The Metropolitan Police is weighing up whether to investigate “retrospective breaches” of Covid laws amid calls for an investigation of a No 10 Christmas party held during 2020’s restrictions. BBC News has more.
The party took place on December 18th, with a source telling the BBC that “several dozen” people attended.
However, Covid restrictions in place at the time banned such events.
The PM, who was not at the party, said no Covid rules were broken but No 10 has not said how party-goers complied.
A source who attended the event told the BBC that party games were played, food and drink were served, and the party went on past midnight.
The Mirror newspaper, which was the first to report the claims, also said Boris Johnson gave a speech at a “packed leaving do” for an aide on November 27th, when the country was in its second lockdown and socialising was banned.
Writing separately to Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick on Friday, Labour MPs Neil Coyle and Barry Gardiner called for a full investigation into whether or not any laws had been broken.
Sharing his letter on Twitter, Coyle, the MP for Bermondsey and Southwark, in south London, said from reading the guidance, he believed “holding these events was a breach of the rules at the time”.
He said: “Like most constituents, I followed the rules and did not see my own dad last Christmas and, sadly, it was to be his last.
“The sense of outrage from constituents is palpable that they followed the rules whilst those responsible for devising and enforcing them were breaching them at the top of Government.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The Guardian has the same story on its live Coronavirus blog.
In the U.K., the Metropolitan Police have said they are considering complaints from Labour MPs that Boris Johnson and his No 10 staff held Christmas parties in breach of Covid regulations.
Labour backbenchers Neil Coyle and Barry Gardiner have each written to Scotland Yard asking police to investigate reports that two parties were held in the run-up to last Christmas at a time when such gatherings were banned.
Johnson has not denied the events took place but said no rules were broken – although he has repeatedly refused to explain how that could be the case.
In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said that while it did not routinely investigate “retrospective” breaches of the Covid regulations, it was considering the correspondence it had received.
On Wednesday, the Daily Mirror reported the prime minister gave a speech at a packed leaving-do for a senior aide last November when the country was in the midst of the second lockdown.
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Don’t think it was a law to be broken, hence why the Met wouldn’t investigate it even if it was yesterday.
Covid regs are strictly for the plebs and do not apply to the government or their friends and families as well as party donors.
Yes by all means let’s waste even more money on something that happened a year ago. Is there nothing more recent this clown has done to nail the reckless bastard. Dig deeper there must be something.
Oh, hi, Cressie, its Bozza here. Do you think you could get some of your boys to make a bit of a fuss so it looks like they give a f**k about this. Ta. Drinks at my gaff Xmas eve. Luv ya.
The Met shouldn’t need the assistance of Sherlock Holmes to solve ‘The Mystery of the Tory Party’ – just ask PC Fatbloke, the doorman at no.10 who must’ve signed everyone in. Mind you, I suppose it’s a bit much to expect that he’ll answer truthfully.
It could get interesting if he is interviewed and continues to lie. It is quite obvious he is guilty as hell. How can he not be when it specifically stated in his Laws that no form of party or gathering could be held? Is he going to claim they were all one family bubble and all live together? That they were all vulnerable people living alone? Bang to rights yet again Mr Not My Prime Minister.
I expect to see a result from this.
Not.
There is an ivermectin panic on the big tech and MSM right now. Massive articles from MSM on Ivermectin trying to push a danger narrative and also negative press on Americans Frontline Dr’s, again, to keep the Covid narrative alive. Just go to the Goog and type ivermectin then look at all the panic news articles. We are over the target. Big-Pharma is panicking. This medicine has been widely used by humans without any problems for 40 years. It’s inventor won a Nobel Prize after 20 years of successful use and after 100 million people were cured of a broad spectrum of problems without any side effects. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://ivmpharmacy.com
Why would a leaving do be illegal?
I’m sorry, I just don’t care. First because this is 11 months in the rear. Second, what punishment would be useful (sending the offenders to work in Dutch Covid wards?). And third, we all know that the folks in Westminster don’t live as the legislate, any of the parties. And given that Labour were it in power would have us masked and passport-controlled like all of Europe, I’ll take my duplicity as is thank you.
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/high-tech-global-genocidal-feudalism
RFK, Jr transcript from Milan speech:
No government in the history of mankind has ever relinquished power voluntarily. The power that they have taken away from us over the past 20 months they will never give back. They have taken away our freedom of speech, they have closed the churches, they have taken away jury trials against companies, no matter how negligent they, no matter how reckless they are, no matter how grievous your injury, you cannot sue that company..….
I think a strong case can be made that nation-states no longer exist (or nation-states only exist as an official narrative to keep the peasants in line in each country). Under global monopoly capitalism there are just two classes — the elites and everyone else (us). Elites around the world have more in common with each other than they do with the average citizens in their country of birth (billionaires are billionaires — it does not matter whether they made their money from state monopolies in China or illegal monopolies in the U.S.). And the bioweapons apparently are targeting us. The only threat to the billionaires is if billions of people rise up and seize their assets. But the peasants cannot… Read more »
https://tobyrogers.substack.com/p/janet-woodcocks-decision-to-unilaterally
Janet Woodcock’s decision to unilaterally push through “boosters for all American adults” last week violated standard FDA protocols that call for review by the VRBPAC
Lacking proper data to justify their decision, the FDA just skipped expert review altogether
Steve Kirsch warns of “incomprehensible” conspiracy among government and science academia to push deadly covid vaccine
https://www.brighteon.com/94c8953a-f615-45e1-93e1-40899e3e1865
I couldn’t resist.
COVID Propaganda Roundup: Bill Gates, Inc. Rolls Out Latest Viral Terror Threat (Weaponized Smallpox)
Interesting to see that the right to protest is about to end, if they get their way. Who would have thought this would have happened on Liberal Johnson’s watch
There are few true liberals left in parliament. Those few are described by the Guardian as “libertarian crazies”.
Wonder what £ made them change direction
I love how Coyle addresses his letter to “Dear Cressida”. Not for him a long wait in a shitty cop shop before being “served” by an arrogant, gormless plod.
Bit off-topic, but had my mind well and truly blown today: Masked young couple walking along – no one anywhere near them. They then stopped, removed their masks, and walked straight into a packed cafe!
Of course, I am aware of this nonsense – but to actually witness this in person … it really knocked me sideways. The old noggin very nearly short-circuited!
If they put it back on again once outside then they are clearly mad, otherwise I expect they saw that it was ok not to wear one upon seeing others inside? More reason to hold the line.
They walk in the open air, down a hill to our village with no one whatsoever near them, yet suitably fearful to be wearing masks anyway. But then they take their masks off as they enter a packed cafe?
Gobsmacked!
It’s a nonsensical cult.
The PM himself is a nonsensical cult (at least I think that’s what I heard)
There are moments some days I think how easy it would be just to accept the official narrative & go along with it all, and it does offer comfort, life seems blissfully easy.
I then shake out of it & say to myself what the fuck were you thinking, but I’m a natural cynic, anti-authority, contrarian, it’s in my DNA to question everything & take my own path.
But people have been manipulated by the best, they flock together for comfort & believe what they’re told by the authorities & to be fair its been professional grade psyop the CIA would be proud of.
I think people seem to be keeping relatively quiet and just waiting to see, but judging from comments in many outlets, there is a lot of anger simmering..
When ever I get into the controversial subject of covid with my wife, she always says I’m just keeping my head down, & I can’t fault her because I’ve always said to her don’t draw attention to yourself, don’t volunteer for anything.
But then what happens when the time comes, you’re unable to lift your head from under the tyrannical boot?
They thought the poll tax was a good idea until …….
The 80’s was a long time ago, people are more interested in reality TV than reality now. Anyway, It’ll soon be illegal to protest, let alone riot.
If this is what it looks like, you have to figure all the past events were trial runs & they’ve planned mitigation for any future unrest, eg. civil contingencies act.
I’m hugely pessimistic of the future. Hope is just delayed disappointment. It looks to me like a dying civilisation, its not going to end well.
And so easy to do, with other peoples’ money! Treble Christmas bonuses all round for the members of the SAGE committee!
You are not mad, they are. As I posted yesterday, my wife and I were having a drink in our local and we had a good viewing point of the car park, 20 yards max walk to the pub entrance. At least 90% of the punters dutifully put a mask on when exiting their car for the 20 yard walk to the pub and then took them off when they entered. Unbelievable but true, fear porn obviously works!
When they are driving, air enters their cars, right? Through the vents, blower… the same air can be found inside their homes, and in the pub/restaurant.
Neil Oliver is on good form tonight.
Although he has got a smooth brain on there now saying if I wear a mask it stops me spreading it to you, but if you wear one it doesn’t really stop you catching it?! Where do they find these fucking idiots..?!
He is, but that ‘doctor’ in Saudi, was giving crazy figures, they just say anything without any proof at all.
Luckily (for my blood pressure) I am a little behind and was able to skip past the remainder of his gibberish.
‘ALL travellers to Britain will need to take a lateral flow or PCR Covid test 48 hours before departure in new travel crackdown starting on Tuesday to fight Omicron variant’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10275279/Pre-departure-tests-needed-international-arrivals-UK.html
Follow the money, not the science!
And I am reliably informed that rumours that any passengers caught with either Lemsip or paracetamol in their baggage will be subject to 2 years incarceration are just rumours. But I guess that things might change tomorrow!
Until the people making these rules up are dealt with, this will continue.
Anyone else see anything ominous about this?
I’m probably not the best person to ask, I find everything the government does sinister.
But, how can they fine you if your cat is not chipped?
I like how your brain works, I missed that 1!
Yes. It’s not as though a cat is going to give the game away if it’s somehow reunited with its owner, the way a dog would.
Just thinking about this, but aren’t the Covid ‘offences’ all Summary-only? If that’s the case then charges have to be laid within six months of the offence taking place, so if it was nearly a year ago it’s time-barred and would therefore be thrown out of court (if anyone was stupid enough to take it that far).
That letter is all over the place as regards the crucial distinction between law and guidance too – it talks about people being fined for breaking the guidance. This is nonsense – they could only be fined for breaking the law, not the guidance.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/celebrity/rod-stewart-bans-anyone-who-isn-t-triple-vaccinated-from-his-christmas-party/ar-AARt2lV?li=BBoPJKU
Who?
Rod was always a cunt.
He’s banned from my party in that case then
Anti-lockdown protestors hit the streets in York, Austria and the Netherlands as Europe faces up to new Covid strain
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10274825/Anti-lockdown-protestors-hit-streets-York-Austria-Netherlands.html
As the utter absurdity of covidianism becomes more and more destabilising, when will all this finally fall to pieces?
Hopefully sooner rather than later. The key point of attack has to be to expose more forcefully the reported side effects of the ‘vaccines’ and the lunacy of ‘jabbing’ children. That is the elephant in the room and arguably the issues that governments are most sensitive to criticism about.
Not just the lunacy of injecting children (the latter don’t need it, even if it worked), but also the wicked selfishness of the adults doing the injecting. Those adults are injecting children with a drug the children don’t need because the adults think that they themselves will thereby be protected. Using children as human shields in other words. Cowardly and wicked.
Mixed feelings about this…
Obviously Police shouldn’t be investigating any breaches of covid restrictions, historical or otherwise.
However, if it draws attention to the fact that not even the people inventing these rules have any interest in following them because they are such a load of bollocks then I’m all for it!
I don’t think it’s a Lab v Con thing as most of the Tories officially support this nonsense anyway. Hopefully it will peak a few more people into realising the Emperor has no clothes on…
The emperor is currently both trouserless and displaying tourets tendencies: shouting that he does. Most covidians politely avert their eyes from his majesty’s appearance while taking his words as absolute.
Behave, you think the police are going to do anything?
It’s just more distraction & theatre for public consumption. There was an article in DM earlier today with Dick saying the police would only investigate if there was a complaint made, voilà! Invitation accepted.
The ones who disturb me the most are the public baying for rule breakers’ blood. These are bitter and twisted true believers if that’s not an oxymoron. As long as they predominate this nonsense will thrive.
There’s a very good reason why so many of us now subscribe to the notion of LibLabCon – with all the established political parties (I include the SNP, all those from Wales and NI and now the Greens, who are just the same as the hard Left of Labour pretending to be environmentalists) you essntially end up at a very similar result.
A near neighbour mine said as much recently, after our local District Council changed hands from solid Tory to Lib/Lab pact in 2019 after the shambles of the May era. The only difference in quality of service is that we now get woke tweets and awareness months for the alphabet community. Otherwise you’d never know.
I too had a Christmas party last year. In fact I never listened to any of the bullshit this government said. I saw friends and relatives throughout.
Yup, us too, with people from abroad no less!
I’m sure there were some rules, distance where possible and all that, but I seem to remember considering having a work’s do, hiring my entire extended family for xmas day last year, or at least having a business meeting planning our new venture together around lunchtime because it was allowed?
Not that I could give a fuck about their rules, I just remember thinking up loopholes, apparently so does Johnson.
If Mike Ryan of the WHO disputes the value of giving boosters to healthy people, why the Feck is this government of ours insisting on giving them to the detriment of monitoring the health of the elderly? Follow the money would be my guess!
https://news.sky.com/video/covid-19-no-evidence-boosters-to-whole-population-will-provide-greater-protection-from-omicron-12483965
The same could be said for this vaccine generally, at least for the otherwise fit and healthy under 65s, maybe even older.
The problem is that we (as many other Western nations are thes days) a nation of serious unhealthy, inactive and overweight people eating poor diets, loads of sugar (even I with my very sweet tooth have cut down a LOT in recent years) and getting almost no proper exercise.
I’d put good money on those who do look after themselves well – even OAPs – rarely succumbing to the coof.
Note how the country MOST affected in Africa by COVID is South Africa – the most ‘Weternised’ by diet and which has the most issues with obesity. Despite all the other problems plaguing Africans elsewhere on that continent, very few of its citizens outside of South Africa are dying of COVID.
Squirrel.
I don’t object to them breaking the rules, I object to the rules
Well, you ought to object to them breaking the ‘rules,’ not because these ‘rules’ are meaningful, but because these bastards have frightened people, including many vulnerable elderly who will have trusted the parasites, into abiding by these unlawful decrees, only to then spit in their faces by breaching their own decrees.
How many people have died alone because of the fearmongering and because they were told they couldn’t leave their homes/didn’t want to mingle in hospitals or ‘bother’ the sainted NHS? How many people have died, worsened or had an illness missed because their treatments were cancelled/put back or screenings were neglected?
You ought to be downright livid.
Nah it just helps confirm my reality, that all civil servants are *****, i’m past caring what they do. I’ll live my life by my rules.
‘Nah it just helps confirm my reality…’
Your reality? Are there multiple realities?
‘…i’m past caring what they do.’
Then why do you bother visiting these forums to moan about things they do?
‘I’ll live my life by my rules.’
Great, and they’ll live their lives by their rules. And their rules rule since they have the weight of the state and associated authorities on their side.
So you believe their narrative, do you? You are wasting your time getting angry, get even!
Well done you, you’ve awoken to the fact you are their slave, what are you going to do about it. Divert your anger at me?
The answer is self-reliance, never look to government to solve your problems, & stop thinking everything in life can be risk-free or guaranteed, live for today accept tomorrow is unknown.
Yikes!
‘So you believe their narrative, do you?’
What on earth would bring you to that conclusion? Try paying attention.
‘You are wasting your time getting angry, get even!’
Are you unwell?
You’ve swerved my points interacting with your previous post. Was this purposeful or do you have a hard time keeping up?
‘Well done you, you’ve awoken to the fact you are their slave, what are you going to do about it. Divert your anger at me?’
Are you having an aneurysm? I am responding to you on your own terms by taking your self-centredness and apparent subjectivity to their logical conclusion.
You’re apparently incapable of following an argument, instead banging on about ‘anger’.
‘The answer is self-reliance, never look to government to solve your problems, & stop thinking everything in life can be risk-free or guaranteed, live for today accept tomorrow is unknown.’
You’re tilting at windmills.
That was surreal. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen someone miss the point so badly.
One hates to say ‘try again,’ but you seriously need to try again.
Ahh! A socialist just looking for a fight because you know you’re impotent, good luck with that & your impotence.
‘Ahh! A socialist just looking for a fight…’
Bloody hell. You really are a moron. Don’t tell me, I’m a ‘socialist’ because I criticised your self-centredness? That’s non sequitur. This type of ‘reasoning’ is breathtakingly shallow. You’re an embarrassment.
‘…because you know you’re impotent, good luck with that & your impotence.’
Projection Your Honour!
You’re addressing a mirror. You are incapable of interacting with my posts. You have a staggering inability to follow an argument. And now you’re lashing out. What a mess.
The irony of an ‘anti-socialist’ misapplying the term ‘socialist’ is not lost on me. Marvellous stuff.
Hit the nail bang on the head there – that’s the point of this story. Get the public up in arms about people breaking the rules, thereby accepting the rules.
That’s muddle-headed. One can be ‘up in arms’ not because one ‘accepts’ these rules or that these rules are meaningful, but because these bastards have put the wind up people and frightened them into abiding by the very decrees they themselves sanctioned yet do not follow.
Regarding your theory about ‘the point of this story’, not only does it neglect the fact that the people largely already accept the rules and have done for nearly two years, making such a ‘plan’ wholly unnecessary, but this ‘plan’ would be needlessly risky since it could easily backfire given the patent double standard, with people ceasing to accept the rules they had long come to accept without a whimper.
Clickbait from The Times..
December 18 is when Boris Johnson must decide whether the Omicron variant will allow a normal Christmas. Even if it does, there could be trouble in the new year
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/will-christmas-be-cancelled-again-dgdjhxhlv
I don’t care any more. I refuse to take the knee to Bozo and Globocap. They can FO.
Seconded with extreme prejudice!
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…and if not, I’m sure we’ll invent some trouble instead.
I suspect the overwhelming majority of the parasites in Westminster have at some point, and probably with regularity, breached the unlawful and arbitrary ‘rules’ they themselves sanctioned. Very few if any of these odious windbags truly believe their own narrative. They have no ‘fear’ of a ‘dangerous virus’.
Makes you wonder what else is staged. Videos of politicians getting the jab for example?
I suspect the videos of the jabs are real but what’s fake is what they’re being injected with – most likely a saline solution. I first became suspicious when the video of Mrs Windsor receiving the jab was aired. Of all the people in the UK, she would be the last one they’d use as a guinea pig.