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The Met has been requested to open an enquiry. Their previous excuse that potential crimes that happened in the past could not be investigated has been found wanting.

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It looks like Beijing enjoys productive relations with some Conservative MPs so I'm surprised they bothered with that guy. Here's some previously undisclosed PPE providers that accessed the VIP lane:

https://goodlawproject.org/news/mini...ed-parliament/

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Could be worse - the Conservative Party (including a quarter of the Cabinet) could be accepting donations from citizens of a country with whom we look as if we could be going to war with in the next couple of weeks, and whose Government poisoned (& murdered) some people in our country about three years ago…

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There's something in the offing about them enquiring about his flat refurbishment to

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And that some how excuses or cancells out the 16 known so far parties or something :dozey:

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Yep.One against 16 or possibly more parties,works do,leaving do etc.

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The allegations may say there were parties. Let’s see how the police define them before we rush to judgement on Dominic Cummings’ bile, shall we?

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Great, now do Labour’s Barry Gardener and the recently discovered Chinese spy. :rolleyes:

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Allegations of parties, allegations.

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Guido Fawkes has a brilliant quote today against the Remainiac John Major, ex PM.

Wheeling out this old clown might actually improve support for Boris, not scupper it.

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So were millions of other people, letting in other people, yes, shock horror, they too, was breaking lockdown rules.

:zzz:

Change the record, you and others in this thread, posting one sided rubbish is getting boring now.

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John Major hit the nail on the head. It was a perfect summing up of the current situation.


And the chief clown, bumbling Boris was once again pictured with a garland of tinsel and a bottle of Bolly to sustain himself through yet another business meeting. :rolleyes:

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Got a link to that picture?

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I think one may have been linked to earlier. If you check tomorrow's press I'm sure more will have mysteriously surfaced. ;)

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Exactly. It's worse than the unlawful prorogation of Parliament as it affects every voter in the country who followed the rules and made big social sacrifices in doing so.

Conservative-voting souls like Chris and Seph know Johnson is toxic for the Party as he has breached the trust the country placed in him. They are able to appreciate the difference between a member of public breaking the rules slightly and someone in a position of power breaking the very rules that they told others to follow and to stand up in Parliament and deny it.

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Here's a revelation from YouTube ;)

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No such picture exists

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As OB said earlier.

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Do you mean the post I was responding to, about the Chinese lawyer who had sent money to the Labour MP, and had also attended fund-raising events for the Conservative Party with Theresa May and Boris Johnson?

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Pretty sure we weren't the ones setting the rules and implementing new laws to stop this sort of thing, and going on TV most days saying don't do these things - which is quite a bit of a difference...

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:gpoint:

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So you know that he actually drank whatever was in that bottle?

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I agree.

I also think with foreign companies, particularly those with State ownership connections in Russia, the Middle East and China, there's another issue - they're also potentially seeking British political favours as well as commercial ones.

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Still doesn’t mean he broke any rules.

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And what will you say when the police clear BJ?

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Doesn’t matter if he did. Drinks at business meetings are not uncommon and did not fall foul of the rules.

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I think I may have found that picture, you know, the one alluded to . . . .


https://www.cableforum.uk/images/local/2022/02/5.jpg


For those in need . . . https://www.specsavers.co.uk ;)

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:D:D

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Thanks, yes all there, tinsel, bubbly and Bojo. Strange backdrop for a work meeting.

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So you keep saying. It’s boringly irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. :zzz:

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These photos get funnier and funnier!

Can't wait to see the next instalment, we might see the fabled clown's costume in the end!

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The Government thought otherwise…

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...5&d=1644518628

https://twitter.com/govuk/status/133...522270721?s=21

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BREAKING: Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick is/has resigned.

https://www.gbnews.uk/news/cressida-...ssioner/223979

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About time, she was about as useful as a chocolate kettle.

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Bojo in the background, along with an unidentified female holding a mobile.
An unidentified person at a desk to the right, with open laptop.
Strange chap center with a garland around his neck and a highly intelligent look on his face.
One bottle of bubbly on the left of the desk.

Definitely proof Bojo was getting pissed at a drinks party while not working. :rolleyes:

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Good, jumped before she was pushed

:waving: bye bye dame dick, bit of luck she'll take the mayor with her

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Hmm pixilated female and bozo is adjusting his clothing, Carrie will be furious :sick:

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Carrie is out of the picture, this side of the desk, doing a striptease . . . which may explain the look on the face of the chap sitting ;)

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Definitely proof Bojo was at a drinks party when it was against the rules…

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There's always a first time...

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Possibly just walked into the office to see who was singing off key while he was trying to sleep?

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I'm sure that's the explanation, he's an honourable chap who wouldn't try and pull the wool over peoples eyes ;)

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Probably just got up, put on a suit and tie, then just walked down from the second floor of 11 Downing Street and made his way through a maze of corridors to see who was singing off key in an office in 10 Downing Street whilst he was trying to sleep?

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Isn't that what OB has been saying all along?

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You missed out the VIP Covid lane, writing off billions in fraud, Russian donations to Tory MP's, etc.

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I think I'll let them off the tax thing due to COVID to be fair. Maybe a stupid promise to make though.

The Paterson stuff was worse than the parties IMO, just proper corruption and arrogance to think the rules don't apply to them so they'll change those rules if they're caught breaking them. Worst of all was the minister who said the women who investigated him should 'consider her position'!! That is the absolute height of their arrogance, it was their own rules and commission but they openly went out to change the rules to get their mate off the hook with glee thinking they can do whatever they want. Since then everything has gone a bit wrong for them.

Similar to the parties though they pretended they were the victims because the rules they set were unfair even though they were the ones who made them.

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More sleaze
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c...d86ab55b4987c1

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Not really, that's pretty much how lobbying and government has always been and always will be.

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I have been racking my mind to try and remember who it is that Boris reminds me of. It’s just hit me. Benny Hill.

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I thought this an interesting overview of what Johnson's team are doing behind the scenes to influence public opinion.

From The Independent via MSN
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other...?ocid=msedgntp

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See above.

It is hard to argue that the parties were necessary for work and no such thing as a work event existed during lockdown. And let's not forget that Johnson told Parliament that there had been no parties.

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It was not an offence to have a 'work event' if the event was not clearly a party (a social event). It was not an offence to have an alcoholic drink while working.

So if Boris was wheeled out by his advisor to thank his staff for their work, this would be OK. However, if that event then degenerated into a social event, those attending it would have been breaking the rules.

The decision of the police in relation to Starmer's beer drinking 'break' is quite helpful as a precedent in this regard.

I do not recall BJ saying there were no parties, but he did say he had 'been advised that no rules were broken'.

Clearly, 'parties', which fall under 'social events', were unlawful. But what still needs to be proved is that these gatherings were, in fact, parties. We will no soon enough what these events actually were.

As for the 'Abba music blaring from his flat' - who was there? We know Boris and Carrie were there, but Boris says he was working in another room.

There are too many questions that need to be answered, but it hasn't stopped the Boris haters to side with Cummings and believe implicitly the bile he is projecting, projectile-like, despite not giving him the time of day over his claim that he was 'testing his eyesight' while in Durham.

Believe what you want to, but the truth will be available soon. And I think many will be disappointed by what is revealed.

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It's not a question about being a Cummings lover or a Johnson hater. It's a question about misleading Parliament and the public losing its respect for the law-making process of the United Kingdom.

There's a good reason that we didn't need as strict a lock down as some countries and why our vaccination rates were so high - the public entrusted its elected leaders to make the right decisions. That trust is being severely stretched by Partygate.

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Booooooooooring who cares.

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Well if we dont all disappear in nuclear armageddon, someone might, somewhere. :sleep:

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You obviously care enough to read and post on the thread!

Plenty of threads I don't care about so I don't read and post on them!

;)

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Thank you, Nadine Dorries…

"Work event"

How could party hats, tinsel, birthday cakes, "bring your own booze", be "reasonably necessary for work"?.

Anyway, at the time, the phrase used was "essential", not "reasonably necessary"

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/...ade?view=plain

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We can see from this appproval tracker why Starmer should be quite happy at the moment! https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/uk...public-1462176

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Unfortunately that site doesn't allow ad blockers so I'm not interested in linking to it.

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:tu: many sites immediately lose my interest for that same reason ;)

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Does not block mine. uBlock Origin.

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It’s a question of whether or not the allegations are correct in the first place. That’s the point, and it is the point you keep ignoring.

I know that you want the allegations to be correct, but that does not make it so.

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I don’t know how you think any of that is relevant. It was never against the rules to wear party hats and tinsel, eat cake, drink alcohol while working in the office.

I know you really, really want to prove that Boris was culpable, but do you see how flaky your arguments are? Prepare to crash land when the police give their verdict…

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But again it all depended on the situation as this Government Tweet says:
https://twitter.com/GOVUK/status/133..._uv2qCsZMgh32A

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Here's the Boris Johnson approval rating form that i newspaper article.


https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...3&d=1645107696
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/uk...public-1462176

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I'm just using default settings.

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Quite. When I last worked in an office, staff dressed up in a 'Christmassy' manner every Christmas, but they still got on with their work in the normal way.

I don't recollect their being allegations of any Christmas lunch parties. Clearly, that would be against the rules.

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The fracking cookie consent again blocks half the page so I cant be bothered with it :td: I just closed the tab.

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I don't get that either.

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No-one’s dancing or singing. They look like they are working to me.

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Were they working whilst doing the Christmas Quiz that Johnson was reading out the questions to them?

(waits for OB to insist they were multi-tasking, or that all the questions were "work related"… :rolleyes:)

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Any news on who won the quiz and what the prize was? :D

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If Starmer can have a beer with colleagues on his break, I don’t see why the PM shouldn’t choose to indulge in a quiz during his break.

To my knowledge, participating in an online quiz was not against the Covid rules. Are you scraping the barrel,or what?

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He's underneath it now ;)

When i worked for VM all our meetings started with a quiz and there was always food .at xmas there was silly jumpers /hats /tinsel/a raffle,we also had meetings at various pubs, i think some people must have worked at some pretty crap places or they just have a rod up their arse about 1950s rules.

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I wonder occasionally whether some of them have ever been employed at all. I wouldn’t have them on my payroll!

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If they worked for me they would find their arse bouncing down the car park after the first week.

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Was that during the Lockdown?

I worked for Jones Cable, BCM, Encom, and contracted with a number of other Cable Companies - we often had work meetings in pubs, but we weren’t in the middle of a Pandemic then, so your proposition lacks both substance, accuracy, and relevance…

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So that’ll be a "No, it wasn’t work related", then…

Pretty sure the Laws and Regulations that were promulgated and passed by Johnson didn’t have a paragraph stating -

9 C (3) ii
If you’re on a break, ignore all previous references to only undertaking essential work-related activities

With that rationale, you’ve not only scraped the barrel, you’ve gone through the bottom of the barrel, and dug so deep you’ve come out in the Pacific Ocean south of New Zealand…

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Are you ok, Hugh?

It was work related. When I last looked, the Working Time Regulations stated that every employee working 6 hours or more was entitled to a break. What was he supposed to do, sit there and twiddle his thumbs while he ate his jam sandwiches? If he chose to participate in an an online quiz, I think you are being overly enthusiastic if you interpret the rules in such an inflexible way.

I say again, the police have accepted Sir Keir Starmer’s beer with others on his break, so go figure.

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I knew there was a thread about the No 10 parties. Don't understand why I couldn't find it ... maybe time to revisit Specsavers. Here's the link I gave yesterday about " Partygate: Met Police to issue first fines" which prompted OB's posts. :)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60906757

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I agree. Also who would actually want to take his place. Any Conservative MP would have to see that becoming PM at this stage would be a Kiss of Death to their future career aspirations.

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It's the comments I'm seeing on FB that annoy me the most.Implying that it's no big issue that he and his team at number 10 didn't obey the rules.If we don't find those in charge accountable at ANY point then why bother having any kind of democracy?

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I think we need to wait for Sue Gray’s report, which will be published in full once the police investigation is over and done with. Too many assumptions are being made and for all we know, Boris may well have been in the dark about these goings on.

He has restructured his No 10 team in response to what he has discovered. If he is found to have been complicit in all this, fair enough, but let’s get the facts before we pass final judgement.

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Absolutely agree. I stopped reading the comments in most of my old haunts some time ago.

:erm: Those that I do still read, such as here, I have found myself writing a comment then deleting it as I know it will only prompt either sarky comments or be totally ignored.

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No, it doesn’t. That is only part of the evidence. Where is the context?

I think too many people are applying the ‘gotcha’ mentality without even caring whether it’s the truth or not.

Well, I want the truth, not the speculation or the slant some like to put on this.

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Clearly, Seph, your mind is closed now and no amount of factual information will persuade you otherwise.

He has apologised to Parliament for the actions of his staff, not for his own conduct.

Not long to wait now. Let’s not go round in another circle until we have the actual facts.

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From the other thread

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-60925233

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Had party really don't care , we had one in the restaurant at the sendd , no one did anything about the am,s at that ,but they were labour

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I don't really understand any of that, but the point is nobody should have been having any parties least of all those who decided we couldn't have them and made it a criminal offence to do so.

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Classic Old Boy, where have you been the last few weeks? How I've missed your middle of the road mindset.

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And the classics continue, just do a find and replace for Seph to Old Boy.....

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Those questions were based on photographic evidence placed in the public domain and not the opinions of Cummings who you have now decided are nonsense. So no reason whatsoever for you not to follow your own advice to wait for the published inquiry.

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I think I’d rather wait for the explanation of the circumstances behind that photograph.

You don’t get context, do you?

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"That photograph"? :confused:

There were several photographs!

I'm afraid that your hatred for Cummings may be causing you to forget a few things. Again, I urge you to follow your advice and wait for the report.

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Well it's all going to plan..successfully kicked into the long grass.