Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Its very unusual l would say.

Actually there is this document regarding Special Advisors and their code of conduct.

https://assets.publishing.service.go...l_Advisers.pdf

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

I wonder how many of the thousands of people fined for breaking lockdown rules will be seeking advice to see if this now means they can challenge their fixed penalty notice? Has 'doing what I thought is best' now become a legitimate defence? I remember when my old dad (God rest his sole) got a speeding ticket from a camera on the A1 because he thought it was best that he broke the speed limit a bit to get to the next services before he pissed himself :rolleyes:

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

He broke the rules. Sorry, he broke his rules. These are here for reference (published 12 March 2020).

He and you have a strange definition of "safeguarding": putting your child in a metal box for 4 hours with someone who has a deadly disease, for most people, does not make the grade.

The other bizarre thing here is that Cummings has the resources of the Government at his disposal. He could have asked for childcare to be arranged and it would have been done instantly. In fact, the mother of the child in question has a sister living 2 streets away apparently.

You are seemingly so angry not because he is innocent but, exactly as you reveal, he is the High Priest of Brexit ..

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

I've heard a rumour which I shall not repeat about personal circumstances that might make people more sympathetic although it would still raise the same questions.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

What! Are you kidding? Back on 12th April, you were not permitted to take 60-mile round trips for sightseeing or exercise.
And putting a child in a car with two infected adults at the end of March for five hours? Seriously? That's not in the child's interests. And, as a QC and the media have pointed out, that particular trip broke the rules and law.
I'm really hoping that Cummings is honourable enough to do the decent thing today or pulls a great explanation out of the bag. The latter is my preference.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Are you a daily mail reader ?

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

The regulations state:

You should stay at home as much as possible. The reasons you may leave home include:

for work, where you cannot work from homegoing to shops that are permitted to be open - to get things like food and medicine, to exercise or spend time outdoors, any medical need, including to donate blood, avoid injury or illness, escape risk of harm, or to provide care or to help a vulnerable person.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Yes and we all know why you think he is automatically guilty don't we?

He broke no rules because he was safeguarding his son - thus, he did nothing wrong.

It's none of your business who he chose to look after his son. That decision is his and not yours, how dare you decide who should look after his son, mind your own business. You would not tolerate somebody dictating to you what to do with your family, so do not tell others what or how they should manage with theirs when you do not know of their personal circumstances, in particular the childs health.

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Exactly OB - some people need to open their bloody eyes FFS. :mad:

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

But as the family were possibly infected by the virus, different rules apply.
https://www.gov.uk/government/public...d-19-infection

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Stop repeating conjecture to me I do not believe the crap written in Mirror or the pathetic leftie Guardian.

"I saw a man who looked like Cummings in Durham".

Yeah and I can say I saw Elvis at my local Tesco's last week. Bullshit!

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Not when you need to make a decision to safeguard a vulnerable child !!!

Safeguarding the child became the priority and it overrides those set of rules.

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The purpose and intent of that is clearly to provide care for or help to another person in their home. That does not fit your scenario. He did not travel 260 miles because assistance was not available in London. He did it because it was his preference and apparently when he and his wife were symptomatic. The government guidance for that scenario was clear - to self isolate in your primary residence for 14 days as a family.

This vulnerable child situation is clutching at the end of a very thin straw. There's hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children out there - none facilitating 260 mile journeys to second homes. It's also broadly irrelevant that situation has been dealt with by the police having spoken to a family member - consistent with the regulations which don't automatically lead to fixed penalties or arrests.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

The 12th April story witness has been checked out and the story has not been denied.
Let's hope that Cummings has a full and frank answer to this mess.

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If you can provide a link to the rules that says this then QCs, MPs, the CofE, scientists, the press and everyone else will shut up about it
OB has tried but he provided to a link for those without CV-19 symptoms.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Didn't I just say to you not to repeat the bullshit and conjecture to me?

What part of this do you not understand Andrew?

It's utter lies by pathetic Activists, they saw him but didn't think to take any pictures... Thus, no actual solid proof, just one word against anothers.

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You are always clutching at straws, who are you to lecture other people on this?

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

We've all got personal circumstances. My frail mother has been in hospital the last week after a fall (not ideal timing), but I was unable to visit. Still can't go round and see now she's thankfully home as I'm sticking to the rules, as most if the country has. A sob story about kids or dead Uncles won't wash.

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I assume the Daily Mail are also clutching at straws? This isn't a remainer conspiracy although it's a cheap and lazy way to dismiss opposing arguments without substantive reply.

I fully expect Dominic Cummings to apologise in some way, expressing an error of judgement and claim to have been acting in good faith. What then? Will he just be lying? Or will he have actually used a sense of perspective notably absent from some on this thread.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Just to point out a lot of Brexiters aren't happy either. This has crossed the divide.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Indeed, it's those clutching at straws to defend him exercising a lazy way out. He's committed an error of judgement against the spirit of, and likely the letter of, the law.

I expect him to acknowledge this shortly.

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You sticking to the rules, I doubt it, that just doesn't wash with me at all given at times, you struggle to stick to the forums rules. ;)

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It's nothing to do with laziness, it's nothing to do with errors of judgement, he made the right call for his vulnerable son. Thus, no rules broken, despite how many times you erroneously say so.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

What an individual would do in similar circumstances is irrelevant in the law. There was a clear steer in the regulations and government messaging around the broad set of circumstances that applied here.

I'm also not convinced two parents suffering Coronavirus symptoms would have taken a child on a four and a half hour car journey when one of them has a sister nearby in London.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

What is this incessant obsession with bringing newspapers in to this?

I do not read any newspapers and I do not care what crap is written in any of them. They are all as bad as one another.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

I'll prefer to await the outcome of any investigation than trust the armchair judgements of those who, in all probability, would defend Cummings at all costs because of his role in Brexit.

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It's not an obsession. It's the easiest way to prove its not a remainer conspiracy. I also don't think Steve Baker is part of a remainer conspiracy.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

And you're blaming him regardless because of it - stop clutching at straws, the thing you accuse others of doing!

Cummings involvement in Brexit, holds no interest in me, I voted to leave not because Cummings championed it, I voted to leave, to leave a corrupted EU and I would do so again and again without any aid from the Dom.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

I'm genuinely not influenced by my position on Brexit I'm more concerned by the credibility of the Government tanking at a time it's important that people trust it - during a public health emergency.

At least we are over Coronavirus being a bad flu though and now it's highly likely to incapacitate adults rendering them incapable of childcare.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

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Because being closer than 2 metres for more than 15 minutes with someone with Coronavirus is dangerous.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

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Most people in the same vehicle would be, yes.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Because as anyone with young children knows, the chance of going that length of time in a car without stopping for the toilet is essentially zero. So one or more members of the travelling party would have been exposed to unsanitised surfaces in public places (and risked spreading contamination themselves) once, or quite possibly multiple times, during the trip.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

But they are from the same household. Jeez. So that does not matter! :dozey:

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

He can't say it's a legitimate health concern for a vulnerable child though

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

The breaking of the ever flexible forum rules isn't going to kill anybody. This virus can.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Because the longer the distance the greater percentage of needing garages, service stations, emergency services and breakdown services. That was one of the reasons for the stay at home message.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Think you've hit the nail on the head there Mick. Most of us have been tolerating someone dictating to us what we can and more importantly can not do with our family. Hence the (deserved) outcry when someone who should make sure their actions means they are above criticism seems to come across with an almost arrogant contempt for the rest of us. You can spin it as much as you want but the Government are now fighting a loosing case in the court of public opinion.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Why can't these things ever start on time?

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

He was caught in traffic on the way back from Durham... :D

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

I see you have let the paranoia get to you.
Just about anything you do is potentially dangerous.

What it means is you're more likely to catch the virus.
Which may (or may not) mean you then have symptoms, which in turn (in a small number of cases) may become more serious.

A lot of the pictures online show the press crowding around Dominic Cummings, and his house, in packs. I hope they are not current pictures ....

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

When you have a vulnerable child to cater for, nothing else matters. No rules were broken. I don’t see where they are losing.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

It's phycoma sycycomonomon.. He's messing with your head;)

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

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It's hardly paranoia - it's Government advice to stay that far away from people who don't have Coronavirus, and for those who do to stay at home.

It's fundamental to the restrictions we will face for months to come unless the Government gets the situation under control.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

I reckon this is him just trying to wind up the journalists

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

15 feet, cheers Dom.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Here we go:

• Wife had symptoms so he ran out.
• None of this his childcare options are available
• Thinks he had it. Worried that if both where ill there was no one else available.
• Didn't oppose lockdown and the story he did was a lie. Said he was worried about people who believed this being a threat
• Thought he should drive to Durham. Where he would be in a different house.
• Thought he could leave them there otherwise
• Did not ask PM (Johnson in the clear on that one)
• Claims he did not stop on the way
• Got COVID the day after he arrived
• Child was hospitalised in Durham
• But he didn't have COVID
• Returned to work
• Did go to the Castle Town but didn't leave the car for too long
• This is getting too long :dozey:
• He didn't return to Durham and also has proof he was in London
  

Doesn't really add much to what we didn't already know really. Confirms he didn't return which we weren't' sure about (although the strong denials did mean we suspected he didn't).

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

What I take from that is he drove 260 miles for no reason. Why couldn't the child be hospitalised in London?

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

I disagree with some of his actions, and a bit doubtful about some of his explanations, but all in all, I thought it was a good explanation.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Please tell you don't have children :(

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

I still think they’ve extracted maximum distraction value out of the story before making any serious attempt to shut it down though.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

The hospitalisation wasn't foreseen. It just happened up there. I guess he recited the story to tell us about an additional trip he made.

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.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

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.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

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

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Guilty as hell and a habitual liar like his boss.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

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.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Absolute bollocks - if you have nothing of substance to actually say Mr K, I am not interested in your ridiculous and pathetic assertions.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

There will still be plenty of the time for the latter, this is just a juicy story because someone who helped write the rules is accused of breaking them. Same reasons even less senior advisors like Neil Ferguson became stories even if it that case it was more clear cut.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Which is good of him to do so but your attacking me on something from events from yesterday. Yesterday it was conjecture. Today he's admitted it, be fair. :rolleyes:

Simples - For exercise, which is allowed.

No rules broken, no laws broken. This should be the end of it.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

I wonder why he didn't say the test drive was to test his stamina rather than eyesight? Seems a bit silly to load the family into the car to do that.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

He didnt say it was for exercise did he? From my understanding they barely moved from the car.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

You stay single mate it'll save you the expense of a divorce.;)

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Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

I’m not attacking you at all far from it. If you’ve read previous posts I’ve agreed with you on the trial by media and also that at the time he moved his wife and children there had been amendments to the regulations that allowed this.

Nope, the official guidelines were to leave your home to exercise once a day and not to travel/drive to take exercise, this was at the time he made his journey.

The eyesight excuse is precisely that an excuse. He broke the rules. End of

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Yes, especially as the majority of the routes from Durham to Barnard Castle are quite twisty and narrow. Great fun on a motorbike not necessarily so much fun or safe if you need to test your eyesight

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Oh be quiet, had this been a special advisor to labour or the Lib Dem’s you would more than likely be egging the press on and be baying for blood

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

He left the house for medical reasons - perfectly valid to me. He is innocent and given the police statement an hour or so ago, they must also think so too, pray tell what you have which you think your view overrides that of the Police?

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Can you provide the link to the police statement? I genuinely haven’t seen it. Thanks in advance

Health reasons are to visit a health care professional. Did he do this?

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Not sure driving is seen as a valid means of testing one's eyesight.

It's a pretty mild way to break it for sure.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

:nono:

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Unlucky for the government scientist who lost his job.for his affairs during lockdown. He should've just said he was worried his penis had stopped working and he wanted to double check?

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Come on now this just is getting stone cold crazy.

You cannot compare someone who cannot keep his dick in his pants to someone genuinely ill, if your trying to do so, give up now because it is just utterly ridiculous to even bring the two things in the same argument.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Police deemed no further action was needed

Durham Constabulary has issued a further statement confirming that an officer spoke to Dominic Cummings' father on 1 April.

The force says: "Mr Cummings confirmed that his son, his son's wife and child were present at the property.

"He told the officer that his son and son's wife were displaying symptoms of coronavirus and were self-isolating in part of the property."

The force adds: "We can further confirm that our officer gave no specific advice on coronavirus to any members of the family and that Durham Constabulary deemed that no further action was required in that regard."

But the officer did "provide the family with advice on security issues".

HERE

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

I’ve already said I’ll give you the childcare one.

The excuse for driving between Durham & Barnard Castle is not valid.

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That relates to the drive from London to Durham NOT his actions whilst in Durham and the surrounding areas.

The acting PCC for Durham has written to Durham CC and requested a full investigation

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Well cheers for giving me the childcare one, I wasn't aware I was seeking any approval on it though. :)

He has left his residence for medical reasons, it's perfectly valid.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Interestingly he’s just stated that his parents house is five miles from the hospital in Durham (Dryburn) yet to test his eyesight he drives to Barnard Castle rather than into say central Durham then out onto the A689 and to the A1 and back.

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So during the lockdown it would have been perfectly acceptable For me to go out for a ride on my motorbike to see if I could get rid of a headache?

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Motorbikes are noisy, I don't see how they could cure a headache. :angel:

Next?

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Sounds legit...

On a more serious note, driving to test your eyesight could be construed as an offence under the RTA 1988 Section 96

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

So I could of driven my car ?

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

And there we have it, the evidence right there that it's barely over an hour since Dom's statement and there is GIF's and fake mockery doing the circles already. Pathetic.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Absolutely, the government haven’t been held to any account for days.

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did we?

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Out of all the things that have happened mockery is pretty universal and rather harmless.

Like this one:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EY4NPZxX...jpg&name=small

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

The evidence is that people are mocking someone who would take a 4 year old child* in a car when he wasn't sure if his eyesight was safe for driving - He said his vision had been "a bit weird" so his wife suggested to "drive down the road" to check it.

*the one he had driven over 260 miles to keep safe.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Ha, absolutely, my MP Craig Whittaker was one of the MPs calling for him go and he doesn’t put his head above the parapet for nothing or nobody.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Do you think it would help you?

An headache is hardly a serious ailment. So I doubt it would save you had you been stopped. Dom and his wife were just coming over far more serious issues, potentially, Covid-19. They were outside of the quarantine required.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

With all due respect, getting into a car when your vision has been a bit weird, with the family might I add to test to see if your eye site is OK would probably not save you either.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Vision can be weird but was it totally defective to the point he could no longer legally drive at all, clearly not.

Next?

(and btw this is not a license for you to barrage me with constant nitty gritty arguments Mythica.)

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Oh look, I sign in to twitter to see the following trending:

News · Trending
#ScumMedia
Trending with: #mediascum

Dom 1 - Media 0

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First of all I’d like to apologise for the ‘oh be quiet’ comment written in frustration. Hopefully you will accept.

However, I think the press would be all over any senior advisor regardless of which political party he was working for if they acted in the same way.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

You just know how stone cold crazy this is getting when you have pratts like Alastair Campbell lecturing the government on lying when he and his former boss lied through their teeth on WMD and took us in to an unnecessary war.

Re: Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures
 

Maybe they couldn’t see very well?

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Not good news for those who take full advantage of the hedging and ditching season! :D

Seriously, these character assassination tactics are pathetic and I think his interview this afternoon has done him a lot of good with the public.

These vindictive reporters are doing themselves no favours, and frankly, this will show up the BBC to be anti-Conservatives for all to see. That will do their 'politically neutral' argument no good at all!

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If vision is weird, you don't step into a car to see if you are able to drive. That's common sense.

Edit to add that if anything did happen then I'd doubt your insurance would cover you either.