Gaz Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 3 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: While I'd obviously agree, would it be fair to suggest that it's unlikely that a parent in such a situation would have no alternative options within 250 miles? I think that'd be fairly unlikely (not to mention irresponsible of them), but not impossible. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhiteRoseKillie Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Massively inappropriate thought from me but Google R Budd Dwyer I thought I recognised the name.. as you say, probably inappropriate, but sometimes hope is all we have.[emoji120] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, The DA said: Like a sister just round the corner? As much as I love my sister, I would trust my mum and my wife's parents 100x more to look after my children for a sustained period of time should my wife and I both become ill. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, The DA said: Like a sister just round the corner? His wife's got family in London and his assistant lives 2 streets away. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marty_j Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Could his sister not have drove from Durham and picked kid up? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The DA Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 (edited) 2 minutes ago, welshbairn said: His wife's got family in London and his assistant lives 2 streets away. That's who I was referring to. ETA: In any case, his wife blogs incessantly and had never mentioned autism. Edited May 25, 2020 by The DA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 10 minutes ago, Gaz said: I'm not sure if you're being obtuse or not. My mum and my wife's parents haven't had any 'specialised training' either but I'd far rather my children went there for emergency childcare than some specialist provider they'd never met and had no relationship with. Presumably you wouldn't take them there after a 5 hour drive with an infectious mother though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dirty dingus Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Neil Oliver @thecoastguy 21h The metropolitan press pack and politicians of all flavours have together created a spectacle as irrelevant to most people’s lives and as debasing as watching rats cannibalise each other in a pit. Neil Oliver Retweeted Toby Young @toadmeister 2h Seeing the mob go after Dominic Cummings is stomach churning — humanity at its most ugly. I know what it’s like to be pursued like this and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. It creates a primordial terror, particularly if you have small children. No one deserves this. No one. Neil Oliver @thecoastguy 1h Anyone happy about mob behaviour directed at anyone should just block or mute me now and be done with it. The 2 biggest bellends in the universe playing tweet reach arounds. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 If - and it's a big if - his child does have autism, then I do have a (very, very slight) degree of sympathy for him, given my own circumstances. That being said, there will be a large amount of parents of autistic children around the country who have gotten ill and soldiered on with no external childcare as that's what they believed they should be doing. My own kids haven't seen any of their friends / family for nine weeks. Granted my wife and I haven't been ill.If your child is autistic, the last thing you do is go on a 5-hour car journey with them.In any case it does not explain why he went on further trips to Castle Barnard and back to London in the period he was meant to be in isolation.And he was in London on 14 April when he should have still been in isolation. There is no fucking excuse. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Just now, welshbairn said: Presumably you wouldn't take them there after a 5 hour drive with an infectious mother though. No. I'd get my mum to come and get them. As I've said, if there is truth in the autism story, then I have a degree of sympathy for and understanding of him. There are still loads of unanswered questions, however. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Just now, DeeTillEhDeh said: If your child is autistic, the last thing you do is go on a 5-hour car journey with them. Autism =/= autism. My kids love being in the car for a while. It soothes them. We put nursery rhymes / Disney on and they look out the window. They quite happily sit there for hours. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paco Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 It’s not exactly an official source but a guy has traced the very first mention of ‘Cummings’ and ‘autism’ in the same Tweet. The account has since been deleted. If that’s the excuse it’s a dreadful thing to have to say but there’s going to have to be some proof. We can’t believe anything we’re told by this shower whatsoever. Even if it is true it still doesn’t explain how Cummings ‘knew’ he was going to become so ill that he couldn’t manage childcare. This is a mild virus for most people. The claim is he was fine at the time of the journey, and that despite both parents being ill the child never needed care. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeeTillEhDeh Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 Autism =/= autism. My kids love being in the car for a while. It soothes them. We put nursery rhymes / Disney on and they look out the window. They quite happily sit there for hours.No piss stop? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 4pm for the Dom Roadshow. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest Saints Fan Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, marty_j said: Could his sister not have drove from Durham and picked kid up? That's what I don't get. A wee bit different but when I fell ill suddenly with no childcare I asked someone to come to me to keep my child in familiar surroundings whilst I recovered. Mr and Mrs Cummings could have isolated in a different part of their house. It's not exactly like they are living in a 1 bedroom flat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, DeeTillEhDeh said: 3 minutes ago, Gaz said: Autism =/= autism. My kids love being in the car for a while. It soothes them. We put nursery rhymes / Disney on and they look out the window. They quite happily sit there for hours. No piss stop? No, both my girls (5 and 7) are still in nappies / pullups. This is quite common for kids with autism. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 2 minutes ago, Paco said: It’s not exactly an official source but a guy has traced the very first mention of ‘Cummings’ and ‘autism’ in the same Tweet. The account has since been deleted. If that’s the excuse it’s a dreadful thing to have to say but there’s going to have to be some proof. We can’t believe anything we’re told by this shower whatsoever. Even if it is true it still doesn’t explain how Cummings ‘knew’ he was going to become so ill that he couldn’t manage childcare. This is a mild virus for most people. The claim is he was fine at the time of the journey, and that despite both parents being ill the child never needed care. Aaron Banks is trying to amplify it, thought it might be him who started it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 4pm for Dom's big day. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Granny Danger Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 This is a bit bizarre. If he’s resigning then what is to gained by a statement and a q&a? If he’s not does he seriously think he can talk his way out of this? Shapps and Johnson ignored some questions and refused to answer others; he will find it far more difficult. For example if he says he didn’t stop on the way to Durham and later it’s proved he did then he’s toast and it will reflect badly on Johnson. Equally if he admits stopping whilst sharing a car with someone with symptoms it will be inexcusable. Equally he will find it impossible to avoid answering questions about Barnard Castle. I hope he gets crucified. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coprolite Posted May 25, 2020 Share Posted May 25, 2020 1 minute ago, Paco said: It’s not exactly an official source but a guy has traced the very first mention of ‘Cummings’ and ‘autism’ in the same Tweet. The account has since been deleted. If that’s the excuse it’s a dreadful thing to have to say but there’s going to have to be some proof. We can’t believe anything we’re told by this shower whatsoever. Even if it is true it still doesn’t explain how Cummings ‘knew’ he was going to become so ill that he couldn’t manage childcare. This is a mild virus for most people. The claim is he was fine at the time of the journey, and that despite both parents being ill the child never needed care. "leftwaffe" Definitely originally written in crayon by Boris Johnson himself 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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