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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They’re not even trying to pretend to justify the need for their tyranny anymore. ‘We are just following WEF orders!’ How are the protests coming along? The window of freedom is closing.
We won’t find out about the protests from the MSM and Toby doesn’t post about them, probably being circumspect.
Surprising amount on YouTube though.
It’s not science and it’s not safetyism, it’s meddling-addiction AKA NPD.
I believe Anti-vaxpassers need to lockdown residences of those pro medical coercion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEolSjlcqng
Reminded me of the above.
Correct, Nanny Nicola Ceausescu knows best.
What an absolute clownshow as usual.
It’s as if they just don’t care about the reasoning or justification, they’re just following orders…
And the Celtic Fringe are just the trial run for England.
Ridiculous, but par for anything SNP. No doubt whistling a bar or two of “Stop Your Tickling, Jock” before entering any passport-requiring premises will be just as prophylactic.
“he believed”
i.e. – what we knew all along – it’s politics turning into religion, not rational knowledge.
Just keep doubling down and sooner or later you will get the required outcome.
The media has been onboard since day one. They cannot and will not change direction, they’re painted into the corner, there will be no mea culpa.
Buckle up.
When I wrote to the SNP MP for where I live (I certainly wouldn’t call him ‘my MP’) about the vote for vaccine passports, he didn’t respond until after the vote, and when he did the copy and paste response included this:
That made me absolutely certain that they intended to extend it to pubs.
If numbers go down, they’ll say that vaccine passports are working so they need to extend them. If numbers go up (probably partially as a result of the idiocy of using vaccination status as an indicator of Covid status), they’ll say the measures they’ve brought in aren’t enough.
These are not rational, or good, people.
They play fast and loose with pubs because the majority of people don’t use them regularly and some look down their noses at those who do which is why, at times, Gastropubs were exempted, same goes for gyms and nightclubs.
It’s worrying that they no longer feel the need to lie all that much – openly admit they have no evidence for what they are doing. They feel confident that there will not be a public outrage or media shitstorm. On the other hand, perhaps this hubris will one day be taken too far and will be their undoing.
Someone with authority believes something and uses the awesome power of the state to impose his belief on everyone.
I think it’s just a matter of time before the country changes its name to the Democratic United Kingdom. A country with ‘Democratic’ in the name is a dead giveaway for a dictatorship. As in the German Democratic Republic or the Democratic Republic of Korea.
Ok, so he just follows his heart, beliefs and intuition, just like most commenters here do with regard to vaccines. Seems like he’s a good man after all.
Ah, but we don’t use the power of the state to impose our beliefs, rational or otherwise, on anyone else.
And that’s why I like you more than the ministers. I’d much rather deal with harmless idiots than dangerous idiots.
Make up your mind: is he a good man or a dangerous idiot you don’t much like?
Ignore the Orwellian double-speak, it’s intended to confuse and disrupt.
Nah, he’s alright.
His position, which actually has a lot of merit, is that the erosion of rights such as vaccine passports and the like is what is really outrageous and should be fought on principle. And that trying to push back by claiming the vaccines are dangerous or worse still that they are a part of a genocidal plan are misguided and counterproductive. Vaccine passports, for example, are an outrage even if vaccines work really well.
I’m pretty sure that’s the gist of what he thinks and gets pissed off with what he considers OTT criticism of vaccines.
He’s may be right, even if he puts his point across rather abrasively.
OTT criticisms of vaccines? Are you serious?
The genocide part seems a bit OTT to me.
Given all we’ve seen in the last 18 months, I wouldn’t rule it out, but I wouldn’t bet heavily on it.
Very few on here are talking about genocide. But many of us are very concerned about the side effects and deaths that many people are reporting, and those are only the immediate/short-term adverse events. The fact that the government don’t allow any kind of analysis of their yellow card data only adds to people’s understandable suspicion that there are serious problems with the safety of these so-called vaccines. And now we are starting to hear reports of sudden deaths in vaccinated children. How bad do things have to get before the roll-out is halted and the safety data taken seriously?
I couldn’t agree more. The way reports of side effects are being downplayed, ignored and even suppressed is outrageous, possibly even criminal.
Moreover I find quite maddening how they blew the danger of covid out of all proportion and exaggerated the risk but then all of a sudden are so able to put vaccine damages into perspective.
In both cases the risks in absolute terms seems very low. What has changed through sheer force of propaganda is that previously the risks of natural disease were accepted and there was a tolerance for it and the risks from drug and vaccine side effects were not accepted and there was no tolerance for it.
Now it’s the opposite. The big achievement of the pharma industry with the help of governments has been to flip things around and make society very intolerant of the risk of disease and very tolerant of damages from vaccines.
I am talking about Genocide. It’s planned and it’s happening. This shit show is far darker than any of us can imagine.
Why are they injecting children? To kill some now, many more by 2030 and the remainder will be extremely poorly with compromised immune systems. And of course rendered infertile if they survive beyond 2030.
It is Genocide.
His position, which actually has a lot of merit,…
You cannot be serious.
And that trying to push back by claiming the vaccines are dangerous or worse still that they are a part of a genocidal plan are misguided and counterproductive.
Possibly futile, but still true.
He may be right, even if he puts his point across rather abrasively.
Utter bollocks. Are you raye?
He certainly does a good job of winding you lot up 🙂
Yes, stewart, you got my position exactly. I’m pro-vaccine (for those groups that can benefit from it) and anti-vaccine-passport. And yes, I enjoy being “abrasive”.
Which might those be then?
Abrasive might be tolerable but you are incredibly rude, arrogant, aggressive, very poorly informed and what I can only summarise as an oxygen thief.
Your contributions add nothing and serve only to undermine the decency of this site. If you would do the decent thing and Fuck Off it is without doubt your drivel would not be missed.
I am all for different and contrarian points of view but you simply debase DS and take up space.
Don’t spare the lash h. Tell rayc what you really think.
raye is a troll assigned to spout nonsense on DS and we pay his wages.
The “good man” was of course sarcastic, and aimed to provoke the anti-vaxxers by comparing their beliefs to those of this lunatic. It appears that my message got across as intended.
Why give the troll more oxygen with your replies. Read it laugh and move on
As opposed to a clueless idiot, such as yourself?
Or would you prefer useful idiot? Seeing as you are doing the “dangerous idiots” bidding.
It takes one to know one, etc.
So nature is lying when it details the harms from getting jabbed?
Yeh, but they keep telling us to follow the science when he is in total denial of any scientific analysis.
And being a good man doesn’t give him any additional authority and it certainly doesn’t make him right.
Beware paid troll Corporal raye on duty.
No, he rejects evidence, all evidence, as you well know but pretend otherwise.
Your post is Michael Moore calling Tom Stoltman fat.
Just like you, schweetheart!
Most facile ignorant comment ever
Is this the least surprising statement ever?
Ferguson gets a roasting from protestors and DM readers.
Anti-vaxxers led by Piers Corbyn storm university lecture by Professor Neil Ferguson and demand no more lockdowns as audience member brands him a ‘f****** murderer’
Best rated readers comment (2190 vs 617)
‘They’re not ‘antivaxxers’, they are just people – and there are MILLIONS out there – whose lives have been harmed by Ferguson’s UTTERLY baseless and routinely completely inaccurate ‘predictions’. This individual cannot be relied on or trusted, and so should not be given any position of influence.’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10166325/Anti-vaxxers-brand-Professor-Neil-Ferguson-f-murderer-storm-university-lecture.html
Couldn’t happen to a nicer chap 😉
The first fully vaxxed (with real and necessary vaccines) anti-vaxxers in history.
And the first Nazis that protest for inalienable individual rights, above all bodily autonomy.
He didn’t vet his audience adequately and he’s so far up his own a*se that he was genuinely surprised st the hostility.
Good. It’s important that these people realize that they’ll ultimatively end up having to live the remainder of their lives in secret locations guarded by the police if taxpayers are willing to pay for that. And that they should better hope that taxpayers remain willing to pay for it.
Devi Sridhar is a lying (“the covid vaccine is 100% safe, kids!”), totally bought and controlled, pleb-despising opportunist who has made a career from jumping on the pandemic lie. She is beyond despicable.
Way beyond despicable!!
How can she possibly say that with a straight face after the whistelblower article in the BMJ?
And no media hack will bring this up will they?
Gods above I hate them all.
The Germans are still blaming unvaccinated (of course). In Spiegel comment section there are people claiming that the “minority of unvaccinated is terrorizing the majority”.
Presumably, given your stance on covid “vaccines” and the insults you regularly hurl at those on here who raise very legitimate concerns about the rollout programme, you agree with “the Germans”.
No, my stance is to let the unvaccinated do whatever they wish, remove all the restrictions immediately and even introduce new laws to ban vaxx-passports forever. The same stance since Ioannidis published his initial (correct) estimate on the deadliness of this pandemic over a year ago. It is fully compatible with the stance that older unvaccinated persons are dumbasses and that the vaccines are not going to hurt any substantial number of people (I fully recognize that they WILL hurt a tiny fraction of patients, but then, so do plenty of other medications or lifestyle choices that people voluntarily take/make, so it’s not a big deal; the coercion is).
I found this one quite interesting.
The most reputable newspaper in Germany, the daily bible of the academics, advertises with the slogan that it is and is for readers that ate interested no longer about knowledge, but attitude.
Satire and MSM critics couldn’t have done it any better.
I have sent it to a few friends who subscribed to.it, but I doubt they’ll get or question it.
Translation please?
My German couldn’t even get rusty.
As I want to have an opinion on topics and not just repeat the facts I read and hear.
Subscription to the FAZ etc.
Freedom starts in the head.
Very badly translated, I am not a professional.
Thank you, I share those sentiments but understand that many here do like to examine the charts and statistics as I did initially until I knew which side of the lockdown debate to stand on.
After that it became unnecessary but I welcome explanations provided by people who know about and enjoy such things.
Haltung is more like “mindset” or “bearing” or “stance”, not just an “opinion”. It is a word with some authoritarian/collectivist connotations when used in the context that someone is bringing a “Haltung” to you (rather than that you develop some positive “Haltung” yourself). That’s by JayBee calls it satire.
Because I want standpoints and not just facts.
Possibly a covert barb at the German weekly periodical Focus whose unofficial motto was/ is Facts! Facts! Facts!.
That’s the same as your logic. Flawed beyond comprehension.
Using phrases like ‘a pandemic of the unvaccinated’ and ‘unvaccinated . . .terrorizing the country’ makes them the extremists.
So he confirms that it’s a cult. Only cults and religions do ‘belief’.
And the Israeli minister has already told the world what this is really about.
Not that it had any negative consequences for him or the rollout.
When Thatcher was foisting the poll tax on Scots in the 1980s they played hardball and put the iron lady in her place. How times have changed.
Then they changed the name to council tax and everyone loved it. No more covid passports, just social freedom apps!
Probably just pleased to get there before bozo. At least for now he doesn’t seem to be playing follow-my-leader with her and Drakeford.
He is no doubt waiting for the cheque to clear, and a better offer of employment once he has washed his hands of the dirty task he is currently performing.
Like Blair he’s not in it for the PMs salary.
Devi Sridhar is a paid WEF stooge – as are most of the other regime collaborators. That is why they get so much air time. But shush….the public arent allowed to know this.
And a YGL
In any fit and proper Court of law failing to produce evidence means you lose the case by default.
“Cases” go down: “Oor vaxxports work, we need more of Oor Vaxxports.”
“Cases” go up: “Oor vaxxports aren’y working, we need more of Oor Vaxxports.”
They were the goal all along. Everything has led to here. They will never, ever go away, and they will always creep into more and more aspects of our lives.
Show your vaxxport once, to anyone, anywhere, for any reason, and you will be a serf forever.
Uh there is. The prophylactics don’t prevent transmission, therefore the passport is pointless.
Pointless from a health perspective, but that’s not THE point.
No point at all for me, I hate crowds! & I’m glad I can’t go anywhere where there are lots of vaccinated twats.
Wot TLAWL said.
Totalitarian turds just wanted a ‘papers please’ combination of Ceausescu’s Romania and East Germany
I was in Ceaucescus’s Romania for a few days; the Securitate guys were always easy to spot. Their leather coats and jackets were less crappy than everybody elses.
You can tell them in Scotland because they’re in parliament.
Don’t forget a “criminal scanner” on every phone, as proposed by EU (to monitor all communications).
Except it’s going to be much worse than in those countries thanks to technological progress. You could bribe the security guys, but how do you bribe an electronic access control gate?
Entices? ENTICES!?! WTF!?! Forced coercion at the expense of your job, house, livelihood is not “ENTICING”!
Oh, and btw, if they cannot show it works, the default is “Do Not Do It!”, not “sure, let’s have some tyranny, why the heck not?”
Those not injected are certainly NOT going to be “enticed” into accepting a poison needle.
Idiot.
Just needed to say F off Devi!!!! Ah feel better now!
I wouldn’t trust myself to leave it at that.
There is an ivermectin panic on the big tech and MSM right now. Massive articles from MSM on Ivermectin trying to push a danger narrative and also negative press on Americans Frontline Dr’s, again, to keep the Covid narrative alive. Just go to the Goog and type ivermectin then look at all the panic news articles. We are over the target. Big-Pharma is panicking. This medicine has been widely used by humans without any problems for 40 years. It’s inventor won a Nobel Prize after 20 years of successful use and after 100 million people were cured of a broad spectrum of problems without any side effects. Get your Ivermectin while you still can! https://health.p0l.org
Let me tell you this. In Scotland next to no one in the capital has anything relating to covid. Where they get these numbers from in the empty test centres is beyond me.
I just clicked the link to the Guardian article, laughed out loud at its sub-heading, scrolled to its comments section and stopped laughing. There really an awful lot of brainwashed morons out there. I’m surprised they risk getting out of bed every morning.