the rules, and had hejust broken the rules, and had hejust broken the rules, it would ve been an individual act. when it was defended ijy individual act. when it was defended by the pre minister who said it was perfectly understandable, that he wouldn t criticise dominic cummings, it became something systemic, a matter of them and us, the government from the authorities began to be seen as the den, and one of the basic rules of influence is that we are less likely to be influenced by people who we think of as then then the people we think of as then then the people we think of as ice. so this notion have been and ice is extremely corrosive of trust. a counter example, which i think is quite interesting is about the same time at the dominic cummings affair, there was an affair in scotland with there was an affair in scotland with the chief medical officer broke the resident visited her so, again, an individual act of someone senior who had broken the rules, but in that instance, the sc