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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Yes, well we mustn't let the facts get in the way of our feelings, must we?
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I think as far as the public goes, it's now made up his mind on this matter. The irony is that Cummings knows exactly how public sentiment works and understands this more than most. If it were anyone else but himself, Cummings would be advising Johnson to ask the adviser to resign or be sacked.
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Paragraph 6(2)b of the regulations gave DC the right to do what he did. The newspapers, who I thought had a duty to inform, should be making that clear rather than joining in with the tittle-tattle.
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If Boris Johnson had been able to link to
the rules in place at the time that Cummings drove to Barnard Castle and Durham permitting these trips then this entire matter would be history.
He couldn't, and I don't think anyone else can or they would have done so by now.
Sky News is compelled by Ofcom to be accurate and impartial. It would have checked carefully with its legal advisors before stating that
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Whether the PM wins or loses for supporting his top aide after he broke lockdown rules, he is paying the price, Beth Rigby writes.
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https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...mings-11994163
I can understand why fans of Dominic Cummings want him to keep him position at all costs - he's sharp, brings a new perspective and delivered Brexit and Boris to power. But at the heart of the matter is that the debacle Cummings generated threatens the success of the lockdown, according to Professor Stephen Reicher. He's a member of the government’s advisory group on behavioural science and told Good Morning Britain:
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If you look at the research it shows the reason why people observed lockdown was not for themselves, it wasn’t because they were personally at risk, they did it for the community, they did it because of a sense of ‘we’re all in this together’.
If you give the impression there’s one rule for them and one rule for us you fatally undermine that sense of ‘we’re all in this together’ and you undermine adherence to the forms of behaviour which have got us through this crisis.
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Originally Posted by Hugh
And since it was allegedly on the 19th April, and he had been in London from the 14th April, it was OK for him to drive 260 miles to have this exercise?
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To clarify the sighted trips made in addition to Durham:
12th April Barnard Castle. Not denied.
19th April Houghall Woods. Denied.
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Originally Posted by Mick
It was no such thing. For some leftie Pratt in the UK CS. Whoever it was, brought what is suppose to be a neutral element of government in to disrepute. The UK Civil Service acts on the Governments instructions and implements them. Not the other way round.
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I think The Daddy was just bringing some much-needed humour to the thread.
