Page 16 | 22nd March, the Commons Privileges Comittee investigation into Partygate

DuncinToffee · 2023-03-22T10:23:17+00:00

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DuncinToffee · 22/03/2023 16:06

Nobody told me, I didn't see or hear anything,. This bloke was PM

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hesaidshesaidtheysaid · 22/03/2023 16:05

Is it unreasonable of me to expect someone running the country to be ever so slightly more aware of their surroundings and what is going on?!
I can't believe the absolute drivel pouring out. Shameful

BashirWithTheGoodBeard · 22/03/2023 16:04

IClaudine · 22/03/2023 15:49

He looks like a cornered rat.

He is a cornered rat.

toomuchlaundry · 22/03/2023 16:04

I was thinking that, rats and sinking ships springs to mind

TooBigForMyBoots · 22/03/2023 16:04

So many parties.

Notonthestairs · 22/03/2023 16:03

Rhondaa · 22/03/2023 15:57

Christ! How long did that question going on for. The they tell BJ to be succinct with his answers

The questions are framed very precisely so that Johnson is made aware of the specific event, the legislation and guidance in place at the time and any relevant evidence as well as their individual question.

Sadly there were so many events over such a period that they need to be clear.

minou123 · 22/03/2023 16:03

DuncinToffee · 22/03/2023 16:01

There must be an very high staff turnover

I know. He keeps saying these are rare events, but he's been talking about this for 2 hours so far and they're not even halfway through.

Not that rare, is it?!

Original poster

DuncinToffee · 22/03/2023 16:01

There must be an very high staff turnover

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minou123 · 22/03/2023 16:00

itsgettingweird · 22/03/2023 15:55

Thankyou.

I didn't lose a family member during this time. But I had both my parents having chemo in March 2020. My mum continued throughout covid and beyond and even when she was in hospital and then a hospice last year for her final days I had to wear a mask in her room. This was May 2022.

Every time she was in hospital until her lash visit when told nothing more could be done (April 2022) she went alone. For 2 whole years covid dictated what we could and couldn't do with regards the time we had with her.

2 whole years.

Luckily her funeral and home restrictions weren't there in her final months - something I'm forever grateful for. But to think of I'd have just called her final 2 years in medical care a leaving do (and justified it by the fact she was dying) I'd have had more contact.

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I'm so sorry @itsgettingweird

Seeing Boris Johnson lies and guff must be so distressing for you. I should have included everyone who had family and friends who were in hospital. I can't imagine the stress and heartbreak it causes you.

Big hugs to you and your family 💗

Rhondaa · 22/03/2023 16:00

What a load of monotonous dullards on the panel droning on and on asking the very same questions. Loving Bernard's little hippy bracelet.

JenniferBooth · 22/03/2023 15:58

And Piers Morgan wanging on about how its a sacrifice we all had to make that Christmas and then buggering off to Antigua.

Original poster

DuncinToffee · 22/03/2023 15:58

I have turned the sound off, subtitles are less rage inducing

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Rhondaa · 22/03/2023 15:57

Christ! How long did that question going on for. The they tell BJ to be succinct with his answers

JenniferBooth · 22/03/2023 15:56

And a day after the 18th December 2020 party the bastard announced that most of the country were going into tier 4 (lockdown in all but name) and that families would not be able to see each other at Christmas.

itsgettingweird · 22/03/2023 15:55

minou123 · 22/03/2023 15:21

Can I just quickly say, (hopefully i speak for everyone)
This thread might descend into us taking the piss out of Boris Johnson and what he says, but we know people died and for anyone who lost a family member or friend, we know this incredibly tough for you and we send our love to you ❤️

(Oh I got all unmumsnetty there)

Thankyou.

I didn't lose a family member during this time. But I had both my parents having chemo in March 2020. My mum continued throughout covid and beyond and even when she was in hospital and then a hospice last year for her final days I had to wear a mask in her room. This was May 2022.

Every time she was in hospital until her lash visit when told nothing more could be done (April 2022) she went alone. For 2 whole years covid dictated what we could and couldn't do with regards the time we had with her.

2 whole years.

Luckily her funeral and home restrictions weren't there in her final months - something I'm forever grateful for. But to think of I'd have just called her final 2 years in medical care a leaving do (and justified it by the fact she was dying) I'd have had more contact.

minou123 · 22/03/2023 15:54

He is getting cross now.

Roussette · 22/03/2023 15:54

All this crap about his wife being entitled to be there because she lived there crap. He gets really cross when anyone questions this.

Surely surely she is not entitled to be at 'work meetings' which is what he is calling it.

He's losing it. He's really angry with the public for thinking he and others were partying.

I have to go out dammit

SlipSlidinAway · 22/03/2023 15:51

All this needing to thank and motivate staff? It's a joke.

He could have stood in the road outside number 10 and clapped staff as they left for the night. Surely a round of applause is enough to thank and motivate people working flat out in difficult and stressful circumstances during a pandemic?

itsgettingweird · 22/03/2023 15:51

elastamum · 22/03/2023 15:14

This is all bullshit and BJ knows it. I retired from my job in march 2021 after leading a business through the pandemic and I had my leaving do with over 200 people on zoom. It never occurred to us that a piss up was OK within the rules. He clearly thinks rules were just for the little people.

I work in education.

We had leaving meetings via zoom too. The only time anyone involved were in the same room were staff in the same bubble - we sat socially distanced on the zoom in the classroom after schools hours.

minou123 · 22/03/2023 15:51

Now we are onto "I don't remember"

Ffs

IClaudine · 22/03/2023 15:49

He looks like a cornered rat.

Roussette · 22/03/2023 15:47

The 200 bring a bottle party. He was 'ushered out' to it.

Bollocks.

All this needing to thank and motivate staff? It's a joke.

Original poster

DuncinToffee · 22/03/2023 15:45

Hands balled into fists now

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Roussette · 22/03/2023 15:45

Oh yes, the interior designer and the wife.

He is fighting on, as if this was normal and OK.

No Boris, she did not just 'pop her head round the door'

And he KEEPS saying no one told him. No one advised him. He didn't know because he had to be told, and no one did

toomuchlaundry · 22/03/2023 15:44

So did his family use the cabinet rooms for their own purposes, as a playroom for example