Video emerges of Tory Party HQ Party during lockdown

Greta

They should all hang their heads in shame. And the police knew but took no action! Is this true? The majority of people in this country are decent and law abiding. They deserve much better than this.

I believe they took no action because the photographs that were available at the time - the video wasn't - would not provide sufficient evidence for a conviction, on balance.

Good post, NanaDana (Sun 14.34). I agree.

Should read *said their last goodbyes to loved ones via iPads’ …

This video has sickened and angered me. That Christmas I watched my young grandchildren open their presents on my iPad because, as a family, we were following the rules enforced by these tw**s! People said their last goodbyes to loved ones because they were following the rules! I read of a mother whose young daughter was having major surgery on the same day this video was filmed - the mother was as unable to be at her daughter’s bedside because she, and the NHS staff were FOLLOWING THE RULES! The behaviour of these privileged, elitist Tories is beyond disgusting!

Aveline

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

How would anyone know - why do you ask?

None of us knew what was possible at the time, that's why the vast majority of the UK population followed the rules.

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

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

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?

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?

Michael Gove is sometimes just very annoying ……

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"

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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..

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.

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!

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.