Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

He always looks downtrodden. In bullish mood he has the appearance of soggy bog roll stuffed in the broken lock of a pub lav to stop gawpers.

Oh look, another excuse trotted out.

https://twitter.com/harrytlambert/status/1264650700883136514

Cunts.

i know that guy!

I’m not sure that’s going to help tbh, a lot of us have lost relatives during the pandemic and using that as an excuse is only going to piss us off more.

Not even a good one. He died in London days after the move to Durham.

Literally in the government guideline not to leave for any reason including funeral.

It just add even more privilege that being abused by Dommy.

Daily Mail have gone anti Cummings.

Dead grandad this morning, it's definitely not made me think more of the cunt.

Hi 5's when you see him.

Slightly concerning that via a couple of tweets on that I was quickly given DC's road and house number. I've been as far as Google maps but wouldn't do owt else with it. Not frozen sausages even.

Despite my dislike of whats going on i'm a bit uncomfortable in that if I can get that info today without specifically looking for it, how many others may have done so too?

Yeh that will go down like a lead ballon, go on any of the cabinet members tweets sticking up for Dom from yesterday and its wall to wall with comments from people who missed funerals and being their for loved ones in their final weeks as they believed they were following the rules

Sorry to hear, condolences.

yeh for a populist prime minister he couldn't of got the mood more wrong, comments sections on any of the normally pro tory papers are all slating him for tonight

Plenty of folks on the Conservatives side with an axe to grind for him.

Like Oliver said above, an election is a long way away. Whatever the mood is - because I don’t believe online is an accurate representation - it won’t last and memory is short.

No worries, he had it coming, in the least horrible way that can be read. The nursing home has remained covid free through some very strict measures since everything thing started so actually natural causes unless you start factoring in the fact that my dad couldn't go and see him and there is time based correlation to his inevitable decline in health. It's been on the cards anyway and he was pretty old and not really missing owt current at the moment.

Surely if someone makes an official complaint to the police about him being in Barnards Castle, then if it's true, ANPR will have him bang to rights?

Thats the hope, will become clear very quickly how many trips he did up the M1

What amazes me is that Dominic Cummings can never have read Animal Farm?
If you want to take full advantage of your position to abuse power, you rewrite the rules before breaking them!

Well Oliver, generally I would agree with you that people in our "echo chamber" can often be very out of touch with political realities, however on this one, I think Johnson has massively misjudged.

Tbh, I thought that now that the next ballot box challenge is almost 5 years away, Cummings would be expendable. However it shows that either Johnson thinks he can't cope without the guy, or DC knows where some serious skeletons are buried.

It's quite obvious he has read it and fully endorses it and is the catalyst for all of our eventual downfall. He's a full on anarchist who has devoted his and his family's fate to that of the bringer of cthulhu, all is as should be, hold your loved ones tight.

Dunno, I'm very tempted to go and ask him face to face why he's such a cunt.

My wife and I were both very unwell with COVID, at one point my wife was about to call 999 because I couldn't get up off the floor. We looked after our 2 year old with incredible difficulty because we were told to stay at home. My parents live just 30 minutes away, 10 miles maybe. If we could have just gone there and rested then maybe it wouldn't have taken weeks to recover. I have no right to be more pissed off than anyone else, but I am fucking livid.

Doubling down on my prediction he will be gone by Wednesday. No government can take another three days of this.

I'm with you in sentiment.
And in ideological terms I want some huge upheaval (I don't necessarily align with the left - just for clarity), but I reckon they can take months of this.

Bojo will be on paternity leave, schools will be back in a limited capacity, more people will be back at work, first wave of furlough is over....

If really solid , damning evidence doesn't come forward very soon the world is moving too fast for this to be an anchor.

I must stress I want the whole thing to come crashing down with whatever horrific, catastrophic implications it has for politics in this country, but I can't see it.

I wait with bated breath.

That long ! This crisis is now harming Johnson not Cummings. Only way out is if Cummings "resigns" prob tomorrows to save Johnsons Premership.