Now Cummings is the news it is time for the exit
IT comes to something when the PMS special adviser is given a special news slot on a bank holiday with the second highest by body count, death toll in the world. This comes the day after the PM defended Cummings actions and refused to sack him.
I watched the No 10 garden presentation and questions.
Surely if the adviser is the news then its time for a new adviser.
The man broke the rules he helped devise.
The child was not in imminent danger, unless of course his ailing father caused an accident on the long journey to Durham, which could have put many more at risk, not to mention hothousing the entire family for several hours in the car.
The PMS letter to every household says you must stay at home to protect the NHS and save lives.
Cummings’ argument and account has more holes than a Swiss cheese, and he and the PM must take us for fools if they think this was reasonable behaviour in the midst of this pandemic.
A man of Cummings’ influence in the capital could have found care for his child should they have required it, we have a social care system as a last resort.
The hubris is repugnant in both men in their disdain that people are upset about this.
My overriding conclusion in this is that Boris sacking Cummings is akin to the Emu sacking Rod Hull. ✒ WHEN a political adviser becomes the story his position becomes untenable.
When a Prime Minister burns up so much political capital in defending an adviser he begins to look ridiculous (or even more ridiculous than usual).
When two bishops (Leeds, Bristol) and our own PCC voice their concerns, and when about twenty Tory MPS put their names to the notion that “Cummings must go” then our government has an unasked-for problem in its plate.
As if sorting out Covid-19 and Brexit were not enough.
The lovely sunny spring weather apart, is there anything to be cheerful about?
Well, a few days ago a very rude Civil Service employee tweeted “Arrogant and offensive. Can you imagine having to work with these truth twisters?”
The tweet has been taken down and possibly the author will be identified, and dismissed; J K Rowling has promised to pay the tweeter a year’s salary once his/her identity is known.
On Monday evening we missed a chance to see a re-run of the movie Paddington 2 because of a Prime Ministerial broadcast from no 10.
Subsequent programmes were substituted - one of those “garden remake”sessions, and then we were treated to a re-run of Would I Lie to You?
Someone in the BBC has a wicked sense of humour, methinks. and isolate regime, using the skills of Gloucestershire public health experts. We also oppose the centralisation of data to Public Health England, removing vital information from community GPS and local authorities.
Until those responsible for our health here in Gloucestershire have clear information about the spread of the disease and can operate an effective contact-tracing regime we consider that movement restrictions should not be relaxed any further and that schools should remain open only to essential workers.