"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. "

-if I break into your house for less than 25 minutes, have I not been in your house? Yes or No?'

Yes M'Lud. That is correct.

The point youre missing is he said he went outside to thank his staff who, like Starmer and his beer, were at work. Not that he went to a party.

JaniieJones

'Starmer actually was in the workplace'

So were the Downing Street staff..

Starmer wasn't having a knees up with 40 others .

My whole thing is not BJ and the 25 minutes or whatever.

It is the culture that has led to this. There is no way his private Secretary would send out an invite to 100 people with bring your own booze, and mark it "SENSITIVE" in the heading... without knowing that Johnson would OK it.

Whether he knew or not of course he did is irrelevant. It's the culture of WineFridays, endless parties, suitcases of booze, wine fridges and all of that.

Johnson fostered the idea that you could do anything because you were more important and the rules didn't apply to you. That's my beef.

I want someone leading the country who - even if they weren't PM of my party of choice - has at least some moral compass, some empathy, and some compassion.
Johnson has none of those. And he lies.

"All the rules were followed
There were no parties
All covid restrictions were met"

He said this endlessly. He's a liar through and through. I hope he gets his comeuppance one day. I have a feeling he will.

'The fact that they had more parties while the Queen was in mourning in 2021 is just icing on the cake'

Oh fgs give her some credit she is made of tougher stuff than some folk on here. She will not give a rat's ass if people at a workplace were boozing the day before the funeral.

@JaniieJones

-if I break into your house for less than 25 minutes, have I not been in your house? Yes or No?'

Yes M'Lud. That is correct.

The point youre missing is he said he went outside to thank his staff who, like Starmer and his beer, were at work. Not that he went to a party.

I'm glad we have established that, a day or two ago a poster by the name of @JaniieJones was telling me that if one went to a party for less than 25minutes one wasn't at the party, at least you are not in agreement with that nonsense.

It's not about the Queen. It's what that picture symbolises. The people who couldn't comfort mothers, brothers, sisters, fathers... who couldn't go into a funeral service and just had to wait outside, the people who couldn't go into care homes, or be with their loved ones when they died.

I agree with you Janiie, I don't think the Queen will care. It's the general population and the harrowing stuff they went through at that time.

'was telling me that if one went to a party for less than 25minutes one wasn't at the party,'

Oh that's funny I didn't usually disagree with myself I do apologise. I'll try and be more consistent.

JaniieJones

"The point youre missing is he said he went outside to thank his staff who, like Starmer and his beer, were at work. Not that he went to a party."

Do you not know how ridiculous and deluded this sounds!

@JaniieJones

'was telling me that if one went to a party for less than 25minutes one wasn't at the party,'

Oh that's funny I didn't usually disagree with myself I do apologise. I'll try and be more consistent.

@JaniieJones Can I just ask you to confirm one more time, if one goes for a party for 25minutes or less is one at the party?

@JaniieJones

' I presume you don't want any reporting on any of this, it's rather inconvenient isn't it.....'

Yes of course I do but I prefer facts and evidence and as I seem to need to keep on saying if Labour were having booze and mingling roo then perhaps the rules regarding work place drinking weren't clear?

It's very clear. As has been pointed out to you more times than I care to go back and count.

DS parties. May 2020 and dec 2020. We were in LD1 and London in T4.

KS works dinner on the Hartlepool campaign trail May 2021. Different rules and different circumstances. No one sent an email to 100 labour Mps inviting them to the dinner between meetings to celebrate and asked them to BYOB.

You can't compare apples and oranges.

@notimagain

I just wonder what it is their dear leader has to do for them to think enough is enough.

Make it clear that under his leadership they will lose their seat at the next election.

Absolutely nothing else matters…

I reminded my MP - whose votes are weighed, not counted - that North Shropshire illustrated how quickly a very large majority can be decimated. I might have added something about being on the right side of history too, having reminded him that he backed Johnson in the leadership contest.

@JaniieJones

'if I break into your house for less than 25minutes, have I not been in your house?'

Jesus, this thread. It's hilarious in a pitiful way.

You are being funny - I'll give you that

There’s no point arguing with JaniieJones, there’s no way she actually believes what she’s peddling.

JaniieJones, aren't you a poster who used to wang on about how Labour were disgracefully out of touch with the voters?

Well...

Also JaniieJones: you won't hear the brainwashing media go on about it

How sneery and patronising can you get?

I seem to remember that when anyone mentioned Leave campaigners pushing untruths in their media campaigns, posters like yourself claimed this constituted accusing the public of being too stupid to make up our own minds.

Yet here you are, when we the public are making up our own minds based on true material... and suddenly we're so stupid we're brainwashed?

Suppose the upside of him not dying from covid is that he gets to see his actual legacy of public hatred and being disposable to his supposed supporters when he outlived his usefulneness.

@JaniieJones

'The fact that they had more parties while the Queen was in mourning in 2021 is just icing on the cake'

Oh fgs give her some credit she is made of tougher stuff than some folk on here. She will not give a rat's ass if people at a workplace were boozing the day before the funeral.

She might just give a rat's ass if those were people controlled by her Prime Minister.

Can you imagine any of this nonsense going on for one moment under Thatcher or even May?

@Mayorquimby2

Suppose the upside of him not dying from covid is that he gets to see his actual legacy of public hatred and being disposable to his supposed supporters when he outlived his usefulneness.

What a nasty comment.

The 'upside of him not dying' is the fastest growing economy, no current restrictions, fastest vaccine roll out etc etc etc.

'Can you imagine any of this nonsense going on for one moment under Thatcher or even May?'

Yes I can imagine work colleagues drinking in the workplace on breaks. (Like Starmer )

"the fastest growing economy, "

fullfact.org/economy/january-2022-gdp-growth-g7/

"fastest vaccine roll out etc etc etc."

Using the metric of first country to get a single dose of the vaccine into a arm...(NHS function) yep,agreed fast....over the longhaul the program ended up on a par, plus or minus, with the programs run in many other countries.

"What a nasty comment."

Let the bodies pile high

@JaniieJones

'Can you imagine any of this nonsense going on for one moment under Thatcher or even May?'

Yes I can imagine work colleagues drinking in the workplace on breaks. (Like Starmer )

Splendid that you don't imagine that they would condone parties at no. 10 during a pandemic and the night before Prince Philip's funeral.