Why won’t Ridge/Marr ask these two simple questions?

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“Are grocery deliveries not available in London?”
“Could Cummings’ SIL and other London based family not drop off food?”

Because as far as I see it, that would put paid to all this bollocks about providing for their four year old.

There is absolutely no need to drive so far so that your sister can leave you food parcels on the doorstep.

They live in London. The place where you can get anything you like delivered in hours.

It would expose the lie for the lie it is!

Good question OP. But honestly I wouldn't worry, I think Dom Cummings days are numbered, really can't see him surviving now Tory backbenchers are coming out of the woodwork asking for him to resign or get the chop. Be patient - politics is a convoluted beast.
Marr never really gets to grips with anything, I like Sophie Ridge but I'm fed up with the lot of them so didn't watch.

Not even just groceries, for a man of his means, every other restaurant is delivering.

Plus, you'd think the man in charge of running the country who presumably knew something of what was coming might have made a few contingency plans and got his staff to get a few bits in.

Because Dominic Cummings isn’t going anywhere so there’s no point. You may not like they guy but he is not responsible for Covid or for Merkel taking the piss out of Cameron.

Apparently his wife’s brother actually lives in London!!

And someone who works at no 10 will never be short of support. They could’ve found some Westminster lackey to drop stuff off if necessary

Exactly. It’s an utter disgrace.

You may not like they guy but he is not responsible for Covid or for Merkel taking the piss out of Cameron.

Uh... what's that got to do with the price of apples?

Is it ok for everyone to travel to their 2nd homes now?
Which aspect of DC's situation made that ok?

Is what I want asked.

I ve had food delivered and the odd take out.
It's not hard to achieve these things during a pandemic. People are still working.
None of those are good enough excuses for what he did.

I agree.

I would also add: If the concern was the welfare of the child, why did a family member not instead travel to the Cummings' household to collect the child and take them to another family member's house? Thus making it unnecessary for the parents to leave the house.

Of course it's all horseshit so we are in fact creating questions for an imaginary situation (I don't believe the account of how and why they ended up in Durham).

What I really want to know the answer to is: Why does Boris Johnson think it's acceptable to
a) Through third parties, repeatedly refuse to give us the date that the he first knew of Cummings going to Durham? I realise that an answer to this would most likely be an untruth (he will choose an answer that shows him in the best light that he can get away with as being believable) but I find it worse that he will not, to date, give an answer. You cannot just not give an answer when you are an accountable and elected politician, esp a prime minister. You just can't.
b) Through the statement from Downing St, accept as fact Dominic Cummings' denial that there'd been NO contact from the police regarding a breach in lockdown guidance when Durham Police had already publicly confirmed this contact happened. What kind of prime minister publicly chooses to disbelieve his own country's police force? You know, the one that he ultimately is in charge of...

If like someone to ask and actually get an answer to 'where is Boris?'. There is a huge vacuum of leadership at the top of this government, and none of the senior figures seem to have any backbone. Or morals as far as I can see.

Great to hear that this is all actually Angela Merkel’s fault. Makes perfect sense.

Steve Baker's twitter feed is full of very pro Brexit people saying that he (Baker) has ruined Brexit by saying DC is an arse & did wrong, should resign. Are they shills? I guess I'm just astonished that anyone thinks this is about Brexit. About privilege, arrogant sods, the stress of Lockdown, sure... but Brexit? What magic power do the pro-Brexit crowd think Cummings has; how can he be anyone's hero? Even my (very pro Brexit) DS doesn't know who DC is.

What on earth has Angela Merkel got to do with this? I'm shocked that the daily mail crew are not saying Meghan and Harry are involved if this is the games they are playing!

I don't think he was driving so far in order to get food parcels. It was so that somebody could step in and take the child at a moment's notice should both parents get so ill they could not care for the child. What good are doorstep deliveries to a four year old? Note - I am not saying that Cummings acted in accordance with the rules, just marvelling that the availability of food deliveries is seen as the be all and end all to caring for a four year old.

I'm sure that's the reason. It's just a shame his London based brother in law was so incapable of looking after another small child and that they don't have any friends who could step in and help, despite telling everyone else to do that.