To say if you’re feeling sorry for Allegra Stratton…

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m.youtube.com/watch?v=2b83rSqBLfw

Please don’t.

Yes she's actually comes across worse than I first thought.

@Beseen22 This is what a 2 bed flat looks like on her street (judging from the video/her area):

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/82873476#/?channel=RES_BUY

It is miles apart from the flats the poor live in.

Thanks for this. I was feeling sorry for her. Not anymore!

I wonder how she will spend Christmas. Will she work from home and get her booster? one rule for one one for another. Absolutely shameful, people died alone and they had a party, unbelievable

@Thebestusername1

I wonder how she will spend Christmas. Will she work from home and get her booster? one rule for one one for another. Absolutely shameful, people died alone and they had a party, unbelievable

She's not going to be working from home is she

@BoredZelda

My view is at least as reliable.

Except it actually isn’t.

You're like the Monthy Python argument sketch.

We can't trust a single the government says, they lie, lie some more and then add extra lies - so my assertion that I reckon Boris knew or was there is at least a reliable as anyone who was there's claims about what did or didn't happen since they are almost certain to be lying.

I feel sorry for her.

She was monumentally stupid to say what she did in front of cameras...but it was clearly a casual, unscripted part of a conversation between colleagues. Never intended for the public view. When I think of some unofficial, private conversation that take place in my workplace...sheesh. Half the payroll would be out the door if publicised due to bringing the company into bad light.

So she laughed...christ, she's human. I've chortled at unsavoury jokes before, most people have.

She didn't plan the party, she didn't attend the party, she didn't dance around granny's grave laughing manically at some people's misfortune.

She just didn't have a sombre enough tone and manner to satisfy the frothing public.

I can't say I particularly like her...her haughty manner makes me grit my teeth. But yeah, I do feel sorry for her.

@Caliexpidocioussuper

It’s just so unbelievable that someone can be so out of touch with real life. She was handed a private education on a plate. She did nothing to earn it except be born. The roles could just as easily be reversed. Absolute arse hat.

That’s the thing. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being born into wealth. It’s probably what we would choose if we could let’s be honest! BUT you should have the decency and clarity of thinking to realise it’s a fluke of nature. You were born by chance into privilege. You should be thankful and you should recognise the privilege for what it is.

My children are far, far from being born into wealthy. However we do have privilege. Just being born lower middle class in the UK is, in global terms, winning the most amazing lottery. My children know that. They know that free healthcare is not a given. They know that having enough to eat each day is not a given. Independent schools should do more to help you by people from very wealthy background to recognise their privilege.

It’s that failure to recognise it that makes wealthy people think that they deserve it more or somehow work harder. Most wealthy people don’t work harder. I know I work, as a lower middle class person in a professional job, less hard than a supermarket worker. My privilege to work from home is not earned. Not really.

I wasn't feeling sorry for her, and now even less so.

Same @Itsalmostanaccessory I've deliberately not read about it, but come on here and it's 'Oh I watched the video so many times I vomited and haven't stopped crying since last week'.

It's disgusting mawkish dramatic behaviour.

Slightly off-topic, but why should the mum of the woman in the video be stuck with a baby in her flat? Why does Allegra feel the mum is obliged to provide accommodation for her daughter and grandchild?

Allegra is living in cloud-cuckoo land.

I don't agree with the way Boris has used her to get himself off the hook, though. He should be paying the price, not shunting it off to a convenient scapegoat.

The interview is from 2012, so I feel it's a bit lame to drag that up, and nothing more recent.

A bit lame?

That was on Newsnight and actually her distorted portrayal of the situation (she forgot to mention the Woman was employed for example) actually elicited a substantial number of complaints.

Do you think in the interim she's suddenly become more balanced or more of a rabid uncaring Tory keen to deride anyone on benefits?

The thing that utterly mystifies me is why, when the party allegation was first made, they didn’t just say “yes it happened, it was a few colleagues having drinks at the end of the working day, it absolutely should not have happened, was an error of judgment and we apologise”. If they’d done that it’d be yesterday’s news by now surely? Aren’t they surrounded by communications professionals who would have recommended that approach?

I take this whole thing with a massive pinch of salt. It feels engineered.

I think you can agree she's a scapegoat without necessarily feeling sorry for her. But certainly more heads need to roll.

@ArblemarchTFruitbat

Slightly off-topic, but why should the mum of the woman in the video be stuck with a baby in her flat? Why does Allegra feel the mum is obliged to provide accommodation for her daughter and grandchild?

Allegra is living in cloud-cuckoo land.

I don't agree with the way Boris has used her to get himself off the hook, though. He should be paying the price, not shunting it off to a convenient scapegoat.

Poor people innit They're all used to shirking their responsibilities, unlike hardworking people who have (hahahahaha) pulled themselves up by the bootstraps and worked hard for what they have.

I thought the resignation video was really embarrassing Considering she is a journalist and PR person her reaction was more like a schoolchild who has been caught out doing something naughty and turns on the waterworks to try and gain sympathy.

The constant sniffing was really irritating.

She's a Bitch, plain and simple.
Pathetic to be crying crocodile tears on TV. Hopefully she can eat some delicious humble pie

And what is it with these posh conservatives wearing Nordic Knit à la Dominic Cummings?

I feel sorry for her a bit. She joked with colleagues thinking it would never be released. You can't do a job thinking anything you ever do could be shared with the media.

She's no worse than the rest of her colleagues tbh, Dominic Cummings had it in for her and I bet he's the one who got this released. Her career has been trashed and she didn't even go to the party! I don't know why she stays in but Alex Boris 'let the bodies pile high' Johnson is still in power.

I agree. This culture of filming everything is bizarrre. I'm sure all of you could be pulled up on things if you were filmed 24/7

These people only every feel upset when they've been caught out. Absolute cunts

I feel bad for her because she's been offered up as the face of a scandal in an attempt to save everyone else, and because I struggle to look at anyone who is that upset and not feel some sympathy for them.

The young mother in the video is beautifully composed and oozes 1 million times more class than Allegra Stratton.

I agree. This culture of filming everything is bizarrre. I'm sure all of you could be pulled up on things if you were filmed 24/7

But in this case it was filmed in the fitted out at taxpayers great expense newsroom. So of course they will have cameras there and could have had them turned on because they were practising the presentation, and would want to play it back to get feedback.

It's surprising it's surfaced now though and not before.

She can go fuck.
I'd never heard of her before yesterday and tbh I did feel sorry for her when I heard her resignation statement.
After seeing this... how she belittled that poor girl, I've absolutely zero compassion for her.
Typical fucking privileged Tory. Absolutely disgusting.
I hope she doesn't find herself in the position where she's having to apply for housing benefit. Actually I fucking hope she does.
C**t

Having seen what Johnson is like - sacked twice for lying, cheating on his two previous wives etc. - then anyone who hangs onto his coat tails should have enough gumption to know that he will shake them off when it suits him to do so. For a supposedly ambitious and clever woman she seems remarkably dense.