Scotland’s own CMO can’t follow the guidelines

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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.

Saying she's good at her job is like saying that pyromaniacs make good firefighters.

Two weekends in a row. Seriously this is shameful.

Two weekends in a row. Seriously this is shameful.

It really is.

So the police had to caution her and remind her if her own advice! It’s unbelievably arrogant and dangerous. She might not be given the sack now but it will come and no knighthood for her after this.

It feels like people are braying for blood out of frustration with their own situations. That’s understandable but we really shouldn’t toss the baby out with the bath water. Let do her job behind the scenes and make the deputy the public face if people don’t think they can trust her now. She’s still one of the most experienced people to handle the situation.

FM has "Full Confidence" in CMO, but CMO will now be reassigned to a different role in the campaign, possibly in charge of paperclips at weekends. All the videos featuring her face will be junked and we shall start again with someone who can tell the truth.

What a complete numpty - I can't fathom what she was thinking. She must have realised someone would see her?

I just read her PIF isn't going to be shown anymore and she is to step back from the public eye she is indeed a numpty her poorkids will be getting ribbed to bits !

TBH can't help thinking that she only stopped because she got caught.

I find her arrogance astounding.

People are dying, she is telling people to stay at home, and yet it doesn't apply to her. It's breathtakingly arrogant.

How much money will the ads have cost, and will new ones be put in their place?

Maybe Gary, Tank Commander’s could be used?

All the money spent on her public service message is now just a waste, I wonder what other, more useful items that money could have been diverted for

I think she could have styled it out by chain-smoking during the press briefing.

I felt, from her self pitying speech, that she’s sorry she was caught out defying her own government issued orders.

Otherwise, it smacked of a Sulky Sue and Petulant Patty effort, with the only thing missing being a pouty lower lip.

Do feel sorry for her children however.

Calderwood has resigned

Resigned - it was the only option really.

I expect they held off the announcement until now so it won’t be tomorrow’s headline. Good time to bury the news anyway, with the PM being admitted to hospital.

She should have gone before the press conference - did her and Sturgeon REALLY think the added confession of previous visit before this weekend and all the initial bullshit about "checking a house" would really be just accepted

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52177171

Resigned.

She has resigned. I feel only option too. It was incredibly hypocritical given her job.

She came across as someone who was sad they were caught tbh. Almost like she was thinking it was her right act how she did.

Her resigning is absurd. Now there's going to be a lag of actually governing while the knowledge transfer happens. What a literal waste of time.

There won’t be any lag - her deputy would have been working closely in case she became ill.

Her resigning is absurd.

It was the most appropriate outcome given the sheer hypocrisy.

Now there's going to be a lag of actually governing while the knowledge transfer happens.

Her deputy will be fully up to date, so there's no need for any lag.

What a literal waste of time.

Why is it a waste of time?

Her resigning is absurd. Now there's going to be a lag of actually governing while the knowledge transfer happens. What a literal waste of time.

Why though? At that level she won’t be involved in the modelling or the science - she will be being advised by her team; going off recommendations, overseeing the strategic part of thing; making the final decisions etc; but the actual “knowledge” that will be transferred is very little. Her deputy will have been involved all the way though, they will be eminently qualified to step up.

A large part of the CMO’s job is to be the public face of the decision making. If you can’t do that then you’re pretty shit at your job.

If she hadn’t stepped down then every single press conference from now on would have started with the questions “Why should members of the public follow the advice when even the CMO doesn’t?” “Does the CMO believe in the advice given, and if so why has she flouted the guidelines” “Why has Brenda from Glasgow been fined £1000 when the CMO got off with a warning?” “Is it one rule for the rich and privileged and one rule for the poor?”