Another Bloody Downing Street party

[JustJam4Tea]

So hours after telling us to only meet one other person outside from a different household 100 invited to Downing Street BYO in the garden.

It was unlawful to mix outside. If my employer had invited 100 staff to a garden party we’d have all been arrested.

I had to look up Michael Fabricant ( not up on all the conservative MPs)
He looks a bit like Boris Johnson, it's scary. Sounds like another Tory stooge laughing at the mere plebs who pay his wages.
People were not encouraged in May 2020 to have parties or meet ups after work.
Many civil servants work from home.
These ones involved in this obviously didn't ( or couldn't ) for whatever reason.
It was still wrong to have a do after work at that time. Morally wrong , considering what were told about the virus and its transmission at that time. Plus they didn't know as much about it as they do now , either.
Fines were given to people for breaking the rules. Playgrounds were locked up. Benches were taped up. Boris Johnson was only just recovering from covid 19 himself.
The Number 10 garden and a party was fully up and running as if nothing was going on at all.
It really is beyond belief.
Yet people still defend it.
It is just unbelievable.

Did they clap for the NHS before or after their party?

Maybe, finally, people will start to realise any Tory government is always only out for itself and not the country.

Bojo should face the full force of the very laws he introduced.

This makes me so upset. I couldn't visit a dying relative In intensive care, couldn't see friends when I was crippled with depression, Child couldn't go to school, or even play on the park outside.

There were families stuck in cramped 1 bedroom flats not allowed to leave, elderly people left alone with no interaction or company, kids being abused and beaten to death by parents going under the radar, cancer appointments postponed, people fucking dying because of that lockdown...and all along they were having a lovely little party socializing and sipping champers. Don't even have the words.

@Kittykat93

This makes me so upset. I couldn't visit a dying relative In intensive care, couldn't see friends when I was crippled with depression, Child couldn't go to school, or even play on the park outside.

There were families stuck in cramped 1 bedroom flats not allowed to leave, elderly people left alone with no interaction or company, kids being abused and beaten to death by parents going under the radar, cancer appointments postponed, people fucking dying because of that lockdown...and all along they were having a lovely little party socializing and sipping champers. Don't even have the words.

Guessing from your username you're only young (compared to this fossil) ?

It'll pass, and you'll get used to it like everyone else.

Fabricant is as thick as mince. On his BBC interview he said that BJ "felt sorry" for staff working long hours and therefore allowed the party to go ahead - which doesn't really leave much room for an argument that BJ was somehow unaware of what was going on in his back garden.

This idea that the govt is "laughing" at us doesn't feel right to me. I dont think they care or think enough about ordinary people to laugh at them - to me it seems more like genuine and deeply felt contempt for the masses/a belief that rules apply only to the little people.

Not so much on mumsnet, but many people do defend them a lot in the press and on the radio too. It's as if they can't do anything wrong at all
If this was a Labour leader having an inquiry into a party during a pandemic ( and breaking all the rules ) the right wing press would hang him or her out to dry.

BJ isn't just laughing at us, he's peeing all over us at the same time whilst shouting "Look at ME! See what I can do!" Fucker.

Sorry I don't see why me being 30 has anything to do with it? Am I not allowed to be annoyed? I'll get over it of course, I've got bigger fish to fry and all that. I was just commenting to say I was really pissed off about it, because I am.

Uh it didn't include the quote on my comment..why isn't there an edit function on here.

I'm not surprised that they had multiple parties at all.

What surprises me is that people defend them with the attitude that rules that they make don't apply to them at all only the general population. We get the government we deserve. Apathy in voters gets a useless, do what they want government.

It's interesting none of the bigger names have come out to defend the PM - where are Gove, Sunak, Javid, Truss, Rees-Mogg, Patel and Raab etc today?

@Notonthestairs

It's interesting none of the bigger names have come out to defend the PM - where are Gove, Sunak, Javid, Truss, Rees-Mogg, Patel and Raab etc today?

All probably gone up the pub to drink their woes away .. nice bit of cheese for dessert 🧀

They are a bunch of absolute arseholes who have brought complete disgrace to our country.

@User1isnotavailable

I'm not surprised that they had multiple parties at all.

What surprises me is that people defend them with the attitude that rules that they make don't apply to them at all only the general population. We get the government we deserve. Apathy in voters gets a useless, do what they want government.

I think the amazing thing is that they haven't got enough nouse to do it without leaving evidence. Who would be stupid enough to put out that email, God help us if that is the level of our diplomats.

I'm pissed off that he's going to get away with it.

@Notonthestairs

It's interesting none of the bigger names have come out to defend the PM - where are Gove, Sunak, Javid, Truss, Rees-Mogg, Patel and Raab etc today?

I'm guessing their people have all made some calculations, and worked out which way the wind is blowing.

As long as the Tory party can get through this, there won't be any concern about Boris' fate. Remember how brutal they were to dump Thatcher. And she won them 3 elections. Boris only has one to his credit.

@Notonthestairs

It's interesting none of the bigger names have come out to defend the PM - where are Gove, Sunak, Javid, Truss, Rees-Mogg, Patel and Raab etc today?

Probably a bit crowded in the fridge.

Frankly if all they can summon for defence is Michael Fabricant, MP for the Unthinking, then the rats must be deserting the sinking ship of State. Hopefully.

@Notonthestairs

It's interesting none of the bigger names have come out to defend the PM - where are Gove, Sunak, Javid, Truss, Rees-Mogg, Patel and Raab etc today?

Working out their becoming-PM strategies.

@LondonJax

Shelagh Fogarty on LBC had Michael Fabricant on who, in his normal patronising way, explained that all these people worked together every day and, therefore, everything was fine. We plebs had nothing to worry about and it wasn't the same as any other meeting as these people were 'working so hard'.

I'd play that to anyone who still supported Boris in this as it made my blood boil. You could literally hear the smirk in his voice. Boris would have been holding his head in his hands to hear him, Fabricant probably did him as much damage with that interview as the party allegation has.

Fabricant was on the BBC News channel doing the same. He is the personification of a smirk.

JustJam4Tea I am too Johnson is like Teflon nothing every sticks.

There is the issue of not having anyone lined up right now. I’m not sure anyone would want to take up with the role of PM right now so will leave him to it but will do closer to the election.

This is the Tory parties making but I do wish we had a strong opposition. I thought Starmer was the answer he hasn’t proven to be. People do vote for personalities as well as policies. The antithesis to Johnson hasn’t worked this is when someone like Blair would have absolutely won the public over. The Tory party are not concerned by Labour at the moment

Based on the local amoeba brains people will still vote him in next time because Jeremy Corbyn bowed at the wrong angle on Remembrance Day or something equally nonsensical. They just "wi'nt be said nay" as my grandad would have put it. It's sad and awful and will be the subject of much scrutiny in the future.

@DrCoconut

Based on the local amoeba brains people will still vote him in next time because Jeremy Corbyn bowed at the wrong angle on Remembrance Day or something equally nonsensical. They just "wi'nt be said nay" as my grandad would have put it. It's sad and awful and will be the subject of much scrutiny in the future.

Totally agree

@ohfourfoxache

Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab was a 13 year old child

He died - alone - in hospital. Probably terrified, probably in pain and undoubtedly suffering

His own parents were not allowed to sit at his deathbed as he passed

And these UTTER CUNTS were having fucking drinks??? When thousands were dying, alone, in hospitals and care homes and in their own homes??

History has it’s eyes on our “leaders”. Disgraceful, evil cuntweasels

That's really sad. Heartbreaking. Are people waving signs with his name on at downing Street. I hope so.

Recent polls still have 27% saying he should stay in place
56% should resign, 17% don't know

YouGov/Sky News poll