Dominic Cummings is a Lazy Dad

[NoEuropeWho]

Or whatever the resident version of a Disney Dad is. You know when you meet a female friend for a lunch/hen do or whatever and her partner has always ALWAYS gone to stay with his mum or dropped the kids off with his sister so he can play golf? What’s that called?

Because that’s what really happened here, isn’t it? He scuttled out in a panic from Downing St not because he was scared he had Covid, but because his wife was ill and he was scared he’d have to do 7-14 days of parenting shitwork.

So he did what he always does and planned to palm his child off on a female relative. The fact he subsequently fell ill is neither here nor there. If his wife had been the sicker one, you can bet the sister/mother would have been called upon for childcare. Because he was the sicker one and his wife merely a bit poorly, they (she) apparently soldiered on.

So now all the public health messaging has been fatally undermined, along with (whatever was left of) the integrity of most of the cabinet - all because he couldn’t be arsed to build a bit of Lego or even just plonk the child in front of Paw Patrol with some crisps for a couple of days.

Twat.

[Haworthia]

Ha! Hadn’t thought of that before. But you’re right. He didn’t want to do the wifework.

[icansmellburningleaves]

Reminds me of when men saying “I’m minding the kids tonight “. No, what you’re doing is looking after your own children, like parents do.

[SailingOver]

[PintOfBovril]

😂

[HepzibahGreen]

But he's a Busy Dad, juggling work and family life and always putting himself last, surely??

[SwedishEdith]

Her writing that article and the Radio 4 thing about praying for him all sound a little...odd. If she posted here that she'd had to do that to protect his career, she'd have got some interesting replies.

[Noextremes2017]

Hey......not so hard on 'men'.

Cummings and Johnson are not representative of the male sex.

They are representative of 'entitlement' / 'over-ambition' / 'arrogance' / 'ignorance' …… Not exclusively male traits but poor qualities exhibited by many in public life these days.

I mean ….. take Priti Patel ……

I rest my case.

[Haworthia]

Boo boo! NAMALT! NAMALT!

[DioneTheDiabolist]

You dont need to NAMALT on a Dominic Cummings thread Noextremes2017. You really dont.😂😂😂

[Haworthia]

That was meant to be BOO HOO obvs.

[Barbie222]

I would agree with you OP apart from the "funny coincidence" of his mother's 71st and his wife's 45th at that time. I think that most of us would have asked for someone to come and stay rather than move our family ourselves, wouldn't we?