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.

The MP's that are publically supporting him must feel very strongly that he is a Good Guy because they are probably trashing their careers for

No it's rather that they are trying to save their careers. They have all been told what to say by No 10. They are all using the same lines. The more interesting thing will be which Cabinet members don't come out in support of him.

I have signed the petition...if he won't resign he should be sacked but of course he won't be.

There is NO justifying this. People are suffering real hardship in trying to keep to the rules. As an example, I am working from home whilst looking after my disabled DS...can't get carers or family members for help as it would put us and them at risk. There are others going through the same and worse, many people are really suffering badly at the moment.

One rule for them, another for the rest of us. The whole Tory government sickens me, I don't ever recall being so ashamed of how we are governed.

Oh clav, is there anything that lot could do that you wouldn't defend?

Short answer: No. That is their sole purpose on MN

And Hancock’s tweet defending him for a 250 mile drive breaking lockdown against all government advice.What the actual FcK?
Who elected these morons? Who elected Cummings?
Why can the elected government of the U.K. not function without this unelected advisor who seemingly is needed for every single decisions right down to wiping the PMs arse?

I think this story is now moving from the awfulness of what Cummings did to the insane response from downing street and all senior ministers supporting him. I am utterly incredulous.

This is gaslighting on a massive scale. I am a lawyer, I am a person who likes to know the 'rules' about things. I read the coronavirus legislation. I read the guidance. I read articles about the rules. I read mumsnet threads about the rules.

There was almost nothing in any formal guidance about childcare when primary caregivers were sick. And now the fucking cabinet are out in force saying you are either stupid or a bad parent if you didn't act like Dominic Cummings.

I read everything I could and I did not think you could do what he did. I'm sure , SURE, it's not allowed under the rules. And they are all there saying it's obviously totally fine.

I am so angry. This is too much

There are no excuses for Cummings the little weasel he just needs to go and hide in a sewer somewhere, despicable little man who obviously has a lot of inside dirt on bojo et all otherwise he'd be out on his ear hole double quick

Clav, I understand why people defend him but surely you can see how bad this looks! ?
I've defended the government on here over this health emergency and I know it's been hard on everyone , but this is just bad!
I have reasons for feeling this way and I'm aware nobody is perfect but to break your own rules is just stupid!
What were they thinking?

What does Cummings have on the government?
Why is the government willing to further sully its reputation at a time when it is already reeling from 65,000 deaths on its watch and farce after farce to save a mere aide/advisor?
What does he know? Who does he know?

There is NO WAY they did the drive to Durham without stopping
and risking infecting other people en route

Although in the guidance from 23rd March, I think it does say that you are allowed to get your own shopping if you have no other help - taking care to avoid other people - so there were exceptions.

Cummings child was born in July 2016 that makes him coming up 4

The article I read says the boy was a few months old in July 2016?? Our journalists differ.

He is probably regarded as essential to the government (apparently he works 16 hours a day) - if his wife is ill then he doesn't have time to be the child care provider.

Someone this high up in government, this important, this centrally based, this very very well paid, had absolutely no one, no aid, no PA, no nanny, no colleagues, (not to mention friends or family) and no recourse for any support or childcare whatsoever outside of going to Durham?

The other one's got bells on it.

agree @blueraioncoat1 they are making themselves look stupid and not worthy of our trust. don't forget, pandemic or not, they are still Tories and will protect whoever they think is their future guy, in this case a career psychopath as Cameron called him.

Dominic Cummings really, really loves his wife and kid. Even more than Peter Andre. The haterz will never understand that level of devotion.

It's a new take on those Sharing things on Facebook.

If you love your kids share the virus with your family. How many of my friends will do this?

Doing what?

Senior Adviser to the Prime Minister is his job title according to wiki.

Fecks sakes - DC took CV19 to another household, 4 hours drive away. He broke the damn rules. Stopping trying to defend the indefensible.

If Johnson & Cabinet had just sacked him last night - waited a month or two and quietly reemployed him they'd probably have got off lightly. Hilarious bad handling really.

I'm disgusted.
This has really upset me today. I'm a care home manager. They have fucked me over work wise. I really want to see my parents. I'm tired and fed up and I just want my Dad who spent his 90th birthday a few weeks ago alone.
Now to find that it's one rule for them and another for us and they don't even have the decency to apologise or be honest-and they have the gall to try and defend it... I honestly feel like I can't bear it today.

I am so angry. This is too much

Very simply and effectively said. I am angry too and I really hope this finally is too much. I want this creep OUT of our government. Since when did we accept this shit?

Clavinova
Cummings child was born after the referendum.
This journalist probably has a good idea when
www.spectator.co.uk/article/like-so-many-parents-i-m-a-panic-junkie

Total and utter bollocks. We all have to find a way to manage without breaking the lockdown guidelines at the time and no matter what DC and DS think they are not above the law.

OP, I thought at first that your DS had said something controversial about DC.

Of course he thinks he's above the law. Data manipulation around brexit, contempt of parliament (he was ordered to present himself for questioning but refused to do so).

The man's a grade A arsehole. He thinks he's a god.

Murray, I know. It's made me very angry today too. I can't express how much.
Some may say I'm over reacting but I don't care. Not today.

Although in the guidance from 23rd March, I think it does say that you are allowed to get your own shopping if you have no other help - taking care to avoid other people - so there were exceptions.

Blimey, no online options and no shops closer to their house in London than fucking Durham?

It doesn't matter what age the child is, that is just another distraction.
He broke the rules.

I wish they wouldn't keep demonstrating the utter contempt in which they hold the electorate. No-one in the world believes that they couldn't have found someone closer than 250 miles away to look after their child. They put so many people at terrible risk every time they stopped for fuel or a loo break, and what would have happened if they had had an accident? It doesn't sound as if either parent was actually safe to drive.

The Independent are helping him out -

"At the government’s daily press conference on 24 March, England’s deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries spoke of the “exceptional circumstance” of an unwell adult unable to care for a young child."

“A small child clearly is a vulnerable individual, so in this case, although we are encouraging everybody to stay in their own households–that’s the unit with the same risk of exposure–clearly if you have adults who are unable to look after a small child, that is an exceptional circumstance,” Dr Harries said."

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/coronavirus-symptoms-parents-children-childcare-dominic-cummings-a9529481.html