Journalists outside Cummings house hypocrisy

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Anyone just seen the footage BBC news? Getting on for 100 journalists outside Cummings house all squashed together, some half arse attempt at a face mask on a few ( only covering mouth not nose). Have I missed something? Is social distancing over? These are no doubt the same people reporting with exasperation on a lack of social distancing on transport and work places.
AIBU to think these people are hypocrites and need calling out?

@AlternativePerspective but he DID go back a second time, that's the point!!

He was in London on April 10th and returned north, visiting Barnard Castle to "test his eyes" on his wife's birthday (April 12th). ANPR had the car reg, plus witnesses so he had to 'fess up.

I do understand. I've written to my MP twice about all if this ( no reply , but not surprised) I was livid on the weekend and yesterday but the press should not he outside his home like this. It's intimidation.
He should resign I agree , but all this harassment isn't getting anyone anywhere ( and I was furious and written on the Dominic threads about this but crowding around his home is too much now. )
I do understand did his people feel.

How people feel .

Dominic Cummings broke the self isolating rule, not the social distancing/ lockdown rules.

He knew his wife was infected and probably so was he, but brought the virus on a 260 mile road trip to another part of the UK as well as at however many stops they needed to make on the way.

That's a major difference between what the journalists outside his house are doing and his own infraction.

He did break the social distancing rules though. He went home from work because his wife was ill, then went back to work in the afternoon.

He broke the rules before he even made his trip to London

One of the junior ministers has already resigned over this, saying he can't tell his constituents to follow the rules when his own party isn't. DC should have been sacked when all this came out, same as the Scottish medical adviser.

However, I still don't agree with the press behaviour. Its possible to disagree with many people's behaviour at the same time, not just DC.

I agree with you OP. The sheer hypocrisy and they are just after a story. I thought he handled the questions well yesterday if anyone else bothers to watch it through.

Plenty people have made their own personal decisions during this crisis and the media and twitter baying for his blood/to get at Boris is not helping as it's detracting from the questions that should be asked. Now the focus is all in DC. So what!

I'm sorry but this is such nonsense. Journalists have been described as key workers from the start and have been required to work through lockdown from the beginning.

I'm sure plenty would prefer not to have to risk their's and their families health but they've had no choice.

It is not possible to socially distance in all jobs. Indeed many of the key worker jobs do not allow for social distancing, e.g. doctors, nurses, care workers. Likewise, many of the media - who are key workers - cannot always socially distance.

Many journalists now work from home, and all do so where possible. But some - including the reporters who have been assigned to Cummings' house and the press photographers cannot. They have to work, and they have been sent to do that job.

Frothing at the mouth about key workers legally doing their job is absurd. And nothing like Cummings breaking several lockdown rules AND the Highway Code because he thinks he is above the law.

But some - including the reporters who have been assigned to Cummings' house and the press photographers cannot. They have to work, and they have been sent to do that job.
I think Cummings is beneath contempt for what he's been up to and the way he's handled it, but there is really no reason for the media scrum outside his house. He plainly isn't going to talk to them apart from occasionally uttering a a couple of words of contempt. It is stupid and pointless for so many people to be swarming around him - and as for it being "their job" - it's a shit and pointless job. They can highlight Cummings lies and hypocrisy without being camped outside his fucking house.

This is getting dull now.

I agree. It's hypocritical for ANYONE to criticize him while ignoring the rules themselves.

I think that the behaviour of the media during this crisis has been nothing short of abysmal. Clearly, the rules don't apply to them. No wonder that 40% of the population is also ignoring the rules.

Well done, Cummings threw the bots for a loop over the weekend but glad to see the usual suspects are following the usual party lines. Well oiled machine and all that

There are a couple of policemen outside his house. I'm sure Dominic could brief them on the guidelines, as he sees them or as soon as he's made them up, to have the journalists moved.

To the poster that said we must stop paying attention to DC and pay attention to the kids going back to school.

That is precisely what the PM should have considered when deciding not to sack Dominic Cummings on Saturday. That is the point.