Will he resign 2

Lots of hypocrites about.
As my neighbour said to me when she came home from southend yesterday.

"It's one rule for them and another for us"

I wonder who is sitting out of shot to his right that he appears to be repeatedly glancing at?

Perhaps Cummings is on the floor furiously holding up prompts for him to read

Not sure if it's still on, or if I've missed it.

Either way, I don't think I can stand to watch.

MissAdventure

Darren Jones was excellent. ditto Meg Hillier.

Why would you think they are the same people, sarahellenwhitney?
They are too busy having fun,.
We who are annoyed are at home, I have not been out beyond my gate since about 16th March, except for one trip to the supermarket on 18th March.

Only essential workers should have been out.

Apart from MissAdventure's neighbour of course!

She's a legend around these parts, bless her.

Boris was terrible today. All bluster.

Boris’ brain has been taken over. I think he has an implant in the back of his head. He’s being controlled.

His lack of knowledge on the topics that were raised was astounding.

It’s no wonder he wants to hang on to Cummings

Wonder if anyone is going to ask Dido Harding about her track record at Talk Talk [AOL?] when it comes to protecting peoples personal data?

^ I think he has an implant in the back of his head.^

Are you thinking of Harry Potter, NfK. Didn't one of the many Dark Arts teachers have Voldemort in the back of his head?

If you parted that shaggy blonde mop at the back I expect you'll find Cummings leering out...

In other news, that petition has signatures adding on every 2 or 3 seconds.

This

The result of Cummings management, and Boris’ compliance.

Exactly, Maisie!

Well done indeed Boris - what a "world beating" record!

I must be getting old. To me if no childcare could be found and they needed family support why couldn't the Twenty year old niece come to them? Travel is allowed to give support. The person driving her, if she could not drive herself would not need to leave the car or visit. If a comfort break was needed there would have been no infection risk as they were not symptomatic. A simple remedy to a temporary situation which would have solved the problem.

Ken Clarke
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What’s the difference between Dominic Cummings and God?

God doesn’t think he’s Dominic Cummings.

Was this afternoon Boris’s best/worst performance ? I suppose you could say it was a Masterclass in not even vaguely answering the question.

I thought Yvette Cooper was excellent. She got to the nub of it. Can the 25% of women on Mumsnet without back up now drive anywhere in search of childcare?

I thought Boris was going to die on screen at one point with that cough!

It has to be faced that Cummings and Johnson have now in all probability weathered the worst of this storm. They have put up two fingers to all the public outrage and with only forty conservative MPs declaring that they believe that Cummings should resign that still leaves Johnson a majority of forty in the House of Commons should a vote of no confidence be called by the opposition.

Johnson has realised that even with all the public hostility over what Dominic Cummings carried out, that outrage has had no centre of opposition and as long as that situation continued there was no real challenge to his leadership or his decisions on the future of Cummings.

As any experienced grassroots trade unionist will tell anyone, any campaign has to be well organised and well targeted toward its objectives. In that, there has been enormous demonstrated hostility towards Cummings in a desire to see him removed from his position. However, that enormous hostility has had no central leadership and in that has always been doomed to failure.

I have stated several times on this forum that the above leadership could only come from the opposition parties in the House of Commons, and in that (with the exception of the SNP) they simply have not "turned up" to lead all the outrage of those posting continuously on social media etc.

Within a week schools and retail will be open once again and the national Covid debate will turn to the problems of those changes. That will leave Dominic Cummings believing he is titanium man, and perhaps in that belief, he may just be correct unless something new and very unexpected is brought into this issue.

Well, if we had any doubts at all regarding Boris's ability, they were well and truly confirmed after his performance today. He seemed completely out of his depth; it was excruciating to watch. It was so embarassing I actually felt sorry for him.

Completely agree Curlywhirly. He failed to answer a single question due to an apparent lack of knowledge.

I was squirming as he bumbled and waffled his way through every reply, barely making sense at times.

Acting Leader of the Liberal Democrats Ed Davey said: “Countless people have lost loved ones and made enormous, heartbreaking sacrifices every single day since lockdown began.

“Dominic Cummings has shown that these sacrifices by millions of people don’t matter to him. His refusal to have the decency to apologise is an insult to us all. It reveals the worst of his elitist arrogance.

“The bond of trust between the Government and the people has well and truly been broken. The buck stops with the Prime Minister. By failing to act, he risks his Government’s ability to tackle this awful pandemic and keep people safe.

“The Prime Minister must come clean about what he knows and terminate Dominic Cummings’ contract. It is now clearer than ever that, once we are through this crisis, there must also be an independent inquiry to review the Government’s actions.”

inews.co.uk/news/dominic-cummings-opposition-reaction-liberal-democrats-ed-davey-decency-apologise-insult-2864303

I agree with grandad.

All outraged and no place to go.