A bit of hypocrisy from some quarters without the attendant abuse. SNP's Ian Blackford travelled even further than Dominic Cummins to get from his home in London to the Isle of Skye by car and ferry. He could have stayed in London.

I predicted it in the first post of this thread in january, what does that
make me??
I'm really worried now!!

Donkeyman! 😟😟

On Monday, Dominic Cummings finally gave an account of his trip to Durham during lockdown – more than a month after his wife, Mary Wakefield, wrote about their experiences of lockdown for the Spectator magazine.

The two versions are not entirely consistent. An analysis of their stories, together with eyewitness accounts, throws up questions and peculiarities that are yet to be resolved.

Friday 27 March

By Cummings’ account, his wife fell ill during the day, prompting him to rush home from No 10 to take care of her. He then returned to the office, despite having spent time with someone he strongly suspected to have coronavirus. They drove to Durham that evening, and he developed symptoms himself overnight.

But in Wakefield’s article, she wrote: “That evening as I lay on the sofa, a happy thought occurred to me: if this was the virus, then my husband, who works 16-hour days as a rule, would have to come home.”

By her husband’s recollection, he had already been home. And why did Cummings return to the office after spending time with his symptomatic wife?

2/3 April

Wakefield wrote that “day six is a turning point”, when her husband was having such difficulty breathing that she feared he should be in hospital. Day six of her account would appear to be Thursday 2 April.

Sunday 12 April

In Wakefield’s account of the family’s time in quarantine, she described a range of unusual and varying symptoms that people with coronavirus may experience. She referred to her own headaches, others’ “numbness in their fingertips”, and Cummings’ “spasms”. No mention, though, of problems with her husband’s eyesight.

Yet this was the reason Cummings gave for taking a “test drive” to Barnard Castle, a town almost 30 miles away, before returning to London. He said he had taken his wife and son “for a short drive” on Easter Sunday – Wakefield’s birthday – “to see if I could drive safely”.

Why did the couple conclude that the best way to test his eyesight was to take a trip that would have involved using a busy A-road?

Cummings also said the family went to the “outskirts” of Barnard Castle. But the location where they were seen, next to the River Tees between Ullathorne Rise and Gill Lane, is on the far side of the town from the Cummings family property, and is close to a considerable number of homes.

Why did they end up here on a drive designed simply to test whether it was safe for him to take the wheel?

Dominic Cummings father Robert worked as an oil rig project manager and built oil rigs for construction firm, Laing.

His mother Morag, worked as a special needs teacher and a behavioural specialist.

The couple, now in their seventies, live on a family farm in Durham.

Analysis of Land Registry documents and EU subsidy databases revealed the farm in Durham has received roughly €20,000 a year for almost 20 years.

Website Farmsubsidy.org, which lists EU rural subsidies, reveals the Durham farm received almost €208,000 between 2000 and 2009.

While a separate website, operated by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, confirmed additional payments of roughly £6,500 were made to Cummings’s parents “for practices beneficial for climate and environment” in 2017 and 2018.

A third, offline database, then revealed subsidies worth nearly £19,000 were paid out in 2014.

Inconsistencies between Cummings’ lockdown story and his wife’s

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...-and-his-wifes



Their son was ill enough to be in hospital on 2nd April ..... what was the nature of his illness .....

Who took him to hospital from an infected household .....

Were the hospital staff informed that his parents were infected .....

Did Cummings rise from a COVID-19 sickbed and drive to a hospital to collect his son without informing without the hospital staff of his infection .....

If Cummings' eyegight was good enough to drive on 3rd April when did it deteriorate to the point that he felt he needed a "test-drive" on his wife's birthday .....

His wife who had been sick with Covid two days earlier went to hospital in an ambulance with their child. He drove to hospital the next day 3rd April to pick them both up despite the fact that he was at this point seriously ill with covid.(is there CCTV of him in the car at the hospital? ).

rich remainers lost again - the rabble outside cummings house justifies his actions to no end.

Wheres the opposition party by the way ? This is trial by media once again while starmer sits on his hands with nothing to say for over 24 hours.