to think Dominic Cummings should go/thread 3

[SophieB100]

Third thread!

[FliesandPies]

Surely if you are not sure if your eyes are good enough to drive with, you don't test them by getting in your car and driving!?!

Hilarious innit?

[candilemon]

Can’t be bothered poring over the bizarre lies. He is poison and should be removed. BJ is being made to look an even greater fool by supporting him. But then, he is a pathological liar too.

[lazylinguist]

What a weasel that man is. The question I'd like to ask him is:

Mr Cummings, if a member of the public had been stopped by the police and asked the reason for their car journey, and they'd answered "I'm going for a half hour drive to test my eyesight", what do you think the police response would have been?

a) Yeah right
b) We believe you, but that's not an acceptable reason for a journey.
c) Oh that's fine then, sir. Glad you're taking road safety so seriously Please continue on your eye-test journey!

Why does he think it's ok for him to interpret the rules according to his own lies 'common sense', but that everyone else should toe the line?

[Hadenoughfornow]

What's so difficult to understand.

By his wife's account he was really pretty ill. He has family nearby. His wife can't get home from hospital with his son. So why did the sister not go and pick them up. If they were prepared to help him out.

I know exactly what it's like to be away from home. We have worried about how we will cope if we are both ill at the same time.

None of that involves a very long drive north of the border.

But if it did happen and we did go North, I don't think my family would let us do it all ourselves if we were all really ill.

I know if I was so ill in my parents grounds, then DB would step up and go and pick up from the hospital. Probably breaking lockdown yes, but he would have done it whilst taking precautions.

But we all know the DC has lied today.

[SophieB100]

The specialist child care is hogwash. If the child needs specialist care, then who do these two rely on on a day to day basis? They both work, so who provides it? They have wrap around child care in place, because otherwise, how could both of them have the careers they have?
Smoke and mirrors.
It's all a load of crap, and they think we're thick enough to buy it.

[Hadenoughfornow]

My parents don't have grounds BTW

[dialmformmmm]

During lockdown he coincidentally went on a day trip to a castle on his wife's birthday cause he needed to test his eyesight



It's like a Monty Python sketch

[SophieB100]

He remembered an elderly gentleman who appeared to recognise him (when he felt unwell on the testing the eyesight trip) and his wife wished him a Happy Easter, from a social distance of course.
But he can't remember the convo with his boss, the week before.

Oh, come on, Dom, you've had all weekend and this is the best you've got?

[Puzzledandpissedoff]

But his wife wasn't ill. Remember. And then he was or wasn't but was well enough to drive. Then he was ill or wasn't then his child was ill and his wife who was or wasn't ill or was had to go into hospital with the child who was ill. But wasn't

Best explanation I've seen so far

Interesting, too, that he insisted he's not clarified all this before because it would have caused "confusion". Odd that ... if the circumstances were SO clear I imagine most would accept his explanation

[SharonasCorona]

What bad luck that that elderly gentleman turned about to be a veritable Columbo, even noting down the car reg 😂

[Mrsemcgregor]

I expect Boris to announce something big/interesting to smoke screen.....

[SophieB100]

What bad luck that that elderly gentleman turned about to be a veritable Columbo, even noting down the car reg

Which is precisely why Cummings flagged it up today, to try and deflect.

[itsgettingweird]

That whole speech could have been cut down to 10 seconds by saying.

"I went to Barnard Castle. I should've gone to specsavers"

[thisenglishlife]

Barnard Castle is a small market town in the north not a Castle
It's a market town that gets its name from the castle

[SophieB100]

@itsgettingweird

We've got Mrs Doyle telling us to social distance now..."Ya will be having a cup a tea Mr Johnson, ya will ya will ya will..."

[Rosehip10]

Funny how No 10 sent away chris witty and patrick vallance - I bet BoJo didn't want them be asked what they thought of cummings actions.

[SophieB100]

Bodge telling us we can make up our own minds about Cummings.
Mine is made up Bodge.
Love Beth Rigby!

[NoMoreReluctantCustodians]

Interesting that he drove the length of the country specifically to get help from his mother, father, sister and 2 nieces, yet when he needed his son and wife collected from hospital 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 miles away, not one of them could do it.

And no taxis in Durham? Really?

[EnthusiasmIsDisturbed]

So the message is Wash out hands

😆 like Boris Johnson wants to do with the DC issue

Bad luck it’s not going away

[SharonasCorona]

Brilliant 😂

[SophieB100]

@NoMoreReluctantCustodians
I agree, it's insulting our intelligence to think we can't see straight through this crap.

[EnthusiasmIsDisturbed]

Oh ffs stop him waffling

[EnthusiasmIsDisturbed]

Unfortunately he was able to end the press conference with a pat on his back

What a shame the last journalist should have kept to the DC issue

[itsgettingweird]

I made this one!

[EnthusiasmIsDisturbed]

😆😆