And although his 60-mile round trip to Barnard Castle to sit by the river with his wife and son MAY have constituted a "minor breach" there was no flouting of "social distancing". But that "minor breach" apparently warranted the kind of deranged, hysterical, maniacal abuse heaped on Cummings this week which couldn't have been worse had he actually murdered someone.
Leftie politicos and a 40-strong bunch of (mainly) Tory Remainer MPs had jumped on this story like a pack of slavering hyenas pretending their anger was all about this "insult" to the British people and how unfair it was that they'd stuck to the rules and the architect of those rules had broken them.
Sorry, but anyone who believes the buckets of bile chucked at Cummings from those in the Westminster bubble and certain sections of the media was simply about breaking lockdown rules need their heads testing. No, for rebel Tories this was their chance to take down the man who made Brexit happen and the Left wanted the strategist who'd seen off Corbyn, the Labour party and led the Tories to their biggest election victory in decades, to be crushed.
I absolutely understand the British people were angry at what looked like "one law for the privileged and another for us the plebs". I get they felt keenly the unfairness that the second most powerful man in government looked like he'd been flouting the rules when they couldn't. Only it turns out he didn't.
And in the week one in seven admitted violating the lockdown (and there'll be heaps more who won't admit it) I'm not sure how many people are entitled to take the moral high ground here. Cummings took his wife and child to a place they could be looked after if they became sick.
But this "minor breach" can't ever justify the venom heaped on Cummings and his family by the angry mob that laid siege to his home back in March and is there again now - screaming, shouting and threatening, while his wife and four-year-old son cower inside. And why in this country is it not illegal for mobs to behave like this - behaviour the Left actually encourages?
My view might be an unpopular one but I think it's right Boris didn't sack him, first, because his trip north didn't breach the rules but more importantly kicking him out would have been giving in to the baying lynch mob who wanted Cummings' head on a pole for their own political ends NOT out of kinship with the British people. I'm no fan of DC - he has a chronic inability to relate to people. He's arrogant and his attitude is almost always: "I'm right and you're wrong."
Had he shown a scintilla of remorse or understanding of how betrayed the British public felt when it was believed he'd broken the rules, they might have been willing to accept he did what he did because he believed it was in the best interests of his family. That said Boris (and Britain) needs the man who's been described as an "evil genius" because Cummings is determined to reform the Civil Service - the reason it piled in against him last week.
It's a job I'm not sure anyone else in government has the stomach for but it must be done because we can't have arrogant, unelected, overpaid bureaucrats believing THEY run the country.
And we need him to see Brexit through because it's clear after last week the Remain lobby still lives in hope of trashing it.
Cummings' misdemeanour was minor. And all the cries of "Yes, but he's the man who made the rules" doesn't justify his wife and child being terrorised or him been pressured to resign over something everyone else would get a sixty quid fine for.
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