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Exactly. Putting a four year old child at increased and unnecessary risk just demonstrates further the character of the man.

Not suprising - the Tories won't care who they use as a pawn in their games....

So to sum up

On 30 April he self isolated
On 31 April DC went 250 miles without stopping whilst suffering from a virus that went on to totally debilitate him and his wife (according to her Spectator article) or he did stop (we don’t know) and he risked infecting others.
He went in case he needed childcare support but didn’t need it. He did need shopping though and he obviously can’t get that delivered in London.
It’s a sad indictment that he has no friend or family for 250 miles even though his brother in law lives in London and none of the Tory party, currently springing to his defence could be relied on.
On 1 May the police spoke to his father on the phone, he and a Downing St representative say they didn’, his father says he did
On 5 April he was playing with his son outside the house, again according to the Spectator, a somewhat miraculous recovery as he had collapsed and was in spasms.
12 April He popped to Barnard Castle, outside of the seven day lockdown so that’s fine(ish) if it was for exercise although he wasn’t well enough to return to work which he couldn’t do from home (he wasn’t at home).
13 April drove back to London.
14 April back at Downing St
19 April popped back to the North East another 500 mile round trip.
25 April The Spectator publishes his wife’s article on self isolation and coming out of it in a London during a pandemic.

The Tories say there is absolutely nothing wrong with any of his actions

Now BJ is not a details man and other than one farcical public broadcast and appearing at PMQ he has been invisible but surely even he can see this isn’t going well especially during a time the Government is losing control of the whole Coronavirus narrative

It just makes me smile everyone getting their knickers in a twist over Cummings actions (I don't care for him or Doris) and yet almost all on here are more than happy to break the speeding laws from time to time and get really angry when they have to suffer the consequences

Both these issues have been introduced in an attempt to save lives and you either think that's important or you don't, I do

p.s. as PeterG said politicians lying is hardly news is it

I would have agreed with you other than the total hypocrisy, one rule for you one for us, the piss poor attempt to play it down and cover it up, others who breached the guidelines not rules now apparently, being required to fall on their swords and resign and the lies his wife wrote that went unchallenged.

A bit of classic whataboutery, however I think that analogy only really works if the people speeding were the ones who introduced the speeding rules inthe first place.......

And yes politicans lie, but we deserve better.

As nobody knows whether or not the recovered population can or cannot be reinfected, the antibody test is worthless whoever does it. Until we know whether the antibodies are sufficient to mean no re infection I think we should follow safe distancing and basically stay home!

All very valid points, and fine for those who are retired, but if everyone did that society would collapse by the end of the year.
Over the summer all Governments are going to have to force people back to work school, etc, and accept the consequences, good or bad.

Have we ever had better, will we ever get better, I sincerely doubt it. Politicians are the same as everyone else, we all cockup now and again. Even Churchill...I can't remember about Pitt the Younger but pretty sure he did too.

However, as the media are focusing on the Prime Ministers trip to Durham, it's deflecting interest in all the other clusterf*cks the government are creating at the moment.

Cummings has done his job again