Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures

[denphone]

Originally Posted by jfman

She has resigned.

Do you want me to be outraged that she resigned? That’s not really appropriate tbh.

l am certainly not outraged but disappointed like many are that those in positions higher up have a duty to lead by example and obey the lockdown rules like the rest of us.

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Originally Posted by papa smurf

Hidden den,it's hidden in another article.

l was trying to answer the question papa you posed.

[jfman]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

No i don't expect standards just carry on as normal.

It took a few weeks but after she was caught out she jumped before she was pushed, had she not been exposed i guess she would have just carried on regardless.

My standards are carrying on as normal.

Are you now saying Dom should give resigned, or that she shouldn’t have? It’s certainly an inconsistency that some have to reconcile but not me.

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by jfman

My standards are carrying on as normal.

Are you now saying Dom should give resigned, or that she shouldn’t have? It’s certainly an inconsistency that some have to reconcile but not me.

1 Re your standards,i can confirm they are at the usual level.
2 She is a sitting MP who only resigned as a last resort after she was exposed,she didn't own up until the story hit the papers.
3 Dom is just an adviser not a member of the gov or any political party,he's had a bollocking as is the norm when an employee steps out of line.

Originally Posted by papa smurf

1 Re your standards,i can confirm they are at the usual level.
2 She is a sitting MP who only resigned as a last resort after she was exposed,she didn't own up until the story hit the papers.
3 Dom is just an adviser not a member of the gov or any political party,he's had a bollocking as is the norm when an employee steps out of line.

Evidence, please, of his employer bollocking him?

[papa smurf]

Originally Posted by Hugh

Evidence, please, of his employer bollocking him?

Boris Johnson gives Dominic Cummings final warning after COVID-19 lockdown row
https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...mings-lockdown

A senior Downing Street source told the Mail on Sunday: “Dom’s been firmly put in his place.”

[ianch99]

Originally Posted by Julian

No surprise that the phone hacking *******s at that rag try to link a tory mp to that.

They are separated. He wasn't there. So absolutely nothing to do with him.

Nice try though.

Fair point.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

Boris Johnson gives Dominic Cummings final warning after COVID-19 lockdown row
https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...mings-lockdown

A senior Downing Street source told the Mail on Sunday: “Dom’s been firmly put in his place.”

'A Downing St source' that is probably Cummings himself

[ianch99]

Originally Posted by papa smurf

A senior Downing Street source told the Mail on Sunday: “Dom’s been firmly put in his place.”

But the "senior Downing Street source" is Dom Two personalities in one!

Just watched the Lords of the Rings: The Two Towers and Gollum reminded me of someone:

“Master carries heavy burden … Sméagol knows … Heavy, heavy burden. Fat one cannot know. Sméagol look after Master.”

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by denphone

Exactly she broke the rules so she had no option to resign as one should lead by example and obey lockdown rules like the rest of the country did for 9 weeks.

I love the way people think that nobody broke lockdown rules. I bet loads did.

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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth

I think the outrage should be the story doesn't seem to be on the BBC news website (not in a prominent position I can find anyway)!

However, this is just another example of people who should know better. It's good that she jumped but part of me wishes she hadn't as it would have been good to see if Kier would have been good to his word and sacked her as a whip.

Of course He would have, she’s expendable.

Originally Posted by denphone

Exactly she broke the rules so she had no option to resign as one should lead by example and obey lockdown rules like the rest of the country did for 9 weeks.

The rest of the country did no such thing.

Plenty of people did, but to claim that “the country” did, with the exception of a very few famous/important people, is blatant nonsense, as the news photos almost every day of the week for the past two months have shown.

I’m lucky enough to live in a beauty spot, and flagrant disregard of the continuing lockdown rules in Scotland forced the police to start closing roads yesterday to prevent the area getting overcrowded.

[jfman]

Originally Posted by Pierre

I love the way people think that nobody broke lockdown rules. I bet loads did.

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Of course He would have, she’s expendable.

Straw man alert. Nobody sincerely believes there’s 100% adherence to lockdown rules. It’s self evidently ridiculous to claim there is.

What is important is the double standards for people in leadership to tell the masses to do one thing while flouting their rules themselves.

[Carth]

Originally Posted by jfman

What is important is the double standards for people in leadership to tell the masses to do one thing while flouting their rules themselves.

I think you'll find that's nothing new

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Chris

The rest of the country did no such thing.

Plenty of people did, but to claim that “the country” did, with the exception of a very few famous/important people, is blatant nonsense, as the news photos almost every day of the week for the past two months have shown.

I’m lucky enough to live in a beauty spot, and flagrant disregard of the continuing lockdown rules in Scotland forced the police to start closing roads yesterday to prevent the area getting overcrowded.

l think you know exactly what l meant as no one is claiming that there was a 100% compliance with the lockdown rules as of course not everybody abided by the lockdown rules..

[jfman]

Originally Posted by Carth

I think you'll find that's nothing new

Indeed, but we are permitted to get pissed off from time to time about it in a healthy democracy.

[Mr K]

Originally Posted by denphone

l think you know exactly what l meant as no one is claiming that there was a 100% compliance with the lockdown rules as of course not everybody abided by the lockdown rules..

However you would expect those that made the rules, those 'in charge', to set an example and follow them religiously.Which they haven't - Jenrick, Cummings...

Lockdown's certainly finished around here and not being enforced. Grand kids staying with grandparents overnight etc. People now feel they have carte blanche as a result of Cummings. Lets hope in a few weeks time we aren't back at square one.