"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. "

@Roussette

I think we're muddling events here (there's been so many)

there are NO photos of the 40 (100 invited) May 20th party

There are NO photos of the 2 parties before PP's funeral

Quite. There have only been pictures of the first gathering as far as I’m aware.

@Blossomtoes

Nobody else was standing by the window

You’ve never put a drink down and then gone back for it? It could have been anyone’s. Equally Mrs Johnson’s drink could have been beside at her feet.

I used to assume that comrade clav worked for Tory HQ, but with this level of detective skills I think perhaps they work in the Met.

Maybe Clav’s Cressida Dick.

@Blossomtoes

Maybe Clav’s Cressida Dick.

Perhaps. If not they surely must have been to some of these parties.

I work in a hospital, our canteen took all the chairs away and had one chair for a table. They have allowed two chais with 2m distancing now.

I could not even sit with junior doctors who had such tough time to have a cup of coffee to reassure them and generally support them.

"Downing Street staff held 'wine-time Fridays' throughout the pandemic with Boris Johnson regularly witnessing the gatherings.

Sources told the Mirror that the Prime Minister encouraged aides to “let off steam” despite indoor socialising being banned under lockdown rules.

The regular event was so popular that staff even invested in a £142 drinks fridge to keep their bottles of white wine, Prosecco and beer cool.

Reports that staff took a suitcase to a supermarket to stock up on booze ahead of a party on the eve of Prince Philip ’s funeral were not a one-off.

Sources claimed that aides took turns on Fridays to visit the local Tesco Metro in Westminster with a wheely suitcase to fill up the 34-bottle capacity fridge.

A picture has emerged of a wine fridge being delivered to Downing Street
A picture has emerged of a wine fridge being delivered to Downing Street"

But yeah... we're being whipped up into a frenzy by the MSM.

Rightio...

Is this the same Hartlepool/Durham trip? More beer drinking here. A brewery and a pub;

www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/politics/labour-leader-sir-keir-starmer-returns-to-hartlepool-and-says-party-need-to-rebuild-voters-trust-3211862

Ooopsie! Kier had a pint of beer!

[quote Clavinova]Is this the same Hartlepool/Durham trip? More beer drinking here. A brewery and a pub;

www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/politics/labour-leader-sir-keir-starmer-returns-to-hartlepool-and-says-party-need-to-rebuild-voters-trust-3211862[/quote]
@Clavinova we have established after an awful lot of whataboutery that on the 20th May 2020 it was against the law to meet up with more than one person from another household outdoors.

What did the law say about socialising outdoors on the 23rd April 2021?

I work in a hospital, our canteen took all the chairs away and had one chair for a table

Nurses not wearing face masks or staying two metres apart led to an outbreak of Covid-19 that shut an A&E unit after 70 staff at a hospital had to go into quarantine, an inquiry has found.

The Guardian has learned that [a] training session has now been identified as the source of the unusually high number of staff who later fell ill or had to stay off work because they were in close contact with those infected.

Hospital sources say that not everyone who attended wore a mask or stayed two metres apart, and that social distancing broke down to a significant extent during the lunch break.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/15/covid-19-nurses-not-wearing-masks-led-to-ae-closure-inquiry-finds

[quote Clavinova]I work in a hospital, our canteen took all the chairs away and had one chair for a table

Nurses not wearing face masks or staying two metres apart led to an outbreak of Covid-19 that shut an A&E unit after 70 staff at a hospital had to go into quarantine, an inquiry has found.

The Guardian has learned that [a] training session has now been identified as the source of the unusually high number of staff who later fell ill or had to stay off work because they were in close contact with those infected.

Hospital sources say that not everyone who attended wore a mask or stayed two metres apart, and that social distancing broke down to a significant extent during the lunch break.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/15/covid-19-nurses-not-wearing-masks-led-to-ae-closure-inquiry-finds[/quote]
@Clavinova Are you saying that Boris used the wrong excuse when he said the party was a work event and he should have instead said it was training?

What did the law say about socialising outdoors on the 23rd April 2021?

I was wondering how many beers he drank on his 'work trip.'

Isn't it lovely that Johnson lovers knock the NHS to make a point?

Totally abhorrent

@Clavinova

What did the law say about socialising outdoors on the 23rd April 2021?

I was wondering how many beers he drank on his 'work trip.'

@Clavinova Do you agree with me that people should not drink at work?

@Roussette

Isn't it lovely that Johnson lovers knock the NHS to make a point?

Totally abhorrent

The Nasty party gotta nasty.

Roussette
I think we're muddling events

I'm not muddling events.

Signing off for tonight anyway.

@Clavinova

Roussette I think we're muddling events

I'm not muddling events.

Signing off for tonight anyway.

And like clockwork @Clavinova stops work at 9pm.

Clav, I appreciate you need to earn a living, but I think you’re doing your employers more harm than good here.

@kungfupannda

It isn't, we just have loads better photos of her than anyone else.

But also, the Tories like a bit of patriotic culture war shit. So the government having to apologise to the actual monarch for essentially disrespecting her dead husband has particular resonance.

Can’t quote for some reason, but yes to this. Assuming the queen has the same view of Boris as most people on this thread, I would hope it would bring her some grim satisfaction if the image of her doing her duty - duty being something she is known to believe in strongly - is the thing which finally topples someone who seems to have polar opposite views on the subject. There would be a bit of poetic justice in it too - all of Boris’s nationalistic Brexit crap and attempts to be some kind of modern day Winston Churchill, and it’s something else very, very British - the Queen of England and her history of observance of duty - that brings him down.

Ah yes, the dutiful old lady who has a lot of form for interfering in legislation that might reduce her wealth and, oh yeah, protecting her predatory offspring as long as she possibly could...

I think holding her up as some kind of saintly example is dangerous TBH. That photo was staged, because she understands (these days) the power of public image. She's not all on her own in that huge palace, boohoo. Unlike a lot of other people who were not allowed to hug one another at funerals and did have to go home to empty houses...

I'm not muddling events

Clavinova, you obviously are!

Byeeee.... have a good rest of evening

Wreath I am no RF fan by any stretch of the imagination. But it's what that picture stands for.

All those people who couldn't grieve their loved ones properly, no funeral to speak of, no consoling each other, no being able to comfort each other, it's so sad to think of how those people went through what they did whilst this was going on.

@Wreath21, please can you stop with the deeply unpleasant posts about the Queen? If you can’t summon a bit of sympathy for a very old lady widowed after more than 70 years of marriage, at least have the decency to keep it to yourself.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

This government are corrupt, hypocritical, law breaking, reckless liars whose contempt for UK citizens is obvious.

Maybe @JaniieJones and @Clavinova find the government's behaviour acceptable. Most people have higher standards

The desperate attempts to suggest that Kier Starmer also broke the rules are pathetic. It's like children at school "he did it as well, Miss"

The principle is exactly the same, though.

If Kier Starmer did break the rules, then he is as bad as Boris Johnson. But Boris Johnson is the prime minister, who is supposed to lead the nation. He doesn't get to set the rules and then (along with the rest of his administration) gaily break them when he feels like it.