Another do as I say

Jenrick that should be!

He needs to resign

As I understand it he was busy with parliamentary business until March 29th so unable to return to his family home for lock down until that date. He is perfectly entitled to deliver essentials to his elderly parents despite them having local assistance, provided the essentials are left at an appropriate place with no contact with said parents, which is what we understand happened.

Quite a few people going against the recommendations. Gordon Ramsay Stanley Johnson all off to their second homes,
And various others, sorry I’ve lost track of the article saying who they were
By the way is anyone a bit surprised that ms Patel has refused to give the police more powers to enforce ?

I am sure he has a perfectly good reason for travelling, as do so many others.

In his statement he has said he delivered supplies and medicines to his elderly parents who are self-isolating, due to their age and underlying health conditions, he complied with social distancing guidelines both of these are allowed under the UK Government Covid-19 recommendations.

Non story The Guardian then picked up by The Daily Mail.

Looking at the many Coronavirus Threads'on GN many on here have visits from their AC and GC observing social distancing

GrannyGravy I agree with everything you say. It's just the MSM stirring things up again. Never let the truth get in the way of a good story

We regularly deliver food and medicine to relatives who are unable to leave the house themselves, as do many, many other people. As long as social distancing regulations are observed, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this.

He needs to resign

Seriously? If every MP is expected to resign if they're caught delivering essential items to relatives, we'd be in an even greater pickle than we already are. Get a grip!

No excuse.
Do as I say, not as I do.
Of course journalists are going to make political capital out of it.

Thank you Bathsheba I have little to no faith in most of the MSM at the moment. I am waiting to see if any of them can ask an intelligent question after the daily briefings.

A home in Westminster or a place he stays whilst working in
London as do many MP’s.

His home is with his wife and children

His parents have been having assistance from the community.

It shows how much he cares about his parents to travel and keep to the guidelines with regard to delivering his parents medicines and shopping something a lot of parents wish their ACs would do for them at this crucial time.Just seeing his parents from their front window would put his mind at rest I'm sure.

I'm confused.
His constituency house will be his home and presumably where his family is and where they are registered with a GP. He will be working from home, I assume.

I think, unless his parents are capable of sorting out something for themselves for delivery of essentials, that would be fair enough as this is what our DS did until we have managed to get a grocery slot. However the hospital consultant expects him to make a 100 mile round trip to fetch my medicine and deliver it to me as we cannot go ourselves.

Going to and from a holiday home is not right and not essential.

On Robert Jenrick's website it says he lives with his family in Southwell near Newark, and in London. How many flippin houses do some people have?

Well, MPs usually have two unless their constituency is in London.

I can't see how they can work in Westminster and look after their constituents otherwise.

Whatever the rights and wrongs of it (technically, he may well be within the 'rules') there's the question of leading by example - very important, I think.

Here, we have people tearing around on off road bikes (making a racket) and a chap in the next road having a new driveway installed - unbelievable!

It is understandable and indeed admirable that Robert Jenrick wanted to help his parents, but he should still not have done it.
I think his parents are more at fault than he is. They should have told him quite firmly that they could manage with help from nearer home and that he should stay at his home.
Did they not even think that someone might see him and the criticism he would face as a result.
I am not sure that it has got through to all of us that we can't just have everything as we would like it to be just now and that we have to make adjustments.

I don’t understand why he’d be taking medication to his parents. Surely their GP/chemist would be close to their home?

So it's ok for me to drive 240 miles from my home, to deliver stuff (all essential. Food. Medicine.) to my mum, as long as I socially distance when I get there? She's on the extra vulnerable list after all.

After all, we ARE all equal and all in this together, aren't we?

SueDonim my medication comes from the hospital, it is being relocated to a hospital even further away from where it must be collected by me or a designated person. I can't ask a neighbour or one of the helpful people who pushed a note through the door to travel 80 miles round to fetch it for me so will have to ask DS, a 100 mile round trip for him.
Why they are refusing to post it is beyond me.

And to ask someone else to go into a hospital ward to fetch it at this time is just extremely unfair.

Is she getting her medication OK, Gagajo?
If it's collected from a pharmacy locally, she will be able to ask someone to fetch it for her.

Next step for me may be to ask (beg) the hospital to arrange for it to be delivered to a pharmacy near home.

As far as I can see he is technically and morally in the right. His home is where his family live and delivering prescription medication to his parents perfectly reasonable and shows he is a caring son. How many on GN have had to be put on waiting lists because their families can’t or won’t help out.

The Guardian is every bit as bad as the DM in using over dramatic headlines to draw the public in. If you can afford it, read both and the truth may be in the middle ground. I was quite hopeful when the Independent started but it soon got highjacked by the loonier side of the left.

I restrict myself to the first part of the evening updates. The journalists are infuriating. Their one question turns into five tangled convoluted questions and mostly consist of asking for an end date to lockdown and when the virus is going to be eradicated. ???‍♀️

Most here are being careful and considerate with just occasional idiots.

On the way to Lidl I was caught behind a grandmother, mother and two children (8ish) ranting loudly and apportioning blame on everyone they could think of but not thinking that perhaps one of the could have stayed home with the children whilst the other shopped. Decided not to mention it as their language and disposition would probably have ended up with me being carted off to hospital.