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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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Hemingwayscatz · 11/01/2022 10:47

But you know exactly what his retort will be at PMQs- we jab while you jibber jab, if it were up to captain hindsight we’d still be in lockdown, we vaccinate while you vacillate. Rinse and repeat. I can’t listen to him anymore, he’s a bumbling, corrupt, lying piece of shit.

IntermittentParps · 11/01/2022 10:51

Maybe he wanted to avoid the parties that were going on or something 🤷‍♀️

Nah, he didn't get invited and was sore about it, and has waited for this chance to get his revenge.

LondonJax · 11/01/2022 10:52

@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!

SerendipityJane · 11/01/2022 10:54

@SkateboardInTheNet

Surely those 60 who didn’t attend are almost as bad - keeping it secret for 18 months whilst the country goes to hell in a (liar’s) handcart.
I suggest you read up on the official secrets act (designed to protect officials, not secrets).
Poetrypatty · 11/01/2022 10:58

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

No this is a different garden party which was 100 people invited, bring your own booze.

merrymouse · 11/01/2022 10:59

londonjax it’s another party.

The one with pictures was supposedly a ‘work meeting’. This was definitely a party, to which 100 people were invited.

the80sweregreat · 11/01/2022 11:05

It's one long party at number 10 it seems :(
How many do they have in more normal times ?

roarfeckingroarr · 11/01/2022 11:07

Really don't care about this

Nidan2Sandan · 11/01/2022 11:09

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SkateboardInTheNet · 11/01/2022 11:10

I get that but there are almost never any prosecutions under that act. There is no way that anyone would be prosecuted for revealing this. It could have been done & we all know that.

So many people knew - politicians, civil servants, police officers… the lot.

LondonJax · 11/01/2022 11:10

Thank you @Poetrypatty and @merrymouse. That makes it even worse doesn't it? So the 'working' party was 15th May and this email was 20th May - just five days later!

Gilead · 11/01/2022 11:11

I was in hospital for three weeks. No visitors. It was grim.

OhWhyNot · 11/01/2022 11:12

Well thankfully many do care as most people have morals and expect those leading our country to (though it’s been known for years the Johnsons doesn’t have any so no shock there)

But I think you speak for many roarfeckingroarr and many are bored of another party story. This will keep Johnson safe for the time being

merrymouse · 11/01/2022 11:13

@the80sweregreat

It's one long party at number 10 it seems :( How many do they have in more normal times ?
I think all the time. They certainly seem to think it’s normal to have a glass of wine instead of a cup of tea on your desk.
merrymouse · 11/01/2022 11:18

@LondonJax

Thank you *@Poetrypatty and @merrymouse*. That makes it even worse doesn't it? So the 'working' party was 15th May and this email was 20th May - just five days later!
I don’t think there is any way that they can pretend this was within the rules.

People were being asked to come to Downing Street to socialise at a time when social distancing was the only real preventative measure - no clear understanding of risk of spread outside, before masks were mandatory and when schools and non essential shops were still closed, and of course long before vaccines.

Butteryflakycrust83 · 11/01/2022 11:21

@Nidan2Sandan

I do not like Labour, they're so desperate to be "woke" and I have real concerns about their attitudes towards women (not to mention the Jewish) and if you dont like labour the only alternative was Tory. (I voted labour btw in 2019)

All the Tory voters I know, did it because they wanted Brexit and felt Labour would try to stop it happening.

I have never agreed with the covid policies this country has made, and I never ever will. Stopping parents visiting a sick child in hospital, stopping people hugging relatives or attending funerals? Sorry, but if you ever agreed with these policies you were complicit in the Tory agenda. They wanted to separate the plebs from the powerful and you all lapped it up hook line and sinker and now you're all shocked they didnt follow their own rules. Honestly, if you chose to stay away rather than visit a relative in need because the govt told you to then you are as bad as Boris and his lies..because you both lack empathy and humanity.

Ridiculous statement.

The majority of people followed the rules not because the Gov told them to, but because we had enough brain cells to realise that lockdown measures were helping keep the vulnerable safe.
But I bet you feel superior for not being one of those sheep, eh?

Blinkingbatshit · 11/01/2022 11:25

It is equally reprehensible that the media sat on this and the other garden party and didn’t report it at the time. What on Earth is the point if they’re not ‘current’. Yes, I know they have hidden agendas too but this Country and the way it’s run (by govt AND the media) resembles a James Bond plot more and more (without a ‘happy’ ending).

derxa · 11/01/2022 11:33

@Nidan2Sandan

I do not like Labour, they're so desperate to be "woke" and I have real concerns about their attitudes towards women (not to mention the Jewish) and if you dont like labour the only alternative was Tory. (I voted labour btw in 2019)

All the Tory voters I know, did it because they wanted Brexit and felt Labour would try to stop it happening.

I have never agreed with the covid policies this country has made, and I never ever will. Stopping parents visiting a sick child in hospital, stopping people hugging relatives or attending funerals? Sorry, but if you ever agreed with these policies you were complicit in the Tory agenda. They wanted to separate the plebs from the powerful and you all lapped it up hook line and sinker and now you're all shocked they didnt follow their own rules. Honestly, if you chose to stay away rather than visit a relative in need because the govt told you to then you are as bad as Boris and his lies..because you both lack empathy and humanity.

I agree with most of this. Why did people not visit their lonely relatives at home?
SquishySquirmy · 11/01/2022 11:34

Not reprehensible to sit on this story at the time. Leaking this story in May 2020 would have been very irresponsible and I believe could have led to many tens of thousands more deaths (not to mention serious illnesses, long term issues and suffering).

I don't think it should have taken as long as it did to get out, and the motivation for leaking now is clearly political, but I am glad we didn't know about it at the time.

IntermittentParps · 11/01/2022 11:35

Honestly, if you chose to stay away rather than visit a relative in need because the govt told you to then you are as bad as Boris and his lies..because you both lack empathy and humanity.
That is an odious thing to say about people who stayed away from relatives in need. We all did it because we believed that these measures were contributing to stopping/minimising the effects of Covid.
People didn't stay away willingly, or because they 'lack empathy and humanity'. How dare you say that about people who had loved ones suffer and die?

Butteryflakycrust83 · 11/01/2022 11:37

Astonishing how quickly this is already turning into a 'lets blame each other' for how people acted during an unprecedented life changing event rather than the feckin Tories

Peregrina · 11/01/2022 11:40

Some elderly relatives were in Care Homes and weren't allowed admission by the Home. That's why they didn't visit, or just waved at them through windows.

AllThePogs · 11/01/2022 11:41

It is the usual tactic. Blame people for following the law at the time. Most people are law-abiding.
When the issue is that the people who made those laws, broke them.

Last Christmas I made some new laws
But the very next day I broke them myself
This year to save me from tears
I'll blame the public instead

LondonJax · 11/01/2022 11:42

@Nidan2Sandan

I do not like Labour, they're so desperate to be "woke" and I have real concerns about their attitudes towards women (not to mention the Jewish) and if you dont like labour the only alternative was Tory. (I voted labour btw in 2019)

All the Tory voters I know, did it because they wanted Brexit and felt Labour would try to stop it happening.

I have never agreed with the covid policies this country has made, and I never ever will. Stopping parents visiting a sick child in hospital, stopping people hugging relatives or attending funerals? Sorry, but if you ever agreed with these policies you were complicit in the Tory agenda. They wanted to separate the plebs from the powerful and you all lapped it up hook line and sinker and now you're all shocked they didnt follow their own rules. Honestly, if you chose to stay away rather than visit a relative in need because the govt told you to then you are as bad as Boris and his lies..because you both lack empathy and humanity.

Are you seriously saying that Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab's family 'lacked empathy and humanity' when they didn't go to his bedside when he died from Covid aged 13? Seriously?

Did you try to visit someone in a care home or hospital at that time?

Did you not see the pictures of people talking to their elderly relative through a window because, whilst they wanted to get in, they couldn't storm the care home like the bloody SAS!

Someone certainly lacks empathy and humanity and it's not the people who were trying to protect their loved ones. Yes, we may have been naive but you do your best at the time. Clever you for having such foresight. It's a shame it was only dolled out to the odd few but there you go.

AllThePogs · 11/01/2022 11:42

@Peregrina

Some elderly relatives were in Care Homes and weren't allowed admission by the Home. That's why they didn't visit, or just waved at them through windows.
You were supposed to bash down the doors to the care home and it is your fault if you didn't. How dare you follow the laws of the land! Who is so stupid as to be law abiding.