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.

17 March stay at home if you or someone you live with has symptoms

It's interesting that he hasn't said anything though - the rest of the Cabinet WhatsApp group are obeying instructions, almost word for word

I’m sure there were thousands of people on mumsnet alone who were anxious about [their] young family who did not travel hundreds of miles or leave home or seek help from family because it was not allowed!

It’s an absolute joke.

Yehbut following the guidelines. But Sister. But childcare. But self-isolating. Yehbutnobutyehbutnobut.

I'm raging about this. It was clearly massively irresponsible and for Downing St to suggest otherwise is frankly appalling.

To suggest that driving for 260 miles with a small child and someone with symptoms was in anyway acceptable is just incredible.

Just the brass neck of it.

If a family member had travelled to them and isolated with them, that could be seen as acceptable within the guidelines.

Oh Rishi is trending on Twitter - his reputation is in tatters

I really don't think it's that part of the story that people are concerned with! Who cares if the police spoke to him or not. He's taking the absolute piss, as usual, because he believes he's untouchable. It concerns me, DS are saying Durham police are lying, someone certainly is and I would like to know who it is.

*Didkt
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Are you seriously suggesting that he had info that lots of people were dying, thought that he and his wife might also die and so he drove to his parents in case his son was orphaned?

That's almost funny

Oh Rishi is trending on Twitter - his reputation is in tatters

How annoyed he must be to have to fall on his own sword to protect Cummings.

if he allegedly has a life limiting illness, driving to Durham from London would, of itself, be more of a challenge than he could manage.
Arse on that @Didkdt

If a family member had travelled to them and isolated with them, that could be seen as acceptable within the guidelines. I agree, if you are well enough to drive 250 miles you aren't in need of urgent help and if you aren't in need of urgent help there is no excuse to be out.

Beyond parody that they are claiming this was within the rules. It was not within the rules then and it still isn’t now. You should be at home isolating if you or a member of your household has symptoms. Nothing has changed in this regard. Do they want sick people filling their cars up with petrol and driving hundreds of miles around the country now? To stay with family because it’s convenient for them? Absurd.

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 him

I’ve lost any interest in them as a party if this is their offering. I don’t trust them as a group to act together - seem on the edge of scapegoating Hancock or the scientists or whoever’s next. I don’t trust that their policies are for the good of the population as a whole - firstly the elderly, secondly kids (are schools safe or not?), thirdly public sector employees and their crap wages, lastly their economic policies aren’t exactly ragingly successful on a normal day. So what’s the big sell? That they weren’t Corbyn, who isn’t here anymore.

Rishi was really a bit of a beacon of hope for me. He seemed fairly delightful and above all of this. For a newbie he also came across as patient and capable. Well now he seems a turd as well as the rest of them. If he’d tweeted something bland but not supportive of Cummings I’d have rejoiced and seen some integrity.

Is Cummings not just the same problem as Momentum? Entrenched and poisonous and hard to remove? Interchangeable leaders with the same puppeteers?

Tories support Cummings, so I don’t support the Tories. I do think this is a small decisive point for some, already had Tory friends say they’re done on this.

And he was in a car not public transport. It might not be what everyone else would do but he did it, and I suspect he genuinely made a choice about the welfare of his son and I'm not about to judge him on that because we all do what we feel is best for our children. As he was supposed to already have symptoms I think the safest place for his child was at home not going on a 250 mile journey with sick parents. Why wouldn't one of his family travel to him?

Disgusting behaviour, my Mum lives in the same road as I yet I'm not allowed to give her a hug yet dodgy Dom is allowed to go where he pleases.
Unbelievable arrogance
I've just done a yougov daily survey about the matter and it seems 75% of respondents think the idiot should resign!

Completely flouts BJ statement 18th March

www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-statement-on-coronavirus-18-march-2020

I completely disagree with the lockdown, and would have done the same as Cummings if XH and had come down with CV when our children were small.

However, I wouldn't have been responsible for implementing a policy telling other people to stay at home.

The unfortunate thing is that he is so sodding convinced of his own invincibility and has such a non-stick surface that he will simply glide along in the certain knowledge that he will not lose his job.

Which he should.

@Didkdt I became ill at the start of lockdown. I've some reason to think my dh would be quite unwell if he got covid. We were worried about the children. However it would not have occurred to us to travel. The guidelines clearly prohibited that. In fact if he'd distanced himself and son from his sick wife that would have been safer. Driving in the car with someone with symptoms surely placed him in greater danger.

Lots of people were in a similar position to Cummings. Lots of single parents were in fact in a more precarious position. He was wrong, very clearly.

I’ve suspected for a while that politicians wanted enough people to break the lockdown to maintain their original strategy of herd immunity, but didn’t have the balls to admit it.

But they still needed to be seen to follow the rules they set.

I’ve heard DC described as bullying but intelligent. I still believe the first of those.

We all know the symptoms of this can start as mild.
Perhaps his sister couldn't uproot his nieces to go care for him. Perhaps she was also caring for others.
As Anyfucker said people are trashing their careers for him I imagine they believe it's worth it for whatever reason.

Nice summary from Sky

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/news.sky.com/story/amp/coronavirus-a-timeline-of-dominic-cummings-movements-11993086

What about the Queen and the Cambridges then? Did they do a 250 mile journey when they had symptoms? No I didn't think so. The queen moved to Windsor more than a week before lockdown.

I'd be less bothered if he held his hands up

He could easily have paid for someone who didn't have the Virus to drive his son to Durham, in the highly unlikely event that that was his only option.