Why I'm angry about the May parties at Downing Street - share your stories

[ThirdTimeIucky]

No agenda, just a whinge to demonstrate rhe millions of individual reasons people are angry about BYOB parties in Downing Street whilst the rest of us were in Lockdown. I've heard so many stories of loved ones dying alone, loneliness and heartbreak.

For me, when the party took place on the 20th, I had been struggling in a domestic abuse situation for months. In lockdown. I'd been on my own trying to deal with this situation. I felt like I was trapped. It was an incredibly painful and difficult time of my life. Three days later, feeling terribly guilty, and despite the restrictions, if went to my sisters as the situation had become so bad. But because of those restrictions, I stayed in that situation for so much longer than I should have done.

@SnapSnapDragon well except for the fact that without restrictions the (already extremely high) death toll from Covid in wave 1 and wave 2 would have been even worse given that people hadn’t been vaccinated then - for one thing we would have run out of ventilators, there were over 4000 people on ventilators in wave 2 Christmas 2020. Compared with 700+ now in Omicron wave. Restrictions were needed when we didn’t have medical interventions for protection.

What is sad is that the population largely followed the restrictions often at great personal sacrifice yet we find out those setting the restrictions were:
A) unwilling to follow them
B) thought they were above following them
C) didn’t know what they were (despite reading them out / publishing them/ criminalising the general population who didn’t adherent them)
Whatever the reason you can’t have one rule for us and another for No. 10

Yes, I see your point. Perhaps there's a 4th point: those setting the rules knew they were OTT but for whatever reason didn't trust the public to use common sense?

It's quite simple. There was a law. They broke that law and - as far as I can tell - there are no consequences at all.

For normal people 'oh I wasn't aware it was a 30 mile per hour zone' is not an excuse when you're bombing through at 70. The police don't say 'oh alright then, you didn't know' or 'well despite the speed camera, we'll wait for an enquiry by Sue Grey and see if there are any emails about it'. No.

They broke the law multiple times - multiple civil servants and members of the government .But apparently they are not going to be investigated by the police let alone prosecuted.

The implications for our society are really worrying.