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DS statement on Cummings is shameful

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SouthWestmom · 23/05/2020 10:44

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.

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Notjustamum10 · 23/05/2020 20:27

Durham Police reported that the visited the property after hearing reports of the breach. Downing Street spokesman states that no one from the family were spoken to by the police.
Is DS suggesting the Police are lying? Who would you trust to be truthful? Wink

1forsorrow · 23/05/2020 20:27

@Noextremes2017 Personally if I saw him dying in the gutter I'd have to leave him there on the basis that I'd be doing my country a greater service by doing so. Presumably you don't feel the same about a 4 year old. I would think someone would sort out food for the child, if a colleague or neighbour wouldn't I'm not sure what we've come to.

MaxNormal · 23/05/2020 20:29

Not that I actually think what DC did was so terrible

How about with the latest allegations of bopping back and forth, family days out and parties?

WorriedMutha · 23/05/2020 20:29

It's never the crime, it's the cover up. He's surely a goner but who is he taking with him.

Noextremes2017 · 23/05/2020 20:30

The bigger issue here is that the Government is getting further and further out of step with the people of this country.

They have exerted extreme control based on exaggeration of risk. Statements like 'the virus does not discriminate'. Bollocks - of course it does - just look at the demographic of serious illness / death.

And while other European countries are restoring freedoms and lifting restrictions our Government seems to be enjoying acting like a tin-pot dictatorship and doing the opposite.

Take the new ridiculous 14 day self isolation rule for entering or returning to the UK. Two months too late and now just a an exercise in control with no scientific or moral basis.

I guess it won't affect the ruling elite in Westminster too much. They can go and spend six weeks at their European holiday homes; then come back and claim to be working at home for two weeks while drawing full salary. And the rest of us?

lyralalala · 23/05/2020 20:30

Durham Police reported that the visited the property after hearing reports of the breach. Downing Street spokesman states that no one from the family were spoken to by the police.
Is DS suggesting the Police are lying? Who would you trust to be truthful?

I think I know where the confusion lays... DS obviously meant the police didn't speak to the family on his other trip up north.

Easy mistake to make really

BabyComeBacks · 23/05/2020 20:31

The trip was unecessary.
He knowingly endangered himself and other members of the public.
If he was concerned about potentially needing childcare he could have consulted on options rather than taking matters into his own hands.
If he made any petrol stops that is another potential source of infection.
He needs to resign, today. otherwise government's credibility, which in my view was improving, is now totally gone.
They stand up for their bullies and hypocrites and demand we toe the line like good little sheep.
We are all equal but some of us are more equal than others.

GrimmsFairytales · 23/05/2020 20:31

Most of the senior ones already have offered support.

Gove, Raab, Sunak and Hancock. Have I missed anyone?

I imagine they'll be furious about the newest leaks.

RufustheLanglovingreindeer · 23/05/2020 20:32

Who would you trust to be truthful

Fucked if i know to be honest

RufustheLanglovingreindeer · 23/05/2020 20:33

i imagine they'll be furious about the newest leaks

Won’t they just 😀

Cards.....marked

Noextremes2017 · 23/05/2020 20:33

@1for sorrow - I have no issue with his 4 year old who he is just using to justify his own actions. Well actually he is such an arrogant twat that he thinks he is above having to justify anything to anyone.

chomalungma · 23/05/2020 20:34

Gove, Raab, Sunak and Hancock. Have I missed anyone

The Attorney General

RhubarbFizz · 23/05/2020 20:35

So if someone suspects they have Covid19 and has a healthy family member and young child, plus have a holiday Home out of a big city with some family nearby - it seems from the briefing it is ok to visit.

Yay! Can use my second home near the sea near grandparents now?? As I work from home, cannot access a test to check. What a shame - holiday allowed - is that right???? Look out Devon and Cornwall as people now have reasons to visit those holiday homes!!

(caveat - my second home is in another country, so cannot go - but if you have one in Devon/Cornwall you could cite the briefing and DC’s example surely!)
And no, I do not agree with breaking lockdown - so why should leaders!! I will stay at home.

merrymouse · 23/05/2020 20:36

I wouldn't be surprised if other MPs become reluctant to offer support knowing that there might be more to come out.

The thing about Cummings is he never had any credibility to lose and he was never elected to anything anyway. However, if the Guardian reports about multiple trips are correct, Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock are going to look really stupid.

lyralalala · 23/05/2020 20:38

Gove, Raab, Sunak and Hancock. Have I missed anyone?

Priti Patel retweeted Raab's support and Gavin Williamson retweeted Hancock's defence.

Plus Shapps defended him in the press conference.

Can't think who else is missing.

Noextremes2017 · 23/05/2020 20:39

Any Cummings won't resign and Johnson won't sack him.

These people think they are above scrutiny.

Politicians used to have judgement and understand what was the 'right thing to do'.

Now they just think 'how can we 'spin' our way out of this one with the least political damage'?

pontypridd · 23/05/2020 20:40

Another trip was made by Cummings 2 days after he got back from the first.

itsgettingweird · 23/05/2020 20:40

Andrew Neill said the other day he'd been told his services weren't required. That's probably because he would blow the fish out of water. He's very able to get to the nitty gritty like PM without being a twat about it.

lyralalala · 23/05/2020 20:40

Jacob Rees-Mogg was the missing one that was annoying me. He tweeted support, as did Alok Sharma.

Noextremes2017 · 23/05/2020 20:42

Wow Priti Patel!!!!!

Is that the same Priti Patel who was sacked for trying to gain financial advantage from her position as a Government Minister.

Hell - if she says it was OK - it must be ……….

GrimmsFairytales · 23/05/2020 20:43

lyralalala

So quite a merry band of defenders. Who are probably sending angry messages over whatsapp after realising the trap they've fallen into

merrymouse · 23/05/2020 20:43

It's sounding as though he made multiple trips to Durham in April and May. If this is shown to be correct, will everyone else in government claim they didn't know what he was doing?

itsgettingweird · 23/05/2020 20:43

Lyra your posts are making me laugh so hard. I'm not sure why. You just seem to be able to write 5 words and say about 20 things!

FliesandPies · 23/05/2020 20:44

Wonder if Peter Bone will comment? He's nobodies stooge - he was scathing about Johnson's ridiculous 'address to the nation' on 12th May. That's a Tory I can get on board with.

DuncinToffee · 23/05/2020 20:47

Oliver Dowden tweeted
Dom Cummings followed the guidelines and looked after his family. End of story.