To say that as the mother of teens who did stick to the rules and whose mental health suffered no I am not over partygate

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I’m steaming angry actually and will be for some time. Particularly given how dire mental health support is for teens and those pushed into nothing at 18.

Getting sick and tired of hearing how tedious partygate is from those that want it to go away. Some of us are still living with it and reliant on services that are overwhelmed with a massive increase in those needing them post lockdown. Teens and kids who would have loved to have get togethers, parties and sit exams but who followed the rules and stayed at home damaging their mental health instead.😡

We can't separate the overzealousness of the rules from the fact that the people who made them never intended to comply with them. The regulations would've looked different and the governance would've been much better over the last couple of years if Johnson and co knew they'd actually apply to them as well.

I agree. I have too many issues and deaths etc to list. I think it's the process of the enactment of the rules that should be dealt with rather than who broke what. Possibly same consequence but it's really important that people don't hang off the rules that caused such misery... And yes I can 'beat' anyone's elderly parents in a care home and dying if it came down to it but this is all pointless. Everyone has their own trauma.

they were at work and the rules were illogical

What difference does that make? Nobody else was allowed to have parties at work. There was a national lockdown. Indoor gatherings of more than two people were banned unless reasonably necessary for work purposes. Knocking off at four o'clock and getting pissed every Friday is not reasonably necessary. They knew it was wrong, they were whatsapping each other about avoiding the press and having a good old laugh while they rehearsed how to lie about it if journalists started asking questions. The Prime Minister even lied about it in Parliament. And meanwhile people who followed the rules because they believed the "all in it together" bullshit and felt it was the right thing to do, have suffered horrific experiences as detailed on this thread. We should be angry and we should never forget.

I have limited sympathy for complaints about the rules being illogical from the people who created the rules!

In practice I don't think the rules were that illogical -socialising was higher risk than working together as people are likely to get closer and be less careful.