Scotland’s own CMO can’t follow the guidelines

[BurgerQuean]

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/05/scotland-chief-medical-officer-seen-flouting-lockdown-advice-catherine-calderwood

It’s bloody ridiculous and makes her position borderline untenable, which is infuriating because she has otherwise been very good.

@BurgerQuean

Actually that is a fair point! You are right.

I just hope that all the keyboard warriors on here policing the application of the government guidelines have themselves been observing government guidance on diet, smoking, alcohol consumption, exercise and obesity over the years.

How pathetic. Is that really the best you can do?

I cannot understand how this is not a resign-worthy.

Chief Medical Officer, for crying out loud. If ANYBODY truly understood the importance of staying put, she did.

But it seems it is excusable as long as she apologises? Stay home and save lives, unless you are CMO in which case you can kill a few, as long as you then say you are sorry. But only when you are caught. Otherwise, crack on!

If Hancock ups the ante - and I think he should - she must accept that the part she played in her arrogance, contributed.

She is just another idiot who flouts the rules.

If she "knows the guidelines better than anyone" as the SG are saying then either a.) she doesn't give a shit b.) think the guidelines are shit/wrong.

Either way her position is untenable.

Police have been to her house to give her a verbal warning and there’s now a press conference at 2, so I expect this will be the resignation.

Honestly, what an astonishing lack of judgment.

I am glad she has been held up and she will probably lose her job just because she wanted out if the house for a bit !

All because*

I am absolutely astounded by the sheer stupidity of this. The vast majority of the population are doing as we’ve been told and all of us are suffering in some way and then the person telling us to do this is floughting the rules.

How is she going to have any credibility now especially as the Uk government are talking about ramping up the lockdown. If it wasn’t so serious it would be an absolute joke.

She should be fined. Ordinary folk would be, show an example.

She should lose her job, ffs

Absolute arsehole. How can they expect us plebs to take it seriously when she’s off doing shit like this?! The sacrifices we have made. Kids’ world turned upside down. Job losses. School closures. People dying alone. It makes me really angry.

FM and CMO appearing now

She has to resign

I hope she steps down. It is so rude.

She has behaved like this because she thinks there is one rule for her and one rule for others. That poor leadership and poor judgement rand she should lose her job for those alone.

It will be a disgrace if she doesn't resign.

If she doesn’t resign, she should be sacked.

What does it take for a member of the Scottish government to be sacked?

This is an awkward watch 🙈

Agree, it’s almost unbearable to watch the briefing. She’s obviously had a real bollocking.

Whopper of a mistake and I was quite a fan of hers. But SNP are good at hiring/hiding shite-sters (might not be a word).

Derek Mackay is still on 100% pay, I understand.

Sturgeon must be absolutely furious....

Why on earth should she lose her job in the middle of a global pandemic and crisis? This is the worst time to fire someone with most of the knowledge and then put in a new person. I don’t get this UK habit of always booting people out immediately after a seemingly minor mistake. You never get anything done that way in government. It’s always a jostling for power.

Turns out the weekend before she went to her second home for a break with her husband!

@Rosehip10 Is that definitely correct that she went the weekend before - I was under the impression that these people were working 24/7 - I wonder how true all this stuff is.