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The very people who are asking people not to go after boris as he is doing his best are the ones who will be most outraged by this is my guess.

More seriously, it totally contradicts the article his wife wrote about getting the virus in the Spectator.

Struggling to the picture the politically disengaged reader who is so incensed by their chosen media sources coverage of classic Dom that they leave it for Breitbart.

I mean, how many monthly uniques does Breitbart have in the UK? More than 100k?

I think this story could become less about who was involved and more about the choices that were made. Or at least that’s where they are trying to push it. It looks like the govt. and Cummings is trying to spin those choices to be about doing best for a child - that’s dangerous ground if you want to attack.

I used Breitbart as an extreme example in the shift away from traditional media. Other less extreme but equally non-credible and partisan sources exist.

I guess we will see!

The spin is desperation. The media is certainly becoming more fragmented. Where is this story playing out? Not on traditional media. And social is still in a wild west phase. It's like how Trump rides things out by pushing other narratives while bobbing and weaving. Not sure we have got to that stage yet.

The danger of this to me is it undercuts observing the lockdown even further. If Dom can do it, why can't others? It's a shame this isn't understood and should be attoned for. Rather, we got "get out of my way" when he was doorstepped earlier. Pretty ugly and disappointing.

It's also indicative of how weak Boris is, despite his majority. The only unelected advisor I can think of in modern times who was as powerful is Alastair Campbell, but I don't think he was indispensable to Tony Blair. Clearly Cummings is indispensable to Boris.

I haven't seen other replies to this but yeah, the restrained and simple way they kept to the script told as much as the tweets did

The danger of this to me is it undercuts observing the lockdown even further.

This. I really hope it doesn't change people's attitude to the crisis as much as I hope it changes attitudes to the government.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-dominic-cummings-must-go/amp?__twitter_impression=true

Isn't Cummings wife at the spectator too?

Good luck to ever has to do tomorrow's Marr and briefing ,apparently Dom went back and forth between London and Durham and went for a day trip on Easter Day, 30 miles from where minisiters and number 10 claim he stayed put

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/23/new-witnesses-cast-doubt-on-dominic-cummingss-lockdown-claims

Classic Dom

As for people not hating on Cummings because they would make the same choice (choice as it's being portrayed, not birthday party) the same hypocrisy that allows him to do so is also rife enough in the general population that people will happily hate on someone for doing something they would do, whether or not they've done it.

The childcare thing is going to be difficult to poke holes in.

Like he’s the only one who cannot sort out childcare without going against government guidelines.

I guess each trip is a unique story and the press will use that to build pressure day by day. Less likely to survive this now IMO.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/dominic-cummings-ignored-coronavirus-lockdown-22075857

Lol, she's commisioning editor, don't know if online is different from the print edition though

Not often you read something in the Spectator that you agree with. But he is spot on there.

https://twitter.com/freddiebailey96/status/1264214951700430853?s=21

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-else-could-dominic-cummings-have-done-/amp?__twitter_impression=true

The spectator also published this mendacious piss for “balance”

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/dominic-cummings-ignored-coronavirus-lockdown-22075857.amp?__twitter_impression=true

More than once? WAC. Well played the mirror.

Edit wrong link.

Loving the Dom takedown, hopefully they are sitting on more story’s that they will strategically release over the weekend.

Boom. Nail in the coffin. What an arrogant prick.

Drop the first story, bait the response then slapdown the full follow up. Nice work.

What's astonishing is that the entire cabinet have thrown their weight behind Cummings without (apparently) asking him "did you take any other trips"?

Presumably because that was as much about pledging fealty to the glorious leader and his advisor as it was about offering material support?

I would suggest they knew but banked on the press not knowing. Or DC lied to them