love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

When challenged over his decision not to speak to the prime minister before driving to Durham, he said he wanted to protect Boris Johnson’s time.

'the reason i didn't ask you if i could play the xbox is because i didn't want to bother you, daddy'

the statement would probably have done the job on Friday night, but he can't see himself as accountable

he should've stayed in durham. the advice was stay home, work remotely if you can. no reason why he could not have worked remotely for a week or two

he's been having weird visions tho.

"let's whizz down the road and see how we feel"

my vision was weird, i thought I should drive for half an hour

seems sensible, definitely not extremely dangerous

.. with a four year old child in the back seat.

Why didn't his wife drive the car back to London?

I've had a bottle of wine, not sure I'm fit to drive, let's test it out with a 30 mile drive

"If you think my eyesight's bad, oy!"

this last journo has murdered him lol

the safest thing to do was to drive hundreds of miles to put some teenagers’ lives at risk

Boris listened to this shite yesterday and still decided to stick by him?

Strangely enough he drives a car that only needs petrol when the driver is feeling fine.

That's smart techonology!

can cars do 500 miles on one tank of petrol

HE'S JUST ADMITTED HE STOPPED

that was cross at him sorry xpost

credit to everyone except bbclaurak and pesto for at least trying to ask decent questions, what a fucking embarrassment those two are

they really are, not a 'who did and knew what, where and when' between them

the best thing to do would be to expose a 17 year old girl to the virus through my son, it just makes sense

He hasn't got any friends duh!

I couldn’t expose a friend, but i would expose my teenage niece

Daily Mail comments raging

Dominic Cummings REFUSES to apologise and has NOT offered to resign for breaking lockdown to drive 260 miles to Durham without PM's permission - despite admitting he DID go to bluebell woods and Barnard Castle to 'check if he felt better'

is this the cartoonist matt

most riveting press conference since the atherton ball tampering one is this, he wins - i can't watch any more!

Constant media blaming, it's all your fault

Literally the only thing the media might have got wrong is him going back to Durham, he's admitted to everything else they said.

Someone needs to ask him if the govt guidelines were unclear, seeing as how everyone interpreted them differently to him

(xp) Can someone please point that out to this cunt.

yes, people were being fined and turned back from driving to holiday homes. how was that any different?

did the 'exceptional circumstances' clause exist? have they retconned it?

Oh, I forgot about his house in London being under siege from violent pitchfork-wielding mobs.

4 hour drive with a 4 year old and no stops... is straining the credibility of his story a little

from what i've seen on twitter (sorry) the exceptional guidelines were intended to allow for ways of dealing with domestic violence and sexual abuse.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/24/not-requests-rules-health-secretary-tells-nation-12450525/

Matt Hancock told the UK: ‘Yesterday the Prime Minister announced radical steps to stop the spread of this virus.

‘These steps are not requests; they are rules.

‘You should stay at home unless you have one of the four reasons, which is exercise, shopping as little as you have to, for medical reasons, or to go to work where that work can’t be done at home.’

'We're crystal clear in the guidance of what people should and shouldn't do. That guidance is backed up in law'

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1265128/Matt-Hancock-news-coronavirus-uk-social-distancing-rule-COVID-19-strategy-latest

guess it wasn't very clear after all

Is this at Prince Andrew levels yet? I'm not watching.

no-one's going to fuck your blog, domcum

(xp) Not really.

ask the questions into the fucking mic

Jesus, this Castle Barnard story, what a steaming pile of crap.

no, well, the eyesight thing was clearly and immediately a lie, but no. xp

the safest thing to do to test my vision was to strap my entire family into the car why can’t you see that you sneering media elites

was funny when he was saying the perfectly reasonable thing to do was endanger his 17 year old niece, and this was fine because she was totally down

Wait is this fucking Pesto AGAIN

I think he’s probably that the media have misrepresented him and his massive brain a lot - it does seem true that he was arguing for lockdown early on among other things.

But my god he personally weaponised misrepresentation against Labour and Remain alone so a) you love to see it and b) he should be much, much better at countering it than this.

Cummings said he warned about i.a. corona virus in 2019.

Thing is, he didn't. References to SARS and corona virus were added to his blog post on pandemic risks sometime between April and May of this year. pic.twitter.com/NneonooLoj

— ⬡ Jens Wiechers (@jwiechers) May 25, 2020

was funny when he was saying the perfectly reasonable thing to do was endanger his 17 year old niece, and this was fine because she was totally down

FUCK OFF PESTO