Partygate Channel 4

[JenniferBooth]

Tonight 9.30pm. Based on the Sue Gray report telling the story of what was happening during Covid 19 inside 10 Downing Street including the lockdown breaching parties.

I think its a bit like any sort of scandal that the more is uncovered, the more people you realise must have been complicit. Not only the people attending any of the parties but there must have been people aware of them even if they didn't go.
Downing Street staff, taxi drivers, delivery companies etc etc.

The security guard and the cleaners were treated with utter contempt

I'm from Ireland and just watched this and I'm absolutely shocked at what went on. I'm actually angry for those who followed rules, those who lost loved ones. I couldn't attend funerals here, nor go see those in hospital, I would be so angry if I knew something like this was happening.

Right, I take it back. Someone in Downing Street contacted ITN with a video, you're quite right. I wonder if we'll ever know who that was.

It all blew up when the Allegra Stratton video emerged. Laughing about parties and lack of social distancing.
At least she had the good grace to resign and was very upset at the time.

She was going to be the Tory's Press Secretary and give press conferences like they do in the US. They spent £2.6million building a Press room.
No US style press briefing has happened.
Another waste of money along with Dido Harding's £35billion on useless Track and Trace.

My dad died before Covid and my marriage broke down the year after. Christmas 2020 I was going to spend with my mum who lives 200 miles away. It had been an awful few years. As it was those plans didn't come to fruition and I had Christmas on my own. Boy did I feel fucking stupid when all this came out. I'd stayed on my own at Christmas because I was scared of getting caught. Meanwhile in Downing Street...

I'm sorry @WestwardHo1 . That's awful

The fines 😱. I missed how big they were for ordinary people, I thought Rita Ora's £10,000 fine was to make an example of her. My flabber is truly gasted.

It thought it was so well done, the divide between us plebs and the chosen few has never been better illustrated.
Never having a normal job should bar you from going into politics.
Eton followed by a job someone handed you followed by political life just isn’t good enough.

I’ve only watched the first half hour so far, and that was harrowing. I did see a comment somewhere where they used the partying as evidence covid didn’t exist and it was just a means to control us. Their argument was that the workers in Downing St had access to the ‘true’ data so they knew they were in no danger being in such close contact.

Having worked in an office all through the lockdowns what surprised me was how little social distancing they has through the working day. We had to sit with an empty desk between each employee, couldn’t share food (even wrapped food), only one person allowed in the kitchen at a time and had to wipe surfaces down regularly. From October 2020 we had to work with all windows open.

I think Pippa Crerar at the Mirror broke it first from sources inside No 10 (then the video was sent to ITN later) but we'll never know who actually leaked.

https://www.thepressawards.com/finalists/pippa-crerar-c0022

Thanks so much to those on here that have mentioned me and my twin sister ❤. I really appreciate it. It's making me teary, but also comforted that people understand. So many going through so much trauma during this period.

I was even more furious about what happened after watching the c4 drama. Despite everything I've read and seen I hadn't realised quite how much people at No. 10 were thumbing their nose at the rest of us. I had no idea of the extent they were ignoring the rules they made for the rest of us. I think the drama deserves awards as a dramatised documentary. Seeing real individuals talking about their experiences, intertwined with the drama, was very moving.

I think one day someone will confess and write a book .

itsnotmeitsu watching the testimony of those who suffered losses was so sad. I'm really sorry about your sister.

@Roussette > 'I think (but I might be wrong) that you may have talked about this whilst Covid was going on. It hit home to me because I am a twin too. Absolutely heartbreaking for you.'

I think you're right Roussette, and if I remember rightly you responded to me. Thank you. There's a back story to my sister's death where the police became involved; fraud, etc, and I'm still convinced she was unlawfully killed, but the police dropped the case. It means that that's bound up with the experience of saying goodbye to my sister in the ICU. She died in May 2021. I really hope that 'Partygate' on c4 will have made the scales fall from some people's eyes. I'm just glad that the 'Daily Mirror' were able to expose this.

@Ladybird69 > So sorry to hear about your mum. There is so much to answer for. There are people who will have had traumatic experiences that didn't need to happen if it wasn't for the Government of that period. I hope it helps to know that there are people that care about strangers on here, and what they've been through.

Damn right! My SN kids education was disrupted (& it's put them back years) My Mothers cancer was missed (she's since died). I lost my job as I couldn't access medical treatment for my severe pernicious anaemia & kept falling over / falling asleep/couldn't remember my own name. I lost a tooth as I couldn't access a dentist when I had a huge abcess which went into my jaw. But its my young people's futures I'm so upset about as it may affect their whole lives. Criminals in #10.

@itsnotmeitsu thank you for your kindness x

Well that was enraging and heartbreaking in equal measure.

What utter fuckers.

Honestly, it pissed me off all over again even though I'd read about the parties. Seeing it like that was disgusting. Tried to find someone in work who had watched but couldn't find anyone.

It amazes me that they were working, and then partying at very close quarters, breathing down each others necks, and yet they weren’t dropping like flies with Covid. I guess the Devil looks after his own.

Well there's another conclusion to be drawn there but here's not the place to discuss it.

Why weren't they worried about catching or transmitting COVID? At times I felt nervous when people walked by too closely outside.

Absolute parasites.