Seven thoughts on Dominic Cummings
Right from the start, Dominic Cummings’s defence of his actions shows, at best, very poor judgement:
Is this press conference being organised by Southern Trains?
— Mark Pack 🔶 (@markpack) May 25, 2020
Wait, what – Dominic Cummings went home, where he suspected his wife was ill with coronavirus, and then went back to work?!
— Mark Pack 🔶 (@markpack) May 25, 2020
He’s certainly not following past behaviour:
Only six years back, this is why a Conservative minister resigned. Seems like a different era now.https://t.co/IDR8J7l0K5 pic.twitter.com/5NOC65Yl8Z
— Mark Pack 🔶 (@markpack) May 24, 2020
Dominic Cummings suggested that a sensible way to check your eyesight is to put a young child in a car and drive off. I’m not convinced:
I can't drive.
Has anyone come across any other ways that I can test my eyesight?
— Mark Pack 🔶 (@markpack) May 25, 2020
I’m glad people I work with are better than him:
Thank you to everyone I work with who has chosen not to behave like this. You're much better than him. https://t.co/nFWg3XDAbo
— Mark Pack 🔶 (@markpack) May 25, 2020
It’s not only Dominic Cummings who comes out of this badly. So too the Prime Minister:
Finally, a tip for Conservative Members of Parliament:
Top tip for Conservative MPs: if you're going to tweet about how you're personally persuaded by Dominic Cummings today, best not to use near-identical wording to colleagues. Otherwise, people might think you're just doing what a message from the Whips has told you to do.
— Mark Pack 🔶 (@markpack) May 25, 2020
And Labour ones too:
It's almost as if there was a script! Imagine all the Labour MPs coming up with the same idea at the same time. pic.twitter.com/FQ2AkW9PDT
— Daniel Sandford (@BBCDanielS) May 25, 2020
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it falls into the category of ‘methinks he protesteth too much’… I think he already had a full tank of petrol in preparation for this(and why does he even have a car in central London? Was it a hire car and therefore supplied full?).. They had been planning to spend a weekend with his parents for some time, and they just decided to go anyway. This elaborate, innocent, narcissistic rambling story shows his arrogant assumption that we will meekly accept it. I am insulted that he thinks I will.
I am not atall surprised that Boris condones this, after all, it was just a schoolboy jape and he got caught. Give him a two-hour detention and that will be ok..
Doesn’t the Head of the Civil Service have something to say here.?