A cheeky road sign has appeared in the UK making fun of British advisor Dominic Cummings for breaching the COVID-19 lockdown.
Cummings, who is Prime Minister Boris Johnson's closest advisor, had driven 400km to northern England in March with his four-year-old son and wife to be close to relatives.
Cummings has been harshly criticised by UK residents, including Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling but has refused to resign.
Now, a new road sign was added below an existing government one in Bridport, Dorset on Tuesday (UK Time).
The sign reads: "stay alert, control the virus, save lives...except Dominic Cummings".
A spokesman for Dorset Council told Bridport News: "We are using temporary road signs at the request of the Department for Transport to help remind people of their responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"It seems that a local anonymous prankster has added their opinion to one of our signs in west Dorset. The additional homemade sign is unauthorised so it will be removed."
Crime Commissioner David Jamieson from the West Midlands Police told The Mirror officers had reported people using Cummings' actions as an excuse for breaking the lockdown rules.
Jamieson told BBC Radio 4 that people are saying "if it is okay for Cummings, it is okay for us" and "it looks like there is one rule for us and another rule for the people in No 10 Downing Street".
"If the rules are flexible and people seem to have interpreted them who are at the heart of Government, then it is almost impossible then for police officers to be able to carry out their job effectively," Jamieson said, the Mirror reported.
"What the police are now saying to me is they are getting quite a push back and it's not just from some of the younger people who previously were saying 'why can't I play football?', 'why can't I go out in the streets?' They're getting push backs from other generations of people as well."
He says the lack of confidence in the government is leaving the police "undermined very much in the last few days".
The UK is slowly moving out of lockdown after being hard hit by COVID-19.
According to John Hopkins University, the UK has 286,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 37,500 deaths.
On May 27 BBC reported the UK had 412 new deaths and 2013 new cases in the previous 24 hours.
