Video emerges of Tory Party HQ Party during lockdown

It is just as well that this video did not appear at the time. God knows what the public response would have been.

Well, Delila, they are all young and I guess fit and thought that would protect them. Also, they must have felt that partying against the rules was of no consequence. The culture in the conservative party was all about turning a blind eye.

It’s all so sad, this happened at the time people were scared to death and struggling to follow the rules but most people did.
My poor daughter had an extremely stressful birth of her first daughter in May 2020. She spent most of her labour alone and afraid, hospital staff were extremely overworked. When she had an emergency caesarean the Doctor dropped his face visor into her cut. She was terrified about Covid or sepsis and had to have a strong course of precautionary antibiotics.
The day of a Tory party she has a photograph of my husband and I peering through a window for a glimpse of our new granddaughter, I didn’t actually hold her until she was 6 weeks old when I went into daughters bubble.
At the same time a good friends husband died in hospital alone and afraid she could only be with him the last few hours, none of the children could see him. The funeral was horrendous for her. People lined the path of crematorium 3 metres apart, I felt guilty I didn’t go as was too afraid for my granddaughter.
Many people may never get over the hypocrisy of this, the anger will never go. The apologies seem so lame, it’s unforgivable.

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Forgive me if I've got this wrong, DaisyAnneReturns, but aren't you based in Scotland? Even if it ever leaves the UK, Scotland will still be part of Britain, making you what you've said above too.

I think I read that “Joe Public” are still facing court summons for breaking Covid lockdown rules for holding parties. Some of these fines were in the thousand £s. I’m DISGUSTED with this Government especially Boris Johnson who has no moral compass. The honours list for his cronies should be cancelled.

I think a lot of politicians, whatever they said in public, actually believed what was said by some experts early on about the danger of the pandemic virus, namely that older people and people with underlying health issues were most at risk and for healthy, younger people there was generally hardly any risk at all.

This doesn't excuse their behaviour in breaking rules they imposed on the rest of us, but it might in part explain it.

It also confirms me in my belief that the dangers were overstated and ridiculous. Results from Sweden, which didn't go in for strict lockdowns, confirm this too.

Not read all this, but as they lied and partied, we died - there needs to be a few doing jail tine in my opinion, namely Twat Hancock and the entitled Boris, Zahawi (Piggott and Boris Becker were jailed, why not him?) and Sunak, as he knew what was going on - they all need to go and now!

Greta, I don’t recall any special exemptions from the rules being awarded to the younger and fitter members of the general population, they were subject to the same restrictions as the rest of us. Young people suffered a lot from their inability to meet up with friends and socialise - the effects linger to this day, I think.

I’m really referring to the confidence apparently felt by the people in these videos and photos, that they were safe. Where did that confidence come from? It wasn’t shared by most of the rest of us.

Delila

Greta, I don’t recall any special exemptions from the rules being awarded to the younger and fitter members of the general population, they were subject to the same restrictions as the rest of us. Young people suffered a lot from their inability to meet up with friends and socialise - the effects linger to this day, I think.

I’m really referring to the confidence apparently felt by the people in these videos and photos, that they were safe. Where did that confidence come from? It wasn’t shared by most of the rest of us.

Delila, I’m speculating, as the mindset of people such as those who attended this party is a totally foreign land to me, but I suspect that their reasoning may be rooted in the sheer arrogance and sense of entitlement which clearly encouraged such appalling behaviour. These shallow, asocial creatures probably thought that they were so special that they were somehow invulnerable, and that the virus would simply pass them by. I do wonder how many of them actually became infected, passed it on to a perhaps vulnerable relative or friend, and were around to see a terminal outcome. With friends like that…etc..

I don't think anyone felt invulnerable but I think plenty felt they were not in such grave danger as was spouted about by politicians and designated experts.

Baggs

I don't think anyone felt invulnerable but I think plenty felt they were not in such grave danger as was spouted about by politicians and designated experts.

But the whole thrust was protecting other more vulnerable people by not being a carrier.

Parties or not vulnerable people were sent to care homes without Covid tests thus spreading Covid not only amongst their fellow inmates but also the dedicated staff who worked there. Those people who made those and other such decisions should be hunted out. These stupid party goers distract from that main issue.

Putting this in a wider context how many of the "little people" are now going to avoid bending the rules if they get a chance? People take their example from the top.

25Avalon

Parties or not vulnerable people were sent to care homes without Covid tests thus spreading Covid not only amongst their fellow inmates but also the dedicated staff who worked there. Those people who made those and other such decisions should be hunted out. These stupid party goers distract from that main issue.

I was still working in the NHS when this happened, it was an instruction.
fullfact.org/health/coronavirus-care-homes-discharge/
We were never told specifically where in government it came from, but it must have been a cabinet decision.

I’ve just seen a part of the video on a BBC report - talk about rubbing salt into the wound that was the vast majority of people who were trying to do the right thing. It’s extraordinary that at least one of those people is now getting an honour.

Like others on this thread, we attended the funeral of one of our oldest friends that December. At the tea afterwards we - all fifteen of us - were seated at widely separated tables, not even really able to converse because of the distance. Our friend died not having seen his wife or family for three weeks because he’d been moved to palliative care and visitors were not permitted. His wife was eventually allowed to be with him for just his last two or three hours but he wasn’t able to communicate by then so they could have no final words with each other.

Around that time........my FIL died; we were allowed ten people at his funeral, the chairs in the crematorium were 2 metres apart - even for those of us who were couples and lived together, we were not allowed to shake hands/hug/or. even congregate outside after the service to look at floral tributes as it was not allowed on the premises.

Watching my OH read his fathers eulogy knowing that I couldn't even hold his hand when he returned to his seat broke me.

I am not at all surprised at the photograph to be honest - every. person in that picture should feel ashamed as they have lied and misled us all just the same as that article Boris Johnson!

Liars, every one of them!

Baggs

I don't think anyone felt invulnerable but I think plenty felt they were not in such grave danger as was spouted about by politicians and designated experts.

I'm sure plenty did feel they were not in such grave danger but most of us, unlike Tory HQ and Downing Street, followed the guidelines/law - laid down by the government let's not forget.

None of us at that time knew the full scientific consequences of socialising so erred on the side of caution - all except the entitled smart-arses.

Riverwalk so many experienced fear most did as they were told quite willingly and even demanded further lockdowns. The Govt discovered how compliant the general public were.

I'm sure plenty did feel they were not in such grave danger but most of us, unlike Tory HQ and Downing Street, followed the guidelines/law - laid down by the government let's not forget.

Yes. I don't think my comment suggested otherwise.

What really annoyed me is Michael Gove saying he is abstaining from the " Partygate vote" to me it's a cop out, he hasn't got the guts to either stand alongside them or against them.
"Michael Gove would not vote for Johnson Partygate report BBC online"

Michael Gove is sometimes just very annoying ……

I don't find it 'shocking' at all - it's exactly what I expected from that bunch of clowns. As for Gove - the same - behaviour is just typical.

I do find it depressing as ever, though, that this lot were 'in charge' and quite alarming that they were voted in. How did that happen?

Urmstongran

Absolutely sickened me.

What frightens me is how those in power scared the pants off us all with masks & distancing, taping up swings and park benches, yet happily partied away themselves. Did the elite know something about Covid that we didn’t??

Exactly. This has been at the back of my mind for a while. Their aim was to use scare tactics to get the population to comply with restrictions. But they weren't scared in the least. Why?

2 of the people at the party are in Johnson's honours list.

As a matter of interest, did anyone at that party catch Covid? Just wondering.