Cronus wrote:
Good to see one person not suffering from Cummings rabies, unlike some of the - shall we say - less sophisticated thinkers on here.
I have some sympathy. If my wife and I had symptoms the only person who could care for our daughter would be my cousin. That would require me to travel, and I wouldn't wait given the speed CV19 can hit. Is that so bad? There is certainly leeway in the rules for childcare and safeguarding. Yes, it looks bad but this overreaction is completely out of all perspective and has turned from a serious reaction to a wildly hysterical and very distasteful witch-hunt, absolutely motivated by the fact Cummings is the architect of Brexit and Boris's right-hand man.
Interesting, not a peep on here against the like of Stephen Kinnock, Robert Jenrick, Catherine Calderwood, Neil Ferguson, Kyle Walker and others - including a particularly reprehensible member of this forum - for breaking lockdown rules. I have some sympathy with Kinnock and Jenrick - IF their accounts of taking food and medicine to elderly parents are true. The rest take the p.ss.
Whatever he's done, the absolute scum harassing and screaming abuse at him outside his family home deserve a few nightsticks around the head. Islington luvvies and rent-a-mob hyenas, the usual left-wing lynch-mob. Despicable. I include the swarming media pap rats in that.
His statement later will be interesting. Dramatic "fck you" resignation, or something else?
Really cant see him resigning it think he will, as the "yoof" put it, be "styling it out".
I think this will be his last and perhaps only chance of survival.
IF he can convince people that he had a genuine case for travelling to his parents and there were no other options, especially closer to home, then he may hang on but, if his response doesn't make this go away, then he simply has to resign (or be sacked).
Should be interesting to see whether he goes for answering questions or, whether he goes for mumbling nonsense, like his employer did yesterday.
As for not being liked, the old adage about treating people well on the way up springs to mind.
This guy has ridden rough shod ove all sorts of "his own" people to get where he wants and there is a long, long queue waiting to stick the boot in.
If he and his wife had such symptoms, should he really have made a 4/5 hour trip up the A1 and was there really no trustworthy help any nearer to his home residence ?
