Quote Originally Posted by Trigger View Post
The whole Cummings thing is massively overblown, mostly because people just don't like him. Being realistic within government, as within a percentage of the population then there's a lot of breaches of lockdown.

Is this in the current climate the most important thing that the government should be taking questions on?

I'd love for the time being for political point scoring to be left on the back burner but between opposition mps and the press (large amount of which have asked about 2 valuable questions between them during these daily conferences) then there is no chance of that.

He may be gutless, but it isn't because of not being overly enthused with questions on Cummings and the inevitable twisting of everything he would say anyway. I'd far prefer to believe he has more important things to be doing.

Should Cummings himself step down? Yes of course. Does it need to dominate the media for the next couple of days? No.
"Political point scoring"? The adviser to the Prime Minister flouted the Govt's own guidance and has completely undermined the message that they have been giving the public since "lockdown".

You have said it yourself that he should step down, yet the party that he represents by proxy have defended his actions and have therefore exacerbated the argument.

If they had recognised that Cummings' actions have left them looking like hypocrites (and have now left the rules open to far more interpretation than we've been told was allowed, and fired him, it would be out of the news pretty quickly.

Instead, it will drag on until a bigger story happens, which may be tomorrow or the next day at this rate... But to call it political point scoring from the opposition is entirely inaccurate, in my opinion.