From the Guardian.
Durham police today said they fined two people for travelling hundreds of miles from London to their area during the coronavirus lockdown.
The news comes as a fresh statement from Durham police is expected as soon as today, following their examination of claims of sightings of Dominic Cummings in the Durham area, and whether lockdown rules had been broken.
So the meat of the saga - I.e. the self isolating in Durham - no case to answer
The daft eye test - minor breach - no further action
Well that was worth a weeks worth of headlines
It is worth it because whatās itās done is highlight two important things:
Actually, Durham police are saying it āmight have been a minor breachā so no certainty on that point either.
BTW I get the example set and I personally think the second trip was ropey at best but the furore has been greatly amplified because a lot of people have an axe to grind and went for it.
It reminds me a bit of when the media et al were going after Corbyn on every point they could dig up - that didnāt work then either
Oh and
3. The whole debacle has highlighted that Johnson doesnāt really have control of the govt. What was his quote yesterday about being told heās not allowed to share certain information or dates? Heās not really in charge and this has brought to the fore some of the impatience some of the party has for him
Football back in June, according to the Sun pubs open in July. The virus has disappeared, its a miracle. All hail our mighty leader and his puppet master for their foresight and general all round brilliance, setting good examples and leading from the front. Surely only a cynic would suggest that two extremely overfed dead cats have been flung on the table to get those damaging headlines off the front pages. Following the science eh!
Would have preferred if Iād have got the food and cats just flung on the table.
Experts should be listened to. Bad decision making has given us the worst deaths per pop figure in the world.
https://twitter.com/devisridhar/status/1266020951327637505?s=19
Not according to this we donāt
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Belgium and Spain (plus San marino and Andorra) are worse
I donāt know which if those is most accurate. What Iām certain of is that even third place is a disgrace and didnāt change the fact that experts are critical of the govt response.
Experts were critical a month before you locked down, letās not forget that.
Passionkiller?
Iāve been with a few birds where that might have actually been preferable.
Christ, when I look back over the years and think of some of the rubbish Iāve consorted withā¦ 
Incoming
if this is trueā¦
Genocide pure and simple.
All this follow the science bollocks , repeated as a mantra for the past three months is just that, bollocks. They donāt follow āthe scienceā, they follow āsome scienceā. They pay lip service to it when it suits their narrative and ignore it when it doesnāt. Far more scientists-epidemiologists have disagreed with the governments interpretation of the science they claim to be following than have agreed with it, consistently for the past three months. Just look at the shenanigans at the moment. Three weeks ago Johnson addressed the nation and announced out of the blue that āStay Homeā, which everybody understood , was being replaced with āStay Alertā, which nobody did. He also announced that people could now drive as far as they liked for exercise. These changes came as much as a surprise to the tame scientists, ( Whitty and Vallance), as they did to everybody else. They have confirmed that they werenāt consulted. About four weeks ago The Guardian and Mirror newspapers were in a dialogue with Downing Street about Cummingās whereabouts during his lockdown, after he and his wife were supposedly infected with the virus. Asking for a comment on allegations that they were in Durham not London as claimed by Mrs Cummings in her heartstring tugging account in The Spectator of their Corona virus hell. Also asking for a comment on reported sightings of them in Barnard Castle Up until five days ago Downing St were rubbishing reports that they were ever in Barnard Castle, dismissing it as āfake newsā.
It is blindingly obvious that the changes announced by Johnson had absolutely nothing to do with āfollowing the scienceā, they were made to try and protect Cummings from what they knew was coming. The politicians know it, the scientists know it, the journalists know it, anyone with a functioning brain knows it. The exceptional circumstances loophole Cummings exploited, roundly supported by his desperate cheerleaders was specifically
added to protect victims of domestic abuse during lockdown. These people are lower than a snakeās fucking belly, there are no depths to which they wonāt stoop to protect their elite status.
Going into the next stage of opening things up, who, apart from those who are invested in this Tory government and are desperate to believe the lies of these people, and the terminally naive could possibly trust Johnson and his cohorts to do the right things going forward, for the right reasons? Trust anything they say? Some people should have a long hard look in the mirror and give their head a wobble.
