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The Downing Street Party

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redpheasant · 07/12/2021 19:46

Sorry if there's another thread, couldn't see one.

ITV have a video scoop of Allegra Stratton laughing and joking about the party that never happened, but definitely did follow Covid rules despite not happening, filmed a few days after the party date.

How many more times does the PM and half the cabinet need to tell barefaced lies before we can get rid of this bunch of absolute arseholes?

https://www.itv.com/news/2021-12-07/no-10-staff-joke-in-leaked-recording-about-christmas-party-they-later-denied

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EsmeraldaFudge · 07/12/2021 19:47

I'm so fucking furious about this. Furious about the lying and minimising.

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redpheasant · 07/12/2021 19:52

The amount of people writing on Twitter about what they were doing on 18 December, all involving dying relatives on zoom, staring through windows from the cold at relatives, recent widows left alone because of restrictions. It's all fucking heartbreaking, and this lot just laugh and joke, and lie and lie and lie. I have never had such a visceral hatred of any government like this, they are utterly immoral.

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PestoPlum · 07/12/2021 19:54

I'm absolutely fuming too. We had to cancel our family get together last Christmas while these bloody scum do what they bloody like and then to bloody laugh about it 🤬
They take us for total fools 😡

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Poetrypatty · 07/12/2021 20:01

This is so bad isn't it. Taking the piss out of all of us.

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redpheasant · 07/12/2021 20:11

@Poetrypatty

This is so bad isn't it. Taking the piss out of all of us.
The worst thing is it's not the first time, or the fifth, or the tenth, it's just endless piss taking
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Skade · 07/12/2021 20:14

My grandad died of Covid on 17th January, it was the first Christmas he'd been unable to spend with us as he was locked in his care home and we missed him terribly. These twats had a party while telling the rest of us we couldn't see our loved ones - I'm so angry.

Bellafrenum · 07/12/2021 20:18

Why is it only being leaked now, a year later?

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redpheasant · 07/12/2021 20:27

I guess because the knife is already part way in, and someone wants to capitalise and give it a good twist. But the whole thing should have been made public when it happened.

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Forion · 07/12/2021 20:27

The turkeys'll still vote for them though. It beggars belief.

Dozer · 07/12/2021 20:29

They’ve done many even worse things, eg PPE corruption, second jobs, grant to the woman boris had an affair with, proroguing Parliament illegally.

Roominmyhouse · 07/12/2021 20:34

They show nothing but contempt for the people of this country, yet people defend them and still vote for them.

Noeuf · 07/12/2021 20:35

If I share this on my FB all the Tory lovers will just comment to say it doesn’t matter/ can’t she joke with mates/ etc. I shared Trevor Phillips talking about his dead daughter and got a load of criticism aimed at TP.
My theory is that a lot of people actually bend the rules, manage others badly (do as I say not as I do) in the work place, do a lot of similar jobs for the boys stuff (who gets the plum internships again?) and don’t really care about it on a larger scale because that’s how they live anyway.

User135644 · 07/12/2021 20:35

We get what we vote for.

CormoranStrike · 07/12/2021 20:37

Governments used to fall over a fraction of this nonsense.

I am ashamed of them all.

MarbleQueen · 07/12/2021 20:39

Visitors to care homes weren’t allowed last Christmas.

There is something very wrong when the people who tell you to be afraid of something don’t appear to be very afraid themselves.

TSSDNCOP · 07/12/2021 20:39

The only real surprise and shock is that anyone is surprised and shocked that this truth has emerged. Did anyone actually believe the leaders of our great lockdown compliant nation actually complied with their rules?

EsmeraldaFudge · 07/12/2021 20:40

"There is something very wrong when the people who tell you to be afraid of something don’t appear to be very afraid themselves."

THIS

SickAndTiredAgain · 07/12/2021 20:43

The thing that pisses me off most isn’t even the party (which definitely fucking happened), it’s the fact that they just repeat “all guidelines were followed” like little puppets and nothing will happen because they just repeat that until people stop asking.

Plus, when they say “all guidelines were followed” they weren’t guidelines, they were laws. And they weren’t followed.

DoThePropeller · 07/12/2021 20:44

It’s a shit show. Someone’s head will roll but nobody who counts.

RubbishDay · 07/12/2021 20:45

I am not at all surprised by this because it seems very easy to work around the restrictions if you wanted like it being a meeting for 'business reasons' etc.

I think a lot of people take it so literally even what was 'guidance' not law that it surprises them when those making the 'rules' use the exceptions that are buried deep in the actual regulations.

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redpheasant · 07/12/2021 20:48

I'm not surprised either. They are so unfailingly disappointing. So consistently devoid of any morals, good character or integrity. I almost care less about the rule breaking than I do about the detestable, almost child-like inability to tell the truth. Compulsive lying is one of the worst character traits, and they all seem to share it!

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JockTamsonsBairns · 07/12/2021 20:50

We get what we vote for

How is this helpful? I'm nearly 50 and have been voting since I was 18. In every single election/referendum (bar one, in 1997) I have never got what I voted for.

DirtyDancing · 07/12/2021 20:50

@Dozer

They’ve done many even worse things, eg PPE corruption, second jobs, grant to the woman boris had an affair with, proroguing Parliament illegally.
  • Brexit, which let's fact it was a complete set up by the Tories. We all know that now.
  • NHS run to the ground ready to privatise it.
  • Broken a manifesto pledge with regards to international aid. The government reduced its annual aid budget from 0.7% of gross national income (GNI), which is a measure of the amount produced by the economy, to 0.5% this year. This represents a cut of between about £4bn and £5bn, depending on the size of the economy.
It breaks a pledge in the Conservative manifesto from 2019 and has led to warnings from aid agencies and opposition from MPs, including some Conservatives.
  • Child poverty. The North East of England has seen the most dramatic rise in child poverty in the past five years. The child poverty rate has risen by over a third - from 26% to 37%. The data shows London and Birmingham, the two largest UK cities, as having the greatest concentrations of child poverty.

Just a few examples in a addition to the usual Dom Cummings / PPE/ contracts/ illegal parities / affairs type stuff

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