Elected MPs will have to justify their actions to their constituents ... they can effectively ‘sack’ him now and call another election, or wait until the next General Election to deliver their verdict on their MP’s behaviour.
Dominic Cummings is unelected ... he wields a huge amount of power and influence over the government and over us, and answers to no one but Boris Johnson and has taken advantage of that in an arrogant disregard for the rules he helped draw up ... that is why the public is angry.
I think most of are aware of how Mps are elected and unelected. They can also have the whip removed, or expelled. I would however expect these instances to be reported by the main stream media with the same vigour. I was watching sky's coverage of the Cummings debacle, yesterday and they didn't even try to hide their impartiality. The public are angry, that is there perogative. They are angry because they have been whipped up by the media. As the media despise Cummings as they don't get the same access to the government as they would like, and by all accounts he is an arse
I remember when Jeremy Hunt came to visit the hospital I worked at, it was a good job I was on holiday as I'd have struggled to stop myself doing something with that little NHS pin badge he used to wear that would have got me struck off.
Hunt once attempted to hand my daughter an election flyer ( local MP ) she refused and said to him " The only thing I want from you is your resignation" That's my girl.
I fail to see why anything is saying this is party political. I've got dyed in the wool, true blue Tory voting friends who want him gone as much as I do.
Elected MPs will have to justify their actions to their constituents ... they can effectively ‘sack’ him now and call another election, or wait until the next General Election to deliver their verdict on their MP’s behaviour.
Dominic Cummings is unelected ... he wields a huge amount of power and influence over the government and over us, and answers to no one but Boris Johnson and has taken advantage of that in an arrogant disregard for the rules he helped draw up ... that is why the public is angry.
I think most of are aware of how Mps are elected and unelected. They can also have the whip removed, or expelled. I would however expect these instances to be reported by the main stream media with the same vigour. I was watching sky's coverage of the Cummings debacle, yesterday and they didn't even try to hide their impartiality. The public are angry, that is there perogative. They are angry because they have been whipped up by the media. As the media despise Cummings as they don't get the same access to the government as they would like, and by all accounts he is an arse
I’m not sure who I feel most patronised by ... Cummings at his press conference ... or by your post. 🤣
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Wow, quite nice to see people caring so much and making their feelings known.
Unfortunately I live in the only tiny Tory enclave nestled in the middle of a Labour heartland. My neighbours are good caring, decent people so I don’t really get it, but booing Boris was a non starter here!
I fail to see why anything is saying this is party political. I've got dyed in the wool, true blue Tory voting friends who want him gone as much as I do.
It's not necessarily party political. It's personal - people don't like him, and they whip up a crescendo of fury. It's all a means to an end.
Again, he's not broken the law. He's not been arrested, fined, cautioned etc. If he had, he'd be dealt with appropriately. So we either accept this, regardless of our personal dislikes, or we can descend into chaos.
I particularly chuckle at the people signing petitions for him to go. He's a private citizen, not an elected official. If you don't like him, and believe that Boris's judgement in keeping him is faulty, then use the constitutional mechanism of an election to make your voice heard via a vote.
Don't, however, sign a petition for a private citizen to lose his job because you personally disagree with his legal behavior.
We teach children not to succumb to peer pressure, yet that is the exact purpose of the petition - to create pressure so he loses his job.
How would you feel if, instead of the protection of employment law, we all just got to vote on whether you keep your job? If I don't like you, or I think you're lazy, or I think you don't prepare documents correctly, I'll just get a bunch of my friends to leave a petition on your desk, and get you sacked.
Utter lunacy. Let's stop pandering to the people with an agenda, move on, and take the country forward from this unprecedented crisis. Arguing over Dominic Cummings is pointless and unproductive, and politicians and the media should be ashamed when there are more important things to think about.
@B3 - I take your point about the media's responsibility for whipping things up. But if Cummings had done the right thing when his "tour" came to light, and said "sorry - I now realise this was wrong" and fallen on his sword, the reaction would have been brief and order would have been restored. It's the job of the Press to uncover such things. The responsibility for any breakdown in the public's respect for the lockdown must surely be DC's.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
But he has broken the regulations ... police have said that had he been stopped during his journey northwards he would’ve been sent back to London.
He also drove whilst he was concerned that his eyesight wasn’t ok, in contravention of the Highway Code. Both of those actions placed his child and others at risk.
As has been said, to prioritise your own genepool’s well-being is a natural response to threat.
It’s just as well that most of us had a better understanding of the principle of ‘acting for the greater good’ and acted within the spirit of the regulations and didn’t look for loopholes to apply to our own personal whims or fears.
It’s obvious who is occupying the moral high ground ... it’s the intelligent law abiding usually ‘silent majority’, and disappointingly not our leaders.
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I would however expect these instances to be reported by the main stream media with the same vigour. I was watching sky's coverage of the Cummings debacle, yesterday and they didn't even try to hide their impartiality.
The public are angry, that is there perogative. They are angry because they have been whipped up by the media. As the media despise Cummings as they don't get the same access to the government as they would like, and by all accounts he is an arse
That's my girl.
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https://twitter.com/katrinabest/status/1265407317920690176?s=20
https://twitter.com/Ms_LeFaye/status/1265475863207870465?s=20
Again, he's not broken the law. He's not been arrested, fined, cautioned etc. If he had, he'd be dealt with appropriately. So we either accept this, regardless of our personal dislikes, or we can descend into chaos.
I particularly chuckle at the people signing petitions for him to go. He's a private citizen, not an elected official. If you don't like him, and believe that Boris's judgement in keeping him is faulty, then use the constitutional mechanism of an election to make your voice heard via a vote.
Don't, however, sign a petition for a private citizen to lose his job because you personally disagree with his legal behavior.
We teach children not to succumb to peer pressure, yet that is the exact purpose of the petition - to create pressure so he loses his job.
How would you feel if, instead of the protection of employment law, we all just got to vote on whether you keep your job? If I don't like you, or I think you're lazy, or I think you don't prepare documents correctly, I'll just get a bunch of my friends to leave a petition on your desk, and get you sacked.
Utter lunacy. Let's stop pandering to the people with an agenda, move on, and take the country forward from this unprecedented crisis. Arguing over Dominic Cummings is pointless and unproductive, and politicians and the media should be ashamed when there are more important things to think about.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.