DS statement on Cummings is shameful

[SouthWestmom]

Basically I am sceptical about how terrible this could be to get for all of us - the mild illness stuff has been dropped as not helpful to the general lock us all up thing.

Regardless as a law abiding person I've stuck to the rules.

Which I thought meant you had to self isolate if you had symptoms and no, you couldn't go somewhere easier. If you had kids you all stayed in together, relied on deliveries or the local council support schemes and 111 if it was bad.

So I'm sickened by the knot tying in getting Cummings off the hook.

Have you never been so ill that you couldn't look after your children

And on those occasions I haven't driven 250 miles.

How ridiculous.

Dominic cummings may have been responsible for a spike in infections in County Durham. There may well blood on his hands.

@Oblomov20 but according to the DS statement he wasn’t even ill at that point, he just thought he might become ill. They’re all getting a bit tangled up in their own lies now.

The DS statement sounded to me like an excuse a child would fabricate. Of course childcare was never intended to constitute an essential reason for travel.

'He was looking after his tiny child you cold hearted bastards!'

100% gaslighting, changing the narrative to make those apposed to his actions into the villains of the story.

christ, he really is an arrogant cunt

Have you never been so ill that you couldn't look after your children

If you're too ill to look after your children you're far too ill to drive that distance, both things can't be true.

Any one else thinking of that thread by the MNetter who had Covid badly at home, single mum, child managing in the house and her terrified that she was losing hours where she didn't know where he was or what was happening because she was too ill, and had to prepare him for what to do and how to cope if she died since 111 wouldn't take her hospital?

Real people have suffered like this.

@Oblomov20

Myself and DH both work NHS, young kids. We discussed what would happen if one of us got sick. We would lockdown together with kids as advised. If we both were too incapacitated to look after DC/hospitalised, we would probably have had to ask our least vulnerable relative for help (none live nearby). That relative's journey could be seen as 'essential' for caring purposes.
What we would NOT have done is driven 300 miles whilst symptomatic to grandparents/second home whatever at the first sign of one of us getting sick. Think about if everyone rotated round the country when sick on the offchance they'd need emergency childcare.
It's disgusting this family did it and disgusting the government are defending it.

Just worried about who will get the kids their cornflakes if I'm sick too - should I drive to my mums

OP, I’m more worried about the cornflakes. Better do a big shop while you still can! After all, you are just taking care of your child, so have every reason to flout self-isolation.

I find it truely ironic that other ministers and public servants have had go step down for breaking lockdown rules, but it seems the tories are exempt from this?

If he is still there by next weeks PMQ I woulsnt be surprised if Kier Starmer made a big point of bringing it up alongside other parties that have had people forcibly resign for similar offences.

I honestly don't get the love for Rishi Sunak or the surprise that he has fallen in to line.
So he handed out money from the elusive money tree. He's still a tory that was willing to compromise his department to be in his position and tories are gonna tory.

Not to mention how utterly gobsmacking it is that someone at the absolute heart of government, someone with all the information about the risks and plans and deaths and procedure, got in a car while knowingly infected and transported the virus across the UK.

So if it is not a crime to do something to care for your family, can all those who have lost their jobs and income now not be prosecuted for shoplifting...

Weird and Christmas

Aw thank you MN is soooo supportive. I will deffo stop off if we do go, don't want to have bags of sick in the car lol. Might pop out and stock up on food now in case we don't go.

As Anyfucker said people are trashing their careers for him I imagine they believe it's worth it for whatever reason.

Oh FFS he knows where the bodies are buried. he fucking put them there. He knows what's in that Russia Report (remember that?) He knows what's going on with the American trade deals that they're keeping secret for four years (remember them?) he knows how vote leave broke the law (remember that?) He knows what the plan is to bring about the hardest of hard brexits if not full on no deal in January (remember that? brexit hasn't gone away because of coronavirus. We are still out of the EU and hurtling towards no deal - except now we will have to cope with that on top of an economy trashed by coronavirus) and that's the shady shit I know he knows and I'm nobody. Imagine what else he knows on top of that?

They're not defending him because he's a good guy for fuck sake. They are defending him because he is a psychopath that knows all their dirty and criminal secrets and if he falls he will take every last one of the motherfuckers down with him.

They are defending him to defend themselves.

I am positively delighted Sunak has shown his colours and defended him. I could never believe all the people saying this son in law of a billionaire, who worked for the banks during the financial crisis who got his position based on nothing but blind devotion to no deal brexit was a breath of fresh air.

They won't sack Dom. and they won't fall. Boris has something like an 80 seat majority and over 4 years before the next election. They are unfuckingtouchable just as long as they keep all those nasty secrets buried - which means keeping Dom in place. By the time we go to the next election this will long be forgotten and all the idiots who think the billionaire banker with his blind faith in brexit is a breath of fresh air will vote the fuckers right back in again.

In the event that both he and his wife became too ill to provide care to their child, then the essential journey would’ve been for the family member to go to them.

Not to drive the virus to other end of the sodding country.

Pretzel: spot on. People have short memories. It's so true.

@Oblomov20 I don't have any back-up - I live 100 miles away from my family. I've dreaded DP and I becoming ill because who would look after my DD? But they made the bloody guidelines to say we had to stay at home, and they've contravened those guidelines and are now banding together to make us seem like the people in the wrong for being outraged.

You didn’t see anyone in the daily briefings saying...

Anyone ill should self isolate... and also if you then need childcare you are allowed to travel hundreds of miles for other family members to look after your kids...

Or did I miss something?

It’s classic arrogance here from so many, from Boris shaking hands, to Neil seeing his lover, so many in responsible positions being utter hypocrites.

So many people have had to cope with the virus while looking after their children because they have been told they and their household must self isolate if they have symptons.
If they were so ill they couldn't look after their child or worried that they might become so ill I dont understand why the sister couldn't travel to them instead. Also I have heard that Mary Wakefield has family in London anyway so surely they could have stepped in. Or a friend in an emergency.
It's seems that their is a different rule if you are a Government adviser..

They're not defending him because he's a good guy for fuck sake. They are defending him because he is a psychopath that knows all their dirty and criminal secrets and if he falls he will take every last one of the motherfuckers down with him.

Also unfortunately true. And quite dark and depressing.

Pretzel👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

As a single mum I was almost sick with stress worrying about how I would cope with my 4 year old son if I became ill - my family are a 150 mile trip away and I never contemplated simply driving there for support or having them come here would have been an option. I went into a almost manic fear mode at the start when the virus was still new and unknown making sure I took every precaution possible for me and my son - drilling poor little one in making basic food and stuff. Looking back now and thankful we have not had it I was just in a panic - but more with the worry regarding the lack of being able to access childcare support had I got sick as I did not believe it was essential travel (or that I would even be fit for such a drive if unwell). When I think of the stress I put myself though I am utterly disgusted at Cummings and his arrogant actions. Just like Jenkins. One rule for them .. Another for everyone else.

A very dangerous line when DS/BJ is supporting DC. I guess he does his thinking for him. Without DC how long would BJ actually last?

Cummings is an absolutely cunt, I wouldn't piss on him if he was on fire.

He has to remain because he's the sleazeball actually in charge, so without him they'd be leaderless, and even more without a clue than they already are.

It's disgusting and he should be sacked. Today