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Another Bloody Downing Street party

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JustJam4Tea · 10/01/2022 21:51

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.

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MagpiesStoleMyTreasure · 11/01/2022 23:41

I just hope everybody who has voted for all of this since 2016 and assured us "they knew what they were voting for" is ready to enjoy it.

It's those who had no part in this that I feel sorry for.

BitcherOfBlakiven · 11/01/2022 23:45

At every point in time when we’ve voted, I’ve been rather… Loud about my opinions on the Tories and those who vote for them.

I didn’t want to be right.

But I am.

We’re all fucked and I’m starting to think that ExDH, who’s a Prepper and slightly bonkers, might have a valid point.

Where’s the wine…

mjf981 · 12/01/2022 00:09

I think they should all resign on the basis that they are pack of idiots.

Aside from the fact it was 'against the rules,' how stupid can they be to organize this gathering??! The risk of it being leaked would obviously look terrible for the Tories....so why would they ever think it was a risk worth taking? Mind boggling Confused

BashStreetKid · 12/01/2022 00:16

Incredibly weak that Johnson is hiding behind the Sue Gray inquiry as his excuse for keeping quiet. Does he really have to wait for her to tell him that he was at the party before he can admit to it?

GreenLunchBox · 12/01/2022 00:55

@BashStreetKid

Incredibly weak that Johnson is hiding behind the Sue Gray inquiry as his excuse for keeping quiet. Does he really have to wait for her to tell him that he was at the party before he can admit to it?
Exactly. A PM will have a very detailed diary and so would know exactly where he was. So many people will have copies of his diary. They think we are morons
SpindleyCrow · 12/01/2022 01:54

This seems in some ways like an elaborate game of bluff now. Who can get Johnson to deny the worst transgression, to tell the worst lie, and then pull the video footage out of their phone? Johnson has gone to ground till tomorrow.

Cummings and Peston couldn't look or sound smugger if they tried.

It's how Kuenssberg appeared around Johnson during the period of Brexit debates and votes in the Commons. Smug, 'in the know', an insider.

It's a trade-off (i.e. discretion from the BBC/ITV in return for access) that was always a disgrace and one that is worth jack shit right now anyway as Johnson will just do his usual schtum and shrug routine.

The trouble is, Johnson can read Peston just as well as Peston can read Johnson. They're all too familiar, too cosy, too (metaphorically) incestuous, while loathing each other and pretending to be professional.

Booklover3 · 12/01/2022 02:14

There’s no baby to be born this time so I reckon Johnson will be ‘unwell.’

Booklover3 · 12/01/2022 02:43

And I’d stop feeding @Clavinova

She’s tone deaf

Peregrina · 12/01/2022 06:06

So remind me: Johnson went round shaking hands in hospitals with Covid patients, and then caught it himself. He was supposedly seriously ill. This was Easter time. A few weeks later a crowd of people pack into his back garden to hold a party, and he doesn't have the sense to open a window to shout out "Hey folks, that isn't a good idea. I caught Covid and was really ill, I might have died."

Then we had the farce of him clapping for the NHS at around the same time.

the80sweregreat · 12/01/2022 06:31

That's a good point about the PM recovering from covid 19 himself , he had it himself about seven weeks previously and ended up in hospital. We were all told he was very poorly at that time.
You would think that being near to any number of people would have sent huge warning signs.
Instead it was ' let's have a party'
It is bizarre.

Blossomtoes · 12/01/2022 07:06

@Clavinova

Still not commenting on the party?

I need more facts first.

Jesus, Clav, how many bloody facts do you need? There’s photographic evidence, ffs.
TwentyFirstCenturyTricoteuse · 12/01/2022 07:12

Thing is, people don't even vote Tory all that much. Fucking FPTP has a lot to answer for.

jgw1 · 12/01/2022 07:26

Why not start a thread about it, this thread is about a party at No 10.

Don't be daft. Our friendly visitor from Nasty Party HQ @clavinova deigns to grace us with their presence every so often to chuck in some squirrels and then when challenged finds they have urgent business elsewhere to attend to.

RoseAndRose · 12/01/2022 07:50

@TwentyFirstCenturyTricoteuse

Thing is, people don't even vote Tory all that much. Fucking FPTP has a lot to answer for.
Boundary reform is long overdue.

When one party wins more seats on the same share of the vote, its needs updating.

It's stalled though, which surprised me, as it's the Tories who would be set to benefit. And it's been discussed for so long that it's going to be neither controversial nor precipitate. And shifting patterns of numbers in the populations and where they live has made it overdue

BashStreetKid · 12/01/2022 07:54

Some Conservative party clone is posting on Twitter a reference to Coronavirus regulations permitting gatherings for work purposes. Unfortunately for him, they only came into force 7 months after this party. Conservative Central office is clearly slipping.

longwayoff · 12/01/2022 08:05

I seriously hope that Clavinova is not Sue Gray but it wouldn't surprise me at all.

merrymouse · 12/01/2022 08:07

@BashStreetKid

Some Conservative party clone is posting on Twitter a reference to Coronavirus regulations permitting gatherings for work purposes. Unfortunately for him, they only came into force 7 months after this party. Conservative Central office is clearly slipping.
Also this gathering was clearly social.
kittensinthekitchen · 12/01/2022 08:10

@BashStreetKid

Incredibly weak that Johnson is hiding behind the Sue Gray inquiry as his excuse for keeping quiet. Does he really have to wait for her to tell him that he was at the party before he can admit to it?
He can't remember which party it was, and won't want to trip himself up, revealing others in the process. Hopefully all CCTV from the garden at no.10 will be reviewed, and not just those dates already known about.
VikingOnTheFridge · 12/01/2022 08:11

@BashStreetKid

Incredibly weak that Johnson is hiding behind the Sue Gray inquiry as his excuse for keeping quiet. Does he really have to wait for her to tell him that he was at the party before he can admit to it?
Apparently.
RoseAndRose · 12/01/2022 08:14

He can't remember which party it was, and won't want to trip himself up, revealing others in the process

Interesting point!!

He had covid quite early on didn't he? April? And wasn't that visible to the public for much of April,and May whilst he recuperated

Notonthestairs · 12/01/2022 08:15

I imagine CCTV was deleted months ago.

I am intrigued as to what line Boris will take.

Will he claim that he was at Chequers and therefore unaware of the party?

Or grovel and apologise (poor decision made in the heat of summer/hard working staff under unbearable pressure etc).

Or (most likely) request police investigation and push it in to the long grass for months and hope the anger passes.

Alexandra2001 · 12/01/2022 08:23

Yes, perhaps not even a Police inquiry but a judge led one, reporting after the next GE, bit like the Covid enquiry....

jgw1 · 12/01/2022 08:48

@Alexandra2001

Yes, perhaps not even a Police inquiry but a judge led one, reporting after the next GE, bit like the Covid enquiry....
This would be the best possible result for the Labour party. The next General Election with Boris still as Prime Minister makes their job so much easier.
DuncinToffee · 12/01/2022 08:59

No Tories turning up this morning to either defend or condone Johnson then, instead they seem to be starting to put the blame onto the civil servants
Spineless bunch

jgw1 · 12/01/2022 09:05

@DuncinToffee

No Tories turning up this morning to either defend or condone Johnson then, instead they seem to be starting to put the blame onto the civil servants Spineless bunch
It is important that we remember when someone else replaces Johnson that they have not at this time condemned his actions. Their silence indicates what kind of person they are.