The Cummings affair

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[Im-a-Ridah]

[cdlxxvi]

[panrider_uk]

[cdlxxvi]

[Diggs]

I agree it needs to be dropped. Trouble is, Boris wants to sweep it under the carpet rather than do the right thing and that will perpetuate it.
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[Riejufixing]

[Riejufixing]

[Kickstart]

[Rebel]

The media are enemies of the people. Traitorous minions of an enslavement agenda. They will promote societal division and rancour at every opportunity.

[cdlxxvi]

[Rebel]

I'm all in favour of a brazen approach but all this could have been avoided with a touch of the revolving door politics employed by the left when their own oily degenerates get busted. I recall Vaz was caught providing cocaine to Romanian 'decorators' and was back in a select committee within months.

[Lord Percy]

[Ste]

Dominic Cummings did break lockdown rules when he made a 50-mile journey to Barnard Castle, an investigation by Durham Police has concluded.

The Prime Minister’s most senior aide claimed he made the trip on Easter Sunday, with his wife and four-year-old son, to check he was fit to drive after suffering coronavirus-related eyesight problems.

Mr Cummings insisted he had acted “lawfully and reasonably” at all times when he made the 260-mile journey from London to Durham to self-isolate at his parents’ farm at the end of March.

But The Telegraph has learned that an investigation by Durham Police has concluded he did commit a "minor breach" of the guidelines when he drove to Barnard Castle on April 12.

However the force, which according to the most recent data, has issued 137 fines for lockdown breaches, said it would not be taking any further action against Mr Cummings.

The force said it did not consider Mr Cummings had breached the regulations when self-isolating at his father’s farm in Durham at the end of March but that the trip to Durham did constitute a “minor breach”.

Its statement said the journey “might have been a minor breach of the regulations that would have warranted police intervention”.

The statement went on: “Durham Constabulary view this is as minor because there was no apparent breach of social distancing.”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/28/dominic-cummings-did-breach-coronavirus-guidelines-durham-police/

[Riejufixing]

Thare y'go. So which "special ones" who may have been doing their own breach of guidelines are going to keep whingeing.

[Lord Percy]

I don't think it's really about the he-said she-said tit-for-tat debate over what Cummings specifically did. Everyone know he did something a little bit wrong, and everyone know he isn't the first British person to have done such a thing. The reason most people are so pissed off is that nobody from Boris et al have done a thing about it. The previous two advisors who broke the rules were not given such desperate amounts of leeway to keep them in a job. They were gone within a day! The desperate protection of Cummings, the unelected bureaucrat who hates unelected bureaucrats, is what has really pissed people off. And quite rightly!

[BTTD]

[panrider_uk]

Personally I dislike this culture of anyone in politics who makes a minor mistake must immediately resign.

Ok for gross misconduct, as in private industry, but for misdemeanours - no.
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[Howling Terror]

A sincere apology would've gone a long way.

Now it appears he and his boss have contempt towards us plebs.
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[panrider_uk]

Or, perhaps, Boris values him as an advisor and is prepared to fight to keep him.

Personally I like that in a boss.
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[Ste]

Boris made the choice to back his buddy rather than to back the public health guidelines / legislation.

As for the culture of if anyone in politics who makes a minor mistake must immediately resign, Cummings isn't just anyone in politics, he's the chief advisor to the prime minister.

[Howling Terror]

I've not seen much fight, deflection yes.

80 members are also not happy with how the boss is handling this with 44 asking for Cummings to resign. That's conservative members.

Puts the boss on a weak footing when decisions are questioned by so many on their team.
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[panrider_uk]

[Howling Terror]

Numerically yes.
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