Thread by @Danaiolos

Thank you for your views. I think I have a different concept of what it means to be elitist. It is not always about how many farmhouses the family owns... quite frankly, good luck to those people with yachts and homes in Sandbanks - I wish them well. They are “rich”; not elitist.

It is not about where someone received their education... good luck to those who went to Public Schools and got to play funny ball’n’stick games while wearing a silk handkerchief on their heads and carrying a stuffed badger under their left arm - I wish them well. They are not

Elitist either; they are “privileged” and this gives them more opportunity for what they choose to do with their lives. Incidentally, I went to a comprehensive and got to Cambridge through hard work and sleeping with the Bursar (That last bit was for comic effect... it was just

a blowjob... again just for comic effect. Not the BJ, the joke... I don’t think I would be any good at BJs - I will be all tooth and gristle ... It’s a family show, Dan... I digress).

Elitists are those who think that they are somehow superior; that rules do apply to them. You

Know, the kind of guy who whizzes up on the outside lane, even though we could all do it when we see it is closed in 400yards but choose to do the right thing for the rest of the poor sods in the queue... They think that they can get away with anything because, not only do they

think the rules do not apply to them, they think that they are morally superior &, therefore, if they get found out then they can just dismiss our frustrations because we simply do not count. That, my friend is elitist. Now, you & I may disagree on whether we like @Keir_Starmer

and whether #Cummings is a good bloke, but I think you will agree that cummings regards us all as beneath him. Just as he is found in contempt of Parliament (please feel free to look it up; he has), he finds us contemptible. And he is so arrogant and full of hubris that he feels

we *must* accept his reasons because he has told us they are his reasons. The fact that he has broken lockdown, potentially risking the health of members of the public to go 260 miles to Durham at the height of the London outbreak and just before the Durham outbreak (coincidence)

may be mitigated by his ‘circumstances’, but he has broken the rules. There is no excuse, however, for his wife’s birthday jaunt to #BarnardCastle ! No one will strap their prop in to the car (sorry, sorry, I meant child) and go for the riskiest do-it-yourself eye test, 40 miles

to a beauty spot!
Like the ‘Greatest Christmas Hits Live from St Paul’s by Jeremy Corbyn’, no one is buying it.

You may be a #Brexit fan and think the guy is a hero & is receiving unfair amounts of lambasting because he is the Arch Nemesis of the Remain fraternity, but even you

will accept (perhaps in the comfort of your own bath, with bubbles on the go and a candle lit for added ambience) that the story about testing his blurry eyes is about as credible as a three year old telling you to trust them that they won’t make a mess with the ice cream on the

beach in Southend on a sunny lockdown weekend in August.

And the fact that during the briefing he lied about his blog (we know this to be fact) suddenly calls in to question his entire story because, well...if he lied about his blog, then he is capable of, I am just putting this

out there for you, lying about the rest of this.

So, #Cummings has lied, & we know this to be true. He has given us the biggest ball-whiff story about eye testing to excuse his lockdown breach shenanigans, & he does not care that he has undermined the entire government strategy.

And you may decide to do a “what about” tweet if you choose. You seem like a nice person and we are all entitled to our points of view. But you will see that I regard the only “Stay Elite” exceptionalist in the room is Mr Cummings.

Thank you for your time and Happy Tweeting.