Boris is on holiday.....again

He def has the Remain/Peoples Vote Battalions up against him, that's for sure.

However, the Gov is sitting on 4 1/2 years and a decent old majority where it matters .. will the moral indignation last the Bank Holiday ...

Mirror just released day 2 of revelations... been seen out twice. Naughty boy 

Exactly.

Whether you think he should have done it or not, it wasn't allowed at the time because he and his wife had symptoms, so he broke the rules, end of. Given how much the Government is imploring us all to obey the rules and stay at home, it was idiotic and hypocritical at best even if you don't think it was dangerous. People who haven't seen their families for nearly 3 months now will justifiably be angry and some will see no need to follow the rules anymore if Government advisers can't be bothered to. This is far more damaging than just his reputation.

This is delicious. Well, it would be if it weren't so downright stupid and indefensible. 

I am angry about this as this man has completely undermined the whole government strategy in one fell swoop. The consequences of this could be a disaster for the whole country if other people now feel 'why bother and lets do as we want'.

We have not seen our grand children for several weeks (although do use face time and I help my grandson with his maths three times a week and my wife reads to our grand daughter). Our youngest daughter who lives alone had the virus and was seriously ill. We stayed at home and did not visit her as we normally would have done or would have had her home with us. We were worried sick but thankfully she recovered. We did continuously check in with her via facetime. Fortunately she has a good group of friends who live local to her who also kept an eye on her and left meals at her front door. She is a nurse and volunteered to work nights in ICU and nursed very ill people who had the virus and unfortunately some did not recover. So, like many other people my family have obeyed the rules although at times it has pained us to do so.

I have e-mailed the Prime Minister's office tonight to explain this and how I feel about this man's actions. I have made it clear that Mr Cummings should resign and, if not, should be dismissed. We wait to see what happens now.

Tories have asked us to sacrifice before (remember “we’re in this together”?) so they are used to asking us and not delivering themselves however with Austerity that happened over many migrant blaming years, lockdown is still here today. I know they they assume we are all stupid but we are not THAT goddam stupid!!!

Like with all job there is a probation period that if u show evidence u are spectacularly crap at your job you can be let go. Well it’s been 6 months, time to tell them this isn’t working out for us

Not political enough fella, not political enough

If he publicly apologised, said he had done it with the best intentions but now sees that an alternative solution should have been chosen he could probably get away with it. Just show some contrition. The problem is that he’s such an arrogant, cocky piece of work that he won’t do that and instead seems to enjoy deliberately winding up the press. What an unlikeable character he is. 

I bet Priti Patel is delighted though, spotlight very much off her after that  policy announcement on Friday. 

Well, if people are turning to make it about personality rather than politics I think the story everyone is missing is Cummings - imo - presents with very, very clear symptoms of neurodiversity. He is unable to operate, to function, in hierarchies, quite literally.

Most of will have met people who appear cold or arrogant or unemotional or just plain harsh - in old money they might have been called 'the awkward squad' or contrary for te sake of it', etc - and Cummings demonstrates classic symptoms.

He can no more change his personality than, say, his sexual preference. In fact, it looks as if he has never been assessed and is probably completely unaware - tools to help such people are still in their infancy, 5 years since giving half this stuff names. Atm, we understand as much about this as Victorian surgeons understood about heart surgery.

Cummigs is a classic example of unassessed neurodiversity and like most of the rest of us is clueless why he 'comes across' as he does. He literally has no other way of being.

If they're true, then he is even more of a hypocrite. His personality type is irrelevant to the consequences he should face but won't because his boss cares only about his own comfort too (if he hadn't been quite so ill I expect the press would have given him a harder time about travelling to Chequers after he got out of hospital as technically that was also a breach given his main home is Downing St).

Regardless of whether those additional stories are true or not, is he really expecting us to believe 3 people drove 250+ miles without one of them needing to stop for a bathroom break, putting anyone else at the service station at risk?

His wife had symptoms when they travelled, that alone is a breach of the rules as they stand now and stood then.

It's not 'personality type' it's physical differences in the brain, as IDd with MRI.