Quote Originally Posted by Elite_Pie View Post
I think you are 'doing a Cummings' here and telling a porky! You wrote "At the end of the day he has not broken any laws so no need to lose his job. End off. Simple as that" an hour after he spoke about the Barnard Castle trip in his Downing Street rose garden press conference!

I can't answer your other questions because I don't know the specific details of what they supposedly did and what they said.
I am not doing a Cummings.

Sorry for the confusion and my wording was incorrect. I had not seen the published report when I wrote that or even watched the interview, as I could not be a***d to listen to it, so posted that on the information I had at that moment in time. And yes, I should have checked the updated story before that post, but just could't be bothered to, but if I did then I would have come to the conclusion I am at now and that if it was just a drive North then he was in his rights to do so but the trip to Barnard Castle to test his eyesight was crap and that is why he needs to resign

When the report came out and after I read it, then my opinion did change, not for the drive to Durham, but for the trip to Barnard Castle. So yes, a u-turn by me was made and I admit that, but we are allowed to change our minds when new facts come to light, and in this case that is something I have done.

My main issue is that many were calling for him to be sacked before the Barnard Castle story was known, on the issue that he drove 260 miles to Durham from London which broke the rules/law. So what I want to know why were there not more calls for all those MP's who have also done the same like driving many miles (Blackford) or visited others (Kinnock), attending funerals (Tahir Ali) etc. If you want to single out one person and not the others, then that to me is plain wrong as the rules should apply to all no matter how much of a weasel (Cummings) you are. This is not about left or right, Tory or SNP or Labour, this is about what is right or wrong and the punishment should be the same for all.