A Southport Councillor has called for the public to keep calm and carry on carrying out COVID guidelines. The call follows revelations that the Prime Minister's chief advisor Dominic Cummings (left) has been caught completely flouting the rules by a 530 mile round trip to place his child in the care of vulnerable pensioner parents in Durham.

"The vast majority of British people have been amazingly tolerant despite sometimes massive personal pressures during the past nine weeks," says Councillor Dawson. "They have gritted their teeth and maintained social distancing."

"It is dangerous for anyone to 'jump the gun' and start behaving in an unsafe manner simply because of the well-publicised recklessness of those who think they are above the rest of us and immune from obeying the rules. Despite our frustration with these people, we still must do as they say, not as they do."

Councillor Dawson is presently engaged, together with his colleague, Dr John Pugh, in calling on the small number of highly-vulnerable self-isolated residents in central Southport and west Birkdale who have not maintained contact with the statutory services.

He said:

"I would love to be helping my own daughter through my regular baby-sitting of my own grandchildren who are only 40 miles away, not 260. But we decided to isolate weeks before the official announcement came out for the children's safety and for my own. And we are keeping to this despite the massive temptations of the lovely weather."

"I also remember being a parent myself. It is totally ridiculous to suggest that a pair of parents cannot look after a single child at home - yet they can coop themselves up in a car with him while they are apparently well enough to drive for ten hours and to place their child in the care of highly-vulnerable pensioners who should be fully-isolated. Ridiculous."

"I also have very elderly neighbours and relatives who I do a bit to support. We in Britain have kept thousands of people alive through our collective and individual discipline in the past nine weeks."

"I appeal to Southport residents to maintain their discipline. The rules are not the rules of a handful of reckless people in Westminster who have set an appalling example. They are OUR rules which are keeping our vulnerable friends, neighbours and relatives alive."

As hypocritical as Cummings was, I did think last night how long before Cllr Boreson would try to find a tenuous reason to link to Southport and attack the government and make himself seem good. Anyone would think he’s up for re-election but at least he’s not trying to be a Southport councillor from Denver again.

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Originally Posted by Alikado

Apparently this was his second visit to Durham under lockdown and a 500 mile round trip to sort out childcare doesn't conform to lockdown rules, and symptoms are symptoms, the rules say anybody showing symptoms must and the whole household must self isolate.

Yes, but their tories. They make it up and change the rules to suit themselves as they go along.

council dawson to correct you on one major point in your dialogue.these are not our rules but the rules thrown at us at a very very big cost all round!theres many of thousands of us silently obeying,yet in no way taking possession of its dogma,in your collective embrace.

So let's get this right.

I sat through the briefings when it was all announced and I was CERTAIN doing something like this was forbidden.

My daughter's partner was immobile with back problems and she was trying to look after my grand-daughter and him while working from home. They live 180 miles away and if I had known I could help I would have gone. But in fact we even spent a couple of days working out whether we could even go as far as Ainsdale.

But apparently that would have been fine all along. Gove says so, and he is my touchstone for honesty.

So what you do is you put the child in a car for a five-hour journey and you take with you the parent who has already got symptoms. The parent who has a sister who lives ten minutes from their home. A 520 mile round trip. What a car they must have if they didn't stop for fuel. What a car they must have if the child was two metres from his parents.What constitutions they must have if they didn't need to stop for food or toilets.

If there was an iota of integrity here there would have been an apology . Preferably from Cummings, but that is apparently impossible. But what we have had is straightforward lies about what the rules where, and the hopeless Grant Shapps wheeled out to say them.

I sympathise with the police trying to enforce all of this. It must have been tough before, particularly with the criticism they have been given. But now every selfish idiot they stop will quote this example to them.

Originally Posted by bensherman

So let's get this right.

I sat through the briefings when it was all announced and I was CERTAIN doing something like this was forbidden.

My daughter's partner was immobile with back problems and she was trying to look after my grand-daughter and him while working from home. They live 180 miles away and if I had known I could help I would have gone. But in fact we even spent a couple of days working out whether we could even go as far as Ainsdale.

But apparently that would have been fine all along. Gove says so, and he is my touchstone for honesty.

So what you do is you put the child in a car for a five-hour journey and you take with you the parent who has already got symptoms. The parent who has a sister who lives ten minutes from their home. A 520 mile round trip. What a car they must have if they didn't stop for fuel. What a car they must have if the child was two metres from his parents.What constitutions they must have if they didn't need to stop for food or toilets.

If there was an iota of integrity here there would have been an apology . Preferably from Cummings, but that is apparently impossible. But what we have had is straightforward lies about what the rules where, and the hopeless Grant Shapps wheeled out to say them.

I sympathise with the police trying to enforce all of this. It must have been tough before, particularly with the criticism they have been given. But now every selfish idiot they stop will quote this example to them.

Yep, you summed it up quite nicely there.
Mind boggling isn’t it?

Originally Posted by donkey22

Cummings will be one of the last to go go. Who else will step into pull Boris’s puppet strings?
If you think he should go, sign this petition.
https://www.change.org/p/boris-johns..._share_initial

Out of curiosity, where do you stand in regards to Stephen Kinnock? Apparently he deemed it essential to travel to sing Happy Birthday to his dad Neil!

It seems to me that across the board MP’s seem to believe that it’s do as we say, not as we do!

Originally Posted by Sap33

Out of curiosity, where do you stand in regards to Stephen Kinnock? Apparently he deemed it essential to travel to sing Happy Birthday to his dad Neil!

It seems to me that across the board MP’s seem to believe that it’s do as we say, not as we do!

I agree with you. Personally I feel Stephen Kinnock was in the wrong and any police action taken against him by the Police is completely justified. I’m not a Labour member/supporter. I’m not a supporter of any of the 3 major parties.
But what is going on with Dominic C*ntings is disgraceful. It’s obvious why boris won’t let him go though. Take away his puppet master and he’s screwed. Elect a clown, expect a circus.

After that media interview Dawson will be foaming at the mouth to post more tenuously linked stories and his little gifs on the other site.

It’d be nice to have more electives focussed on Southport rather than their own personal/party agendas.