Read what the SAGE behavioural scientists have said.

That's not me being convinced of anything. Most people don't accept his explanations and regard them as excuses. That you don't isn't important. If most do and their behaviour changes as a consequence, as the scientists are predicting, then whatever you, I or Johnson think personally is irrelevant.

If the result of his not being sacked is more deaths then he must be sacked. End of.

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His son is autistic? Wow, seen no proof of that. Well, if he is the worst thing to do is to suddenly break his routine. Poor child. Everyone that knows about autism would recognise that as a major mistake.

The evidence you seek is in the intelligence report that was held back prior to the last GE.

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I have no more read that report than anyone else but I have read enough leaks given to sources I trust to firmly believe it to be true.

Indeed the Mueller report into the Russian interference into the 2016 US Presidential election gave some hints of this. The Germans and the Australians are saying much the same things about interference in their elections. It really doesn't need too much logical deduction to be made to understand that this is true. We know that Dominic Grieve was pushing very hard to have this published prior to the election but Johnson held it back. (I smell Cummings all over that decision by the way).

Why would Grieve do that unless the report contains such damaging information that it might have swayed the election result? 2+2 usually = 4.

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That though is the point.

Cummings is NOT "thousands" of other people. He is partly the architect of the rules and known to be the closest adviser to the PM. Other people get fined if caught. We understand and we forgive because we are human and have families too.

Whatever sympathy you might have for him on a personal level is totally beside the point. If the public perception is such that it negatively impacts the government's own strategy then he has to go. Johnson can express all the regrets he likes and stay in touch over the phone and zoom, but the public need to know that when people like him break the rules they get sacked. Just as other, lesser, advisers have been.

I see nothing other than honest factual reporting of an extremely serious issue here. If what he did deserves the sack, Johson doesn't sack him and that is forecasted to cost lives, then that is the biggest story at the moment. Of course it's going to get wall to wall coverage.

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There is absolutely nothing wrong with editing your online blog....listen to yourself!

Lend himself credibility? By suggesting the virus came from a lab? When even now this is called a conspiracy theory and more so then.

Cummings said he had written about the virus and pandemics years ago. This is true.

He made no claims otherwise.....the contentions you are making are much ado about nothing.

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Do you demand proof of autism as well now if not it must be assumed he is lying but even so autism has a massive range of spectrums some prefer a constant familiar routine others are always wanting constant change some are very intelligent some are very simple autism requires flexibility depending on the individual child's needs which is why it's such a difficult disability to be managed as a whole.