"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?

[HeadPain]

This thread!

mobile.twitter.com/Tony_Diver/status/1481741337951195136

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. "

@girlmom21

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.

I'm anti-royal, and it stopped me and I had a pang of despairing pity.

It will interesting how he explains that away to the Queen when he comes out of hiding they next meet.

And civil servants, whether privately republican or not, are notionally servants of the queen. No affiliation to government and so independent but loyal to the crown.

The optics in things like this really matter. Having (multiple massive piss ups indoors in an unventilated space, obviously unmasked, travelling to and from on public transport was insanely arrogant. The juxtaposition with a quiet elderly lady sitting along at the funeral of her husband of 70 years looks absolutely terrible for them.

@whenwillthemadnessend

More cynical view, is that a lot of Tory voters are also royalists, that is why

@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?

Carrie, is that you?

@justasking111

This is Cummings and other malcontents I suspect. I don't read about the white house parties can't believe they're perfect citizens in the USA.

I can only conclude they believed covid was not as dangerous as they told us day in day out

No-one denies the parties happened. It's not just a few malcontents making unproved allegations.

Mind you, when I say no-one denies it, I have to make an exception for our Prime Minister, who categorically told the House of Commons that the rules had always been obeyed at No. 10. Any other Prime Minister would have resigned having been caught out lying to Parliament, but Johnson doesn't even have the decency to do that.

What is terrible is that people think that Boris should resign because the Queen was in mourning, instead that because the whole country was in lockdown seriously affecting normal people:

I think - and god bless the public for twigging this - it isn't actually that.

Whatever your feelings, the Queen is ultimately Boris boss - that's how it is. He is Prime Minister because she made him that ("on the advice of parliament").

So not only has Boris shat all over you and I. Which is perfectly normal in the UK as a matter of course and we put up with.

But now he has effectively flicked the V at the person who employs him. Or that's how it looks to me.

I have this fantasy of the closing scenes of Robocop where the CEO fires the subordinate allowing Robocop to take them out. (Who else lives their lives as scenes from movies and TV )

Yeah @bakingbernie, who cares if people in high public office routinely tell lies?

This fucking country. We should be rioting in the streets.

Isn't it time to say this goes beyond the investigation remit of a civil servant who is the employee of the person who is the primary subject of her investigation? Time to get in someone truly independent, surely?

@JustJam4Tea

I made a comment above that if he was a decent prime minister I’d have forgiven a few parties. To expand that point, he’s a shit prime minister and its an appalling administration, I’m very much not a conservative supporter, but there were some proper heavy weight tries who would have made a decent government who have left because of Boris Johnson.

The parties are unforgivable, the culture in no 10 it’s all absolutely wrong in the circumstances that everyone else was living in, their rules.

The 20th may byob was particularly egregious.

But, if a government had been running things well, competently and fairly and a few junior aides had got toddled on cheap wine in a basement…

What has happened is dreadful and he should go, for his lies and lack of control. But also for the shit way he’s handled the pandemic, Brexit and all the rest.

And the Queen picture it is relevant and important.

You can expand your point, but again my question is do you have a garden?

@whenwillthemadnessend

It's awful that all these parties have been happening while We are locked down but I don't see how Prince Phillips funeral is relevant

Ok the country was in mourning but realistically he isn't the king so nothing had really changed for the masses.

That's just click bait.

Think it's relevant as

• it was a public demonstration of the impact lock down was having on everyone going through the loss of a loved one
• its an example of a privileged person sticking to the rules

@BashStreetKid

It doesn't help Johnson to say he didn't know about it. The fact is that there was a culture at no. 10 that the rules didn't apply to them, and that culture came from the top.

No way in a million years would the likes of Thatcher or May have contemplated coming to the dispatch box and claiming that they didn't know what was going on at no. 10.

It's essentially admitting a severe weakness isn't it? Obviously it's also bollocks, but it's one of those things that, if it were actually true, wouldn't make him look much better than the thing he's trying to deflect!

@needmoreshinys yes.

@BashStreetKid

Isn't it time to say this goes beyond the investigation remit of a civil servant who is the employee of the person who is the primary subject of her investigation? Time to get in someone truly independent, surely?

Agree should be an independent investigation with appropriate punishment for those who broke the rules.

Sue will just be head of a whitewash

@DGRossetti

What is terrible is that people think that Boris should resign because the Queen was in mourning, instead that because the whole country was in lockdown seriously affecting normal people:

I think - and god bless the public for twigging this - it isn't actually that.

Whatever your feelings, the Queen is ultimately Boris boss - that's how it is. He is Prime Minister because she made him that ("on the advice of parliament").

So not only has Boris shat all over you and I. Which is perfectly normal in the UK as a matter of course and we put up with.

But now he has effectively flicked the V at the person who employs him. Or that's how it looks to me.

I have this fantasy of the closing scenes of Robocop where the CEO fires the subordinate allowing Robocop to take them out. (Who else lives their lives as scenes from movies and TV )

The Governor General of Australia (then the Queen's representative in Australia acting for the Queen in all matters) dismissed the Australian Prime Minister from office.

Sue will just be head of a whitewash

if #Graywash isn't trending in a few hours, the internet has just died.

The man has sloping shoulders. Unable to take genuine accountability for anything. How he and this shitty government have got away with all the stunts they've pulled is beyond me. The police are losing all credibility too.

The more I think about the revelations, the more angry I get. Not at the partygoers themselves but the cunt who has sat on this information for so long. If they'd revealed it when the parties happened maybe the Tories would have got rid of Johnson long before now and we'd have had someone who would have been brave enough to put the country in a proper lockdown and close borders for the last couple of years.

Blood on their hands.

To the person who said K Starmer isn’t guilt free and there will be stuff coming out about parties within labour— I would have thought any dirt to dig on that kind of front would have been out by now— the right wing press will have desperately been hunting for something similar!!!

But...why?
Why the "sudden" disgust ay De Pfeffle???
Everyone knew what he was. Especially this who voted for him!
"Picanninies, bum boy, letterboxes, fuck business"...
Why the feigned horror now when he is just doing what he (and those like him) has always done?

I do wonder what else Dom Cummings has in his back pocket 🤔

The more I think about the revelations, the more angry I get.

Which is probably the motivation behind the drip, drip, drip.

We shouldn’t forget this and it isn’t irrelevant even if months ago. That would suggest that you can break the law and as long as you keep it quiet long enough you get away with it.

The stories here and elsewhere make clear the sacrifices and pain being felt at the same time that these parties were taking place. The Queen is a more visible example. I’m sure if other families post photos of similar circumstances there will also be specific anger on their behalf.

I was very lucky that I could wfh and had a garden and family during lockdown so not the same pain. I missed comforting and seeing a relative with cancer, time that can’t be got back.

If this is what goes down in No 10 during lockdown imagine the shit they get up to when they're allowed to party. Quite fancy a job working there myself

3) Try to do something about the very real threat of being involved in a war in Ukraine.

The UK can just stop sending its army to occupy/bomb foreign countries as though it were still a colonial superpower.

Gosh, that was easy.

I agree though with your gist- a few drinks don't bother me. They're the least of this government's crimes.

Yes he is an abomination, yes he is completely useless, yes he broke the rules, yes under normal circumstances I would want him gone - BUT these are not normal circumstances.

Whoever has sat on this information waiting until now has no good intentions for the Nation. His replacement would be far worse.

Be very careful what you wish for, yes people voted for a clown and we’ve now got a circus - but our next act could literally turn out to be Pennywise.

Let’s all remember this when MN starts chomping at the bit to oust him. Better the devil you know unfortunately.