Anyone else think our government took the royal piss last Christmas?

[Peanut82]

So the whole Downing Street party last year...this has really riled me. They put us all on restrictions against seeing family and friends while they all had a Christmas piss up with wine, cheese and no social distancing.
My MIL spent last Christmas alone 80 miles away as she didn't want to breach any rules, I know she could have come as she lives alone but she didn't believe it was allowed.
Now there's talk of restrictions on this Christmas? Well I'm sorry but I won't be complying with any restrictions over Christmas, I'll be seeing family as planned.
Our government is beyond useless

@vera99

A senior Tory MP laid down the gauntlet for Boris Johnson at PMQs this noon, telling The Telegraph: "The PM has got to get out from under any question of misleading the House last week. If he doesn’t do that, he’s in very big trouble.

"He can’t survive if he tries to brazen it out. Misleading the House is an incredibly serious offence and if you do it, you're in resignation territory."

"I don't think he can say he didn't know about it. If Allegra knew about it, he cannot say that."

The MP added: "The mood in the party is pretty bleak. The trouble is Boris was great at getting through Brexit, but he's not a Government creature. He doesn’t operate though Government structures.

"This will all end terribly. I expect he will end up in the escape pod, like a James Bond villain - escaping with his wife and children."

Except all the other times he has brazened it out before and Tory MPs have sat there like the Churchill Dog, nodding along.

Its got fuck all to do with brazening and is simply whether Tory MPs still think Johnson is useful and serves their agenda or whether there is someone else they would rather have in his place.

Interestingly until now Johnson's public approval ratings have remained consistently high - higher than Starmer. Its only just become the case that this has dipped. Which does suggest there will be disquiet in the ranks.

Will Johnson go?

Let me put it another way. Just how long did May survive 'because there was a crisis' before she eventually went?

She certainly outlived expectations.

The likelihood of a crisis in mid to late January is currently running high. Why would you make a move before then when you still have a useful idiot in charge?

Which brings me back to the motive of this more likely being about tactics to undermine efforts to bring in new restrictions.

There is a sizeable number of tory backbenchers willing to rebel. Theyve slowly been doing so over the last few weeks over new restrictions and they are unhappy.

I could be wrong, but i think theres some flexing of muscles and indirect warnings going on...

He's just thrown his staff under the bus.

My bullshit meter just went off.

The scale.,😂

Ant and Dec.

Not 'public anxiety' - it's 'public fucking fury!'

Get angry Keir.

@Dadhadaproton

However I did always say from the word go that people with money/ stately homes/ in power had a totally different lockdown to the rest of us and that included the government.

I passed the stately home of a neighbour of ours and watched the owner playing on the grass with his children and remember thinking people can come in and out at will and no one would have a clue who was there and what they were doing.
I’m sure I was not the only one who thought like that.

A big house near us had a professional fireworks display that could be heard / was visible for miles in the middle of the November lockdown last year.

We had walked past it earlier in the day and theyd be a PA with music blaring.

Obviously it was just the household and no one else...

I'm suspicious as to why this has come out now. This happened a whole year ago. I feel like we are being manipulated into civil disobedience for some reason or other.

Johnson is utterly brazen his front bench looks chastened behind their newly applied masks.

Good call with the Queen comment. 😂

That stupid emoji shouldn't be there.

Yup Queen comment was a zinger... and so true. Johnson's backbenches are strangely quiet.

I don't think we can manage civil disobedience tbh.

I'm at work so can't listen, although I caught the start. What was the Queen comment please?

C' Mon Keir. May you rise to the occasion.

Starmer's brilliant but I would say that ....

Referenced the Queen mourning her husband alone and showing true leadership.
Contrasted with the clown.

Krispykale thank you.

The Queen comment referenced how she sat alone at her Husbands funeral. I can’t remember the full comment.

Never been a fan of the RF as a whole but I bloody love the Queen.

It was well put and the clown had no response.

The image of the Queen sat alone at her husband's funeral following rules whilst in comparison, no 10 staff partied broke the rules and laughed about it afterwards I think.

Speaker telling off front bench, references public trust.

Blackford "This is a moment of moral reckoning"