Quote Originally Posted by Geoff Parkstone View Post
"It is on a par with MP’s fiddling their expenses, teachers, care staff or members of the clergy being found guilty of *****philic behaviour, medical staff who are abusers (or worse)...."

Are you for real, rA, or just woken up in a dreamworld.

You have just stated that Cummings' actions which, prima face, resulted in no harm to anyone, are "on a par with...... *****philia"

I now feel that there is no further need for comment. Your comments are simply demented.
Okay...yet more deliberate misinterpretation from you...that wasn’t predictable these days was it?

Of course some of those examples of wrongdoing have greater consequences than those of Mr. Cummings but, as I thought I’d made clear - and this is the point - what they all have in common is...the abuse of position and power and a complete contempt for public trust.

As it happens we shall probably never know if Cummings’ actions in travelling all those miles as a known carrier caused ‘any harm to anyone’. We don’t know if he stopped en route to fill up with fuel, buy a coffee or use a public toilet and we don’t know if anyone contracted Coronavirus as a result of handling the things he may have touched - fuel pump, change, toilet flush, tap etc - immediately afterwards. Furthermore we should be grateful that his eye sight checking drive didn’t result in injury to the four year old child he was allegedly seeking to protect or other road users he may have encountered.

All that though is of secondary importance now to the role he has played in the destruction of public confidence in this level of authority, and in that respect it is having exactly the same impact as fraudulent MP’s, dodgy priests/teachers/football coaches, ‘bent’ coppers etc.
Public trust and confidence in the way in which this whole crisis is being managed has been seriously eroded by the behaviour of this high ranking individual and the political ‘cover up’ that has ensued and that is now the issue.