No Boris cannot do this legally and you have to date been unable to provide any evidence that he is employed outside the temporary civil servant/spad framework. When will you provide evidence that he is not an adviser and is not a civil servant? All you have provided to date are assertions.

U.K. law is clear: driving with impaired vision is illegal. Yet Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s senior aide Dominic Cummings openly admitted to this offense during a one-hour press conference in 10 Downing Street’s garden on May 25.

“My eyesight seemed to have been affected by the disease,” Cummings read from a prepared statement, adding that he had arranged with his wife to “go for a short drive to see if I could drive safely.”

In subsequent radio and TV interviews, government ministers and Tory MPs have tied themselves in knots supporting Cummings’ law-breaking, 30-mile drive to Barnard Castle, County Durham.

Driving instructor bodies, motoring organizations, former police chiefs, and MPs have reacted with amazement to Cummings’ original claims and the subsequent support they have received.

Sir Peter Fahy, the former chief constable of Manchester Police, told BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme that the drive to Barnard Castle was “not the way to test your eyesight and put, potentially, other people in danger.”

Edmund King, the President of the Automobile Association said that, in 2018, uncorrected or defective eyesight contributed to 196 road crashes, three of them involving fatalities. When asked whether Cummings’s driving with defective vision could be considered a “fair and reasonable thing to do,” the AA president answered, “no—an eyesight test should be done when stationary.”

Lawyer David Allen Green told the Financial Times that Cummings’ explanation of driving to test for defective vision was “preposterous.” Social media was aflame with mockery of the eyesight claim minutes after Cummings made it.


Road Traffic Act 1988

“If a person drives a motor vehicle on a road while his eyesight is such that he cannot comply with any requirement as to eyesight he is guilty of an offence,” states Section 96 of the UK’s Road Traffic Act 1988.

Far be it from me to digress, but:

Attorney general Suella Braverman belongs to controversial Buddhist sect

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-buddhist-sect



Attorney general faces calls to resign after she defends Dominic Cummings

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ella-braverman



Braverman's obviously another one of "them", who thinks, like Cummings, that power gives them the right to do and say what they like .....

Clutching at straws now eh?

I worry for your sanity Omah

I worry for your sanity Omah

Originally Posted by AnnieS ->
No Boris cannot do this legally and you have to date been unable to provide any evidence that he is employed outside the temporary civil servant/spad framework. When will you provide evidence that he is not an adviser and is not a civil servant? All you have provided to date are assertions.

Originally Posted by The Artful Todger ->
Just check out his title.

Special advisers (SpAds) are political appointees hired to support ministers. They give party political advice and support that would be inappropriate for the civil service to provide.

SpAds are a specific kind of political adviser first introduced in 1964. They are appointed as a temporary civil servant.