Boris and his lockdown birthday party

I did WWmk2 and I wasn’t impressed by her either. As you say, robotic. She sounded wary.

Mind you have to laugh when you think Hurley Burley and ‘my sources tell me’ Beth Rigby were both suspended from SKY news for months after birthday partying together with friends during that same lockdown period.

Awkward. I’d be embarrassed doing these interviews but they aren’t. “Will you resign Prime Minister?”

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Urmstongran

I did WWmk2 and I wasn’t impressed by her either. As you say, robotic. She sounded wary.

Mind you have to laugh when you think Hurley Burley and ‘my sources tell me’ Beth Rigby were both suspended from SKY news for months after birthday partying together with friends during that same lockdown period.

Awkward. I’d be embarrassed doing these interviews but they aren’t. “Will you resign Prime Minister?”

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Good job they didn’t make the rules that they broke eh!??

Em if you going to start a post at least do it correctly. If you call ten minutes a party you need to get out more.

Iam64

No one is suggesting the school visit breached rules
It’s all the other breaches thst
Concern

I don't understand why a school visit wasn't against the rules but standing with your work colleagues in the garden was against the rules.

Nannashirlz

Em if you going to start a post at least do it correctly. If you call ten minutes a party you need to get out more.

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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.

Chestnut

Iam64

No one is suggesting the school visit breached rules
It’s all the other breaches thst
Concern

I don't understand why a school visit wasn't against the rules but standing with your work colleagues in the garden was against the rules.

It's not about whether the rules make sense, it's about whether they were broken

The rules were clear. Johnson broke them frequently and did he mislead Parliament?
Let’s not start wondering if the rules were wrong. They were what we had. Malcolm Tucker has it right

If he edits the report due to come out today..
time for a real revolution

All I can say is - what a disgusting, lying, self serving arsehole that man is. He makes me feel ill. And I'm appalled that he is the prime minister of our country.

Personally I’m a bit fed up with the amount of time being spent discussing these parties. Is any other work being done? We have Ukraine, energy costs and numerous other important issues to deal with. I wish the media would let Sue Gray and the Met police get on with what they need to do and let the Government get on with their work

This is all media lead and the drip drip of poison from Cummings so the people in his office bought a birthday cake in what is wrong with that if they all work together day in and day out I really can't see the problem

Whitewavemark2

Nannashirlz

Em if you going to start a post at least do it correctly. If you call ten minutes a party you need to get out more.

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Malcolm V Tucker
@Tucker5law
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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.

katy59

This above quote should answer you question.

It doesn’t matter how long he was there, it was not allowed but I am not surprised that he and the others broke the rules that he made. He has to go and any other MPs that continue to support him need to be removed from office as well at the earliest opportunity.

So much that has happened within the government over last few years has annoyed me but not as much as this. For my daughter’s we (nervously) arranged an outside party for 7. I say nervously because I think at the time it was supposed to be 5 maximum outside. The weather on the day was dreadful - torrential rain and gale force winds. I went out the day before and purchased a tarpaulin which we battled with but successfully managed to tie securely to the pergola so at least we could stay as dry as possible. On the day of the ‘party’ we sat outside for 3 hours wrapped in blankets with the fire pit burning to try to keep us warm. It infuriates me that those people who attended however many parties were held have such disregard for the ‘common people’. Yet it’s us that keep them in their jobs.

I am in awe of so many people getting their knickers in a twist about the party fiasco. Personally I don’t care. I do care about potential war, the economy, crime, social care, education and the NHS. Or haven’t people noticed that there are much more serious issues to be concerned with? Time to move on and let the police and the enquiry to deal with something that many people were guilty of too.

Gillycats

I am in awe of so many people getting their knickers in a twist about the party fiasco. Personally I don’t care. I do care about potential war, the economy, crime, social care, education and the NHS. Or haven’t people noticed that there are much more serious issues to be concerned with? Time to move on and let the police and the enquiry to deal with something that many people were guilty of too.

I'm in awe of posters who think that people can't think of more than one thing at a time.

I'm rather apprehensive at the thought that Johnson is PM at a time when we could be facing a grave international crisis. Especially one that has extraordinarily close links with Russia.

It is not about the parties per se- it is about trust, about honesty, about fairness.

The issues you mention are of course massively mosre important- but as long as the PM is not trusted, and seen by the public, and even more so by Foreign Powers, friend or foe- as someone who can't be trusted and an inveterate liar- they are all at risk of not being dealt with properly.

It’s not about parties. It’s about morals and integrity.

I can assure you that it is how it is perceived all over the world, and they are having a field day. It reflects so badly on the country, especially with the Governement reneging on the Deal they negotiated and signed. It is truly sad and tragic to see how the UK is currently perceived around the world- very dangerous too in such dangerous times.

Gillycats

I am in awe of so many people getting their knickers in a twist about the party fiasco. Personally I don’t care. I do care about potential war, the economy, crime, social care, education and the NHS. Or haven’t people noticed that there are much more serious issues to be concerned with? Time to move on and let the police and the enquiry to deal with something that many people were guilty of too.

I totally agree with you Gillycats. There are far more important issues to be concerned about. Russia and the Ukraine, the rise in NI, fuel costs rocketing and other cost of living rises, etc etc These 'parties' (not what I would call a party) which breached the rules were over a year ago and are being investigated. I cannot believe the uproar on here. Let's move on and let the government put their energies into more serious matters.

Maybe Boris was 'ambushed' with a birthday cake, maybe he knew nothing about it BUT he was responsible for setting the culture in No 10 and for his wife and the office staff to believe it was OK to gather as a group of 30 in one room with a cake says it all. On this occasion he may have been 'dragged into it' but 'it' should never have happened and only did because the others around him were used to their own privileged way of working, denied to those beyond the front door of No 10.

I don’t think QT is the right place for this discussion because there is not enough time.

As some other posters on here have said a moderated scientific discussion with several contributors would be hopefully be more informative and measured.

ayse

I don’t think QT is the right place for this discussion because there is not enough time.

As some other posters on here have said a moderated scientific discussion with several contributors would be hopefully be more informative and measured.

Wrong discussion sorry.

Singing was prohibited because it generates more virus-laden aerosols than speaking so they sang Happy Birthday if course - one rule for who? BJ has to go. The Tory problem is they don't know if Sunak or Truss have the vote pulling capacity at a General Election and the Mogg's recent inaccurate blather about a new PM having to call one is a clear attempt to frighten MPs about their seats if BJ goes. Be that as it may he is no longer a viable PM and he must go.

Breaking news of yet another lie by Johnson.

Johnson personally authorised giving priority to the evacuation of Pen Farthing's animals from Afghanistan despite having publicly denied this.

The man needs help.......and not from anyone in the House of Commons.