Defending the indefensible

Dominic Cummings is clinging on.

It is hard to see his career surviving this, what was, apparently, several lapses in judgement.

Not content with one trip to stay at his in-laws with his sick wife and young child. They did it again after Easter.

And visited Barnard Castle one day, and went for a walk in a bluebell wood another.

And the "walking brain" and his Cabinet apologists were caught in the most basic of journalistic traps, a second release of information regarding the repeated trips.

28 Ministers and MPs either Tweeted or make supportive comments on his frst trip, doing whatever a caring parent would do to protect their family. Thus alienating the hundreds, thousands of people who did what they were told and obeyed the law in isolating when infected, and not being with their parent, parents, children, grandparents as they were in intensive care and went on to die.

Those that isolated and obeyed the law, are they lesser parents as they displayed less love for their children?

The silence from the same 28 after the second tranche of revelations speaks volumes.

In backing Cummings, and bending Government guidelines and even the law to back him Ministers have destroyed the message on the need to lockdown.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock tweeting that it was "entirely right" for the senior aide to find childcare. Michael Gove tweeted: "Caring for your wife and child is not a crime." England's deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries also said all health guidance should be applied with "common sense".

Government guidelenes, which were still being tweeted by the PM's official Twtter feed is that if you or anyone in your house is infected or showing signs, you isolate for 14 days.

Not drive 260 miles to Durham.

Twice.

Do some sightseeing.

Walk among the flowers.

Johnson has been MIA since Wednesday, and again did not appear at the daily COVID briefing, Raab did that and said that rather than obey the law, people should do so in line with common sense. I robbed a bank to support my family, does that get me a free pass? Or the parents who have been charged with stealing from a Teso's rubbish bin as Government social support left them with just £8 a week to live on and a child to support?

One rule for them and one rule for the rest. Funny, as Cummings' manta is to rail against the elite is clearly now is. Once people see and fee that, the game is up. And what then for Johnson, a man so inept one feels he couldn't put on a pair of shoes himself, could he run the country without Cummings. Could he find his way out of the bathroom?