When you've got to go, you've got to go!

[Hamble]

Was travelling 2 hours for a Coronavirus test an exception to the rule?




https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/le...tests-workers-
150-miles-18197346

[Alikado]

In the same circumstances what would you have done ?

Taken your wife and child to a place of known, secure, long term safety or what exactly ?

I don't like the man but I would have done the same thing, which caring father wouldn't ?

I would have dropped my wife and children in John o groats if i thought it was the safest place, driving through the night and distancing myself if i had to stop.

Hundreds have been in the same position or worse and followed the rules - STAY AT HOME

Rather than drive 250 miles whilst sick wouldn't it have been more logical to meet half way and meet at Nottingham or Leeds?
Also if his missus was sick why did she travel?

[Toodles McGinty]

There's always going to be comments about Cummings that are flavoured by Remainer fury against him. Furthermore, there is the underlying motivation to try to get Brexit undone, and to see Cummings undone with it. Add to this that Cummings doesn't cut a sympathetic presence.

Still, it's a sorry tale of hubris.

I'd agree with your last sentence, but not the rest.

There is no way of stopping Brexit, as far as I can see. There may be public consensus for an extension of the transition period, given our current circumstances. There is definitely, according to polling, a preference for a deal, rather than a devastatingly damaging 'no-deal'. Even among the majority of Leave voters. But the whole 'stop Brexit' ship has long since sailed. We just need to get on with it. I'd rather it was with leaders that weren't so hell bent on no-deal', but that's what the country voted for.

As far as Cummings is concerned, I dislike his reported methods, his disregard for the general public (kill the oldies for the economy), for the civil service and for his contempt for everyone whom he deems less intelligent than he is. I dislike bullies. On the other hand, he's said a lot of things that make sense. He thinks that the referendum was 'dumb'. That Tory MPs have no regard for the NHS or the poor. History has proven him right.

It is generally accepted that he's the power behind the throne. That he's the architect first of the 'herd immunity' debacle, then after a swift change of mind, the lockdown situation. As I said before, there are people who have followed the lockdown regulations. Who haven't seen their families for months. Who haven't been able to see their kids born. Their family members in hospital. Who haven't been able to hug a loved one, or hold their hands as they died. Those who died alone. Those who haven't been able to attend funerals of people they love. And the PM has just basically crapped all over those people. By supporting a man who can disregard those rules and flit about as he wants. The 'childcare' excuses are pitiful. Not when he's tiptoeing through the bluebells.

As mentioned earlier, I also think Kinnock and Jenrick should be sacked, just as Ferguson and Calderwood were. But it's one law for some.

[Hamble]

Hundreds have been in the same position or worse and followed the rules - STAY AT HOME

Rather than drive 250 miles whilst sick wouldn't it have been more logical to meet half way and meet at Nottingham or Leeds?
Also if his missus was sick why did she travel?

Only one person in that car could drive?

[local]

Hundreds have been in the same position or worse and followed the rules - STAY AT HOME

Rather than drive 250 miles whilst sick wouldn't it have been more logical to meet half way and meet at Nottingham or Leeds?
Also if his missus was sick why did she travel?

Their not in his position and split journeys doesn't seem sensible, 4-5 hours in his car would not be much of a hardship.

He unlike the rest of us peasants had to look for a place that offers security and long term safe care plus possibly the ability to cope if they both died.

Splitting the family wasn't necessary as they could all be safe in one place.

This story is not about the journey it's about the man and the mistaken belief that he is the sole architect of Brexit and the power behind the Prime Minister.

The ones who didn't grasp the issues over Brexit nor why people voted for it and Boris are venting their vacuous ire with half a story whipped up.

Their Faux outrage is fleeting and politically based further undermining some of their reasonable concerns over our future.

The wall of noise is turning people away from the real issues, the short thinkers just don't get it which is why they keep backing the losing horse.

[Lamparilla]

It's just been announced that Cummings is going to make a statement, and take questions, later today.

I can predict that we'll get the childcare, doting father, childcare, fatherly love etc etc.

He's the only father in the country, didn't you know?

There are reports that his son has autism. I don't know a huge amount about it, but I thought that autistic children need a stable, predictable environment with no sudden interruptions or changes. Parental training in this would presumably override instinct.

[Toodles McGinty]

It's just been announced that Cummings is going to make a statement, and take questions, later today.

I can predict that we'll get the childcare, doting father, childcare, fatherly love etc etc.

I've just seen this too.

Why on earth would this SpAd be making a statement on national television? He isn't a politician. He isn't a celebrity. He's a backroom minion, isn't he?

So he's basically shoved Johnson to one side, and snapped at him "Move you idiot, I'll handle this myself". Johnson stares at the floor and shuffles his feet, whispering "OK Dom".

What an absolute joke. He'll just regurgitate his Cabinet's forced tweets: father, care, child, wife, family, not the time to make a political issue...blah blah blah.

What a shambles. They've pulled back the curtain this time. The Great Oz appearing officially.

[Toodles McGinty]

Treating their constituents with utter contempt. Again. Following Dom's instructions to the letter:

[Hector]

Treating their constituents with utter contempt. Again. Following Dom's instructions to the letter:

Contemptuous, but not very smart.

[Toodles McGinty]

It's just been announced that Cummings is going to make a statement, and take questions, later today.

I can predict that we'll get the childcare, doting father, childcare, fatherly love etc etc.

Or he could be announcing that he's sacking Johnson...

[local]

If Cummings was the puppet master surely he would send his puppet out with a renewed script.

If as I suspect nothing will appease the remoaners and their media outlets then he will have to speak past their editing to the public, that will be very hard.

He is not explaining his trip to the losers more defending Brexit and Boris.
If he achieves that I have some sawdust for him to plait whilst climbing a greasy pole in the dark.

As I keep saying he will easily find work elsewhere, the one from middle earth is formidably bright, weird but bright and that frightens the remoaners.

[Alikado]

If Cummings was the puppet master surely he would send his puppet out with a renewed script.

If as I suspect nothing will appease the remoaners and their media outlets then he will have to speak past their editing to the public, that will be very hard.

He is not explaining his trip to the losers more defending Brexit and Boris.
If he achieves that I have some sawdust for him to plait whilst climbing a greasy pole in the dark.

As I keep saying he will easily find work elsewhere, the one from middle earth is formidably bright, weird but bright and that frightens the remoaners.

He sent the puppet out but it didn't go well the strings got entangled and the record stuck.
The media do seem to have their teeth firmly embedded and not giving up, whether they continue after the statement remains to be seen, only if another bigger story pops up.
He was explaining his trip and it took balls to try it but I think it raised as many questions as it answered, he's got a lot of sawdust to plaid.

[local]

A meek and humble appearance yet with quite a hint of arrogance.

The castle stop is surely going to be pursued.

No fireworks anywhere, something of a damp squib really, but even if this goes away it's only till the next wave of remoaner inspired vitriol.

Hopefully some of the journalists will put country before story and gird their loins till this pandemic is subdued.

The reality is that his working in Downing Street clearly does not have the power balance that some think.

[Toodles McGinty]

Still waiting to hear something 'exceptional'.

I do hope the Met confirm the 'threats' were reported to them.

'I went for a drive to test my eyesight' is on a par with 'I stayed in a New York town house with a paedo to tell him we were no longer friends'.

And all of it contradicted by his wife's Spectator column.

Watching a SpAd holding court in the Rose Garden of Downing Street like some kind of royalty is not the best hour of Bank Holiday viewing I've ever had, but it was certainly informative.

I'm now going to stick my family in the car and drive to the offy to see if I've drunk enough...

[Hector]

I'm now going to stick my family in the car and drive to the offy to see if I've drunk enough...

Copyright that quickiy.