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.

Good. We’re now at a point where the guidelines or rules are a waste of everyone’s time and the economy. I made a point of watching the start of all the news programmes and if, big if, the very low number of cases and falling all the time was mentioned later on in the news, they managed to ask a doctor in an empty ward who went on about a 2nd peak on its way. Give it a rest.

A lot of people thought a lot of it was bollox when they found out you can see parents from the same house outside, but wait for it, one at a time. It didn’t need Cummings for them to start going out and about. That started a week before and long overdue.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (26 May 2020 9.10pm)

The media "created" nothing. This was started by Cummings behaving as though he could interpret the rules to suit himself. The media merely did what they are expected to do and shine a light into the dark corners and expose what's there. Having done so the story expanded enormously when Johnson decided to try to defend the indefensible.

I am as critical as the next person of the tabloid media and their frequent behaviour. Not in this case. All the media seem united in trying to do their job and this attempt by the apologists on here to try to shift the blame onto them is, quite frankly spoken, rather pathetic.

Cummings might have previously been seen by everyone as a shining example of selfless merit and held up as big a hero as "Captain Tom". It wouldn't matter. He made a big mistake and needs to be sacked for it, as an example. He might have been treated more kindly as such a man would doubtless have resigned instantly with fulsome apologies being offered. That he tries to excuse himself just pours salt into his self inflicted wounds

50% is always relevant.

So is if you get there through the manipulation of the voters by Russian based internet farms posting fake information.

There is no manipulation involved here. Just the facts being presented. Cummings did it. Johnson hasn't sacked him. Open, shut and reported.

If Johnson stubbornly refuses to act then I suspect there will be a growing restlessness in the Tory Party, matched by a decline in the public support for the government and the PM. That at a time when it is essential we don't waver in our efforts to beat the virus and stay united.

Losing focus and having to deal with a stupidity like this when it can so easily be avoided is a catastrophe.