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Can someone explain what he should have done?
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I watched DC with interest today, and I was not surprised by what I saw.
He is not a politician, nor used to speaking on camera to journalists, so the whole thing must have been an ordeal, but it could have gone a lot easier if he had thought through a few simple rules of human interaction.
Mr Cummings is clearly an arrogant man, and it may well be that he has much to be arrogant about - but the media, and the public, can sniff arrogance a mile away, and they react very badly to it. So someone should have advised him to smile, and be human, and shield the arrogance he uses on a daily basis, because this is not the place for it.
But the most important thing someone should have said to him before he stepped onto the Downing Street lawn was just three words - "Say you're sorry …"
The public are not stupid, nor are they inherently cruel. They completely understand that people get things wrong - as I always say, people make mistakes, that's why they put rubbers on the end of pencils.
If Mr Cummings had approached his briefing from a contrite position, he would have fared very much better.
He had the job of convincing a seriously hostile press pack whom he has routinely and arrogantly ignored as beneath him - and a public who think he has broken rules he helped to put in place.
An apology would have gone a long way to mollifying both sets of critics - but of course, he is too arrogant to say sorry, or admit he was in error, so he has compounded his stupidity with deliberate bloody-mindedness, and his bleating about 'being a parent' was obliterated by his high-handed and pompous attitude.
I think he has made a bad situation worse by being a lousy communicator, and allowing his natural superiority and sneering attitude to shine through, and simply make the media and the public even more angry with him than they were before.
He is not a politician, nor used to speaking on camera to journalists, so the whole thing must have been an ordeal, but it could have gone a lot easier if he had thought through a few simple rules of human interaction.
Mr Cummings is clearly an arrogant man, and it may well be that he has much to be arrogant about - but the media, and the public, can sniff arrogance a mile away, and they react very badly to it. So someone should have advised him to smile, and be human, and shield the arrogance he uses on a daily basis, because this is not the place for it.
But the most important thing someone should have said to him before he stepped onto the Downing Street lawn was just three words - "Say you're sorry …"
The public are not stupid, nor are they inherently cruel. They completely understand that people get things wrong - as I always say, people make mistakes, that's why they put rubbers on the end of pencils.
If Mr Cummings had approached his briefing from a contrite position, he would have fared very much better.
He had the job of convincing a seriously hostile press pack whom he has routinely and arrogantly ignored as beneath him - and a public who think he has broken rules he helped to put in place.
An apology would have gone a long way to mollifying both sets of critics - but of course, he is too arrogant to say sorry, or admit he was in error, so he has compounded his stupidity with deliberate bloody-mindedness, and his bleating about 'being a parent' was obliterated by his high-handed and pompous attitude.
I think he has made a bad situation worse by being a lousy communicator, and allowing his natural superiority and sneering attitude to shine through, and simply make the media and the public even more angry with him than they were before.
Any way you look at it, he did what he thought was the best thing for him and his family, irrespective of the rules. Something they've been specifically telling everyone else not to do.
The person that comes out looking worst from this though is Boris Johnson. He looks so desperately reliant on this bloke that he'll gamble his own future on sticking up for him.
The person that comes out looking worst from this though is Boris Johnson. He looks so desperately reliant on this bloke that he'll gamble his own future on sticking up for him.
douglas - // Let's just hope in the coming years that medical science can get to an effective treatment for this virus before the child finds themself isolated at university with no way to get home other than a family member going against all advice and instruction and travels to pick them up. //
I'm not sure what point you are making here.
If there is no cure found, Mr Cummings's son will not be at university - the same as students are not at university now.
I'm not sure what point you are making here.
If there is no cure found, Mr Cummings's son will not be at university - the same as students are not at university now.
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// Can someone explain what he should have done? //
No problem.
Asked any number of friends, or the family he and his wife have nearby, or ask his government colleagues for some advice, or done what everyone else is asked to do - dial 911 and ask them what they think.
The government message was 'Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives'.
The idea is, avoid infection, or spreading infection, and as a subtext of common sense, stay off the roads and avoid a potential accident involving you and innocent people, putting NHS and police lives at risk while they deal with it, and stretching resources even further without good cause.
Isolate yourself or your wife in your large house.
Don't presume a worse case scenario and act in advance of it - deciding you need 'child care' and then it turns out you don't, you just need food shopping, which you could have got without leaving your home.
Don't 'test drive' your eyesight with your wife and child in the car.
Accept that as a high profile government advisor, breaking the rules will be discovered, and you and the government will be hung out to dry.
When you are found out - fess up and apologise.
Don't hide for a few days, and then come out and talk garbage about your house being 'under threat' when you drove back to it at the earliest opportunity.
Don't be an arrogant twit, you have done wrong, say so, say you are sorry, show some empathy for the hundreds of thousands of parents without the luxury of 'childcare' which you didn't even need.
Show some genuine humility and regret.
Think ahead next time to what you are doing, what the actual benefits are, and weigh them against what the consequences could very easily be.
Stop bleating.
Stay away from cameras and microphones for the foreseeable future.
How's that?
No problem.
Asked any number of friends, or the family he and his wife have nearby, or ask his government colleagues for some advice, or done what everyone else is asked to do - dial 911 and ask them what they think.
The government message was 'Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives'.
The idea is, avoid infection, or spreading infection, and as a subtext of common sense, stay off the roads and avoid a potential accident involving you and innocent people, putting NHS and police lives at risk while they deal with it, and stretching resources even further without good cause.
Isolate yourself or your wife in your large house.
Don't presume a worse case scenario and act in advance of it - deciding you need 'child care' and then it turns out you don't, you just need food shopping, which you could have got without leaving your home.
Don't 'test drive' your eyesight with your wife and child in the car.
Accept that as a high profile government advisor, breaking the rules will be discovered, and you and the government will be hung out to dry.
When you are found out - fess up and apologise.
Don't hide for a few days, and then come out and talk garbage about your house being 'under threat' when you drove back to it at the earliest opportunity.
Don't be an arrogant twit, you have done wrong, say so, say you are sorry, show some empathy for the hundreds of thousands of parents without the luxury of 'childcare' which you didn't even need.
Show some genuine humility and regret.
Think ahead next time to what you are doing, what the actual benefits are, and weigh them against what the consequences could very easily be.
Stop bleating.
Stay away from cameras and microphones for the foreseeable future.
How's that?
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