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Police are having to tell people that you shouldn't drive if your eyesight is bad or if you're feeling unwell. Is this Cumming's 'drink disinfectant to kill the virus' moment? This country and it's government is just turning into a sick joke.

I’ve been out all day - shielding rebel that I am - and missed all the fun. Watching it just now was like watching a football match when you know the result.

I notice the signatures on Change.org are coming in just as fast, if not faster, perhaps the general public aren’t as stupid as he thinks.

He may at least have got the message that he can’t make the rules, order everyone to follow them and then ignore them himself. His reasons for doing so are really immaterial.

No you've got it wrong. It was to test his ?

Dear lord this is bottom of the barrel stuff - now he’s a cheapskate because all he did for his wife’s birthday is take her out for a spin.....

Funny that the drive to Barnards Castle was on the 12th, same date as his wife's birthday. ?

Oh, he drove to Barnard Castle to see if his eyesight was ok?!!!! What! I can't believe that someone so supposedly intelligent couldn't think up a better excuse! Does he think we are so thick as to believe that? How insulting. He needs an advisor of his own, preferably one with better PR skills than he has. Testing his eyesight ? That just takes the biscuit. Priceless!

To be fair I wouldn't drive pantglass anywhere and I am only in my forties.

How patronising from Johnson "wash your bloody hands". Doesn't matter if we drive all over the country as long as we do it with clean hands.

Sad thing about this debacle is that it is no surprise to many who are used to the wealthy and priveledged doing as they please regardless of everyone else.

Many are more occupied about whether they can feed their kids, never mind drive them to their family's estate for safety. Worrying about paying their rent or mortgage, or if their job is shortly to disappear, or has done so already.

pantglas2 Wrong with regards to Mary Wakefield.

Perhaps all your friends are capable drivers like you and me Whitewavemark2 - let’s hope their spelling and attention to detail is as good.

MaizieD yes agree with Sussexes. In what way was life endangered is there evidence to support that COVID cases and deaths in County Durham and all counties in between have risen as a result of his actions. It would put things into perspective if we knew.

Apparently Mrs Cummings celebrated her 45th birthday while they were on a jolly in County Durham, so she is hardly a little old lady, unable to drive on a motorway.

pantyglas. ???

I am 74 and last year drove too and from the Lake District. I live on the South Coast. I has DH with me (bad back)

I think that little woman remark was uncalled for.

Alastair Campbell says Cummings would have had access to police advice regarding security and he’s making enquiries about it.

Boris has reiterated the washing hands advice. I think both he and DC should be washing their mouths out with soap.

I suspect Mary the missus doesn’t drive on motorways like so many women. I have many friends who play the little woman who doesn’t like to drive on motorways, abroad, ‘on the wrong side’, big cars, small cars.....equality but only when it suits!

Good point MaizieD.

So what’s your comparator Dinahmo?

Mary Wakefield can drive. Puts a whole different perspective on the whole debacle.

Pantglas2

No I haven't met him but it was a good performance - humble, mostly calm and collected. I have to say better than his boss who isn't a good performer in difficult situations.

"What is the matter with London?" Don't tempt me !!

Exactly SueDomin This couple have a huge income, so they could hire private secrity at any time.

18:17varian

Firecracker how dare you mention the despicable Cummings and the admirable Jo Cox in the same post.

So if Dominic Cummings his wife or God forbid his son were attacked by some left wing moron baying for blood outside his house and killed because threads like this and the media had worked them up to a frenzy like they did Jo Cox's killer that would be OK, that's what your post implies.

^ Trial by media, twitter and now gransnet fora.^

Nothing like the interminable Harry and Meghan threads, eh?

And they hadn't done anything to endanger the lives of other people.

If he was worried about security at his home in London, why on earth did he take his wife and child back there two weeks later?