Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Erm...the thread is about ‘Cummings’ Press Statement’.

I don’t defend Ali attending a funeral with 100 other mourners. Seems ridiculous and equally wrong, but I don’t even know who Ali is...he certainly isn’t an ‘archtect’ of the rules that have been broken.
Tahir Ali, MP for Hall Green (where I used to live for 5 years in my youth) attended a funeral in Sutton amongst 100 others. You may wonder how close a relative he was of the deceased? The answer - none. Allegedly he also attended another funeral in Sandwell the same day - presumably again not as an even distant relative. Evidently he was gathering data to support his campaign for amending rules on funeral attendance!!

Assuming 100 at each funeral, then he may have come into contact with rather a lot of people - a walking R factor time bomb at a time (end March early April) when covid R rate was already growing rapidly.

You could understand it if he was a close family member or good friend of the deceased, but it seems he didnt even know either person. He said sorry and that was it. Contrast this with Cummings being pilloried for what seems a lesser crime, and it does appear like a witch hunt of a political nature