With Labour now ten points ahead following fresh allegations of partying at No. 10, the Prime Minister’s job hangs in the balance.
While joe public was living life under lockdown, complete with hefty fines for rule-breakers, Boris and chums were living it up in the Downing Street garden. The Prime Minister has said he “implicitly believed it was a work event”. Yet the leaked invitation email told attendees to “bring your own booze!”.
This means either that the Prime Minister’s lying about what he “implicitly believed”, that he’s incapable of distinguishing work events and social events (hint: booze goes with the latter), or that he considers drinking at work to be perfectly fine.
At this point, there have been so many reported parties at 10 Downing Street (including the Daily Mirror’s latest scoop) that it’s hard to keep track of them all. You wonder how Boris and chums ever got any work done. I mean, those sweeping lockdown rules didn’t write themselves.
The public is rightly indignant at the hypocrisy of it all. And indeed, most of the media coverage has focused on this angle. How could Boris say one thing, while he was doing another? (Well, we already knew that his policy on cake is pro-having it and pro-eating it.)
No. 10’s hypocrisy certainly should be condemned. But that’s not the most important lesson here. No, the most import lesson is: the rules were wrong. As Will Jones notes, if Boris ends up resigning, it should be for the absurd, draconian policies that made his behaviour hypocritical in the first place.
The very fact that Boris and chums were comfortable meeting up for “socially distanced drinks” at a time when the official guidance was “stay home, save lives” indicates they knew the rules were pointless. (Either that or they don’t actually care about saving lives.)
Indeed, of all the various curbs and restrictions imposed over the past two years, stay-at-home orders may be the most egregious.
For a start, they constitute a brazen violation of our civil liberties. Although an Englishman’s home is his castle, that doesn’t mean the Government has the right to besiege him there. Recall the scenes of ramblers being tracked across the countryside by drones, like something out of a Jason Bourne movie:
But on top of that, confining us in our homes serves no purpose, when transmission overwhelmingly occurs indoors. To claim the individual pictured above was posing any kind of threat to his fellow citizens is preposterous. Add the fact that staying inside means less exposure to sunlight, and you have a dog’s breakfast of a policy.
Hypocrisy from politicians is one thing. But freedom-wrecking policies are quite another. As Philippe Lemoine notes, “by focusing on their hypocrisy, we encourage the notion that the rules themselves were okay”. They weren’t.
Discussion
Comments
This week across the site:
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to the Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
“No. 10’s hypocrisy certainly should be condemned. But that’s not the most important lesson here. No, the most import lesson is: the rules were wrong.”
The rules weren’t wrong. Just because the people at the top think that every rule has an exception (for them), it doesn’t mean the rule is wrong. Let’s not forget that Boris got covid, was in hospital with it as well, and discussions were had for the possibility that he died, so he must have been pretty critical at one point.
Sure, those at the top think that they are so immune to consequences that they expect that even viruses will respect their power (ooops, they don’t). But that doesn’t mean that following the rules wouldn’t have been a very good idea, even for them.
I intend drinking flagons of wine and eating masses of cheese etc. in my office this week as, according to the Prime Minister, – not for much longer – this constitutes work!!
Main lessons: 1. Don’t trust politicians nor civil servants. 2. The rules were complete rollox. 3. Most of the public are spineless sheep.
Just been sent a photo of No 10 which looks like Tim Martin has converted it to a J D Wetherspoons!
God help us if Slimy Starmer gets in. He’s been an ardent proponent of lockdown and more severe restrictions all along. Boris is the best of a very bad bunch. The whole Cabinet needs firing, and some of the Tory rebels brought in to sort out the corruption and erosion of human rights and civil liberties destroyed by this pack of hyenas in Whitehall.
Sorry, but the zombified public are not listening. They’re now walking round with corks in their ears as well as masks on their faces to try and ignore the fact they’ve been had.
The BBC is working round the clocks trying to influence them into thinking that the politicians are simply irresponsible, just like Djokovic. They’re still working the covid fraud narrative into every single programme and dedicating 80% of all their ‘news’ reports to covid propaganda.
It should have been no surprise that apart from one family, I was the only person walking around my local garden centre today without a mask on. Silly me thinking that, surely, more of them would have started to question why they’re still following the ‘rules’. Instead they seem more indignant towards anyone not wearing masks. I noticed one guy measuring me up, trying to decide whether he had the guts to accost me.
I’m not sure how I would respond if such a thing happened – especially when this scam has never been so clear and obvious.
If Boris want to save his sorry ass he has to be the people’s champion by throwing those responsible for advising him under that £350million for the NHS bus.
To do this he will have plenty of help from the real experts who can prove that lockdowns were highly damaging as was the policy of clearing out untested covid infected patients from hospitals into care homes, they can also show that not only was he lied to about the so called vaccines (only qualified as such after the definition of a vaccine was changed) but that the people advising him that there was no evidence that Hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin as early treatments were effective against the virus knew that not only were they highly effective, but that the proposed mRNA vaccines wouldn’t work and would actually risk making things worse.
He can make an issue of all the money wasted when he relied on the ‘best’ experts.
He has no desire to be a people’s champion because he sold out to global interests/ groups even before the first lockdown. He committed to what followed that because he personally would benefit as soon as he is relieved of being the PM. He has echoed the mantra of the Big Pharma cartel ” no one is safe until everyone is safe” (Sept 2020) re worldwide ‘vaccination’, introduced masks in the middle of summer 2020, spouted dramatic metaphors about the thundering cavalry hooves bringing the country’s salvation in the form of injections, insisted they were the way to freedom yet also insisted lockdowns had done the serious heavy lifting.
This man is a moral vacuum and there is no way back, nor should one be manufactured for him.
People might prefer to cleave to the ‘better the devil you know’ option but if a new ‘devil’ steps in to his shoes in the next weeks or months then at least we know how to ignore such ‘devils’ and their lies. Their agenda is exposed.
Why does does equally hypocrite Starmer open up his mouth about it?
Why does anyone care about a poll lead two years before the election? Germany’s last two federal elections saw poll leads of over 10% erased and reversed in the few months before the election.
Get real and a grip.
By focusing on the rules, we we encourage the notion that he hypocrisy is okay, it’s not.
Dogs breakfast.
The lesson isn’t that the rules were wrong the lesson is that those making the rules knew the rules were bollocks.
If these people in Government believed there was a terribly dangerous virus going around they would not have been meeting up in large social groups and getting pissed on a near daily basis.
They would have not risked infecting themselves and others, they would not have risked taking such a virus home to their children and loved ones.
That they acted as they did proves they had no fear, they had no fear because they KNEW the claims they were making about a deadly virus was bullshit right from the outset.
The entire thing has been a hoax used by Boris and the Tories against the British people.
So the next question is cui bono and that isn’t particularly hard to work out.
Yes that is the key point that needs to be made. That the govt clearly knew the rules were bollockd and that there was nothing to worth about and just carry on as normal, and that they deliberately deceived the people as to that fact.
The lesson is don’t get caught.
Meanwhile, whilst the ‘Boris party’ discussion continues an elite gang of unelected global organised criminals continues to pursue its objective to reset humanity for the benefit of the children that may survive.
Have a great day 😊
Exactly. This is, at best, a distraction. At worst, this is a calculated campaign to remove someone that is not playing ball. Even many of the awake are asleep on this one.
It is proof that the government of the UK knew the virus scare was a fraud right from the outset.
You may have noticed many movies over the last couple decades have focussed on an end of world scenario with a modern Noah’s Arch taking in elite people and lucky lottery winners. I don’t believe our children were ever meant to survive what they are trying to achieve, while the likes of Pfeffel keeps knocking up high priestesses like his latest wife who is considered to be very close to the Rothschilds.
I want retribution against 2 lots of people
1 – those that advocated lockdowns
2 – those that advocated vaccine mandates
members of neither group are positive to society. in another age they’d have been burning witches or hunting down Jews or grassing on their neighbours to the secret police
Either group are the modern witches, though…
You don’t stamp out (cultural) heresy, and it becomes the mainstream and bites us all on the ass. Then we have to reciprocate with flamethrowers.
Give it time….
https://audioboom.com/posts/8012295-carl-heneghan-why-i-spoke-out-against-lockdown
from the round up was excellent
Sorry to say but Joseph Public deserves this government, and the next, and the next…
Time to realise that all political forms are arbitrary and contingent. Democracy is on its way out. And we should be glad.
A just monarchy, republic, oligarchy, whatever… is better than the degeneration we hold to be ‘democracy’. Cherry-pick its good bits, and return to a pluralism of political forms.
Fukuyama was right: liberal democracy was the final political system: not in the way he thought, however.
Agreed, democracy is compromised by those with immense wealth. Maybe the next political system will be an elite global feudalism using the mechanisms of communism to invoke tyranny over the people?
I doubt it for the long-term at least. I hope rather we go back to an array of different styles of political forms coexisting in a ‘multipolar’ world. A post-democratic world shorn not of the good bits of democracy, but of its characteristic excesses.
Of course no utopia is possible on earth, but a major obstacle to justice and truth on earth is the current untouchable perverted shibboleth of ‘democracy’; which is really the sum of everything we observe in Covidianism.
Alastair Cavendish makes a first-rate job of describing precisely this, with more emphasis on the silliness of so many in prostrating themselves to order, but now becoming aerated over Johnson’s booze-ups.
https://www.britishfreedom.net/post/the-two-faces-of-janus
I can thoroughly recommend Mr. Cavendish’s other pungently critical essays on Covid, politicians, masks and other things that so closely concern us.
I really look forward to the day that Johnson and his cronies appear in court. If this does not happen the people’s judgement will be much fiercer.
Yes, the rules were wrong, but we should not forget that it is every citizens’s responsibility to use their common sense and hold government to account. A lot of the blame for this fiasco lies at the door of the 90% of the public who either complied like sheep or actively encouraged the insanity. Blame also lies at the door of the media and Big Tech who silenced the 10% that did try to speak out. Apart from any public enquiry, we need some big conversations about common sense and free speech.
As No. 6 said ‘you will not get it’
‘As Philippe Lemoine notes, “by focusing on their hypocrisy, we encourage the notion that the rules themselves were okay”.’
It is possible to ‘focus…on [the] hypocrisy’ and the fact that the draconian rules were not ‘okay’. What is so difficult to understand about this? Why do so many sceptics run a mile from the glaring double standard because they think it tacitly draws them into ‘agreement’ with the rules? Belt up.
It is morally imperative that we focus on the double standard because a) these bastards have killed and harmed countless citizens with the very decrees they flouted, and thus it is absolutely incumbent on us to shout this from the rooftops in honour of these fellow citizens, and b) it then gives us a springboard to a point of contact with the cultist, where we ask them why they think the tyrants flouted their own decrees. We point to the fact that these tinpot dictators had zero fear of this virus. By using this approach we hopefully get to have a good conversation.
This is not an either/or situation, and it is high time we stopped this silliness of running from one element because we think we might be seen… Read more »
“Recall scenes of ramblers being tracked across the countryside by drones, like something out of a Jason Bourne movie …”
Using drones, at taxpayer’s expense, to track citizens across the countryside was pure and utter thuggery. The sheer speed at which police across the UK and the world adopted Nazi attitudes and modes of operation is astounding. As soon as the COVID-19 plandemic had been initiated some police forces went full-blown Gestapo.
This should actually be investigated. In any group there will always be found to be a certain percentage of bully types, but Western police forces would be expected to weed out the majority of this kind during training. And they should never be promoted to a level where they can order citizens to be tracked in such a disgusting way.
There are reports in the United States that during the Obama administration that many army officers were replaced with those that would be more compliant and cooperative with the Globalist’s agenda. When you look at the way the US military hierarchy are now forcing the gene serums on their personnel, these reports ring of truth.
The Globalist’s COVID-19 plandemic was planned and prepared for… Read more »
Three soccer players in the same team with heart lesions
Are they now routinely scanning players before they allow them to play? (presumably to prevent them collapsing on the pitch in full view of the public)
Afcon 2021: Gabon’s Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang out of game against Ghana with ‘heart lesions’ – BBC Sportv
Ah yes, but those lesions are a result of Covid, not of the vaccine – of course.
Football. Not soccer
association or Union?
Even when we didn’t know the full nature of the disease, there was no sense in the mandates to remain indoors.
They could readily have told people to ‘be sensible’ about avoiding crowded areas outdoors but otherwise left them to get on with it.
IMO this is (yet another) good example of how you should never give people in authority any power other than what is essential — we gave them an inch and they decided to take a mile.
We didn’t need partygate to tell us lockdown was completely bollocks from the the start
Bozos survival or otherwise is of no consequence whatever. As one commenter wrote this morning, Daily Mail I believe,
“if Johnson is the frying pan Kier Starmer is the fire”.
They are all as bad as each other but some are slightly worse. Who would you rather spend an hour in the pub with discussing ways out of this quagmire, Boris Johnson or Kier Starmer?
Trick question since the answer is obviously Nigel Farage.
Just one small point about Johnson thinking a BYOB party was a work event.
It strains credibility to suppose that a social invite sent to over 100 people would have been sent to an email address that the PM is personally monitoring. So, what he actually knew about that event before attending would depend entirely on what he was told be a staff member with responsibility for monitoring the PM’s general mailbox. I don’t find it probable that the PM saw the actual invitation personally, IMHO.
However, this is spot on! :
I’m not entirely sure what the lessons are, but speaking as a boomer with all the apparently negative connotations that brings with it, I know that when I look at the black and white photographs of my parents and grandparents, and see the clearly visible and genuine austerity they lived with during the 40s, 50s and 60s, I ask myself how our once great nation has come to this, and what lies in store for as yet unborn generations. Anyway I wrote to the PM yesterday to express my displeasure. He won’t have received my letter yet, and I know it’s ill mannered to make it public, but I doubt if he cares.
What a superb letter.
Utterly brilliant! Thank you for sharing.
Excellent.
Top Draw ! A toppingly penned to the point excoriation.
“Drawer.”
Please.
I remember Farage broadcasting in the early days that this was intolerable for ordinary people – he deserves credit for not just being an entitled git.
How dare you question a politician’s integrity, as if he would lie!
I’ve said from the first day, it is not right to take away one man’s freedom for another man’s safety (unless they’ve committed a crime).
There are two issues;
Another important issue highlighted by the pandemic is the belief (by politicians) that government has rights! NO government doesn’t have any “right” to do anything, we are governed by consent, government has a mandate not a right.
The big problem with democracy & liberal politics is that elected representatives have no accountability until the next election, there needs to be an external impartial process to prevent political overreach.
We no longer have rule of law, we are living in a fascist state.
Yes, human rights are an artificial construct just empty words on pieces of paper and are not rights at all. They can be denied by any law ( legislation) enacted by any government (politicians) and can be and are ignored whenever the government sees fit, we experienced this with the Coronavirus Act. Therefore a society based on human rights has no rights. Whereas inalienable rights can never be extinguished and are immutable, this is because inalienable rights are not permits bestowed on us by government. They are universal concepts of natural justice inherent to Natural or God’s law. This is why governments are so eager for us to place our faith in human rights.It enables them to tell us what is permitted. Inalienable rights are mentioned just once in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human rights and are omitted entirely from the declaration itself.
Prince Andrew has not been removed as the President of the Covid Marshalls Association
They had a vote and they want him to stay as their leader
It isn’t just that the ‘rules are wrong’ but that those in positions of power – the politicians (of all hues), civil service medical and scientific ‘experts’ and managers and, it appears most scientists and clinicians, along with the shadowy billionairres and the WEF crowd – KNEW it was safe to mingle as normal even at the start of the pandemic.
This fact was ably pointed out by Neil Oliver during a (one of many excellent) monolgue on his Saturday evening show on GB News. So many of the ‘great and good’ completely ignore the rules they want us to follow as soon as they believe the cameras are off or that any pics won’t make their way to the general public.
Scared people don’t completely ignore rules they set supposedly to keep people from dying, all the while laughing and (often) boozing cheek to cheek.
You have to wonder whether most of them actually got jabbed with the ‘real McCoy’ rather than, say saline solution when they rolled up their sleeves for a on-camera jab.
Ruled by experts, who voted for that? The problem is the new religion, scientism, being indoctrinated in schools & career politicians infected with Davos groupthink.