Thread by @EinsteinsAttic, 6/4: Scotland's Chief Medical Officer resigns over #lockdown trips: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-5217717110/4: SecState @mhclg, [...]

6/4: Scotland's Chief Medical Officer resigns over #lockdown trips: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52177171

10/4: SecState @mhclg, Robert Jenrick, forced to explain himself: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8211405/Minister-Robert-Jenrick-comes-fire-AGAIN.html

5/5: Prof Neil Ferguson breaks lockdown rules & #resigns from SAGE: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/may/05/uk-coronavirus-adviser-prof-neil-ferguson-resigns-after-breaking-lockdown-rules

Calderwood resigns over coronavirus lockdown trips

Scotland's chief medical officer quits after visiting her second home despite the lockdown rules.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-52177171

Just leaving these here...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/05/22/dominic-cummings-spoken-police-breaching-lockdown-rules/

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/22/dominic-cummings-durham-trip-coronavirus-lockdown

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52779356

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-05-22/dominic-cummings-broke-lockdown-rules-with-264-mile-trip-to-durham/

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-dominic-cummings-will-be-seen-as-part-of-an-elite-for-whom-the-rules-do-not-apply-11993101

Dominic Cummings spoken to by police after breaching lockdown rules

The Prime Minister's chief adviser was spotted near his parents’ home despite Downing Street saying he was self-isolating at home

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/05/22/dominic-cummings-spoken-police-breaching-lockdown-rules/

And surprise, sur-fucking-prise - those shills and "anonymous sources" seem to have come to life again...

https://mobile.twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1263914724305055745
& https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1263914317436669955?s=20

https://mobile.twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1263914724305055745

A timeline of the events in question: https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-a-timeline-of-dominic-cummings-movements-11993086

Coronavirus: A timeline of Dominic Cummings' movements

The prime minister's chief aide is said to have suffered coronavirus-like symptoms at the end of March.

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-a-timeline-of-dominic-cummings-movements-11993086

Noting the cited @DailyMailUK article (based on Mary Wakefield's piece in the @spectator on 25 April) repeatedly states Cummings was at their *London* home:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8249237/amp/Dominic-Cummings-lifts-lid-isolation-wife-young-son-ill-coronavirus.html

It's unclear if the Secretary of State *for Health & Social Care* has just #unilaterally #overridden both current #medical advice & the Government #lockdown for parents - his tweet

certainly seems to suggest so - but, oh boy, the ratio is brutal!

It's unclear if the Secretary of State *for Health & Social Care* has just #unilaterally #overridden both current #medical advice & the Government #lockdown for parents - his tweet certainly seems to suggest so - but, oh boy, the ratio is brutal!

As are some of the critiques...

https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1264154041170432000?s=19

(I can't say I always agree with @piersmorgan, but he does sometimes hit the nail on the head.)

https://twitter.com/piersmorgan/status/1264154041170432000?s=19

It seems I'm not the only one following the inexorable logic of @BorisJohnson's, @MattHancock's and other Cabinet ministers' defence of #Cummings' actions:

https://twitter.com/zoesqwilliams/status/1264179844843278336?s=19

Unless they really ARE saying "It's one rule for us...'?

https://twitter.com/zoesqwilliams/status/1264179844843278336?s=19

I do like it when journalists with domain expertise point out the pertinent facts: https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1264143500511186944?s=19

https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1264143500511186944?s=19

How have we arrived at a place where @number10cat is plainly speaking more sense than @10DowningStreet itself?!

[Thread] https://twitter.com/Number10cat/status/1264158634793152512?s=19

https://twitter.com/Number10cat/status/1264158634793152512?s=19

*sigh*

"Oh what a tangled web we weave..." https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1264285594970206209?s=19

https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1264285594970206209?s=19

WRT earlier tweet on #ratios, someone really should give the Cabinet some top-up @Twitter training...

...while @MattHancock & @oliverdowden (the former and current 'digital' Secretary) are clearly a lost cause, maybe @AlokSharma could retrieve things, as he builds up a following?

The one anomaly ( #BubbleEffect?) appears to be @Jacob_Rees_Mogg who - while toeing the party line, using the same logic and even some of the same words - managed to dodge the same #ratio as his colleagues.

Fascinating.

Until Cummings has become goings, this [Thread] - like this car crash of a news cycle for the Gov't - rumbles on.

@BorisJohnson & his pals routinely ignore the public & expert advice, but when the twice-Chairman of the #ERG

is calling for your head... https://twitter.com/SteveBakerHW/status/1264454424770076673?s=20

https://twitter.com/SteveBakerHW/status/1264454424770076673?s=20

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