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Keir Starmer breaking lockdown rules too

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2X4B523P · 14/01/2022 18:18

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10403057/Tories-accuse-Keir-Starmer-hypocrite-party-row.html

It seems that it’s not just the Conservative party breaking lockdown rules.

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Againstmachine · 14/01/2022 22:21

Keir Starmer hasn’t called for harsher restrictions either which is another repeated lie that Johnson has spouted at PMQs, and seemingly passed on to the Tory bots on this thread.

Except he regularly did call for harsher restrictions.

vera99 · 14/01/2022 22:50

Cumming's putting out even greater hints....

twitter.com/INArteCarloDoss/status/1481948977776017411

vera99 · 14/01/2022 22:51

..in that he has just retweeted that tweet

Theunamedcat · 14/01/2022 23:10

Why? Because I don't break the law and neither do my autistic children I could have driven three hours to get her only for her to refuse to come home becaus it's illegal all the time fighting with my middle child who would have flipped shit at me the whole time then flipped shit again when she refused to come home (he is too young to leave home alone and his father refused to see him due to the pandemic) we needed permission the permission came with 24 hours to spare basically Wales told them to leave or pay to stay they couldn't afford to stay so I could finally go get her in June

But if we had all known then what we know now I would have gone

Of course Wales were quite good at catching people her flat mates parents got fined as did someone else from the uni

vera99 · 14/01/2022 23:16

"so I ask the PM one question - how do you sleep at night ?"

news.sky.com/video/labour-mp-to-pm-how-do-you-sleep-at-night-12489952

MsTSwift · 14/01/2022 23:23

Are you from Tory HQ or something op? Absolutely desperate - not comparable at all different time and entirely different type of “event”

DirtyDancing · 14/01/2022 23:25

Oh good God. If all the bloody Tories have got is Starmer with a single beer in his hand and Abbott with a M&S GnT on a bus... they can all do one.

Well they can all do one anyway but that's not even in the same league.

MsTSwift · 14/01/2022 23:30

Yes if this is the worst behaviour they can find says it all! Didn’t vote for either of them btw

sweetheartyparty · 14/01/2022 23:34

Grasping at straws. He's having a beer, that's all. I remember the donkey sanctuary story from the Times. That too was diagraceful

Bunnyfuller · 14/01/2022 23:35

Oh dear, so pathetically weak. This has been bouncing around since the first leak on number 10 antics. It’s all they have and inaccurate.

Go home, Tories, you’re drunk.

HappydaysArehere · 14/01/2022 23:41

It’s a desperate attempt to find something that denigrates him. In fact it just makes No 10 look even more ridiculous (if that is possible) than it is at the moment.

Callcat · 15/01/2022 00:07

Similarly to a PP, I wrote begging letters to MPs (who were likely at the party of cunts). My DP (we live in separate houses) developed such severe long covid that he was basically unable to talk or walk. Or do anything besides lie in a darkened room for over a year. I begged for the ok for his mum and dad to be able to travel over the Welsh English border to help, and was basically told 'take the risk if you feel its absolutely necessary'. I didn't give a flying fuck but his older, very law abiding parents took that literally and believed it wasn't absolutely necessary as he was still breathing and I was there to care for him (and my 2 DC, and his 3DC, whilst having his neighbour shriek at me for breaking the law and calling me a killer on the way in and out from caring duties. This was after I wad expected to have spent month after month ENTIRELY ALONE. I'm not the same person as I was before all of this. Fuck Johnson. Starmer having a beer in a meeting over a year later?? Meh. Not bothered. Fine by me. I lifted my kids over a dance to play on a tyre swing in a park once. I didn't break it though 🤣

Booklover3 · 15/01/2022 02:55

Oh look! Squirrel!

CheeseMmmm · 15/01/2022 03:32

Omg that's so desperate.

OP if you think 5 people stopping work for food and having a beer is a party, you need some better friends.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 15/01/2022 03:32

OP that article shows how desperate the Tories are.

The two situations are not comparable.

SpidersAreShitheads · 15/01/2022 03:41

There are two men, let's call them Keith and Brian.

Keith went to visit a colleague in their office, where around 5 of them worked together before going on to participate in a company online presentation/meeting that night. At some point during the evening, they paused for dinner and Keith drank a bottle of beer while standing near the window. They then resumed working as planned.

Brian makes up the rules that everyone else has to follow but decides they don't apply to him. Brian's employees regularly arrange boozy parties in Brian's garden, and Brian enjoys attending along with lots of the people who work for him. Brian's employees buy a drinks fridge for the party and pop to Tesco to buy a big suitcase of booze for everyone who will be attending. Brian doesn't tell anyone about these parties because he knows it's against the rules that he is telling everyone else to follow. Brians finds it very amusing that he's so clever getting away with this stuff.

Sparklfairy · 15/01/2022 03:51

This is hilarious, even down to the shaky not-so-covert filming. Is that all they've got? "But Miss, Keir did it too!"

Absolute disgrace.

Nat6999 · 15/01/2022 04:23

One bottle of beer doesn't make a party. The Tories are just desperate to deflect from partygate. Look at the latest opinion polls, Labour are at least 10 points in front of the Conservatives.

itsgettingweird · 15/01/2022 05:21

@Chloemol

All parties will have broken the rules throughout

Just as millions of UK residents have

But the residents of the uk were breaking rules BJ made and MPs agreed.

The issue is it makes a mockery of all those who didn't break the rules. And all those fined for choosing to do so.

Stephthegreat · 15/01/2022 05:25

No it’s not the same as hundreds of boozed up tories dancing on prince philips grave.

AnaBananas · 15/01/2022 06:15

Funny thing is, if it was a coffee in his hand, no one would bat an eyelid. Because it's a beer, it's automatically considered as a "Party" by DM Hmm

countrygirl99 · 15/01/2022 06:22

@Againstmachine

Kier wanted worse restrictions many of the time and has supported the Tories getting their obscene laws through.

It might be not worst he could do, but how about not doing it and go home instead of staying behind and having a beer.

Because Hartlepool to London is a maybe just bit of a long way to go for meal before carrying on work? Not quite like nipping upstairs to your flat is it.
Volterra · 15/01/2022 06:34

The desperation of these sorts of threads is so ridiculous it is brightening up one of the worst weeks of my life no end - please keep up the good work 😂

TheHuntingoftheSnark · 15/01/2022 06:42

Lol, this is so desperate. This was a year later so totally different rules and was clearly whilst working, whereas the Tory dos were just massive piss ups when we were only allowed to meet outside once a day with one person.

Quartz2208 · 15/01/2022 08:18

I think as well there were no travel restrictions at the time of the Keir Starmer photo - I think it must be in v. early May 2021 and the travel ban stopped on the 29th March. To work at home where possible
Given there ended up being a 16% swing from Labour to Conservative (so they lost) you can see why as Labour Leader he would deem it necessary to be there from a work perspective.