Secret Santa-Gate: Health Secretary Cancels All Media Interviews as the Prime Minister Faces Police Probe Over Downing Street Party

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Sajid Javid today cancelled all his TV and radio interviews after a video emerged of Boris Johnson’s officials joking about a lockdown-busting Christmas party on December 22nd, 2020 when thousands were unable to visit or say goodbye to loved-ones and millions more obeyed the rules banning social gatherings. MailOnline has more about this burgeoning scandal.

Met Police detectives will consider launching an investigation over the leaked film showing the Prime Minister’s former press secretary Allegra Stratton giggling and laughing as she is asked about the event during a mock media conference.

This morning the Health Secretary pulled out of a round of key broadcast interviews to promote the booster campaign following the emergence of leaked footage showing Government aides joking about a festive gathering last year. BBC Breakfast took the extraordinary step of empty-chairing Mr Javid this morning as vaccines minister Maggie Throup also pulled out of her planned round of regional television interviews.

Downing Street is in crisis over the footage of Miss Stratton filmed last December 22nd – four days after the alleged ‘boozy’ party and when London was under strict Tier 3 coronavirus curbs. The revelation follows a week of tortured denials from No 10 over allegations that dozens of staff exchanged ‘secret Santa’ gifts and drank past midnight at an event said to have party games.

It came as new plans for Britons to work from home and for offices to be closed are being drawn up by the Government to curb a surge in Omicron variant case numbers over the festive period – but Tory MPs admitted the ‘indefensible’ and ‘catastrophic’ video could mean the public will resist or ignore more restrictions because of a lack of ‘moral authority’ in No 10.

Some backbenchers have even suggested that Boris Johnson’s could be forced to resign unless he ‘holds his hands up’ because of the video, which calls into question his insistence that all the rules had been followed at the time.

One said of Mr Johnson’s leadership: “I’m tired of it. He has to go. Clean sweep. It’s unsustainable.” Another said: “It confirms my suspicion of the sheer arrogance and hypocrisy of those orchestrating lockdown measures.”

Worth reading in full.

For lockdown sceptics, this scandal is manna from heaven because it makes it politically more difficult for the Government to impose a Christmas lockdown.

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Newman20
Newman20
4 years ago

Lock them all up and throw away the key.

Sue James
Sue James
4 years ago

I have worked in the office throughout. If my colleagues bring in mince pies on the 22nd December and I meet them in the kitchen and wish them a Happy Christmas, is that an office party? No one could be more angry about the last nearly two years than me, but looking at what’s happening in Europe, Australia, New Zealand etc I really fear for what will happen if Boris is replaced, and even more if Keir Starmer gets in. God help us then.

IanC
IanC
4 years ago

Yeah but…

They’re all bleedin’ at it!

2 fingers up to the ‘thick stupid cattle’ who voted for them.

If you haven’t already seen these they are worth a look. This is the wanker who was also video’d waving his arms in the air dancing and partying with a crowd at some ceremony recently, maskless and definitely not social distancing just after removing even more freedoms and mandating more restrictions on the citizens of Wales.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1459963945456971779

Then this as well Sick fuck!

https://youtu.be/DK1vuPcGJ-A?t=71

JASA
JASA
4 years ago

“Downing Street is in crisis over the footage of Miss Stratton filmed last December 22nd – four days after the alleged ‘boozy’ party and when London was under strict Tier 3 coronavirus curbs”.

The footage can’t be from last year as it is conducted from the revamped Downing Street press room. This only started being used earlier this year (2021) and so cannot be from last year. The whole thing is staged. Prove this and not only are the Government due a roasting, but so are the MSM and it will hopefully bring the whole charade of the restrictions tumbling down.

DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
4 years ago

Savage Jabber says he cancelled media stuff because he was upset by the party video. Does he really think we’re that stupid to believe such bollocks? Most likely he’s upset because he’s seeing the end of the gravy train. Absolute fucking, unprincipled bastard.

enlighteneduk
enlighteneduk
4 years ago

Smoke and mirrors. They’re up to something.

mojo
mojo
4 years ago

This not only shows the contempt journalists have for their readers etc but also their lack of adult understanding as to that contempt. Just as importantly it shows us too, the corruption within programmes like GMB and Lorraine where the lies and gaslighting are on display every single day. The whole of the Westminster Village needs to be burned to the ground to clean out the disease and vermin who carry that disease. Another Pudding Lane is required…..

godders
godders
4 years ago

You couldn’t make it up. First we get a “leaked” story from the lapdog mainstream media about an illicit Downing Street bash last Christmas. Then bungling Boris adds insult to injury with new restrictions on this year’s Yuletide celebrations.
This smacks of deliberate and typically clumsy provocation, a festive flourish of contempt for an electorate blitzed into compliance by nearly two years of fear-mongering psychological warfare.
Boris and his big pharma string-pullers need to know still have some fight left in us. Otherwise, we face total tyranny. So let’s celebrate Christmas by telling Scrooge where to stick the new restrictions – along with any plans for mandatory jabs and vaccine passports.

LonePatriot
LonePatriot
4 years ago

There Are Now 365 Studies that Prove the Efficacy of Ivermectin and HCQ in Treating COVID-19. Any hospital administrator who mandated the shots to employees to comply with the government mandate for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement and who refused to allow alternative treatments to be tried, doctors who pushed their patients to take the EUA drug without giving fully informed consent, anyone who forcefully administered the shot, the AMA, AAP, Boards of Health, CDC, FDA, NIH, WHO, scientists who participated in the development, Big Pharma (Pfizer, Moderna, J&J, Astra Zeneca, et. al.), anyone who pushed the sick into nursing homes resulting in deaths, all must be arrested, prosecuted, tried and if found guilty sentenced to prolonged imprisonment and fines or death for intentional homicide. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com

007point5
007point5
4 years ago

You forget..The Lizards have no shame… 😉

LMS2
LMS2
4 years ago

“For lockdown sceptics, this scandal is manna from heaven because it makes it politically more difficult for the Government to impose a Christmas lockdown.”

Toby, you’re so naive. They’ll impose a lockdown to distract from this “scandal.”

politicians all over the world have been caught out flouting the rules they’ve imposed on everyone else, and got away with it. None have resigned, but doubled down instead.

Anti_socialist
Anti_socialist
4 years ago

For lockdown sceptics, this scandal is manna from heaven because it makes it politically more difficult for the Government to impose a Christmas lockdown.

Bollocks! It’s a distraction to facilitate plan b & Stir up support for masks & vax passes. Since when has this government cared about contradicting itself ?

It was never about public health, it’s always been about politics!

J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago

Any hopes this will avert the regime’s intention to force new restrictions and the social credit system will be short lived as it looks like the tyrants are steaming ahead regardless.

Seems they’re not even bothering to acknowledge the controversy – I even wonder if the whole thing was staged to deliberately show us that they’re laughing at us.

So Pfeffel Fat Fuk will be announcing “Plan B” taking effect as early as tomorrow.

CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
4 years ago

Is anyone actually surprised that this happened though? Really? Maybe I’m just more cynical than most,but I always just assumed that this sort of thing would be going on.

CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
4 years ago

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-phoney-war-on-allegra-stratton

I am massively surprised that the Spectator is defending her…

OK, maybe not.

Backlash
Backlash
4 years ago

National ID going in this afternoon?

mikec
mikec
4 years ago

Has anybody got a list of the party goers? Apparently a number of ‘political’ journalists were present, somebody must know? Can we not have a DS appeal for a whistleblower, this could blow the lid off all the journos calling for Plan B. Who was at the party, never mind an inquiry, an attendance list is the important thing today.

Hopeless
Hopeless
4 years ago

If they have nothing else to offer, they do at least have one enormous yellow streak down all their backs. It’s probably made of Pfizer gold for several of them.

eyesee
eyesee
4 years ago

Two points for me;
1) Boris appears to be the only person in Downing St unaware of the party
2) Very difficult now, for him, to get ‘angry’ about being called a clown by Macron.

ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
4 years ago

A controlled demolition of the Bojo government, a rinse and repeat of the Hancock controlled demolition using compromise tactics. They have dirt like this on all of them to make them behave like trained seals. There is nothing to celebrate if he goes, can you imagine a Jeremy Hunt Henry Kissinger government right now. No thanks. Then when the Cons are out of power, theyre trying to line up Stooge Starmer for the job who has proved his worth a million times over and who will pour petrol on the flames of the burning UKSSR, laughing all the way to the gulags. If we dont turn this around, this country is now in the power of the most odious people imaginable. They have just poisoned the blood of 40 million Brits and sports stars are collapsing all over the shop. We can use these things to raise awareness but you have to get out there and put the info in peoples hands – packs, discs, leaflets etc.

Proof of blood posioning:

Doctor finds treatment for vaxx victims, sees major improvement in blood!
https://www.bitchute.com/video/D7fZ7DqFd5Bp/

Researchers present strange vax microscopy findings & blood comparisons
https://www.bitchute.com/video/2kMarfZKTMQx/

Encierro
Encierro
4 years ago

There trouble at t’mill Finland too.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-59577371

Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  Encierro

“Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin has apologised for going clubbing after coming into close contact with a Covid-19 case.
Sanna Marin went on a night out in Helsinki on Saturday, hours after her foreign minister had tested positive.

Under Finland’s Covid guidelines, anyone who is double-jabbed does not need to isolate if they come into contact with a positive case.
But the guidelines do advise people to voluntarily avoid social contact if they are waiting for access to a Covid test.
Separate guidelines for government ministers and employees also recommend limiting social contact immediately after exposure. The Seiska magazine said it spoke to witnesses who saw her dancing at the Butchers club, where she stayed until 04:00, infecting as many people as she could.”

What’s she doing at a nightclub at 4am when she has young children? Another hypocrite. Should be sacked immediately, but the World Economic Forum wouldn’t like that, she’s one of their pet Young Global Leaders.

alisterr
alisterr
4 years ago

It’s not the hypocrisy, galling though it is. It’s the admission that December 2020 was safe enough to have Christmas parties and therefore that the virus is not as big a threat as it was made out to be. In a real pandemic, the powerful would use every means possible to keep them and the people they cared about safe. That this didn’t happen, and witness Hancock, Ferguson et al, says everything and is the line we need to push to end this.

Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
4 years ago
Reply to  alisterr

The ‘Kent variant was a lie. 77% more contagious? I was in England then for 5 weeks (in a Tier 4) and didn’t get Covid. Came back via Amsterdam airport and saw that the Dutch made a big fuss over nothing too. They are in on this scam.

Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
4 years ago

On the contrary, the great fat communist fraud is itching to impose restrictions, he’s been softening up the public for days and restrictions are imminent.

Encierro
Encierro
4 years ago

,

Jo Starlin
Jo Starlin
4 years ago

A reminder that Allegra Stratton is married to James Forsyth, political editor of the Spectator. The swamp is deep and wide.

Richard Austin
Richard Austin
4 years ago

Best thing to happen in the last two years. I genuinely believe Johnson will either be gone or holding on by his fingertips by the end of next year. His party will not stand for any more of this sort of crap. It’s going to be comical when he stands in front of the Podium and announces we are all, essentially, locked down once again. No matter what restrictions he announces people will say “NO!”.
Now, if you need cheering up even more by Robert F Kennedy’s The Real Fauci for £2.99 on Amazon.

Will
Will
4 years ago
Reply to  Richard Austin

But what is going to replace him?

Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
4 years ago

Many are saying the tyrant Johnson ‘must go’, but what ‘good’ would that do? Yes, it would be a just move in itself, but what fresh hell is waiting to replace him? The whole rotten establishment needs replacing/sacking, and by ‘establishment’ I’m talking about the politicians, civil servants, complicit media…the intelligentsia, you know, the unthinking thinkers who think far too highly of themselves, those who have pushed this dystopian nightmare with apparent relish and glee. The system is utterly corrupt and rotten.

So let’s not get too excited by the thought of the Johnson creature being replaced. This is far from over. In fact, what if we’re still in the early stages of this nightmare?

ChaunceyTinker
ChaunceyTinker
4 years ago

I think it may increase scepticism among the general public a little, that’s the best I think we can hope will come out of this.

Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
4 years ago

What good did it do for Adolf Hitler to go? He was only replaced by Angela Merkel and a Lidl in every British town.
Every Lidl Helps – the German economy.

Brett_McS
Brett_McS
4 years ago

Why this is important is illustrated by Vaclav Havel’s The Power of the Powerless: to ignore the lies and the nonsense and live in truth regardless – don’t participate in the lies of the regime, in the “New Normal”. Anything that invalidates the source of the lies is more motivation to ignore them.

Brett_McS
Brett_McS
4 years ago

Gold!

Cecil B
Cecil B
4 years ago

Why were they conducting mock press conferences?

Everyone in the room seemed to know about the party

I suspect they were testing Shithead to see how good she was at lying on behalf of the regime

Despite a valiant attempt she proved pretty useless and was gone within days

So ITN that beacon of truth and everyone else in that room covered this up for 12 months

If we prevail then those in the media who connived at genocide must pay the price

crisisgarden
crisisgarden
4 years ago

I suppose one needs to remember that from a globalist perspective anything that discredits national governments is a good thing, at least in the longer term. Make way for the ‘experts’, petty corrupt local governments etc…
I don’t see this as particularly positive and the fact there is furore about this guff, rather than the thousands of unnecessary deaths, suffering and unprecedented immiseration of ordinary people is just insulting.

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