@ElftonWednesday
Can't say as I'm so bothered about this one, we had a street party, every sitting in front of their house or in their drive and all socially distanced, around the same time.
You sat in your drive, socially distanced
@ElftonWednesday. You did the right thing, did as you were told.
Assuming this is THE garden party, Boris sat around a table with his cronies, joined by his wife hugging his month old son who had no immunity against this illness (tells me more about those two and their values than anything else TBH). In the background there are people standing next to each other with wine glasses in their hands, people sitting together on the grass. Rabb defended it, when it was shown, saying the people were working - the email proves they weren't.
One month before this we had to bury our mum. We could have 6 people only to the funeral. Six. The zoom funeral idea was new so none of my mum's nieces and nephews plus their families were able to join us remotely. When my dad died years before we had over 50 mourners.
We, her immediate family, had to draw straws on who could attend. I sat alone as you could only sit with the people you lived with. You had to keep 2 metres apart otherwise. My DH had to look after our DS - couldn't leave him with anyone and those two attending would have meant one of my sisters would have had to step down. So I sat alone. We couldn't hug and had to leave in our family groups.
We couldn't get her fresh flowers - even my friend who is a florist, tried everywhere to buy flowers for us but nothing could be guaranteed. We ended up with three wreaths made of silk flowers bought off of Ebay - thankfully they were beautiful but nothing like the mass of flowers she'd have had under normal circumstances.
We couldn't even get together afterwards as hospitality was closed and we weren't allowed into each others homes or that many households meeting together in a garden.
Six months after Boris's 'hard working' team had their party, there was a youtube video that came out showing a man in the UK getting up to comfort his mum at his father's funeral. He was told to go and sit down by a funeral worker. The seats were spread out individually around the room
Boris and his cronies could have their 'hard work' party at any time - preferably when they'd actually earned it by sorting out all the problems we had at that time. My mum's funeral was her last chance.
People in care homes, hospitals, were all left alone (apart from those who worked their backsides off to keep them as safe as possible). Families couldn't visit their elderly relatives. People living alone or in awful circumstances just had to 'get on with it', kids were having to do home learning with the help (or not) of their parents with little or no equipment.
People were being fined or even arrested for doing the same thing as Boris and co.
One month before Boris and his buddies were boozing it up, the news was reporting that the NHS etc didn't have enough PPE! Whilst we (and Boris) were clapping...
But Boris's team work so hard they need a little 'let off steam time' which none of the others in the country deserved.
I'm bothered. And, thankfully, so are many others.
If you make the rules, you lead from the front. Or you go. I'll drink to that!