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Priti Patel yesterday: “We will not allow a small minority, a reckless minority to endanger us all so there will be penalties for those who break these mandatory measures.” What does “a source” have to say about this?
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He'll be faking photos again before long.
Seriously I never watch it but might tune in for this one.
He said jump. They said "how high?"
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/what-to-do-if-you-or-someone-you-live-with-has-coronavirus-symptoms/staying-at-home-if-you-or-someone-you-live-with-has-coronavirus-symptoms/
Would all Man Utd's 1995 squad been indulged as Cantona was when he kicked a fan at Palace?
Has any member of the public been fined/prosecuted/sacked for doing as Cummings did during the lockdown by the way?
There was a great Alas Smith and Jones sketch where Smith was singing this song on Durham railway station only for the loudspeaker to announce his train had been cancelled, so he switched to "Homeward Bound" by Simon and Garfunkel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9XcuN5hZwk
Thus -
(i) In a sub-optimal situation he chose the course of action most desirable for him and his family, in the process disregarding the instructions that he and his boss had ordered the public to abide by.
or
(ii) Faced with an absolutely appalling and dreadful dilemma - with the life of his small child at stake - he did what any husband and father worth his salt would do, even though it was against the (non legally binding) rules.
You decide.
https://twitter.com/hugorifkind/status/1264195126617874434
https://twitter.com/hugorifkind/status/1264196407382233091
'I'd desperately like us to have a different govt'
What a surprise.
Likewise if anyone has CCTV footage of Dom French kissing 16 strangers in a Moto service station forecourt leave it till summer OK?
He's pissed off the Hartley-Brewers and not just the Cadwallrs, this is the difference this time.
Isn't it obvious that these people just decided the rules didn't apply to them?
BoJo and Cummings seems akin to a dysfunctional marriage where there is coercive control and just a whole load of weird shit going on...the pair of them are very strange people....
https://twitter.com/Peston/status/1264178461628870658?s=20
Not quite as good as your position against Trump but good.
Dirk Bogarde to Johnson's James Fox.
It's slightly surreal thinking that Mrs Dom taking a dump at a motorway service station could take such prominence....did she, or didn't she? and if she did, did she close the lid before she flushed...or did she spread Covid microbes from her faecal matter into a public area?
https://twitter.com/pmasterton1985/status/1264145194196271104?s=20
Cummings is driving everyone crackers
He should go but I do not expect him to
Boris needs to come out fighting and I do not expect him to
Covid lockdown is peoples comfort zone and they do not want to leave
And it is bank holiday
https://twitter.com/niall_gooch/status/1264123286436405248?s=21
Retweeted by Piers. Followers:7.5m
If this isn't a comms disaster, I don't know what is.
Labour has handled their response very well, it's like a complete flip.
But did they? - I'm skeptical but people must make up their own minds.
If they were going to defend Cummings, why go for the horrifically unattractive "Classic Dom... Super Dad" line? Why not just say, "he made a serious mistake but was trying to do what he saw as the best for his family... Boris was very angry but has decided to forgive him as we all make mistakes"?
The only reason I can think of is that Johnson was well aware of where Cummings was, and approved it. That's a dangerous position and means the story has legs.
There's a lot riding on that word "access". Did he have "access" to family. If the nearest family was that far away I would argue "no" and he should have, as the next resort, to the local authority.
Not sad for the man. He was a fool to break the rules in the way he did and think he was above reprimand for it. It was an arrogance that has always typified him from what I have seen.
But I am sad for two specific reasons.
One because it gives a win to the scum who have always hated him simply because he was effective and on the opposite side from them in arguments- and I include a fair few on here in that description.
And two because he was undoubtedly right in the vast majority of things he did. He was a huge asset to both the Governance of this country and the Leave campaign.
But it appears that success then breeds, or rather reinforces, that arrogance.
No one should be above the law when people's lives are at stake, no one should get away with the crass hypocrisy he has displayed and no one should take the public for fools when trying to protect ones own career. He has done all these things and so should not survive.
Whether he will or not is something I am incapable of predicting.
Starmer is giving them space, it makes the "don't politicise this" defence look utterly ridiculous as no one is politicising it.
He ended with a vastly more centralised education system.
He was completely wrong.
My only thought is the degree to which Johnson's desire to radically transform Britain as he sees it to a new post-EU state is dependent on having Cummings and No.10 to whip the Civil Service into line.
IF Cummings is forced out, the power of No.10 will be weakened and the civil service will, as so might see it, seek to frustrate the Prime Minister's ambition.
The experience of watching Boris as London Mayor is he has an instinctive distrust of career public servants and prefers personal appointments with power centralised close to him and by-passing the orthodox channels.
He wouldn't be the first Prime Minister to operate that way - he won't be the last.
Would you hand your children to the local council rather than family, irrespective of how far they are away
It's a bizarrely bad line, inflicting needless damage by actively insulting the public. And there was another obvious line of defence which was nowhere near as awful.
As I say, it leads me to suspect Johnson knew so they had to go for the extreme defence. But it could be they are just crap.
If we give Cummings the benefit and he genuinely did this for his child's sake, he should do the honourable thing and resign, as he has clearly extremely seriously undermined the national effort and his entire government's virus strategy.
Comrade...I think scum is a bit harsh for people who disagree with Cummings on ideological grounds....
it's more preferable being called a c***
1) His claim is that the family left after his wife was showing symptoms. Is that, or is that not, in contradiction of the requirement that people with symptoms should isolate at their place of residence for seven days?
2) He spent this time at a property in County Durham. The government regulations are, AIUI, that you must not spend the night away from your primary residence. Therefore, is the argument that his primary residence is in County Durham?
As for the arguments over childcare, they are so utterly risible that they don’t deserve serious attention. Quite apart from the fact he clearly did not need any help with childcare, the worst imaginable way to get it is to drive all the way to the other end of the country.