Another do as I say

If you have nobody any nearer to ask to pick up essential supplies and meds then it is permitted actually.

What appears to be overlooked is one of the reasons that we're not supposed to be driving any distance is the possibility of an accident

If that were to happen paramedics and the hospitals would have to cope with an extra burden

This man's parents neighbours were purchasing items for them as well

Imagine if everyone was driving 35 miles to take supplies to relatives

Why? why would you and you son do any of that? it is not permitted.

Sounds a non story... our son has collected our meds for us from the surgery ( they won’t send to the local pick up point as they usually do.) A round trip of 35 miles.Also left supplies for us, put on doorstep and a short chat from a distance before he leaves.

Do we know the Jenricks medication was hospital-prescribed? Or was it sixteen paracetamol tablets? If it is hospital meds and they refuse to mail it or make other arrangements with a local pharmacy, then that’s the not-so-fantastic side of the NHS.

Ah well, that is a bit different.

Perhaps he'll fetch my medication for me

Lucca
Living in Cornwall although a twenty minute drive from the Ramsey holiday pad I can assure you the people living in that location are not at all happy. I would not be either when locals are staying off the beach but learn through the media the R's have been observed taking their daily constitutional on the beach regardless ?

This has been discussed on another thread as well. Call RJ has three homes - one in Westminster ( which he lists elsewhere as his musings home, one in his constituency Newark, and the one where he now is in Herefordshire which is his country house and is mentioned as a hose he ‘has an interest in’ not as his main home.

As a caring son, his role is to ensure that local community groups are looking after his parents as they surely must have been doing before this escapade. As a cabinet member who has fronted the daily press briefing his role is to lead by example and he hasn’t.

My SiL is getting it for her Callistemon, but this in itself is dodgy, given that my brother has recently had C19.

If I were foolish, thinking the rules didn't apply to me as Hendricks did, I'd just jump in the car and get it for her.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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!

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.

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?

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.

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.

His parents have been having assistance from the community.

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

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.

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