‘Kate Josephs, who was director general of the Cabinet Office’s COVID taskforce, said she was “truly sorry” for the gathering on 17 December 2020.’
Fuck me do these guys even have a brain? You gotta be like a special brand of fucktards to make such a stupid decision.
Ah, the civil servants were in on it too, not just the MPs!
How many parties did these guys have??
It’s like they partied their way right through this entire pandemic.
At this stage I’m not sure if even the PM’s resignation is enough. There were people that died alone, mourned alone, had their first child alone. People had to wait months before they could hold their first grandchild or didn’t get the opportunity to say their last goodbyes to a grandparent. There are people who lost their businesses or worked themselves to the ground trying to save theirs.
I was never one of those “My Freedom!!” types and I accepted these unprecedented limits in my liberty without too much grumbling. I feel like a fool now, maybe those “cranks” and “selfish types” were right. We allowed people to disingenuously take our basic liberties far too easily.
Sorry my arse. They’ll only be sorry if they face any consequences and let’s be honest that’s now likely.
This is going to be a lot easier if they just listed the days they didn’t get hammered.
All I’m learning from this whole thing is you’re allowed to commit crimes and openly admit to them, as long as you admit it after the fact.
“I’m at a covid rule breaking party” = illegal
“I was at a covid rule breaking party” = legal
Wonder what other laws this extends to?
These cunts were partying and I couldn’t even go visit family for Christmas a few days later
As a Murican, long accustomed to government by a plutocratic class of lawless oligarchs, the furore over this story has fascinated me.
We can’t even indict elected motherfuckers who conspired to violently usurp the lawful results of a free and fair election. I can’t imagine living in a world where there will be actual consequences for something as relatively minor as a BYOB.
I just assume “rules for thee, not for me” are part of the deal.
It amazes me that at the very start of this Boris or whoever didn’t publicly issue an order to every single person in Government and the Tory Party along the lines of :
> We must obey the letter of the rules, we must obey the spirit of the rules, and we must *be seen* to be obeying the rules. Do not look for loopholes, do not take advantage of any grey area. If there is any doubt about whether something is allowed or not *then simply do not do it*. We must lead by example and show everyone that we are making the same sacrifices together. It is the only way.
And in private :
> Despite your instincts, I urge you not to be Tory cunts.
But of course they didn’t and wouldn’t do that. In early 2020 Boris was specifically going around and shaking hands with anyone and everyone, in absolute defiance of what was sensible in a pandemic.
These cunts think that they are immune to laws, science, whatever.
It’s a sorry state of affairs when I’m admiring her for apologising for the thing she did and not for everyone else getting all upset.
I don’t see the problem. They already knew exactly where everyone who had covid was!
I left a job of over 20 years and couldn’t have an office leaving do..
My wife left her long standing job on the same day by logging off from home and we had a beer together in the garden.
Small beer of course and no tears but it seems we were mugs..
Shagger Ferguson sneaking around during the first lockdown to canoodle with his mistress really was a warning shot. The people who concocted and put in place these restrictions did not believe in them sufficiently to respect them.
But what are the British public going to do about it? Apart from throw their arms up and point fingers on social media.
This is what frustrates me, we don’t do enough in response to these ridiculous and out right disgraceful people. The very people in charge of our country.
At the very minimum, there should be a protest. This effects everyone, like someone has stated, those that have lost loved ones or not been able to visit / see said family or friends. But it needs to be everyone, show that we are not going to tolerate this kind of shit.
Look at the protesting in Ukraine 2014. There’s a documentary on Netflix, disturbing and shocking but definitely worth a watch.
Demonstrates when people come together for a common goal change can be achieved. Not that it should cost human life in the process.
All of them did. Literally in every country. None of this should surprise anyone.
“Rules for thee, but not for me.”
Everybody, we should all move on and stop trying to bring up ancient history!
– Liz Truss and the Met Police
At our company, the management decided to cancel the annual Christmas dinner and drinks out because they were worried that staff could get sick, which would be horrible for the individual, families and business. It’s amazing how the people in government simply don’t care on so many levels.
THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT US
we are the plebs, the cretins, the commoners, the chaff, the vagrants, the irrelevant, the unimportant (according to Rees-Mogg – I paraphrase without checking his godawful insults to other MPs as head of the Commons), the foolish, the stupid and the foreigners.
The rules were not for them. Why can’t people just accept the actual evidence. I lost 4 colleagues and friends during covid. 3 of them sacrificing themselves for others. They never complained and they didn’t reward themselves with leaving drinks, parties or cheese and fucking parties of 30plus people. They were teachers, they were nursing staff. They were the ones who the govt refused to give a relevant payrise to as we knew they wouldn’t when they started to tell us to clap for them, but don’t pay them.
They truly sacrificed for this country that essentially hates our faces, our accents our ancestors and most importantly our whining for this shit to stop.
I told people around me I’ll never ever respect the cult of personality as it has no substance. Socrates or Plato has a quote that says exactly that. So we, one of the most evolved cultures on the planet, has regressed so far that people from Oxford to Blyth have been calling in and defending this awful man who’d help not one of us, ever.
He is a narcissist and a coward. He couldn’t even bring himself to face the queen and kneel as he apologised. He couldn’t even do that in person and with sincerity. But still, STILL, people defend them.
One day some people will wake up and have that conversation Mitchell and Webb have from their sketch show where they are playing Nazis discussing the events of the war and suddenly, sickeningly, realise they are the bad people in this and have no way to defend themselves for what they do.
I have lost so much respect for so many supposedly intelligent people and MPs over the last few years and now I’m just fucking angry and disgusted.
There is literally no low for his govt to hit that they won’t get down to defend, but no moral line they won’t fail to rise to.
Windrush. Grenfell. Cladding. That awful American woman who ran a kid over and fled the country. Afghanistan. 150,000 dead and counting (they never talk about that when saying what a fucking success this mess is). Nazanin. I could go on. So much shit.
And they’ll be more. I guarantee it.
In any normal job, they’d all be sacked. This government is the worst.
And THAT tells you exactly how stupid they considered their own rules. If they were genuinely worried or thought the rules made a difference, they would have stuck to them. It’s a massive sham, probably more through incompetence than anything else… but ultimately, they have made fools of the British public.
Another civil servant sacrificed in the name of the Tories
This one is arguably even worse than Johnson and the No. 10 staff. She was the person in charge of Covid policy, and setting up those rules. This is utterly outrageous.
At least there’s a chance this one might get sacked because she’s not working for the government at the moment.
Regardless of fear of getting caught, it shows they don’t take COVID seriously. That’s not what you want from people leading the task force.
I think all this highlights is how much of our fucking taxes pays for politicians piss ups.
mmmm is she allowed to know what she was doing before the investigation is concluded???
Watch her slip into yet another high paid job without any repercussions
This is weird. They’re all coming out now saying mea culpa as if they know this is going nowhere. This is their rollback opportunity. They don’t have to tell special interests that they’re not going to lock down again, they just feign oopsies and pretend that the public reaction is driving the policy. Oops butterfingers me. Oh, well, lets open up the economy again and look forward to 6% inflation. Time to buy and sell.
What do they know that we don’t?
To be there, ignoring their own rules, laughing at us for following them.
This completely destroys any kind of trust or faith we had left in our government. (Not that there was much before)
People don’t seem to be appreciating just how destructive this is to our society. This is a major problem.
Now imagine how many boozy shindigs they have when there isn’t a pandemic.
The true tragedy here is that it’s likely bugger all will happen I am afraid.
The Tories will just roll with the punches and rope-a-dope.
Then, and only then, they will get rid of Boris for something totally different.
Spygate, was a holding action to try and quell these reports and it is obvious that Dominic Cummings is behind this. I really hope he has something more as I think it will take more than this to topple the big white haired meff.
Anti-lockdown protesters must feel so vindicated right now.
> Ms Josephs left the COVID taskforce on 18 December 2020. She is currently chief executive of Sheffield City Council, a role that was advertised with a £190,000 salary.
It’s sickening to think someone so incredibly detached from common sense and common decency can be in such a position, earning a magnitude more than the average honest working person.
It does kind of highlight the stupidly of the rules though.
Drinking indoors in close proximity: dangerous.
Working indoors in close proximity: fucking fine and dandy.
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‘Kate Josephs, who was director general of the Cabinet Office’s COVID taskforce, said she was “truly sorry” for the gathering on 17 December 2020.’
Fuck me do these guys even have a brain? You gotta be like a special brand of fucktards to make such a stupid decision.
Ah, the civil servants were in on it too, not just the MPs!
How many parties did these guys have??
It’s like they partied their way right through this entire pandemic.
At this stage I’m not sure if even the PM’s resignation is enough. There were people that died alone, mourned alone, had their first child alone. People had to wait months before they could hold their first grandchild or didn’t get the opportunity to say their last goodbyes to a grandparent. There are people who lost their businesses or worked themselves to the ground trying to save theirs.
I was never one of those “My Freedom!!” types and I accepted these unprecedented limits in my liberty without too much grumbling. I feel like a fool now, maybe those “cranks” and “selfish types” were right. We allowed people to disingenuously take our basic liberties far too easily.
Sorry my arse. They’ll only be sorry if they face any consequences and let’s be honest that’s now likely.
This is going to be a lot easier if they just listed the days they didn’t get hammered.
All I’m learning from this whole thing is you’re allowed to commit crimes and openly admit to them, as long as you admit it after the fact.
“I’m at a covid rule breaking party” = illegal
“I was at a covid rule breaking party” = legal
Wonder what other laws this extends to?
These cunts were partying and I couldn’t even go visit family for Christmas a few days later
As a Murican, long accustomed to government by a plutocratic class of lawless oligarchs, the furore over this story has fascinated me.
We can’t even indict elected motherfuckers who conspired to violently usurp the lawful results of a free and fair election. I can’t imagine living in a world where there will be actual consequences for something as relatively minor as a BYOB.
I just assume “rules for thee, not for me” are part of the deal.
It amazes me that at the very start of this Boris or whoever didn’t publicly issue an order to every single person in Government and the Tory Party along the lines of :
> We must obey the letter of the rules, we must obey the spirit of the rules, and we must *be seen* to be obeying the rules. Do not look for loopholes, do not take advantage of any grey area. If there is any doubt about whether something is allowed or not *then simply do not do it*. We must lead by example and show everyone that we are making the same sacrifices together. It is the only way.
And in private :
> Despite your instincts, I urge you not to be Tory cunts.
But of course they didn’t and wouldn’t do that. In early 2020 Boris was specifically going around and shaking hands with anyone and everyone, in absolute defiance of what was sensible in a pandemic.
These cunts think that they are immune to laws, science, whatever.
They all need to get in the fucking sea.
Sheesh, I only just built [this list of parties](https://www.reddit.com/r/GBPolitics/wiki/downing-street-parties) and there’s *already* a new one to add? I’m guessing this is going to end up closer to 50 than the current 14.
It’s a sorry state of affairs when I’m admiring her for apologising for the thing she did and not for everyone else getting all upset.
I don’t see the problem. They already knew exactly where everyone who had covid was!
I left a job of over 20 years and couldn’t have an office leaving do..
My wife left her long standing job on the same day by logging off from home and we had a beer together in the garden.
Small beer of course and no tears but it seems we were mugs..
Shagger Ferguson sneaking around during the first lockdown to canoodle with his mistress really was a warning shot. The people who concocted and put in place these restrictions did not believe in them sufficiently to respect them.
But what are the British public going to do about it? Apart from throw their arms up and point fingers on social media.
This is what frustrates me, we don’t do enough in response to these ridiculous and out right disgraceful people. The very people in charge of our country.
At the very minimum, there should be a protest. This effects everyone, like someone has stated, those that have lost loved ones or not been able to visit / see said family or friends. But it needs to be everyone, show that we are not going to tolerate this kind of shit.
Look at the protesting in Ukraine 2014. There’s a documentary on Netflix, disturbing and shocking but definitely worth a watch.
Demonstrates when people come together for a common goal change can be achieved. Not that it should cost human life in the process.
All of them did. Literally in every country. None of this should surprise anyone.
“Rules for thee, but not for me.”
Everybody, we should all move on and stop trying to bring up ancient history!
– Liz Truss and the Met Police
At our company, the management decided to cancel the annual Christmas dinner and drinks out because they were worried that staff could get sick, which would be horrible for the individual, families and business. It’s amazing how the people in government simply don’t care on so many levels.
THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT US
we are the plebs, the cretins, the commoners, the chaff, the vagrants, the irrelevant, the unimportant (according to Rees-Mogg – I paraphrase without checking his godawful insults to other MPs as head of the Commons), the foolish, the stupid and the foreigners.
The rules were not for them. Why can’t people just accept the actual evidence. I lost 4 colleagues and friends during covid. 3 of them sacrificing themselves for others. They never complained and they didn’t reward themselves with leaving drinks, parties or cheese and fucking parties of 30plus people. They were teachers, they were nursing staff. They were the ones who the govt refused to give a relevant payrise to as we knew they wouldn’t when they started to tell us to clap for them, but don’t pay them.
They truly sacrificed for this country that essentially hates our faces, our accents our ancestors and most importantly our whining for this shit to stop.
I told people around me I’ll never ever respect the cult of personality as it has no substance. Socrates or Plato has a quote that says exactly that. So we, one of the most evolved cultures on the planet, has regressed so far that people from Oxford to Blyth have been calling in and defending this awful man who’d help not one of us, ever.
He is a narcissist and a coward. He couldn’t even bring himself to face the queen and kneel as he apologised. He couldn’t even do that in person and with sincerity. But still, STILL, people defend them.
One day some people will wake up and have that conversation Mitchell and Webb have from their sketch show where they are playing Nazis discussing the events of the war and suddenly, sickeningly, realise they are the bad people in this and have no way to defend themselves for what they do.
I have lost so much respect for so many supposedly intelligent people and MPs over the last few years and now I’m just fucking angry and disgusted.
There is literally no low for his govt to hit that they won’t get down to defend, but no moral line they won’t fail to rise to.
Windrush. Grenfell. Cladding. That awful American woman who ran a kid over and fled the country. Afghanistan. 150,000 dead and counting (they never talk about that when saying what a fucking success this mess is). Nazanin. I could go on. So much shit.
And they’ll be more. I guarantee it.
In any normal job, they’d all be sacked. This government is the worst.
And THAT tells you exactly how stupid they considered their own rules. If they were genuinely worried or thought the rules made a difference, they would have stuck to them. It’s a massive sham, probably more through incompetence than anything else… but ultimately, they have made fools of the British public.
Another civil servant sacrificed in the name of the Tories
This one is arguably even worse than Johnson and the No. 10 staff. She was the person in charge of Covid policy, and setting up those rules. This is utterly outrageous.
At least there’s a chance this one might get sacked because she’s not working for the government at the moment.
Regardless of fear of getting caught, it shows they don’t take COVID seriously. That’s not what you want from people leading the task force.
I think all this highlights is how much of our fucking taxes pays for politicians piss ups.
mmmm is she allowed to know what she was doing before the investigation is concluded???
Watch her slip into yet another high paid job without any repercussions
This is weird. They’re all coming out now saying mea culpa as if they know this is going nowhere. This is their rollback opportunity. They don’t have to tell special interests that they’re not going to lock down again, they just feign oopsies and pretend that the public reaction is driving the policy. Oops butterfingers me. Oh, well, lets open up the economy again and look forward to 6% inflation. Time to buy and sell.
What do they know that we don’t?
To be there, ignoring their own rules, laughing at us for following them.
This completely destroys any kind of trust or faith we had left in our government. (Not that there was much before)
People don’t seem to be appreciating just how destructive this is to our society. This is a major problem.
Now imagine how many boozy shindigs they have when there isn’t a pandemic.
The true tragedy here is that it’s likely bugger all will happen I am afraid.
The Tories will just roll with the punches and rope-a-dope.
Then, and only then, they will get rid of Boris for something totally different.
Spygate, was a holding action to try and quell these reports and it is obvious that Dominic Cummings is behind this. I really hope he has something more as I think it will take more than this to topple the big white haired meff.
Anti-lockdown protesters must feel so vindicated right now.
> Ms Josephs left the COVID taskforce on 18 December 2020. She is currently chief executive of Sheffield City Council, a role that was advertised with a £190,000 salary.
It’s sickening to think someone so incredibly detached from common sense and common decency can be in such a position, earning a magnitude more than the average honest working person.
It does kind of highlight the stupidly of the rules though.
Drinking indoors in close proximity: dangerous.
Working indoors in close proximity: fucking fine and dandy.