Coronavirus

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

It seems to me that the populace haven't fallen for it, even the Daily Mail is having a go at them!

But they now appear to be falling back on the tactic that has been so successful for them - drum home the message and don't deviate from it, if we say it enough the populace will fall in line. "Get Brexit Done" was replaced by "Stay Home, Protect the NHS..." and now it's "Cummings has done nothing wrong"

Government by slogan. Hardly a new concept.

Indeed not. Good game though to see how many you can remember:-

Let us face the future together - Attlee 1945
Vote National and let him finish the job - Churchill 1945
Set the people free Churchill 1950
Life is better with the Conservatives, don't let Labour ruin it - Macmillan 1959
Britain belongs to you - Gaitskill 1959
The white heat of technology - Wilson 1963
Thirteen wasted years - Wilson 1964
The future belongs to us - Wilson 1964
The pound in your pocket - Wilson 1967
Labour's ten bob pound - 1970
Who governs Britain? - Heath 1974
Labour keeps its promises -1974
Labour isn't working - 1979

Yep. Cringing at them is not a new concept either.

Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle

It seems to me that the populace haven't fallen for it, even the Daily Mail is having a go at them!

But they now appear to be falling back on the tactic that has been so successful for them - drum home the message and don't deviate from it, if we say it enough the populace will fall in line. "Get Brexit Done" was replaced by "Stay Home, Protect the NHS..." and now it's "Cummings has done nothing wrong"

Government by slogan. Hardly a new concept.

To be fair the Daily Mail has consistently criticised some aspects of the Government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. It has also criticised both Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings since this story first surfaced. IMO DC should have resigned and Boris Johnson is playing a veryy risk game in supporting him thus far.
As a point of interest every Prime Minister has an assistant, like DC, but I have never, in 50 +years of following politics, heard them mentioned before, either in the press or even who they were. Certainly DC must be have made a lot of enemies in the media world.

Quoted from rancido

To be fair the Daily Mail has consistently criticised some aspects of the Government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. It has also criticised both Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings since this story first surfaced. IMO DC should have resigned and Boris Johnson is playing a veryy risk game in supporting him thus far.
As a point of interest every Prime Minister has an assistant, like DC, but I have never, in 50 +years of following politics, heard them mentioned before, either in the press or even who they were. Certainly DC must be have made a lot of enemies in the media world.

He committed the cardinal sin of getting caught out and compounded it by pretending he’s done nothing wrong when he so clearly has, if he had admitted it and resigned he would have been back in few months.  Now he is causing untold damage, not only to the Government but their whole lockdown strategy. Think Mandleson had to resign a couple of times under Blair but he’s still a lord now.
Gove has come out and said he has tested his eyesight by driving as well, does he think saying things so stupid makes it look any better, they are just looking more and more incompetent. Some Tories are having enough sense to distance themselves from this nonsense and this is making Johnson look weaker and weaker

Quoted from rancido

To be fair the Daily Mail has consistently criticised some aspects of the Government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. It has also criticised both Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings since this story first surfaced. IMO DC should have resigned and Boris Johnson is playing a veryy risk game in supporting him thus far.
As a point of interest every Prime Minister has an assistant, like DC, but I have never, in 50 +years of following politics, heard them mentioned before, either in the press or even who they were. Certainly DC must be have made a lot of enemies in the media world.

There have been other high profile 'aides', not necessarily special advisers like Cummings but PR/press types - Thatcher couldn't fart without Bernard Ingham having a sniff of it and Blair was the same with Alistair Campbell. Both unelected.

Not sure the best way to test your eyesight is to get behind the wheel of a 3 tonne vehicle and drive at 40mph plus?!?!?! 🤔

I seem to remember being asked to read a vehicle registration from 20 yards.🤔

'I drove home officer because I wanted to check if I was drunk or not'

I drove to Bradley Woods to test my eyesight instead of going to the opticians. I hit 3 lions a kangaroo and something that looked like a crocodile riding a motor bike. Obviously my eyesight is not good enough but I saved 60 quid at the opticians

Quoted from Ipswin

'I drove home officer because I wanted to check if I was drunk or not'

Very good swin!!!!😂

Quoted from smokey111

Not sure the best way to test your eyesight is to get behind the wheel of a 3 tonne vehicle and drive at 40mph plus?!?!?! 🤔

I seem to remember being asked to read a vehicle registration from 20 yards.🤔

I think someone said it was an offence to do what he did 're testing eyesight

Ps doesn't his wife have any friends and family?
Pps if he was so worried about the security of his London home, why had he been happy to stay there up till that point, and what's changed to make it safe for them to live there now?
Ppps he a full time spad, his wife is a full time editor/ journalist, so who looks after the 4 year old usually?
Pppps since he will speak to senior police officers and the chief medical officer almost daily, didn't it cross his mind to give them a quick ring to see if his plans were permissable?
Ppppps since he's extremely important and at the heart of government i find it inconceivable that provision for the child Would not have been made it hed just explained the situation?

Obviously Boris can't sack Cummings now as he has said he has done nothing wrong but it is doing great harm to Boris himself and the Tories. If Cummings is a "friend" he should resign now and hope that the damage caused can be repaired. (and buy himself some decent clothes with his payoff - the scruffy bstard)