Cummings gets his street cordoned off

Maybe we should cordon off politics on This board and replace it with chat about ermmm football!

This place is now just a tedious mass of politics. Dominic Cummins this Dominic Cummins that.

Yup, move on, nothing to see here. Let's just let the government run roughshod over the electorate. Lets move on and ignore the scandal
 
Come on guys let’s be reasonable in a civilised democracy like ours it’s only right and proper that a high ranking member of HM Govt who was elected in by the people and has an electoral mandate to rule over them Is afforded the protection of the police in order to do the role they were elected in office to do so...

Oh hang on
 
Yup, move on, nothing to see here. Let's just let the government run roughshod over the electorate. Lets move on and ignore the scandal
I appreciate you feel strongly about it but this sort of thing shouldn’t be allowed to go on in a civilised society. Encourage this sort of behaviour and it won’t be long before we have another Jo Cox scenario. I get emotions are running high but in the same way we afford protection to others in society who have committed much worse crimes - he is also entitled to that protection regardless of what we think of his actions.
 
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And then let him go on his way?
As the police have just confirmed he broke no law going from London to Durham
 
And then let him go on his way?
As the police have just confirmed he broke no law going from London to Durham

In a statement Durham police said: “Durham constabulary have examined the circumstances surrounding the journey to Barnard Castle (including ANPR, witness evidence and a review of Mr Cummings’ press conference on 25 May 2020) and have concluded that there might have been a minor breach of the regulations that would have warranted police intervention. Durham constabulary view this as minor because there was no apparent breach of social distancing.

“Had a Durham constabulary police officer stopped Mr Cummings driving to or from Barnard Castle, the officer would have spoken to him, and, having established the facts, likely advised Mr Cummings to return to the address in Durham, providing advice on the dangers of travelling during the pandemic crisis. Had this advice been accepted by Mr Cummings, no enforcement action would have been taken.”

They added: “Durham constabulary does not consider that by locating himself at his father’s premises, Mr Cummings committed an offence contrary to regulation 6 of the Health Protection (Coronavirus, Restrictions) (England) Regulations 2020. (We are concerned here with breaches of the regulations, not the general government guidance to ‘stay at home’).”
 
And then let him go on his way?
As the police have just confirmed he broke no law going from London to Durham

No they did not. Selectively picking 2 words out of an entire statement to remove its context is just like Cummings using a loose interpretation of the guidelines to justify his actions.
 
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