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Boris Johnson’s birthday party

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Cheekypeach · 24/01/2022 18:34

Here we go again…

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BringYourOwnBoris · 24/01/2022 19:58

OK. I actually feel sick and tearful at all this.
In March last year I lost 2 colleagues to covid.
Another colleague lost her baby whilst sge was in intensive care with covid.
They all caught it at work, trying to help others in a covid unit.
I hate you Boris.
The whole NHS hates you.

MsAgnesDiPesto · 24/01/2022 19:59

@PaintYourDreams

Of course they are not going to bother taking enforcement action against government

But what actually could they have done for this particular 'party' - the allegation is that a small group ate some snack food for a total duration of 20-30 minutes. I've never hosted a party that only lasted 20-30 minutes. Are they not allowed to eat? Or only allowed to eat particular types of food? Were those people legitimately already at Downing Street - if so, where/how should they have been fed? Should they have eaten in separate offices or something? I honestly don't know but it seems strange to keep defining every single allegation as a 'party' unless you're trying to create a narrative.

I can’t recall ever being at a catered meeting where someone’s wife and their interior designer arrived to join in, and brought a celebration cake.
itsgettingweird · 24/01/2022 19:59

@AutumnAlmanack

You people will do anything to get Boris out. Who do you think you would get next? Your darling Labour people? Get real - the conservatives will always be the party of the sensible.
If they are the party if sensible - then lord help us
echt · 24/01/2022 20:00

Unwelcome as this latest revelation is for Johnson, it takes attention away from the government's writing off of £4.3b in Covid business loans fraud, and the resignation of Lord Agnew in frustration over the whole affair:

www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/24/minister-resigns-in-protest-at-handling-of-fraudulent-covid-loans

DoTheMerengue · 24/01/2022 20:00

@AutumnAlmanack

You people will do anything to get Boris out. Who do you think you would get next? Your darling Labour people? Get real - the conservatives will always be the party of the sensible.
Have you ever considered that more people might vote Conservative if they didn’t have an absolute liability for a leader?
OverByYer · 24/01/2022 20:01

A friend of mine, a police officer , moved out of her family home because she had a vulnerable family member, leaving her husband and young. She did so in order to carry on working and to not bring the disease home to her family. What a sacrifice. And this lot partying away, laughing at her at all of us,make me sick. And I feel even more sick that yet again there will be no consequences for any of them.
I feel such anger towards this government every single day.

MarshaBradyo · 24/01/2022 20:01

@TheHoptimist

Theo Agnew has resigned as a minister today A man who I believe has worked for free for the government/dfe/treasury since 2010
The reason why makes me more upset than parties

amp.ft.com/content/805fa759-fabc-4d04-acdf-3616932d2164

Very weak on fraud re bounce back loans

This will cost us and next generation too

OverByYer · 24/01/2022 20:01
  • young children. Young makes her sound like she’s in a wildlife programme
ChristmasPlanning · 24/01/2022 20:02

It's no surprise the mess of the country when Hancock prioritised cheating & Boris and the rest were having daily parties

Livelovebehappy · 24/01/2022 20:03

TBH, I’m beyond caring at this point. Seems more people broke the rules that kept to them. My niece told me that the teachers at her school had a leaving party for one of the staff during lock down rules last year. There’s an enquiry going on about it. I bet if we did even the minimum investigations, we could probably find something on most people.

JackieWeaverHandforthCouncil · 24/01/2022 20:03

Well at least he knows what a woman is!!!(just thought I’d get in there first with that one!).

Anyways ‘cut and paste’ Clav and Jani must be knackered. It’s become a full time job defending this government and I genuinely believe this is a party wide issue not just a Boris problem.

Nevertheless the majority of voters went for populism and when you play stupid games you win stupid prizes…

skodadoda · 24/01/2022 20:03

@AnneElliotfanclub

What will it take for him to go _ unfortunately probably not this.
You might find a (non) answer here:-

www.tortoisemedia.com/2022/01/24/boris-johnsons-final-strategy-nobody-gets-out-of-here-alive/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=boris-johnsons-final-strategy-nobody-gets-out-of-here-alive

boogiewithasuitcase · 24/01/2022 20:03

I hope an MP from any of the parties will stand up at Prime Minister's Question Time on Wednesday and read out the names of all the people in their constituency who died of Covid on 19 June 2020.

Angry
BrightYellowDaffodil · 24/01/2022 20:03

Which means when he stood up in parliament and said he knew nothing about any parties (and any he knew about he didn’t think were parties) he was, unsurprisingly, outright lying. He can’t say he didn’t know about this, and he can’t say he didn’t know it was a party. And I imagine if he’d told them to stop, Downing Street would have already made that crystal clear.

Someone, somewhere is playing the long game. They haven't given out all their evidence at once, allowing Johnson to make a statement "I had no knowledge of any parties" before releasing information that shows him to be an out-and-out liar. I'd put good money on it being Cummings either directly or working in conjunction with those who saw Boris as a useful tool (in both senses of the word) who has now served his purpose.

The Times yesterday ran another article stating that Johnson still believes he's done nothing wrong, which either means he's completely deluded or genuinely - and incredibly arrogantly - expects people to believe his bullshit in the face of an onslaught of evidence to the contrary. I'm not sure which is worse.

The Met police are completely corrupt. The fact that they turned a blind eye merely confirms what everybody already knew about their corruption.

Well, they've got a pretty hectic schedule of strip-searching women on scant justification and in humiliating and dehumanising ways; trampling over memorials to murdered women; brutally arresting female protesters; covering up for colleagues accused of indecent behaviour, and abducting, raping and murdering women before burning their dumped bodies in a ditch. It's hard to know how they'd fit investigating breaches of the law in around all that.

Clavinova · 24/01/2022 20:04

draramallama
Just two hours after the PM stood in silence for key workers who'd died in the pandemic, the Cabinet Room's table was laid out with M&S party food and a birthday cake, reports ITV News UK Editor Paul Brand

ITV appear to have their dates mixed up. The clip in your link says; "a few hours after these school children wished him a happy birthday" - not 'a few hours after he stood in silence for key workers'. He stood in silence for key workers on the 28th April 2020 (exact date given in the clip) - not the 19th June 2020 (his birthday).

supermoonrising · 24/01/2022 20:05

@MarshaBradyo
The obvious choice seems to be Sunak, but it’s hard to say how much appeal a guy who is effectively a billionaire would have to an electorate seriously feeling the Covid/Brexit economic pinch and starting to tire of Tory rule. Boring and competent Labour leader vs a boring and competent Tory… if it just comes down to a battle over the economy and public services, Starmer would fancy his chances.

JackieWeaverHandforthCouncil · 24/01/2022 20:05

‘I bet if we did even the minimum investigations, we could probably find something on most people.’

We see you. Trying to peddle the ‘they’re all as bad as eachother’ and ‘we all broke the rules’ to try and get Boris and Co off the hook. I certainly didn’t break the rules, nor did the vast majority of people I know. Most people pulled together for the greater good.

Carrienova · 24/01/2022 20:06

Some NHS frontline staff were living apart from their families at the time of this party . Not even going home to their own homes on their birthdays or their children's birthdays. To keep people safe and not spread the virus outside of the hospitals.

I think the government are trying to drip feed this so it isn't one big bombshell when Sue's report gets redacted gets released.

Funny how she is interviewing the police now. But surely they knew absolutely nothing about all this or else surely they would have prosecuted the offenders at the time, just like those poor sods going for walks or driving to see dying relatives.

ancientgran · 24/01/2022 20:07

@PaintYourDreams

*It worries me that the media and anonymous sources seem to be on a campaign to decide whether an elected PM should stay in office or not.

That's what happens at every general election.*

Yes but that's exactly my point. There's a major campaign underway at the moment to get Boris Johnson out of office now. Not at the next election when we all vote on it, but now. Presumably because there is a concern that he will otherwise recover from this and go on to win the next election. If not so, then why all the aggressive campaigning to try and get him out now?

Boris showed everyone how to get rid of a PM when he knifed May in the back. The biter bit.
echt · 24/01/2022 20:08

@Livelovebehappy

TBH, I’m beyond caring at this point. Seems more people broke the rules that kept to them. My niece told me that the teachers at her school had a leaving party for one of the staff during lock down rules last year. There’s an enquiry going on about it. I bet if we did even the minimum investigations, we could probably find something on most people.
So that's all right then.Hmm
draramallama · 24/01/2022 20:08

Well, they've got a pretty hectic schedule of strip-searching women on scant justification and in humiliating and dehumanising ways; trampling over memorials to murdered women; brutally arresting female protesters; covering up for colleagues accused of indecent behaviour, and abducting, raping and murdering women before burning their dumped bodies in a ditch. It's hard to know how they'd fit investigating breaches of the law in around all that.

Too true.

MarshaBradyo · 24/01/2022 20:08

[quote supermoonrising]@MarshaBradyo
The obvious choice seems to be Sunak, but it’s hard to say how much appeal a guy who is effectively a billionaire would have to an electorate seriously feeling the Covid/Brexit economic pinch and starting to tire of Tory rule. Boring and competent Labour leader vs a boring and competent Tory… if it just comes down to a battle over the economy and public services, Starmer would fancy his chances.[/quote]
Yep that about sums it up for me

Johnson might be a goner but he did sway people more than Sunak might - speculation not sure

Policy wise Starmer is not good imo but Sunak is a bit weak on connection but would have to see

MaxNormal · 24/01/2022 20:09

I wonder if he screamed when he cut the cake.

ancientgran · 24/01/2022 20:10

[quote supermoonrising]@MarshaBradyo
The obvious choice seems to be Sunak, but it’s hard to say how much appeal a guy who is effectively a billionaire would have to an electorate seriously feeling the Covid/Brexit economic pinch and starting to tire of Tory rule. Boring and competent Labour leader vs a boring and competent Tory… if it just comes down to a battle over the economy and public services, Starmer would fancy his chances.[/quote]
The £4.5 bn lost with his loan scheme isn't a great point in his favour is it.

Hospedia · 24/01/2022 20:10

Know what one my friends did for her birthday that year? Died of covid at the age of 38.

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