Johnson today and PMQs! ⁉️

I didn’t word that well. Apologies.
It just seems that staffers in No. 10 were quite blasé about Covid at a time (May 2020) the public were scared to death, vaccines were only a dot on the horizon and our own daughter caught Covid that summer and then long-Covid until Christmas 2020.

Why weren’t they as scared as we were? I don’t understand it.

Why weren’t they as scared as we were? I don’t understand it.

Especially as their boss had supposedly almost died from it only a few weeks before...

MaizieD, yeah, right - but never went on a ventilator!

FannyCornforth

According to one attendee at the party, Johnson was ‘wandering around gladhandling guests’

What does that mean?

He will just say he was walking in his garden and kept an arm’s length distance by shaking hands with the people that came towards him.

Hetty58

MaizieD, yeah, right - but never went on a ventilator!

Fair comment but you’d have to agree he looked rough standing at the door of No. 10 the evening HM The Queen addressed the public. His eyes were like the proverbial.

Hetty58

MaizieD, yeah, right - but never went on a ventilator!

Didn’t he?
My DH didn’t either when he was in Critical Care; but the use of them declined as the year progressed as they weren’t as effective as previously thought (I believe)

Looking back now, I think that Johnson actually made a quick recovery.
He hardly had any time off work did he? It’s surprising to me that he carried on being PM

Re the garden party. The Met secured the garden, so officers knew about it. Plus CCTV footage will identify what went on, surely?

FannyCornforth

Hetty58

MaizieD, yeah, right - but never went on a ventilator!

Didn’t he?
My DH didn’t either when he was in Critical Care; but the use of them declined as the year progressed as they weren’t as effective as previously thought (I believe)

Yeah, but he was supposedly dying in April 2020 when ventilators were in common use and the government was running its 'Ventilator Challenge' to try to source even more from their mate Dyson

Urmstongran

Hetty58

MaizieD, yeah, right - but never went on a ventilator!

Fair comment but you’d have to agree he looked rough standing at the door of No. 10 the evening HM The Queen addressed the public. His eyes were like the proverbial.

Same effect as excess alcohol, then?

Maizie I do keep thinking that something about drink and / or drugs will come out at some point

This popped up on my memory board on FB today- and I listened again. And it made me think, who is he talking about? Could it be 'our' guy?

fb.watch/autp4sPqTz/

Well Cummings knows where the bodies are buried and he’s no fan of Carrie.

Yes, I do think 'there is something wrong with him' basically.

I assumed that the drinkers in the garden worked at no.10 so were in the building already (not arriving at the door with their bottles), the memo reads that way. Cctv in the garden may have been switched off. But what were 100 people doing there, when the rest of the country was told to work from home zooming away?

Seems clear that there was a general culture of after work socialising at no.10, knowingly condoned by the PM who now averts his eyes and pretends it didn't happen.

Are there records as to how many people became infected within the no.10 'workplace'.

As to this afternoon, surely if the sub judice argument is to hold good the Speaker should require that the question is withdrawn?

If Johnson stands up and apologises, he is admitting culpability.

Pre-Christmas he denied that he attended such parties in parliament.

An apology won’t cut it.

Lying in parliament is a resigning offence.

No question.

So funny - it reminds me of that hilarious programme 'Yes, Prime Minister':

twitter.com/i/status/1480932023929823244

He’s lying!!!!

As the general public would all have been fined, everyone who attended the ‘lockdown parties’ should be fined and should be made to resign their positions.
We really need a clean sweep to get rid of the rot.

Sorry mixing my metaphors there….

Apology ?.
Resign

- until you're reminded that it's no joking matter:

inews.co.uk/news/downing-street-party-nhs-medic-watched-people-die-as-no10-partied-1394786

He apologised but that means nothing unless he does anything about it. Fobbing off questions as predicted.

Usual waffle, insincere words, even if he did comb his hair . Whatever he says means nothing . I think this time he has blown it .

Apology not accepted and it's simply not enough. It just won't cut it when people compare their own lives and suffering back in May 2020:

metro.co.uk/2022/01/11/this-is-how-we-spent-may-20-brits-share-heartbreaking-pictures-from-day-of-byob-party-15898765/