To join in doorstep protest tomorrow evening 8pm and urge others to do the same?

[Livingtothefull]

At 8pm tomorrow 26 May my family will take part in this protest.

www.eveningexpress.co.uk/news/uk/musician-proposes-boo-for-boris-protest-after-pm-defends-dominic-cummings/

www.facebook.com/events/s/boo-for-boris/1635023729980734/

Not that I think the consequences should end there....but I need to register my disgust somehow at the contempt Boris Johnson and the Government have shown for all of us.

I can't express how appalled I am by this, I know what my family has gone through and I have seen the hardships others have faced; and still kept to the rules for the sake of the public good. The Government's actions have shown how little respect and regard they have for us.

I do hope that others who feel similar outrage join in with this protest.

Cummings will have resigned by tomorrow anyway, so it’s all besides the point.

I agree with you @Bluntness100. He's being made a focal point for people's rage over the pandemic and Brexit in general, and the foot stamping is because they're not being allowed to shame and "cancel" him in the way they've become used to being able to do on Twitter

Childish

I also have a severely disabled highly dependent child and we have stuck to the rules because I don't want him to be put at risk ,I think Dominic Cummings was stupid and I think he will be forced to resign ,but booing just makes someone look childish

TBH I am well past caring what everyone thinks of me

I think that's quite apparent

but don't call me childish please

But childish is exactly what you'll be. It's the best and politest description

Oh ffs! More stupid doorstep shenanigans. No, it's just ineffectual nonsense. And reminiscent of thwarted toddlers.

Your neighbours and passers by will think you're an absolute tit.

Can you imagine going for a walk at that time, and people suddenly come out of their homes and start booing? It could be very upsetting.

Well this bonkersness has significantly cheered me up! I'll be doing protest protesting cartwheels on my doorstep! 🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️🤸‍♀️

Nah, I’m busy. I’m erm clipping my toenails.

Your neighbours and passers by will think you're an absolute tit.
One person, one single person a couple of streets away from me stood on their doorstep to clap for Boris. They were the subject of much derision amusement on the NextDoor site.
Not named, but they obviously knew who they were.

The fact he’s even having to make a public statement and take questions is akin to putting someone in the stocks so folks could throw rotten food at them.

I don’t think anyone disputes that he didn’t comply with lock down. People will divided on whether if they and their partner both got Covid and they had an autistic child who needed certain levels of care if they’d do the same thing, some would some wouldn’t. Boris has decided it’s not something he will fire the man for. Personally I agree. There for the grace of god type of thing,

But even if you wouldn’t do it, and you would fire him for it, this has gone too far now.

Lock down was for a reason, it succeeded. There is no need for this level of bullying and hysteria.

Why not go the whole hog and lynch? That's the natural progression.

No I definitely won't be joining in. I didn't join in the clapping (hopefully it will now stop that the organiser has requested it) and I won't join the baying mob either.

Bloody hell.

I am cringing with embarrassment for you OP.

OMG.

I don’t want him to resign or be fired.

I’ll take his statement though. Explain and move on.

I wouldn't because Boris is the type to get his life from something like that! Me and DP have both been working frontline with 3 small children. I have never and will never be a tory supporter. But I wouldn't embarrass myself by booing.

I don't agree with the clap either, It's the equivalent of a "look over there!"strategy. The tories will be laughing at the clapping and booing and patting themselves on the back for creating a nation of idiotic sheep.

WTF is all this standing on doorsteps rubbish. They are more constructive ways for you to protest, just like there were/are more constructive ways to help the nhs/carers than by standing at your doorstop clapping and banging pots.

That was re pp.

Anyway op. Don’t do it.

I’m embarrassed if people do.

Just FYI OP, clapping or protesting on the doorstep has done nothing.

Lost count of how many Thursdays I have heard the clapping, then gone to work the next day to wear a single facemask I am encouraged to try and keep on as long as possible (because there is a national shortage and lack of funding) and a visor which had to be donated by a local company (not funded by the government or facilitated so we could do so and the company wasn't either). Add a thin plastic apron that you can tear easily direct over uniform (because there is a national shortage and lack of funding) and I am surprised I a yet to catch Covid.

TLDR: Your clapping and hitting pans is doing fuck all to fund and assist the NHS, so booing on your doorstep isn't going to do anything to change this either.

Utterly ridiculous.

I wouldn't do it even if I agreed with it, I would feel silly and childish booing somebody miles away who won't know or care.

However DH and I will probably look out of the window for a laugh to see if anybody is doing it.

Oh FGS Grow Up.

I don't feel like a mug because I've stuck to the guidelines. I made a choice. It hasn't been difficult though and I don't have a high profile so if I had taken off somewhere, no one would have noticed or cared.

Get real! This is all going too far. Human being make human errors (plenty on MN do!).

I live in a very conservative area. If I did this I imagine one of my lovely but rather more conservative neighbours would assume I had had a major crisis and phone the police to get me taken away.

However, the picture in my head of me standing outside and booing to a couple of neighbours, some sheep and a couple of alpacas did make me smile! Think my children would disown me.

I wrote to my MP instead.

Every single day - numerous times a day there are people posting on here my circumstances are blah blah blah can I go and do this, drive x amount of miles. A lot of responses are supportive of them. Perhaps you need to pathetically and childishly go and booooooooooooo for them too.