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

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

they should've kept going, i think Dom's tranqs were wearing off

WHY DID PESTO GET TWO QUESTIONS WHERE WAS THE MIRROR

The worst thing about Harwood is that he'll probably have Cummings role himself in another few years.

"Many hateful people have told lies about me" claimed Herr Goebbels

BBC news immediately reads out 3 tweets backing him from tory mps. no dissenting views.

now talking to former advisor to t may and former advisor to d cameron. (although i think neither of them are particularly fans)

On the contrary, the second guy is a repulsive right wing Brexiteer.

BBC news immediately reads out 3 tweets backing him from tory mps. no dissenting views.

now talking to former advisor to t may and former advisor to d cameron. (although i think neither of them are particularly fans)

everybody knows it's time to abolish the BBC tbf

Some Tory MPs have ‘conveyed the strength of local feeling to relevant colleagues’. In some cases ‘robustly’ and even ‘very robustly’.

Were those messages to ‘relevant colleagues’ also drafted by the same ‘relevant colleagues’ who drafted these tweets?

Rest assured everyone! pic.twitter.com/ejo0H0CMhR

— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) May 25, 2020

^ this was earlier, form letters with identical wording.

Johnson to take conference at 7pm.

A really concerted “he has made a frank and full account and acted correctly” spin effort underway now.

If you regard Daily Mail comments as indicative of the mood of a certain swathe of the authoritarian, letter-writing public, then they’re extremely angry and getting more so.

they’re err missing the mood of the country?

Need to hear from the football forums to be sure but it doesn’t look good

Tory MP tells me Dominic Cummings’s statement on his trip to Durham has not won over their constituents - & their inbox is currently receiving lots of angry emails.

— Kate Devlin (@_katedevlin) May 25, 2020

Got to admit, people are quick off the mark these days.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EY4MlA6XQAYcKls.jpg

See also...

Twitter doesn't hang about...

Barnard Castle 🤣🤣🤣#DominicCummngs #CumGate pic.twitter.com/1csGOoQzeu

— MB (@ENlGMARK) May 25, 2020

This seems too perfect. From Brewer's Britain and Ireland, 2005.

"That's Barney Castle" meaning "That's a pathetic excuse" pic.twitter.com/Ib90ld26k5

— TalesoftheBritishIsles (@BritIslesTales) May 25, 2020

https://i.redd.it/qaez0zjcwx051.png

(xp) No way!

Brave look having his personal email on view on his blog imo: https://dominiccummings.com/about/

So Cummings had to stop on his 30 minute drive home from Barnard Castle to let his son have a wee but didn't need to stop once on the five hour journey from London to Durham?

NEW: Prof Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance left No 10 at approx 1820.

Earlier we were told they would be appearing with the PM at the daily press conference.

Why did they turn up for the presser and then leave?

Have asked No 10 for comment. pic.twitter.com/1rE8H48y5H

— Joe Pike (@joepike) May 25, 2020

According to Andrew Bridgen, Dominic Cummings is a key worker. Let's all get out there on Thursday night and give him the applause he deserves!

Killer fact from that is this.

The Cummings/Wakefield family ended up in a hospital in Durham - 260m from home.

That is precisely the reason the lockdown told people to stay at home if they get sick.

So as not to spread the virus around the country.

— Prof. Colin Talbot (@colinrtalbot) May 25, 2020