Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

But Dominic Cummings just admitted breaking the lockdown rules three times. None of us was allowed to do any of the things he did as we all abided by the strict lockdown rules.

You cannot have rules for everybody and then somebody decides personally he wants to break it.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Do you think this was a distraction attempt or that they botched it then? I have seen some conspiracy stuff on twitter that this is a 'dead cat' but I can't see how this story is good for the government.

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The hospitalisation one is unquestionably fine so it's really only twice (once IMO since I don't think he 'drive to test my eyesight' is that bad if true).

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Although actually putting your wife and kids in the car for a 30 mins drive to test if you can see is a novel idea....

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Journalists now trying to get CCTV of every service station going up to Durham.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Mr Cummings et al are doing exactly that: dictating what to do with your family. I think we have entered a parallel reality :) It is very much my business what he does if the individual in question is part of the Government telling me what I should do. Less of the preaching please.

It is interesting that your definition of "safeguarding" is to lock someone in a car for 4+ hours with a person who has a deadly pandemic.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Daily Mail journalist is tearing into him

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Some decent questioning from the last 2 journo's.

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‘I drove to Barnard Castle to test my eyesight’

Of course he did....

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Really? Don't be so lazy, read the previous posts. I did not introduce Brexit into this.

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The distance is a relevant point: the further you travel, while infectious, the more risk you represent. If you breakdown or have an accident, you risk the first responders attending the scene. If you stop for a convenience break, you risk infected those people sharing the facilities you use, etc.

This sort of stuff is just plain obvious and even with the Government's poor messaging, most of the country gets it. I'm surprised you do not?

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

He’s a political adviser, not an elected representative, and it is now explicitly on the public record that BoJo neither knew of, nor approved, the trip. It’s hard to see what the long-term damage can possibly be here - whereas forensic focus on strategic and tactical decisions taken by ministers over the last 5 months has the potential to cause serious reputational damage to those who will have to face the electorate on their records, even if that election is over 4 years away.

The Press are taking this very personally because Cummings holds them in contempt and they see it as a chance to settle scores. The Left is sticking the boot in because it’s their first real chance to unleash unrestricted, thermonuclear self-righteous fury on the Tories after months of enforced restraint in the face of a national crisis. But what’s really telling is the number of Tories who are also prepared to go for him. Don’t don’t underestimate a Tory MP’s instinct for self-preservation. If they thought this was an issue of basic competence reflecting on the government, and on the man who just won them a landslide, they wouldn’t be out to get Cummings right now. That they feel safe in doing so should tell you everything you need to know about what’s really going on here.

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A lot of umming and ahhing and his nose has definitely grown longer....

Do they have a good Specsavers in Barnard Castle ?

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Such bullshit , that he himself admits it happened.

As before, the childcare I could give you (whilst not breaking the rules, you could argue morally it goes against what the country as a whole was trying to achieve)

I’d like to see anyone try to defend his excuse for driving from Durham to Barnard Castle.

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There we have it. He’s innocent and did right thing, under the circumstances.

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Guilty as hell and a habitual liar like his boss.

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I'm not sure what relevance that is? I'm just going by the points in the quote that stated the child was hospitalised. Surely then the drive was pointless if that was the outcome? I don't have a wife but if I did, I wouldn't drive her 260 miles when she was ill and throwing up.