Person tasked with investigating Downing Street parties steps down as it comes to light he attended his own parties 🙄

[GreenLunchBox]

We might as well stop with this pretense and just let them get on with shafting us from behind in peace

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10321241/Christmas-parties-held-twice-Cabinet-Secretary-Simon-Cases-offices-sources-say.html

So it will be mass starvation next ???

How thick can he be?

You couldn’t fucking write it, could you.

So it seems basically the whole govt partied like it was 1999.

Now surely people see the contempt the Conservatives hold for the electorate?

But they can’t, can they. Boris has actually confirmed their views around lockdown, human supposed right and Covid is a cold.

Good luck, herd.

@WeeHaggisFace

I laughed out loud when this pinged on my bbc mews app earlier.

If sums up the whole shit show perfectly I don't even think I'm mad anymore.

Exactly @WeeHaggisFace - I should be angry but am highly entertained at this shit show .. maybe because it’s incredulous how farcical it all is now 🤷‍♀️

@GrazingSheep

So it will be mass starvation next ???

Well, they don't like feeding poor kids, so.....

Life here is nothing like North Korea. Our government may be pretty rubbish but it's not comparable to the hell people in North Korea endure.

Maybe go and live in North Korea and report back to us the similarities

@toomuchlaundry

Maybe go and live in North Korea and report back to us the similarities

Don't need to!

Hilarious 😆

Government may have the majority but Johnson needed the opposition this week and will probably be rely on them while the arguments about Covid rumble on

We are far from anything like North Korea or any other country where people’s freedoms are restricted because government wants control over people’s lives (its a very un conservative way)

I can’t help imagining what Malcolm Tucker would make of this 🤣

I think North Koreans might be a bit insulted by you comparing yourself to them OP.

I hate when people go omg it's like North Korea/nazis or whatever. Makes the poster look ignorant and pretty stupid.

It's insulting and lazy to compare this situation to North Korea where citizens are routinely tortured, imprisoned for nothing, controlled and starved.

Just don't do this, you're making yourself look stupid and highly ignorant.

I'm not hopping mad but I feel like I should be. It's us not being hopping
mad when they break their own rules that is giving them licence to do what they want also.

I doubt the “gatherings” made any real difference to the epidemic, it’s the impression being given that the very senior management of the country failed to make any real attempt to be seen to be leading by example that’s the real worry.

It's like living in North Korea at this point

No, it really isn't. They've just banned laughing, drinking and shopping for 11 days. To top that, if a family member dies during that period, you will not cry.

You can guarantee nobody there is saying fuck right off, like some are here about restrictions. Well, they could and then they'd be executed.

@GreenLunchBox my understanding is the met poilce can in this instance look at historic breaches and that would be the same for you and i ,,therefore its not corrupt if they cannot do the same
Also they cannot just pass anything they like all governments in charge have to have. Majority otherwise they wouldn't be in government, your being ridiculous with some things you are staying
Stick to the parties being out of order and most will agree

Meant can't

@MalingeringMary wasn't that actually allowed then ? And im sure happened in many office places
I knew several people in london who met with friends under the false pretence of business in pubs / restaurants etc
What gets me is why would you film something like this especially when you work in an industry where the newspapers will take any scrap

I can’t wait to see the social media memes on this.

You couldn’t make it up.

This was the week of my DM's funeral. So glad we stuck to the rules and didn't hold a wake for her

That video of Johnson. Bloody hell, how did people get taken in by him? He's grotesque and disgusting.

Whole of government partied like it was 1999 😂😂😂

Munya, you have a patriotic duty to step up on this one

Ha! This was pointed out pretty much immediately on LBC following Boris’s announcement he would launch their own investigation.

Honestly, they could have saved themselves from the embarrassment. You’d expect liars and frauds in charge to at least be good at lying and being fraudulent.