A photo (pictured) has emerged revealing that Boris Johnson and members of his staff attended a close-contact social gathering in the Downing Street garden during May 2020. The image appears to show the attendees violating numerous Covid restrictions that were in place at the time, such as rules relating to social distancing and household mixing, with the photographic evidence also challenging the Government’s original claim that this was, in fact, a work meeting. The Guardian has the story.
Johnson has been pictured with wine and cheese alongside his wife and up to 17 staff in the Downing Street garden during lockdown, raising questions over No. 10’s insistence a “work meeting” was taking place.
The photograph was shared with the Guardian following No 10’s denial last week that there was a social event on Friday May 15th 2020 including wine, spirits and pizza inside and outside the building. Johnson’s Spokesman said Downing Street staff were working in the garden in the afternoon and evening.
However, the picture raises questions over that assertion. Bottles of wine are in evidence, there is a lack of social distancing and 19 people are gathered in groups across the Downing Street terrace and lawn.
At the time social mixing between households was limited to two people, who could only meet outdoors and at a distance of at least two metres. In workplaces, guidance said in-person meetings should only take place if “absolutely necessary”.
Angela Rayner, the Deputy Leader of the Labour party, described the picture as “a slap in the face of the British public”, adding: “The Prime Minister consistently shows us he has no regard for the rules he puts in place for the rest of us. Alleged drinking and partying late into the evening [at No. 10] when the rest of us were only recently getting one daily walk.”
The Prime Minister has faced a string of allegations of partying and socialising in No. 10 while Covid restrictions were in place. He was forced to order a civil service inquiry, though its head stepped down on Friday over allegations of his own Christmas party.
The past week has been described as the worst of the prime minister’s premiership, with a major rebellion by Conservative MPs over Covid regulations followed by a historic byelection defeat and the shock departure of the Brexit Minister, David Frost.
In the new image shared with the Guardian, Boris Johnson and Carrie, who appears to be holding their newborn baby, are seen sitting around a table with a cheeseboard and wine, along with two people believed to be a civil servant and an aide. Last week No. 10 said Johnson was working in the garden before retiring to his flat at 7pm.
On that day Matt Hancock, then Health Secretary, had given a 5pm press conference urging people to stick to the rules and not take advantage of the good weather over the May weekend to socialise in groups.
At the time schools were still shut and pubs and restaurants were closed, with strict controls on social mixing. More people had been allowed to return to their workplaces, but guidance said social distancing of two metres should be followed at all times and “only absolutely necessary participants should attend meetings and should maintain two metre separation throughout”.
The Guardian reported last week, as part of a joint investigation with the Independent, that Johnson had been present for an alleged social gathering in Downing Street on 15 May 2020. Sources said the Prime Minister had spent about 15 minutes with staff, telling an aide inside No. 10 that they deserved a drink for “beating back” Covid.
Insiders claimed about 20 staff drank wine and spirits and ate pizza following a press conference on that day, some in offices inside No. 10 and others going into the garden. Some staff stayed drinking until late into the evening, they alleged. The sources described the event as having a “celebratory” feel given the initial loosening of some restrictions and the good weather in London that day.
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If this was a business meeting, shouldn’t Johnson and all of the civil servants present be prosecuted for breaching the Official Secrets Act – i.e. discussing private government business in front of a member of the public in the form of Mother Johnson?
It’s not about the Rules but the Risk: they are the most informed in the UK and decided (as all us sceptics have) that the risk of mixing and living normally is negligible for most of us. Emphasise the risks not the rules. The whole CoronaV is mostly a hoax, a con job.
Two legs good, four legs bad.
“Downing Street Garden Party Picture Captures Prime Minister and Staff Violating Covid Rules”…thereby proving that the rules were unnecessary for everyone from the get-go. That’s the scandal.
Who cares what these people do as those who can critically think will not take any notice of what this ‘lower form of life’ does and says anymore.
Yes, Doris is the epitome of feeble, limp wristed buffoonism, BUT, the fact that this exposé is published in “The Guardian” of all places, one of the primary propaganda weapons utilized by the shadowy marionettes pulling the strings in this almighty evil charade, must lead to some suspicion.
There has to be an agenda.
Could it be nudging towards the removal of the man who would be mini baby Churchill because he hasn’t been harsh enough on the British public?
Is there a truly evil doctor dastardly waiting in the wings to replace him?
Yes, Doris is a Dick, but let’s face it, he hasn’t quite managed to achieve the despotism achieved by the leaders of many once free countries around the world under the instructions from the Cabal.
Australia, Austria, Ireland, Canada, France, New Zealand, to name but a few.
Better the incompetent ‘controller’ you know than the devlishly competent controller you don’t?
Wans’t there a TV program (a quiz/game?) where there was a line something like ‘well you have started, so can finish’. The Great Supine Protoplasmic Invertebrate Jelly stated this so he can finish it.
Gosh, the Prime Minister, his wife and their staff are hypocrites. Who would have guessed?
I’m struggling to get outraged by this because I’ve been pretty confident since May 2020 that it’s a load of bollocks and so I have ignored the rules to the best of my ability. Getting into a debate about whether or not “they” have broken the rules distracts from the fact that the rules themselves are total nonsense – which is the real issue.
Correct 👍
“Worth reading in full.”
Not really. One picture worth a thousand words, revealing the arrogant hypocrisy of those pushing the COVID narrative in their own political/financial interests.
For fecks sake wake up, everybody!
Of course it’s a business meeting folks – the serious business of enjoying oneself and getting jolly blotto.
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
What’s the betting that Dominic Cummings leaked this picture? Maybe he took it at the time ‘just in case’ after his own pillorying for breaking lockdown rules?
Apropos of nothing, other than a tenuous connection to the theme of ‘get-togethers’, it seems that the annual WEF Davos shindig has been postponed, again.
Could it be they at last feel hot breath on their collective necks?
Top Tip – skip straight to the comments.
Some of them are hilarious.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/world-economic-forum-davos-postponed-second-straight-year
No, of course not. It is nothing more than virtue signalling – wouldn;t be the done thing for them to go ahead with gathering when Omicron is causing exponential rise in cases
It isn’t the hypocrites that are dangerous. It is the true believers. I don’t see how amplifying these scandals helps the anti- lockdown cause.
Correct, it doesn’t.
It does einforce the narrative that “The Rules” are meaningful and must be obeyed.
At least, now we can see what the western elites mean when they demand everyone (and every country) follw the “Rules-Based Order”
Yes, it is the moronic, absurd totalitarian rules that must be condemned, not the irrelevant hypocrisy.
I have an issue with the ones who have all the information proving Covid is nothing but a scam, but continue to peddle the lies
Almost 2022!
I saw a child walking home from school this lunchtime, outside with a face mask on.
Kids have been exposed to 21 months of Covid brainwashing.
next time tell them to take it off because there is no danger; be the adult, as was said in proper times, “It takes a whole village to raise a child.
In the Spanish Flu outbreak, a substantial proprotion of deaths resulted from bacterial pneumonia. This may have in turn resulted from inappropriate use of face masks. Could the same happen again, especially with the ‘vaccinated’?
I know of 3 nurses working in the same establishment, all fully ‘vaccinated’, who have come down with bacterial pneumonia, requiring administration of antibiotics. They will be out of action whilst they are infected. They wear masks at work, all day, every day.
The only real shock is that no one can be seen snorting coke.
The fizzy bubbles would go right up their noses…..
Yet, 6 days later…
Part of me thinks this now released photo, is to keep attention away from the Maxwell case. Which is ironic as the trial is blackmail of the corporate technocratic elite.
Don’t worry. The Maxwell trial is handled by a safe pair of hands (several pairs actually).
Executive summary: Mistakes will have been made. Lessons have been learnt. It is time to move on.
Utterly irrelevant balderdash, the real evil is that they imposed the rules, not they broke their own rules.
The shocking thing is not they broke the rules, but that the rest of us accepted them.
And are still not only accepting them but allowing them to dictate whether we will gather with our friends and family over christmas.
Another slap in the face to the families of all those elderly people, held hostage by the care system and forced to die alone and afraid.
Stop obeying these psychopaths – do they look worried about a virus in that photo?
There is no pandemic you fools, wake up.
Two observations of this supposed business meeting.
1 What is Princess Nut Nut doing there ..she is not elected to any post as far as I know.
2 It amazes me that we have apparently got children or interns running number 10 .Hence the out of touch drivel that comes our way..
And yet, rather than ask themselves why their rulers keep demonstrating that they do not fear the virus, and in turn do not fear being around their friends, colleagues, others of the same ilk, the muddled masses will focus solely and narrowly on the double standard, still convinced that these parasites should have been following da rulez.
Astonishingly, it simply will not occur to them that the narrative might be bullshit.
Makes you wonder too why, at the height of the deadly pandemic there is not a single face mask in sight and now we are expected, when all that is circulating is Omicron, to suffocate in masks everywhere we go.
But it isn’t just the “muddled masses.” Lots of elites fear the virus and act like it.
Good point, Susan. I agree that many within the elite/establishment will be true believers, but it is difficult to discern these, hence why I focus on the ‘muddled masses’.
That will be the line plugged by the government-financed media. I wonder if here is an equivalent photo for a big media company? That would make an excellent exposee, but the esposure is unlikely given real journalism is a crime.
None of them were scared by the bug. But they’re scared of something. And that is scary.
Downing Street Garden Party Picture Captures Prime Minister and Staff
Violating Covid RulesDemonstrating They KNOW Covid Rules Are Pointless And There Is Little Risk From The VirusThat is the real scandal here.
“Who exactly does the Metropolitan Police work for ma’am? Our citizens, or Boris Johnson?”
Excellent short video with brilliant narration by Adrian Dunbar (from Line of Duty).
Must watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y18CrgFdh4
Bloody brilliant!!!
I’m hoping that the fact that Adrian Dunbar did it might indicate he is a LDS too.
Ted Hastings didn’t come up the river Lagan on a bubble.
This makes me incandescent with rage – more so than the Christmas parties revelations, which I was ambivalent about.
This is completely different, and a huge fuss must be made of it.
At the height of the first wave, here are the people in charge of the country sitting relaxed and calm whilst a supposedly ‘merciless, deadly disease swept across the nation’.
This photo represents unequivocal proof that C-19 was NEVER that ‘merciless, deadly disease’, it was a simple respiratory virus.
NONE of what has been done to us very ever necessary.
They seized power and the nation’s treasure in a soft coup, stole our liberties and livelihoods, allowed our loved ones to die alone, forced our neighbours to live like hermits in total fear, they have procured the deaths of people who should be still with us and they have been the source of millions of fractured relationships and friendships.
And they have stuck poisonous drugs into the arms of millions who don’t need it, and indeed have suffered death/injury from it.
This has been an elaborately planned criminal enterprise, and this picture is the proof.
I think you and I are “on the same page” but I’m not outraged at all because I’ve been sure since May 2020 that all you have described is the case. That’s why I’ve ignored all the lockdowns and guidance. Thank god I did because I would be very upset to see this kind of photo if I had behaved as the government wanted me to behave.
Ironically, he did the right thing to ignore covidian restrictions. But he shouldnt have enacted them at all for anyone.
So as Neil Oliver said last week on GB News, there was no fear. None of the hysteria that No 10 and the nudge unit were whipping to a frenzy in the general population. None. And to add unforgivable insult to unforgivable injury, he tried to explain it away as a run of the mill business meeting. Complete with partner and wine and pizza. In the garden. Nice work if you can get it.
I guess the good old ‘waiting for an eye test’ excuse wouldn’t have good optics?
First, Stratton’s video leaks out, then Mogg’s, then Bojo at the party, then the amusing picture a Tory MP shared with Kevin McGuire recently, and now this. Looks like someone in Tory HQ wants to say Bye Bye Bojo.
Yes. And it’s not the rebels.
It’s most likely the zealous Covidians on the WEFs payroll, led by Gove.
Who took the picture?