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18-01-2022, 13:44
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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I decided to look up the full context of ‘damn with faint praise’. It’s rather good.
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Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,
Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.
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Pretty much nails it.
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18-01-2022, 13:49
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
Take a look on youtube for "Cassette Boy - Rage Against the Party Machine" if you fancy a giggle this afternoon.
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18-01-2022, 14:07
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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It would help to some extent if Boris, his PPS and all attendees reported themselves to the Police and let the law take its course. If the Police decide that the law was broken, these individuals would have to pay the prescribed penalty, maybe at a doubling rate for more than one attended party. That would put them on a par with public offenders. Sue Gray would be irrelevant to this if she found that only "guidance" was flouted.
It won't go away for the Guvmin if they flouted their own guidance; the public wouldn't see it favourably, never mind the flouting I reckon we've all done to some extent.
As to illegality, have a read of this: https://barristerblogger.com/2021/12...-street-party/
It's difficult to paste a useful quote due to the way the item is formatted. But really worth a read.
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Indeed, they should confess all to the police and let the system deal with it.
With all this coming out they're really going to struggle to get support if they try and extend Plan B especially face nappies. You only need to see what the comments are on a typical news article online to see how many people don't want it any more.
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18-01-2022, 14:14
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
"face nappies"?
Isn’t that something that "COVID-lovers" say?
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18-01-2022, 14:43
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
A categorical denial. Should he sue Cummings for slander?
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Johnson: Nobody warned me drinks event was against rules
Boris Johnson has "categorically" denied he was warned a drinks party in the No 10 garden risked breaking lockdown rules.
"Nobody warned me that it was against the rules," the prime minister said, adding: "I would have remembered that."
Former aide Dominic Cummings says he warned Mr Johnson at the time, and has accused him of misleading MPs about it.
Asked if he would resign if he was found to have misled MPs, Mr Johnson said: "Let's see what the report says."
Senior civil servant Sue Gray is due to publish a report into alleged Covid rule breaking at lockdown get-togethers in Downing Street and government departments.
In his blog, Mr Cummings, who was still working in Downing Street at the time of the drinks party on 20 May 2020, said the prime minister had been told that it would break Covid guidelines.
He added that he had warned Mr Johnson about the gathering but the PM had "waved it aside".
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60039868
Last edited by 1andrew1; 18-01-2022 at 15:23.
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18-01-2022, 14:46
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
Even though he is responding to a specific allegation the headline "No one warned me drinks event was against rules" is an awful one for him to have on the BBC News frontpage. People will think it's absurd.
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18-01-2022, 14:47
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
Tell us you haven’t seen "V for Vendetta" without telling us you haven’t seen "V for Vendetta"…
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18-01-2022, 15:20
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
Looks like a poor mans Bruce Willis
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18-01-2022, 15:26
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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Even though he is responding to a specific allegation the headline "No one warned me drinks event was against rules" is an awful one for him to have on the BBC News frontpage. People will think it's absurd.
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An interesting aside is the rebranding from "alleged party" to "drinks event". Maybe Johnson was conscious of not making Raab's mistake when he called it a party and not an alleged party.
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18-01-2022, 15:31
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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so he made rules and doesn't know his own made rules yeah right
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18-01-2022, 15:40
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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so he made rules and doesn't know his own made rules yeah right
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He didn't know the rules because he had work to do when the Prime Minister was announcing the rules on television.
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18-01-2022, 15:44
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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so he made rules and doesn't know his own made rules yeah right
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He is either totally incompetent or a liar! Which is it, Prime Minister?
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18-01-2022, 15:50
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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He is either totally incompetent or a liar! Which is it, Prime Minister?
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erm...... both i would have thought
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18-01-2022, 15:53
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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I'm not surprised as I only said a few days ago
But we always had this early warning too.
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Well, there you have it. A born leader in the making.
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18-01-2022, 16:11
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Re: All those No.10 lockdown parties
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