to think Dominic Cummings should go/thread 4

[SophieB100]

New thread to discuss the cummings and goings of the PM's chief adviser.

Previous thread:
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3919707-to-think-Dominic-Cummings-should-go-thread-3

I haven't yet seen any news of Cummings' resignation

Or even an apology. And none of the other offenders are reported as having CV at the time they broke the regulations so the risk caused was far less than that of Cummings.

A 'mob' of lefty journalists descending on Cummings house eh? Wonder what the collective term for a group of righty journalists is..

Nor are the three who have resigned supposed to be ill with Covid, as Cummings and his wife say they were.

"Former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, who ran against Mr Johnson for the Tory leadership, was accused of plotting against the PM;"

Accused by whom? The Mail?

Clavinova - Top UK scientists say that Cummings actions are detrimental to public adherence to the rules just at the point people need to be more vigilant not less in order to protect our most vulnerable. Do you think they are ill informed? What do you think the Government should do to follow that science & act on it? science?://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/30/dominic-cummings-actions-damage-public-health

Cummings claims to have taken expert advice about his fitness to return to work, though apparently not about his fitness to drive. Nobody believes his fairy story about the family outing on his wife's birthday.

He carefully avoided saying if he consulted a GP, specialist, hospital, dialled 111 or chatted to his dad's golfing buddy. Either with an examination, in person, or over the phone.

He did not say if he had been diagnosed with COVID but denies having a test.

The statement that was written for him to read out in the garden was not intended to answer our questions, but to deny blame.

All this whataboutery to make what DC has done all OK is quite amusing.

Clearly the witness who falsely claimed that he saw DC in Durham on the 19th April is not whataboutery or amusing.

But this is amusing - BBC;

"Rosie Duffield met her partner in her Canterbury constituency for a five-hour walk when he was still living with his wife"...

"While insisting the pair had observed the two-metre social distancing rule when they met."

Oh dear, yet more desperate grinny face emojis to make up for the lack of any decent argument.

Yup. So tedious.

These tactics are old. They were used on Boris and Carries old neighbours and they were used on the parents whose child had spent hours lying on the hospital floor. When Boris shoved a journalists phone in his pocket when shown a photo.

Seem Rachel Johnson is also under scrutiny.

It's like ping pong

metro.co.uk/2020/05/31/boris-johnsons-sister-rachel-flouts-lockdown-stay-second-home-12782842/

Is that a recent photo of her. I was taking note of her hair.

To be fair she doesn’t look as if she’s just emerged from the hairdressers. She’s naturally blond so there would never be any roots. That’s a step too far for me Helena.

Oh fair enough. Though i meant the cut.

Clavinova I'll say again.. Duffield has resigned. She did the right thing. And she is not the PM's Senior Adviser. And she did not have COVID symptoms. No comparison.

I do agree the false witness was not good. However, the chemistry teacher, the desperate trying to dig dirt on him was equally bad. He had broken no rules.

The false witness can be charged with wasting Police time, which would be fair enough.

It became pretty obvious really quickly that the second slighting had been wrong. (I thought maybe mistaken identity) as The Mirror and The Observers, didn't repeat the claim after the weekend.
Hounding the Teacher was really unfair, collecting children from uni was permitted.

Seems Rachel Johnson is also under scrutiny.

I'm not keen on Rachel Johnson at all if I am honest.

Mumratheevergiving
Top UK scientists

How can you tell they are 'top scientists' from a list? I recognise a few names but one I have just checked on LinkedIn is a lecturer in her first position.

time to move on isnt it ? he not going to get sacked or resign so all this energy would be better spent on something else maybe

@billysboy

time to move on isnt it ? he not going to get sacked or resign so all this energy would be better spent on something else maybe

I guess we can all decide how to use our energy and when we want to move on.

Move on yerself Billy.

How easy is it to doctor info on Strava? Sounds more like some pressure has been applied to that person.

Roussette
Duffield has resigned.

She may have resigned without the coronavirus lockdown - meeting a married lover doesn't go down well in politics if you are found out.

meeting a married lover doesn't go down well in politics if you are found out

Unless you are a man.....................

meeting a married lover doesn't go down well in politics if you are found out.

Doesn’t seem to have harmed Carrie Symonds.

The thing is - almost by definition - the chances of someone being a Remainer / Labour activist who either reports someone like Cummings or has a go at Johnson is very high - because it's someone with those views who are most likely to do this.

And then the media dismiss their views because they are 'a Remainer / Labour activist' etc.