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You could celebrate your birthday with friends with cake if you’re at work in Downing St. But not at home, not if your business was closed, not if you’re The Queen and not of course, if you were dying alone in hospital.
Lest we forget that CCHQ was also on the list of locales permitted to host parties, vis a vis the December 14th, 2020 Christmas Party hosted by the Shaun Bailey mayoral campaign.
 
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Josephine sets a great example to us all by postponing her birthday party until we have sent coronavirus packing.

Together we can beat this. In the meantime let's all wish her happy birthday (twice) whilst washing our hands. #BeLikeJosephine #StayHomeSaveLives
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Question, of course is how long until the Tory Party leadership decides that Boris has become deadwright and decides to dump him.
 
Question, of course is how long until the Tory Party leadership decides that Boris has become deadwright and decides to dump him.

They have decided.

I guess the question is whether they think he can soak up any more blame or whether he will contaminate the rest.
 
The only people defending Boris Johnson tonight are George Eustace, Peter Bone and Nadine ******* Dorries.
Imagine how low you would have sunk if that was your line of defence?
 
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Can’t help but feel a bit irked at all the people who voted for Boris Johnson despite having been warned that he was Boris Johnson suddenly reacting with outrage and indignation upon belatedly discovering that Boris Johnson is in fact Boris Johnson
 
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As the great Julia Child once said, a party without cake is just a meeting. Johnson’s staffers supplied a cake. Ergo, It was a party.
 
The UK government is facing an internal rebellion over plans to increase National Insurance payments. These payments are supposed to fund the NHS (though at first they will just pay down some of the Covid debt) - indeed Jacob Rees Mogg has already crowed about the NHS receiving the £350m a week promised six years ago on the side of a bus despite neither the tax nor the funding being in place.

Now the government is facing another squeeze on funding. Inflation has increased the cost of servicing the government's enormous debt. A "fiscally responsible" party would raise taxes - ideally on those most able to pay, the rich - but of course the Conservatives are entirely wedded to the voodoo economic view that the path to national prosperity lies in making sure that wealth and income inequality is as high as possible. :mad:

Interest payments on government borrowing last month hit a record high for December as surging inflation increased the cost of debt.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said interest on government debt hit £8.1bn last month - up from £2.7bn a year earlier.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-60117150
 
The only people defending Boris Johnson tonight are George Eustace, Peter Bone and Nadine ******* Dorries.
Imagine how low you would have sunk if that was your line of defence?

Give it 24 hours before calling it. IMO other cabinet members are just waiting to be presented with the right form of wording before stepping in front of the cameras.

I note from Grant Shapps' performance this morning that they seem to be going with the "It was a nice, but misjudged move from his staff but Boris Johnson knew nothing about it" defence.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-...efad9be0f9ce3d8e6522bb&pinned_post_type=share

Whether they'll make the same defence when it turns out that the evening event wasn't just six close family members adhering to social distancing and instead it was, say, a dozen friends and family meeting indoors/outdoors.
 
We didn’t burn him! (Bonus points for knowing where that’s from…)

That he’s felt the need to weigh in seems to suggest he may have said something he now regrets.

That was what came to my mind too! Appropriate for the Tories. "This is a local country for local people. There's nothing for you here"
 
It's got so bad that even the Met have decided that they have to be seen to be doing something:

The Metropolitan Police will investigate a number of events at Downing Street and Whitehall in relation to potential breaches of Covid regulations, Dame Cressida Dick announces.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-...efccff0a22d424c588ae5e&pinned_post_type=share

I'm sure that they'll look in a way that they're guaranteed not to find anything "inconvenient" to either the government or senior police officers. Imagine the furore if it turns out that plod were at one or more of the gatherings. ;)
 
It's got so bad that even the Met have decided that they have to be seen to be doing something:



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-...efccff0a22d424c588ae5e&pinned_post_type=share

I'm sure that they'll look in a way that they're guaranteed not to find anything "inconvenient" to either the government or senior police officers. Imagine the furore if it turns out that plod were at one or more of the gatherings. ;)


"We asked the officers concerned for their notebooks covering the period but unfortunately they were all destroyed in mystery fire started by a stray birthday cake candle"
 
"Commissioner Cressida Dick said ... the investigation was launched as a "result of the information provided by the Cabinet Office inquiry team", led by civil servant Sue Gray."

But the BBC understands the report will not be published while the Met are investigating, and it is not clear how long the force will take.

Would it be cynical of me to think it very convenient that Sue Gray's report will be delayed while the Met investigation is ongoing?
 
Would it be cynical of me to think it very convenient that Sue Gray's report will be delayed while the Met investigation is ongoing?

I already thought just that.

But I have a long-standing reputation for cynicism (ask a couple of botany lecturers at Sheffield in 1977...).

And another thing: WTAF is Carrie doing at all those "work events"? Carrot Flower Queen and I were never at each other's work things, even though it might have been helpful at times, what with both working in different bits of the NHS. And if your robbing git interior designer is there it definitely isn't work...
 
Would it be cynical of me to think it very convenient that Sue Gray's report will be delayed while the Met investigation is ongoing?

And the Met investigation delayed while the Sue Gray report is pending - because Sue Gray will provide the evidence which will form the basis for the Met investigation - and vice versa ;)
 
And the Met investigation delayed while the Sue Gray report is pending - because Sue Gray will provide the evidence which will form the basis for the Met investigation - and vice versa ;)

They've got some combination of Kafka and Joseph Heller in to write the script, haven't they? With Flann O'Brien/Brian O'Nolan/Myles Na gCopaleen in as script consultant.
 
Tory head saying the Grey report must wait until the police investigation is complete.

So that's it in the 'long grass' until after the council elections then?
 
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