>Unpublished WhatsApp messages reveal Downing Street aides planned “a bit of a party” in No10 during a supposedly virtual Christmas quiz.
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>The Sunday Mirror can reveal WhatsApp messages not included in Sue Gray’s report show aides planning to take part in the quiz in person almost a month ahead of time – and referring to it explicitly as a “party”.
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>In a staff WhatsApp chat on 15 November 2020 just 10 days into the second national lockdown, an aide asked if colleagues wanted to set up a team for the quiz, saying: “We can dial in from press office, make it a bit of a party.”
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>Another aide replied: “V up for this.” …
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>([🪞link](https://archive.ph/jvJZ9))
It wasn’t ‘a bit of’ of a party, it was a party full stop. The Tories can use whatever flowery language they like but we all know what it was. Besides, even if it was not a party, it certainly was not a work gathering and so it was against the rules at the time.
Everyone has been told to move on now.
Boris never broke the rules that meant he needs to resign, because the rules have now been changed, by Boris, post breaking the rules.
You’d need a pretty high key social life to call a piss up with quizzes and flower necklacy things anything less than a full on party.
I wonder if government work was being done by people while they were hungover/still a bit drunk.
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>Unpublished WhatsApp messages reveal Downing Street aides planned “a bit of a party” in No10 during a supposedly virtual Christmas quiz.
>
>The Sunday Mirror can reveal WhatsApp messages not included in Sue Gray’s report show aides planning to take part in the quiz in person almost a month ahead of time – and referring to it explicitly as a “party”.
>
>In a staff WhatsApp chat on 15 November 2020 just 10 days into the second national lockdown, an aide asked if colleagues wanted to set up a team for the quiz, saying: “We can dial in from press office, make it a bit of a party.”
>
>Another aide replied: “V up for this.” …
>
>([🪞link](https://archive.ph/jvJZ9))
It wasn’t ‘a bit of’ of a party, it was a party full stop. The Tories can use whatever flowery language they like but we all know what it was. Besides, even if it was not a party, it certainly was not a work gathering and so it was against the rules at the time.
Everyone has been told to move on now.
Boris never broke the rules that meant he needs to resign, because the rules have now been changed, by Boris, post breaking the rules.
You’d need a pretty high key social life to call a piss up with quizzes and flower necklacy things anything less than a full on party.
I wonder if government work was being done by people while they were hungover/still a bit drunk.