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13-01-2022, 11:36
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Why so? Because your average member of the public does not set the rules, nor do they stand up in Parliament and advise the House that they condemned parties that took place at their house and then subsequently admit to being at one.
The issues here are rule-breaking, honesty and poor decision-making. Not features you want from someone in the highest position of authority.
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13-01-2022, 11:45
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
False equivalence. Having Aunt Maud and Uncle Bill over for a cheeky prosecco in the garden was not comparable. And even Johnson is not daft enough to patronise the British public with such an excuse.
Why so? Because your average member of the public does not set the rules, nor do they stand up in Parliament and advise the House that they condemned parties that took place at their house and then subsequently admit to being at one.
The issues here are rule-breaking, honesty and poor decision-making. Not features you want from someone in the highest position of authority.
The only moving-on will be done by Johnson. Either this summer when the 1922 Committee gets enough votes to run a leadership challenge, or in 2024's general election.
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The numbers are almost certainly there, it’s just when the nudge goes in from the runners and riders to make a move. Knee deep in the current wave of Covid, energy bills, inflation. It’s a rocky start for anyone, and leaving the bumbling fool in place for a few weeks or months might actually be a prudent move to allow the next PM to draw a line under all of it with BoJo.
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13-01-2022, 11:57
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Why so? Because your average member of the public does not set the rules, nor do they stand up in Parliament and advise the House that they condemned parties that took place at their house and then subsequently admit to being at one.
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All true, but there is also a whole shovel full of hypocrisy around. Certainly I don't know how Beth Rigby has the front to be reporting on it.
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13-01-2022, 13:16
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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Originally Posted by jfman
The numbers are almost certainly there, it’s just when the nudge goes in from the runners and riders to make a move. Knee deep in the current wave of Covid, energy bills, inflation. It’s a rocky start for anyone, and leaving the bumbling fool in place for a few weeks or months might actually be a prudent move to allow the next PM to draw a line under all of it with BoJo.
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Agreed.
Outside the BoJo supporters who are outwardly at least in denial, and the Scottish Conservatives who were patronised by Rees-Mogg and want Johnson to go now, a summer leadership contest seems to be the consensus.
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13-01-2022, 13:24
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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I wonder if all those calling for heads to roll would be willing to be subject to investigation and prosecution for past events in quite the same way. "You have been found guilty of an event with 7 people attending when the limit was 6 on the evening of 21 May 2020, £200 fine."
If the event was illegal then prosecute accordingly, if not then so what? Foolish, insensitive all possible but investigate, deal and move on.
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Priti Patel used to be quite keen on investigating and prosecuting lockdown breaches, but suddenly isn't - wonder what's different?
https://www.indy100.com/politics/pri...olice-b1992164
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13-01-2022, 13:31
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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Originally Posted by Pierre
All true, but there is also a whole shovel full of hypocrisy around. Certainly I don't know how Beth Rigby has the front to be reporting on it.
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Not sure what Rigby did but she's not the Prime Minister.
In terms of hypocrisy, didn't Johnson call out Rita Orr for holding a party for 30 people? And Patel said she would happily grass her neighbours up if they broke the rules?
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Did she not also advocate stripping dual national convicted criminals of their British nationality? 
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13-01-2022, 14:32
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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Not sure what Rigby did but she's not the Prime Minister.
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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Not a great decision for a journalist!
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Sky News presenter Kay Burley and three colleagues have been taken off air while an investigation into breaches of Covid guidelines is carried out.
Political editor Beth Rigby, north of England correspondent Inzamam Rashid and presenter Sam Washington are also off air while the inquiry takes place.
BBC media editor Amol Rajan said Burley's job is hanging in the balance.
It follows her admission that she "broke the rules" while celebrating her 60th birthday at the weekend.
The journalist said she could "only apologise" for her "error of judgment".
Amol Rajan said she was one of a party of 10 people at the Century Club, a private members' club on London's Shaftesbury Avenue. Her group took up two tables, with six people on one and four on the other.
Burley then went onto Folie restaurant, where she used the toilet, before moving on to a private residence where individuals from at least three households mixed, Rajan said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55245914 |
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13-01-2022, 14:41
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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Thanks for the reminder.
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13-01-2022, 14:45
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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Not sure what Rigby did but she's not the Prime Minister.
In terms of hypocrisy, didn't Johnson call out Rita Orr for holding a party for 30 people? And Patel said she would happily grass her neighbours up if they broke the rules?
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Did she not also advocate stripping dual national convicted criminals of their British nationality?
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Beth Rigby was suspended from her job for 3 months because she broke the rules too.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...suspended.html
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13-01-2022, 14:59
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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"Suspended" is pushing it. She was taken off air while it blew over. No doubt on full pay.
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13-01-2022, 15:01
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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"Suspended" is pushing it. She was taken off air while it blew over. No doubt on full pay.
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But bardzo hypocrite nevertheless. In the press conferences, she is so righteous; I really dislike her. She doesn't have the Kuenssberg knack.
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13-01-2022, 15:06
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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Perhaps, since they were all colleagues, she implicitly believed it was a work meeting?
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13-01-2022, 16:39
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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Perhaps, since they were all colleagues, she implicitly believed it was a work meeting?
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Fair enough, she didn't lose her job over it though.
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13-01-2022, 16:44
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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Fair enough, she didn't lose her job over it though.
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They should have made changing her lipstick a condition of her return.
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13-01-2022, 16:45
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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Fair enough, she didn't lose her job over it though.
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Fair enough, but she didn’t write the laws that were broken…
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