Well the plods are well named at the speed of this investigation. What the hell is up with them? possibly a few high ranking officers back handers slowing it down to nothing?
Dame Cressida Dick stepped down before she was investigated ,I wonder why?
Or it could simply be a mixture of what will happen to our titles if we do anything, plus the fact that Basit Javid, brother of MP Sajid Javid, is a Deputy Assistant Commissioner at the met.
backhanders don’t always refer to cash trasfer there are other ways one can benefit such as promotion or keeping a job
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This is all very strange. The met can launch a raid on a Russian oligarchs property that has squatters within a few hours. But it takes a month to get to this point. In this alleged investigation into this government scandal.
Or being given a title. For example, Dame Cressida Dick.
Government sources told the BBC the Met could issue the fines on Tuesday.
We shall see what we shall see … 
The police will not be naming the individuals or confirming which events the fixed penalty notices relate to.
However, Downing Street has said it would say if the prime minister is among the recipients.
The fixed penalty notices will be passed to the ACRO Criminal Records Office, who have responsibility for issuing the fines to individuals.
Recipients of fines have 28 days to either pay or contest the penalty.
Police have issued 20 fines to staff so far, but Dominic Raab told the BBC the PM had not received one yet.
Well, I’ll suggest that he lied … he’s notorious for the practice … 
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Any word on when the MET is going to investigate Keir Starmer and his nine partying MPs?
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He wouldn’t recognise the truth if it bit him on the butt, would he?
I really think he thinks telling the truth is for the peasants and he’s far too special for anyone to expect it from him
Perhaps it’s not as important as investigating someone who was PM at the time and lay down the law to the rest of us then laughed at us and partyed while we couldn’t comfort our dying loved ones or go to their funerals
Or a PM who told blatant lies to Parliament
Do you not think that being Leader of Her Majesty’s Opposition is an important job, Maree?
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You’re not concerned about the pure hypocrisy of Starmer and co denouncing the PM (which, BTW, his presence at the alleged party hasn’t been confirmed), while doing exactly the same thing himself? I hope that Starmer and his cohorts will be investigated with equal vigour.
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Yeah, of course it’s an important job.
But the right-wingers and Johnson fans just use whataboutery about Starmer to muddy the water over the disgusting way their little darling has behaved
There’s no comparison with a Prime Minister who imposed those laws on the rest of us but clearly thought he was above all that and carried on partying and laughing at us while we made huge sacrices and suffered terrible grief
And then he lied to Parliament about it. That’s a serious thing and there should be consequences
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Fine, but Captain Hindsight should be held to the same or, perhaps, even higher, standards as the PM. He should be investigated too.
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Why, though? I’m sure lots of people broke the laws
But they weren’t the Prime Minister of the country at the time and didn’t make the laws.
This is what make Johnson such a horrible hypocrite and horrible human being
Anything Starmer did pales into insignificance and anything he did doesn’t excuse what Johnson did
But I agree that everyone should have higher standards than Boris Johnson, (and to be honest, that wouldn’t be hard)
And Johnson fans calling out for Starmer to be investigated as cover are pretty quiet about what the consequences should be for Johnson
I do not give a tinker’s about any of this party-gate malarkey. There are far more important things to confront our future and the quicker they are brought to the fore the better.
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Let us cut to the chase. This has nothing to do with having parties, it’s all about trying to unseat Boris Johnson. The opposition can’t bear the fact that he got Brexit done and that they got their arses kicked by an eighty seat majority in the last GE where most of their traditional voter base turned against them and voted Tory for the first time, possibly, in their lives. Starmer and crew, were, and still are, Remainers at heart and would drag us back to EU control in a heartbeat if they ever got back into power (god forbid). The so-called Red Wall, from mainly Leave areas, knew this and so turned their backs on supporting the party.
The opposition (such as it is) can’t get Johnson out via the ballot box, so have to resort to underhand methods to get him to resign.
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# Full list of 18 party allegations facing Boris Johnson
A reminder of some Tory parties - the police may be aware of more.
Jan 26, 2022
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is in hot water politically over a series of parties and events held while various lockdown restrictions were in place.
The lockdown events reinforce a perception that the ruling party likes to make the rules but not abide by them.
Mr Johnson and his aides have found various explanations for the gatherings, including thinking they were work events, while denying some even occurred.
Here is a list of the restrictions enacted in the UK over the course of the pandemic and how members of the government reportedly broke them.
May 13, 2020: restrictions ease
In outdoor public places, people are only allowed to meet one person outside their household — friends and family cannot meet at each other’s homes, even in the garden — but a full lockdown was relaxed.
May 15, 2020 party
Mr Johnson is photographed with his then-fiancée Carrie Symonds at an event with senior Downing Street staff. They insist it was a work event.
May 20, 2020 party
About 100 staff receive invitations for “socially distanced drinks in the No 10 garden”. It also advises: “Bring your own booze.”
Mr Johnson’s senior aide Martin Reynolds invited staff “to make the most of the lovely weather in the No 10 garden this evening”.
But Mr Johnson now says no one told him it was a party and he “categorically” denies knowing about the event beforehand or receiving warnings it breached the rules he had set for the public.
June 1, 2020: restrictions ease
People are allowed to meet outside in groups of up to six. Exceptions are made for work and education.
June 19, 2020 party
Happy birthday, Mr Prime Minister. A small event was organised to celebrate but he also reportedly attended a party for 30 people in the Cabinet room. Downing Street said he was there for less than 10 minutes.
October 31, 2020: restrictions tightened
Boris Johnson announced a new four-week lockdown across England. Getty Images
All indoor socialising is banned between households and outside of support bubbles. The second lockdown will kick in on February 4.
November 13, 2020 party
Mr Johnson reportedly attends a gathering of staff and makes a leaving speech to the communications chief Lee Cain.
November 25, 2020 party
Chancellor Rishi Sunak delivers the 2020 Spending Review to Parliament and Treasury staff have a get-together in their office.
November 27, 2020 party
Mr Johnson makes another speech at another leaving event, this time for aide Cleo Watson. Up to 50 people reportedly attended.
December 2, 2020: restrictions ease
The full lockdown ends but tiered location restrictions take its place. In London, there are no inside meetings allowed and up to six people can meet outside.
December 10, 2020 party
Former education secretary Gavin Williamson gives a speech at a party hosted in his department where canapés and drinks are served.
December 14, 2020 party
A Christmas party is held at Conservative Party headquarters, arranged by the campaign team of their London mayoral candidate, Shaun Bailey.
December 15, 2020 party
The prime minister appeared virtually at a Christmas quiz event for staff from the Cabinet Office and from Number 10.
December 16, 2020: restrictions tighten
Nine days before Christmas, London tightens restrictions and outdoor gatherings are banned. Rule of six gatherings can still take in outside public space. Aides to Grant Shapps have a Christmas party in Whitehall.
December 17, 2020 party
Cabinet Secretary Simon Case holds a quiz event, with most taking part virtually, for his team, and a leaving party takes place for Kate Josephs, in charge of the unit responsible for enacting restrictions.
December 18, 2020 party
A reported Christmas party takes place in the Downing Street press office.
April 12, 2021: restrictions ease
A ban on different households meeting indoors remains in place and social contact rules continue.
April 16, 2021 party
On the evening before the Duke Of Edinburgh’s funeral, two leaving parties are held in Downing Street.
May 17, 2021: restrictions ease
Outdoor mixing is relaxed so that up to 30 people can meet. Indoor social events, including at restaurants, are now allowed for up to six people or two households.
May 26, 2021 party
A leaving party is held inside Number 10.
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But do you really want a PM with no integrity, who can’t be trusted to behave with decency, and lied to Parliament to cover his own backside, to be the one to lead us through those more important things?
That sound as if it would be a very dangerous thing for our country’s future to me
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