Regulations broken

This afternoon Durham Constabulary issued a statement which said: "might have been a minor breach of the Regulations that would have warranted police intervention" in relation to Cummingsgate. This would have been a verbal warning and instruction to return home, which they could have issued a FPN if Cummings had refused.

David Allan Green says this amounts to: "means there was a breach, but not one sufficiently seriousness for more than advice."

And this was all it was ever going to be, as the lockdown was issued under Public Health regulations not Public Order. But clearly, goes against the Government message he literally helped write to stay home.

The Attorney General is now under pressure as she issued a supportive statement on Monday saying no regulations had been broken. He postion, a political appointment, but her first loyalty is to the law and party second, and it seems she may have got that wrong.

All this to protect a Special Advisor.

In the end, I hope it was worth it. Meanwhile, 60,000 plus people have died, the Government's public health message will now be ignored risking a second wave, and trust in Johnson has crashed.

All this to protect a Special Advisor.

On Tuesday there were no deaths in Ireland from COVID, in the UK there were 412. Coutries next to each other, and yes, Ireland is smaller. But no deaths. They did a lockdown on about March 10th, a week before St Patrick's Day, it took the UK another two weeks to do that, two weeks in which over three quarters of those who have died were infected. An earlier lockdown in the UK and many, many less people would be dead.