Thread 21. Sunak. How many more will be deserting the sinking ship?

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Here we go. Previous thread.

www.mumsnet.com/talk/_chat/4735780-thread-21-sunak-return-of-the-numpties?page=20&reply=124466839

From the BBC website apparently this is in Johnson's submission.

"My view has always been that thanking and encouraging staff, and maintaining morale at No 10, was absolutely essential for work purposes."

Do we think he or his advisors came on here to read about how the Prime Minister is only responsible for entertainment and pot plants?

He had to re submit due to errors, tax money well spent....

https://twitter.com/mikeysmith/status/1638143429799452674?s=20

"No cake was eaten and no-one sang Happy Birthday"

Clearly not a birthday party then. No idea what all the fuss is about, remember Kier had a beer and But Jeremy Corbyn.

A tory sounding almost reasonable on something, wtaf.

And George “Useless” Eustice to boot.

Anyone else singing 'it wasn't me' by Shaggy?

@borntobequiet quite!

That’s a terrific article by Suzanne Moore. The Telegraph’s gain, the Guardian’s loss.

More from Liar Johnson

So he knows there are parties. One with cheese, wine and a secret santa. But it can't have been a party because one of the people that went, said it wasn't

Clearly if it happens each week it is not a party everyone knows that. Just a regular Friday night pissup at work, doesn't everyone have those?

You're giving me deja vu now.

Back in the day, when the whole partygate thing exploded, there were certain posters who could see nothing wrong with any of it (nurses, cake, everyone does it, blah blah) who got incensed by the word 'parties'.

We had to call them 'get togethers'. Apparently that is passable. But when there is a cake, speeches, bottles of fizz and a dozen people in the room, it isn't a party.

Memories!

Apologies. This totally off topic but I'm plonking it here -

"I'm sorry to say we won't be able to hold the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to account tonight for the Casey Report's findings of institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia because his press office have again excluded #C4News"

twitter.com/krishgm/status/1638171538821373952?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

WTF is going on? Is excluding news organisations going to become a regular normalised thing? Or it is already?

"Back in the day, when the whole partygate thing exploded, there were certain posters who could see nothing wrong with any of it (nurses, cake, everyone does it, blah blah) who got incensed by the word 'parties'.

We had to call them 'get togethers'. Apparently that is passable. But when there is a cake, speeches, bottles of fizz and a dozen people in the room, it isn't a party. "

Gatherings was acceptable (although not legal)

i remember those when a party is not a party excuses.it has been evident from the beginning where this would lead.

It's like groundhog day. Reliving the same shit over and over. All that time, money and energy wasted on one man's hubris is just so depressing. The conservatives should be ashamed of themselves that it's come to this.

He keeps banging on about how he was just being a good boss and keeping up morale. Does it not occur to him that, during the pandemic, there were working environments a hell of a lot more stressful than 10 Downing Street where people were managing to cope without ll these morale-building get-togethers? Indeed, his government was telling them that they must. If health professionals on the covid wards understood that they couldn't throw leaving dos for their colleagues, why was it so difficult for Johnson to understand?

I know! What a cheek to try to plead being a special case.
A special case of booze perhaps.

Gawd reading Sky headlines and we are back to the bloody obsession with the bloody cake.
They had caterers and event staff and a photographer and booze and people and it wasn't reasonably necessary for the purposes of work.

Maybe Downing Street is like the Vatican. A state within a state. Laws don't apply.

It is. Shame doesn’t appear to be in the Tory emotional repertoire.

I do find I work much better after I have eaten cake. Perhaps Boris is the same?

RussJones has nailed it...

Update

• There were no parties
• Ok, there were parties but I didn't know
• I knew, but didn't attend any parties
• Yes, I attended, but only cos I was ambushed with cake
• There was no cake, but the parties were unplanned
• Yes, we bought a 42 bottle fridge and had a DJ set and hot catered food at the "unplanned" party, but I didn't start it
• Yes, fine, I started it, but didn't know it broke rules
• Ok, fine, I set the rules and explained them on TV, so how was I meant to know them?
• I lied a bit, but only cos nobody told me the rules
• No, not even when Sue Gray was investigating me
• Or the police were investigating me
• Or when 126 fines were handed down
• I corrected things as soon as I could
• Which is today

If I were going to be expected to encounter Boris Johnson in the course of my work duties, a big fucking cake is the very least I'd feel entitled to. Ideally also some crisps.

And a champagne fountain.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/21/boris-johnson-lies-standards-committee-partygate

Marina Hyde.

You know this hearing really matters to him because he isn’t even on holiday for it.

Oh my! @Notonthestairs

That article has made me laugh out loud!

The third paragraph... I read three times because I wanted to laugh more.