This governments shenanigans

[Sarah]

Full list of the (so far) 15 alleged COVID rule-breaking parties/social gatherings held in Downing Street and across government:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ng-parties

Including the latest reported:

19 June 2020: PM’s birthday party
Despite Covid rules forbidding indoor social gatherings, ITV reported on Monday that a birthday party was thrown for Johnson, organised by his now wife and attended by up to 30 people – with a cake presented to the prime minister.

[blythburgh]

To me the thing we should be most angry about is the reasons behind the resignation in The House of Lords of Govt Minister, Lord Agnew.

More and more allegations about fraud not being fully investigated and senior party MP's, Peers and high placed friends getting their friends and relatives a fast track to get Covid contracts. Lady Mone got a fast track for a firm that was still being set up. At the same time businesses that were making or capable of making necessary stuff were left to wait for many weeks before they could supply the Govt. I can still remember one boss saying all this PPE is going abroad when I would rather sell it to protect fellow Brits

[macliam]

Full list of the (so far) 15 alleged COVID rule-breaking parties/social gatherings held in Downing Street and across government:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ng-parties

Including the latest reported:

19 June 2020: PM’s birthday party
Despite Covid rules forbidding indoor social gatherings, ITV reported on Monday that a birthday party was thrown for Johnson, organised by his now wife and attended by up to 30 people – with a cake presented to the prime minister.

But this wasn't a party according to George Eustace! Now we are not discussing right and wrong, but semantics....

[Sarah]

They've been hiding behind semantics all along; now even the most generous interpretations are still situations that weren't allowed under the restrictions. We all know there was no exception to attend gatherings for 10 minutes (if you believe that claim) even when it was your birthday.

[Chadwick]

The rules didn't ban 'parties'. They banned gatherings of people for any unnecessary reason.
The ministers hiding behind semantics are just making themselves look foolish and guilty.

In any case, it's not the event itself that is causing anger. It's the government's attitude that they were above their own rules, and then that they could lie to and deceive parliament and the public to cover up their error. It's the same approach that's been used on the PPE providers.
Coupled with their right wing xenophobia and other prejudices, it makes them an extremely unpleasant (some would say dangerous) group of people.

[blythburgh]

Former Australian PM Paul Keating rants at ‘deluded’ Britain

Paul Keating says Britain, suffers from ‘delusions of grandeur and relevance deprivation’ and will not be taken seriously in the Indo-Pacific region.

[Sarah]

Sue Gray’s inquiry has now triggered a police investigation into the Downing Street parties. Her report is no longer expected to be concluded until after that takes place or published in full.

https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status ... 71491?s=20
https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/ ... 81026?s=20

[macliam]

[Sarah]

So now they're saying the Sue Gray report might be released today after all, perhaps just before PMQs.

This unconfirmed redacted preview has emerged online:

[im118198]

I for one obeyed all the rules

Cannot believe that the very prime minister who set all the rules, ignored them

If he had a shred of honour he wouldve resigned long before now