Current Affairs Coronavirus Thread - Serious stuff !!!

[marnie]

90's acid house would have been acceptable..

He stopped off at Quadrant Park on the way.The little tinker.

 

[Tea_drinker]

That was the most cringiest tv since the office. That guy got roasted.

 

[tsubaki]

So, whilst technically, he didnt do anything actually prohibited, I am still rather puzzled. Why (if the reason was to safeguard his child/access a support network), the senior adviser to the PM, living in London, couldnt arrange support if he and his wife were unable to?

roydo it was absolutely prohibited; you were not allowed to do what he did

 

[Toast]

Do you have kids ?.....

I do.
And my eldest was stuck on Merseyside for months living with my parents as he wasn't allowed to travel back home, where it would have been far safer for him.

 

[LouReedwalkonthewildside]

The health secretary, Matt Hancock, underlined the point during the daily Downing Street press briefing on 3 April. “I end with the advice we all know. This advice is not a request, it is an instruction. Stay at home, protect lives and then you will be doing your part.”

 

[Catfish Blues]

The papers will be interesting tomorrow after they've received their memos off Boris.

Even The Scum on Sunday were giving Shapps grief just now.

The Mail and Express will support Johnson / Cummings, but I can see the likes of the Times and the Telegraph smelling blood and breaking rank again.

 

[neil999]

Do you have kids ?.....

Friends I know were in his exact situation, actually.. They had 2 kids they didn't leave their house as they knew it was the wrong thing to do, they are livid

 

[roydo]

Have I missed something? It was technically prohibited.

Well, it appears the circumstances he exploited, were not.

Essential travel was never banned. And if said travel was to ensure support was available, that was all fine and dandy. I mean, you are not wrong per ce, and like you, I laboured under the same understanding.

Its all a bit odd.

 

[davmaher]

When a large number of cabinet ministers come out in defence of an indefensible action (going against all advice) by an 'advisor', you know where the power lies.

If they had any sense, they'd throw Cummings under the bus and rightly so; instead, they're throwing themselves under the bus.

None of them would be in the Cabinet without Cummings wanting them there. If they don't defend him the chances are they would be out at the earliest opportunity themselves. So in terms of self-preservation they think they are better off defending Cummings than going against him.

 

[Tea_drinker]

That was live televised public humiliation. He tried to change the subject to the A66 to Ashby at one point. Superb.

 

[Toast]

‘F*** the Police’ more like.

I had that on vinyl.
Gutted it's long gone missing.
Bet it's worth a few bob now.

 

[davek]

Actually, there could be something a bit more sinister happening here - the full @davek theory.

Mary Wakefield's story about Cummings and C-19 is that he said "I feel bad" and essentially collapsed into bed straightaway. Reasonable - the illness is vicious.

But even C-19 suffers - not the asymptomatic ones - would find a drive of London to Durham almost an impossible physical ask, and let's be honest, incredibly dangerous with a child in the back. Both parents were unwell (as per Wakefield) - what if they swerved? What if they got halfway and couldn't physically drive any longer?

Or - and to return to the @davek theory - what if Dominic The Great Lad wasnt actually sick at any point, and was driving up for his Mum's birthday (also April, btw)?

It's not a therory with Johnson. That murdering scumbag was fit as a fiddle throughout the whole 'death's door' period. Taking the piss on a private ward for two days before getting off to his country home at Chequers for another 3 week holiday. He returned with a tan and a triple chin...at death's door my arse.

 

[Blues Harp]

Grant Schapps.... "an over qualified milk monitor" lol

 

[ToffeeTim]

The fella had no chance there. They knew it would be a roasting so sent out a lesser cabinet member. Predictable

 

[marnie]

He simply just has to go.Let the vultures circle.