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Video emerges of Tory Party HQ Party during lockdown

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NanaDana Sun 18-Jun-23 06:43:21

A video has emerged showing some Conservative Party workers drinking and dancing at a Christmas party in December 2020 during the Covid pandemic. At the time, Tier 2 restrictions were in place, which meant that people were banned from socialising indoors, except with members of their household or a support bubble. Socialising at that stage of the pandemic was limited to up to six people in a garden or at a pub with outdoor seating. As the drinking and dancing goes on, one of the partygoers is actually heard saying it is OK to film "as long as we don't stream that we're, like, bending the rules". Clearly they knew exactly what they were doing, and this "do as I say, not as I do" hypocrisy is at the core of the Johnson- inspired culture of entitlement and elitism which has consistently treated the public with such contempt. The Police investigated the incident in November 2022, but no charges were brought. The Conservative party "disciplined" four of the attendees. Surely this now needs reviewing in the light of this new, damning evidence?

NanaDana Tue 20-Jun-23 14:35:20

Good post, Dickens, and spot on. We're not talking about Joe Smith of 32b Railway Cuttings, Anytown, here. We're talking about those who were in power and were actually laying down the rules for us to live by, who then not only knowingly broke those rules, but then cynically lied about doing so. "Get over it?" Not on my watch..

Chocolatelovinggran Tue 20-Jun-23 15:19:47

Absolutely Dickens.

Dickens Tue 20-Jun-23 15:33:51

NanaDana

Good post, Dickens, and spot on. We're not talking about Joe Smith of 32b Railway Cuttings, Anytown, here. We're talking about those who were in power and were actually laying down the rules for us to live by, who then not only knowingly broke those rules, but then cynically lied about doing so. "Get over it?" Not on my watch..

The "get over it" sneer is a cynical attempt to invalidate someone's concerns, to minimise them. Whatever the issue. And it's rather juvenile too IMO.

And it's usually because the listener or reader is bored or frustrated with the argument. Which is their problem - they can always opt out.

As I read somewhere, no one gets to tell anyone else to “get over it.

Eloethan Wed 21-Jun-23 10:05:45

I think what is far more offensive than a person using a word that some feel uncomfortable with is the absolute disregard those making the rules had for keeping them.

I wasn't particularly careful about sticking to the rules, as I thought many of them were stupid - like fining young men for having a snowball fight. However, I didn't make the rules, whereas the government did - and scared people half to death to the point that they were frightened to open their front doors.

Baggs Thu 22-Jun-23 18:42:53

Hear, hear, eloethan.