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.
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If you were devising a satirical programme you’d reject this as an idea as being too far fetched.
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 ……
So why is hardly anyone waking up?
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.
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.
looks like a peado.
This man, who is nothing other than a hypocrite, should suffer the following:
Maybe he was a plant to ‘destroy’ faith in anti-government sentiment?
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.
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
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.
The beast has started nibbling on its own tail.
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.
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!
Just have to keep calling their bluff. Again and again and again!
Forgot to add that the bloke was masked.
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.
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”
Or “no I’m fully vaxxed”, “still need a mask”, “why I’m fully vaxxed”, ……….
Perhaps he should ask the police who work in number 10 if they noticed anything…
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Candle is lit at 10 Downing Street for Sarah Everard (yahoo.com)
Who guards the guards?
CHEERIO CHEERIO CHEERIO
We should all be breaking the rules on a daily basis. Except the fucking government.
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.
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.
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
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.
“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.
Absolutely so. The red flags are now in tatters.
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
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.
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… Read more »
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:
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.
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.
And who will convene Nuremburg 2?
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
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…
Brian Rix couldn’t offer a dafter farce than this.
BLIMEY, Annie, you’re giving your age away.
Whitehall at that.
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
If you want Freedom this is good news, those offended by this actually want lockdown’s and more
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”.
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.
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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?
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.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he sat on a park bench with a cheese butty during the first Lockdown.
<Sigh> this report is just distraction so they can focus people’s ire somewhere other than where it should be