O/T:- Should he stay or should he go? WARNING - POLITICAL THREAD!!!!

[Elite_Pie]

Every decent parent would do anything to safeguard their child.

What, like if you're worried that your eyesight is too dodgy to drive, you put your child in the car with you when you go for a drive to test it?

[Elite_Pie]

To your question. Definitely Boris has shown the way under a situation not experienced in my long lifetime as best as can be expected. I don't think in fairness any of your tribe would have done better.

I suppose that's as close as I'm likely to get to an admission that Boris has made a complete balls up of handling this crisis.

[drillerpie]

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Our Forest idiot is on the money as usual.

Sorry I meant from 31 Jan this year if possible!

[SwalePie]

[drillerpie]

Watching Cummings 'performance' yesterday, it was all too obvous there were a few poorly thought thru porkies thrown in there. If he broke the rules, then he should resign, fair do's. But if that doesn't apply to all those who transgressed, then it really does begin to look like a 'witch hunt', a Brexit fuelled one.

Let's look at when a (apparently pro-Remain) professor is outed by the Telegraph, a pro Brexit newspaper, as having broken the lockdown.

He admits his mistake, apologises and resigns straight away.

No Remainers on here defend him.

No talk of and anti Remain witch hunt or poor media standards.

Pretty much the exact opposite of this case, in every way.

If you see the whole world through a lens of Brexit related paranoia, then of course it will look like a witch hunt. I think it's a straightforward case of ethics.

[drillerpie]

Ha ha ha!

[magpie_mania]

"Dominic Cummings could walk on water tomorrow and the headline in the press would be 'Dominic Cummings can't swim'."

Every decent parent would do anything to safeguard their child. This is nothing to do with virus rules and everything to do with a witch hunt by the press and those who simply don't like Cummings. Why are there no demands for Gething or Kinnock to resign? They broke the rules just to socialize, not to safeguard. A very loud silence about that, isn't there?

No idea about Kinnock, but maybe the reason there is a loud silence about Vaughan Gething is this:
'A Welsh Government spokesman said: “Absolutely nothing the Minister is reported to have done contravenes Welsh Government regulations.'

[magpie_mania]

What did Neil Ferguson and Catherine Calderwood have to do with Brexit?

They didn't, and this hasn't anything to do with Brexit either.

The Brexit claim is a total red-herring rolled out by many who support him.

Time to move on I think - did he break it or not? No-one really knows. What I do think now is that he possibly didn't break it, but he didn't do all he could to keep it.

A bit confused about his eyesight problem - and as for BJ telling us he's having to take up wearing glasses, rather than cool the whole issue it just heated it up again!

[BigFatPie]

They didn't, and this hasn't anything to do with Brexit either.

The Brexit claim is a total red-herring rolled out by many who support him.

Time to move on I think - did he break it or not? No-one really knows. What I do think now is that he possibly didn't break it, but he didn't do all he could to keep it.

A bit confused about his eyesight problem - and as for BJ telling us he's having to take up wearing glasses, rather than cool the whole issue it just heated it up again!

Correct MM, Ferguson and Calderwood had to go because they were involved in devising and implementing their government’s virus strategies. If Cummings had held his hands up, apologised and resigned, no more to be said. But no, we had to listen to that load of bollards yesterday.

The worrying thing for us all is why Johnson is so desperate to hold on to this bloke. And I thought we were getting rid of ‘unelected bureaucrats’.

[Mapperleypie]

The problem the government have is this issue will not quietly go away. It's not a fringe issue that only affects a small number of people - we have all made sacrifices based upon the government guidance and are now being told that we didn't have to if it didn't suit us. History is being re-written by those in charge, this has quite rightly got people of all political persuasions angry.

Next time we are issued with new instructions by the government in regard to COVID-19 the question will be asked whether we all have to adhere to them if we really don't want to. It's no longer policeable whilst this man keeps his job and members of the cabinet continue to feel the need to offer up ridiculous excuses.