Off Topic Corona virus - non football

I'll make an exception in his case.

 

Exactly, it was either political suicide or political murder.

 

Tories are not averse to stabbing each other in the back. They will be sharpening their knives as we speak.

 

This is sooooo on the money.
It is what the Con. Party is good at - when to put the knife in.
Within the parliamentary party he is not well liked.
They voted him in as leader coz he was going to win the election for them - bonkers Boris ‘he is a character innee’
They will let him eat all the **** in the next few months or so.
Then ‘beware the ides of .......’
So long Boris

 

So, Sky news, who were refused a question, have evidence of his car reg in Barnard Castle on the dates that are being denied....

 

Oh dear.....

 

So the Prime Minister says that a parent’s instincts towards the safety of their children over-rides government advice. This will doubtless be reassuring to those parents unwilling to send their children back to school in a week’s time before testing and tracing is in place.

 

Alarm set.

I've no politic allegiance but I enjoy seeing pompous bellends brought to their knees ...

... I remember watching Nixon launching a similar arrogant and dismissive defence then crumbling into the mess I always suspected he was. The PM has just stood on a landmine and now can't move because, if he does, it'll blow him to pieces.

Sadly I think he's a really stupid man who thought his personality was all he needed.

 

Er, no PMQs for the next two weeks

 

Been told Parliament is in recession for 2 weeks. We will have to wait for that and Boris might be gone by then if the Sky number plate stories are true.

 

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Sky’s @kvittozzi has just confirmed that number plate seen in Barnard Castle did belong to Dominic Cummings @skynews. Govt denied reports he was there this morning.

Maybe the car drove itself there adhering to social distancing of course

 

After that shameful defence I really don't know how the PM can carry on.

The defence was bad enough, the way he shrugged off reasonable questions was shameful.

I know we joke about it but this is really just like Russia.

If we accept it, we're doomed.

 

I agree with this to be fair, the only reason no-one within is already stabbing him in the back is because they'd still have to get through this. Managing the fallout when you can blame your predecessor is always easier.

 

I must admit I took an interest in Politics in the early seventies and have seen some remarkable times Wilson/ Heath/Callahan/Thatcher etc. I have never felt like I do tonight. I think this country is facing a precipice after today's conference - well I am still shocked. To indicate the them and us attitude;

In the eighties when I was an HGV driver I did some work for the MOD - basically it was moving food from one storage place to another. The food was intended for the nuclear bunkers in an area I will not mention. Anyone would have thought that the essential stuff would have been tinned meat etc. No - f***ing buscuits. So while all of us are melting in a nuclear holocaust the elite would be downstairs eating sealed/tinned buscuits.

 

I'd say it's also because, one after one, they've proved themselves quite useless ...

... no one I've seen would have a prayer.

TBH they can't handle Piers Morgan let alone this crisis.

 

Piers is gonna p*$$ the next election marra, if Reagan and Trump can.....

 

Sadly, he'd be in with a chance.

In the last election people voted for a 3 word xenophobic slogan and a haircut.

Trump was elected on the strength of building a wall to keep the Mexicans out and a can of hairspray.

It's only a matter of time before a racist drag queen wins a by election.

 

"Oh Damn it, can't a man have a biscuit?"

 

Elections will be done in future by Ant and Dec, Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole and Sharon Osbourne in "Britain's Got a new X factor Prime minster"

 

Dominic Cummings is facing a possible police investigation under health laws over a claim that he breached self-isolation rules in north-east England, after a weekend of mounting pressure on the prime minister to sack his chief adviser.

Retired chemistry teacher Robin Lees made a complaint to the police after reporting that he saw Cummings and his family on 12 April walking in the town of Barnard Castle before getting into a car, a joint investigation by the Guardian and Mirror can reveal.

Lees’ alleged sighting of Cummings in the town – 30 miles from Durham, where the aide had been self-isolating after developing Covid-19 symptoms – appeared to come while he was still ill, according to his own account. Writing in the Spectator last month, Cummings said: “At the end of March and for the first two weeks of April, I was ill, so we [Cummings and his wife] were both shut in together.”

At a Downing Street press conference dominated by questions about Cummings’s movements during the lockdown, Boris Johnson did not dispute that his adviser had made a trip to the Tees Valley beauty spot.

Asked directly about the Barnard Castle visit, Johnson said: “When you look at the guidance, when you look at the particular childcare needs that Mr Cummings faced at the time, it was reasonable of him to self-isolate as he did for 14 days or more with his family where he did. I think that was sensible and defensible and I understand it.”

Lees said Johnson should have provided clearer answers. In an email to Durham police sent before the Sunday press conference, he alleged a breach of health protection regulations that officers will be obliged to investigate.

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It said: “At the time, I felt the three people getting in the car might be breaking lockdown rules. However, in light of recent information, I feel that as well as an important breach of the lockdown, there may also have been concerns over Health Protection regulations.”

He also provided the number plate of the car he saw Cummings drive away in. The email said: “I assume you are able to view CCTV to ascertain whether this vehicle travelled locally or from further away.”

Responding to Johnson’s appearance at the press conference, Lees said: “Asked directly if he visited Barnard Castle, he didn’t answer it, because now I’m totally convinced he can’t. He wasn’t clear whether Cummings had the virus or when he drove to Durham. He wasn’t clear on any details of the 14-day quarantine. He needs to be clear when symptoms started and when they finished.”

Durham police have yet to respond to Lees’ email, but the Guardian understands the force is considering whether it needs to take any further action in relation to Cummings.

As well as Lees’ complaint, the leader of the Liberal Democrats group on Durham County Council has demanded that the police open an investigation into whether Cummings broke the 2020 Health Protection (Coronavirus)