Cummings’ Barnard Castle trip ‘minor’ breach of social distancing rules. What about dangerous driving?
Dominic Cummings: he and his buddy Boris Johnson probably think they got away with it again.
Durham Police have confirmed the adage that the UK has one rule for the elite and another for the masses, by refusing to fine Dominic Cummings for breaking social distancing rules in his controversial trip to Barnard Castle.
What about the breach of lockdown represented by his trip to Durham, where he breached social distancing rules by handing his son, who had been exposed to two people who had Covid-19, over to his elderly parents – vulnerable people who were now potentially exposed?
What about the implication of dangerous driving – a criminal offence – in the fact that Cummings himself said he drove to Barnard Castle because he believed Covid-19 had affected his eyesight and he wanted to check whether he could see well enough to drive back to London?
All we get is that Durham Police “did not consider an offence had been committed”.
To the rest of us, this simply suggests that Durham Police are not fit for purpose; this service cannot enforce the law with equality towards rich and poor alike.
PM aide Dominic Cummings’ trip to Barnard Castle “might have been a minor breach” of lockdown rules, Durham Police has said.
But the force said no retrospective action would be taken against the PM’s chief adviser.
In a statement, Durham Police said they view Mr Cummings’ 50-mile round trip to Barnard Castle with his wife and son as “minor” because there was no apparent breach of social distancing rules during their visit.
The force said it had “no intention to take retrospective action in respect of the Barnard Castle incident”, since this would amount to “treating Mr Cummings differently from other members of the public.”
Other members of the public who have been fined for travelling may take a different view. Tory MP Daniel Kawczynski recently made a fuss about being denied access to Welsh beaches for fear of being fined, for example. Was he mistaken? Would he – and others – have been permitted to make the trip, if Cummings’s 60-mile round trip was not worthy of a fine?
On the issue of whether it was an offence for Mr Cummings to drive himself and his family from London to Durham to isolate on his family’s farm, Durham Police said it did “not consider an offence was committed”.
Source: Dominic Cummings ‘might have broken lockdown rules’ – police – BBC News
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Durham police have been got at. Probably told they would be merged with (taken over by) a neighbouring force if they didn’t toe the Tory line, or threatened with even bigger budget cuts to come. This is no more than a crude Tory attempt to get Boris and his dodgy mate off the hook, but going by the reaction it’s getting it is doomed to fail.