Kate Josephs, the Government official who was in charge of writing the Covid laws, has been fined over her “boozy” leaving party, according to the Telegraph.
The former Director-General of the Cabinet Office’s COVID-19 Taskforce received a £50 Fixed Penalty Notice when the Met Police handed out the first batch of fines at the end of last month.
Ms. Josephs, who is now Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council, issued a public apology earlier this year after the Telegraph revealed that dozens of people had attended her leaving party in the Cabinet Office on December 17th, 2020.
As the civil servant in charge of the COVID-19 Taskforce, Ms. Josephs had been in charge of drafting detailed rules governing people’s lives during the pandemic.
But at a time when the country was in lockdown and people were prohibited from socialising indoors, colleagues held a leaving party for her at which alcohol was served.
She was issued with an FPN on Friday April 1st and it is understood it has now been paid, according to sources close to the investigation.
Ms Josephs has been on discretionary leave from her role at Sheffield Council since news of the event emerged.
In a statement issued in January, Ms. Josephs expressed regret over the incident.
She said: “On the evening of December 17th, I gathered with colleagues that were at work that day, with drinks, in our office in the Cabinet Office to mark my leaving the Civil Service.
“I am truly sorry that I did this and for the anger that people will feel as a result.”
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When is a mainstream journalist in a popular newspaper/TV station going to point out that these tossers clearly didn’t believe there was a deadly pandemic?
How ill is our species if the reaction to these parties is anger and the culprits “apologise”?
As ever:
Don’t be angry that the foul buggers broke the rules. Be angry that the foul buggers made the rules.
PS. How truly sorry is this miserable crawling hypocrite?
Only sorry that she got found out. And not very sorry even about that, since there’s no comeback.
To have value you need integrity and these individuals lack that and are creatures without shame. The most crucial judgement hovers over them and they must spend the rest of their lives fleeing their evil culpability. They bathe in infamy and their legacy will follow their children and grandchildren. The depths of their evil has yet to be revealed. To us yes, to the rest no.
They seem to consider that it was a minor thing, and that all that is required is an insincere, smirking ‘apology’. They won’t flee, they’re not ashamed nor ever will be. Their children and grandchildren will all benefit from their ill-gotten gains and will never give a backward glance, having been brought up in this cesspit. They won’t care if further evil is revealed. Why should they? There’s no punishment forthcoming.
They didn’t believe there was a deadly pandemic because they knew there was not a deadly pandemic.
Years ago, people used to say that a fascist dictator such as Hitler or Mussolini could never come to power in Britain because the British people were too individualist and independent to be taken in. I wish I could believe that it were still true.
“I wish I could believe that it were still true.”
The way so many happily embraced reporting their family, friends and neighbours for ‘breaking the rules’ and walking the dog twice a day, suggests it never was.
That train departed some two or three decades ago.
We now have a majority who won’t know what they had till it’s gone.
Well judging by all the cries for summary execution on this site, it would seem you are all very far-right (from a political perspective)… Isn’t that where the fascists position themselves.
Have a big think about what you stand for.
How risibly sententious. As usual.
But the term ‘British’ is rather loose these days.
Yes indeed – their actions when they thought they were behind closed doors indicate that extremely clearly.
Yes. And all those stating that the vaccine saved us from more serious illness is another wicked lie. They all new including Whitty that it wasn’t serious yet they still persist.
Listen again to what Wittery said in May 2020:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adj8MCsZKlg
I’ve been saying they didn’t believe it was deadly which was evidenced from their behaviour, not as though family listen. I’m seriously doubting whether Boris and his trip to intensive care was actually real and not a propaganda stunt. If a work mate had been submitted to hospital and nearly died with covid you wouldn’t be having parties every other week would you?
You may be right, but Johnson is a cocaine-abusing obese man of nearly 60 who guzzles so much alcohol that sometimes he finds it hard to stand up straight even at public events.
Not a happy person, then – he doesn’t deserve to be.
As the great Laura Perrins said at the time – she’d never known anyone leaving intensive care fatter than when they went in. Go figure ….
How did I not notice this? Would it even be using to get his daily calorific needs of 8000 kcal per day through a drip?
To be fair if Bojo was on a course of high dose steroids it could have caused the weight gain and bloating
He must have stayed on them since?
Not that much Judy I’d have thought, and back in those early days when the deadly virus was on the rampage and they were still trying to educate themselves about it were they even using steroids at that time as a form of treatment?
That reminded me of a Readers Digest blast from the past:
A lady who hailed from Antigua
Once remarked to her spouse ‘What a pigua’.
He asked, ‘Now, my queen,
Is it manners you mean?
Or do you refer to my figua?’
Ahhhhh
I am finding it increasingly difficult to avoid the conclusion that he might have been mildly ill maybe, but that for propaganda purposes it was exaggerated beyond all requirements and he was whisked to hospital to ramp up the fear factor – and the MSM did the rest.
After all, SPI-B, the Nudge Unit, and the WHO’s own somethingTAG body were all at it.
I’m sure if that ever became the actual case, it would be pointed out.
Your view is only held by a handful of people.
You’ve asked for a show of hands and done the counting, presumably?
It is simply not enough. Why should this person be allowed to work in positions of responsibility over other people’s lives ever again? They clearly didn’t give a flying one about our elderly, our children, our working classes or the broken lives left to heal slowly and out of sight of these people’s minds.
Deserves 10 years in prison.
So wrong. She should be given a medal for services to scepticism. Compliance was/is collaboration. By believing she deserves punishment gives credibility to the rules.
Always undermine the nonsense don’t give it credence.
I thought you wanted H D Q?
Would all the “sceptics” who broke the rules and wrote their confessions on this site also get the same punishment?
Hung, drawn and quartered would be my preference.
Interesting to see how your mob can accelerate its’ bad behaviour.
“Lord” David Wolfson, “justice” minister, has resigned from the government. In his letter of resignation, he doesn’t half talk down to Boris Johnson – he helps him translate something from Latin, and he says that the sky has prematurely fallen in on “my current [sic] ministerial career”.
Johnson is being given his cards.
Wolfson studied at a Jewish religious school in Israel, and may well hold at least as many citizenships as Johnson used to when he was mayor of London and for a while when he was British foreign secretary too.
Ask why Johnson is being dumped, and, just as importantly, why NOW.
For those who want to try their hand at decoding Wolfson’s letter:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FQPNyl7X0AIYUgP?format=jpg
No problem Star – thanks for linking it – I was interested to read it.
I think the distinction between Wolfson and other cabinet members, and the reason why Wolfson has no option but to fall on his own sword when others don’t feel the same compulsion, (he is hinting strongly that they should do likewise and obliquely criticises them for not resigning) is that he is a QC, and as such is an officer of the court, and therefore the first duty is to comply with and uphold the law.
To remain in a cabinet as a minister, in Dept of Justice of all places after PM and others are found to have brazenly broken the very rules they themselves made and imposed on the whole country, (rule of law means the law applies to all and all have to comply with it) would be a very bad look for an officer of the court.
It is actually quite a principled letter of resignation. Good on him is what I say for having the integrity to sacrifice what he thought was a promising ministerial career on grounds of principle. Basically their failure to comply with the law has put him in this position – they have trolleyed his ministerial career
If I’m angry about something here, it’s about the police wasting resources on investigating office parties from two years ago because this lady created the spurious regulations enabling that. That’s what this lady should be held accountable for, not that she happened to be on one such office party.
She’s not sorry for what she did.
Only for having been caught and for herself.
Plus ça change….
We need a libertarian revolution, reducing the headcount of the civil ‘service’ et.al. by 90%, after screening for and reeducating those few left for the correct attitude, namely to the one that they are servants of the people not rulers.
These people make me sick. And not from COVID. She looks ‘lovely’ though doesn’t she. Evil comes in cute packages sometimes.
Not my type, but she’s blonde apparently, so ticks a Boris box…
Surely all their defences should be “Had such a gathering occurred in the middle of the deadliest pandemic ever, it is inconceivable that I could possibly have survived.”
You must be a lawyer, Rogerborg.
Well, I sometimes play one on Twitter.
Fun fact though, statute and case laws aren’t secret, and legal training really just boils down to optimising searches on https://www.bailii.org plus learning how much to genuflect to each tier of judiciary.
There is some suggestion that like your GP a decent AI system can probably do a better job than any human mind, having immediate access to all the data.
I believe there’s a system call IBM Watson that is already outperforming doctors whose knowledge of your illness is limited to what happened last time and what they can remember from when they last studied it… that goes for the legal profession too.
A friend has a daughter who is a consultant in a hospital, her first job when she arrives on the ward is to review the google search function, to find out what’s going on.
And having the right family background!
OK, people who don’t can still succeed sometimes, but it’s much harder.
Destroyed the country. The vast debt, inflation, tax rises, and increase in pension age are all very real consequences of the insane and stupid policies that shut the country down. And that’s only the economic consequences. And they did it anyway, despite apparently not being concerned by the virus at all. THAT is the real crime here.
And the punishment is a fixed penalty notice, of the sort ordinary plebs get for being caught out by one of “their” speed cameras.
She should have been fined for drafting the law in the first place.
She should have been sacked for doing it so badly…
It cannot be drafted well.
It should never have been drafted at all, but then various iterations of McKinsey were doing the same in jurisdictions all over the world, at least the ones which had signed up to the operation. Lots of people with lots of fingers in lots of pies all paid handsomely for their efforts I am sure.
In the jurisdictions where the leaders didn’t sign up they didn’t appear to fare so well – the leaders that is.
A law that should never exist cannot be drafted well, that is why it should not exist.
Haven’t been to a good stoning in a while. Too much sand where I live.
Sandblasted?
Microchipping humans is already a thing
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People are already using it for payments.
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Ken Macon doesn’t know much about the history of microchip implants if he writes
Here are some articles from 2004 (these talk about Barcelona; there were other articles at the time about bars in Rotterdam and Glasgow):
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn5022-clubbers-choose-chip-implants-to-jump-queues/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3697940.stm
This is from 2018 (referencing Sweden, where thousands of people are already implanted):
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6306569/Thousands-Swedes-getting-microchip-IDs-inserted-hands.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/sweden-microchips-contactless-cards-biohackers-dystopian-future-a8408486.html
In the covifascism era, a Swedish company pushing for the inclusion of vaccine passports on chip implants is called Epicenter:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10329221/Swedish-startup-unveils-rice-sized-microchip-implant-stores-COVID-vaccine-passport.html
That article was discussed here on DailySceptic.org last year:
https://dailysceptic.org/2021/12/20/swedish-company-creates-vaccine-passport-microchip-implant/
An absolute must-read is the article published in the Sunday Times on 12 June 2005, entitled “Patients get 999 chip implants”:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/patients-get-999-chip-implants-m2cjvkdwvfr
I’m not sure why anyone would downvote a simple presentation of facts? Perhaps Ken has multiple accounts?
Really… it’s hardly unusual for people to be against facts on this site.
Leaving party?
Hilarious relief at getting rid of the foul little goblin, most likely.
Confiscate all she owns and sell her into slavery. Then she can do something useful.
And force her to repent on her knees for eight hours every Sunday.
“I am truly sorry that I did this and for the anger that people will feel as a result.”
No your not sorry at all … you’re only sorry now because you got caught.
That nearly always applies when politicians and civil servants get caught out! Contrition is not something which most of them know anything about.
Really odd set of downvotes.
Not really. It’s advert for online Ivermectin… badly written too. Almost certainly scam aimed at gullible who want to make better entire self while stay at home.
Yes – I’d call them a kind of parasite trying to dress themselves up as caring.
Criminals. Thieves . Evil . Prison
Another Prize Pig of the Animal Farm variety. Laws are for the little people, not Grand Panjamdrums like her.
Another one who knew full well that the laws she drafted were completely unnecessary because only the very elderly and those with serious co-morbidities were at risk from the Low Consequence Infectious Disease.
Notwithstanding that fact that she should have been sacked for writing such inconsistent nonsense as the lockdown rules, there’s a problem when you get people who know what they mean to write the instructions. There’s a chance, perhaps, that this woman knew what she meant, but failed to state it properly and subsequently acted accordingly.
It’s ridiculous, for instance, regardless of the fact that it was ‘the rules’, that you can sit in an office with fifty people all week, and then not stand around in a garden in the sunshine for an hour on a Friday evening…
She obviously didn’t factor that scenario in when she was drafting those rules.
To be fair, she should have been sacked as soon as she presented the first draft… the inconsistencies and ludicrous contrary ‘advice’ that have been apparent throughout the imposition of lockdown made the entire thing unworkable and ultimately is it any wonder that so many fell into the traps? You’ll catch it if you drink a pint, but not if you eat a scotch egg, you’ll catch it in a room if you stand up, but not if you’re sitting down… the woman’s a fool.
That was probably intentional – make it confusing and difficult to interpret, mix up law and advice, and then publicise police over-reach approvingly and a lot of the population will do as they are told without question.
So, the fallout for such hypocritical behaviour is that the good folk of Sheffield get to pay her full-whack for not working, while she hides from unfavourable publicity.
And the only positive side of that is that the city is probably much better off with her out of action!
They would be better off still if her salary were confiscated and her future pension cancelled.
Who seriously believes that Bozo’s grandstanding in Ukraine and his ‘leading the world’ in trying to save Ukraine from defeat by Russia is borne of a genuine concern for Ukrainians and desire for peace? Who seriously believes that Bozo has suddenly become a Churchillian politician?
No, it’s a cynical piece of theatre to cover for his lying, deception and genocidal decisions against the British people during the so called pandemic of a so called lethal virus. He knew the police would find him guilty of breaking the Covid laws, he knew he was lying when he said he hadn’t broken those laws because he knew was at the parties. These images of him in Kiev were more cynical and staged than things even Blair did in his wars, and Cameron hugging a husky and May posing in her ghastly leather trousers.
And it looks like he’s going to get away with it. Who believes that all those Tory MPs calling for him to go have suddenly undergone Damascene conversions to admire his leadership qualities? No, they have all cynically made the calculation that Bozo just might save their jobs at the next GE and so are all, in unison (and using the same words) publicly stating that ‘now is not the time to change leader’ and ‘PartyGate ‘ is no longer an issue ‘cos ‘Ukraine’.
Even journalists who were loudly shouting for his head a few months back are now saying ‘time to move on’, most notably Mike Graham of TalkRADIO who has rapidly gone down in my admiration and rating.
I know our votes don’t really change anything at GEs because whatever Party is in Government, they don’t actually run the country because the Civil Service and Common Purpose do following policies from the WEF, but local elections can be useful in ‘sending a message’. Remember, that’s how May was removed, after the local elections ended with the Conservatives on 7% IIRC.
I loathe Johnson and this government with such a passion, if we sent the message and it resulted in the fat Turk being removed together with the Net Zero architect I would rejoice in the street.
Once again, the key point is that no one with access to all the data was scared of covid.
Just like none of us amateurs were scared once we had seen the Diamond Princess data.
It is obvious. Why is the media refusing to address it?
It’s only obvious to a few conspiracy theory fans.
“Conspiracy theory fans” = people who look for the data and study it carefully.
That’s how these reptiles operate nowadays.
Make the rules for others, break the rules because you know they are b*ll*cks from beginning to end and you have no intention of sharing the misery you have inflicted on everyone else (why should you?) and if you are caught out, pay the paltry fine and issue a standard, empty and meaningless apology. Then move on to the next cushy overpaid number prepared for you by your pals in high places. Want to bet against her becoming a Dame in a year or two when they think the dust has settled and we have all forgotten?
How many times do I have to say it, the only people that should fined are those that didn’t have parties/holidays during lockdown.
Call it a tax on ignorance if you like, with what we have learnt over the past couple of years such a tax will make far more dosh for the treasury than petrol and tobacco combined. We will then be able to supply even more weapons to Ukranian nazis. What’s not to like?
Ahhh…. a fan of Russian murder of Ukrainians…
Right on cue. Were you waiting in the wings?
I didn’t have parties, because I’m not a party sort of person – fair play to those who did, though…
The only proper punishment for these is confiscation of all assets and they must spend the rest of their lives sweeping the streets, though I doubt they could do that properly – an alternative would be cleaning toilets with a toothbrush
Their own toothbrush.
Well what a civilised bunch you all are.. Stoning ..really?
“I am truly sorry that I
did thiswas found out…”What about all the people who attended this ‘party’? They must all have known that they were part of a pantomime. There seem to be far more of these than we realised.
Terence McKenna said that we are ruled by the least among us but this lot just take the piss. Completely venal and corrupt and utterly without shame. I wonder how long their popularity will endure.Can we not at least acknowledge that we are moving into serious times and at least make some effort in that direction. I have known people like these in my personal life and they are utter filth. They are amazed themselves that anyone puts their faith in them.
£50 fine is hardly going to change their life. £50,000 would be more appropriate – it might involve putting their mortgage repayments at risk…..