What were you doing on November 13th 2020

[TeaAndChoccie]

while the PM was partying.....?

I have no photos and my rota Diane go backwards so probably a long shift in and out of full PPE assisting with and facilitating essential dental treatment. dark days

doesn't not Diane

I was working

Dependent on the day I was at work or at home with ds!

At work we are still in bubbles and still couldn't hold assemblies, staff meetings and still had limited numbers in staff room so most of us ate SD at tables in the school hall as students still ate in bubbles in classrooms.

So in summary beer in Durham ok but wine in Downing Street absolutely not. Got it

The only defence.....

Laughable

Oh my word I'm so so sorry.

Well aren't you clever. I should have insisted on having visitors then, when I was lying in the mental health ward feeling suicidal. Silly me.

They were in close contact with each other.

However they would have then had to go out and about and probably travelled on public transport, visited shops etc.

IIRC this was around the time BJ isolated as a close contact? So actually there was a risk by them doing this.

Here we go... this was the message.

Well.... 126 broke the rules, didn't they? Including our Prime Minister and Chancellor.
And they wonder why we're not 'moving on'?

'The only defence.....'

'Laughable'

Inconvenient but true . Why is beer indoors with 15 people (when it wasn't allowed) ok but a toast with 6 people isn't? The Met didn't fine BJ, it was at work. Get over it.

According to my Google timeline I went out for a walk for an hour and a half in the middle of the day (I'm lucky to have countryside and footpaths just a few yards from my front door). Other than that, I was at home all day.

It was my son's birthday but we couldn't see him. It was just another day at home, caring for disabled DH, cooking, watching TV. The same old same old.

You're horrendously and scarily missing the point.

We were in national lockdown. It's isn't about the drink. It's about the fact their meeting wasn't a work meeting. They all met to have a drink and nibbles and then some had to isolate as contacts with covid.

Starmer had a dinner with people he was campaigning with whilst working. I have no idea why they lied about number of people that's just odd.

I'm so, so sorry this happened to your family. Fuck Boris.

Yes many people didn't do much however many keyworkers went to work where they will have interacted with their colleagues in offices etc.

Again, the booze shouldn't have been there, that culture needs addressing. If it were sandwiches on the table <or a curry> would folk be so outraged?

Sorry, Roussette, I missed your kind reply to me upthread. Thank you.

Apart from anything else, what are these ‘well, why did you follow the rules?' on about? What should I have done at the hospital where my desperately frail 97-year-old mother was kept away from me - broken into the ward screaming and shouting? Been thrown out by security?

It was heartbreaking but please tell me, what could we have done? There were laws and rules. They were there for a reason. Johnson rode roughshod over his own laws and rules, and to hell with everyone else.

At work meetings were fine. But they had to be reasonably necessary for work purposes. That's what your god stated over and over again.

Why is beer indoors with 15 people (when it wasn't allowed) ok but a toast with 6 people isn't? The Met didn't fine BJ, it was at work. Get over it.

It was an illegal gathering. Deemed so by the Met. People were fined. It. Was. Not. Work.
Questions are being asked about why Johnson was not fined. As you well know.

By the way, it asn't just 6 people. Convenient to think so though.

Get your head round it. He lied. It. was. Not. Work.
Take it up with the Met if you think otherwise.

@Brillig
Exactly. There was NO option. You couldn't just crash into a hospital.

My DD was moved on from a park bench for sitting down to catch her breath! People were being fined left right and centre.

Those cool people who didn't follow the rules because of criticial thinking, hahaha, you just come across as complete tits.

'That's what your god stated over and over again.'

My 'god'?! Hey, he isn't my 'god' <wtf> but in 2019 we had little choice on who to vote for as Labour had a blithering idiot in charge.

They were at work. Work meetings to say someone is leaving? Meh.

'Those cool people who didn't follow the rules because of criticial thinking, hahaha, you just come across as complete tits.'

Rousette! you are usually the most polite of debaters you shouldn't call people compete tits. Imagine if someone did the same to you .

Janiie

I have been called far far worse on MN than that. As you well know.

They were at work. Work meetings to say someone is leaving? Meh.

For the millionth time, it was not a work meeting. It was an illegal gathering. Hence the fines.

Interestingly, he orchestrated the event and encouraged those there to fill their glasses. Pretending these sort of dos were allowed then, is just rewriting history.

I had just been told of the death of a good friend who I had been with only two days before. I was distraught, but couldn't go anywhere or see anyone because of the lockdown, so I just had to stay home alone. Awful. Now to know that Boris was partying, whether he knew it or not, is beyond comprehension.

Such harrowing stories on here and how that original poster can say 'tedious' is beyond me.

My diary is just awash with previously made plans with cancelled scrolled through all of them

I have no respect to politicians, so I didn't give a toss. I was probably out, driving somewhere (I actually traveled quite a lot during lockdown) or going to Tesco extra for non essential shopping.