ITV - Boris Johnson pictured drinking at Downing Street party during lockdown - Photos

Excuse me but why are you asking ME that question?

Surely this is the post that you should be replying to:

Anyone to the right of Joe Stalin, I shouldn’t wonder.

Sorry 'bout that - and you’re absolutely right. I screwed up (agin!)

OK … thanks … :+1:

Who took these photos originally they must have been in the room too and knowing that at sometime they were going to leak them to the press. There must be a mole in the hole somewhere .

Anyway this government are laughing at us and consider us fools and well beneath them

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Were going round in circles again, the “rule maker” broke them, that is the essential difference.

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Apparently:

A government source told BBC News the photos may have been taken by the official No 10 photographer and proved Mr Johnson was there in a work capacity.

:man_shrugging:

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Probably Cummings.

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Hi

The problem that Boris has got is quite simple.

Forget the conspiracy theories.

Every one going into and out of of Downing Street is monitored.

Every movement into and out of every door way is monitored, every corridor is monitored.

The lower forms of Human Life have been fined, the bosses have not.

The problem Boris has now that the minions, the cleaners, have now been involved.

They are quite blunt and very dangerous.

Now that the fact cannot be denied the Tories are inventing lame excuses … :roll_eyes:

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So you’d class John Bercow as a Tory then.

Why would I?

And who cares.

Think this post was supposed to have been aimed at me. And you have obviously not listened to the programme if you think that.

Omah

Sky News

Sadiq Khan demands explanation from police after ‘smoking gun’ pictures - as…

Mr Khan said the PM appeared to have been “caught red-handed” in the newly-released photographs of a leaving do in November 2020 but transport secretary Grant Shapps said he was “clearly not” partying.

Mr Shapps told Sky News: “The question is, was he down there partying? No, clearly not - he’d gone by to say thanks and raise a glass to a colleague who was leaving.”

BBC News

Downing Street parties: What Covid rules were broken?

Police issued 126 fines during the Partygate investigation, including those for Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak.

The rules at the time

A second national lockdown was in force.

The rules prohibited indoor gatherings of two or more people. The police have confirmed that the fines handed out over this event were for breaching this restriction. An exception was allowed if the gathering “was reasonably necessary” for work purposes.

Neither the prime minister nor Mrs Johnson were fined in relation to events on this date.

The “working safely during coronavirus” guidance at the time said only “absolutely necessary participants should attend meetings and should maintain 2m separation throughout”.

There is nothing in the guidelines that would suggest that drinking, socialising or other types of work event along these lines would have been allowed.

BJ may not have been “partying” but he participated in an illegal “gathering”, thereby condoning it, breaking his own law on two counts.

I do … :mrgreen:

Starmer was a rule maker and has even admitted to it and if he had his way he’d have gone a lot further.

From your article:

Sources later stressed Mr Shapps was talking about the period of the Covid pandemic more generally, and not trying to suggest Boris Johnson was mourning his mother during the party itself.

Mr Shapps said: “I don’t think these things should have happened, but I think it’s probably worth recalling in context that throughout this period the Prime Minister himself had been extremely ill, had a close brush with coronavirus, he lost his mum during the period, he was dealing with the pandemic.

“By the looks of things he goes and thanks somebody who’s leaving, he raises his glass to them.

“And as I say, I - having like everyone in this country lived through coronavirus and in many cases made enormous sacrifices - don’t enjoy seeing pictures that suggest anything else.

Because you stated this:

> A leopard never changes its spots.

Then you also care about Starmer breaking the rules then. And you of course aren’t a hypocrite so followed the rules to the T. And you have never speeded or parked somewhere where you shouldn’t have.

You miss the point, every politician was probably bending the rules as were probably 70% of the general public but, none of this number stood at a podium and made the decrees, that is the inescapable fact for the individual.

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