Boris and his lockdown birthday party

I’m not making excuses. If all the people were working together Alegrias that’s totally different to inviting people to a party at your house or going to visit someone in a care home. I realise you’re sore about not having a leaving do. I’m none too happy about my lockdown 70th non-event either.

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I’m not a Johnson fan by any means, but it’s normal to share cakes with colleagues in the office when it’s your birthday so if this lot (apart from the decorator) were working together anyway this one doesn’t particularly bother me.

Its normal to have Golden Wedding parties. Its normal to have a going away party in the office when you retire. Its normal to have nibbles at meetings. Its normal to visit your children in their residential homes.

We didn't get to do any of these things, large and small.

Excuses, excuses.

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It was just ten minutes with a cake…it was just a few staff in the garden….it was just a childcare bubble….it was just wine and cheese…it was just a Christmas quiz…it was just…it was just…it was just not what everyone else was fucking doing.

Can we just keep posting this WWM2 every time someone posts that its doesn't matter, it was just a bit of cake, everyone was doing it?

Jacinda Ardern has just postponed her wedding because there are new restrictions in NZ. The restrictions don't ban weddings, but no doubt she can see that pictures of the PM living it up while the people of NZ are suffering restrictions isn't a good look. Pity Johnson didn't follow suit and appreciate that we expect more of the PM, especially if s/he sets the rules.

I’m not a Johnson fan by any means, but it’s normal to share cakes with colleagues in the office when it’s your birthday so if this lot (apart from the decorator) were working together anyway this one doesn’t particularly bother me.

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It was just ten minutes with a cake…it was just a few staff in the garden….it was just a childcare bubble….it was just wine and cheese…it was just a Christmas quiz…it was just…it was just…it was just not what everyone else was fucking doing.

Stay at home save lives. Work in an office, with say 20, oh it’s my birthday shall I take a cake in to brighten everyone’s day. No even though we are working together, in a miserable period, let’s not bring some niceness into the office. Another slant. Could also show some videos of my local GP surgery where someone’s birthday was celebrated with a , yes guessed it a cake. Off with their heads.

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It worked the first time, Wwmk2 ?

Not sure why people are saying the party was only 30 mins in an office. Is that because that's all that no.10 will admit to? Word is that it carried on in the no.11 flat with friends & family...

Bugger

Try again

Janeainsworth, congratulation, 50 years of happy marriage is a joy.
Like most families, we have photographs of birthdays during lockdown 1. They’re different from other years. Typical of those birthdays us the one showing a grandchild celebrating his 5th birthday in the garden with his parents and sister. Not the big party with school friends he’d hoped for. My husband’s 70th - just the two of us, none of the celebrations we’d planned.

Everyone i know was following the rules, the guidance. The feeble excuses like Johnson didn’t know, it was a surprise party. There was what even his spokespeople are calling a party later that day, in the garden, a bbq attended by ‘a small number of family members’, including his sister Rachel. The hypocracy, duplicitous ness of him appearing on tv to tell the rest of us the rules, when he knew he wasn’t following them makes me so cross

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My daughter had a milestone birthday during a lockdown and I had to look at her through a window in her LD care home. She did have a party with the residents and staff but was denied any meaningful interaction with her family. The staff did their best and I got sent a video of her opening her presents. I would have loved to have been able to sit with her 30 minutes and have a piece of cake but we were supposed to be protecting one another (including staff and other residents).

Janeainsworth, you look lovely. Congratulations on 50 years of marriage

Apparently the hashtag Boris started #BeLikeJosephine has gone viral on social media.

Ashcombe I then to think that we are all coming around to see it all now.
I think that this year is going to be extremely difficult and with lots of upheaval.
The rising prices of everything and mass disillusionment is going to cause havoc.
I think that’s why they’re trying to push through all the business about public protest etc

That’s a very good point Ashcombe

I cried that morning, too. In fact, I shed tears regularly over the state of our country. Brexit, corrupt politicians, etc. Covid has distracted many from tge disastrous way our country is being (mis)managed.

GG I heard (somewhere) that they were ‘sat on’ because revealing the details at a time when we were in lock down, or when another lock down might be imminent, would have played havoc with the compliance of the public

Thank you Fanny. The odd thing is at the time, I just felt a little bit sad that we would have to postpone our party.
But we still had something to celebrate, and we were Doing the Right Thing, just like everyone else, so in that sense it didn’t seem much of a sacrifice that we couldn’t have our family and friends with us on our special day.
Then, we thought the pandemic would be over the Christmas.

Now though, I can’t see us ever having a party again. And I feel disgusted, angry and bitter that while we and the rest of the country made those sacrifices, those at the top who should have known better and who should have been leading by example were doing the exact opposite.

Paul Brand ITV political editor broke this story, his husband is a civil servant at No.10.

I am deeply suspicious as to why these stories have been sat on until now.

Thank you!

I know

I said that I know what you mean.

I never said that I disagreed.
I think it’s appalling and I find Johnson abhorrent.

Always have done.

I’ve told this tale before; but I’ll tell it again - I cried on the morning of the Brexit result because I was so scared that he’d become PM.

I’m not the opposition on this thread!

I know what you mean FC, but I still think the principle remains. A 7 year old’s party wouldn’t have been a debauched affair, but Josephine still had to cancel hers.

It would have been a juicier story journalistically and gossip wise if it had been a massive piss-up with Carrie dancing on the table; Govey throwing some moves and Gavin Williamson photocopying his behind.
Rather than a workplace lunch with M&S snacks and a cream sponge.
That’s what I’m trying to get at

I'm not a bit surprised
I do wonder why people forgive him so easily when he's always been corrupt and self seeking.