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To want this story to be higher up the bbc news page?

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Punkypinky · 26/05/2022 04:20

BBC news article with quotes from Sue Grey report

This is shocking it needs to be the top story on the website not buried halfway down the page. There's a headline story about money off energy bills which is a plan clearly released now to distract everyone and make the government look good while all these things come out.

Lets give it more clicks and show this is something people care about and want reported on not just buried.

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Punkypinky · 26/05/2022 04:21

Sue Gray even 😂

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Isitsixoclockalready · 26/05/2022 04:45

Sadly stories of this level of arrogance is no longer a surprise.

Bloodyel · 26/05/2022 05:08

I think you'll find the British public are fine with being treated with complete and unmitigated contempt, in fact they seem to love it.

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Punkypinky · 26/05/2022 05:11

It's just so depressing to think of someone standing on tv and telling people to stay home, not see friends and family and then walk past a massive party in the way to his flat and not stop it. 😟

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TadLlama · 26/05/2022 05:40

Thanks for sharing OP.

ChristineCagney11 · 26/05/2022 05:41

Evil bastards
Most of them see us as peasants I'm sure. Some people didn't see loved ones for a couple of years, some never again
Unfortunately there just seems to be a general apathy in this country, we've also let many of our protesting "rights" go.
If this was France they'd be calling for his head on a stick, well all of them.
Bet they all sleep really well and don't give it a second thought.

kickupafuss · 26/05/2022 05:53

Such a coincidence that they have waited until now to do something about the cost of living crisis- bastards.

kickupafuss · 26/05/2022 06:01

Interestingly there is a thread on here about the parties but it doesn’t appear in active. I’ve just posted on it and it hasn’t moved up. The same yesterday. Very strange.

ChristineCagney11 · 26/05/2022 06:07

So only five people have commented but 22 have already voted ?

sadeyedlady2 · 26/05/2022 06:09

It's disgusting but I've given up reading these things. It makes me feel so depressed as so many people in this country still jump to their defence. I

demotedreally · 26/05/2022 06:11

Funny that you didn't put the actual subject of your op in the title. Anyone would think you were trying to drum up interest in the topic

Yabu, I'm over this.

carefullycourageous · 26/05/2022 06:18

Politicians can manipulate the news but they can't manipulate our opinions unless we let them.

Volterra · 26/05/2022 06:21

I knew I was going to wake up this kind of headline this morning, they are so predictable.

DinosApple · 26/05/2022 06:27

I'll be reading it. And of course it should be main headline news.

We stayed by MILs window for a week whilst Covid slowly killed her. Our young children were there too. Then we held a funeral with just 5 others. All whilst these parties were going on.

No forgetting in our household.

AlternativePerspective · 26/05/2022 06:32

But what would it achieve? They’re contemptible bastards but nothing is going to happen from here so what does keeping it all in the headlines actually achieve?

reality is that people have partygate fatigue, and even if they have strong opinions on it they’re sick of hearing about it.

DoNutSweatTheSmallStuff · 26/05/2022 06:32

It really is disgusting.
To think what some people went through.
They just don't care.

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Punkypinky · 26/05/2022 07:02

I am trying to drum up interest. News corporation's keep track of every click. If they get more clicks it moves up the news agenda, stays in the news, doesn't go away and there's a better chance this doesn't just fade away with no one held to account.

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Punkypinky · 26/05/2022 07:03

That comment was meant to be in reply to @demotedreally 😊

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Creative34 · 26/05/2022 07:07

Punkypinky · 26/05/2022 05:11

It's just so depressing to think of someone standing on tv and telling people to stay home, not see friends and family and then walk past a massive party in the way to his flat and not stop it. 😟

You do know that lots of people work around the clock in Downing Street. It wasn’t as if they weren’t on the premises and were invited in for w party. Imagine if you lived at your office, would you not be allowed drinks there?

i know 100s of people who worked on the Covid response and they were regularly in the office for 14 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week, for months on end... they weren’t having regular schmoozing breaks and celebrations. This is just left wing hype. After the work and hours they put in a drink here and there was needed...trust me. Times were frantic.. The planning logistics required to source safety equipment the sites for testing the medical equipment etc, to develop policies and guidance for HCPs and the wider public, to liaise with pharmas on vaccine development, to plan for border controls and prepare isolation hotels etc. These people were living and breathing Covid (excuse the pun) and they couldn’t have a drink in the quagmire of shit they were dealing with?!

The public and the news broadcasters need to get a grip and instead focus on the policies that the government are working on. FAR too much time has been taken up wondering about people having a drink and wasting money on a farcical investigation. They weren’t celebrating with their families it was all on work premises.

I’d much rather the Sue Grey money had been spent on the energy crisis.

LakieLady · 26/05/2022 07:19

kickupafuss · 26/05/2022 05:53

Such a coincidence that they have waited until now to do something about the cost of living crisis- bastards.

They were clearly keeping that particular squirrel up their sleeves until they needed to deliver some "good" news. Cynical, manipulative and anyone with half a brain will see through it.

Bunch of self-serving scumbags, the lot of them.

mumwon · 26/05/2022 07:30

They must have fantastic sound insulation in no 10 for him not to notice/hear all these parties & he really ought to go to specsavers as well

FreiasBathtub · 26/05/2022 07:39

Creative34 · 26/05/2022 07:07

You do know that lots of people work around the clock in Downing Street. It wasn’t as if they weren’t on the premises and were invited in for w party. Imagine if you lived at your office, would you not be allowed drinks there?

i know 100s of people who worked on the Covid response and they were regularly in the office for 14 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week, for months on end... they weren’t having regular schmoozing breaks and celebrations. This is just left wing hype. After the work and hours they put in a drink here and there was needed...trust me. Times were frantic.. The planning logistics required to source safety equipment the sites for testing the medical equipment etc, to develop policies and guidance for HCPs and the wider public, to liaise with pharmas on vaccine development, to plan for border controls and prepare isolation hotels etc. These people were living and breathing Covid (excuse the pun) and they couldn’t have a drink in the quagmire of shit they were dealing with?!

The public and the news broadcasters need to get a grip and instead focus on the policies that the government are working on. FAR too much time has been taken up wondering about people having a drink and wasting money on a farcical investigation. They weren’t celebrating with their families it was all on work premises.

I’d much rather the Sue Grey money had been spent on the energy crisis.

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No, I'm sorry, this won't wash. Were the doctors on ICU drinking at work? Were the scientists working round the clock to deliver a vaccine? And it's not just a quick beer and back to work is it? It's a party that started at 6.30 and finished after 3am.

This was absolutely typical of the contempt in which this government hold the public, which they've demonstrated over and over again, and we have every right - indeed, a duty - to be angry.

letsnotdothat · 26/05/2022 07:42

They’re absolute scumbags but they’re getting away with it. They’re relying on people forgetting all about this by the next election and tbh, they probably fucking will. People seem to have short term memory loss in this country and they also seem to be massive masochists.

Freysimo · 26/05/2022 07:44

It's number 5 in the Popular Section in BBC News website when I just looked. This means not that many people are looking at it. I expect like me they're fed up with it. And that goes for Keir Starmer's beergate too.

orwellwasright · 26/05/2022 07:46

Creative34 · 26/05/2022 07:07

You do know that lots of people work around the clock in Downing Street. It wasn’t as if they weren’t on the premises and were invited in for w party. Imagine if you lived at your office, would you not be allowed drinks there?

i know 100s of people who worked on the Covid response and they were regularly in the office for 14 to 18 hours a day, seven days a week, for months on end... they weren’t having regular schmoozing breaks and celebrations. This is just left wing hype. After the work and hours they put in a drink here and there was needed...trust me. Times were frantic.. The planning logistics required to source safety equipment the sites for testing the medical equipment etc, to develop policies and guidance for HCPs and the wider public, to liaise with pharmas on vaccine development, to plan for border controls and prepare isolation hotels etc. These people were living and breathing Covid (excuse the pun) and they couldn’t have a drink in the quagmire of shit they were dealing with?!

The public and the news broadcasters need to get a grip and instead focus on the policies that the government are working on. FAR too much time has been taken up wondering about people having a drink and wasting money on a farcical investigation. They weren’t celebrating with their families it was all on work premises.

I’d much rather the Sue Grey money had been spent on the energy crisis.

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'left wing hype' 😂

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