I have decided to dispute your deletion of my post & warning issued, as the the person in question is no longer a part of the current govt. It resigned/left its position long before my original post.
We've all had a look and a think about this except for Stu who has some important work-related concerns that have kept him away from this place.
I simply asked everybody to review your comment and the action taken to remove it and issue a warning, and state approval or disapproval and a reason for their position.
We tend only to 'vote' like this when conversation fails to lead to apparent consensus, but in this case we unanimously found the action to be fair and proportionate.
Grounds in short:
1. That our politics ban was never supposed to be limited to currently sitting/serving political figures; indeed, in recent memory disparaging references towards Barack Obama, David Cameron and Mao Tse-tung have also been removed.
2. That Dominic Cummings has been specifically referenced as being an individual about which we do not wish to hear.
3. That others have received warnings (of the same level) for posting jibes about this figure, and that by not taking action here we would be applying the rule inconsistently.
It really isn't about a desire on our behalf to defend this man from ridicule or criticism (there have, for instance, been many more anti-Corbyn jibes removed). It's the fact that we have learnt from bitter experience that even the tamest joke about public figures in the political arena often brings angry responses from those holding opposing viewpoints; this in turn generates a bad atmosphere that can infect otherwise apolitical Fortean threads and drive away new and existing members, many of whom value a place of respite from the politicisation of seemingly everything.
Lest my tone carry badly, I want to make explicit that I write with conciliatory intent when I say that it's only a single warning point that has been issued for an infraction that you are hardly the first here to have made. Given the fact that everybody--including the moderators--is working at an elevated level of tension this year, we see no reason why this disagreement should remain a bone of contention beyond this very evening.