Another attempt to make a fuss out of nothing.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Transparent codswallop as ever. The media created the fuss and now they claim everyone is outraged. Baloney.

The news networks will give this a real go since Cummings is enemy No1 and for that reason I would support Cummings if he had strangled his own mother.
I want to see the media networks crawling in the dirt.

Let's start a petition to abolish the licence fee and make the BBC self funding

Would you mind me asking why?

You're certainly entitled to an opinion but it doesn't make DC look trustworthy when he's retrospectively altering past blogs to try and prove a point! Especially when he's trying to appear totally above board to the entire British public.

Indeed if you're going to lie about that, what else would you lie about?

Have another pint of bitter Dan. Did Bliar and Campbell, those bastions of the Labour Party care about lying? Surely you can’t be happy with the worldwide devastation their lies caused or is that ok because they aren’t called Boris?

Are you sure about that?

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In any event, Sweden and the UK have different population densities and cultural behaviour patterns which will impinge on what the science suggests is the best course of action.

None of which is though actually the point. The point being that our government made "following the science" the central plank of their strategy in getting the public to follow the rules. They took the politics out of the argument and appealed to our desire to work together.

It worked! This stupidity though has broken that consensus. People will now feel empowered to break the rules because if "they" can ignore their own rules then so can I. Not everyone, but enough to make things much, much harder.

I wanted our strategy to succeed. I thought the government had handled it well. Mistakes were made, but that was inevitable in a fast-moving situation.

This though is an enormous error of judgement that will make ensuring that enough people comply with future requests very much harder.

It has nothing at all to do with any personal vendettas against Cummings, although he is clearly a very much disliked figure in many quarters. Rightly so too in my opinion but that really is not the point. The criticism is not addressed to Cummings but on the decision not to sack him. That's what is so wrong.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.