What were you doing on November 13th 2020

[TeaAndChoccie]

while the PM was partying.....?

Probably clapping for someone?!

We were in the strictest tier. A close relative had recently passed away, alone at home abroad. My DC1 had had their birthday, with just me and DC2. I was burning money through my pockets trying to achieve a long term goal that kept on being postponed by restrictions, whilst working as an essential worker and getting pay docked off due to childcare restrictions. 🤬

This current government have no fucking clue whay they're doing. Completely out of their depth.

Watching my mum slowly deteriorate as her cancer treatment had been stopped 🤬🤬🤬

I feel sorry for Conservative candidates out on the campaign trail currently. How do you defend the indefensible? Whereas normally you expect the leadership to go and support by-election candidates, they must be praying their leaders will stay away.

Their best chance is to tell voters that, if elected, the first thing they will do is sign the no confidence motion.

we as a family cancelled so many milestone Birthday gatherings,, to follow rules.
I was not partying with a crowd of people - I will never vote Tory again - lying bastards

I was having my soul dog PTS whilst being unable to hold him because of covid rules. Hadn’t actually put the two together before now but yeah … Boris you’re a fucking twat

I have no fb memories that day and one photo on my phone of the cat sleeping on the sofa!! So.im guessing not a lot. I know it was the middle.of the 4 week mini lockdown so my partner was back on furlough and I had limited work as some of the parents who's children I look after we also back on furlough....
We did take a walk in the forest that weekend, I remember that day as I was craving fresh air and a change of scenery but I was stressing that travelling 10 miles to get there could have been classed as "not local" !

If it was "just sandwiches" how did wine get splashed up the wall?

I was still really suffering with long Covid then, so every day felt like ‘Groundhog Day’ then. So probably nothing noteworthy happened on that day for me! (I’ve still not fully recovered but I’m a lot better now, thankfully.)

Still grieving from my mum's funeral that was two weeks earlier. She didn't die of covid. We were allowed 30 to the Crem (no singing, all masked, short service, no lingering outside) and 15 back to the house. How do you choose your mother's best friends (she had dozens of long standing friends) to be invited to what should have been the full church funeral, hymn singing etc etc.

Is not really about the party/many parties. If when asked about it originally, he had said that they were all working under extreme stress and they were keeping the country going etc etc and apologised we would have been angry and then it would probably all gone away(ish).

The real problem is that his first reaction was to lie, then lie and then lie again about it. Basically he is a self serving liar.

@teaandtoastwithmarmite@ I am sorry for everyone who lost a loved one as the elderly got put in homes to die alone! While Boris and friends clearly knew something the rest of us didn't?!
Its time for him to go! He is a joke. Why is he still there? Is it because he is a really convenient ' puppet' ?

Sorry yes November 13th 2020....lets see...it was a Friday too. What did I do? Well I wasnt drinking with friends or collegues whilst supposedly RUNNING this country.
In my job and in any job I have had, if you drink while you are at work you are out on your behind! Finished! But of course I have never been Prime Minister....

13th November 2020. Packing a hospital bag for a baby who was scheduled to be born in the bereavement suite the next day at 21w pregnant.

After finding out in a scan a few days earlier, alone, that he was incredibly ill and was going to die whatever I did.

This was in the NW, so we were in a complete lockdown, not tiers or anything. Non-essential shops were shut and if stuff was sold out then it couldn't be got in time.

My wonderful friend bought me a super soft baby blanket to wrap him in and then had to leave it outside for me to collect because we couldn't legally meet.

My family never met him because we'd been in and out of hospital all week and i was scared of making them ill, so they couldn't come to the funeral either.

My other friend had to pretend to be a HV when she came to see me a few days after in case someone saw her coming into my house and reported me.

I was at home with long covid recovering from an emergency hospital admission. My family and friends were not able to visit me, due to restrictions.

Have you read the thread? Are you actually that lacking in compassion?

There are no words that can ease ur pain. I hope ur getting support. Sending u hugs x

@Hbh17
I have no idea, because it's not important, and I don't know anybody who cares in the slightest what the PM may have been doing.

Seems like you may be mistaken…

This witchhunt over Downing Street lockdown 'partying' is really pissing me off. Sir Keir Starmer is obsessed with derailing the PM so as to win some sort of electoral advantage, and has wasted hours and hours of valuable parliamentary time calling Boris out over it.
We have a huge number of national and international issues to address in Parliament but this blinkered lawyer obsessively keeps going on about this. I used to admire him as an eloquent and smart politicial but now think he is a complete twat. All politicians bend the truth and will lie from time to time.

Tony Blair was littered with falsehoods, lying about his reasons for going to war in Iraq, his involvement with the murder of Dr Kelly, even his big foxhunting ban he later admitted that he never believed it was a real issue. He was let off the consequences of all of this.
We need parliamentarians who deal with real problems, and do it with integrity and efficiency. Forever throwing public money at trivial issues and wasting time is not what we want politicians for .
I think this thread on what MN's were doing last November 13th sucks.

It was my 40th birthday. I was more fortunate than many as my parents were my support bubble so were allowed to bring me round a cake. (Plus I’m a teacher. Schools were open so I actually spent my birthday in a room with 25 other people).

We have a huge number of national and international issues to address in Parliament

Do you think MPs can't do more than one thing at once. Or posters on MN?
Dismiss it all you like. It isn't going away.

We need parliamentarians who deal with real problems, and do it with integrity and efficiency

No hope with that given BJ has rewritten the Ministerial code and removed the words 'integrity, transparency, honesty and accountability'.
All in time for his investigation by the Priviliges Committee for misleading Parliament..

If the thread 'sucks', put it on ignore.

All politicians bend the truth and will lie from time to time.

Bollocks.

That's so lame.