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Dominic Cummings

Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 10:47am
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I have just found out this morning that Dominic Cumming’s little 4 year old boy is AUTISTIC.

Anyone who knows anyone with an autistic child will know that they are very different and unable to behave like other kids.

Outside their home, journalists and cameramen are camped outside....a nightmare and so frightening for any child but more especially for an autistic child.

Yes, he drove to his family home in Durham because if the little boy needed to be cared for, his sister and nieces understand the little boy and could give him the care required.

On the day he drove to Barnard Castle after being ill for 2 weeks it was his wife Mary’s birthday and perhaps he thought they could go out for a little walk as a treat.

Being 100% truthful, I asked my daughter who lives in London what she would have done if she had found herself in those circumstances, she too would have allowed her husband to drive north to her in-laws for the necessary support. 

Everyone forgets the utter fear instilled in all of us at the beginning of the pandemic.  We believed that if we caught the virus,we could die and many very sadly did.

Dominic wanted to be sure that his son would be safe with his family in Durham if he and his wife were hospitalised or died and not taken into care by social services.

Fear of the unknown is powerful, they did what they as a family needed to. I would have done the same and I believe many others would have as well. The love of your child brings out the protective gene, we would die for our children and now that is precisely what the press want to do with Dominic Cumming, lynch him!

How quickly the press have forgotten poor Caroline Fleck....she took her own life because of the way the press chose to report about her which turned out to be false.

We must stop this witch hunt now before anymore damage is done.

Janet Isabella

Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 11:32am

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 11:32am

[quote]On the day he drove to Barnard Castle after being ill for 2 weeks it was his wife Mary’s birthday and perhaps he thought they could go out for a little walk as a treat.[/quote]

Cummings may have well got away with the journey to Durham, but his 60 round trip to Barnard Castle will be his downfall.

Your quoted statement completely omits the reason stated by Cummings for making it.  He said he suspected his eyesight due to Covid and made the journey to test it.

The majority of the public do not believe that.  Even if he decided it would be "nice" to have a day out the rest of the Public were following Governments instruction to stay at home.  Why on earth should Cummings be solely exempt?

But that's not the point.  He said he was testing his eyesight.

That is illegal.  If one suspects they have suspect eyesight and then gets behind a wheel they are committing an offence.  It is a highly irresponsible action putting himself, his wife, his child, other road users, pedestrians at risk.  The Prime Minister endorsed this practice of checking one eyesight by driving a vehicle on the public Highway.

It is a farce.  It is an insult to law abiding itizens and Cummings refuses to admit he made a mistake.  He is responsible for this so called "witch hunt" - no one else.

Here is a screenshot of the details concerning a person who decides to test his eyesight by being behind a wheel and driving on the Public Highway. 

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 11:41am

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 11:41am

Compassion .   That’s all we need to show. You could show compassion and forgive the man for every you believe he did wrong and feel a lot better for doing us.

There isn’t one of us who hasn’t done wrong at one time it another and all we ever ask for us a little compassion and forgiveness.

I feel better for thinking good about people.  Sometimes we have to give them the benefit of doubt. 

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 11:45am

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 11:45am

Janet, very well put.

On the point highlighted by Grannyrose in relation to the possibility of adequate care not ever being available for the Cummings child in the event both parents had been too ill to look after the boy ( and we are being asked to take their word for it that they were in fact ever Ill, at all), Is it at all conceivable that the right hand man of The Prime Minister of Great Britain would not have been fully assured that his child would without a shadow of a doubt, be looked after ,if the issue arose ? 

Dominic Cummings should have walked the plank, but if you are the PMs bezzy mate then I suppose that wont happen.

LeckyLes 

Janet Isabella

Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 12:16pm

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 12:16pm

Grannyrose wrote on Wed May 27, 2020 11:41am:

Compassion .   That’s all we need to show. You could show compassion and forgive the man for every you believe he did wrong and feel a lot better for doing us.

There isn’t one of us who hasn’t done wrong at one time it another and all we ever ask for us a little compassion and forgiveness....

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I feel better for thinking good about people.  Sometimes we have to give them the benefit of doubt. 

Rose.  Yes, I agree with you concerning Compassion - decent, good and an honourable trait.

Cummings, by his own words and on which is is unrepentant, drove a car some 60 miles because he thought he had suspect eyesight.  An illegal action.

 A man over the drink driver limit decides to drive 60 miles with his wife and child in the car to test his ability and like Cummings is unrepentant about doing so.  This is no different to Cummings - both have an impairment to drive and both are breaking the law.  Both could end up killing innocent people

Tell me honestly please Rose.  Do you have Compassion for the other driver?

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 12:22pm

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 12:22pm

I agree that compassion should be shown in relation to his child, however, the trip to the Castle is something else, you can debate whether it was a treat for his wife or to test his eyesight before driving back to London ( a dangerous and illegal act even in normal times ) which are of more concern. The man is a Chief Advisor to the Prime Minister and as such needs to show a higher standard of behaviour as an example to the nation on whom they have imposed the lockdown and restrictions on normal life and movement. There is a strong case that those in leadership or in his case a place of great influence should not remain in the job when they break the rules, it is not a time for the Prime Minister's old Public School network to protect individuals.

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 12:39pm

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This is a tricky one. As a husband and a parent, of course, you will do anything to protect your family. I appreciate the sentiment and probable thought process that went on, for every point I make below. But...

There are a number of large holes in his statement and I will attempt to stick to some of the facts rather than opinion.

His first reference related to getting his family away related to the growing security concern he had for his family in London. a) Police support is available to anyone who feels threatened and furthermore, as his position allows, he has a specific security detail that could have been approached to address the issue. (All that said, I do not condone the way the press are hounding him and not observing the social distancing whilst at the same time condemning DC... very hypocritical) and b) If he was that concerned why did he then return his family to the home in London?

Next is the VERY clear instruction to EVERYONE at the time which was that IF you are displaying signs of CV then you DO NOT leave your home! I think this needs no further explanation.

Then we have the 'illness' of his wife and by his own admittance, she did not have a fever or cough. I appreciate that not all cases present all symptoms. My point is here he cannot have it both ways. Either they travelled with the thought that they had CV or they did not think they had CV. The statement contradicts itself.

He then became ill. He did not stay at his location.

The eyesight point is not arguable. He was driving without due care and attention whilst in charge of a motor vehicle with impeded eyesight. To further add to that he went on a 60 mile round trip to 'test' his eyesight.

I do not know if his wife can drive? It is fair to ask the question if she can then why didn't she?

The point about his son needing to go to the bathroom is not up for debate. If his son had to go then he had to go. This does not explain why DC commented that 'at first I stayed in the car and then I joined them'

I am not going to challenge how many miles per gallon his car can do, it is irrelevant. 

Finally, I have grave concerns about his repeated comments that he makes mistakes, in fact, he makes mistakes every single day in work. As the chief advisor to the PM, that is a worrying statement! If I made mistakes every day in my job I would not have a job!

In closing. I get that the first thing on his mind was to sort his family out, the last thing was to discuss the choices with a PM who was hospitalised at the time. I would, however, have more respect if he held his hands up and acknowledged that to the general public it would look like a wrong set of choices. (Who has never made a bad choice in their life?) I can also accept that he does not apologise. Saying sorry means you would not do the same thing again, clearly he would do the same thing again.

As I said, I am not getting into the perception-based issues, of which there are many. It is very easy to judge someone else from our own position.

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 12:53pm

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 12:53pm

Enjoyed the previous post and yes, of course everything you said is pertinent.

Previous poster.  DC attended his local Grsmmar School in Durham and us extremely clever academically.  Academics are clever but often not smart. There isn’t any old school tie relatogoing on there. A blind man can see that DC appears to be an eccentric man and isn’t a conformist.

The man is a good at his job or he wouldn’t be in  Downing Street.  Boris doesn’t plan to get rid of him even through many people would like that to happen.  Don’t you think there are enough people losing their jobs without adding to it?  It’s time to get the country up and running again or there will be many homeless families if we don’t. 

What happened to the Isle of Wight’s research? Surly everyone was to involve themselves in the Covid 19 daily report. Nothing has been mentioned about that. No updates, nothing. We are too busy hounding a badly dressed and foolish man instead. 

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 12:58pm

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 12:58pm

His son's not autistic.

That one's been widely debunked here in the UK. I t was a lie put about on social media by pro-Tory trolls & the original tweets have now been removed.

End of discussion.

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 1:00pm

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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 1:00pm

Grannyrose wrote on Wed May 27, 2020 12:53pm:

Enjoyed the previous post and yes, of course everything you said is pertinent.

Previous poster.  DC attended his local Grsmmar School in Durham and us extremely clever academically.  Academics are clever but often not smart. There isn’t any old school tie relatogoing on there. A blind man can see that DC appears to be an eccentric man and isn’t a conformist....

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The man is a good at his job or he wouldn’t be in  Downing Street.  Boris doesn’t plan to get rid of him even through many people would like that to happen.  Don’t you think there are enough people losing their jobs without adding to it?  It’s time to get the country up and running again or there will be many homeless families if we don’t. 

What happened to the Isle of Wight’s research? Surly everyone was to involve themselves in the Covid 19 daily report. Nothing has been mentioned about that. No updates, nothing. We are too busy hounding a badly dressed and foolish man instead. 

"Don’t you think there are enough people losing their jobs without adding to it?"

I don't want anyone to lose their job but you can't have one rule for them and different rules for the rest of the population. Also I repeat my point is that he drove to test his eyesight which is totally illegal

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