Dominic Cummings.

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As Boris said he is sure most people would understand DC reasons for travelling across the country, let’s have a quick poll.
Yes, I understand his reasons.
No.

No

DC has been attending the Sage meetings, despite being non-scientific, presumably to understand the science and to advise government how to 'follow it'

He then chose to do completely his own personal interpretation of the rules....was this because
A) he actually doesn't understand the science? (In which case why is he attending)
B) he understands the science but doesn't believe lockdown rules are driven by it (in which case he is a hypocrite)
C) he doesn't care about the science or the rules, so long as he gets to do what he want, when he wants.

Whatever the answer he should no longer be in post and I think this is the most shockingly bad decision Boris has taken, as he has just lost the confidence of anyone that still had an iota of faith in the government

I'm actually glad that DC broke the Roolz, as it shows them up for the irrelevance I have interpreted them to be all along.

Can we now please have our jobs back and pretend this never happened?

No

Understand why he may of done it , but if it was supposedly all ok then why did he not say at the time or straight away so others knew this was an optioN
Also find it hard to believe they don't have anyone who could of helped them more local
So therefore overall answer no
But as others have said no more questions in it in daily briefings as just going over and over

Yes, going to a funeral is fucking terrible. You are right.

Also I wonder as bu advisor if this was another no would he not be advising him. To get them to resign seeing as this isn't just going away ??

Just no

NO.

No

No.
Absolute disgrace. What part of the stay at home instruction (not request) did he not understand?
Using pathetic non excuse of child care is an insult to us all.

Absolute fucking entitled bastard

No.

I have also emailed my MP this evening. She is a Tory and usually does nothing other than toe the party line, but I think even the Tories are starting to struggle with this one, and the party line (if there even is one now) is being lost as they cannot defend it to angry constituents.

I couldn't go and visit my elderly parents during lockdown like many people. One became very ill and had to be taken to hospital (not covid related). I didn't visit because they are very vulnerable and the advice was very strongly to stay at home, except if you are Dominic Cummings apparently.

No. All I heard was the repeat of the excuse already given and a refusal to question that. No concern that DC may have flouted the rules; that perhaps the police could take a look at DCs movements between London & Durham since March, with the potential to appease and calm the situation and possibly reinstate trust if he was indeed found to be innocent. Just a stonewalling ‘easy to be confused about the rules’ (public) and refusal to engage. Very ‘end of story’; no right to question; arrogant, and misjudged.
For me, the issues I have are -
1)Transporting a symptomatic person from one end of the country to the other, at a fairly early point in the pandemic, from somewhere with emerging high incidence to one of low incidence - clearly against the guidelines then very clearly in place
2)Childcare - the family have direct family members in London - was this really not a possible safety net? Could they really not have stayed at home?
3)Additional travel and day trips - at least two in April and one in May, coinciding with family birthdays and nice weather

I have never voted Labour. This is about setting an example and safeguarding public health. It’s about credibility. It’s about not unwittingly spreading a highly contagious virus elsewhere. It’s incredible the tone BJ has set. Eerily & damningly incredible.

For me and many others, it seems DC has simply done as he pleased, and that is not to be questioned

No.

Nope. No way.

And I don’t believe him either. The child care issue is a lie. He went for his mums birthday

No no no no no Hypocritical gaslighting bastards.

Yes.

No.

I understand the reasons he has given.

In his circumstances I would not have reached the same conclusion. I would have stayed at home, as the vast majority of the public did, and sought local assistance.

I don't believe for one second that was not possible.

Still no.

Still no.

I understand that he is lying through his teeth, he knew the rules, he didn't want to follow them. He waited until he was sure how much the media actually could prove, and concocted a load of bollocks story around those facts.