Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Covid

Mumsnet doesn't verify the qualifications of users. If you have medical concerns, please consult a healthcare professional.

Original poster

I'm glad I'm not grant shapps

228 replies

StealthPolarBear · 23/05/2020 16:25

Eek

OP posts:
HappyLemonSadLemon · 23/05/2020 16:26

Why?

danceponydance · 23/05/2020 16:26

He got the short straw today!

FurForksSake · 23/05/2020 16:27

It's going.... badly.

HappyLemonSadLemon · 23/05/2020 16:27

Is this the daily briefing?

Original poster
StealthPolarBear · 23/05/2020 16:27

"I do BUSES! buses and TRAINS"

OP posts:
Original poster
StealthPolarBear · 23/05/2020 16:28

Yes, briefing.
Four year old child's welfare. Every other parent has had to suck it up.

OP posts:
Original poster
StealthPolarBear · 23/05/2020 16:29

She doesn't know the details of this specific case my bottom :o

OP posts:
Original poster
StealthPolarBear · 23/05/2020 16:30

I think they're both doing as well as they possibly could tbh. He's dropped them in it.

OP posts:
Judashascomeintosomemoney · 23/05/2020 16:32

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear.

PatriciaHolm · 23/05/2020 16:32

I wonder at what point in the day they decide who is doing these things? Did they wake up this morning thinking, oh FUCK its my turn. Or have the cabinet spent the day in a mad game of hide and seek and Shapps lost?

campion · 23/05/2020 16:32

They think if they throw the words 'safeguarding' and 'young child' around then they're beyond reproach.

But he's not doing very well...

flapjackfairy · 23/05/2020 16:33

Can somebody explain . Please ?

flapjackfairy · 23/05/2020 16:34

Oh it's ok. Seen briefing on early today !

FurForksSake · 23/05/2020 16:34

Dom Cummings drove to Durham from london with Covid to stay with family so they could help him and his (not ill) wife look after their son (aged 4).

Original poster
StealthPolarBear · 23/05/2020 16:34

He'll come out of this one going RIGHT that's my turn done, never again.
If he was well enough to drive 260 miles without stopping for a wee wee he was well enough to care for his child

OP posts:
mangocoveredlamb · 23/05/2020 16:34

I’m flabbergasted by the response to this.
The guidance seemed to me to say “suck it up” in exactly the case they’re talking about.
Surely a better option for DC would have been for his sister to come to them if needed.

I can’t believe he’s not being vilified as per the Scottish chief medical officer.

flapjackfairy · 23/05/2020 16:35

Oh thanks for update

AnyFucker · 23/05/2020 16:35

Those two must have been thrown out there under gunpoint Smile

Music101 · 23/05/2020 16:35

They stayed in a separate house just the three of them so that his sister and niece could deliver food to them.

Still they should not have left their home in London.

Music101 · 23/05/2020 16:36

Does Johnson hate Grant Shapps??

blobbyface · 23/05/2020 16:36

Does anyone else think Grant Shapps looks like Tony Blair?

FurForksSake · 23/05/2020 16:36

Well I imagine he has no friends in London that could have delivered food for them..

Original poster
StealthPolarBear · 23/05/2020 16:37

Yes I wondered that, couldn't the sister go down to them. I suppose they'd argue he had the house in Durham.
The police say they've spoken to them.

OP posts:
Music101 · 23/05/2020 16:37

I am loving the journalists today. Each question better than the last.

Sparkesy · 23/05/2020 16:38

It's an absolute disgrace that they are standing there trying to say this is ok

Swipe left for the next trending thread