Boris and his lockdown birthday party

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

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

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

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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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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...

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 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.

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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Malcolm V Tucker
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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.

Germanshepherdsmum

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.

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.

Germanshepherdsmum

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.

You following my posts that closely GSM? How nice to be appreciated.

Germanshepherdsmum

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.

It's not about whether the rules were sensible or not, it's about whether they were broken or not.

I realise that Petera. There were I believe 'work bubbles'.

Johnson's mistress brought the cake, not one of the CSs. What was she doing in the Cabinet Office when we were all supposed to be avoiding each other like the plague and she isn't a civil servant employed to work there?

And what was the 'designer' of wildly overpriced tat doing there?

There was nothing at all innocent about this

I cannot (and will not) defend the indefensible. Boris has been a fool. He’d not long been out of hospital after being ill with Covid so to be honest I do believe he just ‘attended’ shook a few hands and left - I bet M&S nibbles aren’t his ‘thing’ somehow.

Whoever organised these parties needs stringing up.

I bet those ‘in charge’ during times of restrictions (the elite if you like) always flout the rules. Those are for little people, not them. They all agree they are above such limitations.

Rationing during WW2 meant ration books for some. 4ozs of butter a week, 2 eggs etc. But you can bet your bottom dollar the high ups will have enjoyed heir supplies. And before you jump in and say look at Princess Elizabeth, rounding up coupons for her wedding dress. True, but a great PR exercise. ‘One of the people’.
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They just aren’t.

With today’s cameras on mobile phones you’d think they’d pay more attention to the optics. Seems not.

I’m not defending him per se. I know what he did was WRONG. I’m just not surprised is all.

Germanshepherdsmum

I realise that Petera. There were I believe 'work bubbles'.

Neither Carrie Symonds nor Lulu Lytle were in a Cabinet Office work bubble.
Do stop digging GSM

I bet those ‘in charge’ during times of restrictions (the elite if you like) always flout the rules.

Did you read my post about Ardern?

My grandson had his third birthday in May 2020. He celebrated it with his mum and dad, no grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins or little friends. We watched the ‘party’ on Skype. I can still see him sitting on his own at the head of the table wearing his party hat. It makes me so sad to think of it.

You appear to have a low opinion of your fellow citizens' and leaders' moral values Urmstongran.

I remembered what you said about the lack of any celebration when you left your job of many years and was sad for you. It’s not a fitting ending to a long career.

Germanshepherdsmum

I realise that Petera. There were I believe 'work bubbles'.

You believe correctly; they were also for essential meetings and for essential staff.