When the lockdown ends
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Integrity......🤣🤣🤣
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Yes, Alan, you've made it very clear all along that you would make your own judgement whatever the government was telling the rest of us to do.
I wonder who is normally responsible for the care of Cummings junior when mum and dad are working and why suddenly they were deemed not adequate.
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I think there are a lot of people even within the government who will be pushing for him to leave. It appears that he isn’t very popular even amongst senior politicians. My view on it is that he should go as this is causing too much of a distraction also it doesn’t sit right with me that we all have had some of our liberties and freedoms suspended yet the very people who took them seem to be doing as they please. We had a similar situation here with the chief Scottish medical officer on the TV one day demanding we all STAY HOME and then the next day heading off to her second home for a weekend while we were all staying at home caravans/motorhome sitting idle on the drive. She had to go and Cummings is the same and to be honest I think the PM should sack him and not give him the chance to resign however I don’t see BJ doing that somehow it appears to me that he relies too much on Mr Cummings
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"I wonder why someone as rich and powerful as he........."
"I wonder how on earth he thought he would get away with it unnoticed..."
Its just a guess, but I am going with arrogance.
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Hi easy, I have read, and agreed with the sentiment, of many of your posts but it seems to me that the what is now happening is obfuscation.
Like many I take the constant attempts to find fault with anything that people do rather tedious but on the basis of the available info, and I include what he has written in the Spectator, he left his home whilst showing symptoms.
It seems to me that looking after you wife and child isn't wrong but using them as an excuse to do something, which you clearly should not do, is not only wrong but cowardly.
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It seems to me that looking after you wife and child isn't wrong but using them as an excuse to do something, which you clearly should not do, is not only wrong but cowardly.
I have no idea of the full circumstances. I read that Cummings wife was showing symptoms and that it was likely that he would have caught the infection whether symptomatic or not. Given that his decision to move to a location near to where they had relations, other than parents, who were able to look after their child if necessary and also to aid with provisions seems to me a sensible one. No doubt they had care available for son when in London but I personally would not wished a child of mine farmed out to full time care outside the family. For those reasons I do not condemn and would hope that, faced with a similar dilemma, I would have had the personal fortitude to put my family first whilst still protecting others. In my view this seems to be what they did. I cannot condemn anybody for an action that, given the circumstances, I might well have decided upon myself.
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Obfuscation and doing something you should not do, for sure, A&J.
I'm sure we remember the calls for second home owners to stay in their primary residences rather than travel to isolate in their second homes. I’ve tried but I cannot see the difference between that and DC's situation. Although one difference might be that he could also have endangered his parents. It was wrong, wrong, wrong!
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I have missed my 6 month, now 8 month old grandson. They live a 5 min walk away. Both parents were unwell with covid symptoms. All of us followed govt guidelines. We have supported the govt. If the Cummings could travel that far, they couldn't have been so unwell. I am not sure there is an excuse or explanation to those people who have lost lives, livelihoods and missed friends, family.
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"No doubt they had care available for son when in London but I personally would not wished a child of mine farmed out to fullime care outside the family"
That rather begs the question of what was the difference in his son's care before and after his wife developed symptoms. To me it's one of those rare occasions which are absolutely clear - "we" were told if a member of your family shows symptoms "don't leave home "- "we" were told "don't leave grandchildren with their grandparents" - "we" were told "only travel if essential". Cummings "sat in" on the SAGE meetings where, presumably that advice originated; he was the link between SAGE and Boris. What part of the advice was unclear to him?
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To my mind this is so clear cut that I cannot believe anyone can sensibly defend his actions.
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I wonder if Cummings could look this nurse in the eye and explain his actions?
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It’s was his wife’s mother’s birthday on 30th March.🤔
I says volumes about our political system that anyone could defend the situation this advisor has got himself into. When hundreds of others up and down the country are having to cope without seeing their children and grandchildren, having to work through such difficult situations, and then this privileged, protected pair put two fingers up to the rest of the country and swan off through nine counties at the start of such a stressful time, and then try and justify what others have been penalised for is simply immoral. But I bet he wriggles off the hook. He’s pulling all the strings, behind a great deal of the decisions, and probably masterminding most of the daily briefings. With all the sycophantic yes men lining up to defend him.
He needs to go.
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"He needs to go"
Yes, whichever way one looks at it, the fact that his actions are going to distract from the government's instructions/advice for some considerable time ought to make that inevitable. But I've given up trying to work out how this lot think!
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On Wednesday of this week there were probably 100 people not adhering to the current guidelines/rules whilst lapping up the sun on the beach at LOS, some could possibly have been asymtomatic , and probably 100's more at various locations throughout the UK, virtually every county in the South has reported people camping out overnight in campervans, MH's, tents and even cars, where was the law enforcement, how many people were actually prosecuted.
Just had a small family birthday party in our back garden, yes we did stick to social distancing but technically what we did was not adhering to current guidelines/rules, slap on wrist dont do it again.
Cummings did wrong but he is not alone, slap on wrist dont do it again, this is just point scoring for political gain
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OMG you must be bored
maybe if you had some real insight into what this guy has done to assist with our current crisis you may have a differing view.Do you think if the present government did not think he was an assett we really did not want to throw under a bus, that they would be so supportive, given the circumstances.
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No. This is not point scoring for political gain. I am happy to stand up and say I voted for Boris. I am happy to stand up and say t that decisions have been made to the best of their ability in exceptional circumstances., no one could possibly have got everything right. However, this is arrogant. He should go.
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