Cummings snake in the grass

Lost Seasider said:
Question for you, if you'd been laid low with flu for the last week, and were considering driving to, say, Plymouth tomorrow, would you think it a good idea to do a shorter drive somewhere to check that you were fully recovered?
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Would you like to buy some special 'right wing' magic beans that I happen to have?

Or perhaps I could introduce you to my friend, who apart from being a staunch conservative, is a Nigerian prince. He needs UK account to transfer 45 million UKP, you will get 10%!

Happy new year Lost!
 
Wouldn't trust the bloke as far as I could throw him but neither those who defended him at the time off his eyesight problems(cough).
 
Lost Seasider said:
Question for you, if you'd been laid low with flu for the last week, and were considering driving to, say, Plymouth tomorrow, would you think it a good idea to do a shorter drive somewhere to check that you were fully recovered?
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Would that have been your stance if it had been, for instance, Jeremy Corbyn who had come up with such a ridiculous and transparent lie?
 
Upwards said:
Would that have been your stance if it had been, for instance, Jeremy Corbyn who had come up with such a ridiculous and transparent lie?
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Why is it a "ridiculous and transparent lie"?

If you were planning a 5-hour drive and were just coming off a bad dose of the flu, what would you do?

As to Corbyn, well, Cummings is a c*** of the highest order, but I'll still defend his actions on principle, so I hope I'd be capable of doing the same even for Jezza.
 
Lost Seasider said:
Why is it a "ridiculous and transparent lie"?

If you were planning a 5-hour drive and were just coming off a bad dose of the flu, what would you do?
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You're entirely right. The only choice was to take a 60 mile round trip to a local landmark. I for one can't think of any other reasonable course of action in this entirely normal sequence of events that has everyone convinced.
 
foggy said:
You're entirely right. The only choice was to take a 60 mile round trip to a local landmark. I for one can't think of any other reasonable course of action in this entirely normal sequence of events that has everyone convinced.
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Do you even drive? If not, then what do you know?
 
foggy said:
You're entirely right. The only choice was to take a 60 mile round trip to a local landmark. I for one can't think of any other reasonable course of action in this entirely normal sequence of events that has everyone convinced.
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Drive 30 miles, unload the car and walk the family around an area unknown to you is the obvious eye test.

In all seriousness, if you think you might have a problem with your vision, driving anywhere with the family is a no no. You go on your own to minimise risk.

Unless your bullshitting, obviously.
 
Wizaard said:
Drive 30 miles, unload the car and walk the family around an area unknown to you is the obvious eye test.

In all seriousness, if you think you might have a problem with your vision, driving anywhere with the family is a no no. You go on your own to minimise risk.

Unless your bullshitting, obviously.
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Just checking, do you drive? Apparently I'm missing something here by not being a driver. I presumed anyone who passed their test suddenly has a side effect where they become so gullible as to believe a man would drive a 60 mile round trip to a landmark with his wife and child to test his eyesite on a day that just happened to be his wife's birthday, and still believe this man even though he admits to lying about the circumstances - and even then his boss says he is still lying. But this doesn't seem to have afflicted you.
 
foggy said:
Just checking, do you drive?
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Only for the last 35 years or so.


foggy said:
Apparently I'm missing something here by not being a driver.
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Any kind of understanding of what you're talking about, for a start.


foggy said:
I presumed anyone who passed their test suddenly has a side effect where they become so gullible as to believe a man would drive a 60 mile round trip to a landmark with his wife and child to test his eyesite on a day that just happened to be his wife's birthday, and still believe this man even though he admits to lying about the circumstances - and even then his boss says he is still lying. But this doesn't seem to have afflicted you.
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Anyone who has passed their test understands that a 5-hour drive is hard work at the best of times, and after a potentially life-threatening illness, when your recovery is far from certain, that's something I would be very uncomfortable with, so yes, as someone who actually does have a driving licence, I would want to do an hour or so as a trial the day before, because I really don't want to get 90 miles from home only to find out that I'm really not up to it.

But please, as a non-driver, feel free to continue to educate all of us with decades of experience as to what we're doing wrong, I'm sure you've got a lot to teach us.
 
Lost Seasider said:
Only for the last 35 years or so.



Any kind of understanding of what you're talking about, for a start.



Anyone who has passed their test understands that a 5-hour drive is hard work at the best of times, and after a potentially life-threatening illness, when your recovery is far from certain, that's something I would be very uncomfortable with, so yes, as someone who actually does have a driving licence, I would want to do an hour or so as a trial the day before, because I really don't want to get 90 miles from home only to find out that I'm really not up to it.

But please, as a non-driver, feel free to continue to educate all of us with decades of experience as to what we're doing wrong, I'm sure you've got a lot to teach us.
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Ok, here's a lesson. Don't take your child if the entire point of the drive is you are worried about your ability to drive.

Happy new year Lost! You continue to fascinate me.
 
Lost Seasider said:
Only for the last 35 years or so.



Any kind of understanding of what you're talking about, for a start.



Anyone who has passed their test understands that a 5-hour drive is hard work at the best of times, and after a potentially life-threatening illness, when your recovery is far from certain, that's something I would be very uncomfortable with, so yes, as someone who actually does have a driving licence, I would want to do an hour or so as a trial the day before, because I really don't want to get 90 miles from home only to find out that I'm really not up to it.

But please, as a non-driver, feel free to continue to educate all of us with decades of experience as to what we're doing wrong, I'm sure you've got a lot to teach us.
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Is @Lost Seasider the only man in Britain who still believes Dominic Cummings' explanation?

Even Boris said he was lying, and that's from an expert at it.
 
He's an awful human being, but I can't help placing him in slightly higher esteem than Johnson et al, because however deluded...he does appear to have some convictions and beliefs.

Cummings thought the civil service and UK politics needed root and branch reform, that MP's were easily manipulated idiots and that the end result of changing that justified the means.

I'd take a belief driven megalomaniac who wasn't as clever as he thought over the politicians who were just clearly in it to line their own pockets.

Cummings should never be in a position of responsibility again and deserves all the criticism he gets, but his testimony has more credibility than Johnson, Hancock etc.
 
Cummings saw fit to drive from London to Durham when he had COVID.

He broke COVID regulations by going back to his office in downing street when he knew he was infected.
He then drove from London, a place of high infection, to Durham a place of little or no infection at the time.
Whilst there he was forced to take his child to hospital potentially seeding COVID in an otherwise low infection area.

At the same time as this deeply irresponsible behaviour he was involved in devising policy to combat the spread of COVID. Has there ever been a more unsuitable government in a national emergency?

Why anyone would believe his story about an eye test is beyond me. He walked away from the press conference he held to explain his actions smirking. However the public are not as stupid as he thinks.
 
foggy said:
Ok, here's a lesson. Don't take your child if the entire point of the drive is you are worried about your ability to drive.

Happy new year Lost! You continue to fascinate me.
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So you'd leave a small child alone, unattended, for an hour or so, while you did that, okay, that's one more thing we know about you.
 
Give over Lost Cummings eye test yarn was about as plausible as when your three year old child says "daddy I didn't eat the chocolate" when they are wearing it across their face. 😂 😂 😂 😂

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Sooty59 said:
Give over Lost Cummings eye test yarn was about as plausible as when your three year old child says "daddy I didn't eat the chocolate" when they are wearing it across their face. 😂 😂 😂 😂

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I'm quite sure if Dominic Cummings or Boris Johnson grabbed Lost Seasiders's nose and then showed their thumb to him and said "got your nose" he would genuinely believe they had.
 
Sooty59 said:
Give over Lost Cummings eye test yarn was about as plausible as when your three year old child says "daddy I didn't eat the chocolate" when they are wearing it across their face. 😂 😂 😂 😂
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You know that "testing his eyesight" was a phrase the media came up with, don't you?
 
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