The fundamental problem the PM has is that most of the British public dislike arrogance & hypocrisy. When you are presented with a combination of them both in an individual who is a powerful and unelected member of the Government, there lies the issue.
Had Cummings said straight off that he made a clear mistake, his wasn't thinking clearly due to illness, etc. and made a clear apology, this would have died down by now. The fact that he did not and further compounded his mistake with bullshit excuses is the reason this is still active. For a man who such a self-proclaimed genius, he is remarkably stupid.
A certain, renowned left wing journalist sums this whole debacle up well:
https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/stat...07510651535360
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Everyone defending Cummings would be baying for blood if Labour had won the election, Corbyn was PM in this crisis, & Seamus Milne had been caught breaking the lockdown.
UK politics is now as tribal as US - facts don't matter, only blind allegiance to the tribe. It's tragic.
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In contrast, this is what true leadership looks like:
Dutch PM didn't visit dying mother due to Covid-19 rules
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte was unable to visit his dying mother in her final weeks because he obeyed Covid-19 coronavirus restrictions against visiting care homes, his office said on Monday.
The news about Rutte emerged as Britain was gripped by a political row over allegations that the top aide to premier Boris Johnson broke Covid-19 rules to travel cross-country to stay on his parents' estate.
Rutte on Monday announced the death of 96-year-old Mieke Rutte-Dilling in a home in The Hague on May 13, nearly two months after the government shut all such institutions to the public on March 20.
"The prime minister has complied with all directives", Rutte's spokesman told AFP when asked about reports that the premier had stuck to the rules and so not seen his mother before she died.
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