General discussion on current situation

[groom]

The announcement at 5 o'clock reduced me to tears, and I know that I am not alone in feeling very angry as well as upset.

I think the Prime Minister may very much have underestimated the strength of feeling in the country - once we felt we are all together, and now (apparently) we never have been.

I think you are right there. Although he keeps saying how he knows the sacrifices everyone has made, the truth is, he doesn't. He won't have had to worry whether or not he could get a grocery delivery or whether they could afford it. He hasn't isolated himself completely and not spoken to any one for days as some have. As soon as he was diagnosed with CV he got medical treatment - we are told to stay at home and follow the advice on the internet and only seek help when you can hardly breathe. We were told we couldn't travel to second homes or relatives as that would put a strain on the NHS if you became ill there, so we stayed put. That's just the tip of the ice-berg. No wonder people are furious, when they find they have been doing all this because they were told it would save lives, and now we find he is condoning someone who headed north, rather than staying put. Plus, if it is true, went out while he was there.

[jillruss]

And the icing on the cake: they have used the police to make us obey the rules that they are happy to break! Yet, apparently the cops spoke to Mr Cummings but no further action was taken.

This frightens the life out of me - are we moving towards a police state or do we already live in one? It worried me from the start that there were suddenly police to be seen - actually seen! - on the streets. These police who haven't got time to investigate a burglary or break up local troublemakers but can manage to move old ladies off park benches!

For a PM to stand at a lectern tonight and utter such utter drivel and expect us all to swallow it hook, line and sinker is shameful. We are just the little people and matter not until we are needed to make them more money. Plus ca change, eh?

I think Boris's credibility just left the building....

[mckha489]

I hate to imagine what would emerge from my bag during an unexpected search!

A few years ago I was at a lecture where various personality types were discussed and then we were asked to go to the corner of the room we thought best fitted us.  It was very funny. The largest group mainly men, but a few women automatically lined themselves up in regimental fashion, (I belong to a profession where this is what you would expect most to be) another, smaller, group mainly women but a couple of men collected in a very haphazard fashion, draped over seats, some sitting, some standing. The lecturer asked if one of those women was willing to have her handbag emptied on stage..

Well, talk about Mary Poppins! She had spares of everything in there!  Tape measure, tools, sewing kit, THREE wallets. TWO hairbrushes, Phone and back up phone....I don’t know how she carried it all day!
The other women in the group were all nodding as each thing came out, so obviously they had them too.

She didn’t ask what was in the men’s pockets, but their jackets were very baggy, so room for stuff I should think.

I am glad to say I was in one of the middle groups.  Not too hot and not too cold. Just right 

[Redroger]

One point that should be made I think, the RETURN journey is over 500 miles, and then later on did it again. That's over 1000, 20 hours+ motoring!!

[Mike in Cumbria]

I'm just waiting for CCTV or camera phone footage to emerge of Mr C strolling around Barnard Castle. Surely that would be the end of him.

[Gadget]

Sky have reported that the number plate corresponds with a car that DC has used. 

[groom]

I'm just waiting for CCTV or camera phone footage to emerge of Mr C strolling around Barnard Castle. Surely that would be the end of him.

As Gadget said a number plate was reported to the police and the person who did that has made a complaint to the police.

[Gadget]

Also our main local paper reports that a Durham CC councillor has reported sightings to police:

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/dominic-cummings-durham-police-hopgood-18305196

Gadget

[LizzieL]

All the coverage on Cummings seems to focus on the distance he travelled during lockdown, not the fact that his wife had symptoms. The family should have been self isolating at HOME. NHS rules are clear on that.
 
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01phm/

Would we have heard anything about it, if the family had stayed at their London house and Cummings had walked 100 yards from home to buy something in his corner shop on that particular day. I doubt it, but the danger to the public from him is just as great. I cannot believe that the Cummings family could travel 260 miles with a 4 year old child without at least one loo stop.