DomCum in the garden with the journalists...

[DonLewis]

Do we think the PM Is going to allow the rest of us to hang out in our gardens now?

Desironginoychild

Thank you for sharing your father's experience and yours 😞💐

Cummings and Johnson do not even UNDERSTAND what it means to lead millions of people. Millions of individual souls. They do not understand it, let alone deserve to (attempt to) do it.

The press kept referring to other people who don’t have the privilege of an empty home to escape to.
But he does and he used it, Cummings is a rich privileged person. How many people would escape to an empty farm house if they could? It’s not really Cummings fault that people do not have the same opportunities as him.

@Forgone90 your comments are horrible And really miss the point. The journalists are holding him accountable, as is their role in a democracy. Are you part of the Tory spin campaign?

@jedijim I agree that was a red herring and a waste of questioning really.

Just a little 'I made a mistake and I'm sorry' would have sufficed.

Nope. He just carries on being a sneaky little bell end.

What a surprise.

Shame the press didn't ask about the hundreds of thousands of international travellers coming in. No checks or quarantine - unlike other countries.

If there's concern about risks of infection spread that's a far greater risk.

It was crocodile tears and excuse after excuse. You do not drive 30 miles to " test your eyesight ' . He would never have made that statement had he not been forced into it. The contempt for everyone oozed out of every pore.

When Boris on?

He doesn’t want to apologise. He doesn’t feel he should. Why do you want him to pretend to be sorry? It wouldn’t change your view of him so what’s the point?

If he did apologise you’d still want his blood.

@PicsInRed It had crossed my mind, too (one of my DC is on the spectrum, so I am not entirely ignorant about this).

@Didkdt Why on Earth would you think that?

I don't think he ought to be referred to as DomCum. Just sounds wrong.

How about CumSack then?

@HeimdallSaysNo do you mean those photographers who get the pictures to go alongside what the journalists write? They quite often put themselves in danger in war zones etc. Although quite a few do hang around clubs at 3am giving celebs a hard time too.

In this case the photographers and every media outlet would’ve been told a time to be there and where exactly to stand. Looks like the tories were oh so happy to have their own photographer capture the photographers they had invited to snap him. And then, big surprise, they spin it into a story about “these media hypocrites” not maintaining social distinct while holding him accountable for breaking the rules he wrote, while self-confessed contagious. It’s such a set up it’s disgusting.

As for eye-testing by driving: I certainly wouldn't have let any of my DC get in a car with XH when they were little, if he said he "might have weird vision".

Pull the other one.

I am not a lefty, BTW.

What time is the press conference tonight does anyone know?

@SpokeTooSoon

How can one person be so consistently wrong in every single thread they post in?

And, as I have said on other threads, I would have done exactly the same as Dom, if I had been in the same situation and my family had made the same offer. I would have said, quite clearly, sod the rules because I'm doing my own risk assessment, thanks very much. I have been doing this every single day since lockdown was implemented, and am not sorry.

However, I was not responsible for inventing or implementing these rules.

There's a big difference.

Why didn’t he notify the police of him being scared of attack at his London home?
Exactly and also he mentioned somewhere in the first few answers he gave that he'd considered/discussed with his wife going to Durham for wife and child's protection (I don't remember verbatim but please tell me I have not imagined what he said) so apart from the fact he pissed all over the rules regarding covid and travel and had 'eyesight' issues...
WTF did he bring wife and child back with him to London if he was that concerned about their safety?

He deserves a fucking BAFTA for that piece of acting, the lying, hypocritical shit.

surely the people who just happened to be out at the very same time he was in the grounds/wood and when they stopped off for a tinkle were out and about too and not staying at home either.
I kinda understand leaving London if the press were outside and he didn't stop or meet anyone on the way and isolated at his parents but the trip to test his driving ability sounds a bit weird, why not just drive around the farm grounds.
Does anyone think they are just baying for blood

Nah, he was a bit rubbish, @TinklyLittleLaugh He kept forgetting the script and filling in with "um" and "ah".

@MrsWhitesDue the usual is press conf at 7pm according to BBCNews, to be led by BoJo

I thought initially it sounded plausible but then the refusal to apologise and the way he wasn't taking responsibility started to remind me of abusers and the way they manipulate the story.

I can get behind anyone who says 'I made an error of judgement in a panic.' This was 'I'm sorry you feel I was wrong.'

Taking the drive to a well known beauty spot on his wife's birthday to 'test his eyesight' took the biscuit.

I would have preferred. "We were feeling a bit better and went out for some fresh air on her birthday. In retrospect it was a bad judgement."

Also so many have managed to stay at home whilst ill with young children - especially SAH mums - many in flats with no help. There was no acknowledgement of this.

His exceptional circumstances for the safeguarding of children was weak. That exception was put in for kids at risk of domestic abuse and children in care etc - not for treks across the country.

I also can't believe he didn't stop once on the way there with a 4 year old in the back - no toilet breaks? No fuel stops?

He and his wife have family in London and he is a powerful and well connected man - you can't tell me he had no other childcare options.

While at his parents he had to call an ambulance for his son using resources in a rural place. He picked up his wife and son from hospital - drove to a hospital with symptoms of Covid to pick up his wife and son who had been exposed to him with symptoms of Covid. I thought he travelled so family could help if need be - could his sister not have picked them up?

Also this directly contradicts his wife's article about what happened - just doesn't make sense.

I just want him to go.

@HappyHammy - people were allowed to go out for exercise so I'm sure their consciences are clear. This twat clearly gives not one fuck about the general public who pay his wages.

Mrs Whites. Daily Briefing is on now. 7pm