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MamDancer · 2021-12-14T21:16:26+00:00

In the Mirror. [[https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/extraordinary-image-shows-raucous-xmas-25699183]] Is this the final nail in Johnson's Premiership? The Tory revolt earlier today, now this!

SimpsonsXmasBoogie · 14/12/2021 23:46

The pictures make my blood boil when I think of all the people who missed spending a final Christmas with their loved ones who have now sadly passed on. It's fucking awful and inexcusable and everyone involved should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

However, Boris is not in those pictures, and it sounds like he wasn't at the party at all. So no, I don't think this is a "final nail" for him. Don't worry OP, I'm sure something else will appear before long. He does loads of stupid stuff all the time.

FranceTeam · 14/12/2021 23:47

In Scotland, the Scottish Green MSPs broke lockdown by visiting a bar in Edinburgh for alcoholic drinks, after travelling from Glasgow which was in lockdown restrictions, which was against the guidance. Sturgeon rewarded them by making them ministers.

Many Labour and LibDems have also broken the rules.

It isn’t really a party political thing.

I wonder if Corbyn, a man who flew to Libya to honour anti-Jewish terrorists, would have followed the rules?

astorsback · 14/12/2021 23:47

Oh come on... what’s this got to do with Boris?

drowningwitch · 14/12/2021 23:50

@2389Champ
"but all those in the know and have access to top secret information about how serious it is, have been behaving like it’s just another bout of flu."

These aren't people with access to top secret information about how serious it is. That isn't how it works. The virologists, bioinformaticians, epidemiologists, risk experts, statisticians are just ordinary (albeit clever) people with access to the same kinds of data available globally. They may have access to information about planning and various kinds of impacts on economics and healthcare systems etc., but that isn't what is implied here.

"Either we’ve been told a load of porkies about the whole thing and hysteria has been unnecessarily whipped up, or their arrogance is even worse than we even suspected and rules are only for little people."

It's not the former: the ill wind of covid is already blowing many industries a lot of good. That's ingenuity for you. Whipping up hysteria given the current mess that the Conservative party is in wouldn't be helpful either. I think it's the latter: they feel that they're above the rules. And the chances are that they are above the rules in many respects.

AwkwardPaws27 · 14/12/2021 23:56

@Okivehadenough

I'll bite. I'm a conservative voter. None of these photos have made me change my position. Nearly every other fucker in this country has broke covid rules in some way. I really can't be bothered with all this hysterical fuss.

What's your evidence for this? Plenty of people have stuck to the rules. My husband wasn't allowed with me while I had a miscarriage, if he'd have broken the rules he would have been turfed out by security. This "everyone else is doing it, so why shouldn't I" attitude really doesn't help.

hayley037 · 15/12/2021 00:28

@Okivehadenough

I'll bite. I'm a conservative voter. None of these photos have made me change my position. Nearly every other fucker in this country has broke covid rules in some way. I really can't be bothered with all this hysterical fuss.

It's not hysterical. Far from it. The people who draw up our laws and govern are breaking them and looking down at those who they consider beneath them. Do you not think that's fairly serious? What else should we turn a blind eye to?

Will never understand this mentality, do you not worry about the complete lack of morality or at the very least the lack of judgement of the types who govern us when they happily pose for photos like this?

Do you just feel that the Tories are your betters and you prefer to doff your cap at them? Support them to the hilt like people support their football team type thing.

Livelovebehappy · 15/12/2021 00:34

To be honest, I would have cared back then, but now, when I see people refusing to be vaccinated to help their fellow human beings live a normal life, and I see people wandering round shops today minus the ‘mandatory’ masks, I really couldn’t give a toss.

IndigoC · 15/12/2021 00:39

@Snoozer11

2020 was full of obnoxious young people having parties every other weekend and plastering it all over their social media.

Some of the scenes in Manchester were appalling.

Yes, absolutely. It was unbearable most nights as we back onto a park and it was full of teenagers getting drunk off their heads, screaming and playing loud music. That period was the worst in my life predominantly because of the noise they were making and the sleep I lost.

I’m not a Boris fan but he’s not even in that photo. As for why the staffers thought it was okay I imagine they’d all had C19 by then as it ripped through No 10 didn’t it? I think people just want an excuse to validate their selfishness at this point. “If the PM didn’t follow the rules why should I?”

IamGusFring · 15/12/2021 00:40

@LoveB

Interesting that none of them were afraid of catching covid. And this was before vaccines! And then the next day telling us to stay at home so we don't catch covid and die.

Why were they not afraid of catching it, but telling us we should be?

is this because it is a huge global conspiracy ? 🙄

Chloemol · 15/12/2021 00:43

Oh get over it

It was a year ago move on

KingofQueens · 15/12/2021 00:49

This is a sixth form party, surely? Tory Teens Tinsel Tea.

Booklover3 · 15/12/2021 00:51

@OneRuleForThem

I just can’t understand why people are shocked or surprised at this.

Really? After all this time and explanation you really can’t understand?

Especially after your own thread? Ffs!

Metropolismoon · 15/12/2021 00:56

Was this before or after Boris dominated the headlines with his admission to intensive care and had all the senior staff at his beck and call?

julieca · 15/12/2021 00:59

@Chloemol I didnt know if a year had passed it no longer mattered that you had broken the law. Must remember that defence.

GreenLunchBox · 15/12/2021 01:00

@LoveB

Interesting that none of them were afraid of catching covid. And this was before vaccines! And then the next day telling us to stay at home so we don't catch covid and die.

Why were they not afraid of catching it, but telling us we should be?

This is what I don't understand. Something fishy going on

blueglasswithgreenspots · 15/12/2021 01:14

The most disturbing thing is the food. Those platters could be straight out of a 1960s or 70s cookery book, with advice on how to plan a party to impress your husband's boss.

blueglasswithgreenspots · 15/12/2021 01:16

They probably weren't afraid of catching covid because they saw a lot of those people anyway. Possibly some had kids at school which forced them to mind less. Once you have to give in and accept the risk in one context, it's easier to just accept it more generally (and feel a bit invincible if you haven't yet caught it yet).

steff13 · 15/12/2021 01:19

I find that photo neither raucous nor extraordinary.

Changechangychange · 15/12/2021 01:20

@androiduser

This takes the absolute fucking piss. At one point I was only aloud outside my house once per day, and wishing a reasonable distance from home without any other people from my household. And I fucking adhered to it. These twats really do believe it's one rule for us dummies and another rule for them.

To be fair, they are right, it is. Cressida Dick has said she won’t investigate any breaches by the Tories. They refused to investigate Dominic Cummings’ trip to test his eyesight, via his mother’s birthday party. The Met doesn’t seem to have any problems investigating breaches by anybody else though.

chaosmaker · 15/12/2021 01:21

[quote Technosaurus]@Okivehadenough "nearly every other fucker has broke covid rules"

This may or may not be true, but was "nearly every other fucker" in charge of making said rules in the first place?

Excusing that is why the rest of us hate Tories and their voters - a level of exceptionalism that we cannot comprehend. As long as you're ok with that you will always come across as thick twats who are ok with being taken for a ride by those you voted for.[/quote]
I got shouted at on my post for making that point. I didn't word it very well though HA!

chaosmaker · 15/12/2021 01:22

@Changechangychange weren't they ordered not to investigate the tories by the tories though?

Changechangychange · 15/12/2021 01:29

[quote chaosmaker]@Changechangychange weren't they ordered not to investigate the tories by the tories though?[/quote]
Obviously I have no idea what was said to Cressida Dick behind closed doors, but she hasn’t said that, no. Just that they aren’t investigating. She’s enough of a lickspittle to have come up with that by herself.

Double3xposure · 15/12/2021 01:33

[quote julieca]@Chloemol I didnt know if a year had passed it no longer mattered that you had broken the law. Must remember that defence.[/quote]
Don’t be silly, it depends on who it is.

Single mum failing to pay her Tv licence or claiming benefits while her BF stays over at weekends ?

Lock her up and throw away the key - we are the party of law and order.

PM partying when we are all lockdown ? Just a bit of fun, innit?

NovemberNovemberDarkNights · 15/12/2021 01:37

@MamDancer

I'm not caught up in it, just put it here out of interest in any views.

Otherwise known as shit stirring.

RobertSmithsLipstick · 15/12/2021 01:46

Plenty to stir, isn't there?
A steaming great pile.