I was stopped three times in two months by the police walking to work through Manor Royal asking were I was going, I had to produce a letter from the airline showing I was “allowed” to go to work.
Madness.
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I was stopped three times in two months by the police walking to work through Manor Royal asking were I was going, I had to produce a letter from the airline showing I was “allowed” to go to work.
Madness.
Anyone volunteering to read it and summarise?
https://assets.publishing.service.g...RMANENT_SECRETARY_INTO_ALLEGED_GATHERINGS.pdf
https://assets.publishing.service.g...RMANENT_SECRETARY_INTO_ALLEGED_GATHERINGS.pdf
Insel affe
HellBilly
Why bother, It won't make a blind bit of difference, Boris will say, we have learnt from our lessons let us all move on, nothing to see here...
Conservative politicians will pull rank and file, in fear and hope to ride it out until 2025 hoping this will all blow over....
The Tw@t should just go....
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
We did the same in Dec 2020 going to Yorkshire, which was in Tier 4 (no travel in or out unless necessary) to attend mother in law's funeral. A letter from the funeral director.
Dick Swiveller
Well-known member
- Sep 9, 2011
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I had a letter saying some of our sites could be used as temporary morgues so I could work. Nothing to do with cake - this shit was real.
Dick Swiveller
Well-known member
- Sep 9, 2011
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The birthday party wasn't just cake. There were sandwiches everywhere. All of the pictures feature the same person.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
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Dick Swiveller
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- Sep 9, 2011
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Classy people working in No. 10
The event lasted for a number of hours. There was excessive alcohol consumption
by some individuals. One individual was sick. There was a minor altercation
between two other individuals.
The event broke up in stages with a few members of staff leaving from around
21.00 and the last member of staff, who stayed to tidy up, leaving at 03.13.
The event lasted for a number of hours. There was excessive alcohol consumption
by some individuals. One individual was sick. There was a minor altercation
between two other individuals.
The event broke up in stages with a few members of staff leaving from around
21.00 and the last member of staff, who stayed to tidy up, leaving at 03.13.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I've only looked briefly at the conclusions of the report. As expected, weak, wishy-washy and without any condemnation of the PM directly. Maybe that was the bit Gray was told to remove when she met with Johnson recently.
from the final paragraph:-
It is my firm belief, however, that these events did not reflect the prevailing culture in Government and the Civil Service at the time. Many thousands of people up and down the country worked tirelessly to deliver in unprecedented times.
from the final paragraph:-
It is my firm belief, however, that these events did not reflect the prevailing culture in Government and the Civil Service at the time. Many thousands of people up and down the country worked tirelessly to deliver in unprecedented times.
Machiavelli
Well-known member
I don't disagree with your overall assessment, but it's worth stressing two things:
-- it's Durham police and not the Met that have re-opened investigations
-- I understand (and might have this wrong) that the Met only got round to investigating a few of the multiple parties that took place in Downing St. It would be nice to have clarity here, and even the Mayor of London is asking for this (who the Met is answerable to). But if it is the case that only a few were investigated, we deserve an explanation. Devoid of that, I'll carry on working with the assumption that the Met is corrupt and politically corrupt -- which is not ideal when the forces are supposed to deliver 'community-led policing'.
Standard Christmas Day in my house.
Dom seems to say a lot and have very little evidence to back it up, which is shame as it would be even more damaging.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
I am almost sure (because I posted a quote a few pages ago) that only two of the eight parties were investigated by the Met, one of which was the ambushed by cake.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
There are 300 photos as I recall. Cummings seems to be releasing them when he feels like it.
- Apr 5, 2014
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Yes, Johnson lied, others lied, and will continue to lie. They all took the piss, but because they have a majority and can switch the headlines with their media chums it doesn't matter. Anyway, it didn't happen. Until it did. And when it did we'll say it did, but it didn't.
Anyway, everything is so much better now. So concentrate on things that matter and stop moaning about an unaccountable and feral elite.
Don't you know there's a war on ?
Have skim-read it
Loads of instances of gatherings (many of which were ‘extensions’ of the working day) with half-arsed attempts to invoke social distancing etc
Degree of rule-breaking varied from event to event and protocols at the time but multiple instances where rules were definitely and knowingly broken
‘Senior leaders’ front and centre of many of the events, both in terms of organising and attending
Nothing that new or remarkable really TBH other than more detail about each gathering and the message exchanges before and after some of them. We know they happened, and that they’ve been lied about
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Doesn’t help you have a couple of the media looking at this that also broke the rules and got suspended for it.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Reckon BJ has been thrown a lifeline in the report conclusion 'there is significant learning to be drawn from these events which must be addressed immediately across government'. BJ only has to look contrite and say lessons have been learnt