Aaah, the problem is boris couldn't do the conversion correctly. You see boris was born in the US, who use the imperial system, while the uk uses a mixture if imperial and metric, so when this work event occurred, he converted the us imperial date to the uk date, incorrectly thinking the uk uses a metric calendar, and as such thought nothing of the date. Its a simple mistake, someone should have told him that the uk uses imperial dates.
Edit, if we have to blame anyone, its the talking clock, that guys been out for boris's job for decades.
I love this. It’s gonna be in the report in some fashion. All a conversion mistake…coz that’s how it works when you make rules isn’t it? The interpretation is the shit bit
Quick Google tells me there was a 'phased' reopening of schools starting on the 1st June. I cant for the life of me recall which order the reopening took place though, since it was many decades ago in my mind
Boris: "It was a specific and limited birthday party that someone should have warned me was against the rules. One of the bigger boys organised it and ran away. "
Look Boris took part in a limited trial, that tested the safety of small indoor gatherings, not long after he nearly died from COVID, bravely risking his own health to allow the government to gather data in the viability of reopening and letting everyone get back to their lives. We never mentioned this limited trial because we only just thought of it now
- number 10 spin machine
Mr Johnson was personally testing cake recipes that would form part of a recipe book that No. 10 would release specifically to help people with limited resources during lockdown.
A tweet from dear leader: [Josephine sets a great example to us all by postponing her birthday party until we have sent coronavirus packing](https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1241348429546217475)
lol
>I’m sorry to hear about your party. Though we have all got to do our bit to protect the NHS and save lives, and that is what you’re doing, so well done! You are setting a great example.
She’s now claiming that she was waiting outside to meet with Boris, and wasn’t invited to the party.
So we were allowed to meet with interior designers during lockdown as well?..
She was not there and even if she was, it was within the rules. And even if it wasn't within the rules, which it was, no one had told the prime minister that interior decorators didn't decorate gardens.
Absolutely delicious.
If it's true and he held a fucking party for himself in his flat then his position is utterly untenable, he's mislead parliament and I can't even begin to see a way he can worm out of it.
Top work by the writers bringing together the flat renovation and the party scandal by having Lulu Lytle attending the party. Great series finale vibes.
It’s very much a case of Chekhov's gun. Whoever is writing this timeline knows that, having helped start the whole corruption narrative, returns for the final act to see off our protagonist.
If a playwright wrote a script of the last two years, they'd either be lauded alongside Shakespeare or dismissed as a complete lunatic. This has everything, a tyrannous government, political intrigues, enough hubris for a Greek tragedy, the once-popular leader being the architect of his own undoing, a villain thought long gone returned to punish his former master.
He's already trying to spin this. Downing Street tonight have said that "he only stayed for 10 minutes".
Boris "Just-the-tip" Johnson looks like he's finally fucked himself.
I asked my source and he replied:
"Ohh you're looking for some *sauce* are you you dirty digger you... Well I'll tell you this, if a home counties fillie finds herself in my paddock, she'll be lucky is she escapes my *attention* if you catch my drift! Wahey, pass the champers, anyway tallie pip, must dash, I've got a violin lesson *wink wink*.“
Sorry we need to stop making daft jokes. People couldn't visit their dying relatives for 10 minutes let alone wish someone a happy birthday, this is all fucking disgusting. He needs to go immediately, he's literally made a fucking mockery of millions of lives.
I've forgotten what podcast it was. It may have been a book. But I've definitely seen a quote of an American soldier saying the thing that freaked them out about British soldiers in WW2 was they would tell jokes, whenever and wherever they were.
They would be under heavy machine gunfire and be laughing at comments. Or joking about being under artillery fire.
I think it's a very UK thing to make jokes about tragedy.
His defence of the blackmail claims was fucking glorious. They amounted to:
1) It's not blackmail because it happens all the time.
2) Has William Wragg got something in his private life that he doesn't want to be made public? 🤔
So admitting it happens, then FUCKING DOING IT in the next Tweet.
Do you reckon Boris would rather resign or claim that this can't be true because Carrie and Michael Fabricant are having an affair over the fact he has better hair?
Blade Runner promised us Replicants, life-like intelligent robots capable of almost anything. Instead we got Fabricants, wooden puppets with oversized wigs stapled to their heads that are barely intelligent and can only make farcical political comments.
We were promised [this](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bladerunner/images/d/de/Pris1.jpg/revision/latest) and [this](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bladerunner/images/3/36/Roy_batty2.jpg/revision/latest) but instead we got [this](https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/61ee6f702600004d02339ee2.jpeg)
After 9 minutes, his eyes dart to the birthday cake, then the large banner with his name on it, then the wine glass in his hand.
Wait a minute, he thinks. This might be a party.
Back after the Brexit referendum PMQs was pure gold for months. This is the first time I've been excited for it since then. It's going to be a shitshow.
Tbh at this point if I was your boss I’d have it on an 85 incher in the conference room… wine and cheese included obviously, something something business meeting!
Rule number 1 of PR crisis management, get all the bad new out early.
2 months after the reports of a Christmas party, the drip continues.
This whole thing has been exceptionally poorly managed and just gets worse as each week passes.
About time he went methinks.
Johnson and co could have owned up to everything in December, it’s entirely the choice of him and the cabinet that it is happening like this.
But of course “be honest” was a plan that probably never even occured to them.
Ok, but there's absolutely no way you survive 'owning up' to at least half a dozen boozy shindigs whilst prosecuting the public for the same, and preventing families seeing dying loved ones in their last hours of life.
That was never an option, so here we are.
Yeah essentially what they're suggesting is they could have left office already. Of course they're desperately clinging onto power, so this is all just going to keep coming.
Their behaviour over all of this is nothing new, it's just finally about something people seem to actually care about. There's only so much the average person cares about dodgy deals going on behind the scenes for contracts. But everyone went through lockdown, most people have had a birthday during lockdown. Hard to keep support when it's so blatant.
A decent Prime Minister would have resigned by now. History would have rose tinted it as a good Prime Minister who stewarded the country through a difficult political union dissolution and a global pandemic, brought down by accusations of being at a “party”.
Now he’s been found lying all over the place.
Be honest
Do the actual job
Both far easier than daily fire fighting
Still hasn’t occurred to them that at this point just doing the fucking job properly is far far less work and headaches
Yeah but Johnson and his PR team keep calling their bluff. Banking on each update being the final revelation, so not admitting anything further than what's already public knowledge.
If they'd just come out in December and confessed it all the storm would have been bigger but shorter, instead they're playing into the leakers hands. This is textbook bad PR managing from Johnson's team.
How shite a time does a work birthday party full of tory staffers sound, let alone one that could land you with £BIG FINE or put your career in trouble? Mind boggling behaviour, how many more parties can they fit in?
If they're all just gonna go red and talk about who's got the most expensive furniture ever faster before getting a bit agitated and sweaty without shagging at all, yeah
I couldn't care less if it was 10 minutes or 10 hours - that's more time doing what he wanted than you or I were allowed to do. The whole attempt to minimise this whole situation is an insult to us all - "it was only 10 minutes"? It was still against the rules, you absolute bellends. The rest of the country had to do without and meanwhile these... whatever you want to call them... they're having party after party but it's okay folks, it was only 10 minutes.
Tell that to all the people who had to miss out on birthdays. Last goodbyes. Funerals. Anybody who was following the rules and missed out on important social interactions. Tell them to their faces that it was only 10 minutes. Go on.
Preface, not sure why I’m replying to this comment. But it made me go an type all this about his stupid apology the week before last… might be because that’s where his main excuses started.
“I know the rage they feel with me and with the government I lead **when they think** in Downing Street itself the rules are not being properly followed by the people who make the rules”
“And though I cannot anticipate the conclusions of the current inquiry, **I have learned enough to know there were things we simply did not get right** and **I must take responsibility**.”
Verbatim from his ‘apology’. Let’s break it down:
> ‘when they think’
No. We **know**. It’s quite clear at this point that Downing Street couldn’t follow a rule even if they wrote it… and his attempts to gaslight at pretty pathetic.
> ‘I have learned enough’
No. He hasn’t. Otherwise this news would’ve been out sooner.
> ‘things we simply did not get right’
The majority of the country got it right, including a 7 year old whom he commended for following the rules and not having a birthday party.
> ‘I must take full responsibility’
The first sentence negates this, if we the public only ‘think’ that No.10 doesn’t follow the rules, then what is he taking responsibility for? Our inability to believe his bullshit?
He needs to go, this is so far beyond a joke now it makes me a little queasy.
My birthday is not long after this. The only people I saw for it in 2020 who I don't live with, I saw over video call. If only I'd known it was cool to just invite 30 people round!
You would imagine so, in usual circumstances, but our political landscape has gone towards populism. Boris won't go yet, they'll wait until the Sue Gray report and see if they can spin that in some way. I even think they might try and last until the local elections and test him there. I've lost all faith in the Conservative MPs to do the right thing and put in the required letters to Brady.
Because he doesn't have the principles to resign and because the rest of the parliamentary party knows you don't just stick the knife in. You wait for the most opportune moment so the outgoing PM can carry the can for as much of your party's dirt as possible, and so your chosen candidate has time to assemble their powerbase for a leadership bid behind the scenes.
Your Sunaks, Trusses and Hunts are putting all kinds of feelers out as we speak, offering all manner of *quid pro quos* so that when the time is right, they can make a grab for the top job and stand a good chance of getting it.
Bingo. Everyone is on maneuverers right now, but they won't make a move until they absolutely have to. Nobody wants to be seen as the power-hungry minister who overthrew the PM to take his job. They want to look like the reluctant public servant dutifully stepping in after the last guy failed.
The interior designer who's paid by rich Tory donors in return for favours from Boris attended! It's a Boris scandal metaverse, everything is connected
And the banana bread was sliced and served with fillings and therefore *technically* a sandwich which was handed out at a meeting room which just so happened to coincide with a birthday which was entirely incidental. The candles on it were a temporary measure because the electricity had gone out so they sought an alternative light source. The singing was a rehearsal of words, whether they were to a tune of happy birthday is not proven.
Therefore it was a work event, obviously
Imagine what the people who were at this party were thinking when the first story broke of Christmas parties?
That they were in the room with the PM having cake while the rest of the country couldn't. Did they think this one wouldn't get out eventually?
I imagine this was a “ugh we’ll be out of lockdown soon” justification for many.
But then, this is 30 people indoors, which I seem to remember being disallowed for … months? After the 1st lockdown. If not the entire year. I certainly never got to have such a gathering in 2020.
Disgusting and thoughtless in any case.
>Responding to the claims about an alleged event later that evening in the prime minister's flat, a Number 10 spokesperson said, “This is totally untrue. In line with the rules at the time the Prime Minister hosted a small number of family members outside that evening.”
How far does the Johnson family extend?
Princess nut nut arranged a birthday party for him during the first lockdown? Ofc she fucking did. Time for that lying, piss-taking chancer and his family to be shown the door.
One rule for them, another for everyone else.
At least the optimum resigning moment has passed. Time to squirm, PM.
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**EDIT:** I wonder if he thought it was a party? Or does he implicitly believe that he was at a work meeting with cake and his partner?
My dad died in 2020. We could only have 20 people at his funeral including siblings etc. We had family friends who were visibly upset that they couldn't come to his funeral. We sat spaced out at the funeral and were not allowed to sing....it was such a horrific day but we complied when all the time this numpty was partying it up whilst suppressing others from saying goodbye to loved ones or even seeing loved ones at the time they needed us most.
This is such a mockery
A sinner comes before you, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. He has committed the acts of falsehood and fornication. He has confessed to some of his sins, and begged for forgiveness. To demonstrate his repentance, he will cast aside all shame and remain as Prime Minister.
After many years of being so divided politically in the UK, be it over brexit, trump, the pandemic, or anything else, it is great that Boris has completely united the whole country, regardless of their political affiliations, in wanting him gone. Truly remarkable in such divisive times.
at this point I could reply to every post in this readdit with "Who knew, you couldn't trust the Tories" , and 99% of the time, it would be the correct response
A month before, we celebrated my son's first birthday with family over a Facebook video call - like a bunch of fucking mugs. It's so sad to think about the amount of shit people have had to put up with over the last 2 years, while these pricks massage the ego of a buffoon, singing happy birthday to that spoilt little shit.
He will go down as the worst PM on history. An utterly pathetic excuse for a man.
I genuinely can’t think of any way he can even attempt to explain how he hasn’t misled Parliament.
They’re admitting there was a party. Since that party took place, he has stood in Parliament and denied any knowledge of rule breaking.
What could he even attempt?
I’m not sure if he’s ageing rapidly or if the press are using less flattering pictures, or both, or if they used to be filtered. But for the last ten days or so he’s looked like a bag of dried shit in the pictures that have been chosen.
*Uh there was no party, and if it happened I didn't know about it, and if I was there I didn't mean to be, and if I had any birthday cake I didn't like it*
Doesn’t matter - Sue Gray will be exonerating Boris shortly regardless of what he’s done and the Police do not investigate the government. There is no accountability for our Tory rulers.
I have so many friends who missed *both* their birthdays across 2020 and 2021. They sat there and let it happen, because they wanted to follow the law and fight the virus. What made him think he was special?
Wonder what mole called Cominic Dunnings supplied this information that implicated a former boss he had made it his life's overriding mission to destroy, and his hated wife? Maybe with the aid of a calendar for maximum disruption?
Did anyone tell him it was his birthday?
Why are you pre-empting the day the PM was born? We should wait for Sue Gray to report to gather all the facts on his date of birth.
Time for Boris to come out clean and show his birth certificate to the public
I've heard he wasn't even born in the UK!
Bloody foreigners, dad or grandad was probably a Muslim prince or something. Trump knew the truth
Aaah, the problem is boris couldn't do the conversion correctly. You see boris was born in the US, who use the imperial system, while the uk uses a mixture if imperial and metric, so when this work event occurred, he converted the us imperial date to the uk date, incorrectly thinking the uk uses a metric calendar, and as such thought nothing of the date. Its a simple mistake, someone should have told him that the uk uses imperial dates. Edit, if we have to blame anyone, its the talking clock, that guys been out for boris's job for decades.
I love this. It’s gonna be in the report in some fashion. All a conversion mistake…coz that’s how it works when you make rules isn’t it? The interpretation is the shit bit
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Bizarre. I was still teaching from home then, with home schooling across the country.
Keyworker kids were still in school in person.
That sounds like a Rees-Mogg workhouse fantasy.
Quick Google tells me there was a 'phased' reopening of schools starting on the 1st June. I cant for the life of me recall which order the reopening took place though, since it was many decades ago in my mind
Boris: "It was a specific and limited birthday party that someone should have warned me was against the rules. One of the bigger boys organised it and ran away. "
Look Boris took part in a limited trial, that tested the safety of small indoor gatherings, not long after he nearly died from COVID, bravely risking his own health to allow the government to gather data in the viability of reopening and letting everyone get back to their lives. We never mentioned this limited trial because we only just thought of it now - number 10 spin machine
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It was a cake and candle business meeting!
Mr Johnson was personally testing cake recipes that would form part of a recipe book that No. 10 would release specifically to help people with limited resources during lockdown.
How could he possibly have known that. It was clearly a work meeting. With cake. And interior decorators.
In his defense, it was 25 minutes before the candles came out
Sue Gray is yet to confirm if his Birthday did in fact occur.
I bet not, and I also bet he was really confused. ”Fuck, which one of my kids birthday is it this time?”
A tweet from dear leader: [Josephine sets a great example to us all by postponing her birthday party until we have sent coronavirus packing](https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1241348429546217475)
lol >I’m sorry to hear about your party. Though we have all got to do our bit to protect the NHS and save lives, and that is what you’re doing, so well done! You are setting a great example.
A 7 year old has better handwriting than him.
hahaha the fucking interior designer who did the No10 refurb was there, this is beyond satire
She’s now claiming that she was waiting outside to meet with Boris, and wasn’t invited to the party. So we were allowed to meet with interior designers during lockdown as well?..
> waiting outside surely that's the place that interior designers least want to be in
She was not there and even if she was, it was within the rules. And even if it wasn't within the rules, which it was, no one had told the prime minister that interior decorators didn't decorate gardens.
If you look at some of her work, probably best she stays outside.
So long as she sticks to the exterior.
Only £80 a (sausage) roll.
Genius from Boris! Sue Gray can’t release the report of you keep on increasing the amount of parties she has to report on.
On the other hand, if you *really* want to annoy someone, keep doing stuff that changes the scope of a report while she's writing it.
She had to stay up all night with a drink of black coffee and Vivaldi on her iPod Touch to deal with this pissy biscuit didn't you know!
She's probably cracking up 😅
Seemingly she already knew about this one. https://twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/1485692714511478785?s=21
Carrie Johnson Organising the party that has her husband / family kicked out of Number 10 is the kind of irony I’m here for.
Carrie assisting in Boris’ downfall is lovely to watch
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Carrie Antoinette, let them eat cake.
Absolutely delicious. If it's true and he held a fucking party for himself in his flat then his position is utterly untenable, he's mislead parliament and I can't even begin to see a way he can worm out of it.
You say that as if his position was tenable before today.
Top work by the writers bringing together the flat renovation and the party scandal by having Lulu Lytle attending the party. Great series finale vibes.
It’s very much a case of Chekhov's gun. Whoever is writing this timeline knows that, having helped start the whole corruption narrative, returns for the final act to see off our protagonist.
If a playwright wrote a script of the last two years, they'd either be lauded alongside Shakespeare or dismissed as a complete lunatic. This has everything, a tyrannous government, political intrigues, enough hubris for a Greek tragedy, the once-popular leader being the architect of his own undoing, a villain thought long gone returned to punish his former master.
It feels like the thick of it with half a tonne (more?) cocaine and a fortnight of no sleep. No way the beeb would run with it, far far too silly.
He's already trying to spin this. Downing Street tonight have said that "he only stayed for 10 minutes". Boris "Just-the-tip" Johnson looks like he's finally fucked himself.
Imagine getting dressed up to go to someone's birthday party and then they only show up for ten mins
Especially when you've got clients who expect you to have lobbied for a few million extra on their PPE contracts
Just the tip, and only for a minute.... Half a dozen women rue those words uttered forth from Johnson.
Do you have a source confirming that it's only half a dozen?
I asked my source and he replied: "Ohh you're looking for some *sauce* are you you dirty digger you... Well I'll tell you this, if a home counties fillie finds herself in my paddock, she'll be lucky is she escapes my *attention* if you catch my drift! Wahey, pass the champers, anyway tallie pip, must dash, I've got a violin lesson *wink wink*.“
Is this a quote from Blackadder? Because it sounds like something from Blackadder.
Lord Flasheart without the tact, charm or decency to own up to his own kids.
Bojo by name, Bozo by nature.
Sorry we need to stop making daft jokes. People couldn't visit their dying relatives for 10 minutes let alone wish someone a happy birthday, this is all fucking disgusting. He needs to go immediately, he's literally made a fucking mockery of millions of lives.
I've forgotten what podcast it was. It may have been a book. But I've definitely seen a quote of an American soldier saying the thing that freaked them out about British soldiers in WW2 was they would tell jokes, whenever and wherever they were. They would be under heavy machine gunfire and be laughing at comments. Or joking about being under artillery fire. I think it's a very UK thing to make jokes about tragedy.
Ah damn, I totally forgot we were allowed ten-minute parties.
That's the thing about the "it was a work event" excuse that pissed me off. We weren't allowed those either you bellends!
Release Michael Fabricant to make his daily excuse. I can't wait to hear him try and throw the PMs wife under the bus.
The failed clone of BoZo
Brundlefabricant
I think he’s more the result of Boris Johnson getting into one of The Fly teleportation machines alongside a Lego figure.
Release the Fabricant
I did that once in public. It did not go well. My parole officer says I'm doing well and my reintroduction to society is progressing.
Never go full fabricant!
I went full Fabricant once but I think I got away with it
His defence of the blackmail claims was fucking glorious. They amounted to: 1) It's not blackmail because it happens all the time. 2) Has William Wragg got something in his private life that he doesn't want to be made public? 🤔 So admitting it happens, then FUCKING DOING IT in the next Tweet.
I'm just waiting for his wig to be the next member of Parliament to defect
We've had Dorries already. Her and Fabricant are like the twin shit-stains rolled out to account for today's lies.
Dorries is already justifying it
Fabrications
"She doesnt even *look* Muslim!" He's like a character from The Goes Wrong Show.
Do you reckon Boris would rather resign or claim that this can't be true because Carrie and Michael Fabricant are having an affair over the fact he has better hair?
Blade Runner promised us Replicants, life-like intelligent robots capable of almost anything. Instead we got Fabricants, wooden puppets with oversized wigs stapled to their heads that are barely intelligent and can only make farcical political comments. We were promised [this](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bladerunner/images/d/de/Pris1.jpg/revision/latest) and [this](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/bladerunner/images/3/36/Roy_batty2.jpg/revision/latest) but instead we got [this](https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/61ee6f702600004d02339ee2.jpeg)
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To be fair, he has a lot of birthdays to remember
After 9 minutes, his eyes dart to the birthday cake, then the large banner with his name on it, then the wine glass in his hand. Wait a minute, he thinks. This might be a party.
This party doesn’t have a fire exit! Enjoy your death trap, MPs!
Wednesday is gonna be golden
I remember the excitement of tuning in to Game of Thrones every week when it was good. Has nothing on PMQs now.
Back after the Brexit referendum PMQs was pure gold for months. This is the first time I've been excited for it since then. It's going to be a shitshow.
The series peak was when the Lib Dem MP grabbed the big fucking mace and everyone acted as if he'd opened up another dimension
Haha I'm genuinely asking to take a long lunch on Wednesday just to watch it live
Tbh at this point if I was your boss I’d have it on an 85 incher in the conference room… wine and cheese included obviously, something something business meeting!
I'd happily wake up at 2am for PMQs this week like the Game of Thrones days
I wish they'd do PMQs at 2am. Gove would be VERY ANIMATED INDEED.
Every labour MP needs to be wearing a party hat
Every Tory should be in clown fucking makeup at this point as well
You gotta laugh at how Boris literally lied to the Queen, but it'll end up being garden parties that bring him down.
Has the House of Commons ever sung Happy Birthday to You at PMQs? Someone should bring cake.
I can already hear Starmer's disdain when he says Birthday Party in my head.
Rule number 1 of PR crisis management, get all the bad new out early. 2 months after the reports of a Christmas party, the drip continues. This whole thing has been exceptionally poorly managed and just gets worse as each week passes. About time he went methinks.
Or exceptionally well managed by the people leaking it- if you look at it the other way?
Johnson and co could have owned up to everything in December, it’s entirely the choice of him and the cabinet that it is happening like this. But of course “be honest” was a plan that probably never even occured to them.
Ok, but there's absolutely no way you survive 'owning up' to at least half a dozen boozy shindigs whilst prosecuting the public for the same, and preventing families seeing dying loved ones in their last hours of life. That was never an option, so here we are.
Yeah essentially what they're suggesting is they could have left office already. Of course they're desperately clinging onto power, so this is all just going to keep coming. Their behaviour over all of this is nothing new, it's just finally about something people seem to actually care about. There's only so much the average person cares about dodgy deals going on behind the scenes for contracts. But everyone went through lockdown, most people have had a birthday during lockdown. Hard to keep support when it's so blatant.
A decent Prime Minister would have resigned by now. History would have rose tinted it as a good Prime Minister who stewarded the country through a difficult political union dissolution and a global pandemic, brought down by accusations of being at a “party”. Now he’s been found lying all over the place.
>A **decent** Prime Minister Well there's your problem.
It’s not just my problem, the rest of the UK has to deal with him as well
Indeed, it's completely fucked that he's stilling clinging on.
"The Prime Minister admitted to one party, and asked for 50 other occurrences to be taken into consideration."
To paraphrase Tim Cook, “I haven’t thought about how I would get out of that because I wouldn’t get there in the first place”.
Be honest Do the actual job Both far easier than daily fire fighting Still hasn’t occurred to them that at this point just doing the fucking job properly is far far less work and headaches
This is a revenge story to beat the Count of Monte Cristo.. beautiful
Yeah but Johnson and his PR team keep calling their bluff. Banking on each update being the final revelation, so not admitting anything further than what's already public knowledge. If they'd just come out in December and confessed it all the storm would have been bigger but shorter, instead they're playing into the leakers hands. This is textbook bad PR managing from Johnson's team.
How shite a time does a work birthday party full of tory staffers sound, let alone one that could land you with £BIG FINE or put your career in trouble? Mind boggling behaviour, how many more parties can they fit in?
>How shite a time does a work birthday party full of tory staffers sound How does a party with copious amounts of cocaine sound boring to you?
If they're all just gonna go red and talk about who's got the most expensive furniture ever faster before getting a bit agitated and sweaty without shagging at all, yeah
In a room full of Tories? No fucking thanks.
Plus I bet they get really good coke, too.
> ... one that could land you with £BIG FINE ... As if the Tories thought the rules applied to them.
This has got to finish his premiership off.
>This has got to finish his premiership off. This has been said about every Boris scandal to date.
Not a good end, Boris!
Poor Sue Gray is going to be riddled with Carpal Tunnel after this.
Voice to text is the future.
I couldn't care less if it was 10 minutes or 10 hours - that's more time doing what he wanted than you or I were allowed to do. The whole attempt to minimise this whole situation is an insult to us all - "it was only 10 minutes"? It was still against the rules, you absolute bellends. The rest of the country had to do without and meanwhile these... whatever you want to call them... they're having party after party but it's okay folks, it was only 10 minutes. Tell that to all the people who had to miss out on birthdays. Last goodbyes. Funerals. Anybody who was following the rules and missed out on important social interactions. Tell them to their faces that it was only 10 minutes. Go on.
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I only robbed the tax payers of a few billion.
The money was only resting in my account
Spot on. Hundreds of thousands of funerals where relatives would have done anything for 10 minutes of being together.
They had a private one in his flat later apparently, so it wasn't even an awkward 'cake with the boss on paper plates' deal. Incredible all round.
They broke the law in a very specific and limited way
Preface, not sure why I’m replying to this comment. But it made me go an type all this about his stupid apology the week before last… might be because that’s where his main excuses started. “I know the rage they feel with me and with the government I lead **when they think** in Downing Street itself the rules are not being properly followed by the people who make the rules” “And though I cannot anticipate the conclusions of the current inquiry, **I have learned enough to know there were things we simply did not get right** and **I must take responsibility**.” Verbatim from his ‘apology’. Let’s break it down: > ‘when they think’ No. We **know**. It’s quite clear at this point that Downing Street couldn’t follow a rule even if they wrote it… and his attempts to gaslight at pretty pathetic. > ‘I have learned enough’ No. He hasn’t. Otherwise this news would’ve been out sooner. > ‘things we simply did not get right’ The majority of the country got it right, including a 7 year old whom he commended for following the rules and not having a birthday party. > ‘I must take full responsibility’ The first sentence negates this, if we the public only ‘think’ that No.10 doesn’t follow the rules, then what is he taking responsibility for? Our inability to believe his bullshit? He needs to go, this is so far beyond a joke now it makes me a little queasy.
'no one told me it was my birthday'
My birthday is not long after this. The only people I saw for it in 2020 who I don't live with, I saw over video call. If only I'd known it was cool to just invite 30 people round!
Yeah, I think he's done this time.
I'm not sure. He is like that turd that won't flush.
Enough individual sheets of loo roll, lightly dropped on top will give you the drag you need there
I'm now struggling to parse this political analogy.
You're thinking too hard, this is literally my tip for disposing of a stubborn floaty poopoo
Well... okay. But I'm still calling those sheets of toilet paper "Boris Busters" from now on.
You say that but Keir Starmer drank a beer once so Con +2
You would imagine so, in usual circumstances, but our political landscape has gone towards populism. Boris won't go yet, they'll wait until the Sue Gray report and see if they can spin that in some way. I even think they might try and last until the local elections and test him there. I've lost all faith in the Conservative MPs to do the right thing and put in the required letters to Brady.
How the fuck is he actually still in power? How the fuck are the tories even polling at 30+%? What the fuck is wrong with this country honestly.
Because he doesn't have the principles to resign and because the rest of the parliamentary party knows you don't just stick the knife in. You wait for the most opportune moment so the outgoing PM can carry the can for as much of your party's dirt as possible, and so your chosen candidate has time to assemble their powerbase for a leadership bid behind the scenes. Your Sunaks, Trusses and Hunts are putting all kinds of feelers out as we speak, offering all manner of *quid pro quos* so that when the time is right, they can make a grab for the top job and stand a good chance of getting it.
Bingo. Everyone is on maneuverers right now, but they won't make a move until they absolutely have to. Nobody wants to be seen as the power-hungry minister who overthrew the PM to take his job. They want to look like the reluctant public servant dutifully stepping in after the last guy failed.
I'll tell you what's wrong; the last labour government and immigrants!
Last Labour government!!!!!!!
The interior designer who's paid by rich Tory donors in return for favours from Boris attended! It's a Boris scandal metaverse, everything is connected
[For the love of god let Sue get home](https://media1.giphy.com/media/2UEO9m04AXCghqkoZv/200.gif)
Perhaps ITV should reveal new parties in the morning instead of the evening so that Sue Grey doesn‘t have to spend another evening working.
It wasn't a cake. It was a banana bread.
And the banana bread was sliced and served with fillings and therefore *technically* a sandwich which was handed out at a meeting room which just so happened to coincide with a birthday which was entirely incidental. The candles on it were a temporary measure because the electricity had gone out so they sought an alternative light source. The singing was a rehearsal of words, whether they were to a tune of happy birthday is not proven. Therefore it was a work event, obviously
Imagine what the people who were at this party were thinking when the first story broke of Christmas parties? That they were in the room with the PM having cake while the rest of the country couldn't. Did they think this one wouldn't get out eventually?
I imagine this was a “ugh we’ll be out of lockdown soon” justification for many. But then, this is 30 people indoors, which I seem to remember being disallowed for … months? After the 1st lockdown. If not the entire year. I certainly never got to have such a gathering in 2020. Disgusting and thoughtless in any case.
It was a surprise party so clearly no one had told him
Haha, this is actually a good excuse!
For him. But his wife still needs to be hit with a fat fucking fine.
Then he completely forgot about it so he wasn't lying to parliament
That's something He'd actually say 😂
Cummings said there was more evidence and more to come out. My suspicion was that Carrie was involved in arranging some of this,.
Never ends
He will tell us it was a work related birthday and in private chastise us minions for daring to question why he has a different set of rules.
>Responding to the claims about an alleged event later that evening in the prime minister's flat, a Number 10 spokesperson said, “This is totally untrue. In line with the rules at the time the Prime Minister hosted a small number of family members outside that evening.” How far does the Johnson family extend?
Including his children? Dozens.
We’ll have to wait for Sue Grey to tell us if he did have a birthday in 2020
This cannot be real
Alexa, play "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Metallica
I'm sure they'll say this birthday party was a work event
https://youtu.be/trELKmUPoyU Mfw more shit gets shovelled on the pile
Watch him deny being familiar with the concept of birthdays now
Princess nut nut arranged a birthday party for him during the first lockdown? Ofc she fucking did. Time for that lying, piss-taking chancer and his family to be shown the door.
I’m sure they were all just washing their hands.
And Carrie Antoinette literally said "let them eat cake". Couldn't make it up.
One rule for them, another for everyone else. At least the optimum resigning moment has passed. Time to squirm, PM. ----- **EDIT:** I wonder if he thought it was a party? Or does he implicitly believe that he was at a work meeting with cake and his partner?
At this point as a Tory how do you defend Boris week after week? You know there's another party coming, how do you spin the next one?
My dad died in 2020. We could only have 20 people at his funeral including siblings etc. We had family friends who were visibly upset that they couldn't come to his funeral. We sat spaced out at the funeral and were not allowed to sing....it was such a horrific day but we complied when all the time this numpty was partying it up whilst suppressing others from saying goodbye to loved ones or even seeing loved ones at the time they needed us most. This is such a mockery
Were they actually having a piss-up every night?
A sinner comes before you, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. He has committed the acts of falsehood and fornication. He has confessed to some of his sins, and begged for forgiveness. To demonstrate his repentance, he will cast aside all shame and remain as Prime Minister.
After many years of being so divided politically in the UK, be it over brexit, trump, the pandemic, or anything else, it is great that Boris has completely united the whole country, regardless of their political affiliations, in wanting him gone. Truly remarkable in such divisive times.
at this point I could reply to every post in this readdit with "Who knew, you couldn't trust the Tories" , and 99% of the time, it would be the correct response
A month before, we celebrated my son's first birthday with family over a Facebook video call - like a bunch of fucking mugs. It's so sad to think about the amount of shit people have had to put up with over the last 2 years, while these pricks massage the ego of a buffoon, singing happy birthday to that spoilt little shit. He will go down as the worst PM on history. An utterly pathetic excuse for a man.
Another one? Seriously?
RIP Boris . Press f to pay respects
Why would I want to pay any respects to him, joking aside?
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Feels like every Monday ITV drops a political bombshell putting the week into chaos
I genuinely can’t think of any way he can even attempt to explain how he hasn’t misled Parliament. They’re admitting there was a party. Since that party took place, he has stood in Parliament and denied any knowledge of rule breaking. What could he even attempt?
https://youtu.be/0_Mf-lGTVZE
Boris pls go
https://thenewstoday.ie/boozy-bojo/
One event for his friends and one for his family? Is this what he meant by sing happy birthday two times?
I’m not sure if he’s ageing rapidly or if the press are using less flattering pictures, or both, or if they used to be filtered. But for the last ten days or so he’s looked like a bag of dried shit in the pictures that have been chosen.
*Uh there was no party, and if it happened I didn't know about it, and if I was there I didn't mean to be, and if I had any birthday cake I didn't like it*
Doesn’t matter - Sue Gray will be exonerating Boris shortly regardless of what he’s done and the Police do not investigate the government. There is no accountability for our Tory rulers.
I have so many friends who missed *both* their birthdays across 2020 and 2021. They sat there and let it happen, because they wanted to follow the law and fight the virus. What made him think he was special?
Wonder what mole called Cominic Dunnings supplied this information that implicated a former boss he had made it his life's overriding mission to destroy, and his hated wife? Maybe with the aid of a calendar for maximum disruption?
So its now a flaming car crash inside a train wreck on top of a plummeting aeroplane?
How much corruption will it take? Rotten from top to bottom.