love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

Boris listened to this shite yesterday and still decided to stick by him?

Strangely enough he drives a car that only needs petrol when the driver is feeling fine.

That's smart techonology!

can cars do 500 miles on one tank of petrol

HE'S JUST ADMITTED HE STOPPED

that was cross at him sorry xpost

credit to everyone except bbclaurak and pesto for at least trying to ask decent questions, what a fucking embarrassment those two are

they really are, not a 'who did and knew what, where and when' between them

the best thing to do would be to expose a 17 year old girl to the virus through my son, it just makes sense

He hasn't got any friends duh!

I couldn’t expose a friend, but i would expose my teenage niece

Daily Mail comments raging

Dominic Cummings REFUSES to apologise and has NOT offered to resign for breaking lockdown to drive 260 miles to Durham without PM's permission - despite admitting he DID go to bluebell woods and Barnard Castle to 'check if he felt better'

is this the cartoonist matt

most riveting press conference since the atherton ball tampering one is this, he wins - i can't watch any more!

Constant media blaming, it's all your fault

Literally the only thing the media might have got wrong is him going back to Durham, he's admitted to everything else they said.

Someone needs to ask him if the govt guidelines were unclear, seeing as how everyone interpreted them differently to him

(xp) Can someone please point that out to this cunt.

yes, people were being fined and turned back from driving to holiday homes. how was that any different?

did the 'exceptional circumstances' clause exist? have they retconned it?

Oh, I forgot about his house in London being under siege from violent pitchfork-wielding mobs.

4 hour drive with a 4 year old and no stops... is straining the credibility of his story a little

from what i've seen on twitter (sorry) the exceptional guidelines were intended to allow for ways of dealing with domestic violence and sexual abuse.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/24/not-requests-rules-health-secretary-tells-nation-12450525/

Matt Hancock told the UK: ‘Yesterday the Prime Minister announced radical steps to stop the spread of this virus.

‘These steps are not requests; they are rules.

‘You should stay at home unless you have one of the four reasons, which is exercise, shopping as little as you have to, for medical reasons, or to go to work where that work can’t be done at home.’

'We're crystal clear in the guidance of what people should and shouldn't do. That guidance is backed up in law'

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1265128/Matt-Hancock-news-coronavirus-uk-social-distancing-rule-COVID-19-strategy-latest

guess it wasn't very clear after all

Is this at Prince Andrew levels yet? I'm not watching.

no-one's going to fuck your blog, domcum

(xp) Not really.

ask the questions into the fucking mic

Jesus, this Castle Barnard story, what a steaming pile of crap.

no, well, the eyesight thing was clearly and immediately a lie, but no. xp

the safest thing to do to test my vision was to strap my entire family into the car why can’t you see that you sneering media elites

was funny when he was saying the perfectly reasonable thing to do was endanger his 17 year old niece, and this was fine because she was totally down

Wait is this fucking Pesto AGAIN

I think he’s probably that the media have misrepresented him and his massive brain a lot - it does seem true that he was arguing for lockdown early on among other things.

But my god he personally weaponised misrepresentation against Labour and Remain alone so a) you love to see it and b) he should be much, much better at countering it than this.

Cummings said he warned about i.a. corona virus in 2019.

Thing is, he didn't. References to SARS and corona virus were added to his blog post on pandemic risks sometime between April and May of this year. pic.twitter.com/NneonooLoj

— ⬡ Jens Wiechers (@jwiechers) May 25, 2020

was funny when he was saying the perfectly reasonable thing to do was endanger his 17 year old niece, and this was fine because she was totally down

FUCK OFF PESTO

they should've kept going, i think Dom's tranqs were wearing off

WHY DID PESTO GET TWO QUESTIONS WHERE WAS THE MIRROR

The worst thing about Harwood is that he'll probably have Cummings role himself in another few years.

"Many hateful people have told lies about me" claimed Herr Goebbels

BBC news immediately reads out 3 tweets backing him from tory mps. no dissenting views.

now talking to former advisor to t may and former advisor to d cameron. (although i think neither of them are particularly fans)

On the contrary, the second guy is a repulsive right wing Brexiteer.

BBC news immediately reads out 3 tweets backing him from tory mps. no dissenting views.

now talking to former advisor to t may and former advisor to d cameron. (although i think neither of them are particularly fans)

everybody knows it's time to abolish the BBC tbf

Some Tory MPs have ‘conveyed the strength of local feeling to relevant colleagues’. In some cases ‘robustly’ and even ‘very robustly’.

Were those messages to ‘relevant colleagues’ also drafted by the same ‘relevant colleagues’ who drafted these tweets?

Rest assured everyone! pic.twitter.com/ejo0H0CMhR

— Wes Streeting MP (@wesstreeting) May 25, 2020

^ this was earlier, form letters with identical wording.

Johnson to take conference at 7pm.

A really concerted “he has made a frank and full account and acted correctly” spin effort underway now.

If you regard Daily Mail comments as indicative of the mood of a certain swathe of the authoritarian, letter-writing public, then they’re extremely angry and getting more so.