Dominic Cummings using his child's autism as an excuse

[Almahart]

So it looks as if the next excuse to be wheeled out is that Dominic Cumming's child is autistic.

My child is autistic. I know many families with autistic children.

This is what I have heard of happening for these families during Coronavirus:

• no school (yes I know schools should be taking vulnerable children. But many are not)
• no respite
• no transport to school even if they are open
• regular activities cancelled
• the fear that provision provided by local authorities through Education Health and Care Plans and suspended under the Coronavirus Act will slowly disappear

I know of many single parents alone with their child who are seriously struggling and who did not break the rules during lockdown.

To use autism as an excuse is beyond low. It is revolting and has made me even angrier than I was before

If he had security fears in London he should have reported to the met. It's guidance. (But we all know what guidance means to Cummings).

Someone on twitter has asked the met Police for this info.

After looking across social media... This is the list of people not allowed to complain when tories do something wrong

Labour voters, Lib dem voters or any Liberal voters, Mainstream Media, remain voters, unloyal tory MPs, doctors, nurses, the police, teachers, civil servants, anyone in a workers union, students,

I'm sure theres some I have missed, but remember it's the left that are snowflakes when they hear an opinion they don't like.

He spread the virus from London to Durham and lied about it

He didn't but don't let the truth get in the way of a good story. Are you press @Ulver?

We're all tired of this. The press are disgusting me

Yet you’re happy with the situation where an unelected bureaucrat is so indispensable to our Prime Minister that breach of his own guidelines, and failure to recognise that his actions undermine the nation’s response to the pandemic, is not sufficient reason for him to be sacked? Extraordinary.

I totally agree

30 minutes dear not miles

Has it been confirmed anywhere that his son does indeed have any additional needs?

As far as I'm aware not once has he said his child was autistic.

Not everyone else is getting death threats! I think anyone would do the same in his position. That's not defending him politically, just as a human who is being hounded and has no idea whether threats are real or not.

Yet you’re happy with the situation where an unelected bureaucrat is so indispensable to our Prime Minister that breach of his own guidelines, and failure to recognise that his actions undermine the nation’s response to the pandemic, is not sufficient reason for him to be sacked? Extraordinary

Excellent spin @WiseUpJanetWeiss ✅

Excellent spin

Yes, it’s spin. There’s nothing at all rotten about a PM who is so in thrall to one of his advisers that he undermines a public health campaign to save him.

Wake the fuck up.

Yes, it’s spin. hmm There’s nothing at all rotten about a PM who is so in thrall to one of his advisers that he undermines a public health campaign to save him

Wake the fuck up

Still spinning around, you must be dizzy by now 😂

There have been a number of fake stories on this in the press used to whip up mob hatred and are now proven to be made up. Even after DC’s detailed account, the facts are being twisted.He did not put his parents at risk or stop off on the journey to Durham. He drove to the outskirts of a town not to the castle itself. It was not a day out it was a drive, a 15 minute sit down in a remote area outside the town due to nausea, and a return. It was done to see if he was well enough to drive to London, not just to test his eyesight, although this was an element. There was only one trip to Durham etc etc. The guidelines aren’t breached if they say that families with children must do what is possible.

Where’s the apology and retraction from the press for all the lazy journalism, fake unevidenced stories, which have undermined public faith in the government and inflamed public anger at a time of national crisis when we all need to pull together? This false narrative has also put a young family at risk of harm, death threats etc. How is a 4 year old boy going to be able to leave his home safely and without trauma for some fresh air with the lynch mob baying at and dangerously crowding whoever walks out of DC.s front door?

Why is the footage of the press pack hounding Dominic Cummings being repeatedly shown in the news with no comment on the lack of social distancing? Where is the press accountability for what this has done for the public messaging?

If I were faced with the prospect of being unable to care for my child, someone kindly offered to help and I could get to them without risk to others would I travel? ... Yes. What’s the alternative, leave the child uncared for or put someone at risk by inviting them to stay in my home?

Mob think and witch hunting is abhorrent. We would be wiser and a whole lot kinder to reflect our own shortcomings instead of judging and misjudging others in the aggressive and hostile way that the press pack have displayed.

And the taking the infectious child for a pee’n’play in the woods to spread his viral piss everywhere? The risk to hospital staff and paramedics? The test driving when I’ll with your wife and child???

Bad decisions.

You are being played by deeply unpleasant journalists

What, like Mary 'London lockdown' Wakefield?

I agree that Wakefield and Cummings have made enemies in the media, in politics, and in the civil service who are out for their scalps, but those are circles they have chosen to inhabit.

And Wakefield should have refrained from writing her child into the public domain via the pages of The Spectator. That was entirely unnecessary and ill-advised.

@Mirinska can I just get this right- so, you actually believe every word of Cummings' statement?????

Even Johnson said we should make our own minds up ...

He was clearly protecting his family unit

He said that he drove for 30 miles with his family in the car to test his eyesight.

That bank holiday weekend the message from Matt Hancock was:

"however warm the weather, however tempting your local beach or park, we need everyone to stay at home. Because in hospitals across the country, NHS staff are battling day and night to keep desperately sick people breathing, and they need you to stay at home."

It was done to see if he was well enough to drive to London, not just to test his eyesight, although this was an element.

How can you write that and not think that the man is stark staring mad???

Where’s the apology and retraction from the press for all the lazy journalism, fake unevidenced stories, which have undermined public faith in the government and inflamed public anger at a time of national crisis when we all need to pull together?

There was evidence for all the stories in the press. The government have known about this story for weeks. If they didn't think that he had done anything wrong, all they had to do was confirm that he had been to Durham and that his trip fell within the guidelines.

The most inaccurate media story was the one written by his wife.

Still spinning around, you must be dizzy by now

I see you are incapable of engaging with the substance of my posts.

Appalling behaviour, sociopath.

He was clearly protecting his family unit

Bollocks. He could have protected his family unit more than adequately by staying at his well appointed home in town, which is what every other person had to do, whether their relatives were seriously ill, dying, or simply frail and elderly and in need of support.

He did not protect his family unit or anyone else while driving up to Durham with early symptoms himself (he was apparently ill the next day remember) or driving back down to London when in less than good form (he had queasiness and dodgy eyes the day before remember).

It's all a load of crap.

And even if anyone actually believes his account, the circumstances he describe are NOT EXCEPTIONAL!

So you have a 4 year old and 2 parents who MIGHT get too ill to look after him. If every family in that situation drove to another part of the country, the motorways would have been pretty bloody busy!

The whole driving to Barnard Castle to test his fitness for driving (which has already been described by the police as a breach of the Highway Code) is utter drivel because his WIFE CAN DRIVE! Him recounting that convo 'ooh am I well enough to drive' missed out the obvious solution: ' if you're unsure Dominic, darling, I'll drive. The ladies can drive these days you know'.

Gah! Utter drivel. The lot of it.

And another thing. He says they had a full tank of petrol and didn't stop on the way to Durham. But if his son had needed a piss on the way, one of the parents would have had to accompany him to the loo. Whether or not if actually happened is less relevant- the fact of setting off on a journey like that means that you accept you might have to do that.