Timing of the leaks to lockdown breaches by Tories

[OriginalM]

Every leak about a covid breach by the Tories seems to happen when people see cases rising and people start to hint lockdown is coming.

The leak about Johnson having someone stay over at Xmas happened at a awkward time and now the office party leak nearly a year later seems to be very suspicious in the timing and almost as if the Tories are leaking it themselves to get people to stop wanting restrictions as the economy needs Xmas sales and office parties and events.
Are we being double bluffed by the Tories and they wanted the leak to encourage people to think well if they can break the rules we are going to?

Very possible

They are the masters of the 'dead cat'

Could be! It’s a very weird leak, who really cares about something that happened a year ago, they all worked together anyway and Boris wasn’t even at the party. I couldn’t care less whether they did it didn’t have a party but like Cummings trip to Bernard castle which also timed nicely with the summer holidays you could be right.

Who knows

It could be Cummings again from sidelines throwing in more stuff

Here's one from November which I missed!

twitter.com/OANortonSmith/status/1463492907814604811

I assume it has been leaked because the hospitality industry is saying lots of people are cancelling their Christmas parties. So this has been leaked in the hope it will encourage people to keep having their parties and help that part of the economy.

It goes in cycles of distraction - migrants, something about an infrastructure project like rail or a mad idea to build a bridge to Northern Ireland or some sort of Tory scandal about wallpaper that will all come to nothing. Remember Johnson was a newspaper man he knows how to play the game.

Good point OP. The partygoers seem to have been a cohort of people who work together at Downing St and the “party” took place there. So it was a normal work grouping but with booze and mini quiches. Why the drama? Interesting.

I suspect it's just to make people think 'If they can have a Christmas party we will too' because hospitality is going to be on its knees if everyone cancels now for fear of Omicron.

They are not subtle. They just want to be liked and for people to spend money.

Very possible.

Probably. I'm against restrictions either way.

Sainsbury’s have cancelled their Xmas staff parties.
I really want the hospitality industry to do well this year.
I think confidence is still an issue for companies booking parties.

Yes definitely

They work together and Haven’t most of them had covid already?
They probably felt their risk of infection/reinfection was low.

Interesting idea. Sounds plausible

We are being played all the time OP.

I don't trust anything I read anymore. It's awful. I kind of glance at the news now and question whether it's true and why I'm being told it. Trust social media more. Which is madness.

Another example right now. Cocaine found in toilets in House of Commons reported yesterday. This gets reported like clockwork every 7-10 years. I remember the last time it was”reported”. Today a government announced “crackdown” on drugs.

More likely leaked by anti-lockdown elements of the back bench (CRG) than the cabinet itself. I don’t think they’re enjoying having to send out minister after minister to interviews to say they don’t ‘recognise’ reports that are ‘unsubstantiated’ and that ‘all rules were followed’ and they don’t know because they weren’t there themselves, because they know it makes them look like idiots.

@noblegiraffe

More likely leaked by anti-lockdown elements of the back bench (CRG) than the cabinet itself. I don’t think they’re enjoying having to send out minister after minister to interviews to say they don’t ‘recognise’ reports that are ‘unsubstantiated’ and that ‘all rules were followed’ and they don’t know because they weren’t there themselves, because they know it makes them look like idiots.

I think you may be right.