I was just trying to tackle the north south divide, insists Cummings
2020-05-23
Downing Street gnome-in-chief Dominic Cummings came out fighting last night after it emerged that he had travelled 270 miles with his family to stay with his parents in Durham while displaying Coronavirus. symptoms. There have been calls for him to resign for blatantly flouting the government lockdown regulations, but an unrepentant Cummings said he was just doing his bit to tackle the ongoing inequality between the southeast and the rest of the country.
“Northerners are always bleating on about how London has got everything and they’ve got nothing so I thought ‘Alright, have some of this then’. I know they’d have probably preferred some jobs, prosperity or a bit of investment but you’ve got to start somewhere.”
It seems Cummings’ initiative is already bearing fruit. When he travelled to the northeast at the end of March there were very few cases of Covid 19 in the area. It is now the epicentre of the virus in the UK.
“I think that proves my point.” he said. They wanted a bit of what London’s got and I’ve delivered it. It shows what you can do when you do what you like.”
