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Kenshin
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Good.
That's exactly the press that needs to be.
Literally what was said by the government these past few days. Whether it's right or wrong doesn't matter, government said it's fine so nothing wrong with tabloid media reporting it as such.
Cause and effect.
Satire? lol
tsubaki
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unpixelate that picture and it would probably result in a headline of BRAVE DOM SAVES CHILD FROM LION
tsubaki
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I think they're putting the boot in, but it's a message missed in contrast with the 'sunny all week' addition
Kenshin
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Actually not this time lol
Anyone sensible will stay indoors despite what's going on, probably applies to me and you that one. Doesn't matter the story of the day , a lot of people will carry on as before for their own health.
But you do need cause and effect from this. Tabloid newspapers even as trashy as the star running a headline like that is direct consequence from what's been established at the government. That message has to be communicated in all honesty , because that was provided by the government line.
Take into consideration though that the type of person who would just start going out now we're probably not strict on the rules anyway so the climate doesn't change. It is joking around to suggest more people will flood out because that really isn't true.
But the headline still has to be reported as that in the barrel scraping media , as cause and effect of their decision. It's embarrassing that a UK newspaper can even run that story at all, but then here we are.
Cummings press conference: The emperor has no clothes
The first thing you noticed was the gulf between the image of Dominic Cummings and the reality of him.
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It's hard to know what to do with this. Let's say it's false, which you kind of have to hope it is. In that case he should resign for lying and breaking the rules which he himself set, as well as damaging public acceptance of the lock-down. He should also resign on the more superficial, but arguably more pertinent, basis that, as a political adviser, he does not understand that this story is inadequate to stop the coverage.
But what if he isn't? What if this is a thing he actually did? Then surely it is also the case that he should resign, on the basis that his judgment is hopelessly impaired. Testing your capacity to drive by driving is not a sensible thing to do. If you are going to do it, it is even less sensible to take a half hour drive instead of just going around the block. And if this really is something you insist on doing regardless, then do not put your child in the car, especially if their safety is ostensibly the reason you went to Durham in the first place.
In the end though, the real story today wasn't his strange timeline. That, by the end of the press conference, was more of a comedy subplot than anything else. The real story was the state of him. He was stripped of all the culture war defences he had built up over the last few years - weaponising the right-wing press over Brexit and firing off constant salvos of 'will of the people' gibberish. So what we saw was a slight and helpless figure. Once the lights were turned in on him, it was clear he wasn't up to it. Boris Johnson has staked his reputation on this man. He put his government on the line and risked his public health strategy in order to preserve him. Given the performance today, it's hard to work out why.
"Not only can Mary Wakefield, Dominic Cummings’ wife, drive, but in 2012 she won a Spectator travel essay competition - judged by Boris Johnson - in which she wrote: "I drove for an hour every morning, slaloming past the road-rage wrecks of battered trucks up the 135 from Dallas to Denton”. So clearly she could handle the A1 at a time when road traffic was at historic low.
She also recovered long before Cummings did - according to both their accounts - so why didn’t she just drive, instead of taking this eyesight-test-drive to a picturesque market town with the whole family in the car?
And why didn’t ANY of what Cummings said, make it into either his or Wakefield’s articles on their lockdown experience, if they didn’t know the trip was wrong, and best kept quiet?
There are SO many holes in this story it’s sinking faster than Chris Grayling’s imaginary ferries!
If his sight was failing, and he needed to get back to London, why didn't his wife drive?
She also recovered long before Cummings did - according to both their accounts - so why didn’t she just drive, instead of taking this eyesight-test-drive to a picturesque market town with the whole family in the car?
And why didn’t ANY of what Cummings said, make it into either his or Wakefield’s articles on their lockdown experience, if they didn’t know the trip was wrong, and best kept quiet?
There are SO many holes in this story it’s sinking faster than Chris Grayling’s imaginary ferries!
If his sight was failing, and he needed to get back to London, why didn't his wife drive?
Mcdrewson
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As for the story itself, it was incredibly bizarre, like the plot of some kind of straight-to-DVD midmarket American comedy. After attacking the media for telling lies, he proceeded to accept the two main stories they had uncovered about him - firstly that he had driven to Durham and secondly that he had then gone to Barnard Castle. His excuse for the latter journey was that he was unsure if his eyesight was working, so to test it out he took a half hour trip to a beauty spot with his wife and child in the car.Cummings press conference: The emperor has no clothes
The first thing you noticed was the gulf between the image of Dominic Cummings and the reality of him.
It's hard to know what to do with this. Let's say it's false, which you kind of have to hope it is. In that case he should resign for lying and breaking the rules which he himself set, as well as damaging public acceptance of the lock-down. He should also resign on the more superficial, but arguably more pertinent, basis that, as a political adviser, he does not understand that this story is inadequate to stop the coverage.
But what if he isn't? What if this is a thing he actually did? Then surely it is also the case that he should resign, on the basis that his judgment is hopelessly impaired. Testing your capacity to drive by driving is not a sensible thing to do. If you are going to do it, it is even less sensible to take a half hour drive instead of just going around the block. And if this really is something you insist on doing regardless, then do not put your child in the car, especially if their safety is ostensibly the reason you went to Durham in the first place.
In the end though, the real story today wasn't his strange timeline. That, by the end of the press conference, was more of a comedy subplot than anything else. The real story was the state of him. He was stripped of all the culture war defences he had built up over the last few years - weaponising the right-wing press over Brexit and firing off constant salvos of 'will of the people' gibberish. So what we saw was a slight and helpless figure. Once the lights were turned in on him, it was clear he wasn't up to it. Boris Johnson has staked his reputation on this man. He put his government on the line and risked his public health strategy in order to preserve him. Given the performance today, it's hard to work out why.
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As for the story itself, it was incredibly bizarre, like the plot of some kind of straight-to-DVD midmarket American comedy. After attacking the media for telling lies, he proceeded to accept the two main stories they had uncovered about him - firstly that he had driven to Durham and secondly that he had then gone to Barnard Castle. His excuse for the latter journey was that he was unsure if his eyesight was working, so to test it out he took a half hour trip to a beauty spot with his wife and child in the car.Cummings press conference: The emperor has no clothes
The first thing you noticed was the gulf between the image of Dominic Cummings and the reality of him.
It's hard to know what to do with this. Let's say it's false, which you kind of have to hope it is. In that case he should resign for lying and breaking the rules which he himself set, as well as damaging public acceptance of the lock-down. He should also resign on the more superficial, but arguably more pertinent, basis that, as a political adviser, he does not understand that this story is inadequate to stop the coverage.
But what if he isn't? What if this is a thing he actually did? Then surely it is also the case that he should resign, on the basis that his judgment is hopelessly impaired. Testing your capacity to drive by driving is not a sensible thing to do. If you are going to do it, it is even less sensible to take a half hour drive instead of just going around the block. And if this really is something you insist on doing regardless, then do not put your child in the car, especially if their safety is ostensibly the reason you went to Durham in the first place.
In the end though, the real story today wasn't his strange timeline. That, by the end of the press conference, was more of a comedy subplot than anything else. The real story was the state of him. He was stripped of all the culture war defences he had built up over the last few years - weaponising the right-wing press over Brexit and firing off constant salvos of 'will of the people' gibberish. So what we saw was a slight and helpless figure. Once the lights were turned in on him, it was clear he wasn't up to it. Boris Johnson has staked his reputation on this man. He put his government on the line and risked his public health strategy in order to preserve him. Given the performance today, it's hard to work out why.
It was all very Wizard of Oz.
She also omitted in that article that her son visited a hospital during the period, which you’d expect a parent to recollect as it is pretty worrying for anyone. I doubt it was privacy issues as she was happy to share that he “administered Ribena with the grim insistence of a Broadmoor nurse'.
And I forgot this gem - the writers are truly outdoing themselves this season.
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