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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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ancientgran · 12/01/2022 12:16

Ian Blackford up now, bet he'll show no mercy.

Clavinova · 12/01/2022 12:16

He said he was there just to thank staff then back to work. The garden was used as extension of office blah blah. Sort of it looked bad it wasn’t a party it was break in work. Yea right

Sounds vaguely familiar -
A Labour spokesman said: “Keir was in the workplace, meeting a local MP in her constituency office and participating in an online Labour Party event. They paused for dinner as the meeting was during the evening.”

www.thesun.co.uk/news/14826418/keir-starmer-beer-indoor-gathering/

ancientgran · 12/01/2022 12:17

H.ead hanging in shame

IntermittentParps · 12/01/2022 12:17

Apparently he 'didn't know' it was a party.
I mean, that's a bit of an insult to the host/organiser, isn't it? If people came to my place for a party and went away saying, 'What was that?' I'd be mortified.

ancientgran · 12/01/2022 12:18

[quote Clavinova]He said he was there just to thank staff then back to work. The garden was used as extension of office blah blah. Sort of it looked bad it wasn’t a party it was break in work. Yea right

Sounds vaguely familiar -
A Labour spokesman said: “Keir was in the workplace, meeting a local MP in her constituency office and participating in an online Labour Party event. They paused for dinner as the meeting was during the evening.”

www.thesun.co.uk/news/14826418/keir-starmer-beer-indoor-gathering/[/quote]
So do you think while he was miles away from home he should have starved?

Regardless please start a thread about Labour breaches, we are talking about Johnson's shameless behaviour.

PartyOnKale · 12/01/2022 12:19

The guy throwing the party was a ambassador fgs. They throw the best parties!

AllThePogs · 12/01/2022 12:19

@Keepitonthedownlow

Not a fan of Johnson, but were they not technically at work?
Not a fan of - seems to be the phrase Tory HQ has advised people to use when defending the Conservatives.
jgw1 · 12/01/2022 12:20

[quote Clavinova]He said he was there just to thank staff then back to work. The garden was used as extension of office blah blah. Sort of it looked bad it wasn’t a party it was break in work. Yea right

Sounds vaguely familiar -
A Labour spokesman said: “Keir was in the workplace, meeting a local MP in her constituency office and participating in an online Labour Party event. They paused for dinner as the meeting was during the evening.”

www.thesun.co.uk/news/14826418/keir-starmer-beer-indoor-gathering/[/quote]
@Clavinova it is nice that you are back. Have you had a chance to watch the Downing Street briefing on 20th May 2020? If so, what did the Culture Minister say about gatherings outdoors in gardens and so on?

Notonthestairs · 12/01/2022 12:21

The invitation was marked Sensitive!

Why would that be if it was simply a permitted work get together?

They knew it was wrong and did it anyway.

Hearwego · 12/01/2022 12:22

I think the Tories are a bit stuck. They know Boris has bad judgement and in trouble for the garden party.
BUT- who would replace him? Who would enter a leadership race?
They can keep Boris in now as the man responsible and wait until things blow over. The next leader will want an easier ride.
They have to keep Boris where he is.

CovidCorvid · 12/01/2022 12:23

This was a month after Boris nearly died. So he knew how serious it could be. But he happily let all those people mingle, not knowing if it could be a super spreader event, potentially putting them and other people they met in the following days at risk. 🤷‍♀️

I don’t get how he can be so stupid and cavalier. Not only for the people as individuals but also from the point of view of pressure on the nhs. Sickens me he was out clapping every week.

Hearwego · 12/01/2022 12:24

The Tory MPs are trying to change the subject by asking other questions! The other parties are not having it!

PartyOnKale · 12/01/2022 12:25

Embarrassed for the conservative MIs.
Doubt they are expressing their local party members' opinions.

PartyOnKale · 12/01/2022 12:25

MPs

Hearwego · 12/01/2022 12:26

Boris has a massive majority. If he hadn’t made these stupid mistakes and not lied he may have been an ‘ok ‘PM...

ancientgran · 12/01/2022 12:26

@Hearwego

I think the Tories are a bit stuck. They know Boris has bad judgement and in trouble for the garden party. BUT- who would replace him? Who would enter a leadership race? They can keep Boris in now as the man responsible and wait until things blow over. The next leader will want an easier ride. They have to keep Boris where he is.
Do we want to have a PM who wants an easy ride?
jgw1 · 12/01/2022 12:28

@CovidCorvid

This was a month after Boris nearly died. So he knew how serious it could be. But he happily let all those people mingle, not knowing if it could be a super spreader event, potentially putting them and other people they met in the following days at risk. 🤷‍♀️

I don’t get how he can be so stupid and cavalier. Not only for the people as individuals but also from the point of view of pressure on the nhs. Sickens me he was out clapping every week.

They are all very important people and were working very hard, and so needed a break to socialise.

That being so, if they are really that important, why would you put them all at risk of being seriously ill?

VikingOnTheFridge · 12/01/2022 12:28

@Notonthestairs

The invitation was marked Sensitive!

Why would that be if it was simply a permitted work get together?

They knew it was wrong and did it anyway.

Interesting!
summertimerolls · 12/01/2022 12:29

@Hearwego

I think the Tories are a bit stuck. They know Boris has bad judgement and in trouble for the garden party. BUT- who would replace him? Who would enter a leadership race? They can keep Boris in now as the man responsible and wait until things blow over. The next leader will want an easier ride. They have to keep Boris where he is.
I suspect the man who has conveniently taken himself off to Ilfracombe today, nearly distancing himself from Johnson's shit storm would like the job
summertimerolls · 12/01/2022 12:29

*neatly

PartyOnKale · 12/01/2022 12:29

Alberto Costa getting his green credentials in.

SerendipityJane · 12/01/2022 12:30

@Hearwego

I think the Tories are a bit stuck. They know Boris has bad judgement and in trouble for the garden party. BUT- who would replace him? Who would enter a leadership race? They can keep Boris in now as the man responsible and wait until things blow over. The next leader will want an easier ride. They have to keep Boris where he is.
Those of us with enough memory to spare will recall the weird circumstances around the departure of May and Boris coronation.

The Tory party did tear itself apart trying desperately to find a patsy who could follow May, take all the flack for the failure it was clear Brexit was going to be, and then be unceremoniously dumped for Boris the saviour to take over.

Eventually they had to drop that when no one was stupid enough and acceptable enough in equal measure.

Enter Boris.

It would be richly ironic if he found himself a pinned PM - much as Theresa May did - forced to stay in place and eat their own soundbites. It would be even more richly ironic if he were to be replaced by a former Foreign Secretary.

Hearwego · 12/01/2022 12:30

Tory MP asking question about washing machines now....

Vindicated2021 · 12/01/2022 12:33

It was at the same time my nanny died of covid. In a care home. Alone.

Subsequently followed by a 10 person funeral where I wasn't allowed to sit next to my mum to comfort her, then we all went home separately. No wake.

Absolute, utter cunts.

SquishySquirmy · 12/01/2022 12:34

If they were "at work", then this must mean it was essential for all 100 people invited to be there in person. Otherwise, in May 2020 they should have been WFH, or even zooming in as smaller groups from other offices.

So why did only 30 (or 40? 50?) accept the invite? Were those who declined skiving off?
If they needed to be there for work then I can't see how it was an "invite" at all - it would have been a request.

.... (of course it wasn't work it was a social do. Which is very, very obvious to anyone with half a brain and unbelievably condescending that anyone would even try to pretend it was work.)