Cummings is taking questions later today

[pontypridd]

How on earth is that going to go?

@MouthBreathingRage

They have an 80 majority, there's next to no chance of an election before 2024. if the polls get really bad they'll dump Boris.

“I was simply driving about the country to test whether it was safe to drive. The lack of injured pedestrians was proof that it was indeed safe to drive”
Dominic Cummings, May 2020

@Bathroom12345 are you not at all worried about how much harder it will now be for contact tracers to persuade people to self isolate? Contact tracing is the most powerful tool we will have for the next year or so. It’s so so crucial.

I was OK with it. Please don’t speak for everyone.

Does anyone buy the stuff about the house in London being threatened?
Most people wouldn't have a clue where he lived and I doubt the neighbours in that expensive street would be the type to bother him.

Where have people said on this thread that they wished Johnson was dead?

What about the niece she was 17 so she is a minor and he would have a responsibility not to put her at risk?

I’m going to put my two kids in the car and go for a nice long drive to see if I still need my glasses.

Utter, utter embarrassment......and shitshow.....I’m angry, feel like I’ve been taken for a mug, when I held off driving 100+ miles to support my 87 year old widower father who got rushed Into hospital ( and I have no brothers,sisters nieces to help)

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.

Well put

That was a car crash press conference.
Like the car crash he courted if his Barnard Castle story was true.
He must go.

Because one person did something? No, I don’t. He wasn’t tested because testing wasn’t available at that time.

Look at the people in Brighton today, beers in hand. Or the neighbours of my DM who has had extended family around time and time again during the last few months.

Time to move on.

Does anyone buy the stuff about the house in London being threatened?

No it's a total lie. There's been some stromash over this weekend and he's using that, but nothing at the time. We were all under lockdown for one thing!

This is how you know he broke the rules - the bizarre, doesnt-tie-together, defensive “reasoning”. There are now more questions than answers!

He really seems the Gov’s boss. I’m highly suspicious of any one person having so much power, never mind an unelected one we have no oversight on.

Cummings has come across as a prize knob. To see the Gov defending him is so bizarre. If they’d put as much effort into this as actually running the country I’d be impressed.

Cummings came across horribly. I’m worried about how competent the Gov is if they need him to function.

Neil Ferguson should have just said he was worried his penis had stopped working and he would have got away with it.

No, hes only saying that because he thinks it'll play well since the pics of the media scrum outside his door at the moment.

He made himself the story, he knows how it goes.

Glad to see that even that Daily Mail aren't buying Cummings' explanation.

Again it's the same JRM argument re Grenfell:-

"The plebs obey what the police and government tell them to do. The elite use their common sense. So it's your own fault that you didn't all do the same!"

Disgusting

Absolute PT. Smacks of privilege, didn’t even occur to him that he and his wife would have to somehow, take care of their own child when sick. Literally didn’t even think of that as being an option. The way every single other parent in the country has had to. Utter disgrace.

This makes me wonder what other government fuck ups are being buried while this debacle plays out.

Yes, he had guts but he didn't say sorry did he? That's all I wanted to hear.
He isn't a murderer : I'm glad Boris survived Covid , I don't want anyone else to die : he wanted to do this press conference.
I wish it would go away but it won't.

@DishingOutDone

I confess to having taken it from the excellent memes thread in Classics

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/mumsnet_classics/a3864587-AIBU-to-ask-for-your-favourite-isolation-memes?msgid=96777058#prettyPhoto

This is him, as has worked in the past, thinking he can get through to the public like this. And the media and "London elite" are not speaking for them. Not this time Dom!!

Cummings is well aware that the truth doesn't matter - he's made his career off the back of this. He is on record as saying this.

The thing that matters is how the public perceive things to be and how they interpretate what they are told.

There is a certain irony about this.

Does anyone buy the stuff about the house in London being threatened?
Most people wouldn't have a clue where he lived and I doubt the neighbours in that expensive street would be the type to bother him.

No but journalist scrums outside his house and idiots shouting things has given him the excuse.

Bathroom12345 that “one person” shapes our policy, made repeated breaches, visited beauty spots, has family in London, could’ve have family come from Durham to London for childcare, sits in a Gov that has enforced this policy for ten (?) weeks which has unknown impacts on health and the economy, the Gov has now lied about his actions repeatedly....

Two questions -

How was his house the target of a public hate campaign IN THE MIDST OF A LOCKDOWN? Who was protesting exactly - the ghosts of protesters past? Why would it be different to any other time in recent years, such as, I don’t know..., the Brexit vote? Or when they tried to close down Parliament early last summer?

If he was worried for the safety of his wife and child in the house that was being targeted by the protesters who weren't allowed out WHY RETURN THERE AT ALL? What was so different two weeks later?