"Downing St. considers the Dominic Cummings matter closed". AIBU that that statement, more than the actions of Cummings himself, makes my blood boil?

[JovialNickname]

I'm assuming the "so you can all fuck off" at the end of the statement is implied.

To tell you you’re boring the stuffing out of me. Duh!

Which is a worthwhile endeavour in and of itself

Maybe the suffragettes should have stopped moaning about not having the vote. The women from Dagenham who fought for equal pay should have just moved on. Good God don’t be so dramatic.

There is nothing remotely comparable with a man who took his family to stay with his parents, oh and why was that? Because the media were apparently already camped outside his house in the beginning.

I didn’t vote for Johnson FWIW, and I believe that Cummings was wrong and that he should have been fired/have resigned. But he hasn’t, so what are people going to do now? Just forget we’re in a pandemic? Just forget that our economy is still in collapse? All because of one man?

So the figures don’t matter then? The easing of lockdown isn’t important? I suppose everyone will be sending their children back to school now because you don’t have to think about those things because you’re all consumed by the whole DC saga.

There should be a public enquiry into this after this is over. But right now we have bigger fish to fry.

And as for the people saying that they will now do what they want just because Cummings did, I suspect those people would have done so anyway but Cummings is a convenient excuse to hide behind. Or do people really believe that if Cummings were sacked those who said they would do as they pleased will suddenly change their minds? Don’t be so naive.

The longer this goes on for the worse it looks. All the media have to do is paint the PM as shifty.

It won’t be forgotten though. It’s one of those fairness issues that boils the blood of British people. Like poll tax.

The PM only wants to be King. If it is King of the Rubble then he is still in charge. All the rest of the work goes to people like Cummings. They do the thinking.

Matt Hancock was 'speechless' when Neil Ferguson broke lockdown rules.

Brokenshire was also surprised.

"But Mr Hancock told Sky News that social distancing rules should be followed by everyone, even if they have already had coronavirus."

And yet no problem with this....

One rule for them, one for us.

So why exactly are you on this thread?

To tell you you’re boring the stuffing out of me. Duh!

I know weve all got a lot of time on our hands just now but you open a thread that has a topic title that you find boring. Bad times, eh?

CendrillonSings
Oh, you can say whatever you like between elections ... and the rest of us are allowed to say you’re boring the stuffing out of us. Free speech for everyone.

So true. If being boring was an Olympic sport, these endless threads would win gold

That poor little man, so sadly out of his depth can wish the matter closed. It ain't.

Bit freaked out by the whole thing now tbh. What the hell has he got on BJ and the rest of the front bench? It's worrying that someone unelected clearly has so much power. This doesn't feel like BJ facing up to the press, it feels like he is desperately scrabbling because he can't do it without Cummings. I mean I knew he had influence, but is BJ just a puppet really?

Johnson is scared witless to have to do the job of prime minister without Cummings holding his hand. And that was before the pandemic. So yeah, Boris Johnson is pretty much a puppet. He wasn’t chosen by the Conservative party to be leader because he was seen to be competent, he was chosen because he was seen to be popular with the general public and electable.

@CendrillonSings

YABU.

The endless moaning has to stop at some point before the heat death of the universe consumes us all.

It is not moaning. Please read the comments again if you truly believe that, but read with an open mind. We are angry because democracy has been overthrown. You may think I'm being dramatic but look at the facts. Regardless of whether Mr Cummings is right or wrong, the perception of the public is that they feel gaslighted. This is at a time when we need to trust our government the most. We have been fed lie after lie by the PM, how can we trust anything else he says? Can you really and truly say you don't understand this?

I’m angry because we have a puppet of an alleged PM with the real one pulling his strings. I won’t rest until they’re both gone and we have a proper government, not a sociopath and a bunch of nodding dogs.

RainMustFall

So true. If being boring was an Olympic sport, these endless threads would win gold

Funny that you can't stop posting on them then

Yes terribly transparent really; MOVE ON

It’s like being hassled by a bouncer out of your own thread.

You move on, Cummings supporters.

Not a closed matter for me either, absolute disgrace.

It is blatant gaslighting by the govt. They’re not even trying to be subtle about it. I absolutely despise them and everything they stand for.

And no, I did not vote Labour. I voted LD, but have voted Conservative in the past (pre-Brexit).

We have the second highest death toll in the world . In fact, we have the highest death rate per number of cases. It is a disgrace.

We have a PM who won’t admit how many children he has or whether he takes any responsibility for them all. Even Trump can answer that question.

We have a PM who didn’t even apologise when the court ruled against his attempt at gaslighting the public re- proroguing Parliament.

Now the same tactics again. Bluster, evasion, repeat the same catchphrases and declare “I think the British people want to move on..,.”

40,000 people have died you useless, patronising bd.

I've just signed the Change.org petition - link here for anyone who's interested. Nearly at 962,000.

I hope people keep starting threads about this, and talking about it elsewhere and IRL. Telling us to shut up and move on is a vile insult to those who have lost loved ones, and to anyone who has suffered because of lockdown.

Appalling attitude from BoJo. I’ve always been a Conservative voter. Now won’t be voting for anyone in the next election!! I’m furious about this

As I said on another thread, he has put his goblin over and above public confidence and health. This man is more important to him than people dying.

As for DC, how could you sit there and watch all this and not resign? Why doesn’t his wife tell him enough is enough fgs? How could you think your job is more important than public confidence / cooperation after 40,000 people have died? The arrogance and self-importance is off the scale! Even if everyone refused to co-operate with the T&T unless he resigns, I bet he still wouldn’t. It’s as if he’s presiding over a psycho-social experiment with us all.

Tbh i find it more frustrating watching journalists wasting their questions on Dominic Cummings yet again, when there are more important things going on atm, e.g. contact tracing / schools reopening etc. I hate Dominic Cummings as much as the next person, but couldn't care less where he chooses to self isolate as long as he avoids contact with other people. And trying to drag the medical/science experts into it was totally unfair.

For me a question on whether yr's 2-5 are still expected to get a month at school before the summer would have been much more useful/ informative, as there was no mention of other primary school years from boris this time.

Yes they don't get to tell me the matter is closed and on Sunday I was just cross out our spineless PM but now I think he should go too.

Imagine if your husband spoke to you like that - “The matter is closed.”

Yet he thinks is a perfectly appropriate way to speak to a nation.

I think we all need to move on and focus on more important matters

So accountability, integrity and honesty are not important then?

Righto

Just remember this next time we have an election.

I'd also like those who voted Conservative to think of what they could have had.

For me a question on whether yr's 2-5 are still expected to get a month at school before the summer would have been much more useful/ informative, as there was no mention of other primary school years from boris this time

The number of people interested in that question is relatively small. The death of democracy in this country is fundamental to your children’s future and will affect them a lot more than a few weeks out of school will.