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.

BoJo has been forced into a U turn over NHS charges for overseas NHS workers, and wider opinion means that the idea of schools reopening isn't nearly as certain as Mr Gove presented it.

Maybe there'll be a similar public opinion pressure over this, though I'm not hopeful. (And it won't make the fact that initially DS leapt to his defence go away, but if it gets rid of him that would be something.)

Neil Ferguson, ‘Professor Lockdown’, resigned after breaking guidelines to meet his married lover. ‘Matt Hancock said of that, “I think he took the right decision to resign”. No. 10 now has to show it’s not one rule for them and another rule for everybody else.’

Okay, so what about Dominic Cummings resigning after he travelled from London to his parents' home in Durham with coronavirus symptoms during lockdown? Dominic Cummings resign now.

I wonder if Cummings has dirt of BJ or other Tories and that's why he's untouchable?

spectator.us/getting-coronavirus-bring-clarity/amp/

How very disingenuous

All the MPs and minsters who are saying DC has done nothing wrong are effectively also saying they too would be happy to break the guidelines in the same circumstances.

So publicly, they are agreeing that it's one rule for them, another rule for everyone else.

Noeuf
Yep, just got that via James O’Brien tweet. But Hancock was ‘speechless’ when Ferguson did it. Wanker.

Is this mis direction....yet again.

What are the Government doing that needs a row like this to occupy the headlines?

Perhaps 14 days quarantine?

I don’t know how safe the Tories WILL be tbh. This is all turning out to be a bit of a shitshow and the right wing press are not nearly as unequivocally pro Tory as when Corbyn was running Labour. There’s hope at least.

So if you’re immensely ill with corona, all the more reason to break the rules??! Wtf!? Most of MN have been struggling with some aspects of lockdown, have known people or been hit by corona, have seen breaches of the rules. But not breaches like this! By a person who is setting the rules AND breaching them so blatantly.

Worse maybe is the government then LYING and trying to justify it.

What.

The.

Hell.

Have we been doing lockdown for when they’re breaching and then justifying it with pathetic excuses.

Is Cummings is who they follow/ fear then how does that reflect on them?

Man alive what a horde of imbeciles and downright liars. And disappointments, across the board.

@rc22 - and with his wife throwing up (according to her article Covid 19 was causing her to vomit - she did so all over the bathroom floor so obviously didn't have time to sort this out). Must have been a lovely journey....

He, within 24 hours, was so ill he had to go to bed with fever, aches, chest discomfort.

So it appears he arrived home to his vomiting wife, decided to take them to Durham and went that day.

Or he waited 24 hours and he became ill to the point that, six days later, she thought he should be on a ventilator.

Either way, one or both of them was too ill to travel - her vomiting at will or him with shivers/fever etc.,

Rather than contact Downing Street, explain the situation and get their help (plus the DS press office handling all the press comments), they decide to travel and his wife decided to write an article which didn't mention his parents at all. If it was deemed to be OK, why wouldn't you do mention it? Why wouldn't Downing Street know he was in Durham and not in London as they appear to have assumed and her article gives the impression of. He doesn't care now, so all this rubbish about him perhaps trying to avoid criticism is exactly that, rubbish! Dominic Cummings knows he is teflon man.

Oh and a four year old isn’t a toddler surely?

Hancock's tweet said toddler, isn't their son 5?

What an insult to any working family where the parents fall ill, or one is working the other ill, and would love to have relied on grandparent care but didn't as they were sticking to the rules. There are probably people out there who have lost money due to having to take time off work to care for a child, when the primary carer fell ill, and were not able to access grandparent care.

Oh Rishi Sunak - you knob 🤦‍♀️

You were probably the only one in your government people weren't losing favour with up til now. That tweet was suicidal. It wasn't justifiable.

And these cunts are all out clapping the NHS? Joke.

itsgettingweird it's a shame isn't it? I thought he might have a bright future politically. That is tainted now.

If Cummings has dirt on them, it doesn’t matter much now. The dirt can be worse than his C19 breach ..... but, the public find his breach bad enough. That’s enough to tell them to trot right on, that’s the fall in standard enough for us surely? So they can all keep their secrets because they’ll be leaving government, on the basis that they break their own policies and then lie to try and justify it. I don’t care what their personal dirt is, Cummings’ actions are bad enough

So his trip up north, isn't that area particularly badly affected atm? Was it badly affected at the time DC visited or afterwards?

Sunak's arse-licking is bringing forcibly back to mind that he's only in the job because he accepted Downing St's (aka Cummings') absolute control over who worked for him.

Replacing Sajid Javid, who resigned over this.

Javid: "I do not believe any self-respecting minister would accept those conditions.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/13/sajid-javid-resigns-as-chancellor-amid-boris-johnson-reshuffle

Wow, Matt Hancock has spoken

twitter.com/MattHancock/status/1264162359733555202

I think many people have broken the guidelines with their own justification to why it was ok for them.
However, he must list his job over this as a public figure - as the others have (who also had their own justifications)
It disgusts the general public who then lose faith in the government if he doesn't leave his role

Please say Sajid Javid is a decent bloke? Could we have him as Tory leader? Are there any decent tories with experience who could be leader? (Wasn’t Ken Clarke looking principled at one point?)

I don’t mean this as something inherently wrong with tories! I didn’t vote labour while momentum were in power

Farking hell. What does he know.

So is the Government advice now that if you need childcare because you're ill it's okay to travel hundreds of miles to get it?
That's what Sunak, Raab, Gove and Hancock are saying.
None of these tossers can see beyond the end of their own noses.

It’s not only disgraceful (and unjustifiable) that he did this, but disgraceful that they’re backing him.

Does he have photos of bojo fucking a pig, or something?