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  1. Idlebantam

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    I cannot believe it took them 2 days to think such an excuse up. A 5 year old could have come up with a more plausible excuse
     
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    I'm guessing that a five year old would also realise that once in Barnard Castle, there is still the issue of returning to Durham with his family at some stage. That leaves this non-5 year old to conclude that either he was away for more than the 30 mins he claims or that if it was really only 30 mins, his average speed was considerably more than our national speed limit! ;)
     
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    The retribution he'll be dishing out will be biblical.
    The media are gonna get a right fcking.
     
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    There must be thousands of parents who felt unwell and had care of their children. However only a very few will have driven such a distance (if at all) to ‘self isolate’. The vast majority will have stuck to the Government advice to ‘stay at home’. Some single parents would not have had the ability to share the care of a child(ren) with another partner, or had family members living close by, which Cummings had.

    What galls me, is that as the Prime Ministers Chief Advisor, then on his return to London, he didn’t discus with Johnson and the Cabinet about his experiences. Surely if his actions were justified, then he and the Government should have shared the benefits of this, with the English public! Why didn’t the Government change it’s policy in early/mid April to allow other parents the opportunity to seek support in a similar fashion!

    It is the callous attitude that smacks of the Privileged, moneyed ‘Elite’, being above the rules which govern society, and which they set down, which is rank hypocrisy.
     
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  5. Craven Cottager

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    "I know my place"
     
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  6. trevor

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    Whats the point of been rich and powerful if you cannot bend a rule or two? Most would if had the chance :)
     
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  7. Offside

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    The Guardian ? using this rag as an oulet for truth is farcical . A 4 day feeding frenzy on a non story is pathetic , Stephen Kinnock drove to wales to see his Father on his birthday ( the multi- millionaire ex labour leader ) . Tahir Ali attended 2 illegal funerals with over 100 non social distancing mourners not 1 column inch or TV news item , Rab - c - Blackford drove 600 miles to London and back ( after the lockdown ) not an inch of news paper print or TV news item . Double standards , 100s of reporters swarming over the country ignoring all lockdown rules .
     
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    Because of your rather rose tinted Pro European / Pro Labour views i agree to differ with you , but to brow beat or try to dumb down anybody who as alternative views to your own is typical left wing , i've no axe to grind with anyone it's the double standards that annoy me . would you have the same mind if Ali or Kinnock had the same treatment ?
     
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    The whole driving 30 miles with a kid in the car to test his eyesight is working is still making me laugh. Gullible fcks. The Guardliarn/Bliar/Campbell-end/Liebore/EU made him do it though.
     
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  10. Tony Wilkinson

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    The only thing we have to 'defend' is our country from the rabid brexit hating left...
     
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    What the hell does the political leanings of the shocked eye witness matter? Doesn't change the fact that he drove there does it?

    Where have you seen confirmation of his son's condition? Genuine question. I saw it on a tweet at first and had my interest piqued as my son has that condition and I could have understood to a certain extent. I for example am allowed to take him to familiar places for his R&R if necessary beyond my local area. I researched that as the parent of a disabled child and carry a printed sheet that the police will look at if they wish. However, I also saw something on Twitter that the rumour about his child was false.
     
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    If the tale is true then wouldn't it have made much more sense to bring his niece down to London if they needed "essential" child care for the nipper rather than lugging the whole infected family unit on a 520+ mile round trip? Exposing them to risk of an RTA or infecting others re fuelling etc

    I am surprised that after BoJo's personal experience with the disease that he hasn't taken decisive action for the greater good of the nation.

    Now this is reflecting badly on both at a time when we need quite the opposite.
     
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    He's not in government but a government adviser paid by the government I believe?.
    I'm not sure they had been tested to prove they had or not had Covid-19, they werent feeling well and were taking their child up to Durham to have their son looked after by his nieces who I believe are teenagers who are at low risk as is his young son.
    The Barnard Castle was a stupid thing to do and I think he was stupid for doing it, but let's not start saying its OK for these Labour MPs who broke lockdown because they didnt travel as far as Cummings and didnt have any signs of Covid, they did the same as Cummings lets see them fall on their swords and then maybe they have credibility.
     
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    Good grief, are you really that naive? Cummings is the government. He's the brains behind its whole direction. Imagining that he wasn't closely involved in the decision-making around the rules is fanciful. He's also the catchy slogans man behind 'Let's get Brexit Done'. He'll undoubtedly have had input into 'Stay at Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives', which he chose to ignore.
     
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    Yes, and people have been writing about the right wing bias of the press for years. How about the pathetically easy ride they've given the government over its lack of pandemic planning and terrible decision-making? How about the years of free rides over Austerity, treating it as an economic necessity rather than the ideological 'shrink the state' exercise that it was. How about that the BBC news department was choc full of George Osborne's university chums?
    There have been complaints about political bias at the BBC from both sides for years. Kuenssberg was vilified by many Labour supporters for crucifying Corbyn and now you're making out like she's a raging lefty. Nick Robinson is a known Tory. Andrew Neil is a Tory journalist, Chair of The Spectator (Tory mag) and was fronting This Week in a clearly partial manner for years.
    Everyone brings their agenda to their interpretation of events. Are you seriously claiming that you aren't right wing? Apologies if I've got that wrong, but the evidence of your posts suggests otherwise.
     
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  17. Tony Wilkinson

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    Can you change your username back to @Fordy117@Fordy117 please...?
     
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    What are you blethering on about?
     
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    She would then have broken the guidelines you are lambasting Cummins for
     
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