First we
had Dr Catherine Calderwood, (the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland)
visiting her second home in Fife. How she thought she wouldn't be
spotted walking her dog on the beach I don't know. At the beginning
of lock down she was on every single advert telling people to stay
home. And then she blatantly breaks the very rules that she had been
telling the country to abide by. I just don't understand what
possessed her to even think that she could go to her second home. Or
how she thought she could actually manage to visit her second home
without someone spotting her when her face had been plastered across
every TV in the country. Unfortunately for her, her position became
untenable and she quit on 5th April. I know she said in a
public statement that she deeply regretted her actions, but do you
think she really did? As the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland we
have to assume that she is a very intelligent person. May be so
intelligent that she actually hasn't got any common sense. Or did
she just think she was above the general advice that she was dishing
out to the nation? Who knows.
And now
we've got Dominic Cummings (the top aide to the Prime Minister)
thinking that he is above the rules that the rest of the country has
to follow. Apparently he drove more than 260 miles from his home in
London at the end of March, with his wife and son, to go and visit
his parents in Durham. And this is even after he had Coronavirus
type symptoms. Unbelievable. And these are the people who are
leading our country and setting out the lock down rules of what we
can and cannot do.
Apparently
they're not the only ones. It has been reported that Nigel Farage
(Brexit party leader) travelled more than 100 miles to Dover to film
a video about immigration. Reportedly two police officers knocked on
his door to talk to him about essential travel as someone had
reported him. If the news reports are to be believed this WAS
essential travel as he was reporting on the illegal migrant scandal
that was taking place. Was this really essential? I don't know. I
don't seem to have seen anything much in the news in the last two
months except for news about Covid-19. How many people have got the
virus, how many people have died from it, etc, etc. I'm not saying
that immigration isn't important, I'm just saying that like all other
important things that are happening in the world right now, nothing
much is actually getting reported.
Then we
have Robert Jenrick (the housing, communities and local government
secretary) who travelled 150 miles from his London home to his
Herefordshire home after lock down had begun. And then travelled a
further 40 miles to visit his parents in Shropshire. And yet he was
the one telling families cooped up in high-rise flats to stay home!
And of
course we've all read about Professor Neil Ferguson (the key
government advisor and scientist whose research helped to draw up the
lock down rules). He's the one who allowed his lover to come to his
home. Like the others, did he really think that he was above the
law?
Over in
Wales there was Stephen Kinnock (the MP for Aberavon) who travelled
from London to South Wales to celebrate his father's birthday. And
not only was he stupid enough to do this, he then posted a photo of
himself on Twitter with his parents outside their home. Seriously!!!
It really
does seem like there's one rule for the politicians and one rule for
the rest of us and it's so unfair. These are the people who are
running the country and as far as I am concerned these are the people
who should be setting a good example to the rest of us. There again
what do I know. They make the rules and then seem to think that they
can break them. They seem to think that the rules are for other
people not them. Or perhaps they think that because they so
important and powerful that they are somehow immune to Covid-19. Who
know?!!
See you
all tomorrow.
Toodles.
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