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What on earth is going on there?

That's an incredible photo

It should be front pages tomorrow. It's really something. Instead it'll be a picture of fucking Cheltenham or something.

Sam fox in a fountain .

Haven't read the article but this seems to be it

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/durdle-door-closed-police-helicopters-4178546

Three people were injured after jumping from the 200ft high arch of Durdle Door

https://www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerset-news/four-beach-goers-injured-police-4178590

Three people were injured after jumping from the 200ft high arch of Durdle Doo

People been saving up their stoopid

Talk about Covidiots. Incredible picture though.

Some news sites have video of one person jumping.

It's horrifying to watch, why do people video stuff in portrait format?

Ha

This the world leading, British common sense Boris promised us could be relied upon?

Just found a vid of someone landing ass first. That gotta hurt

I don’t understand the criticism.

You’re not going to catch Covid 19 in Dorset, sat on a sunny beech with family or housemates.

You’re not going to catch Covid 19 in Dorset, sat on a sunny beech with family or housemates.

I agree, if you're sat up a tree you're much more likely to fall out of it and break something than catch coronavirus.

(Seriously though, is that sarcasm? I genuinely can't tell)

Just like no-one caught it at the Cheltenham races either.

In the long lens photos it looks like groups are crowded together.

Some of the individual groups look like unlikely housemates.

I presume that the track and trace will have them all bagged and tagged by next week . Presuming tant does actually exists?

Presuming tant does actually exists?

That's just what the American's call the perineam right?

So in Clapton we have this:

https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15317015/

Just to add to all the reports of the collapse of adherence to Government policy.

People are calling for the wrong person to resign. It should be Johnson for his mishandling of the situation, which has already shown his incompetence very clearly. Obviously, he won't resign.

I think, also with the situation in the US, that all this has brought the possibility of civil disorder closer. I just hope there won't be any tragic deaths at the hands of police, because those obviously often act as triggers, just like nine years ago.

Looks like Cum gate rumbles on:
https://twitter.com/DavidCollinsST/status/1266796102688399360

New Sage member saying what we have all worked out, Government not led by science
https://twitter.com/michaelsavage/status/1266820479773532168

It’s completely different.

Timing in an epidemic isn’t arbitrary. Cheltenham happened going into an epidemic. We had only a vague idea of whether the health system would collapse.

Everyone at Cheltenham was freezing cold, damp, day after day on the lash, many staying in packed local accommodation, many flying or travelling by busy train or coach, standing shoulder to shoulder often with strangers.

Oliver, given the damage that his actions have had on the national sense of common purpose that existed 2 weeks ago, Cummings is definitely the person who should have resigned, (or been made to resign). Yes Johnson is now culpable for compounding that sin and has to share the guilt for the consequences, but I don't think Cummings is the "wrong" person to go.

Also in that bizzarre fantasy world in which BJ resigns, how will that help? I can't see it changing any approach any time soon.

On the civil disorder front, I'm not sensing that, I've found London to be a nicer more polite place. Perhaps because I'm nodding and smiling at people from my bike, not cornering them in a bar and sharing my opinions with them gratis.

Intense UV, sea breeze, over an arms length distance, probably with people you arrived with. You’re not going catch it there.

Dorset is running at about one new confirmed case per day.

I don't think Cummings is the "wrong" person to go.

The idea would obviously be that Johnson takes Cummings down with him.

Also in that bizzarre fantasy world in which BJ resigns, how will that help? I can't see it changing any approach any time soon.

I'd pick a random person off the street to be prime minister over Johnson. Of course, I know he won't resign. However, already (not knowing what is to come) his handling of the affair is a resigning issue, at least to me. Not that that will stop him from producing scandal after scandal until people give up because there won't be any standards for conduct in public office left to safeguard.