Will Cummings get sacked/drop out.

I reckon he wont, but personal opinion is that he should. ಠ_ಠ

I’d love to go 250 miles and visit my family, but I’m not with the lockdown, as I’m trying to follow the Government advice…

Don’t think so. He is far too important to Boris, his puppeteer, pulls all the strings and the PM dances. Remember Mandelson in Blair and Brown’s governments? Cummings holds the same position. Mandelson (now a Lord of course) hung on because he knew where several bodies were buried, and exactly who buried them. In the end he went, and then wrote his book “The Third Man” in which he praises Blair to the skies, and assassinates Brown in print.

Cummings will no doubt hang on until he does something that cannot be allowed to continue. He will probably wind up a Lord too. After the Coronavirus situation has calmed down, he may be pushed or he may jump, but I suspect only on his own terms.

After this morning’s political programs and comments from Tory MPs like Steve Baker, I think his days are numbered.

It’s the arrogant shitness of his attitude that’s doing the trick, plus the obvious moving of goalposts and nitpicking over the preciseness of situations. Some argument that he was outside of the 14 day period when he was seen at Barnard Castle, but he shouldn’t have been there in any circumstance. They have been fining people all over the West Country for going to beauty spots 30 miles away.

I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. He was driving to family and then isolated.

The issue is the press and him being incapable of just telling the truth up front.

Sorry Steve I disagree it was more serious than you implied., He was infected, and dispersed his virus onto at least one forecourt pump, and payment system, plus possibly infected a forecourt attendant and three others. As he has police protection he probably infected a bunch of other people through his actions.

There is an old saying that applies – “With great power, comes great responsibility”. If you cannot fully abide by rules that you helped set then you should have any power stripped from you.

Well, it will be very interesting later on today – he’s going to make a press statement and take questions. Having seen throughout his tenure with Boris as PM, just how dismissive he is of everyone around ( beneath ) him, as per his general demeanour and the various words to the press outside his house etc, I personally doubt his ability to keep a lid on it all under intense press scrutiny. :yes:

You’re not wrong!!

Maybe today we’ll get some more interesting quotes from the Dominic Cummins’ Book of Kids Cartoons!!

The answer to the question posed by Lee is ‘not yet’.

I watched the Cummings performance with interest, and while I think the legality of his position was questionable, it certainly breached the spirit of the ‘Lockdown’ and its rationale.

I came away with the distinct impression that Cummings piled his wife and child into his car and drove in a blue funk as far away from London as he could. He then rationalised it all afterwards, and it is totally unclear whether he or his wife ever actually suffered from a ‘coughless’ Covid-19, it is certainly the case that his child did not.

I now question his fitness to remain as an advisor. He not only showed lack of judgement and courage when the pressure was on, he then behaved completely illogically by doing a round 60 mile trip to a local beauty spot in order ‘to test his fitness to drive’! At no time did we receive an explanation on why his wife could not do half the driving. His reasons for fleeing London were spurious. I’m sure that had he had genuine concerns for the personal safety of his wife and family he had enough contacts at No.10 to arrange protection, ditto if he had remained in London and the whole family became ill – has someone disconnected his phone?

At the end of the hour I was unconvinced by his performance and came away with more questions than answers. I was also rather disappointed at the ‘hacks’ many of who just regurgitated previous questions without exposing the obvious holes in Cumming’s statements.

The petition to have Cummings sacked now stands at over 1 million.

Ed P wrote:

The petition to have Cummings sacked now stands at over 1 million.

I’m not sure why people bother with Change.org. The only petition site that is worth it is the Parlimentary one, as they actually have to discuss that. They can ignore any others if they wish – and in fairness, they can ignore the other one, but at least it has to be raised in Parliment.