This was planned. Delay due to report until last minute. Now delay until police investigation. Knowing both are being led by a co-conspirator.
Cressida Dick says her force polices “without fear of power” and “impartially”.
But she says she does understand “there is deep public concern about the allegations”.
The “vast majority of people have acted responsibility” and have “suffered considerable loss during the pandemic”, she says.
Explaining the Met Police’s position on investigating past breaches of coronavirus guidelines, she says this is not normally within their guidance but there was “never a blanket rule”.
She says some officers and “one or two high profile people” have received fixed penalty notices after the fact.
The force will be investigating “a number” of incidences over the last two years in Downing Street and Whitehall, Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick says.
She says the criteria for investigating past breaches of COVID rules has been met thanks to information provided by the Cabinet Office along with the force’s own officers.
However, she says the force has “assessed several other events that appear to have taken place” which did not meet the threshold for criminal investigation.
The Met has taken a “proportionate approach” during the pandemic, she says.
“Police have found no evidence of parties” *Drinks Champagne and eats cake*
Haha! As if it was a piece of cake that did it. Kind of poetic really. The nursery rhyme practically writes itself.
Jesus fucking Christ why doesn’t he just resign and save us all the bother?
Finally shamed into action. Fuck Cressida Dick, she’s nothing but a bent copper.
It’s could be a masterstroke to have the met investigate at the same time as the Gray report is expected and a potential foreign war kicks off giving him cause to refuse to step down in the interest of national security whilst also looking like he’s doing something about corruption
But
With Cummings gone I don’t think Johnson et al have that level of joined up thought.
I’d prefer to think that given the timing, Sue Gray in her investigation has found evidence of criminal actions and passed this along to the met who have been forced into action over it because they can’t play see no evil, hear no evil when confronted by irrefutable evidence.
It could of course be a ‘leak’ from cabinet/party. Plenty of party functionaries and ministers hungry for their chance in the top job want him gone but they can’t get the party to no confidence him.
A criminal investigation into a sitting PM would really tarnish his shine and make it a case of quit or be found guilty etc.
Safe to assume they’re only now moving because Sue Grey knows Met Officers guarding downing Street let this happen over and over again, and are trying to save face preemptively?
It’s so fucking funny how there’s all the talk about “allegations” when police officers stand right outside 10 Downing Street on the regular.
Reality is bizarre.
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That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
..
This is the state of our government. It needs rebuilding
Are we supposed to be happy about this?
They refused to do it before when they should have, they’ve now changed their minds, do they want our thanks or something?
See? Cressida…. How fucking hard was that?
If this was a load of teenagers from fucking Brixton they would have fined, bankrupted and fucking stalked from pillar to post, by your institutionally racist mob, from the night of the parties.
So Dick has revealed there is an investigation on the morning the London Assembly pulls her in to ask why she didn’t start one earlier.
She then can’t answer any questions about what she knew because it’s now an ongoing investigation.
So after this investigation undoubtedly concludes that no crime took place, she can’t be asked why it wasn’t investigated earlier because it eventually was and they found nothing so you all need to move on.
So the line is now Sue Grey doesn’t matter we have to wait for the police investigation?
The fact this took weeks of media and public pressure to happen is legit terrifying
Why does it take so much for people in power to be held even remotely accountable
“yes, we’ve had Sue Grey’s report, and the metropolitan police have concluded their investigation, but I don’t think it would be right for me to comment on these allegations until the London Fire and Rescue Service have completed their thorough investigation. At such time, it will then be important to find out what the Coast Guard and the AA have to say. I have also asked the Rotary Club and the RSPB to look into whether or not there was any wrong doing. Until these investigations are all concluded, it would be inappropriate to speculate on hypotheticals.”
The corrupt morons at the MET have been providing evidence to the inquiry, whilst waiting on the inquiry to provide them evidence before they look into investigating.
It’s one big circle jerk of corrupt twats
Delaying the report until the MET have done their investigation?
This fucking stinks, corruption to the core.
For god sakes man just go!
And now the Sue Grey report is delayed. fuck this. Tories can fuck right off.
“We won’t discuss this while there is an ongoing inquiry.”
*Later*
“We won’t discuss this while there is an ongoing investigation.”
*Later*
“We won’t discuss this because it happened a long time ago, but we will take the recommendations very seriously.”
Wonder what’s gonna be the next breaking news headline that’ll steer us away from Boris..
[BBC’s Analysis is a Joke.](https://i.imgur.com/NqmeWDc.jpg). “Don’t worry everyone, the people in charge only broke a silly little law, not a proper law”. We’re in the “it wasn’t a big deal” stage of denial and downplaying.
But wait, I thought the Met said they couldn’t investigate crimes that happened in the past?! They can only investigate crimes that haven’t happened yet apparently! Looks like Boris is gonna need to have another ~~party~~ ~~pig-shagging orgy~~ ~~cheese and wine quiz night~~ wOrK eVeNt for them to be able to investigate.
> But defending the force, she said: “We police without fear or favour. We police impartially.”
She deserves to be struck by lightning for telling whoppers like that.
There were no parties
I didn’t know about the parties
I wasn’t at the parties
I was at the party but I didn’t know they were parties
Wait for the Sue Grey Report
Wait for the Police Report
Wait for the situation in Ukraine to be resolved
Wait until the leadership race
Wait until the next election
Genuinely think hes trying to hold on until Russia does something at this point.
Ukraine being his Falklands moment? The one last hope from his perspective.
How can they investigate something that has already happened? What are they some kind of time police?
Fuck the met police – the investigation is BS and has only been called to stop the release of Sue Grays report – fuck you boris
They are shameless cunts. How dare they say it was only a few more than permitted. Or it was only a short period of time.
All those sacrifices, events missed, funerals missed for fucks sake. All we had to do was say “oh it was only 5 more than permitted and only for 20 minutes” and that makes it not worth bothering with?
My daughter turned 16 during the 1st lockdown. Her birthday was the day that her GCSE exams were due to finish. She missed out on that celebration. She missed being able to say goodbye properly to many of her school friends. Her beautiful year 11 prom dress still hangs in her wardrobe unworn. She will never have those precious memories. Because us ‘normal’ folk abided by the rules.
Let’s start a pool on what the distraction front page story will be on tomorrows Sun and/or Mail:
– Prince Andrew,
– Covid,
– Strictly drama,
– Footballer cheated on wife,
This is bad news. That cunt Cressida dick is going to no action the investigation, and Boris will proclaim himself found innocent and beyond reproach.
This has saved him.
Also there’s the very real risk Boris Johnson takes us to war to save himself because he couldn’t stop having parties
Next week: Met investigation closed due to lack of evidence
Presumably the “investigation” could just consist of watching Boris’s already televised confession and apology. Shouldn’t be too hard a case to crack, even for the Met.
Lots of voters ‘on the fence’ voted Tory, just because they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Corbyn.
I wonder how big the swing will be the other way.
Recently Boris said:
>Only the report can determine if this was a party
also Boris.
>I have not committed any criminal activity.
So Boris is competent enough with the law to determine that his actions are not criminal, yet cannot judge if he was at a party or not.
Are we being taken for mugs here?
Two things here that might get Boris off the hook-
1 -the police investigation will use an evidential test that the evidence should meet “beyond reasonable doubt”
2- the sue grey enquiry is set to a lower test. – “balance of probability”
This means if the police can’t prove beyond reasonable doubt ,that for example -Boris knew it was a party. Then they drop the case.
Unless sue grey report takes up that dropped batton and uses balance of probability this all gets swept under the carpet.
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This was planned. Delay due to report until last minute. Now delay until police investigation. Knowing both are being led by a co-conspirator.
Cressida Dick says her force polices “without fear of power” and “impartially”.
But she says she does understand “there is deep public concern about the allegations”.
The “vast majority of people have acted responsibility” and have “suffered considerable loss during the pandemic”, she says.
Explaining the Met Police’s position on investigating past breaches of coronavirus guidelines, she says this is not normally within their guidance but there was “never a blanket rule”.
She says some officers and “one or two high profile people” have received fixed penalty notices after the fact.
The force will be investigating “a number” of incidences over the last two years in Downing Street and Whitehall, Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick says.
She says the criteria for investigating past breaches of COVID rules has been met thanks to information provided by the Cabinet Office along with the force’s own officers.
However, she says the force has “assessed several other events that appear to have taken place” which did not meet the threshold for criminal investigation.
The Met has taken a “proportionate approach” during the pandemic, she says.
Add the obligatory from early December 2021:
>[NT: Police find damning evidence of parties at Downing Street, after remembering they provided the security](https://newsthump.com/2021/12/10/police-find-damning-evidence-of-parties-at-downing-street-after-remembering-they-provided-the-security/)
“Police have found no evidence of parties” *Drinks Champagne and eats cake*
Haha! As if it was a piece of cake that did it. Kind of poetic really. The nursery rhyme practically writes itself.
Jesus fucking Christ why doesn’t he just resign and save us all the bother?
Finally shamed into action. Fuck Cressida Dick, she’s nothing but a bent copper.
It’s could be a masterstroke to have the met investigate at the same time as the Gray report is expected and a potential foreign war kicks off giving him cause to refuse to step down in the interest of national security whilst also looking like he’s doing something about corruption
But
With Cummings gone I don’t think Johnson et al have that level of joined up thought.
I’d prefer to think that given the timing, Sue Gray in her investigation has found evidence of criminal actions and passed this along to the met who have been forced into action over it because they can’t play see no evil, hear no evil when confronted by irrefutable evidence.
It could of course be a ‘leak’ from cabinet/party. Plenty of party functionaries and ministers hungry for their chance in the top job want him gone but they can’t get the party to no confidence him.
A criminal investigation into a sitting PM would really tarnish his shine and make it a case of quit or be found guilty etc.
Safe to assume they’re only now moving because Sue Grey knows Met Officers guarding downing Street let this happen over and over again, and are trying to save face preemptively?
https://i.imgur.com/TX0WIOq.jpg
It’s so fucking funny how there’s all the talk about “allegations” when police officers stand right outside 10 Downing Street on the regular.
Reality is bizarre.
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That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
..
This is the state of our government. It needs rebuilding
Are we supposed to be happy about this?
They refused to do it before when they should have, they’ve now changed their minds, do they want our thanks or something?
See? Cressida…. How fucking hard was that?
If this was a load of teenagers from fucking Brixton they would have fined, bankrupted and fucking stalked from pillar to post, by your institutionally racist mob, from the night of the parties.
So Dick has revealed there is an investigation on the morning the London Assembly pulls her in to ask why she didn’t start one earlier.
She then can’t answer any questions about what she knew because it’s now an ongoing investigation.
So after this investigation undoubtedly concludes that no crime took place, she can’t be asked why it wasn’t investigated earlier because it eventually was and they found nothing so you all need to move on.
So the line is now Sue Grey doesn’t matter we have to wait for the police investigation?
The fact this took weeks of media and public pressure to happen is legit terrifying
Why does it take so much for people in power to be held even remotely accountable
“yes, we’ve had Sue Grey’s report, and the metropolitan police have concluded their investigation, but I don’t think it would be right for me to comment on these allegations until the London Fire and Rescue Service have completed their thorough investigation. At such time, it will then be important to find out what the Coast Guard and the AA have to say. I have also asked the Rotary Club and the RSPB to look into whether or not there was any wrong doing. Until these investigations are all concluded, it would be inappropriate to speculate on hypotheticals.”
The corrupt morons at the MET have been providing evidence to the inquiry, whilst waiting on the inquiry to provide them evidence before they look into investigating.
It’s one big circle jerk of corrupt twats
Delaying the report until the MET have done their investigation?
This fucking stinks, corruption to the core.
For god sakes man just go!
And now the Sue Grey report is delayed. fuck this. Tories can fuck right off.
“We won’t discuss this while there is an ongoing inquiry.”
*Later*
“We won’t discuss this while there is an ongoing investigation.”
*Later*
“We won’t discuss this because it happened a long time ago, but we will take the recommendations very seriously.”
Wonder what’s gonna be the next breaking news headline that’ll steer us away from Boris..
[BBC’s Analysis is a Joke.](https://i.imgur.com/NqmeWDc.jpg). “Don’t worry everyone, the people in charge only broke a silly little law, not a proper law”. We’re in the “it wasn’t a big deal” stage of denial and downplaying.
But wait, I thought the Met said they couldn’t investigate crimes that happened in the past?! They can only investigate crimes that haven’t happened yet apparently! Looks like Boris is gonna need to have another ~~party~~ ~~pig-shagging orgy~~ ~~cheese and wine quiz night~~ wOrK eVeNt for them to be able to investigate.
> But defending the force, she said: “We police without fear or favour. We police impartially.”
She deserves to be struck by lightning for telling whoppers like that.
There were no parties
I didn’t know about the parties
I wasn’t at the parties
I was at the party but I didn’t know they were parties
Wait for the Sue Grey Report
Wait for the Police Report
Wait for the situation in Ukraine to be resolved
Wait until the leadership race
Wait until the next election
Genuinely think hes trying to hold on until Russia does something at this point.
Ukraine being his Falklands moment? The one last hope from his perspective.
How can they investigate something that has already happened? What are they some kind of time police?
Fuck the met police – the investigation is BS and has only been called to stop the release of Sue Grays report – fuck you boris
They are shameless cunts. How dare they say it was only a few more than permitted. Or it was only a short period of time.
All those sacrifices, events missed, funerals missed for fucks sake. All we had to do was say “oh it was only 5 more than permitted and only for 20 minutes” and that makes it not worth bothering with?
My daughter turned 16 during the 1st lockdown. Her birthday was the day that her GCSE exams were due to finish. She missed out on that celebration. She missed being able to say goodbye properly to many of her school friends. Her beautiful year 11 prom dress still hangs in her wardrobe unworn. She will never have those precious memories. Because us ‘normal’ folk abided by the rules.
Let’s start a pool on what the distraction front page story will be on tomorrows Sun and/or Mail:
– Prince Andrew,
– Covid,
– Strictly drama,
– Footballer cheated on wife,
This is bad news. That cunt Cressida dick is going to no action the investigation, and Boris will proclaim himself found innocent and beyond reproach.
This has saved him.
Also there’s the very real risk Boris Johnson takes us to war to save himself because he couldn’t stop having parties
Next week: Met investigation closed due to lack of evidence
Presumably the “investigation” could just consist of watching Boris’s already televised confession and apology. Shouldn’t be too hard a case to crack, even for the Met.
Lots of voters ‘on the fence’ voted Tory, just because they couldn’t bring themselves to vote for Corbyn.
I wonder how big the swing will be the other way.
Recently Boris said:
>Only the report can determine if this was a party
also Boris.
>I have not committed any criminal activity.
So Boris is competent enough with the law to determine that his actions are not criminal, yet cannot judge if he was at a party or not.
Are we being taken for mugs here?
Two things here that might get Boris off the hook-
1 -the police investigation will use an evidential test that the evidence should meet “beyond reasonable doubt”
2- the sue grey enquiry is set to a lower test. – “balance of probability”
This means if the police can’t prove beyond reasonable doubt ,that for example -Boris knew it was a party. Then they drop the case.
Unless sue grey report takes up that dropped batton and uses balance of probability this all gets swept under the carpet.