Another Bloody Downing Street party

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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.

@Peregrina

The excuse for the Johnsons attending the cheese and wine do was that it was in their garden.

Now come on, be fair. If a whole crowd of people came and started partying in your back garden, wouldn't you want to go and join them?

Pretty sure I'd go tell them to get the fuck out, to be fair.

(And probably snaffle any cocktail sausage rolls that were about)

Surely by May 2029 all the staff were assigned to teams that weren't supposed to (inter)mingle.
I mean imagine the state of the country if these vital key workers fighting for our vaccine programme 'n stuff had all been off at once.

May 2020!

@SpindleyCrow

Scottish Conservatives' position coming from leader (Douglas Ross) is that Boris Johnson should now resign. I recall Ruth Davison (former leader) saying similar last night, that if BJ admitted he attended the drinks party on 20th May 2020 then he must go.

Given how many times I seem to remember Douglas Ross saying "If this is true, Boris must resign" then maybe Douglas Ross should resign.

His continued presence clearly indicates he supports the PM and his fabrications.

Not sure how Ruth Davison could resign her peerage. But I also know for a fact neither does she.

@ancientgran, he looked rough coz he was hiding on the back seat of his car or maybe even on the floor

No, he won't resign. For a start he wants to celebrate his marriage in the summer at Chequers.

Secondly, he will well and truly bring his party down rather than give anyone else a chance to fix his mess.

Which will leave conservatives in ruins, why not, if he goes, they will go with him, sink the whole ship I say!

Secondly, he will well and truly bring his party down rather than give anyone else a chance to fix his mess.

And his party are willing to bring the country down (all four) with them.

@SerendipityJane

The Johnsons don't live at No.10. Behind the narrow entrance, No.10 Downing Street is basically an office block for some 200 civil servants.

It would be justice indeed if party held in Boris Johnsons back passage started trending on Twitter.

Bots - do your job

What a truly upsetting image. Haven't we all suffered enough?

Sunak lives at No 10 the Johnsons at No 11 but the garden is half an acre shared between the two

And is used by the civil servants who work in No.10 for all sorts of purposes, such as explaining to the press why it was necessary to drive to Barnard Castle for an eye test.

My clear image of Dominic Cummings in May 2020 during the tv presser was a rather shabby character at an old fashioned trellis table looking like someone who should be selling raffle tickets at a school fete.
Then the lies started up..

I remember feeling sooo angry re Cummings

The inability to own up

I was working full time in May 2020. Public sector and so no furlough entitlement. Like many public servants I wasn’t a key worker so had my primary school children at home.

I remember noticing the weather outside was gorgeous. It would have been such a relief to chat with others in the garden over a glass when the work was done.

But I was working all day and most of the evening just to keep up. Weekends too to make deadlines. Most of the time my very vulnerable little DD was alone and unsupervised and I was constantly panicking that I couldn’t keep her safe. She has a condition which worsened badly over 2020 and all my support stopped. It would have broken the rules to have someone help, even someone to sit with her. I’m still not over this by a long way.

The contempt in which I hold every one of these party goers, and everyone who knew and stayed silent, cannot be measured.

[quote Clavinova]kittensinthekitchen
What? What's the relevance of this statement?

I was referring to restrictions such as this -

April 2020
allowing families to visit dying relatives in NI presented "too significant a risk" at the moment.

Earlier First Minister Arlene Foster had said she hoped Mr Swann could make an announcement that mirrored new arrangements in England.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-52308772[/quote]
@clavinova It is good to see you have been busy on google again. Have you had time to watch the Downing Street briefing from 20th May 2020 that was given by Oliver Dowden? What did he say about meeting those from other households?

Trying to give the benefit of the doubt, this is probably the kind of nonsense covered by official secrets or some such.

@MarshaBradyo

I remember feeling sooo angry re Cummings

The inability to own up

Remember how the entire machinery of government was diverted to deal with the Dominic Cummings situation at the peak of the pandemic ????

I do.

Remember how even at the time when we were threatened with restrictions on our liberty unknown ever in peacetime we had to watch and listen in disbelief as he made a mockery of it all.

I bet Clavinova does. They'd have to in order to be able to dredge something up from the Rutland Weekend Enquirer about a Labour councillor who overstayed at their local Lidl for a minute for that date. (I think I've spotted the pattern now. Took a while).

@PartyOnKale

Surely by May 2029 all the staff were assigned to teams that weren't supposed to (inter)mingle. I mean imagine the state of the country if these vital key workers fighting for our vaccine programme 'n stuff had all been off at once.

Given that they had to bring a bottle to the party and the invitation was sent out on the same day as the party, how did they all find time to go out shopping for a bottle in the middle of lockdown with presumably few shops in the area open. Or do they all keep a stash in their office just in case there is a party?

Serendipity I do and they did, unbelievably. And now he is really driving against those who did it, his ability to control outcomes does concern me actually, he’s not elected.

I was incandescent about it that weekend, I remember listening to it and being cross, I had nowhere to put my anger ;

If you look at polling there was a huge drop at that time - maybe that

Remember how the entire machinery of government was diverted to deal with the Dominic Cummings situation at the peak of the pandemic ????

And now we know why - because they’d broken the rules themselves, and knew that Cummings knew.

Nobody has suggested that Johnson held the party. It was apparently organised by Martin Reynolds, principally for his fellow civil servants.

Nope, I stand by this, he held it. It was in his garden and he was there - that's holding a party in my book.

If it hasn't officially been confirmed, it's only because it hasn't been leaked yet. That'll be the next leak. The leak after that will be an email from him going 'PAAAARTAY!' Final one will be a photo of him heading a conga line, wearing a pair of giant plastic tits.

Laura Kuenssberg on twitter

Another Tory MP told me that in the tearoom the PM told him and colleagues 'it's not his fault and he's bravely taking the blame for others' - 'caused much consternation among colleagues' given that he'd just given a public apology

Other journalist and Douglas Ross have tweeted similar

@DuncinToffee

Laura Kuenssberg on twitter

Another Tory MP told me that in the tearoom the PM told him and colleagues 'it's not his fault and he's bravely taking the blame for others' - 'caused much consternation among colleagues' given that he'd just given a public apology

Other journalist and Douglas Ross have tweeted similar

Of course it is not Boris' fault.

Even his many children aren't his fault apparently.

I'd love to see Boris Johnson in a pair of plastic tits doing the conga! Can you imagine?
I'd love Dom or someone to have this photo
I really would .. it's unlikely , but what a golden ticket it would be for someone! It would Pay off their mortgage no doubt.

Ah yes the wine supplies I can imagine the dash to the offie.
Or the other reality of wine in the office due whenever. Boggling either way really.

Nobody has suggested that Johnson held the party. It was apparently organised by Martin Reynolds, principally for his fellow civil servants.

For goodness sake. He was supposed to be PM at a time of crisis, but you are suggesting he couldn’t even convey to his own staff that this kind of event was against the rules?

Sounds like he stumbled out into the garden, saw the staff, mingled a bit to improve morale, what!

The sort of scrape anyone of us could get into mid pandemic😉.

Loved the MPs all laughing at Johnsons inability to recognise a party when he sees one.