UK police say that people breaking lockdown rules are using the actions of the prime minister's adviser Dominic Cummings - whose 260-mile trip sparked controversy - as an excuse. West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson told BBC Radio 4's The World At One that the public are telling officers, "if it is okay for Cummings, it is okay for us", and "it looks like there is one rule for us and another rule for the people in No 10 Downing Street". He said if the rules are interpreted as flexible by people at the heart of government, "then it is almost impossible for police officers to be able to carry out their job effectively". Police were getting "quite a pushback" from all generations, he said. "Now that is a bad sign, showing that confidence in the rules, confidence in government and thereby the police's ability to enforce it, has been undermined very much in the last few days," he said.
Rumours coming from a local reporter that another witness, a woman, has surfaced who is convinced she can place DC in Durham area outside of the dates included in his statement.
its 4:15 pm . How out of touch are they. It’s just been put to Boris that the public will ignore rules , now , or on any return to lockdown , He doesn’t believe the British public will react like that .
Cummings was saying in his interview that his phone records could be checked to prove he was not in Durham on the second alleged occasion. Shame he did not say my phone records can be checked for my movements over the two/three week period
I think it’s understandable that the public feel like now ignoring rules . But I would say to them that this is certainly a time when “ 2 wrongs don’t make a right “. Wether he’s sacked now or not , the fact remains that the enemy is still out there needing to be defeated and will come back with ferocity if we become reckless . Let’s get it sorted , then we can demand , perhaps of the party , that they get rid of him and Boris, otherwise we will demand an election , in which they would probably be destroyed.
Correct mate, everyone who is SENSIBLE ( leave thickheaded , thick skinned deluded f***wits out of it)realise there's still a lot of very vulnerable people out there and will do what's correct. Unfortunately these people aren't leading the country.
Now to think you can take the British public on , you've got another ball game coming now he's taking the churches on. This could be spectacular.
Our govt and mp’s should retire to bed each night with the thought “ thank god we have British people in Britain. If they were French , they’d be burning the country down “
The government had everything going for them a massive majority a lot of people voting conservative on the back of them believing for once Boris was on their side and would actually change things for the north but they just can’t read the mind of the public and have now dug themselves a f ucking great hole that I can’t see them getting out of Just digging it deeper and deeper. If he had just sacked the dickhead he would have been flying again, but no they are as thick as s hit.
Just a little change of direction but still within the context of Covid-19. Being long time admirer of trade unions and their part in raising the standards of expectation for the working man. I like this old saying. . . ‘It’s good to have the protection of a union behind you‘. But the one union 1/2 of our voting public wanted out from, has put forward an economic package to help their members recover and build up again from the damage of this pendemic. €750 billion to jump start the members of the E. U. 2/3 is Grant and 1/3 loan (over 30 years negotiated through a strong and extremely large membership) I did not want to leave - when the result came I became reconciled to ‘just get it done’ Perhaps, in this case when I think of a near bankrupt UK trying to resurect itself after C-19 I might wish for ‘The strength of a Union behind us’
No. No cash for them - there again their population fall has been minimal 235 deaths, with an extremely large pension fund to help them during recovery.
Yeah might have something to do with the spread of the population. On the union side did they not join the union and kept the oil reserves for themselves, while Britain joined, look at the economies now.
