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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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gotthis · 26/05/2022 15:55

I can't believe we are allowing a bunch of drunks to run the country. Getting drunk every Friday at 4pm? What workplace does this? Getting drunk at parties, sitting on each other's laps, throwing up, fighting.. when they instructed the rest of the country to socially distance and imposed fines. I feel for the cleaner who had to clean up their vomit, while not being allowed to see his own family and friends. Laughing at security staff who said parties shouldn't be happening. Yes, we knew they were a bunch of entitled hypocrites before, but I had no idea they were this irresponsible, juvenile and obnoxious.

gotthis · 26/05/2022 15:58

And getting so drunk you throw up may be understandable in your early twenties, but in middle aged adults it's a bloody red flag.

daimbarsatemydogsbone · 26/05/2022 17:21

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This has been withdrawn by MNHQ at the poster's request.

Bollocks on both counts, as I am sure you know.

worriedatthistime · 26/05/2022 17:55

Im more interested in money coming to help with bills as I think are many
We all know the reports there those who care will read it

StoneofDestiny · 26/05/2022 18:09

The Press is Tory controlled with a couple of exceptions, so they will bury it as far as they can.
Of course law breaking at the heart of Government should be headline news. Premeditated and orchestrated law breaking that included the PM lying to Parliament.
Bullingdon Club behaviour.No consequences.

This government is shameless with a PM who is shameless. We are the laughing stock of the world - and to think we laughed at those who elected Berlusconi and Trump............

StoneofDestiny · 26/05/2022 18:13

Im more interested in money coming to help with bills

.........and you think this lot described here care two shits?

I can't believe we are allowing a bunch of drunks to run the country. Getting drunk every Friday at 4pm? What workplace does this? Getting drunk at parties, sitting on each other's laps, throwing up, fighting.. when they instructed the rest of the country to socially distance and imposed fines. I feel for the cleaner who had to clean up their vomit, while not being allowed to see his own family and friends. Laughing at security staff who said parties shouldn't be happening. Yes, we knew they were a bunch of entitled hypocrites before, but I had no idea they were this irresponsible, juvenile and obnoxious.

......that's why this behaviour is so important. They were intoxicated weekly while we were in a National Emergency!

gotthis · 26/05/2022 19:02

@StoneofDestiny Exactly, no wonder BJ always looks hungover.

millymae · 26/05/2022 19:08

I'm afraid creatives post made my blood boil - all those poor people working long hours in Downing Street who couldn't manage without a party.
Just imagine if all the healthcare workers had felt the same and decided in their breaks (If indeed they ever had any) to get a few bottles in with a karaoke machine. There would have been a public outcry and they certainly wouldn't be in employment now
Boris Johnson (who let's remember isn't a Boris at all - it was a name chosen for effect years ago) is an utter disgrace. Whilst he was at Oxford he was a member of the Bullingdon Club a private all male dining club known for its wealthy members, grand banquets and bad behaviour including vandalism of restaurants and students rooms, yet there he was yesterday apparently disgusted by those working in his home who behaved no differently to him.
Creative no doubt will argue that those days are long behind him and he's wiser now - I disagree and I only hope that when the next election comes voters will see him and his party for what they are - a bunch of entitled people who for the most part are out of touch with reality, have no morals whatsoever and see nothing wrong with lying to save their own skin.
How on earth anyone can think that it is acceptable for our country to be run by someone like Mr Johnson is beyond me.
At the end of the day the opposition may be no better but nothing could be worse that the shower we have in government at the moment who mostly appear to be spineless bunch who are happy to remind us that our Prime Minister single handily rolled out the vaccination programme and got Brexit done ( which he didn't) and conveniently forget about all the lies he told along the way.
Interestingly his wife seems to have disappeared from public view. I don't blame her for one minute.

BigWoollyJumpers · 27/05/2022 09:19

Getting drunk every Friday at 4pm? What workplace does this?

Quite a few actually, not drunk, but certainly having drinks. DD and DH companies both have break out spaces, and wine and beer fridges in the kitchen for after work do's. Now, did they do that during the pandemic, no, because they were all wfh, but they still kept it going over zoom.

I think the big after work parties were certainly finable, and they were. Those held during the day for leavers and/or birthday cake, I am more ambivalent about.

Fairislefandango · 27/05/2022 09:42

It's disgracefully clear that the only risks they ever cared about were 'comms risks' all the while they were commanding the general public to obey rules on actual covid risks, and having police sanction them if they didn't, while jokily bantering about getting away with breaking the rules themselves.

You do know that lots of people work around the clock in Downing Street.

Boo fucking hoo. Does that excuse joking about getting away with having parties, while other hard-working and much less well-paid members of the public are expected to stick to the rules this shower of arrogant arseholes implemented but didn't have any intention of following themselves?

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