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.

And she wasn't far wrong. At least she wasn't remarking on how Grenfell residents obviously didn't apply their common sense to avoiding burning to death, thank you Mr Rees Mogg. Scum?

Bin men would have been be much safer getting out of those stuffy cabs and having a well deserved thank you in the form of cheese and non alcoholic beverages, thus beating the virus.

At the moment she is showing much more political astuteness and competence than the PM.

That’s not exactly difficult.

Boris JOhnson apparently couldn't assure the Scottish Conservative Leader that more wouldn't come out about lockdown and Downing Street. The mind boggles. And Dominic Cummings presumably has more up his sleeve.

@PartyOnKale

In Angela Raynor: I felt she apologised rather well for the scum comments. I see her performances improving si she's headed in the right direction.

She believes passionately in equality of opportunity and in helping the poor, so Tory MPs voting against poor children having food is going to trigger her.

Where as Sunak is triggered finding out the wine cellar cooler has gone faulty.

I'm warming towards AR , but the population won't buy it , the right wing press would tear into her and she wouldn't get a fair hearing
The LP need a new leader badly , but if it was her they wouldn't get very far.
It is sad , but have a posh accent and an public school background and your forgiven everything it seems :(

We don't need "triggered" MPs though.
And to be fair she's taken that on board I think.

Starmer is okay as leader.

@PartyOnKale

Bin men would have been be much safer getting out of those stuffy cabs and having a well deserved thank you in the form of cheese and non alcoholic beverages, thus beating the virus.

I must be totally honest here and declare that I left a socially distanced box of cans of a well known brand of beer out for my bin men one week. I gave them a shout of, "Thanks for all you're doing and hope you enjoy a drink when you get back to the depot." Maybe I encouraged a work place party? I think it was in the July or August 2020 so I'm not sure if that was OK.

I'm teetotal so not sure of the etiquette.

Angela Raynor was out of order to make the scum comment but she at least issued a genuine apology.

One misjudged comment from her and she I'd vilified. And yet the PM has flagrantly broken the laws that he himself implemented, then repeatedly lied about it, then issued a half-arsed "sorry not sorry" apology... and yet he is still in post.

In the grand scheme of things, Angela Raynor's misdemeanours barely merit comment.

@the80sweregreat

I'm warming towards AR , but the population won't buy it , the right wing press would tear into her and she wouldn't get a fair hearing The LP need a new leader badly , but if it was her they wouldn't get very far. It is sad , but have a posh accent and an public school background and your forgiven everything it seems :(

Ironically Starmer himself has pretty humble origins. But he's 20 years older than AR and of a generation where he couldn't have the sort of legal career he's had with a working class accent.

I wondered where the messaging would lead us.

We've gone from the emphasis being the garden is part of their home (why shouldn't they sit in their own garden?)

To it's an extension of number 10 and therefore part of work.

To it's an extension of all the offices hence Henry Newman's invitation.

To the Prime Minister having no control over gatherings in either his garden or the offices.

(And an honourable mention goes to the reference that it was a thank you party for Dominic Raab stepping in to cover for Johnson)

And an honourable mention goes to the reference that it was a thank you party for Dominic Raab stepping in to cover for Johnson

Ah yes, that raised a smirk from me last night. Slightly off message, I suspect!

A 'thank you Raab and welcome back Johnson'

The thank you party reference was hilarious!

Actually I forgot that it was all actually a plot by Remainers. They were forced in to having a gathering!

@ClaudineClare

Oh for god's sake Florianus, stop lecturing us as though you are some sort of expert on the Civil Service. I have read previous posts from you where you indicate that Whitehall is awash with booze and hampers from Harrods, which is just nonsense. You will say anything to defend Johnson.

I don't defend Johnson in the slightest. He is a vile turd who should not be PM. However, I have worked with civil servants for much of my career and I know only too well what goes on in the civil service.

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@kittensinthekitchen

So *@Florianus*

Who do you suspect Martin Reynolds was referring to by saying "we thought" and "please join us" in his invitation for socially distanced drinks?

Fellow civil servants, of course.

Rees-Mogg latest 'if BJ is found to have broken the rules, then the rules are wrong'. Not remotely scummy

I wonder who made the rules then? Surely not the Government of which Rees-Mogg is a part?

I saw that longwayoff

'These rules were very hard for people to obey'

@JacobReesMogg suggests the Covid inquiry may find that coronavirus laws were 'too hard on people' after being asked about @BorisJohnson's behaviour

ITV News Politics

@DuncinToffee

I saw that longwayoff

'These rules were very hard for people to obey'

@JacobReesMogg suggests the Covid inquiry may find that coronavirus laws were 'too hard on people' after being asked about @BorisJohnson's behaviour

ITV News Politics

So JRM is saying that Boris broke the rules. This is progress.

twitter.com/sturdyalex/status/1481595199553998849?s=21

I thought we were "working as a country to obey the social distancing rules, which everybody understands."

On well, if it was known back then that the rules were not to be obeyed to the letter, I would have rammed open the care home doors and run in to see my elderly dad. Or broken in or something.
Maybe the likes of Jacob Rees Mogg would have admired my spirit at ignoring the rules that the home implemented themselves a week before the official first lockdown.
I would have ended up with a fine or maybe even in prison , but at least the tories might have backed me up eh? Right ..