He wanted to make sure he was safe to drive...so he packed up the car with his wife and kids. Yeah, put the kids in the car when you're worried you can't drive. It makes no sense.Westminster Politics
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He wanted to make sure he was safe to drive...so he packed up the car with his wife and kids. Yeah, put the kids in the car when you're worried you can't drive. It makes no sense.Well this is beyond being ridiculous. This is a nail in the coffin for the government and Boris.
How have none of the journalists asked him about that.Suddenly world leaders have discovered that, actually, public and media pressure doesn't mean shit. Scary times.
I didnt say it wasnt a big deal. Re read my post that he quoted saying id be lynched.
Dont put words into my mouth
Does he really think anyone believes this bullshit?
He is absolutely refusing to acknowledge that he is in the wrong whatsoever.
Just acting on instinct, in the same way he drove across the country to self isolate rather than do it where you are currently living when you suspect you might have covid-19.Why didn't he test his eyesight without his child in the car for one thing
Yep.
So did he mention that he was having issues with his visions to the experts who told him it was ok to return to Downing St? Surely no expert would have advised he drove 250 miles in that situation?
Think someone just did, a woman journo. No mention that it was his wife’s birthday though.
Now you get it. That is why i said it's a waste of time.
This is bollocks, this is on Prince Andrew level of bullshit. The media aren't going to let this go and neither will the public.
Like I said earlier, it’s Prince Andrew levels of delusion. I think this is going to receive the same levels of memetic ridicule.
Can't remember if he stopped for petrol now.
Does his wife not drive or does he just not allow her to drive?
I love that he thinks this will calm the situation down. This is the ultimate karma for this fecking Government and him for ruining this country.
Baring in mind his kid couldn’t make it back from the castle without needing a piss.
He's not the only one taking the piss.
I think Cummings will survive this, in the sense that he will keep his job.
But I think it's the end of the road for him too. The idea that he was a political savant was always based on uncertain foundations. He was an arsehole, a 'nonconformist' and a man who was tolerated as long as you could believe his own proclamations about how smart he was. The abrasiveness, the outsider status, and the divisiveness were part of a personal brand that only works if people believe you that you're a step ahead.
All of that has been massively exposed over the past few days, he's been exposed as a spoofer who's making it up as he goes along, who's a prick because he's a prick not because he's special and who has no more of the answers than anyone else.
He only works if he's in the shadows avoiding scrutiny, he'll spend the rest of his days in Downing Street as an increasingly isolated joke figure and be ousted for the next rising star bullshit artist when the Tories think it's safe to do so.
But I think it's the end of the road for him too. The idea that he was a political savant was always based on uncertain foundations. He was an arsehole, a 'nonconformist' and a man who was tolerated as long as you could believe his own proclamations about how smart he was. The abrasiveness, the outsider status, and the divisiveness were part of a personal brand that only works if people believe you that you're a step ahead.
All of that has been massively exposed over the past few days, he's been exposed as a spoofer who's making it up as he goes along, who's a prick because he's a prick not because he's special and who has no more of the answers than anyone else.
He only works if he's in the shadows avoiding scrutiny, he'll spend the rest of his days in Downing Street as an increasingly isolated joke figure and be ousted for the next rising star bullshit artist when the Tories think it's safe to do so.
I know its been said before, but all those poor people who didn't have any symptoms at all but still missed the last days of a parent's life because they were following the rules .... a time you can never get back and a memory you'll have for the rest of your life.
So the kid can't last 30 minutes without having to piss, but had no issues from London to Durham??
Why are they trying to make the cnut apologise? Pick apart his bs story which has so many holes.
at least he hasn't lashed out at one of the journalists
Gives a detailed account of his activities for a few weeks, but can't remember how many times he stopped for petrol.
How can he not remember if he stopped. I have the shittest memory going and even I can remember stopping for petrol etc.
They've probably known that for a long time, they just seem to be testing how far they can push it in countries where people assume having a democracy stops this sort of crap.
Jeff Sessions likes this.
Like, rightly or wrongly I might be able to understand why he went to Durham.
But this whole castle visit. Like what the feck? If I wanted to test if I could drive, I would go for a drive and come back home. Not get the family in and go to any particular location. That’s the bit that makes no logical sense and the bit that should really be stamped on.
But this whole castle visit. Like what the feck? If I wanted to test if I could drive, I would go for a drive and come back home. Not get the family in and go to any particular location. That’s the bit that makes no logical sense and the bit that should really be stamped on.
The people who voted Tory at the last election won't give a solitary shit. Negligible impact after 2 days and the next news cycle starts, in my opinion.
Moderate Tory MPs are likely the only ones who matter and it will impact (because they will be ashamed by the new way things are run)
I still can't figure out why he's done this. I can't fathom which bit he thought would get him out of this.
ITV News should have made Piers Morgan their Political Editor for the day. Would have done a better job than Peston.
criticise the post not the poster.
not sure calling me a pleb is in the spirit of this forum, pretty pathetic reply.
Wonder if the parents who had to stay away from their 13 year old's deathbed and funeral fall into what Cummings deems "exceptional circumstances"? Would be nice to get a list from him of who exactly doesn't have to listen to the rules, just so everyone is clear.
Stopped watching not long after he mentioned the testing eyesight part. He's mocking us.
Thats where i am. I can see why he done what he did without agreeing with it.
But the castle thing was bollocks
how is this still going
Put Harvey Spector up next, will pick him apart
Peston and Laura K were a complete waste of time.