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Why are we even bothering to discuss the Downing Street parties when it's clear that the people the Conservatives care about, the editors of the right wing papers, don't consider the following to be an issue sufficient to persist at mentioning:

  • Having dozens of "drinks parties" in Downing Street with hundreds of participants
  • Openly selling peerages
  • Repeatedly lying in Parliament
  • Touting for business from special interest groups when a minister in a position to influence policy for those groups
  • Granting billions of pounds of government contracts not on price or ability to deliver bit how good a mate you are of a senior member of government
  • 150,000 people dying of Covid when tens of thousands of those deaths could have been avoided
  • Rampant inflation
  • A budget which results in the highest overall tax burden in decades
  • Abandoning Afghan allies to their fate while saving a bloke and his rescue animals
  • A Brexit apparently devoid of any discernible benefit
 
I see the usual BBC outrage merchants are getting outraged that the BBC didn't report an ITV exclusive before ITV did.
 
OTOH woe betide the Labour, LidDem, Plaid, Green or SNP MP who is found to have had a cup of tea and a biscuit with a co-worker after a long day in the constituency office. They'll feel the full force of the local plod.
 
The Don said:
OTOH woe betide the Labour, LidDem, Plaid, Green or SNP MP who is found to have had a cup of tea and a biscuit with a co-worker after a long day in the constituency office. They'll feel the full force of the local plod.
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They tried to get Sturgeon to resign because she took her mask off for a few minutes at a funeral.
 
I'm assuming the reason there needs to be an investigation into whether Johnson attended a party during lockdown was because when asked did he attend a party he replied with "Which one was that?"
 
Labour’s motion to cut VAT on fuel has been voted down by the Tories despite the promise by Johnson and Vote Leave that we could cut VAT on fuel after Brexit.
 
Sue Gray now investigating the prime minister & govt over illegal lockdown parties at Downing Street was invited to several of the lockdown parties at Downing Street.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Sue Gray now investigating the prime minister & govt over illegal lockdown parties at Downing Street was invited to several of the lockdown parties at Downing Street.
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Well, who better to carry out the investigation than someone with intimate knowledge of the subject.;)
 
No confirmation that she attended but was only invited.

However this would seem, at the very least, strange to ask someone who was an invitee herself to investigate whether a party existed.
 
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No confirmation that she attended but was only invited.

However this would seem, at the very least, strange to ask someone who was an invitee herself to investigate whether a party existed.
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I assume the investigation's going to involve inviting them all round, putting some music on and chatting over a few bottles?
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Sue Gray now investigating the prime minister & govt over illegal lockdown parties at Downing Street was invited to several of the lockdown parties at Downing Street.
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Do you have a source for that? I found a reference to SNP leader Ian Blackford asking whether Gray had been invited, but not seeing any confirmation that she had (not that it would surprise me in the least).
 
No 10 staff told to clean up phones amid lockdown party allegations, sources claim

Downing Street staff were advised to clean up their phones by removing information that could suggest lockdown parties were held at No 10, The Independent has been told.

Two sources claim a senior member of staff told them it would be a good idea to remove any messages implying they had attended or were even aware of anything that could “look like a party”.

Boris Johnson is facing an internal investigation into lockdown-breaching parties, being carried out by senior civil servant Sue Gray, and fury at revelations that 100 Downing Street workers were invited by email to a drinks event on 20 May 2020, when Britons were allowed to meet only one other person outdoors.

Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said it raised “yet more questions for a prime minister who seems to have no answers”.

The “clean-up” suggestion was made early last month after the first reports emerged of parties at Downing Street, the sources allege.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...clean-up-investigation-sue-gray-b1991055.html
 
Inflation is yet another problem for those of us in the UK with fuel and energy prices driving the headline rate.

British Gas owner Centrica is saying that the current high prices could last for up to two years. The "good" news for politicians is that if and when prices stabilise, the effect on inflation will drop (though people will still be far worse off).
 
Captain_Swoop said:
No 10 staff told to clean up phones amid lockdown party allegations, sources claim

Downing Street staff were advised to clean up their phones by removing information that could suggest lockdown parties were held at No 10, The Independent has been told.

Two sources claim a senior member of staff told them it would be a good idea to remove any messages implying they had attended or were even aware of anything that could “look like a party”.

Boris Johnson is facing an internal investigation into lockdown-breaching parties, being carried out by senior civil servant Sue Gray, and fury at revelations that 100 Downing Street workers were invited by email to a drinks event on 20 May 2020, when Britons were allowed to meet only one other person outdoors.

Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said it raised “yet more questions for a prime minister who seems to have no answers”.

The “clean-up” suggestion was made early last month after the first reports emerged of parties at Downing Street, the sources allege.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...clean-up-investigation-sue-gray-b1991055.html
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As long as those involved get rid of any evidence and the terms of engagement for the investigation are sufficiently narrow I see no reason why Boris Johnson and his chums won't end up being completely exonerated. :mad:
 
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