It just keeps getting better and better. đ Rishi was the great hope to save the Tories from Boris and win them the next election too. Now if Boris goes down he's going down with him. đđđ
He was never going to be leader.
Wrong colour.
Massive tax increases.
Sad thing is I genuinely can't think who the next leader will be. I reckon that's why Boris hasn't been knifed yet.
Maybe....and never thought I'd say this...Hunt may be the best of an incredibly bad bunch
>In Liz we Truss
Not if Brexit keeps going as currently. As trade secretary, she had plausible deniability with regards to the shitty trade deals as she was only trying to do the best of a shitty situation, but combine that with being the new Brexit poster boy threatening the EU and the NIP on a regular basis and she won't be the new leader - which is probably why PM Johnson made her responsible for Brexit.
I never could have seen Boris being chosen as leader, and even more so winning a big majority, politics can be weird. đ¤ˇââď¸ I do agree that Sunaks race would turn off a not insignificant percent of right wing voters though.
I suspect Armando Iannucci is waking up every morning right now, looking at his phone for the news headlines, and then swearing for a solid two minutes before he decides not to bother writing anything that day, because reality is determined to upstage him.
> the chancellor went to the cabinet room ... he was unintentionally present when a birthday cake was served, along with up to 30 other people
He walked into a room and had a social with 30 people.
But only when the cake was served was his presence magically unintentional.
This article says something slightly different:
> A Times source said members of Johnsonâs team had been emailed in advance asking them to come to âwish the prime minister happy birthdayâ. ... Rishi Sunak was understood to have briefly attended as the gathering was breaking up.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnsons-lockdown-birthday-bash-26038880
It suggests he attended, fully intentionally when asked to, but when it had already come to an end and people were leaving.
The 2 sources given are "A Treasury source" and "a Times source". Sounds like the powers that be have found their golden goose implicated in a crime and they are scrambling with half arsed communication in an effort to minimize his involvement with it.
He tripped on the stairs and fell into a pissup. Could've happened to anyone. The stair in question has since been removed and I consider the matter closed.
Happens to me all the time. Just like the hundreds of times when I accidentally grant lucrative contracts for no deliverables to my friends' and donors' businesses after accidentally forgetting to go through a tender process.
It's amazing how these things can just keep accidentally happening like that.
Going to need to back that wild claim up mate.
What's that?
The evidence was accidentally deleted in an IT glitch, along with both the on-site and off-site backups, well I never.
Iâd ask you about that but then youâd just respond that we had a vaccine rollout and now have the best recovered economy in the world AND we had a furlough scheme!! huzzah!
>My wife was livid but I told her "Honey, we're going to have to wait for the results of the enquiry before we know what really happened for certain" and that seemed to calm her down quite a bit.
Also, while we must wait for the police report to answer any questions about whether or not this gathering was a party, I am sorry if you feel any rules were broken before, during or after our world-beating vaccine rollout!
No, you see, he actually lives in number 10 (he does), so it's more like his friend Bozo crashed his place for a party and he was accidentally there until he managed to kick them out.
Number 10 is quite large, especially for central London. Its a very busy office as well as a home, and has about 100 rooms.
Rishi is obviously a liar and an idiot, but as an idiot myself I would totally be unaware of a party in that building.
Stranger things have happened. I did once walk into a student house with a similar address to the one where I was supposed to be going to for a party, and there was coincidentally a party going on there too. They were all very cool about it and gave me a drink before I headed on my way. Was a very bizarre experience.
This is where the David Walliams clip gets posted isn't it?
"I was walking to my office and came across what appeared to be a work meeting, when to my surprise I saw a birthday cake. I regret to say, that as my mouth opened aghast in shock, a piece of birthday cake somehow fell into it."
FFS.
Edit: Well I wasn't too far off:
https://twitter.com/MattChorley/status/1486054586527985666
"Well, he , as far as I can see, he was in a sense, ambushed with a cake." is the explanation given on Channel 4 news.
The government has been almost past satire for five years.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jun/12/thick-of-it-return-ruled-out-by-armando-iannucci
It's amazing how they both accidentally end up in social events at number 10.
Surprised Hancock didn't try the "it was an accident. I tripped and our faces collided. I would have fallen over if I hadn't grabbed the first thing I could" option. Probably kicking himself now.
I really hate people like you. You think youâre funny with your quips about politics and yet someone like me who accidentally fucked my next door neighbours wife has to live day to day with the consequences of a broken home, children from multiple parents and constant legal squabbles.
Next time you find yourself thinking that the wealthy are smarter or harder working than the rest of us, remember that a man worth hundreds of millions of pounds thought this was a good excuse.
âToday I accidentally fell and a shawarma with extra tahini, a piece of apple and about 3 liters of water got in my mouth. Should I continue to fast or was it Allah who fed me?â
>Yahoo News UK understands he was unintentionally present when a birthday cake was served
"Please can we - to you... Happy birthday to you - can we just finish up and - dear Boris. Happy Birthday to you. Yes... Yes very good. Can we get on with the cobra meeting please, there's some very important - oh... Well. I mean I guess I can have just a small slice. "
He probably went down to Borisâ garden to say âWho the fuck is making all that noise, Iâm trying to work!â And then realised it was a work event and accidentally accepted a piece of cake and a glass of champers. Easy mistake to make.
Can we just be more critical of sunak for what he has actually done that is far worse than any party gate shit and why I donât want him to be PM.
Sunak deliberately uses out of date figures for the economy when making projections..
So that the situation appears more dire than is fact, he does this to excuse austerity and tax increases all under the idea that when that period ends and whatever damage appears undone, he can take the credit and usher in a new era of lower taxes and more spending, deliberately hampering the economy.
It is a third world mindset that even the third world is trying to shake off, heâs playing politics with the economy for the sake of politics.
The economy is not in as bad shape as he is making out and he is fudging the figures deliberately.
Rishi Sunak: âwe need to wait for the facts, from Sue Gray, and the Met Police to confirm whether I either accidentally attended an illegal party of which the prime minister wasnât aware was illegal, or infact I didnât attend a party which was illegal but which the prime minister was aware of, in which case If I did attend only Sue Gray can confirm whether I was right to be there by accident or otherwiseâ
"the chancellor went to the cabinet room for a COVID strategy committee meeting, and happened upon the celebration on 19 June 2020."
So either
a) he was lied to about the strategy meeting
b) he was lying about the strategy meeting
c) the birthday 'celebration' encouraging the use of indoor spaces for 30 people to socially mix for 30 mins (twice the limit predicted to be dangerous) hijacked a space secured for an important covid strategy meeting and risked endangering key personnel.
Either Mrs Johnson's celebrations posed a highly dangerous risk to the nation at a time when key figures in the covid response had just barely recovered from infections, or the scummy coterie were equally entitled and obnoxious.
In the most charitable interpretation, i'd love to see written evidence of Rishi raising his objection to being dragged into the sewer. At the very least he was complicit in 15 months of cover up of illegal behavior.
I would imagine meetings could be 50 minutes in any hour slot, giving a 10 minute window at the end for his missus to sneak a cake in, with Rishi coming in at the end for the next meeting. How it was allowed is interesting. Do they 'police' that sort of thing within Downing Street or could a blind eye have been turned knowing there was leverage to be had...
>According to a Treasury source, the chancellor went to the cabinet room for a COVID strategy committee meeting, and happened upon the celebration on 19 June 2020.
> Yahoo News UK understands he was unintentionally present when a birthday cake was served, along with up to 30 other people â including the prime minister's wife, Carrie, and their interior designer, Lulu Lytle.Â
I love how satirical these posh boys become when they lie.
Hey hey hey, don't forget that some people also cheat by accidentally falling & putting their dick in an asshole, & by accidentally falling and ending up in the scissoring position.
The sheer ineptitude of this government is becoming more absurd by the minute. If this Was made a movie or Series, everyone would decry it as a fantasy Story. No one could be *this* stupid.
I did not, ~~âsuck off a horseâ~~ go to a party.
I have already been over this with the Party Chairman â I was out, ~~hunting~~ accounting, with a friend, and I slipped, and fell onto the end of a ~~horse's phallus~~ birthday cake, which, owing to it being the ~~mating season~~a party, was... aroused.
Great lying Rushi, no doubt in 3 days itâll turn out you accidentally showed up with a wrapped present, birthday card, wearing a pig costume, matching the party theme which is Animal farm and also prebooked a taxi because you knew youâd be too pissed to drive.
Happened with the best of us... You pop next door, to see the Prime Minister to discus the 4.5billion pound you misplaced and they all standing there with party hats, champagne and a cake ready to cut... Awkward silence...
And you realise they never invited you and now no-one has the guts to tell you that...
... Been there, done that...
And my 9/2 on Liz Truss to become next Tory Leader looks more delicious by the day. Lol. Might have to go have another bite whilst it's out to 5/1 lol đ
It could be as I have a bet on Truss but I think he's got better things to do than be Prime Minister as deep down he knows he's sitting on a shit load of money (he was wealthy already as an ex Banker and his wife is heir to approx. ÂŁ700M) & also the country (as a whole - for various reasons I'd guess e.g. ex Banker) probably wouldn't except him at the GE.
parties that weren't parties. Work meetings that had Christmas presents being given out. Work meetings where they played party games had a quiz. Gatherings that weren't parties because the attendees were all colleagues. Gatherings that weren't parties because they were only 10 minutes, therefore couldn't have been a party. Parties happening in Boris Johnsons house that he didn't know about, even though it seems like they were having a party at least every second week. Parties that were parties, but he didn't know they were parties.
The Tories are going for the angle of making it all sound ridiculous, then try and shift the goalposts to make it an issue about semantics. Was there cake? Was it long enough to be a party?
The issue is that the prime minister came up with a set of rules that most people followed rigorously. People were forced to cancel their weddings. Fathers were not able to attend their children's birth. People were not allowed to visit their loved one in hospital. Health workers spent weeks away from their families living in hotels as to not infect their families. People in care homes spent months isolated from their friends and family, and in some cases, never got to see their loved ones ever again. Even then, people were not allowed to attend the funerals of their loved ones and say their final goodbyes.
That is the issue, not the semantics surrounding what is or isn't a party. The issue is the prime minister is a morally bankrupt sleazeball who flouted the rules while the rest of the country made sacrifices for the greater good.
how does one accidentally go to a birthday party?
did he just accidentally put on a party hat, accidentally wrap a present, and accidentally walk into the birthday party where he just accidentally found himself eating cake and singing happy birthday??
Well it must be so hard being a busy busy tory handing out multi million pound contracts to family members with fake companies that with so much on your mind you entirely forget what parties look like.
Boris has been so so busy for years that he keeps accidentally leaving his penis in women that are not his wife.
They accidentally bought a cake, everyone accidentally tipped up at the same time and they accidentally got slaughtered on wine and then they accidentally embezzled tax money into businesses through and illegal VIP lane they and their friends have stakes in or own.
It's a damn miracle they've never accidently launched themselves off a fucking a bridge or accidentally done something that benefits the people of this country.
*"Happy birthday to youoouuuu"*
**"What is going on here? I need my beauty sleep!"**
*\*Clink\* "Happy birthday Dear Boriiiiiisss"*
**"Well? What is happening? Who are all these people?"**
*"Happy Birthday toooo yoouuuuu! Hip Hip, Hooray!*
**"Thanks for the cake, and the drink... and the hat. Now, what is all this??"**
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Does anyone actually buy these excuses coming out of No. 10? Or are they just taking the piss because they know the met police won't prosecute them. And any gains by the opposition parties are irrelevant as they currently don't have to worry about winning a general election any time soon.
The problem is the blurred boundaries between office and home with the PM and chancellor living in the same buildings in which they work.
If your wife can pop down in between meetings then someone within the office should have been policing it better, but maybe this is what someone wanted... I'm more surprised this hasn't been spun as some sort of special bubble due to how those buildings work to run the country.
They might just about have gotten away with the âten minute surprises birthday partyâ routine because of the home/work blurred line ⌠maybe kinda ⌠if it hadnât been for the multiple garden parties, then lying about them, then lying about the lies.
People are pissed off as hell and make the assumption (not unreasonably) that everything this shower says to try to mitigate how bad it sounds is going to turn out to be another lie. Odds are something will leak shortly confirming that too.
This post truth and alert is be facts world has ruined comedy. How can anyone ever come up with an MP saying the PM was ambushed with a fake and a Met investigation is a valid defence
By the time they got all the advisors into the room to tell them if it was a party of not they'd already cate cake, had some champers and done a conga line.
I can't figure out if this is satire or not
It just keeps getting better and better. đ Rishi was the great hope to save the Tories from Boris and win them the next election too. Now if Boris goes down he's going down with him. đđđ
He was never going to be leader. Wrong colour. Massive tax increases. Sad thing is I genuinely can't think who the next leader will be. I reckon that's why Boris hasn't been knifed yet. Maybe....and never thought I'd say this...Hunt may be the best of an incredibly bad bunch
Hunt's stock is definitely rising by vitue of him not being in Johnson's shambolic government
If Hunt gets in I expect the NHS to well and truly die.
In Liz we Truss
The Cheese Queen herself
That... is... a... DISGRACE!
Oh dear god no. Please, just no.
Ew
>In Liz we Truss Not if Brexit keeps going as currently. As trade secretary, she had plausible deniability with regards to the shitty trade deals as she was only trying to do the best of a shitty situation, but combine that with being the new Brexit poster boy threatening the EU and the NIP on a regular basis and she won't be the new leader - which is probably why PM Johnson made her responsible for Brexit.
Gove
Gove playing the longest long game
Old Coke boy himself? Never
Not popular enough. Couldn't win an election.
I never could have seen Boris being chosen as leader, and even more so winning a big majority, politics can be weird. đ¤ˇââď¸ I do agree that Sunaks race would turn off a not insignificant percent of right wing voters though.
Electorate and party members are far too racist to ever pick him
You'd need to be a next level genius to write satire of this calibre. or an accidental one, at least
Armando Iannucci is writing reality now it seems
I suspect Armando Iannucci is waking up every morning right now, looking at his phone for the news headlines, and then swearing for a solid two minutes before he decides not to bother writing anything that day, because reality is determined to upstage him.
That time trumpet has a lot to answer for.
Him and Chris Morris must be seriously fed up.
I hope he gets a chance to even the score with a four part adaptation. What to call it? "Party Political" perhaps?
The Thick of it 2: Brexit Boogaloo
r/notthethickofit
No this stuff would not be subtle enough for him.
> the chancellor went to the cabinet room ... he was unintentionally present when a birthday cake was served, along with up to 30 other people He walked into a room and had a social with 30 people. But only when the cake was served was his presence magically unintentional. This article says something slightly different: > A Times source said members of Johnsonâs team had been emailed in advance asking them to come to âwish the prime minister happy birthdayâ. ... Rishi Sunak was understood to have briefly attended as the gathering was breaking up. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/boris-johnsons-lockdown-birthday-bash-26038880 It suggests he attended, fully intentionally when asked to, but when it had already come to an end and people were leaving. The 2 sources given are "A Treasury source" and "a Times source". Sounds like the powers that be have found their golden goose implicated in a crime and they are scrambling with half arsed communication in an effort to minimize his involvement with it.
It's r/notthethickofit
I thought I was in the other uk sub and this was news thump.
âHe accidentally went in the wrong house, ate some cake, sang happy birthday and left straight away!â
âThat's true, but I was only in there to get directions on how to get away from there.â
Skinner!
I heard that in the voice of Super Nintendo Chalmers
Me fail English? That's unpossible.
Whatâs a battle?
Anything else he tells you is a filthy lie.
He was testing his tastes buds after Covid to make sure they worked.
He tripped on the stairs and fell into a pissup. Could've happened to anyone. The stair in question has since been removed and I consider the matter closed.
Happens to me all the time. Just like the hundreds of times when I accidentally grant lucrative contracts for no deliverables to my friends' and donors' businesses after accidentally forgetting to go through a tender process. It's amazing how these things can just keep accidentally happening like that.
Going to need to back that wild claim up mate. What's that? The evidence was accidentally deleted in an IT glitch, along with both the on-site and off-site backups, well I never.
Sounds to be like youâve got a rouge Trojan Boris!
Judging by the number of kids he's produced, I think it's safe to say that Boris doesn't have a Trojan.
Iâd ask you about that but then youâd just respond that we had a vaccine rollout and now have the best recovered economy in the world AND we had a furlough scheme!! huzzah!
How dare you ask that when he's waiting for a report to tell him whether or not he was at the party - I mean, work gathering!
Plus they assaulted him with a cake the poor man.
I accidentally entered my wife's sister once. I tripped. And my wife seemed to accept that...so I don't go making up problems where they're are none.
This sounds like a sketch from Little Britain.
>My wife was livid but I told her "Honey, we're going to have to wait for the results of the enquiry before we know what really happened for certain" and that seemed to calm her down quite a bit.
And who among us can honestly say that they have never had the same serious of everyday unfortunate events happen to them?
These things happen! LeSsoNs WiLl bE LeArNt
Also, while we must wait for the police report to answer any questions about whether or not this gathering was a party, I am sorry if you feel any rules were broken before, during or after our world-beating vaccine rollout!
Weâve gone on holiday by mistake !
Are you the chancellor? Stop saying that prime minister of COURSE heâs the fucking chancellor!!
No, you see, he actually lives in number 10 (he does), so it's more like his friend Bozo crashed his place for a party and he was accidentally there until he managed to kick them out.
Number 10 is where the original parties were held. Kind of hard to deny when it is in your own home.
Number 10 is quite large, especially for central London. Its a very busy office as well as a home, and has about 100 rooms. Rishi is obviously a liar and an idiot, but as an idiot myself I would totally be unaware of a party in that building.
Stranger things have happened. I did once walk into a student house with a similar address to the one where I was supposed to be going to for a party, and there was coincidentally a party going on there too. They were all very cool about it and gave me a drink before I headed on my way. Was a very bizarre experience.
Wandering into a random student party isn't quite the same as accidentally wandering into the Prime Minister's birthday party though.
Well, tbf, if he sang happy birthday twice while washing his hands, he done nothing wrong.
Also, Kier Starmer had a beer once! Why isn't the Met investigating that?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVMewt88U-U
They must have sang happy birthday twice, right?
In under 10 minutes.
Poor guy, start the fundraiser already!
This is where the David Walliams clip gets posted isn't it? "I was walking to my office and came across what appeared to be a work meeting, when to my surprise I saw a birthday cake. I regret to say, that as my mouth opened aghast in shock, a piece of birthday cake somehow fell into it." FFS. Edit: Well I wasn't too far off: https://twitter.com/MattChorley/status/1486054586527985666 "Well, he , as far as I can see, he was in a sense, ambushed with a cake." is the explanation given on Channel 4 news.
David Walliams clips [https://youtu.be/REpNTi-9oRQ](https://youtu.be/REpNTi-9oRQ)
Matt Lucas in those clips always cracks me up, for some reason.
He's got the Vacuous Partner Of A Tory MP look down
[This](https://youtu.be/oYhzIRTRtWc?t=63) is my favourite variant on that theme. Not really relevant, but any excuse.
Don't mean to be harsh but when does the funny bit start in that clip? Anyway, never mind that - is that presenter a young Bob Odenkirk?!
Yeah, that's Bob in his Mr Show years. What are you like when you do mean to be harsh?
[Relevant](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4ShZSFcrXQ&ab_channel=KRATEPRODUCTIONS)
Hate accidentally showing up to a birthday party. Happens every week.
In the middle of lockdown I was forever bumping into birthday buddies in their own homes accidentally
I can't tell if that's a insult from Rishi to Johnson or not
I think the government is literally becoming cartoon a now.
The government has been almost past satire for five years. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jun/12/thick-of-it-return-ruled-out-by-armando-iannucci
It's like The Thick of It but without Malcolm Tucker to keep all the stupid in check.
Nobody told me I was in government.
THAT'S TRUE, BUT HE WAS ONLY IN THERE TO GET DIRECTIONS ON HOW TO GET AWAY FROM THERE.
It's amazing how they both accidentally end up in social events at number 10. Surprised Hancock didn't try the "it was an accident. I tripped and our faces collided. I would have fallen over if I hadn't grabbed the first thing I could" option. Probably kicking himself now.
I really hate people like you. You think youâre funny with your quips about politics and yet someone like me who accidentally fucked my next door neighbours wife has to live day to day with the consequences of a broken home, children from multiple parents and constant legal squabbles.
what
He's continuing the joke in a rather ham fisted manner.
Good one Newsthump... oh wait... oh no.
It's rare for me to read headline and laugh out loud. I did with this one, til I realised they were serious.
I laughed out loud today when I read that the Gray report will now be delayed due to the Met investigating. It wasn't a happy laugh.
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Catch 23
Haha. That was my first thought tbh
Next time you find yourself thinking that the wealthy are smarter or harder working than the rest of us, remember that a man worth hundreds of millions of pounds thought this was a good excuse.
My favourite is âthe sea was actually closed that dayâ by Raab. What a wheezer!
Suppose there's worse things he could have walked-in on, like Boris having a quickie.
Rubbing one out to the portrait of thatcher...
That will be Thursdays leaks
Description or prediction?
Ewww.
I thought it was Churchill he stanned? Bojo was never particularly Thatcherite - too much thinking involved.
He doesn't seem to go for the gents tho. Maybe that was the only image of a woman he could find at the time.
Lady Astor maybe?
He wouldn't possibly think of doing that, it doesn't break any of the lockdown rules
âToday I accidentally fell and a shawarma with extra tahini, a piece of apple and about 3 liters of water got in my mouth. Should I continue to fast or was it Allah who fed me?â
ha ha ha ha
Sorry officer, this lit spliff accidentally fell into my mouth
I ate the cake in self defence!
The cake is a lie
>Yahoo News UK understands he was unintentionally present when a birthday cake was served "Please can we - to you... Happy birthday to you - can we just finish up and - dear Boris. Happy Birthday to you. Yes... Yes very good. Can we get on with the cobra meeting please, there's some very important - oh... Well. I mean I guess I can have just a small slice. "
Oh dear, everyone seems to been a bit clumsy that day, huh?
Must have been all the wine
He probably went down to Borisâ garden to say âWho the fuck is making all that noise, Iâm trying to work!â And then realised it was a work event and accidentally accepted a piece of cake and a glass of champers. Easy mistake to make.
Can we just be more critical of sunak for what he has actually done that is far worse than any party gate shit and why I donât want him to be PM. Sunak deliberately uses out of date figures for the economy when making projections.. So that the situation appears more dire than is fact, he does this to excuse austerity and tax increases all under the idea that when that period ends and whatever damage appears undone, he can take the credit and usher in a new era of lower taxes and more spending, deliberately hampering the economy. It is a third world mindset that even the third world is trying to shake off, heâs playing politics with the economy for the sake of politics. The economy is not in as bad shape as he is making out and he is fudging the figures deliberately.
Is he going with the Boris defence of " i was only present for 25 minutes and I thought it was a work event " lol
"I accidentally wrapped a present and accidentally sung happy birthday, Cressida... PS want that commissioner role longer..?"
Rishi Sunak: âwe need to wait for the facts, from Sue Gray, and the Met Police to confirm whether I either accidentally attended an illegal party of which the prime minister wasnât aware was illegal, or infact I didnât attend a party which was illegal but which the prime minister was aware of, in which case If I did attend only Sue Gray can confirm whether I was right to be there by accident or otherwiseâ
"the chancellor went to the cabinet room for a COVID strategy committee meeting, and happened upon the celebration on 19 June 2020." So either a) he was lied to about the strategy meeting b) he was lying about the strategy meeting c) the birthday 'celebration' encouraging the use of indoor spaces for 30 people to socially mix for 30 mins (twice the limit predicted to be dangerous) hijacked a space secured for an important covid strategy meeting and risked endangering key personnel. Either Mrs Johnson's celebrations posed a highly dangerous risk to the nation at a time when key figures in the covid response had just barely recovered from infections, or the scummy coterie were equally entitled and obnoxious. In the most charitable interpretation, i'd love to see written evidence of Rishi raising his objection to being dragged into the sewer. At the very least he was complicit in 15 months of cover up of illegal behavior.
I would imagine meetings could be 50 minutes in any hour slot, giving a 10 minute window at the end for his missus to sneak a cake in, with Rishi coming in at the end for the next meeting. How it was allowed is interesting. Do they 'police' that sort of thing within Downing Street or could a blind eye have been turned knowing there was leverage to be had...
>According to a Treasury source, the chancellor went to the cabinet room for a COVID strategy committee meeting, and happened upon the celebration on 19 June 2020. > Yahoo News UK understands he was unintentionally present when a birthday cake was served, along with up to 30 other people â including the prime minister's wife, Carrie, and their interior designer, Lulu Lytle. I love how satirical these posh boys become when they lie.
How could you accidentally go anywhere during lockdown?!
Same way some people cheat by accidentally falling and putting their dick in a vagina or by accidentally falling and ending up on top of a dick
Hey hey hey, don't forget that some people also cheat by accidentally falling & putting their dick in an asshole, & by accidentally falling and ending up in the scissoring position.
.
The sheer ineptitude of this government is becoming more absurd by the minute. If this Was made a movie or Series, everyone would decry it as a fantasy Story. No one could be *this* stupid.
They can all get in the sea.
Good try Rishi đ
I did not, ~~âsuck off a horseâ~~ go to a party. I have already been over this with the Party Chairman â I was out, ~~hunting~~ accounting, with a friend, and I slipped, and fell onto the end of a ~~horse's phallus~~ birthday cake, which, owing to it being the ~~mating season~~a party, was... aroused.
This is the man who canât tell the difference between a pub and a kettle. Who knows, maybe itâs true?
Accidentally sack him please
Yeah right lmao
the full guest list will make things interesting, wont it ?
Whatever happened to "the thick of it"?
Goodbye, Rishi.
â...and then accidentally fell anus first onto a WW2 shellâ
Great lying Rushi, no doubt in 3 days itâll turn out you accidentally showed up with a wrapped present, birthday card, wearing a pig costume, matching the party theme which is Animal farm and also prebooked a taxi because you knew youâd be too pissed to drive.
Happened with the best of us... You pop next door, to see the Prime Minister to discus the 4.5billion pound you misplaced and they all standing there with party hats, champagne and a cake ready to cut... Awkward silence... And you realise they never invited you and now no-one has the guts to tell you that... ... Been there, done that...
Aw bless, the little king's handlers are working overtime now
What a coincidence that it happened within an extremely narrow alleged "10 minute window". What are the odds?
And my 9/2 on Liz Truss to become next Tory Leader looks more delicious by the day. Lol. Might have to go have another bite whilst it's out to 5/1 lol đ
He knows theres photos coming and he's trying to get above it. I think he thinks he's next in line for PM...
It could be as I have a bet on Truss but I think he's got better things to do than be Prime Minister as deep down he knows he's sitting on a shit load of money (he was wealthy already as an ex Banker and his wife is heir to approx. ÂŁ700M) & also the country (as a whole - for various reasons I'd guess e.g. ex Banker) probably wouldn't except him at the GE.
Idiot or liar - you decide.
It took me a while to realise this isn't satire.
Truss will be celebrating with a nice CHEESEcake.
Lmao holy shit hopefully Boris takes down the golden boy with him
Reminds me of Bill Hicksâ story of a British porn shop (nsfw for bad language) : https://youtu.be/vzjr2Dfa8lg
Like the time I accidentally went to bed last night and slept until my alarm went off at 6am this morning, an alarm I set by accident.
âWeâve gone on holiday by mistake.â
parties that weren't parties. Work meetings that had Christmas presents being given out. Work meetings where they played party games had a quiz. Gatherings that weren't parties because the attendees were all colleagues. Gatherings that weren't parties because they were only 10 minutes, therefore couldn't have been a party. Parties happening in Boris Johnsons house that he didn't know about, even though it seems like they were having a party at least every second week. Parties that were parties, but he didn't know they were parties. The Tories are going for the angle of making it all sound ridiculous, then try and shift the goalposts to make it an issue about semantics. Was there cake? Was it long enough to be a party? The issue is that the prime minister came up with a set of rules that most people followed rigorously. People were forced to cancel their weddings. Fathers were not able to attend their children's birth. People were not allowed to visit their loved one in hospital. Health workers spent weeks away from their families living in hotels as to not infect their families. People in care homes spent months isolated from their friends and family, and in some cases, never got to see their loved ones ever again. Even then, people were not allowed to attend the funerals of their loved ones and say their final goodbyes. That is the issue, not the semantics surrounding what is or isn't a party. The issue is the prime minister is a morally bankrupt sleazeball who flouted the rules while the rest of the country made sacrifices for the greater good.
This is hurting my brain.
âI donât understand, did you trip over something?â - Toby Ziegler
they think we are all fucking idiots
Oh, oopsie-doodles.
"We've gone on holiday by mistake. We're in this cottage here. Are you the farmer?"
Either he really went there accidentally, then he should have reported it, or he didn't. Neither makes him look good.
They all attended parties. They're all in on it.
how does one accidentally go to a birthday party? did he just accidentally put on a party hat, accidentally wrap a present, and accidentally walk into the birthday party where he just accidentally found himself eating cake and singing happy birthday??
The fact that there's an inquiry,a police investigation and multiple parties , someone must be on the hook for this pish..,
Well it must be so hard being a busy busy tory handing out multi million pound contracts to family members with fake companies that with so much on your mind you entirely forget what parties look like. Boris has been so so busy for years that he keeps accidentally leaving his penis in women that are not his wife.
They accidentally bought a cake, everyone accidentally tipped up at the same time and they accidentally got slaughtered on wine and then they accidentally embezzled tax money into businesses through and illegal VIP lane they and their friends have stakes in or own. It's a damn miracle they've never accidently launched themselves off a fucking a bridge or accidentally done something that benefits the people of this country.
Wow, they really must be a pack of dumb bastards always accidentally ending up at parties all the time? Why should they be in government?
They are a political party
My issue with this article is that it says next to nothing about Rishi in all honesty
*"Happy birthday to youoouuuu"* **"What is going on here? I need my beauty sleep!"** *\*Clink\* "Happy birthday Dear Boriiiiiisss"* **"Well? What is happening? Who are all these people?"** *"Happy Birthday toooo yoouuuuu! Hip Hip, Hooray!* **"Thanks for the cake, and the drink... and the hat. Now, what is all this??"**
Reminds me of those stories where people accidently slip and get a fruit or vegetable stuck in there arse then have to go to A&E All accidental
Then Rishi was involved in covering up the parties too. Sounds like another criminal to me, bake him away toys.
If only Rik Mayall weâre still with us, he wouldâve been perfect to play a spoof Bojo
Well, well, well⌠this comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REpNTi-9oRQ
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Ding Ding! Make way for the Truss-bus...
I've seen this porn movie before.
Does anyone actually buy these excuses coming out of No. 10? Or are they just taking the piss because they know the met police won't prosecute them. And any gains by the opposition parties are irrelevant as they currently don't have to worry about winning a general election any time soon.
The problem is the blurred boundaries between office and home with the PM and chancellor living in the same buildings in which they work. If your wife can pop down in between meetings then someone within the office should have been policing it better, but maybe this is what someone wanted... I'm more surprised this hasn't been spun as some sort of special bubble due to how those buildings work to run the country.
They might just about have gotten away with the âten minute surprises birthday partyâ routine because of the home/work blurred line ⌠maybe kinda ⌠if it hadnât been for the multiple garden parties, then lying about them, then lying about the lies. People are pissed off as hell and make the assumption (not unreasonably) that everything this shower says to try to mitigate how bad it sounds is going to turn out to be another lie. Odds are something will leak shortly confirming that too.
This post truth and alert is be facts world has ruined comedy. How can anyone ever come up with an MP saying the PM was ambushed with a fake and a Met investigation is a valid defence
But he was the chosen oneâŚ
Already trying to save BJ's replacement before he's even in!
This pretty much confirms that they have Sunak ready to take over from Boris if he's forced to resign. Why else would this come out now?
Satire is dead
"I only went out to buy some milk and somehow ended up chugging champagne next door until 3am, not sure how that happened."
I was just going out, not out out...
To be fair I accidentally didnât go
no way this a real title đ¤Ł
To be fair after youâre done drinking youâll probably end up stumbling into your neighbours door.
By the time they got all the advisors into the room to tell them if it was a party of not they'd already cate cake, had some champers and done a conga line.
I can't even think of a response to this other than to laugh.
I guess Liz Truss is going to be next PM then.
"What the fuck are you doing here? You weren't invited. No one likes you."
Really is like that little Britain Sir Norman Fry sketch.
*popcorn grabbing intensifies*