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May 2022
11:41am, 24 May 2022
18,759 posts
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richmac
Also, guy is running a country, should you be knocking back a couple on your way to a meeting?
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May 2022
11:47am, 24 May 2022
27,299 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Most days he looks like his wife made him sleep in the shed, so I'm thinking the booze features in his working day quite a lot.
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May 2022
1:49pm, 24 May 2022
27,301 posts
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Johnny Blaze
The BBC just now:
Insiders who attended events at Downing Street during lockdown have told the BBC how staff crowded together, sat on each other's laps and how party debris was left out overnight.
For the first time, insiders who were at some of the events have told BBC Panorama in detail what they saw.
They describe arriving for work the morning after a get-together to find bottles lying around parts of the building, bins overflowing with rubbish and empties left on the table.
They also tell of events with dozens of staff crowded together, and parties going so late that, on occasion, some ended up staying in Downing Street all night.
And they say staff mocked others who tried to stop what was going on.
The BBC asked Downing Street for a response. They declined to comment but said they would give a full response to the publication of the Sue Gray report.
The accounts come a day before the senior civil servant Ms Gray is expected to deliver her report on lockdown parties in No 10.
PM facing questions over Partygate photos
The Covid rules when Downing Street parties were held
Last week, the Metropolitan Police concluded its own investigation into rule-breaking, after issuing 126 fines - including one for the prime minister for attending a birthday party in June 2020.
However, both the police and the prime minister are facing fresh questions after ITV News obtained pictures believed to show the prime minister at a leaving party for his communications chief Lee Cain on 13 November 2020.
Speaking anonymously, three insiders have opened up about a world behind No 10's famous front door where the lockdown rules the country was living by were routinely ignored, socialising was regular, with, they felt, the prime minister's implicit permission.
One staffer describes director of communications Lee Cain's leaving do, the event on 13 November 2020, where the prime minister has been pictured raising a glass, but for which he has not been fined.
Others have been judged to have broken the law for being there and received penalties.
Mr Johnson attended and made a speech to thank Mr Cain, but as the party developed "there were about 30 people, if not more, in a room. Everyone was stood shoulder to shoulder, some people on each other's laps…one or two people."
At the party on the eve of Prince Philip's funeral on 16 April 2021, they portray a "lively event... a general party with people dancing around". The gathering becoming so loud that security guards in the building told them to leave the building and go into the No 10 grounds.
"So everyone grabbed all the drinks, the food, everything, and went into the garden," one source says.
"We all sat around the tables drinking. People stayed the night there."
They now concede what went on was "unforgivable".
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May 2022
1:49pm, 24 May 2022
27,302 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Finally the truth is coming out.
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May 2022
2:06pm, 24 May 2022
17,938 posts
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larkim
This is what we need, staffers going rogue and giving first hand verbatim accounts.
Still, suspect Johnson has got himself sufficiently insulated as he won't be the one sending around the invites etc.
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May 2022
2:46pm, 24 May 2022
27,303 posts
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Johnny Blaze
On 13th Nov 2020 we were in full lockdown with no vaccine. Johnson tested positive 2 days later.
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May 2022
2:51pm, 24 May 2022
17,939 posts
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larkim
I was in work on 13th Nov, according to Google Maps timeline. Can't imagine what I was doing mind you; maybe there was some leaving do I had to attend - no-one would ever know...
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May 2022
3:02pm, 24 May 2022
12,566 posts
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jda
Back to 2nd homes, just because I happened to read an article stating that the vacancy rate in the Yorkshire Dales National Park was 21% versus a national average of 4%. It's not because streets are boarded up with derelict houses that no-one wants either!
Solutions exist (such as requiring planning permission for change of use to holiday lets), it just needs political will, and the people who own the 2nd homes are (broadly speaking) the powerful ones.
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May 2022
3:09pm, 24 May 2022
1,140 posts
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paulcook
I was in work on 13th Nov, according to Google Maps timeline. Can't imagine what I was doing mind you; maybe there was some leaving do I had to attend - no-one would ever know...
You made me look at my email. In the office, and dealing with the usual problems that were arising at that point. Mind, almost all the people I emailed that day no longer work with our team, one of those people retired and another emigrated. And the last email just before 5pm was given contact details for our crisis team.
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May 2022
3:27pm, 24 May 2022
27,304 posts
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Johnny Blaze
I sometimes think I should go back to work as I imagine I wouldn't have to try too hard to get a contract what with one thing and another.
But then I think naaahhhh, bollocks to that.
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