No 10 was breaking Christmas Lockdown rules last year.

Predictable rude reply from Alegrias1 to a perfectly civil question. Oh well, only to be expected!

Michael Rosen says that this year the party game at No. 10 will be "pass the buck". ?

Alegrias1

Are you serious?

Its a 3 floor building with 100 rooms.

Do you think they popped out to the front door to give him a cup of mulled wine and asked him to keep schtum?

Well I think the party was in the library, with rope to hang themselves (or worse), and that the dangerous Colonel Mustard organised it.
The wine was of course French. I'm not sure about the cheese?

Bizarrely I think this debacle might save both lives and help the NHS.

Johnson is using plan B which he had previously stated that he was not in favour and in any case nothing would be done until the middle of the month.

He is using this as a dead cat, but it should benefit us all as early intervention has never been Johnson’s forte.

It’s all appalling and what for me is the worst impact of this is that it gives all those who don’t obey and have never wanted to obey rules, even simple ones like mask wearing, social distancing etc, a reason to bleat ‘well if they don’t obey rules to protect others, why should I?”
I don’t think it would have made the more selfish members of the UK obey rules if the government had set a good example, but it would have stopped that group using the government as an excuse.

I find it incomprehensible and rather depressing to listen to Tory voter's in what was Owen Peterson's constituency say they still intend to vote the same way in the byelection because none of this makes any difference to them.

What is wrong with these people?

So, the Metropolitan police aren’t going to investigate the party because they have no evidence. Isn’t it their job to look for evidence? Or am I missing something here??

MayBee70

So, the Metropolitan police aren’t going to investigate the party because they have no evidence. Isn’t it their job to look for evidence? Or am I missing something here??

No evidence Met can't do anything without that, so it's classed as "hearsay".

The Police's job is to find the evidence ...and act upon it.

rosie1959

Quite frankly couldn't give a Scooby doo is it really that important

I do hope rosie, that after 7 pages and all that has happened in the media and TV, that you realise how insensitive, and wrong, your comment was on page 1.

Visgir1

MayBee70

So, the Metropolitan police aren’t going to investigate the party because they have no evidence. Isn’t it their job to look for evidence? Or am I missing something here??

No evidence Met can't do anything without that, so it's classed as "hearsay".

But food and drink would have been purchased and delivered. People have to sign in and out of No 10 so they would know everyone that was there that night.

It wouldn't be difficult to find out who the policemen or women were on duty at Number 10 on that day and get them to testify.

Can’t be that hard to find out who organised “it “ and who attended whatever “it “ was. All should be named and shamed and given hefty fines at least.
Also, Individuals concerned should have the guts to make public apologies - otherwise we should expect resignations

Much as I think the whole thing stinks to high heaven, I can understand why the police aren't investigating.

Food and drink might have been brought in by the attendees themselves. I'm sure No 10 has a substantial "works canteen", or whatever the posh equivalent is, so there would be plenty nibbles and bottles of wine to avail themselves of. The people who were in No 10 could say that they were there working. I'm sure late nights aren't unusual at No 10. The policemen on the door might not have been aware of anything different to any other night.

The people attending know they were doing something that wasn't allowed so I'm sure it was kept very secret.

Kali2 I apologise it was not meant to be insensitive.
It has been handled very badly by the PM if had acted quickly and reprimanded the perpetrators immediately and made them publicly apologise this would have not have snowballed
As for Allegra Stratton and those with her they should have been sacked immediately for gross misconduct
There are much more important things going on at the moment and this is undermining them

Thank you for your apology - it is never easy to do so.

I so wish one of the putative guests would produce video evidence…….

Lucca

I so wish one of the putative guests would produce video evidence…….

I don't think it will take long. Johnson throws staff and colleagues under the bus and some may decide to get their version in first.

There’ll be a big reward for someone to provide evidence.

They have and Allegra whateverhername has resigned.

Evidence of the actual party I mean. Videos etc.

There will have been CCTV coverage and lots of security in the building. It is not just one policeman on the door you know. Plus (allegedly) 40-50 people there. There will be evidence.

So the police can arrest those attending a vigilance for someone killed by one of them, and those protesting against the biggest climate catastrophe we have ever seen and stop and search black men at will, but won’t investigate this?

What has this country become?

Sajid Javid on BBC news said there is no evidence of rule breaking. Why are they still persisting with that line? It's insulting.

They are going by past precedent. Keep the line, however bizarre and eventually the press etc will move on to something else.

As long as they are not threatened by police investigation, (Cummings and No 10) or hit in the pocket (second jobs, corruption, cronyism ) they know that they will get away with anything.

And they are.