"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. "

Did someone ask for nasty comments from Boris Johnson ?

We're gonna need a bigger thread, but here's my submission (what does the winner get ?)

Mr Johnson said: "What a relief it must be for Blair to get out of England. It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies."

In the article, he added: "No doubt the AK47s will fall silent, and the pangas will stop their hacking of human flesh, and the tribal warriors will all break out in watermelon smiles to see the big white chief touch down in his big white British taxpayer-funded bird."

Your turn.

Said 20 odd years ago that he has repeatedly apologised for.

'Let the bodies pile high'

Did we ever see actual evidence of this, WhatsApp messages for example or was it just a Cummings said so it must be true thing?

@bakingbernie

This is about so much more than “a few bottles of wine”, I don’t understand why people who take that line can’t see that. Have you forgotten the way we were living at those times? You let those who lead our government lie, obfuscate, treat the laws they created for the rest of us to live by with contempt and dismiss it as “in the past” and trivial? They cannot “concentrate on bigger things” because they are not fit to do so. The party/work gatherings are just a symptom of the real problem- that Boris Johnson is a man who lacks all integrity and honour, is utterly selfish in his pursuit of power and position. He lacks any real conviction, in anything other than the promotion of himself. He is happy to excuse incompetence, bullying and all sorts of failures in his ministers too. And that’s without some of more sinister policies- such as the move for the appointment of senior judges to become a political appointment, like in the USA, and other political interference with the judiciary. It hasn’t happened yet, but they are pushing ahead. It is reported the tories were furious with various judgments such as over poroguing of parliament, Brexit etc and want them brought to heel. We are heading into dangerous territory, if those reports are true.

That aside, this behaviour undermines our democracy- the law and rules of the land apply to us all, including those who govern. Always, and without fear or favour. If they don’t then our democracy is a sham. Our leaders need to have integrity, honesty and if the best we can hope for is that Boris can’t tell the difference between work and a party, then it’s a sad state of affairs. The man is a charlatan and a liar. He surrounds himself with those who are not much better. It’s not just a few bottles of wine, is it? It is about who our prime minister is, what he believes and the standards he expects of the government he leads. It’s about whether he, and his government are fit to hold the powerful positions that they do. My answer to that is a very resounding “no”, but not just because of a few bottles of wine.

@JaniieJones

Said 20 odd years ago that he has repeatedly apologised for.

Has he ?

our democracy is a sham.

Penny dropping ...

I really don’t think he’s apologised for that or the letter box comments.

@JustJam4Tea

I really don’t think he’s apologised for that or the letter box comments.

Not if you hold him to the same standards a Labour leader would be held accountable to.

It's quite easy to deal with the coal face bot type posters. Make an outrageous assertion and then insist they need to disprove it usually does the trick. Especially if you DO IT IN CAPITALS and include some spurious links

Easy like Sunday morning ....

@jacks11

That is a brilliant post. It isn't just about a few bottles of wine, it's about the culture he encouraged.

Johnson has never apologised for those racist comments. He waffled something about it once, but it was never an apology.

Besides which... it's what some true blue voters love him for. So he's not going to alienate them with an apology.

@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 )

I must say I particular enjoy the idea that the fastest growing economy is Boris' fault.
The logical conclusion as to how it is Boris' fault is that through his incompetence we had to shut the economy down for longer so it dropped further than other countries, leaving in more room to grow. The man's a genius this Boris!