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Another fabulous Downing Street Party thread

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jgw1 · 13/01/2022 13:42

Just in case we need it.

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LittleBearPad · 14/01/2022 20:02

@Player067

Also why is BJ “isolating”? Current rules do not require this?
Because he’s a coward.
DuncinToffee · 14/01/2022 20:05

Grovel? At the moment he is devising Operation Save Big Dog

JustJam4Tea · 14/01/2022 20:08

I thin’ they should just come clean about it all…there has to be more.

LIZS · 14/01/2022 20:11

The Mirror is reporting that Wine-time Fridays continued regularly throughout lockdowns and staff invested on a fridge to house up to 35 bottles of wine bought at the local Tesco Metro, taking turns to fill it up.

LittleBearPad · 14/01/2022 20:13

Every Friday 4-7pm

Another fabulous Downing Street Party thread
Wombat98 · 14/01/2022 20:14

No wonder the country is going to hell in a handbasket, no work, all parties, where do they find the time?

JustJam4Tea · 14/01/2022 20:44

Ffs. They were pissheads.

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jgw1 · 14/01/2022 20:46

@JustJam4Tea

Ffs. They were pissheads.
Were? I'd assume they still are.
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TheRealShedSadie · 14/01/2022 20:49

Nice work if you can get it, eh?

rrhuth · 14/01/2022 20:51

From Marina Hyde's column:

As for the damage being done not merely to the Johnson administration but to the entire concept of government by consent, are these latest revelations finally going to be an end to it? Or are they not even the half of it? My guess is that there is plenty more to come out. One rumour doing the rounds of the upper echelons in Whitehall centres on a lockdown drinks event allegedly attended by several secretaries of state.

rrhuth · 14/01/2022 20:52

@JustJam4Tea

Ffs. They were pissheads.
They were supposed to be making really serious decisions, and it seems they were pissed all the time.
LIZS · 14/01/2022 20:55

They were supposed to be making really serious decisions, and it seems they were pissed all the time.

Not until past four o'clock.

rrhuth · 14/01/2022 20:59

@LIZS

They were supposed to be making really serious decisions, and it seems they were pissed all the time.

Not until past four o'clock.

Oh well that;s alright then, as we all know politics is the sort fo job that happens within strict (reduced) business hours Grin

Not sur ethe hangovers wuld have helped much in the mornings.

It sounds absolutely insane.

rrhuth · 14/01/2022 21:00

What the hell was that typing? Is a mixture of rage and tiredness I think. Hopefully it is comprehensible anyway Grin

pussycatunpickingcrossesagain · 14/01/2022 21:01

@rrhuth

What the hell was that typing? Is a mixture of rage and tiredness I think. Hopefully it is comprehensible anyway Grin
it's after 4 on a friday, so I think you're allowed Wink Wine
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jgw1 · 14/01/2022 21:03

@LIZS

They were supposed to be making really serious decisions, and it seems they were pissed all the time.

Not until past four o'clock.

Do we get to find out which laws they came up with after 4pm and are they the ones Jacob finds it so difficult to keep to?
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Peregrina · 14/01/2022 21:12

The excuse now for the Johnsons breaking the law by moving between Chequers and Downing Street:

Downing Street said: "At that time [between 16 March and 27 March 2020], Mrs Johnson was heavily pregnant and had been placed in a vulnerable category and advised to minimise social contact.

"In line with clinical guidance and to minimise the risk to her they were based at Chequers during this period, with the Prime Minister commuting to Downing Street to work."

So she was the only woman at the time having a difficult pregnancy, was she? While other couples obeyed the rules, like women being on their own when receiving news of e.g. miscarriages, they thought it was OK to blatantly flout the laws which his Government made.
This sort of excuse makes me feel more sick than them regularly having their boozy parties.

JustJam4Tea · 14/01/2022 21:44

That excuse is really quite offensive.

Peregrina · 14/01/2022 22:07

This is funny Boris work event

Hortensia16 · 14/01/2022 22:09

I'm livid about the parties but I can't really get worked up about the Johnsons travelling between Downing St and Chequers in the first few days of the first lockdown.

LittleBearPad · 14/01/2022 22:16

Do we get to find out which laws they came up with after 4pm and are they the ones Jacob finds it so difficult to keep to?

He really is a fuckwit.

longwayoff · 15/01/2022 09:44

If this is how this bunch of the brightest and best behave in a time of national emergency, wine fridge, wine Fridays 4-7pm, wave your knickers in the air, etc. What on earth are they like when there isn't a national crisis taking place? Defies imagination.

Eve · 16/01/2022 05:52

@Peregrina

This is funny Boris work event
Have you seen the photos on Twitter of the Met police questioning and taking organisers details?
JustJam4Tea · 16/01/2022 07:09

The Telegraph have a picture of Carrie sitting on a friends knee I. A rooftop bar in September 2020.

At the time, in September 2020, ministers had warned that Britain was facing a second wave of infections. The law prevented people from gathering in groups of more than six, other than for education, work, weddings and funerals.

There’s also strong rumours of parties in the no 10 flats. That’s why Big Dog is hiding they don’t know what else is coming out. She must have known who took the photo too, she clearly knows it’s being taken.

rrhuth · 16/01/2022 07:44

Do we think Johnson will do PMQs next week or will he have faked an LFT before then??