"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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"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. "

Have to laugh at the people outraged on behalf of the Queen, who otherwise loathe all expressions of British establishment. OK how about they replace the pictures of the Queen with the pictures of that funeral, with the grieving elderly wife whose adult children tried to move their chairs closer to her than 6 foot, in the church? With the Sidesmen rushing over to move them back, wagging fingers?

THAT was inhuman. And desperately sad.

Or replace with the pictures of relatives having to speak to care home residents across the fence, or through a window..

Or of children who had to go into hospital alone, no parents allowed. Some of these died alone.

Those going to the 'party' knew that Boris either knew about it and didn't care, or knew about it and wouldn't do anything, or knew about it and couldn't do anything. Such is the calibre of the leadership in this country.

We'd better hope there is not a war in which 'we' are involved - the leadership is so crap.

And ofc we should be asking - what did they know then? Did they know that the 'climate of FEAR' that they had instilled - was all crap? That the pandemic was just a massive business opportunity for some?

The pandemic was/is a very convenient smokescreen for their Brexit cock-ups, that's for sure.

Party? Sure, why not? We'll be ok. WE don't need the NHS for our care, (we've got Private!) and oh look, we can get scared people to go into private Healthcare, saving the NHS in that way! We don't need to invest in the NHS (that we've been trying to privatise since the GE) - we'll get the public to STOP GOING OUT! STOP MEETING EACH OTHER!

Flatten the curve, give the NHS a clap on Thursdays, and a miserly 1% payrise at the end of this.

But don't invest in the Staff, or the buildings or the infrastructure.

Scare the public into fucking staying home instead.

'UK economy grew by a much stronger-than-expected 0.9% in November resulting in GDP exceeding its pre-pandemic level for the first time.'

Have just seen this on Twitter. Good news but you won't hear the brainwashing media go on about it. They're only interested in work colleagues drinking at work outrage aka as 'parties' (unless Starmer does it then it is work ).

Have to laugh at the people outraged on behalf of the Queen, who otherwise loathe all expressions of British establishment

Some of us don't think anyone should've been legally obliged to sit away from family at their spouse's funeral, then have to live with the knowledge that those who made the rules refused to comply with them. Whatever role they might hold and shit things they might've done. Quite simple really.

@lorca

And ofc we should be asking - what did they know then? Did they know that the 'climate of FEAR' that they had instilled - was all crap? That the pandemic was just a massive business opportunity for some?

The pandemic was/is a very convenient smokescreen for their Brexit cock-ups, that's for sure.

Party? Sure, why not? We'll be ok. WE don't need the NHS for our care, (we've got Private!) and oh look, we can get scared people to go into private Healthcare, saving the NHS in that way! We don't need to invest in the NHS (that we've been trying to privatise since the GE) - we'll get the public to STOP GOING OUT! STOP MEETING EACH OTHER!

Flatten the curve, give the NHS a clap on Thursdays, and a miserly 1% payrise at the end of this.

But don't invest in the Staff, or the buildings or the infrastructure.

Scare the public into fucking staying home instead.

Looks quite likely, doesn't it? While other governments also imposed restrictions, of course (which were also excessive and misguided in a lot of cases) there was less blatant profiteering and opportunism among most of them.

Without intending to sound callous, why is the Queen's grief any more important than anyone else's?
BJ and Co blatantly disregarded rules whilst thousands died alone (young and old alike), because of the rules THEY put in place. To rub salt into the wound various oppressive pieces of legislation have been slipped into play whilst people are rightly affronted by the behaviour of our prime minister. And now the general message they are banging on about is whether the rules were appropriate. Completely ignoring the massive outpouring of grief and anger about people's relatives dying alone.

@Alayalaya

Boris may be forced to step down but the Tories will remain in power. They have to, the other parties are spouting insane nonsense and aren’t a viable option.

In your opinion

It must also be bile inducing for anyone who works in the NHS to be told that BJ's office staff "had worked hard" and therefore deserved respite (aka a garden party), whilst they were on their knees due to cuts, underfunding and colleagues getting ill and dying.

@WeatherwaxOn

Without intending to sound callous, why is the Queen's grief any more important than anyone else's? BJ and Co blatantly disregarded rules whilst thousands died alone (young and old alike), because of the rules THEY put in place. To rub salt into the wound various oppressive pieces of legislation have been slipped into play whilst people are rightly affronted by the behaviour of our prime minister. And now the general message they are banging on about is whether the rules were appropriate. Completely ignoring the massive outpouring of grief and anger about people's relatives dying alone.

It isn't more important not at all. But it is symbolic.

Without intending to sound callous, why is the Queen's grief any more important than anyone else's?

It isn't.

It's what it stands for. It illustrates a point.

My heart goes out to those who lost those close to them at that time and were unable to hold a proper funeral, comfort each other, or just have a cup of tea after and be together
There was a guy on LBC this morning. He works in a crematorium. He is riddled with guilt at having to turn away people trying to come into funeral services of loved ones. He was really quite tearful and wished he'd been more lenient and said he just felt the whole country was in it together and he was doing the right thing.

All while those in government were partying in a basement and wheeling suitcases of booze into No.10...

@luckylavender on that day , and that moment she represented everyone who had had to sit alone at a funeral of a loved one

@WeatherwaxOn

Without intending to sound callous, why is the Queen's grief any more important than anyone else's? BJ and Co blatantly disregarded rules whilst thousands died alone (young and old alike), because of the rules THEY put in place. To rub salt into the wound various oppressive pieces of legislation have been slipped into play whilst people are rightly affronted by the behaviour of our prime minister. And now the general message they are banging on about is whether the rules were appropriate. Completely ignoring the massive outpouring of grief and anger about people's relatives dying alone.

Agreed. Apologising to the Queen was the right thing to do. However, all the thousands of other people who had to grieve alone/die alone alone/were not permitted to visit sick relatives, also deserve an apology.

@WeatherwaxOn

Without intending to sound callous, why is the Queen's grief any more important than anyone else's? BJ and Co blatantly disregarded rules whilst thousands died alone (young and old alike), because of the rules THEY put in place. To rub salt into the wound various oppressive pieces of legislation have been slipped into play whilst people are rightly affronted by the behaviour of our prime minister. And now the general message they are banging on about is whether the rules were appropriate. Completely ignoring the massive outpouring of grief and anger about people's relatives dying alone.

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.

@JaniieJones

'UK economy grew by a much stronger-than-expected 0.9% in November resulting in GDP exceeding its pre-pandemic level for the first time.'

Have just seen this on Twitter. Good news but you won't hear the brainwashing media go on about it. They're only interested in work colleagues drinking at work outrage aka as 'parties' (unless Starmer does it then it is work ).

Is it really so difficult for certain brainwashed tory voters to understand why it's important for a government and indeed the PM to behave with some degree of integrity?

Well, I think some of them probably do understand. They'd just prefer it if the rest of us didn't, for obvious reasons.

@JaniieJones

'It doesn't change the fact that the BBC and Sky aren't running the fucking country, aren't making laws, and aren't representing us on an international stage.'

Oh they think they are running the fucking country with their totally biased reporting.

Look, rather than bleating 'I followed the rulez!' (when many people didn't..we know from the thousands of proud flouting threads we saw here for starters) why not wait to y'know, see the facts not just the media's version of it.

@JaniieJones Is there anything here that is not a fact.

a) That on 20th May 2020 at the Downing Street briefing Oliver Dowden stated that we could go outside, by ourselves, with those with lived with or meet one other person from another household if we stayed 2m from them

b) On 20th May 2020 at 10 Downing Street The Prime Minister (Boris Johnson) was outside in the garden with 25 other people and food and wine was consumed.

@Hortensia16

Kungfupannda Prince Philip's funeral was at Windsor so there wouldn't have been preparation and setting up nearby. Not that it makes any difference, the party was still a disgrace.

When one thinks about it the funeral was at Windsor which is both the Queen's home and place of work, so presumably what Boris is saying is it would have been fine for her to have a party?

@JaniieJones

'UK economy grew by a much stronger-than-expected 0.9% in November resulting in GDP exceeding its pre-pandemic level for the first time.'

Have just seen this on Twitter. Good news but you won't hear the brainwashing media go on about it. They're only interested in work colleagues drinking at work outrage aka as 'parties' (unless Starmer does it then it is work ).

@JaniieJones It is entirely the Prime Minister's choice that we are still all talking about the parties he and others had during lockdown.

In lockdown 1, I was attending the freedom program for victims of domestic violence. Women would appear every week in tears, some covered in bruises. We supported eachother at our lowest ebb. We were no longer able to meet because it was not an essential service. I don't know how many of those women survived lockdown with their abusers, how many found it even harder to leave. I wonder how many names Jess Phillips will read out in the HoC this year. It's quite possible my fury is just an expression of how angry I am at covid but Boris is also an idiot.

The parties are ridiculous because Boris should have set the tone as soon as he put us in lockdown, any minister or civil servant flouting the rules will be sacked even if it was only to save his own skin. This was entirely predictable and a failure of leadership.

The queen in that emotive picture was a symbol of the loneliness of grief for many of us during covid. We couldn't say goodbye, hug family talk fondly of the departed aftwards over a cup of tea. There was no ritual closure

@JaniieJones

not sure what you're on about really - it's being reported on the BBC new site, not hidden away somewhere

BBC news site that should say, obviously