Joe Biden, Boris Johnson and other world leaders have been accused of breaking strict social distancing rules at the G7 summit in Cornwall over the weekend. Indeed, not just breaking them, but of making no effort to pretend they’re complying with them. The MailOnline has more.
At a beach barbecue on Saturday guests were served sirloin steak and lobster while being entertained by a sea shanty group and a Red Arrows flypast. …
Foreign secretary Dominic Raab insisted “there was social distancing” at the event when asked about it on Sky News on Sunday morning.
“Maybe someone tripped up, maybe it’s a mistake but it’s out there and people will be reasonably saying, ‘You’re not allowing me to gather with my friends and family at a wedding or a funeral, but look at what you guys are doing,”’ interviewer Trevor Phillips said.
Raab responded that there have always been different regulations for social gatherings and government business.
Downing Street has also defended the barbecue, insisting it complied with coronavirus rules.
Less than 30 guests were at the event, the Prime Minister’s spokesman said.
“The event last night was done in an entirely Covid-secure way within the existing rules,” the spokesman said.
You can read that piece here.
Among those questioning the world leaders’ double standards is Robert Peston, the ITV presenter, who posted a picture of attendees of Saturday night’s barbecue on Twitter.
Another person who’s been shocked – shocked, I tell you – by the behaviour at the G7 is James Delingpole. He’s written a piece for Breitbart headlined: “No Masks, No Distancing – The Disgraceful Covid Hypocrisy of the G7 Elite.“
At least one good thing has emerged from the G7 summit: we now know that President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, President Bieber of Canada and the various other world leaders who’ve been sunning themselves in Cornwall are ocean-going, copper-bottomed hypocrites.
Note how their personal rules on mask-wearing, “social distancing” [an egregious oxymoron], quarantining and so on differ quite markedly from the ones they’ve been imposing on us ordinary folk these last 18 months.
Worth reading in full.
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MUCK YOUR FASK
I resent every single morsel of lobster and sirloin that passes their lips, which we the people are forced to pay for. Hope they choke on it.
Love how they ate sirloin and lobsters cooked on a Smokey barbecue having flown in on private planes, no testing, quarantine or vaccines probably just to lecture us all on how we must not travel, eat meat or socialise in order to cut “our” carbon emissions- hope the lobster was “off”- a good dose of Carbis Bay belly would not go amiss, followed by a red hot poker up the ‘arris
I intend following the same rules as those in the G7 from now on and wear a face covering only when the Press are around.
Daily Mail comments seem uniformly aligned that this is total hypocrisy.
I see too that “the staff” seem to have had to wear masks.
Could this be the 1979 Jim Callaghan Winter of Discontent Caribbean Beach moment.
“What Crisis?”
That’s a NAMBLA convention
The Great Reset team photo.
I live near a police station where I see coppers habitually driving while using hand held devices. Lots of other “exceptions” that allow them to flout laws that they enforce on others. So why should we be surprised at politicians granting themselves exceptions to the suffering they impose on the rest of us? It’s institutional hypocrisy.
Raab can’t even be bothered to lie well, so contemptuous and arrogant are these people they no longer even disguise the contempt they hold us in
I live in South Africa but am British and my children and grandchildren live in the UK. I have not seen them for nearly two years and possibly never will because I could never afford to pay for hotel quarantine for 10 days How is it possible that our president, Cyril Ramphosa, (and all his hangers on) can attend the G7 with no quarantine? BTW if you think you have had it bad in the UK, try SA – at one stage we could not even walk our dogs, buy smokes and booze or use our beaches. We’re all being played.
the menials serving the drinks.
Can’t the general public see what lying hypocritical ba*stards these world leaders are? These politicians need locking up. The masses need to wake up!
‘A picture speaks a thousand words‘
…they may as well have all, in unison, dropped trews and mooned the world.
LONDON
Mon, 14 June, 12 noon till late
Downing St, London
MONDAY https://gab.com/emoji/1f511.svghttps://gab.com/emoji/1f510.svghttps://gab.com/emoji/1f513.svghttps://gab.com/emoji/1f929.svg
JUNE 14TH , BE THERE
1O DOWNING STREET
12 PM
EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO PEACEFULLY GATHER.
No offence to all you Brits, but we need more William Wallace and less Edward Longshanks at a time like this.
Let’s celebrate. This is the perfect illustration of what a total load of bollocks is every single aspect of the shit-show.
I just hope some more people get the message : Forget the ‘Rules’
We must follow their example, stuff the restrictions
One rule for the elites another for the little people – I seem to recall the Soviet Union ran on the same principle with the communist elites living a privileged life of luxury while ordinary Russians queued for a loaf of bread.
I can’t help look at the main photo ATL and think “where’s the bomb from the aircraft when we needed it?”
Or at least some bird shit.
Can’t even rely on the pigeons doing their job nowadays.
Gas Lighting 2021. Does Toby still believe Boris is his mate and there’s nothing more sinister going on here ?
At least it got up that Peston twat’s nose enough to make post his tweet. His colleagues need to snap out of the spell sharpish !!!!
Peston is the enemy
He wants the PM to live the lockdown madness so it goes on forever
“Raab responded that there have always been different regulations…”
Hmmm…extending to vaccination? I wonder.
When the G7 leaders sat down for dinner, who was Mr No Mates sat on a table by himself. After all, if we vcan’t book a table for seven…..
One more for the cameras …
https://twitter.com/robinmonotti2/status/1404107305638105095
Removed from Twitter by the looks of things
One rule for them …
‘Raab responded that there have always been different regulations for social gatherings and government business.’
Silly us, we keep forgetting that they are ‘special’ and don’t need to follow the rules they devise for the plebs.
Excellent! This is wonderful to see! They have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory by handing us a PR cock-up! This is going to go down really badly amongst the general public. Expect to see more of the public changing sides and turning on these self-interested tyrants.
Prepare yourself for bitter disappointment.
Don’t get me wrong, I find it as despicable as anyone else, but I am finding the lack of realism from people on here pretty tragic.
This is going to do nothing to dent Boris Johnson’s public image. And when someone gets away with something that is blatantly wrong, it just makes them stronger. I’m not describing what I would like to be the case. I’m just pointing out reality.
I am afraid that I must agree with you stewart. This hypocrisy stinks and that is a very mild expression. But even though the hypocrisy is SO bare-faced and obvious this will NOT penetrate the thick skulls of the British public; they will even make excuses for the behaviour of the G7.
I think you might be a little harsh on people here; the members of this forum wish to hope; I think their hope is misplaced, I am sorry to say.
I am coming to the conclusion that the British people do not deserve to be free; there is another demo on June 26 in London and I will be there; I have tried to interest SELECTED people in coming but ALL have refused. There is no interest in reclaiming our freedoms; people don’t care. Actually, that is not quite true; some people care but only, I regret to say, a few.
When Esau sold his birthright at least he got a meal, what have we got for surrendering our freedoms? Nothing.
Every year we have a celebration on November 11 of the sacrifices previous generations made; we have thrown away the results of their sacrifices and this year… Read more »
https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-marie-antoinette
See no6…. People never change!
Don’t think LS should be quoting Peston
Isn’t he the enemy?
Yes – BUT if even he is commenting on these disgraceful, and disgraced, politicians then the writing is at least starting to appear on the wall!
It is what is said that matters and not who said it (despite all the Trump-haters and their faux outrage).
Peston wants more lockdowns
He just wants the lockdown leaders to walk the walk
He’s missed the point
He’s not our ally
That reminds me. What news of the trial of which Michael Gove was a part, having being pinged through track and trace? It was said that he wouldn’t be self isolating as he was taking part in a trial where he would be tested daily.
Does anyone know anyone else who is on this trial or is it just for the elite again?
(Heavy sarcasm)
Make June 21st your last day of compliance with these nonsense restrictions, no matter what these disgusting hypocrites say.
No, make today your last day of compliance!
No, make March 23rd, 2020 the day – even if some of the slower-wits failed.
“Let them eat cake” moment?