Downing Street - ‘Wine Time Friday’

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Reported in The Mirror tonight. They even bought a fridge…

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnsons-wine-time-fridays-25951853

@the80sweregreat

The Fleet Street booze ups were legendary in the 80s! I have read Anne Robinson's autobiography amongst others.

I can't believe my retired journo friend is still alive she still drinks way too much in her seventies

@LemonViolet

Surely no one thinks this is acceptable just because “traditional” working culture in 80s/90s city/media etc etc…… this is the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom’s office during a prolonged global crisis period, not the Wolf of fucking Wall St!!!

This.

I worked in a London Advertising Agency in the 80s and 90s. The drinking culture was legendary. BUT this finished years ago. Nowadays drinking at work albeit 4pm onwards but on-site really is something from a different era altogether. Throw in a pandemic with laws on social distancing and reduced interactions etc and it’s just shameful.

It’s not just the fact that it was against the law, it’s the arrogance and utter stupidity of the people involved. It was bound to come out at some point. And these are staff that are involved in the running of the country.

Then the fact that tax payers are presumably funding a lot of these illegal cheese and wine gatherings.

The fact they "play hard" normally is one thing. The fact they did so during a pandemic, with a population in lockdown, is quite another.

@the80sweregreat

' Fun Time Boris ' . Doesn't really surprise me though. Probably the reason they put off any covid restrictions or the first lockdown for so long at the start of all this.

I was thinking this, this morning. Do we know how many parties they had in the week or two when we should have been in lockdown but they couldn't make a decision?

@FrankieStein403

A drinking culture was common in the private sector where jobs demanded all hours working/working until job was done etc. Beer fridge, open bars, long lunches etc.

However that died out after the 2008 crash - margins reduced and alcohol 'perks' just disappeared - it became widely recognised that alcohol and productivity just don't go together.

The fact that this bunch of alcoholics even claim to be working hard is bad enough - doing it on my taxes in a pandemic is wicked.

And the boozer in chief Big Dog was commuting presumably at our expense to have his booze ups.