Allegra Stratton resigns

Whether she giggled or not isn't the point.
The point is did that party take place?
It seems very likely that it did take place, and others too, in Downing Street.

If it was just a light-hearted Q&A rehearsal session about things that weren't real, we would have been told that and there would be no problem.
Clearly the giggling was about an event that was a kick in the teeth to the UK public, and Allegra Stratton is not the only one to blame for that.

I've just googled Cummings, and his wife is a journalist, with the Spectator.
As is Strattons husband....

Didn't Johnson give her the job because she was a mate of Carrie's? Press spokesperson is quite an important position, especially when all that money was poured into the staging. If this was a run through the least she could have done was take it seriously and not stand there giggling like a school girl. Our family may have been lucky and stayed well last year, but I'd had a rotten Christmas in 2019 after DH died and last Christmas was me handing a bow full of Christmas dinner over to DD on the doorstep. I didn't see much to giggle about at all.

I'm convinced Cummings has a hand in this, somehow.

Me too. Hell hath no fury like a Cummings scorned. And he's lower than a snake's belly. The whole lot of them are detestable.

I remember David Kelly.
Now that was a shameful sacrifice for this country.

They were role playing because there was a press conference planned, which was scrapped.

I'm convinced Cummings has a hand in this, somehow.

Imo she was acting like that because it wasn't Real!!! It was one of those embarrassing Role Play situations we've all been in at work.

In the background you can hear the cameraman/production assistant etc. asking what would she say if this question was posed to her.

Casdon

Cummings had already left in November Curlywhirly, so it couldn’t have been him, he wasn’t there.

Hmm, so unlikely to be him - unless someone is giving him the bullets and he's firing the gun. Someone is drip feeding these leaks with devastating consequences; did they ever find out who released the Matt Hancock video?

*laugh not love (but I do love her humour)

Lucca yes JaneJudge makes me love to, hilarious ?
“I now want to shove her cheese nnd biscuits up her arse”

They are all pigs at the trough, at Allegra’s wedding, Rishi was her now husbands best man. None of them are trustworthy, they all out to strip our taxpayer dollars for them and their mates. The whole lot need to go.
I don’t understand why more of a fuss isn’t being made of the video of Rees Mogg, he is actually taking the piss our his own govs restrictions in a video while at a party!

vegansrock

Will she be having a leaving party?

Very good!

I've seen this clip a few times now and I can't get over how oddly she was acting. All giggly and flirtatious. Why on earth would she behave like that?

She thought she was amongst friends but nobody's your friend in the press.

Cummings had already left in November Curlywhirly, so it couldn’t have been him, he wasn’t there.

The clip we see was a Trial Run - not to go on air - yes, she was smiling- at the cameraman not about the issue. The real culprits are still out there.
She said - in private (but on camera - She wasn't at the party. As others have said, her mismanagement was to take the job on in the first place.

I think the Mirror broke the story and the video was filmed by ITV, but I wonder who initially leaked the story. Preston said on the news tonight that he had knowledge of other parties too. My money is on Cummings - apparently he didn't like Allegra Stratton and her appointment was the catalyst in him leaving.

The arrogance, lack of judgement and cruelty is beyond my understanding……

Did you hear him paying a tribute to Allegra in his answer to Laura in the bulletin? How dare he do that when everyone is so angry with her attitude!

Yes, SuzieHi that was the last straw for me today. Instead of answering Laura Kuenssberg’s question he drifted off into a tribute to Stratton. He’s a deluded arrogant pompous clueless p***. I’m going to stop now before I really say what I think of him!

I can’t remember when I’ve been as angry and upset as I’ve been for the past 24 hours.

...I seriously doubt whether she has any scruples...

Of course she hasn't. Nobody with a shred of a scruple to their name would ever sign up to work for that duplicitous poison toad that currently masquerades as a prime minister.

lemongrove

Cheese and wine parties is a bit Abigails Party isn’t it??
A wine buff once told me never to eat cheese with wine as it dulls the palate.

It curdles then makes you ?
(Sorry)

JaneJudge

I now want to shove her cheese and biscuits up her arse

You do make me laugh Jane! Love it.

Cheese and wine parties is a bit Abigails Party isn’t it??
A wine buff once told me never to eat cheese with wine as it dulls the palate.

vegansrock

Will she be having a leaving party?

With cheese and wine!

They wanted rid of someone, she will come back when the times right, they all do.

vegansrock

Will she be having a leaving party?

That made me laugh vegansrock

She wasn’t a messenger Ro but a senior member of staff.
Granted, she wasn’t the only one there that night, but she was Johnson’s press officer and should have known better.

But should we shoot the messenger?