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“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Brendan O'Neil works for the same magazine that published Dominic C's wife's fairy tale about life in lock down doesn't he? www.spectator.co.uk/article/spectator-writers-in-lockdown-by-the-people-stuck-with-them Nice of him to comment on the media after that. 

Jools you are right that there is a Brexit knock on ... because this BS behavior will be repeated each and every time there is an key issue that affects the British public - food safety standardsfreedom of travel, environmental protection, currency exchange, minimum wage, healthcare....lockdown etc - why will anyone believe any aspect of what the government says when there is such clear evidence they are lying about this one? 

That's just the British public, then there are the trade negotiators Britain will need to reach agreement with for future FTA's - why would they trust the government either? 

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14 minutes ago, baldy09 said:

Personally I believe there is more important things to consider rather than Cummings wrong doings= like people who lost there jobs. care homes, etc . But the media which I got no word of praise for. Media hanging around his poor parents home is disgusting, wish some of the media would experience the same experiences that they dish out. 

It is NOT Cummings wrong doings

It is one of the government being caught in a cover up - note the gormless cabinet members and the usual rag bag of righties trying to spin the government line on Sat - all now distancing themselves from this.

This is building towards a constitutional crisis as it seems to be one of who is running the government. Never mind that Cummings tells Johnson what to do. Anyone with half a brain would already know that.

The real question this has thrown up is who is 'running' Cummings. Who is he answerable to  ?

Into the realms of what the Welsh would have as cui bono

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Just now, Surfer said:

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

You are right that there is a Brexit knock on ... because this BS will be repeated every time there is an issue that affects the British public - food safety standardsfreedom of travel, environmental protection, climate change, currency exchange, insurance, minimum wage, healthcare.... etc etc - why will anyone believe any aspect of what the government says when there is such clear evidence they are lying about this one?

Yeah....like weapons of mass destruction....

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5 minutes ago, Mello Yello said:

Yeah....like weapons of mass destruction....

err, voters were not asked, not did, use that to make a decision to go to war

so it has no relevance to this

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16 minutes ago, Bill said:

I was referencing you, as I was nit aware of that fact

one that now underlines point I made that it was a visit planned in advance - more, so we now know it was 2 B'days

so not questioning, more crediting you with source

It wasn’t me who should be credited though! BF said it was his wife’s bday, I hadn’t realised that.

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Just now, Bill said:

err, voters were not asked, not did, use that to make a decision to go to war

so it has no relevance to this

How about, is Cummings worse than Campbell then?....

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13 minutes ago, Bill said:

 

The real question this has thrown up is who is 'running' Cummings. Who is he answerable to  

Is he the Manchurian Candidate.

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17 minutes ago, Mello Yello said:

Yeah....like weapons of mass destruction....

That was almost two decades ago, and completely irrelevant - but agreed a horrible mistake to follow the US lead on that lie. 

This is about the twin crisis the country is in now, as it relates to dealing with the biggest health and potentially the biggest financial crisis in a century and the biggest change to our trading relationships in two generations. 

So the fact that the current government is currently "spaffing its credibility up against a wall" means it won't be able to properly govern through these twin crisis - what's so hard to understand or controversial about that?

 

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7 minutes ago, Mello Yello said:

How about, is Cummings worse than Campbell then?....

oh dear

it is about who Cummings is answerable to so irrelevant ;whataboutery' is of no validity here

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22 minutes ago, Mello Yello said:

How about, is Cummings worse than Campbell then?....

Funnily enough a lot of people learned a lot of hard lessons from the Iraq War scandal. A lot of faith was lost in British institutions especially the Government and Fleet Street, which persuaded a lot of good people to back something that turned out to be extremely rotten.

But then again, a lot of people didn't learn a single bloody thing from that disaster.

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18 minutes ago, Bill said:

oh dear

it is about who Cummings is answerable to so irrelevant ;whataboutery' is of no validity here

Who 'whataboutery' was Campbell answerable to.....then?

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3 minutes ago, Herman said:

Funnily enough a lot of people learned a lot of hard lessons from the Iraq War scandal. A lot of faith was lost in British institutions especially the Government and Fleet Street, which persuaded a lot of good people to back something that turned out to be extremely rotten.

But then again, a lot of people didn't learn a single bloody thing from that disaster.

Well I foockin' did.....Just sayin'.....

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28 minutes ago, Surfer said:

That was almost two decades ago, and completely irrelevant - but agreed a horrible mistake to follow the US lead on that lie. 

This is about the twin crisis the country is in now, as it relates to dealing with the biggest health and potentially the biggest financial crisis in a century and the biggest change to our trading relationships in two generations. 

So the fact that the current government is currently "spaffing its credibility up against a wall" means it won't be able to properly govern through these twin crisis - what's so hard to understand or controversial about that?

 

You don’t need any credibility to govern Surfer, just a majority in parliament.

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56 minutes ago, Jools said:

Brendan O'Neill:

 

The media’s Dominic Cummings story has completely collapsed. He did NOT go to Durham a second time, which was reported on the front page of the Sunday Mirror and the Observer. He did NOT have any physical contact with family members. The police did NOT talk to the Cummings family about the Covid lockdown guidelines. Cummings did NOT carry on doing things that everyone else had stopped doing — he even missed the funeral of his uncle who died from Covid. He did NOT leave his London home for leisure reasons — he left it because he was receiving death threats as a result of media demonisation. He was very ill, his wife was ill, and at one point his child was taken to hospital in an ambulance in Durham.

 

His family has had a really rough time and the media have told lie after lie about him. The scandal is not Cummings’ behaviour — it is the collapse of ethics and objectivity in the British media.

 

 

Cummings took his wife on a birthday outing to Barnard Castle. He broke the regulations.

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1 hour ago, baldy09 said:

Media hanging around his poor parents home is disgusting

Poor parents?

Three houses and a private wood on an estate..........how rich are you @baldy09?

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2 minutes ago, BigFish said:

Poor parents?

Three houses and a private wood on an estate..........how rich are you @baldy09?

Not forgetting the in-laws.....

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On 24/05/2020 at 18:07, JF said:

Well at least someone will be getting sacked tomorrow!! 
 

 

Once GCHQ identify the originator they will be toast. They need reminding who the masters are and who are the serfs. I’m sure Crafty Cummings will do that with a flourish.
 

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36 minutes ago, BigFish said:

Poor parents?

Three houses and a private wood on an estate..........how rich are you @baldy09?

How on earth did people fall for the anti-elite, anti-establishment schtick these people came out with? It's truly bizarre because it is so brazen.

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1 hour ago, ricardo said:

Hangings too good for him, he cost me my season ticket rebate.

Dont worry, I was looking forward to all my pre season City bets being null and void, its been like having my toenails pulled.

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1 hour ago, BigFish said:

Cummings took his wife on a birthday outing to Barnard Castle. He broke the regulations.

Kinnock took his missus to his parents to say happy birthday to his dad. He was deemed not to have broken regulations.

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If those "exceptional circumstances" are that you are rich and powerful then, bingo, do what you want lads.👍

What a shill.

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13 minutes ago, Jools said:

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How were they unable to look after their child at the time they went up to Durham when, as Cummings said earlier, he had no symptoms whatsoever and his wife had some symptoms of covid but no fever and no cough (so basically a mild cold).

Or are you suggesting that if you have a kid you’re fine to flout the law every time you get a sniffle just on the off chance it becomes something more serious?

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12 minutes ago, Jools said:

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There’s something about Jenny that could please an older man, there must be some older men on here who could confirm, sort of cerebral 😀

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4 hours ago, PurpleCanary said:

Leaving aside the question of going up north in general, the thing about that hilariously absurd Barnard Castle excuse is that it is a clear admission that with that excursion he he broke the lockdown rules. So if that was what he told Johnson before Johnson went on TV and said Cummings had acted entirely legally then Johnson was lying.

A final point (at least for tonight) which I have’t seen made in the wake of Cummings explanation. If this was all above board and entirely in line with the rules, and not at all illegal, and Cummings thought so at the time, why didn’t his wife detail it all in her Specsavers, er sorry, Spectator article, rather than writing it in such a way that everyone was left with the strong impression they had stayed in London the whole time?

 

 

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1 hour ago, BigFish said:
2 hours ago, Jools said:

Brendan O'Neill:

The media’s Dominic Cummings story has completely collapsed. He did NOT go to Durham a second time, which was reported on the front page of the Sunday Mirror and the Observer. He did NOT have any physical contact with family members. The police did NOT talk to the Cummings family about the Covid lockdown guidelines. Cummings did NOT carry on doing things that everyone else had stopped doing — he even missed the funeral of his uncle who died from Covid. He did NOT leave his London home for leisure reasons — he left it because he was receiving death threats as a result of media demonisation. He was very ill, his wife was ill, and at one point his child was taken to hospital in an ambulance in Durham.

His family has had a really rough time and the media have told lie after lie about him. The scandal is not Cummings’ behaviour — it is the collapse of ethics and objectivity in the British media.

Cummings took his wife on a birthday outing to Barnard Castle. He broke the regulations.

You've got to take away all the hype and frenzy that has built up around this story and see the human element.  So much of what we have been told by the media was wrong.  

One of the misconceptions there has plainly been on social media is that Barnard Castle is a castle...it is not, it is a town which happens to have a castle. He only drove as far as the outskirts of the town and turned back - he did not go into the town - and even if he had have gone into it, there is nothing to do there as it is shut, including the castle.  

My main sympathies are with those people who have found themselves in dire situations and just have to ride out the storm where they are, but I also have a little bit of sympathy with anyone who does what they do for the sake of looking after their family when all those around them are falling ill and with a good chance of themselves falling ill too - and with a young child to look after.  The guidelines were clear of course - you stay home - but there was always the caveat that there could be extenuating circumstances - and given the factual information we now have, it looks as if there were extenuating circumstances in this case.

Time to let this rest and move on imo....unless people are just relishing the tory bashing aspect of all this and just want to perpetuate it for that reason.....the media too have been parasitic in pursuing this, repeating rumour and stuff that has appeared on social media as if it was the truth. Plenty of it has just been a witch hunt which has got out of proportion to the reality - a man looking after his family to the best of his ability and resources.  

 

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