"Number 10 held two boozy parties the night before the Queen mourned Prince Philip alone".... Is this finally going to be the end for B.J. /Tories?

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This thread!

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EXCLUSIVE

"Number 10 held two boozy parties the night before the Queen mourned Prince Philip alone.

Staff drank and at points danced until the early hours of the night of April 16.

Hours later, the Queen went to a socially-distanced funeral for Philip.

We have spoken to eyewitnesses. At a leaving do for a No10 photographer it’s alleged:

🥂Staff partied in the basement of No10, to music DJd by a special adviser.

🥂One broke Wilf Johnson’s swing in the No10 garden.

🥂Another was sent to the Co-op with a suitcase to buy booze.

Another event held to mark the departure of James Slack, Mr Johnson’s chief spinner, saw:

🍻 Staff gathered for a speech from Slack, with others dialling in via Zoom.

🍻Booze drunk and attendees spilling into the garden.

🍻Chatting and drinking into the early hours.

At the time Britain was in Step 2 of lockdown easing - which banned indoor gatherings and imposed the rule of six outside.

But the celebrations in No10 meant around 30 people were gathered for what a source declares were definitely parties.

Can No10 claim they were work events?

This was the scene in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle the next day.

Prince Philip’s funeral was restricted to 30 people, and the PM declined to attend, to make more space for family.

The Queen did not participate in the service. "

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/01/13/two-parties-held-downing-street-queen-country-mourned-death/

He was at Chequers so he can deny knowledge. I don’t think this is quite the final nail. We’re nearly there, though 🤞

Sutton Coldfield Tory association has unanimously voted no confidence in Johnson. It’s one of the bluest seats in the country. He’s toast.

And so it goes on........

The next meet with the Queen should be interesting then.

Don't you think there are other things to worry about.
I would rather our government focused 1) On getting the country back economically after the Pandemic.
2) Sorting out the looming energy crisis.
3) Try to do something about the very real threat of being involved in a war in Ukraine.

Are a few bottles of wine that important?

So I'm guessing you've voted YANBU @bakingbernie?

How could you?

Do you not understand how important this is, given that this is about the leadership of our country? About the people who are making the decisions about the future of our country?

It's absolutely not just about 'a few bottles of wine'. Are you really so obtuse?

@bakingbernie

Don't you think there are other things to worry about. I would rather our government focused 1) On getting the country back economically after the Pandemic. 2) Sorting out the looming energy crisis. 3) Try to do something about the very real threat of being involved in a war in Ukraine.

Are a few bottles of wine that important?

Those things are probably best done by BJ stepping aside for someone with more integrity and competence. (God knows who that would be though.)

@BIWI

So I'm guessing you've voted YANBU *@bakingbernie*?

How could you?

Do you not understand how important this is, given that this is about the leadership of our country? About the people who are making the decisions about the future of our country?

It's absolutely not just about 'a few bottles of wine'. Are you really so obtuse?

It is about leadership I agree, but it is history. There are far more important things to worry about.

My husband couldn't attend his grandfather's funeral. Couldn't comfort other members of his family. Watched online as his aunts sobbed. All whilst those despicable entitled halfwits broke the rules they set, rules that other people had been punished for breaking.
It's not about a few bottles of wine or the fact it happened months ago.

@bakingbernie

Don't you think there are other things to worry about. I would rather our government focused 1) On getting the country back economically after the Pandemic. 2) Sorting out the looming energy crisis. 3) Try to do something about the very real threat of being involved in a war in Ukraine.

Are a few bottles of wine that important?

Fucking hell. A few bottles of wine? You're joking right?

The integrity of our rulers is extremely important @bakingbernie. Otherwise how can we trust them wrt to Covid, Brexit, Ukraine, the running of the country etc.

Unfortunately, although it’s probably the end for Boris, Sunak will likely take over . Even though he’s just as dodgy as Boris, being from an extremely wealthy background means he’s protected from having to repeat some of the financial scandals Boris has been forced into due to lack of money. He’s already being positioned as man of the people and the press is almost completely on side, so he’ll win the next election easily.

It’s an absolute disgrace. He and his cabinet are beneath my contempt.

They have treated the public like idiots. Take the 10 worst prime ministers/cabinets the UK has had, roll them into one and they still wouldn’t be as cretinous as this lot.

I pray to goodness that this is finally where they get their comeuppance.

It is about leadership I agree, but it is history. There are far more important things to worry about.

When a leader doesn't respect the rule of law, they shouldn't be a leader.

I hope he stays on, but only for the sake of Labour’s electoral prospects.

How anyone could still genuinely support him is beyond me.

I don't think all of the political rule breakers have been exposed yet have they? K Starmer isn't guilt free.

There will be more parties held by labour too start to emerge in coming weeks.

Whichever political party it is despicable.

It is about leadership I agree, but it is history. There are far more important things to worry about.

Its not history for a lot of people. Those people who are (off the top of my head)
Lost a love one and couldn't say goodbye and living with that
Lost their jobs, their houses and their families
Those people who committed suicide during that time
Those woman and children who either stayed or couldn't get out and were beaten
Women who went to hospitals to be told their baby had died and had no one to comfort them because of the rules
Funerals that happened where you couldn't hug loved ones.
I wasn't going to put it in there but Sarah Everard died because her murderer found it easier to lure a woman into his car because of the rules.

Its not a fucking few bottles of wine and history for many which have are living with the affect of those rules which were imposed upon us that the government of this country either ignored or turned a blind eye to

Why does it have to be a race to the bottom? Getting the country back on its feet financially shouldn't be mutually exclusive to having leadership that can be trusted to stick to the rules they imposed.

I know the PM is clearly the focus of the parties, but he should go as should all the other people attending it.

It is utterly shameful as well as disrespectful.
He is bored with being PM and covid
Saj for PM

@bakingbernie

Don't you think there are other things to worry about. I would rather our government focused 1) On getting the country back economically after the Pandemic. 2) Sorting out the looming energy crisis. 3) Try to do something about the very real threat of being involved in a war in Ukraine.

Are a few bottles of wine that important?

It’s not just “a few bottles of wine” it’s repeated rule breaks by the very people who set them.

At this point in April last year DS2 and DDIL’s Christmas presents sat here, unwrapped. We’d not seen them for 6 months. They’d spent the Winter living in a caravan because they’re nurses, usually they live with DDIL’s parents (their house is being renovated) but her dad is CEV so it wasn’t safe. This had a huge toll on my DIL’s mental health,. She went from being a bubbly, chatty vibrant young woman to being a shadow of herself.

The day the Queen sat alone, in those pews, really brought home what the country was going through imo. I’m not a royalist in any shape or form, yet she didn’t think she was too important to break the rules because it would have looked horrendous to the rest of us if she had.

Now we’re being told., on an almost daily basis, that Boris Johnson, his ministers and civil servants were having regular piss ups. The Met Police are complicit in this, too, because they would have know about it. It beggars belief that people are still asking “does it matter” or are saying “move on” imo. They need to find out who was at all the parties and every single person needs to lose their job imo.

@Notmyfirstusername

Unfortunately, although it’s probably the end for Boris, Sunak will likely take over . Even though he’s just as dodgy as Boris, being from an extremely wealthy background means he’s protected from having to repeat some of the financial scandals Boris has been forced into due to lack of money. He’s already being positioned as man of the people and the press is almost completely on side, so he’ll win the next election easily.

Johnson's family are far wealthier than most or they couldn't have sent him to Eton. If he feels entitled to even greater wealth, he should have gone into the City instead of journalism.

I don't know why anybody ever expected better. His old boss Max Hastings described him publicly as a congenital liar. He's a lazy man whose careless ill-informed wittering got Nazanin Ratcliffe a longer prison sentence when as Foreign Secretary he should have been straining every sinew to get her released and back to the UK. And of course he is a serial adulterer. He has no integrity.

The Queen at that funeral is the saddest sight I think I've ever seen. This has infuriated me more than any of those parties.

When the Prime Minister changes do the party people no.10 staff all get replaced too?

@Moonmelodies

When the Prime Minister changes do the party people no.10 staff all get replaced too?

This is the issue isn't it. Its no good just ousting BJ the whole lot need to go. They have just shown complete contempt for the country and majority of people who followed rules. Unfortunately what is the better option?

Again the UK is a laughing stock.

BJ was always a one trick pony. Sick of hearing about the wonderful things he has done and they should outweigh his 'mistakes'

Yes it's unprecedented times but this applies to us all. The vaccine success is not his to claim luckily that was passed over the NHS to co ordinate.

He's completely inept.

Unfortunately the party know there is no better option hence being stuck with him. His time should come hopefully when local elections damage him. However people have short time memories