Dominic Cummings visited parents during lockdown measures

Originally Posted by pip08456

His wife did not mention the location. The Daily Mail assumed. Every quote of her in the article is from the Spectator piece she did.

Well, the only location Wakefield mentions in her article is London, implying that is where the family stayed for the duration of their isolation; she appears to have omitted the fact that they were in Durham in her Spectator piece - purely by accident, probably...

She did, however, in the Spectator article mention

After the uncertainty of the bug itself, we emerged from quarantine into the almost comical uncertainty of London lockdown.

She probably didn’t think it relevant to mention driving 260-odd miles whilst emerging...

[Pierre]

The daily conference was an utter farce this evening,

I learnt nothing new, the press may be able to smell blood in the water, but I’m sure most of the nation couldn’t give a shit about Cummings.

This has been the problem with the Lobby briefings throughout this whole crisis. It is a public health crisis and we need public health information. Yes, of course there's a political dimension but it is vastly more important that 60+ million people know what's expected of them and what the outlook is, not whether one of the prime minister's political advisers should or shouldn't have gone out driving and whether he should resign. But of course the ladies and gentlemen of the Press are bored with coronavirus now and would much rather be back in their own happy place, doorstepping politicians and peddling scandal.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Pierre

The daily conference was an utter farce this evening,

I learnt nothing new, the press may be able to smell blood in the water, but I’m sure most of the nation couldn’t give a shit about Cummings.

I think you're probably right, most of us couldn't care more than tutting when the news was announced any more than we could when it was Ferguson or that Scottish non entity but they were forced to resign and the likes of Hancock and IDS both said they'd done the right thing, they said much about the most recent cummings and goings?

Originally Posted by Chris

This has been the problem with the Lobby briefings throughout this whole crisis. It is a public health crisis and we need public health information. Yes, of course there's a political dimension but it is vastly more important that 60+ million people know what's expected of them and what the outlook is, not whether one of the prime minister's political advisers should or shouldn't have gone out driving and whether he should resign. But of course the ladies and gentlemen of the Press are bored with coronavirus now and would much rather be back in their own happy place, doorstepping politicians and peddling scandal.

Expected of them but not expected of those making the rules

If you do it daily then the virus information isn't going to change that much so it will become like this.

I don't think it stops new information coming out it's just whichever story is the obsession of the day will take prominence. Yesterday it was all about the quarantine measures for example.

Another fabulous remark:

I'm currently teaching my 4 year old how to iron my clothes, put a casserole in the oven, change a plug, and put cleaning products above head height, as I have Covid symptoms and he needs to be self sufficient. #HeWillBeOkay #FingersCrossed #Parenting

Police are still saying they spoke to the family, No 10 still saying they didn't.

I wonder why Dom or Mary didn’t contact either of Mary Wakefield’s brothers (Maximilian & Jack) for assistance/support, both of whom live in London?

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Hugh

I wonder why Dom or Mary didn’t contact either of Mary Wakefield’s brothers (Maximilian & Jack) for assistance/support, both of whom live in London?

Who knows? who care’s? Maybe they don’t Get on, plenty of my family I don’t speak to or care for.

You know it’s supercilious comments like the one above that really boils my piss.

[1andrew1]

Wow! Seven pages already. Certainly seems to be a keen interest in this story.

[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Damien

Police are still saying they spoke to the family, No 10 still saying they didn't.

Police are saying they spoke to “the owners of a property”

Did they get the wrong house?

[Taf]

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https://twitter.com/britainelects/st...45427781722118

On whether Dominic Cummings should or should not resign from his job as advisor to the Prime Minister:

Should resign: 52%
Should not resign: 28%

via @YouGov, 23 May

Cummings will keep his job but it's another hit for the Government to take.

[nomadking]

They were still self-isolating, in that they didn't have contact with any other household. That is the underlying criteria.

Most of those saying he should resign, are the ones who have been saying the same thing long before now.

Love to know what they should've done in such a short time frame to arrange anything.