The Coronavirus observational guide . . .

Now on the last post of my humble blog I said that Dominic Cummings the Prime Ministers chief adviser had become the main news here in Britain as a result of his trip to his parents’ house to self-isolate with his wife and small child. As I said it was understandable, but possibly bending the rules. Well there have been continued demands for him to be sacked again today. And as I said then he is not the sort of chap to fall on his sword. So far Boris Johnson is sticking with him, which is surprising really normally a PM would drop someone like a ton of bricks and folk would be happy they have their man. But that has not happened and so folk are angry some are very angry, even members of the Conservative party are angry.  Mr Cummings has always appeared to be an arrogant man to me and I suspect may others. Even folk within the Tory party think he has too much power. This is why some folk and a lot of the press have been rather passionate about trying to remove him. 

I think he should go now because he is meant to be an adviser working in the shadows not headline news, he is now a serious distraction from the things that are important in the continuing story and battle to control Covid-19.  

He did make one point however I agreed with that I saw on the news when he was trying to leave his London home. He said to the Press that they were not keeping to the 2 metres required by social distancing. And it was true they were hounding him and hustling each other for the best shots and to fire questions at him. Now its fine to be critical of him and what he did, but you are being hypercritical if you then ignore important parts of the rules to avoid the spread of Covid-19 such as social distancing yourself. Just because you work for the media does not make you exempt in the same way Dominic Cummings is not exempt which is why folk argue he should be sacked . . . . . Pot-Kettle is what came to mind as I watched it.

OOOoooooo it’s a small point or possibly not, but Boris Johnson still looks far from well to me. I do wonder if he would now be happier if he was not the Prime Minister. Sometimes our dreams do not work out as planned. 

A chap needs a place to hide

this is mine

The Coronavirus observational guide . . .

Today the coronavirus pandemic  has been rather dominated by news about Dominic Cummings the Prime Ministers (Boris Johnson) chief adviser. Now if you are not sure about this then he is sort of Tonto where the PM is The Lone Ranger which he clearly is not but I hope you get my drift.

You see what he did was drive just over 200 miles to self-isolate in an annexe at his parents’ home. Because both he and his wife had symptoms of Covid-19 and it has been stated they were seriously concerned about who would look after their 4 year old child. At first this seems fine but it was at a time when the government had told us all to stay strictly at home under the lockdown rules and not to travel except for very specific reasons. And that if you thought you had the virus you should not travel and stay well and truly at home.

Anyway the news of this became public today and because Dominic Cummings is rather unpopular in certain circles (and that includes me) folk have been out to get him and make the PM get rid of him. Some are saying that what he did was within the guidelines of the government’s lockdown policy and therefore he should keep his job. As things stand he is still being supported by Boris Johnson and if that remains the case he will keep his job. I don’t think he is the sort of chap to fall on his own sword so will hang in there and keep his head down for a bit and hope for the best.

My own view on this is that he probably did what he thought was best for his family and young child so should keep his job. I would like to see him go but for better reasons that this

.

The one thing that I feel he and the government have done that is not right is that they did not make what he did public. Had it been made public straight away and the reasons made clear then we would probably not be where we are now. And this does make you think that all those involved or those who were aware of what he did within the government must have thought he was bending the rules a bit too far. So if he has to go then it should be for doing all this in secret and not being honest with the public. Particularly as statements made had tended to imply he and his family remained at home.

It is not the first time the government has bent the truth to make things suit their own views and goals and that is what is bad about all of this. It also makes those in power look rather arrogant and helps perpetuate the idea of a them and us society. 

The wheels turn, but also squeak a bit at times

much like my lawnmower

which I had to fix yesterday.