Cummings is taking questions later today

[pontypridd]

How on earth is that going to go?

We all have to rely on neighbours and the community in really challenging circumstances and he didn't even think to ask neighbours or community groups to help him?

This is exactly what the government told us to do!

Enough is enough. There's far more important things for the media to talk about. They really need to move on.

Does his wife not drive?

^^ This. Am shouting at the tv for someone to ask this.

If she can then presumably there was no need for the Barnard Castle jolly as she could have taken over if DC didn't feel well on the return journey.

He’s hardly Fred west.

Nope. He's a senior government advisor who made the rules about lockdown who appears to have decided these rules do not apply to him and that this will undermine health messages and change other people's behaviour going forward - which government advisors fear will ultimately result in the deaths of people who would not otherwise have died.

So yes journalists should do the job they are supposed to - and hold power to account.

But yeah he's not Fred West.

I think he's probably done enough to save himself, the real question is why Boris did so astonishingly badly with his attempt yesterday.

DC will survive, long term BJ may not.

It's a joke that BJ has been backing him, despite all that he's been through himself with covid.

He keeps saying his situation was complicated. It wasn’t. It was the same as any other family coping with this situation was. Only he had access to Government lines of support if he was genuinely desperate. It is beyond ridiculous.

The change.org petition is gathering momentum. Now over half a million.

Why haven’t the journalists mentioned his family (maybe they have i missed a bit) and bought up that him being in such influential position of course he could have got support with getting food etc

Or more importantly why didn’t they do a little planing ahead as everyone else has done

What is he writing? Just pay attention, man!

@Nicknacky - maybe he’s writing a brief resignation letter ?

I don't want to feel sorry for him but I just wished he'd stop now.
Or just step down. It's so bad.

Aridane Having watched this, do you genuinely even think that’s a possibility 😂?

jollyhostess

This is reminding me in some of my worst job interviews where I couldn't remember the question and just kept repeating one or two things and hating myself as I did it, knowing it was shit.

Surely he is a bit rubbish at his job if he makes mistakes every day!

What''s wrong with his child?

I just heard him saying his child is ill - I had said yesterday I thought that was possible (ie, child would be high risk)... Is that what he's referring to or did his child also have COVID?

So he regrets nothing, did nothing wrong, made no mistakes.

Enough is enough. There's far more important things for the media to talk about. They really need to move on.

No. They really don't. I don't really care at this stage what he has or hasn't done, although he's an odious little hypocrite who thinks he's far above the rules, but the government response of circling the wagons around him, claiming he'd done nothing wrong when he'd clearly had, was bloody disgraceful. Boris Johnson and his cabinet gaslit a nation to protect one arrogant man, during the worst crises since the second world war. This is not okay.

Why was he even driving if he didn't know if he could see properly 🤯

“What is the safest thing for my child?” ...
I know I’ll drive a 60 mile round trip with bad eyesight.

Please just say sorry!

DC will survive because we're 4.5 years away from an election. This will damage the government in the coming weeks and months, but Boris thinks (and is probably right) that nobody will give two hoots about this when it counts (on election day).

Were this a GE year he'd be gone, at least temporarily.

I think this has gone on too long. He has answered all the questions and really could not say any more. He needs to be left alone now.

FFS I've spent the last 2 months completely alone. I could have travelled to Dorset to stay with my sister if I'd known the rules were so bloody flexible as DC is implying!

Look, it's not hard.

We're all too stupid to understand, we should just accept that he's a good bloke and get over it. He was right to hide the truth because everyone's been so horrible to him, he did NOTHING wrong and it must be awful for those people now realising that their circumstances were exceptional and therefore they could have ignored guidelines, but it's not his fault that we are all so stupid. And don't we realise his job is important? Without him, no-one could have discussed things like vaccines!

This is what happens when we run out of TV programmes.

An hour dedicated to one man's trip to Barnard Castle.

Eastenders are probably taking notes.

LaurieMarlow you win the thread!