it raises more questions.

1 being why when they changed the rules re exercise didn't they add a caveat about also travelling to seek care from someone familiar to the child. Plus those rules changed after this event.

Another being why the big secret? Why not say yesterday. It's no good for relationships with disabilities charities and his disabled public if they appear embarrassed about admitting a child is autistic.

And I don't buy "worried the child may get sick"

Well if you're worried about that you don't put them in a car with at least 1, possibly 2 infected adults.

Plus that goes against everything they've said re schools opening.

He has to go, or they both do. Their position is untenable. Those MPs who tried to defend Cummings on Twitter must be mortified. Incredibly poor political judgement. I bet most of them would rather see Cummings gone too.

Derxa All this does is highlight what we've all known since this came out. Dominic Cummings didn't break the rules because he needed childcare or because he wanted to support his mother - Dominic Cummings broke the rules because they didn't apply to him.

It suits you to portray him as someone devoid of human feelings.

Does it also suit you to imply that all those who stayed home when a loved one died or didn't or couldn't attend funerals didn't care enough?

It's nothing g to do with how people feel. It's all to do with following the very clear rules we were set.

Oh and derxa I understand how you're feeling re diagnosis. Both my parents have cancer and have had to have chemo through this pandemic. It's horrendous. But the point is we've all followed the rules. Including you. You should be annoyed to now be told you don't care enough about your family to have broken them.

And I don't have any feelings what so ever towards DC about brexit - especially in relation to this.

He spearheaded brexit. We voted. I wanted to remain. We lost.

I went against my political beliefs to vote Tory and for BJ to get Brexit - which I didn't believe in done- because I believed it was the right thing to do. I trusted Boris to do this.

I also defended the government throughout the pandemic - whilst admitting their were mistakes - allowing for the fact it's unprecedented.

I now feel like a complete fool. That's my issue. That's why I'm angry. They've eroded trust. We trusted them that the STAY AT HOME message was correct. But apparently, now, I should have realised I was allowed to interpret them how I wanted.

That's why I am angry.

Cummings was hated well before Brexit. He was Gove’s henchman in the DfE, totally toxic.

One of the replies to that tweet above:

Spoke with the local Tory agent in my constituency, apparently many Tory MPs are quote unquote 'feeling firebombed' by the massive constituency reaction, '100% of it hostile' to Cummings.

So if you have a Tory MP, please do write to them!

I have written to my Tory MP. Will be surprised if he does anything other than defend Boris and DC.

For those contacting their MP, please ensure you add in your postal address. This is what came back to me when I emailed:

Please make sure you have included your full postal address in your email, as strict parliamentary protocol means that* [MP] can only act on behalf of residents of the [his] Constituency.

Omg this education secretary interview on BBC Breakfast is too embarrassing to watch., What a stooge. He can’t answer about DC so he’s just trying to deflect..., unsuccessfully.

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" 2) who is going to want to come and stay in a house that has
Covid anyway."

Stoemzy that's an excellent point but how is the solution to transport the entire covid household up the country, for someone (presumably a family member, as it could have been in London) to HAVE to come in, as the worry was they would be incapacitated? What was it about Durham that meant no one had to go in the house?

If they were willing to provide childcare - which it clearly states they were - they were willing to have contact with a covid household.

And an interesting point that just occurred to me.

Yesterday we went because "his sister and niece offered to provide childcare if needed"

Today "they went there because the child needed specific childcare"

Getting very messy. Still they deem determined to brazen it out

Weird and because his uncle died. And he had a bone in his leg

The thing Boris Johnson's comment "I believe he followed the instincts of every parent" is that he probably did. I'm sure we all had an "instinct" to travel in case we needed to support loved ones and dependents.

But we followed the rules. We stayed at home.

Gavin Williams dying on the Today programme.

Williamson

Email number two today was sent as email number one was ignored!

I've emailed BJ himself and also added my MP into that - she's the attorney general. I am waiting for the response about how they are now going to initiate refunding all those fines who were also just following their instincts and what they felt was best for them