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

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

sorry for Twitter

The question isn’t ‘did he stop?’ but ‘would a reasonable person expect not to stop?’ Which, of course, they wouldn’t. Getting lucky with your young child’s bladder doesn’t mean it was a reasonable thing.

Turns out Cummings' wife can drive but she was too busy retweeting #stayhomesavelives during her husband's eye test

And on said birthday (whilst not staying at home) she retweet’s gov advice telling others TOO stay at home pic.twitter.com/5PiW3UKvY7

— Paul Simms (@AdrenalinJunky) May 25, 2020

Bridgen explains the Barnard Castle trip by saying that recovery from COVID-91 can affect your judgement. Good job Cummings' eyesight was good enough for him to drive back to London and take up his role in goverment again in that case.

Benedict Cumberbatch is at home crying rn because he has to remember all of these lines

— Olivia Fletcher (@livfletcher_) May 25, 2020

The UK that has now the highest rate of confirmed deaths from #COVID19 worldwide.

[Link to the source: https://t.co/h7heGYlU2X] pic.twitter.com/HTYCFdBsq4

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) May 25, 2020

Barnard Castle might be the dead cat here.

Lol at pesto, fucking craven

The director cutting back to Peston's reaction is just too perfect pic.twitter.com/18wXoXMW9I

— Sam ✌️ (@samisam147) May 25, 2020

Umm... did they try to announce what can reopen today? Other than lol car showrooms I can’t seem to find anything.

Sorry to post anything other than a Cummings meme. I’ve had 3 different, usually non-political, neighbours WhatsApp groups share memes about how horrible he/Boris is. One group trying really hard to get a #booforboris going on a Tuesday night

booforboris sounds like a terrible idea, yeah

Yeah, it’s not great. Just adding to the “what do people actually think” hivemind