Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
I didn't. Hancock wasn't above helping his mate the landlord get a very lucrative PPE contract and defended Cummings' jaunt up to Durham which, for me, has always been the single biggest reason for the breakdown in trust that has occurred between people and Government which has occurred since then. The attitude of "if it was alright for Dominic Cummings it's alright for me" was, I'm pretty sure, in the minds of some of those people Hancock branded as selfish for catching those trains on Saturday night - if the public are now behaving in a way which is helping the spread of the virus, there is no way the UK Government can say that their actions through 2020 have had nothing to do with such behaviour.
There is a lot of speculation about Hancock giving contracts to his mates.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-establishment

https://www.ft.com/content/7bf2fbdc-...4-fac15ecfc222

These articles are at first sight compelling and will be investigated when full details of the contracts are revealed.

What is of no doubt is the failure of the Government to deal appropriately with the Cummings debacle. He should have been sacked there and then. However, it's a big leap to suggest that those catching trains on Saturday have anything to do with the Cummings affair. It might be used as an excuse by those transgressing the rules but that doesn't wash with me.

Seeing those on London train stations probably didn't give Cummings a second thought; their driving force was to get home for Xmas and had nothing to do with Cummings. Irrespective of Cummings they would have gone anyway. Indeed the youngsters cavorting around the streets in the North of England on the weekend probably had never heard of Cummings.

While the public in general have obeyed the restrictions throughout the various lockdowns there are very many individuals that have ignored the rules and have rightfully been branded idiots as indeed was Cummings.