Cummings is taking questions later today

[pontypridd]

How on earth is that going to go?

Yep, a insincere excuse filled non apology, whoop de fricking do. He needn't bother.

It doesn't matter what they do, what he says, what further explanations are offered, it's the direct lying I can't take and I've seen so much of it the past few days.

We elected a known liar (sacked 3 times for lying) and cheat as PM. A man who is wholly lacking in integrity and a moral compass and we elected him in full knowledge he had this puppet/puppetmaster relationship with "career psychopath" Dominic Cummings.

How do we as a nation have the audacity to be surprised and shocked by any of this?

Having autism does not make you above the law. Whether a child or an adult. If the wife was ill why didn’t Cummings look after his own kid? He clearly wasn’t doing 16hr shifts at Downing St.

Cant stand the bloke, but the media calling him to resign, has anyone seen the video with all the journalists at his house all on top of each other with no social distancing

Yes and I saw him waving his hands and bossing them around like he was King of the World or something. Social Distancing is also a guideline, it isn't actually enforceable by the police let alone DC. If he can ignore the guidelines when he feels like it maybe the journalists felt they could to?

It will be interesting to see if he can wriggle out of this.

It will be a force apology. Followed by some wet excuses, probably using his child's autism and his uncles death. Then Boris will say he's apologised and explained, time for you minions to get on with it. It will be painful and awkward to watch and will only fuel more anger.

Nothing he can say can detract from what others sacrificed due to the instructions to keep to the guidelines and what he has done.

The damage he has caused to those who have already suffered and by those who now will interpret government guidelines as they please will continue until he is gone.

He’ll try and appear emotional, and guilt trip everyone that his kid has additional needs

Yeah, I don't think that'll fly with the thousands of families struggling with SEN kids whose health and social provision has been taken away by the Coronavirus Act.

The headlines have changed - Sky News is now saying he will "make a statement". No mention of questions.

He’ll try and appear emotional
Haha, that’ll be worth watching.

It will be a non apology apology, and yes blaming his son’s SEN. As if every other parent of a SEN child didn’t have to follow the rules. I suspect that will backfire. I hope we see the back of him, but it won’t be today. If it rumbles on maybe the Tory Backbenchers will get rid of him. Whatever happens, the spot light is on him now like never before. He’s the puppet master for sure.

I think he’s going to let the U.K. know Boris isn’t up to the job and he has accepted BJ’s resignation!

Once again using he is his instinct now as a caring SPAD (so ok to break more rules!)

he is using!!

"One man and his dom"

That did make me snort a little.

No mention of questions.

I'm not surprised. He doesn't feel like he needs to answer questions, because he doesn't believe he did anything wrong. The statement will be along the lines of i'm sorry you feel I did wrong, when in fact I was acting within the guidelines, and something about his son.

He is an arrogant entitled knob, I don't care if he gets up there and whistles dixie, if anyone still has trust in him and his pal bojo, God help them.

Whatever happens, the spot light is on him now like never before

Well no - as PPs have said, no one gives a shit about DC, what he thinks or what he does - the spotlight is on DS's interpretation of the lockdown legislation, Boris' poor judgement and the double standards applied to Boris' cronies.

Maybe he’s ass whipped Johnson and he’s taking over as PM as he’s so fucking special.

We need to open a book on these, don't we? Anyone want to set odds?

1. "I did not want to make this pubic knowledge but my son has autism and needs to be looked after by people he knows"

2. Explains why it's OK for him to do it because he's a good father following his instinct

3. "I'm a Brexit martyr and you're all enemies of The People."

4. "I'm here to announce I've personally found life on Mars and am giving every one of you a souvenir nodding dog by the end of the week."

5. "My uncle was dying in London so I had to hotfoot it Durham."

Are we allowed to submit the questions?

Are the Guardian and the Mirror invited?

It's too late to be all contrite now, he'd be going out and telling the world BJ got it all wrong yesterday.

Plus doesn't this go against a whole other raft of "rules" about the Civil Service?

6. "You've made my son and my wife and my mother cry. You should all be ashamed of ourselves, I've told you what happened and that should be the end of it. This hounding of me and his family is beyond the pale and over the line and bad form and a poor show and won't you just think of the country."

What I'd love to see is the broadcasters turning away in solidarity and for him to find himself speaking to an empty space.

People they were never rules they were guidelines and loads on mn have pushed boundaries on guidelines and staying apart in house was a guideline if you can ,many with young children would not of been able to lock themselves away from there children , a single parent caring alone could not just stay in bed and ignore a young child
What I find worse is the fact this never came out at the time so that we were all aware without having to try to interpret all the guidelines that childcare issues was ok
But then I as many have probably not sat and read the whole document back to back generally just followed the main guidance
His statement may well be his resignation so let's wait and see

The Guardian asked whether he was in Durham on 5th April, but the government refused to comment.

If there was a special clause in the regulations that meant that the 'Stay at Home' message didn't apply when a parent was caring for a child with additional needs, why didn't the Government tell all the other parents caring for children with additional needs?

If Boris does indeed say something along the lines of ..right get on with it now minions, I do hope someone with clout picks up the baton and keeps fighting.
If I was the parent of a child who had died in isolation I would want Cummings (and Ferguson's )balls pickled in aspic and served on a silver platter tbh.

7. Non-apology apology.

(I'm putting that one at eleventy-billion to one.)