Government Minister Has Resigned

Douglas Ross MP
@Douglas4Moray

I haven't commented publicly on the situation with Dominic Cummings as I have waited to hear the full details. I welcome the statement to clarify matters, but there remains aspects of the explanation which I have trouble with. As a result I have resigned as a government Minister.

mar sedwell holding a government enquiry about finding a tory with a pair of balls   ,

any tory who went public over the weekend but is satisfied by that ridiculous charde dog ate homework yesterday,really needs to grow a pair

Never heard of him.

Any ever heard of him?

he should have driven to barnard castle to make the announcement.

He supported the UK remaining within the EU in the 2016 membership referendum.

mail going strong on this,dan hodges works for mail

how can anyone employ a journo who goes on live tv and say he,s buys the  barnard castle story,yoiusurely lose all credibility ,hodges was put away by troll yesterday,same as doris put him away of his son,s birth,hodges trying toout do laura as the most gullible journo in fleet street

In the first round of voting, Moray's MP voted for Mark Harper. However, he was one of only ten (3.2% of MPs) to do so as Mr Harper was eliminated from the contest with the second least amount of votes out of all ten competitors.

This has left Mr Ross weighing up his options, but he has now made his intentions clear.

He said: "Later today I'll vote in the second round of the Leadership Election. Since the first round result I've spoken with many of the candidates and decided, with the breadth of support they have across the party and their vision for the future of our country, today I will @BackBoris."

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He backed Boris once it became clear he would win.

A bit like Hancock.

Yes, good for him, but unfortunately, very few people will know who he is.

The Cabinet stooges will continue to support the indefensible no matter how stupid they appear.

The idea that yesterday's conference would have exonerated him is laughable. How dumb do they think the general public are?

The whole handling of the crisis has been nothing short of a disaster and this is the icing on the cake of incompetence. Come to think of it the fact that this shower were voted in does make you wonder about the general public.

He is the first to break cover, there will be more.

ross been on tv loads of times ,didn't he have problems tapping uppeople,s arris in commons bar when pished, or was that someone else if so expect cummings heavies to stop abusing the clergy and turn their bile on to ross

May 26, 2020 -- 9:47AM, Angoose wrote:

A bit like Hancock.

Hancock has no ideological framework. A low grade career politician.

a bit like the pm trader, with his two letters

May 26, 2020 -- 9:50AM, 1st time poster wrote:

ross been on tv loads of times ,didn't he have problems tapping uppeople,s arris in commons bar when pished, or was that someone else if so expect cummings heavies to stop abusing the clergy and turn their bile on to ross

That was Ross Thomson

cheers angoose

May 26, 2020 -- 9:50AM, jollyswagman wrote:

a bit like the pm trader, with his two letters

Boris ideology is free market and giving people the freedom to make their own choices.

Admittedly he through some of that out of the window when he went against his instincts in March and trashed the economy through his pointless lockdown of young healthy people.

* threw

Cummings only regret yesterday was that he didn't clarify events earlier.
He was given such an opportunity by The Guardian and the Mirror prior to their story being published, but declined to provide any such clarification.

Even after they published, the Barnard Castle trip was refuted, only to subsequently be confirmed as true.

Cake and eat it all over again.

his government now effectively employs a large part of the workforce and they are rumoured to be about to bail out corporations, that is not free market.

you are a terrible after timer trader, you supported a 'boris style lock down', then you supported swedish herd immunity and then when studies suggested we may need very few infected to be free of this thing you changed direction yet again.

That's not fair, he is a VERY GOOD after timer

How very predictable, the tories have made a mess if it. They are killing people. We need a Corbyn led government of national unity to repair the damage of the last 10 years.

elected mp resigns from government job because unelected official.  non tory member, wont

BRING BACK CONTROL

the unelected EU officials must be pishing themselves

Douglas Ross is guy who referees football in his spare time

May 26, 2020 -- 10:01AM, jollyswagman wrote:

you are a terrible after timer trader, you supported a 'boris style lock down', then you supported swedish herd immunity and then when studies suggested we may need very few infected to be free of this thing you changed direction yet again.

What absolute nonsense. My position has been against locking up young fit people from very early on as you well know.

May 26, 2020 -- 10:07AM, Richie_Burnett wrote:

How very predictable, the tories have made a mess if it. They are killing people. We need a Corbyn led government of national unity to repair the damage of the last 10 years.

the centre and libs had this opportunity and turned it down, so any complaints about how horrible Boris and DC are can be ignored by them

probably the only true part of cummings charade yesterday and went mostly unreported

unelected aid told the world ,I didn't tell doris,  I MAKE DECISIONS EVERYDAY WITHOUT TELLING THE PRIME MINISTER,

That's a bold step from Douglas Ross. Super marginal Con/SNP constituency, he did very well to hang on to his seat in the recent election.  I guess he had a look at the polling mentioned in this bbc report this morning where Nicola Sturgeon wins by a distance from Boris on handling of Covid and decided his constituents must come first.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52795997

Extraordinary scenes,a Minister resigning because the Prime Minister backs an alledgely lying advisor.

I blame those unelected EU OFFICIALS,   
BRING BACK CONTROL

lefties creaming their panties over a numpty; one less remainer in the Party is good news, come back if another 40 go

he hasn't left the Tory party

brexiteer,s wanting unelected aids  to,replace elected mp,s
you can hear the laughter from brussels from here

Chris Hopkins
@ChrisHopkins92

@SavantaComRes
#covid19 daily tracker:

- Boris Johnson’s approval rating is now at -1%. It was at +19% four days ago.
- Overall government approval is now at -2%, dropping 16 points in a day.

you think he's going to stay in the Party?

Looks like Cummings has lost his Midas touch for judging public opinion outside of the "Westminster bubble"

3 more tory mp,s go,on record saying he has to go

keep clutching

This footage has just been released by the Durham Police

https://twitter.com/TweetForTheMany/status/1265207566596026369?s=20

squawk squawk

STAY FIRM

CONTROL THE MOB

SAVE CUMMINGS

Between the jigs and the reels,

A powerless and weak PM backing an alledgely lying spoofer who can do what he wants without sanction and can even address the nation.

WTF?

William Wragg MP
@William_Wragg

We cannot throw away valuable public & political good will any longer. It’s humiliating & degrading to their office to see ministers put out agreed lines in defence of an advisor. This is a time of national emergency and our focus must be unrelenting. We owe it to the nation.

Another secret lefty Tory MP speaks out

if cummings fanboy,s want to make this betrween left and right,we,re going to have the delicious sight of the right cheering  for and down loading a tracing app and the left ignoring it, the right wantying to be run by the nanny state

No doubt Durham Police will be along shortly with a second film airbrushing out the accidents.

he does wear glasses and mr gove alluded to eye condition, so forgetting corona , its very hard to see cummings driving 5 hrs in the dark with a 4 yr old and not stopping,cant believe there ,s no number plate recog or ctv,to show he stopped,lets get the betfair chit chat dectective agency up and running again,,

as pointed out mr gove making a fool of himself saying police/government advice said it was ok to go for a drive on easter weekend for exercise,when police /government advice pleaded with people to stay at home,their reinventing the rules in front of our eyes and making themselves look and sound ridiculous,its that pathetic you,d have to assume the super brains are doing it on purpose,
eyes right,eyes left ,stay alert ,keep sharp the dead cat is already on the table but whats it covering,

Rumours that lots more MP's are really not happy and campaigning for him to go. Polling for tories right now is awful and every attempt they're making to draw a line under it is merely underlining their attitudes to the general public, as opposed to the establishment figures allowed to break the rules with impunity.


Could be interesting in how their recent election success could be a problem here. That thin red line in the north of England is most unhappy at this them and us attitude. Every report of the family farm with its "spare house", his £2m home in London and then the sheer cheek of his behaviour and refusal to admit any wrongdoing while the rest of the country has suffered terribly but still abided by the rules is looking very poor to working class people. It'll be those new MP's in working class areas getting bombarded with emails asking them personally what they think of his actions and what they're gonna do about it. Do they toe the party line and stick up for privilege or do they stand by their constituents?

Johnson is really stuck between a rock and a hard place now.
The man with the supposed Midas touch for reading public sentiment outside the "Westminster bubble" has got this one badly wrong.

Not a shred of doubt about it.

cummings is like them 2p,s on the arcade shuff machine dangling over the edge,what tips him over,
according to sky at easter durham police but out a statement locally telling people not to drive to beauty spots,that would make the test drive story illegal,if they hold an enquiry as we all no the facts as given,they,d have to conclude he broke the rules,
mirror or guardian running that on front page and where do police go