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Originally Posted by Mick
Starmer questioned on Beergate on GMB, this morning as it is now revealed 30 people were at the event he was at when he was filmed last year drinking beer during lockdown rules.
Skip to 8:15 Minutes to get to Beergate questioning.
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Thanks for posting. He didn't help himself in the Radio 4 interview but this is a robust denial.
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Originally Posted by Mick
The mistake here is, you have not got a clue what your talking about when it comes to breaches of the lockdown rules and are being very politically pathetic and one sided when it comes to who broke the rules and who didn't and who should and who should not be fined.
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I'll continue to cast my move freely at every election be it Conservative, Liberal Democrats, Labour, Greens...whoever, I've voted for all those parties. I'll take an evidence-based approach as oppose to believing disinformation from an overtly newspaper because that disinformation suits my political views and I want to believe it's true.
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I think you are lacking in skills when it comes to the law and what can and cannot happen in an investigation - it can be reopened when new evidence comes to light and it has, first we had the LIES that Angela Rayner was not there but then she was, now we have details of about 30 people being there, all eating and drinking beer which they should not have been doing as it was against the rules - you being obtuse and pathetic about Starmer being cleared does not cut it, the event can be re-investigated any time.
The rules were explicit and obvious:
No meeting indoors of any kind, even during campaigning unless for working purposes, when Starmer is holding a beer and is seen in footage talking to several people in a room, he is not working, that is a social gathering.
No food to be shared amongst people, you are not households with. If you are having a takeaway with 30 people and drinking beer, it's a an egregious breach of the rules that were in place.
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I've got some sympathy with you here. You found a document on gov.uk and evaluated Starmer's takeaway meal against it and found him at fault. Why on earth is a fine not winging its way to him right now?
Trouble is, it's not that simple and guidance and interpretation changed after the date of that document. I admire your confidence in believing you're right and the former Director of Public Prosecutions is wrong and it's a lovely David and Goliath battle.
If it was as clear-cut as you present it, Starmer would not stand a chance. Instead, he would be accepting a fine and there would be talk of a leadership challenge.