for his 260-mile journey to Durham while his wife had coronavirus at the height of lockdown. Gove said Cummings was a 'man of honour and integrity' who had acted to limit the spread of the virus, and that he had not broken the law by driving 30 miles to a nearby town to test his eyesight.
I’d like to hear his description of integrity it doesn’t fit mine
What person in their right mind performs and eyesight test by driving 30 miles? This is tantamount to testing if your leg injury has healed by entering an MMA competition
Enough already. We deserve better. Always have. These people are not fit to govern. Less of the babbling entitled buffoonery from people who wouldn’t know truth and honour if it slapped them in the face with a wet fish! These people are an absolute disgrace.
UK Politicians Rules doesn't apply to them... It's always been OneRule for citizens & another for the Corrupt... They're getting £10,000 per month than the UK MinimumWage workers only getting 80% of their wage... These guys should be ashamed of themselves, the GreedyTwats.
Black is white
OMG michaelgove - please, if you’re going to make a story up, then do it fkr people other than five year old kids - sackGoveaswell
An absolute repulsive liar
WTF.. really you expect us to believe that
Lets all drive 260+ miles during the fake lockdown!! Lets see how many of us plebs get arrested!!!!
firedominictheliar
Just more 'knee bending' cowards complaining about the actions of others. Get a grip. He was exercising his God-given rights. Fuck the government. Folks need to mind their own damn business.
Parody.
michaelgove WestminsterWAG what is in your cereal box? Crushed glass and wash it down with white spirits?
Or was it just a short break to get away from the masses?
Following exhaustive, detailed and verifiable sources? Dominic Cummings disregarded approaches others are expected to follow. I don’t respect that.
yet if he had a crash on the way there he would have exposed the emergency services, doctors and nurses because of his own stupid actions. The guidelines are clear. If you have symptoms you stay home! His wife was ill so he should have not left his home!!!
Gove is the absolute limit.
His laughter at his own absurd bluster says it all.
According to this Scottish fish wife, Cummings needed to see if his sight was good enough to drive, presumably he based this action on his belief at the time his eye sight was not good enough, thus breaching section 96 RTA 1988. Yes or No
Wow. You guys have the same Gas-lighting politicians as the US. 😜
Well which is it? Childcare? Shopping? Grieving relative? Eyesight? Limiting the spread? Just pick a lie and stick with it. This is just insulting now. CummingsLies
Unbelievable
Is the “Punch Michael Gove” website still active?! 🤬
You’ve edited this clip down, skipping over the awkward parts and making it appear smoother. Surely the whole point of posting a clip like this is so we can watch a politician squirm as he tries to argue that black is white?
We must demand both their heads for this treason Treason never before has a PM defended blatantly questionable behaviour
Fine example of how a little white lie turns into a massive big porky pie. Please guys stop digging
I particularly loved the Sky news reporter having to ask twice in a very aggressive tone what the government guidelines. Slimy git.
Ignore Gove, he has now lost any vestige of credibility that he ever had and that wasn't much. Grow up Michael!
Please Mr Gove stop .
michaelgove if a headteacher had acted in the same way as Dominic Cummings?I think we know you would not be defending them. What is Dom's role, why was he given an outlet to gaslight from the rose garden?Experts understand this manipulation, v many non experts understand it too.
He is insulting the public!
He's like both parts to a comedy duo. COVID__19
😂😂😂😂 In a way this ridiculous stand off is a positive thing. People showing their true colours via this. As tragic as it is you have to laugh.
There it is ladies and gents, Gove the ballsucker...i understand why the brits have problem with lockdown, Boris being an unintelligible buffoon, Cummings with the finger up at the public and Gove ballsucking for a job, feels like life's back to normal...
I guess he must have stopped on his journeying and thus risked infecting others?
It's very disappointing Guardian that you even have time to invest in this nonsense.
Really? And taking it to Durham NHS hospital too from London. How caring was that!
You look like a tool! Yes literally 😂
Yeh, right. I go to specsavers for my eyes testing, its a bit mote technical than taking my car out to make sure Im not gonna crash into anything. Taking the fkn piss. Grow a pair Boris.
when backstabber michaelGove starts any explanation with 'honor and integrity' you know something foul is afoot! lol 😂
All said with a straight face. That’s some next level bullshit right there.
michaelgove BorisJohnson sack Cummings, he’s only an adviser that doesn’t listen to his own advise, sack him
,,, welcome to uk 2020,, the dystopia....
Add Gove to the sacking list. This level of dishonesty cannot be tolerated. SackCummings SackGove SackJohnson ToriesOut GeneralStrike
They really should stop digging - they will be in Australia soon!
Farcical defence. sackDominicCummings
He could limit the spread by STAYING AT HOME! StayHome
DeepFriedDNA
quack goes the duck
COVID19 more bad news to come?
Do Gove and Cummings use the same optician?, I think we should be told.
Yet all those people who drove long distances too were picked up by police, potentially fined.. and ordered back.... one rule for one.. etc
Sometimes l wonder who is the BIGGER idiot in the Government, Gove or the Buffoon! Gove certainly outsines him most of the time! Tells you about the Gang at the top!
This is absolute BS from the inner circle of the cabinet, if it was not true would make a classic Two Ronnies (bless them)sketch. Should have gone to Specsavers to test his eyesight? No just jump in the car and be in control of a potential lethal weapon, that’s a great idea.....
He must think we're very stupid to fall for his BS. The trouble is, history shows he's right to think that.
That’s not even what Cummings said. It wasn’t his motivation. He was doing it apparently for childcare.
michaelgove lies, no he decided to break the coronavirus bill under the people not tolerating lies, on tv media or your accounts
Do not treat the electorate with such disdain ......
Govey! The sort of guy who'll twist a knife into you while asking you about the weather with his beaming smile :)
What a set of liars and scumbags we have in charge of our affairs.
I've really hated him for a very long time. He's an unscrupulous liar.
You NEVER take a test drive to check your eyesight.... Complete and utter bs.
How do you limit spread by taking a walk along the river and driving 260 miles (how many times did they stop?)
Michal Gove is satisfied, so thats all that matters. The trouble being that the country isn't satisfied with Gove, and rarely has been. A yes man who worms hi way into any situation totally clueless as usual. Maybe he'll resign too, heres hoping.
Should have contacted Ferris Bueller for a better explanation to be honest 😂
Goodwill, maybe, limiting the spread? Bullshit, he should have isolated with his family in London. We have travel bans for a reason!
Come on another fact twister just look at him.are there no decent Tories out there.
No Michael it was reckless. Driving from a high infection rate area to a low infection rate one. Then using the hospital and going for a jolly!
Even though advised not to which is to limit the spread of the virus from one area to another, avoid the necessity of human contact if you break down, protect relatives (including a 17-year old niece! What?
this means an idiot just as well he is a politician wouldn't get a job any where else
Taking the piss out of the British public.
Gove gave the most spineless and evasive political interview I’ve ever witnessed. No wonder he politicks behind people’s backs. Anyway, it’s all over bar the shouting; the Establishment has gotten away with it again but now they’re not even pretending to be sorry.
There is another aspect to this. I hate the Tories and Cummings was telling fairy tales. However he is facing a witch hunt by the big business funded, bought and paid for corporate media. Now an anti Brexit mob. Seeing and hearing them was a vile experience.
Can we remember that so far 39914 people have died in this country - Cummings, Johnson and Gove treat their memory with contempt.
But then had to call an ambulance and use hospital medical resources. This was the very example we were told not to set
This obsession with this is so destructive. Your economy is in free fall . Reality check .
If you find yourself up to the neck in shit don’t thrash about with your mouth open.
'Believing that his eyesight could make him a danger to other road users, Dominic went for a drive to test this theory. His rigorous application of the scientific method has led to calls for him to receive an OBE for his services to Opthalmology and Road Safety.' - UK Govt.
the communist Tory party.
In other news the UK has surpassed Italy in deaths per capita.
Rubbish Gove!
With every word that comes out of michaelgove mouth, his intelligence, or lack of, becomes more obvious. It is this lack that pushes senior government ministers to support Cummings. They know that Cummings is at least clever to lead the government
If Cummings is so important to Boris, what are you guys doing in his cabinet, taking share of public money
Yes by taking it to another part of the country with a then much lower rate of infection and exposing people there. 🤦🏾♀️
The Thick of It.
Mr Gove please continue to support the indefensible Cummings as vehemently as you wish, by doing so you expose yourself as having NoShameNoMoralsNoRespect & UnfitForOffice
scummedia
Too many lies... enough is enough.
Orwellian doublespeak translation: 'Integrity' means 'lying' 'Protect family' means '60 mile blind joyride with little Johnny in the back' 'Honour' means 'Willing to jump from bridge yelling 'up is down!' if Cummings sends the order!' 'Stay home' means 'A holiday 260 miles away'
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Blimey, 3 of them digging the hole now.
Anyone who says they believe Cummings actions were correct is either lying, or incredibly stupid. Nothing of what he claims he did was safe for his family.
michaelgove
But yesterday we were told it was about childcare, not containment
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markt72628508 Idiot
What a load fo crap! AIDS have been up all night trying to get a spin on this non event. These ministers are a disgrace to the UK
All those people who went to beaches yesterday must have been do the same(limiting spread of virus) honourable Mr Grove. May be your intention is to spread the virus so that more old and vulnerable die solving your nhs and social problem. You are leading Europe anyway
Such horse manure, or horse feathers according to the Marx brothers
Gove = LIAR
PointlessBrexit 😂 By driving two individuals known, or suspected, to be infected by the virus from one English region to another 250 miles away? Pull the other one!
OMG what a load of twaddle utter contempt for the intelligence of the people. It's the usual thing let's stick together and lie most people in charge do it. When will we get an honest politician that says Cummings and Johnson were wrong
A quick science question. If I was Covid-19 symptomatic and drove along in a car at say 60mph, dry weather, light breeze, and coughed a virus load out of my window; over what distance could that virus spread?
Then he should of stayed in London! Using the exception clause for safeguarding of children, it still says to follow the regulation as best you can but what attempt did he make to get childcare from relatives or other organisations before he decided to head for Durham. Ans. None.
Snigger.
A character recommendation from michaelgove you can't get anymore ironic than that.
...no comment...
The Common Sense of a man who failed his driving test 7 times.
Keep digging michaelgove
No. Only a sociopath with a mission to take as many other people down with him would do that after believing that he/family has Coronavirus. This explains the mentality of ‘herd infection’.
This is getting just crazy the amount of clearly wrong information being spouted by Gove and rest of government to say dominic. Clearly their reputations can fly out of the window if they save dom. by limiting does he mean limiting spread in london but increasing it in durham
What utter contempt you hold for the citizens of the United kingdom
I don’t know who I despise more: Cummings, Boris or Gove. What a triumvirate of shits we pay to brazenly lie to our faces. Utterly repulsive.
Not that you should, but you can’t help but laugh
That's not how it works
Man with no integrity claims another has integrity. What happened to, 'It takes one to know one.'?
Every time I see Gove, he reminds me of a wind up clapping monkey.
... and Gove's stand in opposing and then supporting the blonde liar's bid to lead the Tory party gives him the moral authority to succeed him.
With Boris, the UK government has reached a low which hasn't been seen for decades. Shambles.
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Does michaelgove realise how uninformed and ridiculous he appears to be, making such blatantly stupid statements?
Was there ever a politician less skilled at judging the mood of a nation than this bumbling, incompetent, sycophantic, ship jumping, weasley worded wreck?
The absolute cynic in me wonders if this is a ruse to make lockdown collapse on its own due to loss of confidence in govt, so PM can blame it on the people and implement herd immunity by stealth. The humanitarian in me says, surely not 🤔
The other career psychopath. These people will be vilified in years to come. They will get found out and they won't be able to misdirect blame for their lies.
You can limit the spread by staying at home. That was the government's own advice to the public. No where did the advice say 'go for 260 mile drive and test your eyesight by going for a drive'.
Having just finished 1984, this hits a little close to home...SackCummims
He should be sacked we did not vote him in. Other people have stuck to the rules and lost loved ones and not seen them. We are not fools get him out it’s insulting
“The FBI defines a criminal enterprise as “a group of individuals with an identified hierarchy, or comparable structure, engaged in significant criminal activity.” Typically, we think of drug cartels, racketeering enterprises, or even the Gestapo.”
These cronyistic, arse licking, Bullington Boys elitist club of tossers will stop to any lows to defend their and their mates criminality, lies and manipulation Coronavirus GetToriesOUT
He'll be pissing himself later when he listens back on this
I am SICK TO DEATH of this twat’s name!!
DISGRACE.....ALL LIARS
They really do think we're fucking idiots don't they?
This is the one I don't trust. Gove.
Oh for heavens sake 🤦🏼♀️
I had to stop that video because a) there’s only so much Michael Gove a person can stomach and b) he says he knows Cummings is “a man of honour and integrity”. Gove is not a man of honour and integrity and has lied shamelessly in order to climb the greasy pole. He’s a weasel.
Government continue to show what utter contempt they have for the rest of us. It's like living in 'Animal Farm' where the Pigs justify why they are breaking their own rules. Orwell was right: those in power think nothing of lying to maintain their position.
Stay At Home. Especially if you or another person in your household had symptoms. The instructions were very clear.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Get your motor running, head out on the highway, looking for some child care, whatever comes our way! Yeah darling gonna test my eyesight, take the Barnard Castle way, better hold the steering wheel for me, so that we don't explode into space! Born to be Dom! ClassicDom
Absolute tosh. SackCummings probably spread the virus from London to durham
Was he high on coke again when he said that? 🤷♂️
These people run this country. Just let that sink in for a moment. michaelgove
Some mental gymnastics going on there
It's got to the point where I have now accepted I live in a dystopian society and the snake oil-peddling overlords will always win and we are all fuc*ed. I'd pack a suitcase but lockdown and all that.
If I have a virus, the last thing we all should be doing is driving around and seeding virus via touch points like petrol stations, public WC, castles gates. But hey, that’s just MY common sense; maybe this is why England has a much higher infection rate compared to SC/NI/WA.
You what?
Tell michaelgove, the man who jumped the queue for a coronavirus test, to stop defending the indefensible, and ‘shut the fuck up’. LionsLedByDonkeys
Another rocket
😂 It's as if we are being trolled. This is insane. Gove must go with Johnson, Cummings and the rest of this spineless cabinet.
He drove to test his eyes,couldn’t make it up! All these Tories trying to defend the indefensible,the shock horror and behaviour of The Press...their own! My word! Disgraceful!
No surprise. He is an embarrassment.
No end to these people fundamental approach , everyday people are stupid and will buy anything
Yeah but heres the thing... nobody gives a shit what politicians *THINK*... they only make the rules they don't enforce them. This is comical, seeing someone do wrong and then asking their best mates if they think that person did something wrong...
Cocaine has rotted whatever brain he had obviously.
“The whole point of the journey was to determine if he could drive safely.” He was concerned his eyesight was not good enough so was willing to risk a road traffic accident and possible fatalities to check. The thinking of a mad man.
Tim Nice but Dim just needs to be quiet. The fact that they are all making statements shows it's utter bullshit.
Gove does not care what people think as long as he is satisfying his backers.He is a career politician.Met people like this in the NHS on their way up the greasy pole.They would agree with anything senior managers wanted them to do even if it meant patients were suffering.
Lovely to see our media talking about Cummings again, no other news available, in particular two nuclear powers facing off in the Galwan Valley, victims of grooming gangs being arrested and the biggest health emergency in a century. These are obviously far less important.
Why do we have to tolerate the people lying all the time. It’s f’ing ridiculous. I’d have more respect if they just said “yes he f’ed up but he’s not quitting over it”
If he was spinning any faster he would be in orbit.
Fluck right off and spread your shit where no one can hear you
In accordance with public school rules ironically Boris is Cummings's fag ! fetch me some muffins Boris and meet me in the quad ! or should that be coffins?
Lol
“The money was only resting in my account” no longer the gold standard of nonsense excuses
They should all stop trying to defend the indefencible and sack him.Are they scared of what he might do or say if he is fired?
What an insult to people's intelligence, makes me question his position as he has no integrity either!
Ha ha , good one ! Sure 'limit' !
The king of the 🤡,and that is some title when you think of the contenders 🖕
Stop talking bollocks. Ok he has survived but at significant damage to the effectiveness of current and future public health measures in this country
He needs to resign too
Michael Gove covering Dominic Cummings tracks with his signature slime trail slug DominicCummngs
What? By spreading it to hospital staff in Durham!?
They really think the public is gullible and buy all their stories. Judging from some comments, some people do buy their lies and defend them no matter what. For those who are not gullible, it is frankly deeply insulting to be treated like total fools.
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