For a Government Advisor to then break so many guidelines without any hint of remorse- that is one hell of a kick to the teeth. Fine - drive to your family if you think you are going to be poorly - but what is this utter crap about you having to drive to test your eyesight??? Why would your journalist wife write and vocalise utterly fictitious reports about your time in lockdown? Why do that? Why treat the public as if we are scum to kowtow to our masters?
I don't know if you've had a chance, Spidermonkey, to look at the FT analysis of Cummings' statement on Monday (link in my first post on this new thread).
The 'reason' for the Barnard Castle visit is so thin, and the details Cummings gave about his movements on that day, so obviously centred around both the witness he knew about, and those he saw who might pop up as witnesses later, it seems certain there is more to this particular 'jolly' than we know about.
I wonder whether it was his wife's birthday, a nice day, and he had a completely separate meeting with some people from GlaxoSmithKlein who are based in Barnard Castle and who signed an agreement 2 days later to produce C-19 vaccine.
There's definitely something behind it all. Although, with that excuse, he thinks we're all fools and doesn't care that we know he does.