The article examines data on staff absences “with COVID-19 during the periods when multiple parties were held in the department”:
> The data shows that, in the last 12 days of November 2020 alone, there were 161 days of staff absences in the Cabinet Office due to individuals contracting COVID-19.
As Sue Gray reported, two gatherings took place on November 13th: the leaving do for which photos were leaked and the under-investigated “so-called ‘Abba Party’ during which several special advisors gathered in the Prime Minister’s Number 10 flat.”
> There were a further three parties held on 17 December 2020 and one the following day, more than two weeks after indoor gatherings of two or more people from different households were prohibited in London.
> In the period from 18 to 21 December, 34 days of staff absences were recorded due to COVID-19 infections, rising to 70 days of absences from 28 to 31 December.
Noting Johnson’s statement that he “took full responsibility” for the lawbreaking events, the article quotes lawyer David Allen Green:
> “in constitutional terms, a Prime Minister taking ‘full responsibility’ for a serious wrong is to perform an action, rather than to say a thing. The action the Prime Minister would perform is to resign”.
>“in constitutional terms, a Prime Minister taking ‘full responsibility’ for a serious wrong is to perform an action, rather than to say a thing. The action the Prime Minister would perform is to resign”.
I don’t understand why people like Starmer aren’t directly saying this. Boris has said full responsibility so many times and nobody seems to directly ask him the consequences of him taking full responsibility.
This should be bigger news, alongside “partygate”, the sheer fact that these “parties” were super-spreader events…
Not that long ago we were busy blaming literally any event for it even with their own mitigations, now here’s the government doing absolutely zero to mitigate
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The article examines data on staff absences “with COVID-19 during the periods when multiple parties were held in the department”:
> The data shows that, in the last 12 days of November 2020 alone, there were 161 days of staff absences in the Cabinet Office due to individuals contracting COVID-19.
As Sue Gray reported, two gatherings took place on November 13th: the leaving do for which photos were leaked and the under-investigated “so-called ‘Abba Party’ during which several special advisors gathered in the Prime Minister’s Number 10 flat.”
> There were a further three parties held on 17 December 2020 and one the following day, more than two weeks after indoor gatherings of two or more people from different households were prohibited in London.
> In the period from 18 to 21 December, 34 days of staff absences were recorded due to COVID-19 infections, rising to 70 days of absences from 28 to 31 December.
Noting Johnson’s statement that he “took full responsibility” for the lawbreaking events, the article quotes lawyer David Allen Green:
> “in constitutional terms, a Prime Minister taking ‘full responsibility’ for a serious wrong is to perform an action, rather than to say a thing. The action the Prime Minister would perform is to resign”.
>“in constitutional terms, a Prime Minister taking ‘full responsibility’ for a serious wrong is to perform an action, rather than to say a thing. The action the Prime Minister would perform is to resign”.
I don’t understand why people like Starmer aren’t directly saying this. Boris has said full responsibility so many times and nobody seems to directly ask him the consequences of him taking full responsibility.
This should be bigger news, alongside “partygate”, the sheer fact that these “parties” were super-spreader events…
Not that long ago we were busy blaming literally any event for it even with their own mitigations, now here’s the government doing absolutely zero to mitigate