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So where is Dominic Cummings child now?

48 replies

HedgehogDramas · 25/05/2020 08:58

Sorry to start a new thread as it's only a question that I can't find an answer to. Did DC bring the child back home with him to London or has he left the child with the grandparents in Co Durham?

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Inoneminute · 25/05/2020 09:06

I wondered why he was loading a child's bike into the car to go to Downing Street yesterday and if it was some sort of cover.

Someone suggested wife and child have been in Durham all along, which would be fine, provided DC stayed in London....

Unless it was old footage, why did he need to take LO's bike to a 5/6hr stint at DS?

Pleasenodont · 25/05/2020 09:21

Looked like his wife was in the passenger seat of the car yesterday to me and he loaded his child’s bike and scooter into the back too.

Inoneminute · 25/05/2020 09:27

Ah OK, that would make sense, although news reports said the car was at Downing Street all day, so how did they get home?

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HedgehogDramas · 25/05/2020 14:01

He's having a press conference this afternoon to explain himself. I will bring myself to watch it but it will just be more excuses as to why he's allowed to roam around the country with a wife who had potential COVID19 symptoms while the majority of the rest of us have adhered to his rules. Ridiculous.

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ChewChewIsMySpiritAnimal · 25/05/2020 14:02

Why do you need to know where his child is?

Millicent10 · 25/05/2020 14:05

No idea, but I feel sorry for the poor little bugger. His parents are shitbags but the screen outside his home and paparazzi are not on. If DC resigns they could retire to Durham to live in peace and quiet.

MawnyStannit · 25/05/2020 14:09

Why are you asking about his child? Are you worried about his welfare? Cummings is the guilty party here, there’s no need to speculate about his child.

VladmirsPoutine · 25/05/2020 14:12

It's important as it helps to figure out what Cummings was doing/ where he was going and when. I'm sure the OP isn't just unnecessarily taking an interest in a 4yo child for no reason. I have a feeling Cummings is using his child as a get out of jail free card. Hopefully the public will see through it.

ChewChewIsMySpiritAnimal · 25/05/2020 14:15

No, leave a 4 year old child out of it.

Zampa · 25/05/2020 14:18

the screen outside his home and paparazzi are not on

Led by Donkeys, who were behind the screen stunt, said they knew no one was at home. Presumably they knew as everyone was seen getting in the car earlier.

Comingoutontop123 · 25/05/2020 14:20

Probably in the house, frightened due to the paps shouting outside. Or has had to move to another location because of it.

JamieLeeCurtains · 25/05/2020 14:23

Mary Wakefield should stop writing about her child in The Spectator

CrazyTimesAreOccurring · 25/05/2020 14:26

@ChewChewIsMySpiritAnimal shame his father doesnt feel the same

TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum · 25/05/2020 14:42

Mary Wakefield should stop writing about her child in The Spectator

This.
Cummings and his wife have chosen to hinge their entire defence on this unfortunate child (whom this scandal may follow for the rest of his life).

Thing is it it is utterly bogus.
There was no way the child was ever at risk of not being looked after. They did not need to go to Durham for any child welfare reasons and anyone who pays any attention to that argument is a fool.

If Cummings and his wife ever became so ill they could not support the child, help would have been quickly provided as required (as it would for the PM or any other cabinet member). He is supposedly a key government advisor. Westminster would arrange an emergency nanny or whatever. There are systems in place.
The "fathers instinct" line is utter crap.
We need to be told why they really want and yes they should leave their poor child out of it this time.

TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum · 25/05/2020 14:47

Typo - we need to be told why they really went.

MouthBreathingRage · 25/05/2020 14:49

Left at the pub. Oh wait, wrong Tory.

Left with his mother and now DC pretends he doesn't exist. Oh wait, not him either

GoFiguire · 25/05/2020 14:54

They went to Durham because they know that the government appointed Nanny, Nanny McPhee, corrects the behaviour of the parent as well as the child.

Laaalaaaa · 25/05/2020 14:55

Not really your business where his child is I don’t think. Leave the child out of it.

Helmetbymidnight · 25/05/2020 14:58

probably spoon feeding ribena to his poor sick father lying doggo for days in London.
Hmm

Inoneminute · 25/05/2020 14:59

I don't think you really claim privacy for a child whose mother publishes articles about him or whose father uses him as defense to save his own neck (if that's what he does).

HedgehogDramas · 25/05/2020 15:03

Oh FFS. I've asked a question which I feel is relevant to the situation because if he's brought the child back to London then there was absolutely no need for him to make the journey to Durham in the first place. It never ceases to amaze me how people can read into an innocent question and twist it. "'Leave the child out of it" Really?? The whole point of his trip to Durham was because of his child.

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TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum · 25/05/2020 15:54

Sorry OP - yes your question is interesting and relevant. I would like it to be answered in the next half hour but something tells me we will be left with even more unanswered questions.

HedgehogDramas · 25/05/2020 17:22

Am finding this interview more excrutiating than the Prince Andrew interview and I still don't know where the child is. What a joke.

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Flowersinthewild · 25/05/2020 17:53

Of course he isn’t going to say where his child is after the abuse he is getting and what is going on outside their home.
The child came back with them as he stated, where the child is now is no ones business as long as he is protected from the circus that is happening that’s the main thing.

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