Brilliant by Cummings

He said he was not tested
So he went for a country drive  eerrmmm

Unless someone can prove he has lied (which I doubt), then his coherent and reasonable response should be the end of it.

If it wasn't for the members of the press marauding about with pitchforks and burning torches there would have been no public foment whipped up. It appears to be simply Cummings haters trying to stir things (an opportunity they have been waiting a long time for).

Cameron called him a psychopath

Can his wife not drive?

There's the bargain:


Cummings says that he acted independently of the PM.

Govt backs him.

Showed no contrition; no regret; decisions in the interest of himself and his family (not public). He's an out-and-out arrogant individual; his interpretation of the lockdown rule is his own alone; no isolation despite with Covid-19 symptom as instructed by government.

I wanted him to answer ALL questions - well he did so fair play to him.

Not sure, jed.

My take is that Govt backed Cummings on condition Cummings said he acted independently.

So, if The Guardian/Mirror have more, we should all take relish in their discomfort.

As a neutral, I can say that Cummings performed well today. Credit where due.

But inevitably Cummings will f**k up again.

If Cummings is the ditch that the PM wants to die in, who are we to stop him?

We'll see. Johnson looked weak and sick yesterday. As if he knew he was lying on behalf of his aide. Hopefully the country's national treasure The Guardian can give the story a fresh impetus but, if they cannot, we should all salute the effort in dragging this crew before their responsibilities. Not like they were volunteering the information..

Autocorrect apologies for the errors but at least it doesn't smack of the lamp hey?

His enemy's enemy is his friend. Simplistic, but that's how these people are.

National treasure domiciled in the Cayman isles #scummedia

I actually agree that Cummings did a very good job with some very dodgy material.
The worry for Government supporters should be that he probably HAS saved his job for the moment whereas Boris "The Great Communicator" Johnson had,presumably inadvertently,put him deeper in the s*** the previous day. Dom must be thinking it's time for a new puppet.

It's all relative innit.
Perhaps I went a bit OTT there but by contrast with Bozo he was brilliant.

I believe the events happened as he described them - but not his reasons for doing them.

They went up to Durham because they wanted to self-isolate at a nice location - not because their child was in imminent danger of having no care.

They drove to Barnard Castle for a nice little trip out - not because he wanted to test his eyes.

The issue is less now what Cummings did - but all the lies that have been told since.

all your doing there brigust is showing us why you do vigorously defend him - but your lack of self-awareness prevents you from seeing that

Believe him or not Mr Cummings interpreted the lockdown rules to suit, and acted sanctimoniously at yesterday's press conference. He'd so easily have stayed in London and arranged childcare to suit, if necessary, with friends (or supplied by the state); his nieces without Covid-19 symptoms coming down and looking after their young nephew in another part of his London home. As such, he'd not have risked infecting joe public driving to Durham. Also, if his eyes were dodgy he'd so easily have taken more time off work, and not drove and sauntered to the Castle to conduct an eye experiment.

I'm appalled the present government would want to be associated with an advisor so obsessed with himself; so arrogant and non-contrite; a control freak; devoid of humility. He actually believes the government will grind to a halt without him despite the government take on tackling this virus has been just short of woeful.