You can now sleep over after 260 miles

[Hooligan]

Dominic Cummings wasn’telected by anyone I know. Brexit is one thing. Corona virus and the havoc this is causing is another. Sure people dislike the Dom. I do. Can’t stand the man and what he stands for although tbf I have never met him. But the simple fact is that he came up with a policy that locked us all up, turned us into a nation of in part snitches, in part terrified of our own shadows and in part wondering if what we did every day was wrong or right. Then he decided that on balance in the very moment that he had a crisis of his own, that the only thing that mattered was what he thought. As I said, I probably would have done the same as he did or at least taken the decision to do what was right for me at that moment too. But I didn’t write the policy. Perhaps this makes him human after all. But then he also needs to recognise the moral dilemma he created, admit it and move on. Simple, at least in my view. Brexit is entirely different - and indeed mind blowing especially now, but that’s another debate. On the more positive side the Europeans have decided to want us Brits this summer. So boating may after all be on the agenda.

 

[Assassin]

Europeans don't want the British, just our ££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££s and Euros.

 

[tico]

@ Hurri
Raedwald (late of this parish) seems to agree with you.

 

[Seastoke]

@ Hurri
Raedwald (late of this parish) seems to agree with you.

Don’t understand.

 

[oldgit]

Its the 30 mile "eye" check I like most ?


Somewhere on the East coast yesterday.
Social distancing ?



Call on Ch 74.
This is Harbour patrol boat COVID 19 . BORIS calling , Can I speak to skipper organising this cruise ? ....Over.
Hello Dominic Cummings speaking ! Over .

Thats OK Sir, sorry to bother Sir, you just carry on Sir , thank you for your time, Sir . Out.

 

[Hurricane]

@ Hurri
Raedwald (late of this parish) seems to agree with you.

The Cummings and Goings of a government advisor.
In the grand scheme of things, the story is small. So why are hordes of reporters camped outside Cummings’s house, non-socially distanced, demanding he resign?
Brexit, of course.

The Telegraph‘s Jeremy Warner gave us an insight on May 12th, well before the hysteria about a man driving a car to his parents’ house kicked in.
Engulfed by the pandemic, there are rather bigger fish for everyone to fry due to Britain’s future relationship with the EU. Under prior instructions from their political masters, negotiators on both sides of the fence exist in a bubble all of their own, seemingly oblivious to the storm raging outside.
Past obsessions have been rendered virtually irrelevant by the Covid-19 threat, yet they persist unperturbed amid the confusion of Zoom calls; it is the curse of David Frost and Michel Barnier, the British and EU chief negotiators respectively, to carry on regardless.
A deal to extend the transition in light of the crisis had been all but agreed at official level.
The EU was to have spared the UK’s blushes by proposing it, rather than the other way around. This would have allowed the UK government to present the concession as a favour to the EU, rather than a climb down.
But then Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister’s chief adviser, returned and the plan, concocted by underlings while he and Boris Johnson were laid up on their sick beds, was scuppered.
You see, while Boris Johnson was out of action and then hospitalised and Dominic Cummings was quarantined with symptoms, the British Civil Service attempted a power grab over the Brexit process and more.
There was an intended delay to the whole thing, facilitated by the British establishment, which would have caused the UK no end of complications in terms of fully extricating itself from the failing Union.
And then, Cummings was back. Something had to be done. And here we are.
The media unknowingly gave us a heads up on the plan, with the Guardian live blogging about the power vacuum at 10 Downing Street early on during Boris Johnson’s hospitalisation.
The New Statesman – a leading left-wing publication – fawned over Sir Mark Sedwill, Britain’s chief bureaucrat, who happens to be virulently anti-Brexit.
Profiles appeared and Sedwill’s influence was noted in a number of publications
In short, the hysteria in Britain’s press is little to do with a man driving across the country to see his parents, or soliciting childcare from them.
It is, once again, about the political establishment with the media in tow attempting to scupper the largest democratic vote in Britain’s history: the vote to leave the European Union.

 

[Portofino]

Like I said the rest of the Eng team allowed Ronnie and his mates to kick 7 bells out of our best player .
Not intentionally though .....but the same outcome we lost Rooney and we were knocked out .

 

[Hooligan]

The Cummings and Goings of a government advisor.
In the grand scheme of things, the story is small. So why are hordes of reporters camped outside Cummings’s house, non-socially distanced, demanding he resign?
Brexit, of course.

The Telegraph‘s Jeremy Warner gave us an insight on May 12th, well before the hysteria about a man driving a car to his parents’ house kicked in.

I just do not believe Brexit frankly makes any difference to the principle here. People were told to observe certain rules. these were rules that said person takes all the credit for - publicly. There are people who chose to observe those rules and thus did not see their dying relatives or go to their funerals, or see their parents etc etc. There are people who took similar decisions to the Dom re childcare and were fined - such fines now being investigated because a Vicar asked a question to a government minister on live TV, ergo policy is being made up on the hoof. The simple fact is that he told a nation what to do and then bent his own rules and to seek to turn this into a Brexit versus Remain issue sounds like spin of the very worst type. Of course if we wish for our leaders and their advisors to tell us to do X and then do whatever works for them, I think it wont be long before we have some form of anarchy - this looks like it is happening already to me, bye bye Scotland I suspect Anyway, we are boaters, not politicians thank goodness and the best news of all for those of us in the Med is that it would appear that there will be a summer

ps no quarrel intended Hurricane

 

[Hurricane]

ps no quarrel intended Hurricane

Agreed - not intended to be a quarrel.

And I agree with you fully on your point of principle but you have missed the point.
The ONLY reason this issue has come to a head is written in that statement above.
If Cummings wasn't the main man behind Brexit, the issue wouldn't have ever been raised.
The powers that be want rid of him.

 

[longjohnsilver]

Tosh. Selective quotes from the Torygraph do not help your argument. However this should not be on the mobo forum.