Partygate

[Hymie]

If this news article is to be believed (it must be true it’s in the Daily Mail), this government mandarin is being set-up as the fall guy for the illegal meetings in 2020 in Downing Street.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10382743/Top-mandarin-runs-Boris-Johnsons-private-office-lined-fall-guy-Partygate.html

Someone should tell Boris that this won’t wash – as someone in attendance at those meetings; is he going to say ‘Oh, I was invited to attend those meetings (and did so) but as Prime Minister I had no idea such meetings were illegal/against government advice?’

[jno]

I suppose if he becomes an ambassador he's not a fall guy but a rise guy.

[Gromit]

The rule at the time was that people should only meet with other person outdoors.

// Mr Johnson has always denied knowledge of any rule-breaking. //

Even though he was pictured with 19 other people at Downing Street.

[Gromit]

should only meet with *one* other person outdoors

[Peter Pedant]

party outside is a non starter ( as a super spreader event)
you will find me pointing out that the 1 m visitors to Darzet aaaargh on a hot summer afternoon (July ) and NO peak
showed that transmission in bright dry sunlight was rare

[jno]

they really are the party party, aren't they

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/10/email-shows-boris-johnsons-official-invited-no-10-staff-to-lockdown-byob-party

[royfromaus]

He'll be gone by next week.

[Ellipsis]

Listen, plebs, do as I say, not as I do ... I wiff, you waff, got it?

[gness]

Around the same day as my mother's funeral. Six mourners standing apart from each other.

[Bobbisox1]

I voted Tory but enough is enough !

[lady-janine]

Stupid and selfish.
Totally uncaring and selfish.
Totally condescending and uncaring and stupid and selfish.

How dare they treat us in the way they have.

[jno]

quite so, gness. The date means nothing to me, but there will be so many who were observing the government's rules.

[bhg481]

I wonder if Boris Johnson's principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds, will be granted a knighthood at some point in the future for his party-organising skills. Does anybody know what Sir Humphrey Appleby did to earn his?