Cummings is taking questions later today

[pontypridd]

How on earth is that going to go?

He should have come out earlier with the details. The hounding of the press outside his house. He answered every single question, you might be thinking I wouldn’t do that, I haven’t been out for 3 months. He luckily had a house he could go to.

Error I think was not doing this a bit earlier.

Journalists kept asking the same questions and who on earth was sounding a claxon/horn at the beginning.

He has a second home he could go to. So what....

Least now we know “exceptional circumstances” means anything you want it to mean.

I wonder if Queen Elizabeth is watching this shit show with one hand over her eyes, a triple gin to hand, and thinking, 'and I thought 1996 was my annus horribulis. . .'

She at least had the wit to listen to the wind, and cut Andrew off after his abortion of an interview. Wonder if Bozo has the same amount of wit, and ruthlessness. . .

Couldn't remember if he had stopped to fill up the car on the way back?

Damn it, did not one of his super geek brainiac researchers think that would be a possible question so he hadn't prepped an answer!!!!

I want to know what sort of car he drives that he could do a trip to Durham and back on one tank of petrol.

Did anyone ask if Mrs Cummings, her of the delicate stomach that luckily turned out to be nothing worse than a quick throwup, can drive. I mean if I was so worried that my DHs eyesight might fail him on the motorway that we needed to do a thirty minute drive to test it out, there's no chance he would be driving me and my four year old anywhere.

Very wise to wear a white shirt Dominic, the nervous sweat didn't show at all.

ForForks I agree, Shapps repeatedly said on Marr on Sunday that DC had totally isolated in his parents spare cottage the entire time.

You know what guts is?

Admitting your mistakes and actually saying sorry.

He is slippery as a toad and that is not guts, it’s arrogance. He repeatedly says he acted well and does not regret it.

He answered every single question, you might be thinking I wouldn’t do that, I haven’t been out for 3 months. He luckily had a house he could go to.

He said he went on a 30 mile drive to test his eyesight.

He said that within 48 hours of arriving his family had already visited a local hospital for a non related issue.

Were you watching a different press conference?

It’s only the events of the last few days that have him the idea of his home under harassment.

In the week he travelled, people were only allowed out for essential shopping or half an hour exercise. As if anyone would have wasted their exercise time jogging over to his house .

Yes as PP have said, who was protesting outside his home during lockdown? Even if there were people outside, the police would’ve been there in minutes and fined them for breaking lockdown. Sounds like bollocks.

Been watching this on sky. Alistair Campbell didn’t mince his words. He said he was going to write to the met police to ask if they’d been contacted by DC raising concerns over his security.

Shapps must feel like an absolute plum after his strong defence over the weekend.

Everyone to Cummings - YABU
Cummings - IANBU
He's making it so much worse by not apologising and admitting at the very least error of judgement.

Well, let’s hope he’s not advising Boris on safe driving!

Solie thank you I thought I was going mad, it’s only since this story broke that journalists etc have been outside his house & yesterday I believe he was more than able to give them quite an attitude when questioned.

Boris Johnston needs to get a fucking grip and sack DC, anyone else would be long gone by now.

Also his kid couldn’t hold his wee for a 30 minute trip but could for a 4-5 hour drive?

Absolutely car crash. He has no idea of how to say sorry. He had absolutely no ability to think outside of his own small non emergency situation. No empathy. Self absorbed and entitled.

I genuinely can’t get annoyed about this.

1. I don’t know a single person who hasn’t broken at least one Lockdown rule, as was convenient for them.
2. he wanted to go and be with his sick wife and child. Don’t know anyone who wouldn’t do the same 🤷🏻‍♀️

It's ok to drive your 4 year old 30 miles with dodgy eyesight to a beauty spot 😕 who knew?

@LaurieMarlow

Your Prince Andrew comment really made me laugh though!

So was so Ill the night his child was admitted to hospital that he couldn’t stand, so went and picked them up in the morning.

Spoke to BoJo but they were both suffering covid so can’t remember the conversation, but can spend half an hour explaining in great detail what he did and when.

I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned the bit where he told everyone how the cottage he went to 'wasn't very nice'...

I am really not interested in whether DC is BU or not right now. What we need is DC and people like him to get us out of this mess and follow through with the Brexit mess.

Getting rid of him is like shooting ourselves in the foot WRT both Covid-19 and Brexit. We may feel better but we will be in a sorry mess if we do. We can deal with him later.

Sorry, haven't RTFT and didn't see all of it.

Did anyone ask him why the 17 year old niece couldn't have travelled to London to look after the child? Travel was explicitly allowed if you were going to look after a vulnerable person. His house presumably has a nanny flat in the basement, and at 17 she'll know how to use a bottle of bleach.

@crispysausagerolls he wanted to go and be with his sick wife and child. Don’t know anyone who wouldn’t do the same

He was with them already. In London. In fact, he went home to see his ill wife then went back to the office, is how much he wanted to be with them.

Do you genuinely not know anyone who's got ill and stayed at home, instead of travelling elsewhere?