Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
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
Just checked, his constituency is in south birmingham, he has two homes in east birmingham, sutton coldfield is nroth birmingham and sandwell is in the black country in north west of birmingham.

Assuming he went from home, its probably a 30 mile trip (Ram59 can no doubt give a better estimate).