The rise and rise of public righteous outrage

I've seen it so many times before. Once a political and media momentum builds and builds there is nothing you can do eventually but just give in to what everyone seems to want. It's tantamount to a lynching. So it is with the momentum now building up over Dominic Cummings and whether or not he should resign or be sacked for breaking the government's lockdown rules. Now it's being claimed that Boris Johnson's chief adviser broke lockdown on another occasion, the claims all appearing in the Guardian/Observer (for the uninitiated the Observer is the Sunday version of the Guardian, ie the same company) and the Mirror/Sunday Mirror. The sound of righteous indignation is getting so loud that the walls of Number 10 Downing Street are likely to fall down. I suppose what I dislike most is the self-righteousness of the whole story. First the woman who contacted the police when she spotted Cummings at his parents's house in Durham, 250 miles from London, second the oh my goodness you naughty boy horror splashed all over the Guardian and Mirror, and thirdly, especially thirdly, the self-righteousness oozing with cream and honey of the Labour, Scottish Nationalist, Liberal Democrat AND Tory MPs demanding that Cummings be sacked. I wonder how many of those pontificating to the newspapers, television and radio have actually 100 per cent kept to the government guidelines!! You see, now I'm doing it. This is the way British society has become. Tell on your neighbours, run to the press when you spot a well-known person doing what he/she ought not to be doing, feeling self-satisfied for exposing a breach in government guidelines. I know it breaks up the awful stories about families being destroyed by the virus deaths, but this undignified hunt for breachers, and in particular the rather gross blood-lust public lynching of Cummings is unseemly and irrelevant. There are fantastic people working in the NHS and all over the place keeping this country from going downhill into an abyss and all anyone seems to care about is a journey made by the prime minister's chief adviser which ended with no one dead or ill. But the momentum is now overwhelming with more and more Tory MPs siding with the Opposition, venting their manufactured wrath so that they can feel oh so righteous because they of course would never even consider breaching the government's rules. So, unless Boris stands firm and is prepared to suffer politically as a result, Cummings may be pushed out of his job. Whether or not you like Cummings I think it's all very sad.