@Lauders this is what I said... part of it only applies to me, you can scrub that out... but you get the gist
'To say I am appalled with today's decisions regarding Dominic Cummings is a very big understatement.
At the time of his journey 265 miles north from London, the Government was absolutely strict with it's message. We were instructed (not requested) to Stay At Home if developing symptoms and to self isolate. I have close family members who did exactly this, they did what was asked of them. For one particular member of my family, it was extremely difficult. She was very poorly with COVID (tested positive) and her husband has an underlying heart condition. To manage to self isolate in her bedroom and not pass on COVID to firstly her husband, and to anyone else was a very difficult and stressful time. She was weeks confined to her bedroom in a small London house, doing the right thing.
And yet the unelected advisor to the Prime Minister took it upon himself to travel up the country with his wife showing symptoms, to his parents in their mid 70s, for spurious childcare reasons. Both his wife and him have family in London, yet he ignored the restrictions that he had been instrumental in setting up,. And when he made this journey it was before the COVID peak had been reached and the press briefings emphasised what we had to do continually. Other families have been going through the same, trying desperately to get supermarket slots or relying on friends and family to leave food parcels for them. What if they all had decided to just go where they wanted for whatever reason?
Every single person I know feels let down, betrayed and incensed that they have been working hard to do the right thing and yet this man decided to do his own thing.
I have no idea where this will end up.. needless to say I, and others, do not feel quite the same about what we have to put ourselves through with regard to isolating and protecting others. If members of the Government can't abide by the restrictions, why should we?'