Partygate (again)

[tazdevil]

What about giving contracts to mates for dodgy PPE - i.e. giving money away when eh country is broke for product that wasn't up to scratch, costing people's lives

Yes they got stuff wrong and indulged in some wrong stuff but anyone else would have as well. Force ranking them I'd prefer the current lot in charge over the wannabe's. Labour famously left a note telling the incoming government that all the money was spent and would have been just a tad more profligate if they'd been in charge recently. At least the current government got the important stuff right compared to others If Corbyn was in we'd be flying Z flags now and condemning Nazi's

[TestMangler]

Yes they got stuff wrong and indulged in some wrong stuff but anyone else would have as well. Force ranking them I'd prefer the current lot in charge over the wannabe's. Labour famously left a note telling the incoming government that all the money was spent and would have been just a tad more profligate if they'd been in charge recently. At least the current government got the important stuff right compared to others If Corbyn was in we'd be flying Z flags now and condemning Nazi's

And what state are the county's finances in now in comparison to when that was written ?

[DoctorStrangelove]

And what state are the county's finances in now in comparison to when that was written ?

After 12 years of Tory austerity and misrule?

Oh, they're fine.

Nothing to see here.

What does it say about the country that the only choice was between Magick Grandpa with really dubious views about almost everything and Bozo Boris Bunter, the fat owl of the remove.

How are the mighty fallen.

Nothing beside remains. Round the decay

Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare

The lone and level sands stretch far away.

[vetran]

After 12 years of Tory austerity and misrule?

Oh, they're fine.

Nothing to see here.

What does it say about the country that the only choice was between Magick Grandpa with really dubious views about almost everything and Bozo Boris Bunter, the fat owl of the remove.

How are the mighty fallen.

Totally this - its bad when you yearn for people like Hessie..

[d000hg]

Boris was recently out of hospital after nearly dying, he'd just chaired a series of meetings and had more to do and got waylaid with a surprise Birthday drink and cake by his staff who'd been working equally as hard.

Well that's not the story that's in the press currently - and that's part of the point, just how many of these events he went to without ever twigging they were a bad idea. But regardless while he may have been 'ambushed' to an extent why didn't he tell them they shouldn't be doing it at any point?

So he stopped and had a drink and a little banter before getting back to work. I don't care if it broke any rules I want the government to do its job as well as it can

Do you not think leading by example and not breaking rules is perhaps part of the job?

I can't think of anyone else who would have or would do the job better.

Wow.

[d000hg]

Maybe it's all finally going to kick off properly... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61566410

Insiders who attended events at Downing Street during lockdown have told the BBC how staff crowded together, sat on each other's laps and how party debris was left out overnight.

For the first time, insiders who were at some of the events have told BBC Panorama in detail what they saw.

[DaveB]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61566410

Speaking anonymously, three insiders have opened up about a world behind No 10's famous front door where the lockdown rules the country was living by were routinely ignored, socialising was regular, with, they felt, the prime minister's implicit permission.

One staffer describes director of communications Lee Cain's leaving do, the event on 13 November 2020, where the prime minister has been pictured raising a glass, but for which he has not been fined.

Others have been judged to have broken the law for being there and received penalties.

Mr Johnson attended and made a speech to thank Mr Cain, but as the party developed "there were about 30 people, if not more, in a room. Everyone was stood shoulder to shoulder, some people on each other's laps…one or two people."

At the party on the eve of Prince Philip's funeral on 16 April 2021, they portray a "lively event... a general party with people dancing around". The gathering becoming so loud that security guards in the building told them to leave the building and go into the No 10 grounds.

"So everyone grabbed all the drinks, the food, everything, and went into the garden," one source says.

"We all sat around the tables drinking. People stayed the night there."

...


But all three point to the culture set by the prime minister himself, suggesting he "wanted to be liked" and for staff to be able to "let their hair down".

One suggests they felt like they had the prime minister's permission to socialise even it meant breaking the rules because "He was there."

"He may have just been popping through on the way to his flat because that's what would happen," they add. "You know, he wasn't there saying this shouldn't be happening.

"He wasn't saying, 'Can everyone break up and go home? Can everyone socially distance? Can everyone put masks on?'

"No, he wasn't telling anybody that. He was grabbing a glass for himself."

Screw over your juniors and they will bite you in the arse.

[WTFH]

Maybe it's all finally going to kick off properly... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61566410

Of course it won't change the minds of the faithful, no matter what they will still support the Tory government.
...and anyway, the story is in the (run by Tory donor) BBC, so is obviously false. If it was a true story, like beergate, it would be front page of the Wail today. It's not, so obviously it's not a story worth talking about, no matter how newsworthy it is.

[d000hg]

Of course it won't change the minds of the faithful, no matter what they will still support the Tory government.
...and anyway, the story is in the (run by Tory donor) BBC, so is obviously false. If it was a true story, like beergate, it would be front page of the Wail today. It's not, so obviously it's not a story worth talking about, no matter how newsworthy it is.

The faithful alone aren't enough to win an election or a leadership challenge though. I had read that they expect the SG report to place more blame on the civil service and so on, but the picture seems to be emerging further that this was a culture not a few isolated events.

[SueEllen]

Least he knows it's a party this time -

https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/24/boris...arty-16701501/

The Prime Minister has been invited to yet another party this Friday, after being ambushed with an invite by a young London school girl.
Boris Johnson was wandering the corridors of a primary in Orpington yesterday, when the little girl appeared with a note for the PM.

‘Oh wow, thank you’, he said, reading the invitation.

‘Dear Mr Johnson…. Oh… Come to our party, love from… that’s so nice of you, thank you.’

The teacher accompanying the PM asks the cheeky youngster: ‘Have you invited sir to a party… to our jubilee party on Friday?… we’ll see you twice in a week, Mr Prime Minister.’