Partygate: Tory MP Fabricant claims ‘many nurses and teachers’ also broke law

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  1. Essentialy, it seems to me at least that he is trying to justify Boris’ actions by impying that nurses and teachers also broke lockdown rules which im sure is certainly not true save a small number of cases.

  2. Who thinks a nurse or teacher breaking those laws would be even remotely comparable to the guy who made them breaking them, before lying about breaking them to the entire country, and also having the police so far on his side that they completely ignored his breaches despite having officers stationed at the premises where his parties took place?

    There’s also the fact that a nurse or teacher who might have broken those rules isn’t the one running the country, nor is anyone proposing that Boris be replaced by such a person.

  3. Shitting on key workers risking their lives to buy the dropped blancmange another few minutes squatting in No10: as far as Fabricant goes, this might be the classiest look he’s sported.

  4. He didn’t just say that they broke the law. He specifically statedown that nurses and teachers broke lockdown laws by drinking in staff rooms.

    He doesn’t provide any evidence for his claims except that he “knows” nurses who did this:

    >Mr Fabricant compared Mr Johnson’s actions, for which he was fined by police on Tuesday, as being like “many teachers and nurses who after a very, very long shift would tend to go back to the staff room and have a quiet drink”. He added: “Which is more or less what he has done.”

    >When asked about the source of his remark which suggested that teachers and nurses had also enagaged in lockdown-breaking activities, Mr Fabricant told BBC News: “Well, I do know of some who did and, you know, its quite natural. I wasn’t saying they were having a party – I am not saying that Boris Johnson was having a party.

    >“But I know nurses who were and I don’t think they were doing anything wrong.

    This is unbelievably insulting to teachers and nurses, most of whom made enormous sacrifices during the pandemic.

  5. What an insulting little cunt … and what the f*ck is up with his hair???? Is grooming not a thing in the UK for politicians now?

  6. Let’s say that true. So what? The PM (and others) broke the law, that’s the story.

    Pathetic whataboutism.

    Edit: Also the nurses and teachers would have been investigated and fined (rather then enabled) by the police. They would probably also have been fired. Finally we wouldn’t have needed public outrage to get the police to do their job.

  7. Is that a real person? Or is this a satire piece?

    The name, the opinion, the hair and the suit would lead me to believe this is satire.

  8. This is pure and unashamed [whataboutism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism#:~:text=Whataboutism%20or%20whataboutery%20(as%20in,refuting%20or%20disproving%20the%20argument.). It attempts deflect blame by changing the subject to the supposed wrongdoing of others rather than address the subject.

    It’s a common tactic of the US Republican Party and a part of the reason why US political discussions are so low quality / devolve into shouting matches.

    We absolutely shouldn’t stand for its use in the UK because it’s just a deflection, not an argument.

  9. It doesn’t matter. We are talking about the prime minister who wrote the rules, broke the rules, lied about breaking the rules, repeatedly, and has been trying to brush it under the carpet since

  10. Is this real? An MP whose surname is “fabricant”, with a hairstyle that looks like a halloween wig from a BoJo costume, making claims without proof, looks like straight out from Newsthump or the Onion to me.

  11. Every time I see this bloke, anything he says or does fades completely into the background compared to what the fuck is that on his head. I mean is that a choice, some form of religious abeyance, does wurzle know he has it?
    Do people vote for him or the organism on his head, or is it like vote one get one free?
    He knows it’s there right, this isn’t some Duckman shit going on?

  12. He probably thinks all workplaces are like his with a bottle of booze in the drawer.

    We have homes to go to at the end of a tiring day, we are not going to sit in school/hospital a minute more than we need to.

  13. At the hospital I work at all the public seating was removed. The canteen was limited to two people per table and so there was never any spare seats. Our staff room was ruled out of bounds as it was to small to socially distance. I know people who ended up sitting outside in the rain to eat their lunch every day.

    This cunt has no idea about all the little things others sacrificed.

  14. Teacher here and we weren’t even allowed to have our lunch break in the staff room, nevermind a drink together. We had to go have lunch in our car or the bench outside alone (which I’ll be honest being anti social I was okay with.)

  15. I notice part of the Tory formula is wheeling this twat out to cause a bit of distraction by making him say something stupid/offensive. Added distraction is then a lot of people then start talking about his dumb wig

  16. This is a bullshit line which is being spread around the internet (facebook) that some nurses/doctors were making Tik Tok videos while on duty, and so this makes it somehow ridiculous for “leftists” to criticise the Government for Partygate.

    Nurses making silly dancing videos does not excuse Boris & Co.

    Everyone I know who was still working in an office setting, all their communal areas where closed off, canteens closed, 1 at a time toilets etc.

  17. Fuck that piss stained haired worzel gummige impersonator. He has about as much integrity as a paper bag full of sick.

  18. Tories think we’re all like them, amoral petty-criminal chancers. It’s the same with tax fraud “You’d do it too if you had the chance” and benefits “Giving people money to lounge around in front of their 800 inch flatscreen telly”.

  19. If i ever dared drink alcohol on a hospital site during my nursing career i would have been escorted off the premises. He just making things up with not as shred of evidence to back up any of his outlandish claims and trying to drag us down with Boris Johnson and the rest of his scumbag coworkers.

  20. Let us not forget that the Tory party are trying to throw people they once hailed as heroes (then denied a fair raise to as thanks for sacrifice) under the bus to defend two criminals.

    Party of law and order ptth

  21. As a teacher, I’d like to point out that the DfE banned consumption of alcohol on school premises way before Covid, so I haven’t had a drink on site since the late 2000s. But, you know, I didn’t realise the rules were optional for overprivileged cunts so I’ll be getting smashed before lessons after Easter.

  22. 1) teachers and nurses didn’t head the government making the rules

    2) absolutely no respectable nurse or teacher is drinking alcohol at work, even after their shift

  23. Teacher here: fuck off!!!

    I’ve spent most of the last 2 years doing nothing but going to work and back home, terrified to be surrounded by children who cough and sneeze and carry germs everywhere. Worried I would get sick and my underlying health conditions would land me in the hospital (since I’m vulnerable, but not “vulnerable enough”). Worried I would bring it home to my family. Worried I’d lose my job because my boss pushed me to break the law constantly with her stupid “let’s get together at the end of the term” and “let’s go ahead with the Christmas show” and me pushing back all the freaking time.

    I became depressed because my life was nothing but worry and fear. I started having anxiety attacks. I alienated people. My relationship with my husband was put to the test.

    So no, you fucking knobhead, I did not “also break the law”! My colleagues did not “also break the law”. So get stuffed and get lost!

  24. Uhh, is that man an actual politician?

    I honestly looked at the thumbnail and thought it was a Boris Johnson parody.

  25. Remember when you were a kid and you did something wrong and when confronted by your parents you’d say something along the lines of “But they did it too!”

    And then your parents would tell you off because you still did something wrong, and someone else doing wrong was not good justification.

    Exactly how did we end up in some reality, where grown adults are using this excuse so bloody frequently? One we tell kids off for being a bad excuse.

    Not just in this case, I see this excuse all the time now in regards to politics.

  26. They probably did, intentionally or not I couldn’t say but the key thing here is they didn’t come up with the law. They weren’t fining people for not following the law.

  27. I’m a Cop and I issued a lot of fines (which I disagree with now due to the law makers, ignoring there own law it gives me a sour taste and fills me with regret).

    People from all parts of society broke the rules, the difference is there not Law Makers.

    The people who should of been following these rules stricter than anyone are Politicians because they make the laws.

    It’s a shame the MP’s don’t get prosecuted for misconduct in a public office, instead.

    Realistically people can’t do anything about it right now, so they will have to remember this come 2024.

  28. How on earth did this idiot get elected?

    Transparently obvious excuse making and attempting to shift blame – on to nurses and teachers (who have a significantly better public image than the law breakers in power).

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