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Downing Street Christmas Party Investigator Accused of Breaking Lockdown Rules

by Luke Perry
17 December 2021 5:18 PM

Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary who has been tasked with investigating last winter’s Downing Street Christmas parties, faces accusations that he himself broke lockdown rules by attending an informal Christmas work party with his colleagues in December 2020, in violation of London’s Tier Two restrictions which were in place at the time. Although the regulations meant that indoor socialisation was banned, Whitehall officials claim that alcohol was brought into the office, and that Case was seen mingling with the guests. The Independent has more.

Britain’s top civil servant – who is investigating claims parties were held at Downing Street – has been accused of attending an impromptu Christmas drinks himself last year in breach of Covid rules, the Independent has learnt.

Simon Case, who was asked by Boris Johnson to look into potential Government gatherings at the end of 2020 , is alleged to have shared drinks with 15 to 20 staff in mid-December 2020, according to two Whitehall officials who attended the event.

The informal event, according to a joint investigation by the Independent and Politico, was said to have taken place at his office and in the waiting room outside in 70 Whitehall.

A third official, who did not attend, said the event was discussed the following week and they were asked whether they attended the “waiting room drinks.”

Today, Labour and the SNP questioned whether Case was suitable to lead an investigation into Downing Street’s allegedly rule-breaching parties, in light of the revelations.

A source close to the Cabinet Office said they could not rule out that drinks had been consumed at civil servants’ desks, but a spokesman rejected claims of an organised gathering, saying in a statement: “These allegations are categorically untrue.”

At the time, London was in Tier Two restrictions, meaning people were not allowed to socialise indoors and were told to work from home where possible.

Several bottles of wine and Prosecco were poured in the office, the two officials present claim, and in the waiting room of the cabinet secretary. Case allegedly carried a glass through the group as he greeted staff who gathered for what one official characterised as “last-minute” drinks, including civil servants from other departments.

Case was described as “in and out” of the gathering, drinking with colleagues. Crisps were also served and there were Christmas decorations on the tables, one of those present claimed. The same official said it was “a fairly regular occurrence” for civil servants to drink at their desks during this time but claimed that the gathering in Case’s office was “a piss-up” including his team and members of other departments.

The Whitehall employees who spoke to the Independent and Politico questioned the suitability of Simon Case to lead the inquiry into Downing Street parties.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Downing Street Christmas Party

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago

It’s almost as if there has never been a deadly pandemic sweeping the land.
Almost as if the people making the rules knew they were pointless.
Almost as if they were just making the rules for political reasons, not for public health.
Almost as if they are laughing at us behind our backs.

The Establishment. It’s a club, and we’re not in it.

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George L
George L
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Yes.. absolutely.. any thinking person would say.. heh.. hang on a minute.. where did the fear and deadly virus go.. partying under the shadow of death.. WOW!

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  George L

I can vividly remember calling into my local Tesco branch on the way home to my parents house last christmas to pick up some forgotten items and being afraid that I might bring some germs back to my elderly parents, one of whom was infirm and shielding.

Seems all that worry was for nothing.

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Beowulf
Beowulf
3 years ago
Reply to  realarthurdent

Well as Groucho Marx said I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

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isobar
isobar
3 years ago
Reply to  Beowulf

He also said ‘These are my principles; if you don’t like them I have others’. Sounds a bit like one rule for thee, one rule for me!

Last edited 3 years ago by isobar
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Beowulf
Beowulf
3 years ago
Reply to  isobar

More like BoJo’s supreme adaptability to circumstance.

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loopDloop
loopDloop
3 years ago

‘Crisps were served.’

The horror, the horror.

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isobar
isobar
3 years ago
Reply to  loopDloop

Could have been worse, pork scratchings come to mind.

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jeepybee
jeepybee
3 years ago

As we all know, the correct response to this is;

“See! It’s clearly nothing, they’re just fucking with us! Ignore them and get on with things!”

The response we’ll get will be (and has been);

“This bloody government are so selfish and stupid! Don’t they know there’s a deadly plague killing people and they’re out there at parties!”

Can’t see the wood for the trees…

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago

Good. I’m glad he went to a piss up. I did too. And will continue to do so.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  HelenaHancart

Do you recall making it a criminal offence for him to do so?

That’s the difference.

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HelenaHancart
HelenaHancart
3 years ago
Reply to  Rogerborg

You’re right. Trying to remember the Kafkaesque minefield of laws, rules, regulations, mandates, diktats…and all the rest at that time and now, I’d kind of forgotten (and long ago given up caring.) However, didn’t they use the cover excuse of “business lunch” or something?🤷

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago

The only surprise is that anyone would be surprised. Good grief. These parasites never believed there was a deadly pandemic, and guess what, they were right, only they led you to believe there was a deadly pandemic. Ouch.

Look, even Biff gets it!

https://youtu.be/JhJGOYJo9mM

Last edited 3 years ago by Moderate Radical
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Spritof_GFawkes
Spritof_GFawkes
3 years ago

<Sigh> this report is just distraction so they can focus people’s ire somewhere other than where it should be

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Beowulf
Beowulf
3 years ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if he sat on a park bench with a cheese butty during the first Lockdown.

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago

And?

So What? [in case you haven’t recognised I’m channelling my inner Sajid Javid here]

Did you expect that he would be the exception to all this sleaze? That he would somehow occupy some kind of higher moral plane?

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Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
3 years ago
Reply to  Milo

I sent him a Christmas card addressed and with a salutation to Sajid Three Jabs Javid. I doubt if he ever saw it, but maybe the people in the mailroom got a laugh.

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Moderate Radical
Moderate Radical
3 years ago

–

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Lister of Smeg
Lister of Smeg
3 years ago

I suspect it would be a LOT easier to name those in Westminster circles (including politicians of all hues and civil servants) who didn’t break the COVID rules since March 2020.

Last edited 3 years ago by Lister of Smeg
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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

If you want Freedom this is good news, those offended by this actually want lockdown’s and more

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

Yes you are right. The Cabinet Secretary is the country’s most senior civil servant, earning over £200K and if he can’t stick to the senseless rules then why should any body else? Asking him to investigate other illicit party going is of course quite ludicrous. There will be many other Whitehall parties to be tracked down you can bet on that. The truth must out though and the party hunt must go on.

The real message is that the government and its senior civil servants know full well that the Covid “pandemic” is at least 99% bullshit. They must all be laughing their clever heads off, watching the silly proles running around in their masks and dutifully baring their arms for the “poison death shots”.

Last edited 3 years ago by Rowan
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GimpbusterMSc
GimpbusterMSc
3 years ago

totally off subject but has anyone got the links to that Pogues inspired vaccine passport song (put in comments a few days ago), the posh singer with her “beginning to look a lot like facism” and that dumb looking fella’s “killer covid” rave type thing.I really dont want to trawl through a 1000 or more comments to find them all and would like to have them on my phone to broadcast at appropriate times on tomorrow’s protest and then when I feel like upsetting random covidians as I’m out and about in the coming days. Any help would be appreciated

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

Brian Rix couldn’t offer a dafter farce than this.

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Fingerache Philip
Fingerache Philip
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

BLIMEY, Annie, you’re giving your age away.

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Boomer Bloke
Boomer Bloke
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

Whitehall at that.

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rtaylor
rtaylor
3 years ago

The Whitehall employees who spoke to the Independent and Politico questioned the suitability of Simon Case to lead the inquiry into Downing Street parties.

I think Simon may have erased the CCTV footage as fast as the CCTV footage was from Jeffrey Epsteins’ safe on Little St James’s by the Feds. I know right, can’t get any privacy these days…

Last edited 3 years ago by rtaylor
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John001
John001
3 years ago

As someone said, the difference between conspiracy theories and the truth is usually 6-12 months. Discussion of ‘electronic medicine’ …seems to track you, others can check you’ve taken whatever you were told to take

https://twitter.com/skbytes/status/1471730875016568832

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kate
kate
3 years ago

https://pjhlaw.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/letterMHRA.pdf
Legal public letter from PJH law to Stephen Lightfoot of the MHRA on behalf of Sam White and others, for malfeasance.
These injections are unsafe, still in clinical trial, and should be withdrawn immediately.
Your failure to investigate known concerns amounts to gross negligence in office, and renders you and the executive board liable for serious misconduct in office, mal or misfeasance in public office and, or, rendering all the office holders potentially liable for corporate manslaughter in that you have been wilfully blind to the known harms of the SARS-CoV-2 injections.
You have taken no action. You have a lawful duty to protect the public, and you have wilfully failed in that duty.

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kate
kate
3 years ago
Reply to  kate

The known facts of the SARS-CoV-2 injections are as follows: 1. According to expert evidence relied on by the claimants the US data shows that the SARS-CoV-2 injections are 91 times deadlier than a flu injection. 2. According to expert evidence relied on by the claimants 10 batches of Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 injections are responsible for over 7% of all Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System [VAERS] reported deaths. 3. According to expert evidence relied on by the claimants the true level of adverse events for SARS-CoV-2 injections is likely 11 times higher than that reported by the MHRA. 4. According to expert evidence relied on by the claimants nine months is insufficient time to obtain approval of a regulated injection, such injections usually take twelve years from proof of concept to use. The same expert concludes that the Conditional Marketing Authorisation (CMA) used by MHRA to approve SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in the UK does not sufficiently protect patients from harm, or even death.i Furthermore, multiples of injections, covering a large percentage of the UK population is still ongoing and the risk could involve thousands if not millions of people. 5. According to expert evidence relied on by the claimants there is an abundant evidence base to support the approval of Ivermectin in early treatment protocols as set out in expert witness Doctor Peter McCullough’s, Doctor Pierre Kory and Doctor Tess Lawrie’s witness statement. 6. According to expert evidence relied on the excess deaths in young males are more likely than not to be vaccine induced. 7. According to expert evidence relied on the PCR tests were approved by the WHO in reliance on an academic paper written by Professor Drosten 4 which was peer reviewed and found to be academic fraud. The WHO is itself in receipt of substantial funding by the Gates’ Foundation. 

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Proveritate
Proveritate
3 years ago
Reply to  kate

Stephen Lightfoot will stick two fingers up at that. The Coronavirus Act gave those responsible for public health a free pass to commit malfeasance with impunity, Section 11 Indemnity for health service activity: England and Wales:

The appropriate authority may…indemnify a person in respect of…a liability in tort, in respect of or consequent on death, personal injury or loss, arising out of or in connection with a breach of a duty of care owed in connection with the provision, after the coming into force of this section, of…caring for or treating a person who has, or is suspected of having, coronavirus disease.

This is how they have got the medical profession and the regulators to do all the unethical stuff knowing that they can never be called to account for it.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  Proveritate

This is how they have got the medical profession and the regulators to do all the unethical stuff knowing that they can never be called to account for it.

That won’t stand up at Nuremberg 2.

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Proveritate
Proveritate
3 years ago
Reply to  Rowan

And who will convene Nuremburg 2?

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Lister of Smeg
Lister of Smeg
3 years ago

As Neil Oliver said on his most recent GB News show, it’s as if they all know COVID isn’t anywhere near as serious for the otherwise healthy, middle aged and young as the Establishment makes out. You have to start to wonder at how trustworthy any of the figures the authorities give on COVID are, never mind the ‘expert’ predictions.

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Aletheia of Oceania
Aletheia of Oceania
3 years ago
Reply to  Lister of Smeg

“You have to start to wonder…”

Red flags were clearly evident over 12 months ago when the average age of a covid death, (‘with’ or ‘from’ is another issue), was higher than average life expectancy.

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Rowan
Rowan
3 years ago
Reply to  Aletheia of Oceania

Absolutely so. The red flags are now in tatters.

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twinkytwonk
twinkytwonk
3 years ago
Reply to  Lister of Smeg

Well you only have to look at the unfit slobs in parliament. By the end of April 2020 all of the team on the daily scare fest TV update had managed to catch it and all but Boris carried on working through out. Though as he must weigh 20+ stone he should rightly be dead

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kate
kate
3 years ago

IVF clinics started having serious problems right after the vaccines started rolling out
I’m hearing stories of weird things happening in IVF clinics starting in March of this year. They can’t figure out the cause.
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/ivf-clinics-started-having-serious

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bresbo
bresbo
3 years ago

I always knew that underneath those cheap suits and polyester shirts with biro stains, they were a devil-may-care bunch of live-for-the-moment hombres.

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DoctorCOxford
DoctorCOxford
3 years ago

Well, don’t hire me then because we broke them as well. No parities but we had more than one household over. I’m sure there is some Pharisee who will be able to toss those rocks at the glass house.

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago

We should all be breaking the rules on a daily basis. Except the fucking government.

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Hawkins_94
Hawkins_94
3 years ago

CHEERIO CHEERIO CHEERIO

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milesahead
milesahead
3 years ago

Who guards the guards?

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mwhite
mwhite
3 years ago

Perhaps he should ask the police who work in number 10 if they noticed anything…

Reporters boo as Larry the cat brought inside | CTV News

Candle is lit at 10 Downing Street for Sarah Everard (yahoo.com)

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X - In Search of Space
X - In Search of Space
3 years ago

Off topic:

Maskless, I entered an establishment yesterday. Bloke sat behind desk asked if I had a mask – I said no. Awkward pause. I said I was exempt. “Youuur … exemmpt?”, he said, slowly looking back up at me, like I had just said something awful and which couldn’t possibly be true. I replied, “yes”, and his head then took an equally exaggerated amount of time to look back down at his paperwork. I found this reaction quite odd, seeing that a woman co-worker was sat right next to him …. maskless!

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  X - In Search of Space

Just have to keep calling their bluff. Again and again and again!

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X - In Search of Space
X - In Search of Space
3 years ago
Reply to  X - In Search of Space

Forgot to add that the bloke was masked.

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago
Reply to  X - In Search of Space

Don’t volunteer that you are exempt unless specifically asked!
“Do you have a mask”
“no”

Or one I had earlier in the week
“Do you realise that you’re not wearing a mask”
“yes, I am aware of that”

It seems to be only a minority of places asking this time round. The railways now appear to have a policy of not asking, unlike before where they could be right jobsworth about it.

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twinkytwonk
twinkytwonk
3 years ago
Reply to  X - In Search of Space

I’ve took to doing the shopping maskless and I was saying to my wife that i was disappointed that not a single person had said anything to me. She replied, ” that’s because you look like your about to murder someone”

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago
Reply to  X - In Search of Space

Or “no I’m fully vaxxed”, “still need a mask”, “why I’m fully vaxxed”, ……….

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Laicey
Laicey
3 years ago

Who cares. Of course the investigation won’t include this or even most of the parties but do we expect any more? The truth these days is a different thing. We should be asking for the actual real truth.

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Gregoryno6
Gregoryno6
3 years ago

The beast has started nibbling on its own tail.

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realarthurdent
realarthurdent
3 years ago

I remember Dom Cummings used to complain that the Cabinet Office had more power than the Prime Minister.

Interesting that there should be a leak about rule-breaking in the Cabinet Office. Perhaps the leak came from someone who thinks the Cabinet Office has too much power and who knows a lot about what they were doing last Christmas.

Just a thought.

Last edited 3 years ago by realarthurdent
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LonePatriot
LonePatriot
3 years ago

Reuters reporting Japan is at 1% of its COVID peak cases and falling. India is at 3% of its peak and falling. What did these countries do? Ditch vaccine mandates for ivermectin. Since April 28, India medical officials started providing hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin to its massive population. As India is the major pharmaceutical manufacturer in the world, they were ready for this massive drug distribution. MIRACULOUSLY!, COVID cases have plummeted quickly since then. Meanwhile, all “first world” countries in Europe are reporting a rise in cases. Get your ivermectin before it is too late! https://ivmpharmacy.com

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A passerby
A passerby
3 years ago

The public are expected to follow rules yet these people, who I foolishly believed were public servants, appear to act with total disregard, immune to any prosecution. I wonder what the Constitutional Monarchy makes of this.

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Stephanos
Stephanos
3 years ago

This man, who is nothing other than a hypocrite, should suffer the following:

  1. He should be sacked without redundancy and total loss of pension
  2. He should be put in the stocks from 18:00 on Friday evening until 06:00 on Monday morning every weekend for at least two years
  3. He should be made to pay in full for all the rotten fruit to be thrown at him
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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  Stephanos

Maybe he was a plant to ‘destroy’ faith in anti-government sentiment?

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Zionist
Zionist
3 years ago

looks like a peado.

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago

Honestly, who cares what happened last year at xmas parties. Perhaps there should now be a little more attention to approving early treatment for covid, allowing people back to their lives and as always protecting the vulnerable if they choose to be protected. And for goodness sake, stop mandates, they serve no purpose and are well on their way to collapsing the UK economy.

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RTSC
RTSC
3 years ago

The lunatics destroying our country know full well that the virus is mild and they are at no risk from it. If they were even a little scared of it, they would not behave like this.

I can’t wait for the tumbrils to start rolling ……

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BS665
BS665
3 years ago
Reply to  RTSC

So why is hardly anyone waking up?

  • No consultation of public for 2 years
  • Systematic propaganda and censorship
  • Complicit, lying, MSM
  • Control of populace by masks, vaccines, rules, mandates, passports, fine, etc.
  • Illusion of democracy ‘makes it all right’ (anything they decree) – emergency powers perpetuated
  • Creation of bogeymen: ‘misinformation’ and ‘antivaxxers’
  • Channelling of ‘wartime spirit’ for a ‘heightened’ threat (invented)
  • False solidarity encouraging guilt feelings
  • Fear and dread stoked openly

I could go on: you are totally correct, but the masses never thought and can’t think now.

The weight of absurdity will destroy their illusions eventually, but the gov will reap a whirlwind.

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Newman20
Newman20
3 years ago

If you were devising a satirical programme you’d reject this as an idea as being too far fetched.

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