Boris Johnson has been accused of having “instigated” a Downing Street party, as Tory MPs claim he could face a fresh coup attempt after the May elections. The Telegraph has more.
The Prime Minister faced accusations that an office gathering to mark the exit of Lee Cain, the former Number 10 Director of Communications, was not a party “until he arrived”.
It has been claimed that a photographer was present and captured pictures of Mr. Johnson at the event, which took place on November 13th 2020.
Downing Street did not dispute the description of the event but said it was untrue that Mr. Johnson had organised it.
The Prime Minister’s actions at the event – which allegedly included delivering a speech, pouring drinks for people and drinking himself – will threaten to derail his argument that “all rules were followed”.
Mr. Johnson is expected to receive a second fine from the Metropolitan Police, with organisers of large gatherings facing penalties of up to £10,000.
Senior Conservative MPs said that if the party performed poorly in next month’s local elections, this could provide a fresh pretext for attempts to move against the Prime Minister.
Mr Johnson is preparing for one of the toughest political weeks of his time in office, as he faces MPs in the Commons tomorrow to give a statement over his “partygate” fine.
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Totally unrealistic depiction of events in that cartoon:
if it was real that waiter would be wearing a mask!
Indeed! They do like their masked service ….
How much they must love the power of being in office to cling to it as Johnson does. The man could be free of so much of this merciless but thoroughly deserved criticism and ridicule if he found another job – something he could easily do.
Power must truly be the ultimate aphrodisiac, for the power-hungry and their clingers-on.
He instigated lockdown parties by imposing lockdown in the first place, the great fat communist fraud.
Did I hear correctly that he was issued with a 50 quid fine? Weren’t people that organized parties with more than a certain number of people being issued with fines in the thousands? I was expecting them to give him a slap on the wrist, but this is ridiculous. How did they decide how much to fine him? Did they ask him to turn out his pockets?
Exactly – a Bournemouth University student was fined £10,000 when he broke covid rules and organised a party back in Dec 2020 with other individuals recieving £200 fines each.
Bournemouth University student party organiser fined £10,000 over Covid breaches.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-55362290
The fine was £50 because that was the level of fine at the time that the alleged infraction took place. Fines were increased as time went on.
The £10,000 fines were for people who organized large social gatherings which were in themselves illegal. Practically none of those issued have been paid: the police withdrew the fine once a person refused to pay because they knew that they would never be able to get a conviction, and they were scared that the courts would rule them unlawful such that they’d have to reimburse the few fools who had paid them.
The 10,000 pound fine was awarded BEFORE the Downing Street party took place. So if fines were increased as time went on, Boris should have been given an even bigger fine.
Oh, so you don’t think the law applies? What do you mean ‘he should have’?
The alleged infraction for which he was fined £50 was not of the type that would have attracted a £10,000 fine, so your point is irrelevant.
Boris organised a sizeable party at his home. This is the exact kind of offence that attracted a fine in the thousands, so your point is irrelevant.
Crooks like Johnson never use their own money.
What else are taxpayers for but to give him an easy life?
This just underlines the hell that they created where stupid rules appear to have been defined without justification, and upheld by the Police against the people they are supposed to serve.
I confess to being torn. The incidents in themselves are complete nothingburgers, certainly not worth all the time and effort that has been put into reporting them by MSM and the Opposition and investigating them by the Police and others. They are only significant because the chumps made the rule and then failed to observe it.
Only the spiteful and vindictive treatment of the PM is keeping me on his side. If the MSM and the Opposition are expending this much effort in trying to get him out, that’s probably a good reason to keep him on.
Agreed; and I’m a socialist remainer.
Even capitalists should have voted remain.
It is illogical to reduce both your path to market and your access to resource.
You are quite correct. It was a mistake for the PM to pay the fine. He should have refused and fought it in court. The court would likely have thrown it out on several grounds, not least the fact that it occured in the workplace with people who were still at work. There were never any limits on gatherings in the workplace, whether on numbers or time. For those whose reaction to that might be that they wish that there were, then they are simply falling into the trap of wanting to extend lockdowns even further than they were. How can one be anti-lockdown when wanting lockdown rules to cover what they did not cover?
Secondly, in the workplace it was no business of the police to get involved. Those workers who completed the police questionnaires were absolute fools. No one is compelled to self-incriminate, especially with authorities who have no competence to investigate. The police had no jurisdiction. The enforcement of Covid rules in the workplace fell to the HSE. The police’s authority stopped at the front door of Number 10. At my workplace, had the HSE attended I would have admitted them. If the police had attended about a suspected lockdown infraction I would have denied entry.
So all this is a complete nonsense.
“You are quite correct. It was a mistake for the PM to pay the fine. He should have refused and fought it in court. “
It would have been an act of gross stupidity for him to go to court.
Even he isn’t that stupid!
“The police had no jurisdiction. “
Are you making things up about the law?
Are you saying a crime in the workplace is not a crime?
Your last line is correct, if you apply it to the rest of your text.
I’ve never seen stated what law was broken. These were work events and thus appear totally legal.
Wasn’t there a karaoke machine at one of them?
Is that illegal in the workplace, then?
Of course not, and if you visit business premises in the Far East you will often find that when employees need to take a break they can use the company’s karaoke facility.
I think using one probably was illegal according to the law at the time, though IMO that law was unconstitutional and immoral.
You are correct.
That was essential work, was it?
Would you trust anyone in Westminster or Whitehall to put up a deckchair for you? Would you trust any of them to do the right thing for this country before the EU?
What have any of them done for our good?
The only thing you can trust them to do is to let us down and spend our money. There isn’t a single MP worth saving from drowning.
Sir Christopher Chope has been standing up for the ‘vaccine’ injured- has asked questions in the HoC and elsewhere. There are some genuine MPs but the current Cabinet exist in a moral vacuum.
I gather there is a good interview with Chope on UK Column in new u tube. Vax and other issues.
But aren’t people like Sir Christopher Chope, John Redwood, Steve Baker, Phillip Davies, David Davis and others allowed licence to speak out on such issues to keep their credulous centre Right voters/members onside? We have seen and heard such voices for thirty years but their views rarely change the direction of the party. Quite the reverse the Tories become more Blairite every year.
Every applicant to be a prospective parliamentary candidate, for all the parties represented in Westminster today, has had to swear that they will obey the party’s instructions on how to vote.
This, every MP is bound hand, foot, short & curlies, to the party’s will.
The ever-so wonderful, honest and true as the day is long, Sir Christopher (to be a diamond-encrusted Lord, one day, if he behaves himself) Chope is just another apparatchik like all the rest.
He won’t rock the boat.
Well, no, not to put up a deckchair: maybe, however, they would have done a reasonable job of rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic!
. . . by stacking them precipitously in the lifeboats and declaring them off-limits to passengers?
Nulla Mea Culpa said Shaggy Johnson, with a latin flourish
Prediction: Nigel Farage will officially join Reform UK 6 weeks prior to the GE. And a mass order of diapers will be delivered to the Conservative HQ.
If anyone want to oust a Tory in the may elections, might I suggest their election flyers just have a picture of Her Majesty sitting alone after Prince Philip’s passing with the caption referring to the karaoke party on the same night in Number 10. Nuff said.
I only had the choice between 2 LD, 2 Lab and 2 Cons.
I passed.
This electoral rig was the final nail in the coffin for me with regard to pretending that this is a democracy.
Bring on sortition, ASAP.
For God’s sake! Deliberately missing the point again, like all the MPs and most of the MSM. All those at the parties, including Johnson WERE NOT SCARED OF THE VIRUS, DESPITE TELLING US TO BE SCARED SH!TLESS.
Johnson knew the virus was a not a lethal threat and that the rules were a smokescreen and pointless in containing the ‘lethal virus’. That why they ignored the rules. See photos of Cop26 and G7 meetings
No, not just ‘them’. The official case fatality rate given in Parliament (i.e. public information) by Jo Churchill MP, on behalf of the government, was 0.096%. That’s of the same order, arguably less, than seasonal flu.
I grant that the government response was completely outrageous and wrong. But the very low virulence of the virus, as a technical fact, was never hidden.
That’s why sensible people saw the propaganda for what it was: a pack of lies.
I would be more interesting hearing about the alternatives to the appalling parties that we have as a supposed “choice” at the next election.
We do indeed need a new PM – one who is not subservient to the globalists who seem to control Boris.
And who might that be?
Well Doris didn’t set the bar very high and so surely out of 339 Tory MPs there is one MP who hasn’t swallowed the climate change racket, isn’t ruled by their carnal lust, is not a compulsive liar, doesn’t treat the role of PM as a bit of a lark, proved themselves good managers in industry and is not seized of the romanticism of the defence of Ukraine. That would do for a start.
Hmmm, good luck finding that person!
Well said, You’ve done a great job defining the ideal PM.
I wonder which sinister puppet they have in mind to replace him. Better the silly, patronising, shallow, posturing devil you know……
It was alleged that the prime minister had a drink (or more than one) 17 months ago!
If the Met has time to investigate this, it must be seriously overstaffed and London ought to be free of any real crime. One could perhaps make a political argument for an election campaign out of this. But prosecuting it now is of absolutely no public interest. Assuming the second lockdown made any sense – and considering that it was instigated after so-called case numbers started to fall, it certainly didn’t – a threat of timely prosecution might have acted as deterrence against breaking it. But doing this now stinks of political posturing of people with an axe to grind and way too much time on their hands.
I absolutely wouldn’t be surprised if a disgruntled Mister Cummings – by that time still in government employment – was behind all of this. And the implicit claim that lockdown was a sensible and proportionate measure at that time (or any other, fwiw) is still to be denied. The people who ought to be prosecuted are the lockdown architects who are all still freely spewing their propaganda despite the enormous amount of avoidable harm they’ve inflicted on the country.
Surely it is all the fools who completed the police questionnaires who are responsible for this outcome.
If the police stop you when you are out but have nothing more than a suspicion about you and ask you who you are, where you are from, and where you are going, and for what purpose then you are not obliged to cooperate.
Lots of people got FPNs because they thought that they had to answer any questions that the police asked, and so incriminate themselves.
Since March 2020, I’ve made a habit of walking over an A329 road bridge in Reading most nights, usually some time between midnight and 1am. By this time, there’s obviously almost no traffic there, yet, I’ve been stopped by the police numerous times citing fears about my safety, expressing concerns that I might be suicidal or claiming to investigate reports of town centre vandalism. They’ve always asked all of the questions above and occasionally, more than that. Maybe they don’t really have the authority to do this (and I suspect boredom as one of the main drivers behind these repeat occurences) but that’s certainly not how they act.
I wouldn’t call people fools just because they operate in a If in doubt, cooperate mode when interacting with the police. After all, that’s usually a pretty surefire way to stay out of trouble with them if they’re basically just being obnoxious. If something is no business of the police, they shouldn’t be doing it, ie, it’s their fault.
If this does prove Johnson’s undoing, then he might like to reflect on the fact that President Putin was not the cause his downfall, but rather Abba and a cheeseboard – oh, and his own stupid rules.
It’s an old one, but……
The only man to enter parliament with honest intentions was Guy Fawkes.
The Government handbook requires the highest standards of ethics and personal integrity, and yet we are all flawed human beings. What it has produced is a culture of fingerpointing and hypocricy. It is a miracle that somebody from the old school of politics has managed to break through this glass ceiling of saintliness or rather the appearance thereof. When all is said and done, Johnson is a leader. The Tory rebels should be careful what they wish for.
It’s hard to say this when we have the worst PM in British history … but I’ve no doubt the plotters are even worse. It’s like a choice between Hitler and Goebbels … the only thing that makes them barely tolerable, is that the Chinese are undoubtedly stirring it all up … but they have such rich material to work with!
The Bozzer would do well to remember Enoch Powell’s words:”All political careers end in failure”
Apologies if I have misquoted.
… it’s worth saying again .. and again up to the May elections; in the hope that members of the Conservative party may read the daily sceptics !! AND take notice. They should!
Even though people are advising that alternative members may be worse than Mr Johnson like Javid/ and covidcult corp. I will not hold my nose and vote for any main party as they are all complicit in this disaster that keeps unfolding. I will try find another alternative on the ballot.
If this means worse so be it until people wake up.
….and digital ID “no” and losing cash “no”….and … notices on the gov website slipping manipulation under our noses “no”…. asylum seekers get payed more than I do …. everything they do is inept corrupt and I have never felt this before never thought I would but I am so angry with all these people in public office all of them .
My younger son who was a stunch tory and who has never missed voting since he was 18 and who is now 46 says he will spoil his ballot paper in the council elections in May because there aren’t any Reform UK or any anti-lockdown candidates.
Thanks for reply
I am 57 never missed voting either.
They have put things in place and are putting in place without due rigorous process. Because ithey have already committed to contracts for digital ID. They are ending all that the west achieved … look at Italy with communist style “if you are a compliant citizen ID” problem is who decides what that means. Dictat Control has reached all our lives now and all our parliamentarians gave evidenced in this last two years they are spineless and will not stand up for hardworking people like and me and my family. We should ALL spoil our ballots are vote for a complete outsider.
“Vote Outside the box and give them a shock” a country wide slogan is needed!!
I don’t know how about “ Vote outside the box for Independence Day” they need to lose their jobs. Across the board .
Unfortunately in my part of the country there aren’t any council elections in May so no ballot papers to spoil if there aren’t any anti lockdown candidates.
Incidentally I don’t think that the tories will get a drubbing in said council elections dispite what a lot of the MSM say.
The Waitresses in that picture would be wearing face masks while their masters go without them, unless there is a Camera around!
The whole notion of giving Boris a ticket for breaking lockdown rules is utterly offensive. Are the police now going to go back in time and fine every person that ever broke a rule? At a time when people are calling on the government to waive all covid tickets? I hope not!
So now the question remains: who is directing the police to do this?
I’ll be interested to see if Lord Frost denounces his lordship and attempts election at Wakefield. I think he might be the best replacement for Johnson and would have good support from many politicians and other Conservative members and those in the party might wait for the outcome of that to ditch Johnson, although it would be well overdue.
I’m not sure why people like Nigel Farage and many others give Johnson credit for Brexit, because he bottled a no deal exit leaving us with too many ties to the EU and the stupid mess he signed up for in Northern Ireland leaving part of the UK effectively in the EU. He deserves no credit for that and our so called tariff free deal with the EU seems to be working in the interest of the EU while they are making it difficult for us to export our products to them. If we had the right to reciprocate any tariffs or difficulties to them all the current issues would have beem sorted long before now. I don’t think he can use the excuse that the incompetent Mrs May agreed these issues, he signed the documents agreeing to them and should not have accepted them.