Sky News - Cummings to make a rare statement...

[MunchMunch]

And answer questions today. I wonder if he's doing the briefing today with Bozo?!

I wonder how this will go?!

his idea that it's the false stories that are annoying people no it's the actual story!

Go Gary

Looking at the later comments on here, this is obviously going to go away, isn't it?

This is insulting

Is that guidance he read out from March? Or some hastily cobbled together appendix?

He’s definitely acting. And lying about the Barnard Castle incident.

I feel quite sorry for the bloke tbh which has surprised me. He looks completely out his depth.

tbf most people do when they have been caught out

The guidance DID say "youve got to sit there"

The guidance said STAY HOME

My hands are covering my face. I can't bear watching this.

I cannot believe anyone is fooled by this.

Good question

Funny how the child couldn't go from Barnard Castle back to the place they were staying without needing a wee, but apparently didn't need one on the 260 mile trip up from London as DC says he never stopped the car.

Ta Horsemad.

It’s the small print that wasn’t publicised. The three word slogans didn’t include detailed analysis of the three words. Everyone just stayed at home. They believed the slogans. It’s obviously our fault for not reading them?!!!

I don’t like his politics but I feel sorry for him. He’s got a really stressful job. The prime minister was seriously ill. He knew he’d have to go back work when he should have stayed in bed. If my parents had a farm with a spare cottage I think I’d have gone there.I would have done the dummy drive too.

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It was night from London. He was probably asleep and maybe in a pull up.

The journalists tiresome ‘gotcha’ questions really do my head in

None of us care about the ‘gotchas’

Far too important to stay at home! The rest of us don’t count! He’s paid whatever happens.

I still have the PM letter which went to every home which made it quite clear.

It’s the small print that wasn’t publicised. The three word slogans didn’t include detailed analysis of the three words. Everyone just stayed at home. They believed the slogans. It’s obviously our fault for not reading them?!!!

Well it seems it currently the media’s fault. Blame will swing towards the public in oooh 10 minutes or so? The only person not to blame is DC himself.

@PuzzledObserver

He had several options. He knew in advance that lockdown was going to happen. If it is true that they have no support network in London, then his wife and kid could have travelled north at that time, as a precaution in case they got ill.

Another option, is that, if they had both got ill at the same time then someone (eg. his sister) could have come down at that point to help (using the exception in the rules of looking after a child in an emergency).

Or, again if both parents were so ill at the same time that they absolutely couldn’t look after their child then they could have got someone they know in London to help look after him.

Liar

he has at least backed down from his previous position, he is moving in the right direction, I don't think it would be a good thing for the PM to have to sack someone that he leans on heavily in the middle of a crisis.
I don't trust him, I don't trust anyone in a position of power, they all need to he held to account by us whatever their politics...imo

Those who have heard what he’s said - what do you think he should have done instead of leaving London? About childcare?

Well his healthy sister or neices could have travelled to London to care for the child if there really was no-one closer. That would certainly be preferable to 2 people with covid symptoms travelling several hundred miles in an enclosed space with a small child potentially infecting anyone they came across, indeed it appears his child did become unwell enough to need hospitalisation soon after.
At the very least it should have been made clear to the public that travelling to family for help with childcare was absolutely allowed.
His admittance to driving whilst suffering eyesight problems and sickness is shocking, more lives being put at risk.

The half hour journey was an unessecary journey wasn't it?
Test his eyesight?! Why didn't Mary drive?!

Someone needs to ask him about his wifes Spectator article!!!!!!!!!