Update from The House of Plague, Day 70

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Also:

Barnard Castle Reviews on Trip Advisor
ENDLESS pages, here's the first example:

"Superb place to escape the UK lockdown, especially if you arent feeling well, I was lucky enough to go here with my wife, we were both unwell at the time and it made us feel so much better, we did both have a nasty cough but luckily it cleared up on the 260 mile drive back home."

Anyone not clear what's happening, Dominic Cummings is Boris' senior adviser. This is a v quick summary:

If you come into contact with someone showing CV19 symptoms you must isolate for 14 days:

Dominic Cummings today tells us he broke that regulation 6 times.

• Back into work
• Up to Durham
• To A&E
• Walk around farmland
• Trip to Barnard Castle
• A pee in the wood

— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) May 25, 2020

Wrote to my MP pic.twitter.com/y5xfH3wu8c

— John Wilson (@tug) May 25, 2020

‘I don’t regret what I did’. There you go

— India Knight (@indiaknight) May 25, 2020

Please, please, please can one of the journos say to him, "But...having a small child not at school, and one parent being ill...in a pandemic...is *not* exceptional circumstances. It's really fucking unexceptional."

— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) May 25, 2020

Someone v senior in Blair government once told me if the Mail and the Guardian agree, give up immediately https://t.co/dRTzueIKGU

— Janine Gibson (@janinegibson) May 24, 2020

pic.twitter.com/EsuYA2f9AI

— realmattlucas (@RealMattLucas) May 25, 2020

Absolute scenes at the Dominic Cummings press conference pic.twitter.com/u5QK45PhSQ

— Ireland Simpsons Fans (@iresimpsonsfans) May 25, 2020

Satire:

The Rochdale Herald: A1 to Durham renamed The Dominic Cummings Expressway
“It only seems right” said Chief Transport Minister Carr Fewmes.“The main purpose of this section of the A1(M) has been to allow Dom unrestricted access to his family while other people have been burying


In short:



We have had ten years of these people in power. The only thing that has changed is that this time it's affecting EVERYONE, not just 'a minority'.



And finally (you should all follow this Twitter account!):

We don’t know about you, but we’ve found this weekend very hard going, with everything going on in the news.

So here is a bit of light relief 🤣🤣

And tomorrow we intend to share only positive posts and stories about the NHS 👍 pic.twitter.com/YlyxkGNvXP

— NHS Million 💙 (@NHSMillion) May 25, 2020

ETA: Knew I had forgotten something!!

Petition: Dominic Cummings must be sacked