*’Should we try the business meeting line again? The cheese and wine one?’*
Wine at a work meeting? Piss off Boris, I didn’t buy it last time.
No one is buying it.
Like Paul on the road to Damascus, the blindness is gone.
The public sees.
If any restrictions come back I am cracking out the cheese and wine then if that was a meeting
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The issue we have is that the sort of person who votes Tory doesn’t care because they support this sort of selfish behaviour.
Thatcher raised a nation of selfish pricks. Now, their children, are inheriting their disgraceful behaviour.
Feck the Tories and their amoral voting base of imaginary gentry.
Bring your wine, wife and your one year old to work meeting day. What a coincidence.
STOP LYING BORIS! It seems like no matter what comes his way, Boris first instinct is just to lie about it. This is becoming more clear every day this saga drags on. He’s never had less credibility.
What is it with a Tory? As soon as they have to do a day’s graft they need to get on the lash to recover!
Then why is Carrie there at an official government meeting?
Interesting that it appears to have been taken from the chancellor’s private office
A work meeting with eighteen people where nobody needs any paper, pens, laptops or any other devices? And where there’s no space for those eighteen people to sit together? With wine and cheese? Pull the other one.
I often have work meetings with wine and cheese. When im fuking not working.
That’s why the tories want us back to work in the office so much.
For them it’s wine and cheese while chilling in the spring afternoon.
A work meeting…
With cheese and wine.
Not a single laptop, tablet or notepad to be seen.
If people are still defending him after this statement they have some serious issues with delusion.
BBC live feed 7:49:
>Raab says this was not a social event. He says the No 10 garden is used for work meetings and due to the pressures that everyone was going through, people would have something to drink on occasion at the end of a “gruelling” day.
At the **end** of a gruelling day…
Lies and more lies, the thing I don’t get is this. Shouldn’t he have been in fear of his life, forget the laws forget the rules but he of all people has the exact figures and hospital reports on the covid deaths and carnage…but yet he chooses to socialise, doesn’t wear a mask in hospitals…it doesn’t add up
Isn’t playing it off as a ‘work meeting’ the exact same excuse that Allegra Stratton used as a joke in the famous viral clip?
As in, in the clip that kicked this whole thing off, the Press Secretary literally jokes about calling the Christmas party a work meeting. And now here we are, with the Tories trying to play off this garden party as a work meeting…
Yeah, I often bring my wife and child to important business meetings.
Imagine turning up to work meeting with a bottle of wine, your partner and your child.
They’re fucked in the head if they really think people will believe that lie.
Even if there was an element of talking about work, and even if they were all shagged after a gruelling day it doesn’t fucking matter, because sitting there together chatting round a table was still fucking banned at the time. Inviting your wife to work meetings even if it was her house would also have been a _very_ loose interpretation of the rules, if not flat out against them.
The cheese and wine just makes it look more sus, but even if you take that away they still should have been socially distanced etc.
I fully believe this.
In the sense that I believe that their work meetings involve alcohol all the time.
Even if we believe it, “it’s a meeting” isn’t enough. At the time, work meetings were only permitted if they:
* Were ‘absolutely necessary’
AND
* Couldn’t be held remotely
AND
* Maintained 2m social distancing at all times
Seems a very important meeting to be boozing through.
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Their problem is that they’ve burned through all their benefit of the doubt. If this was all there was, then an outdoor gathering of colleagues who all work in the same building could be explained away. Not all work meetings have laptops. But you add this into literally everything else and it just looks like people not sticking to the spirit of the rules even where they stick to the letter.
So either he broke the restrictions or he drinks on the job.
Both are unacceptable.
Any work meeting at which there is wine is not going to make good, rational, evidence based decisions. By having meetings in which participants can get drunk, the Government is seeking to make poor decisions. Which is a definite and deliberate decision of having such a work meeting. By organising such a meeting – cheese and wine do not appear out of nowhere – focus is taken away from the actual work being done and is focused on the hedonism of the participants. Which leads to poorly evidenced, irrational, impulsive decisions. To consciously organise such a work meeting – which would be necessary to get people to the appointed place at the appointed time – is to consciously organise a work meeting that is intended to have poor outcomes. Which is not good government – it is not good governance – it is not good management, by any stretch of the imagination.
The decision to allow spouses to attend ensures that either nothing of any sensitivity could be discussed or that sensitive information was discussed in the presence of people who had no place hearing that information. That kind of behaviour leads to, for example, insider trading and is highly regulated in some industries. The only real conclusion is that the Garden Photograph celebrates the intention of the Government to make irrational and corrupt decisions. The admission that it is a work meeting is an admission that irrational corruption is policy. It is what is intended.
If it had been a party it would have been illegal in one way, but it was a work meeting and so was illegal in so many other ways.
As has been pointed out several times this excuse is a slap in the face to anyone with half a brain and a functioning conscience.
Fingers crossed that there will be more pics leaked now they’ve come out and issued a denial. That’s been the routine the last few weeks right?
Show us the minutes of the meeting then. If that is one of the critical meetings our diligent and conscientious Government was tirelessly working through to support a suffering country, there should be minutes.
There should also be no cheese and wine, but then that might explain some of their decision making.
Unpopular opinion incoming.
For me, I’m not suprised or particularly outraged by this photo, although the lies appearing now to try to explain it are pathetic.
I imagine most of the people in this photo work within a few feet of one another within Downing St. and must do because they run the country. A few drinks outside after work to discuss events informally is likely not introducing extra risks. Although stupid and ill-advised and technically illegal, it’s not suprising that “meetings” like this happen in Boris’ Downing St. and many other places during the pandemic. Neither am I that bothered by it, so long as government runs smoothly and the best decisions are made for the benefit of the country (all debatable).
For me, much more damning than this photo, is the scandal of Tory MPs profiteering out of the pandemic on PPE deals, or the second jobs scandal… or cash for peerages. It’s corruption that should crucify this government and that needs to be rooted out but doesn’t seem to cause half as much outrage or media attention as this farcical but ultimately fairly harmless episode.
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*’Should we try the business meeting line again? The cheese and wine one?’*
Wine at a work meeting? Piss off Boris, I didn’t buy it last time.
No one is buying it.
Like Paul on the road to Damascus, the blindness is gone.
The public sees.
If any restrictions come back I am cracking out the cheese and wine then if that was a meeting
[deleted]
The issue we have is that the sort of person who votes Tory doesn’t care because they support this sort of selfish behaviour.
Thatcher raised a nation of selfish pricks. Now, their children, are inheriting their disgraceful behaviour.
Feck the Tories and their amoral voting base of imaginary gentry.
Bring your wine, wife and your one year old to work meeting day. What a coincidence.
STOP LYING BORIS! It seems like no matter what comes his way, Boris first instinct is just to lie about it. This is becoming more clear every day this saga drags on. He’s never had less credibility.
What is it with a Tory? As soon as they have to do a day’s graft they need to get on the lash to recover!
Then why is Carrie there at an official government meeting?
Interesting that it appears to have been taken from the chancellor’s private office
https://twitter.com/edballs/status/1472685913364905988?s=20
A work meeting with eighteen people where nobody needs any paper, pens, laptops or any other devices? And where there’s no space for those eighteen people to sit together? With wine and cheese? Pull the other one.
I often have work meetings with wine and cheese. When im fuking not working.
That’s why the tories want us back to work in the office so much.
For them it’s wine and cheese while chilling in the spring afternoon.
A work meeting…
With cheese and wine.
Not a single laptop, tablet or notepad to be seen.
If people are still defending him after this statement they have some serious issues with delusion.
BBC live feed 7:49:
>Raab says this was not a social event. He says the No 10 garden is used for work meetings and due to the pressures that everyone was going through, people would have something to drink on occasion at the end of a “gruelling” day.
At the **end** of a gruelling day…
Lies and more lies, the thing I don’t get is this. Shouldn’t he have been in fear of his life, forget the laws forget the rules but he of all people has the exact figures and hospital reports on the covid deaths and carnage…but yet he chooses to socialise, doesn’t wear a mask in hospitals…it doesn’t add up
Isn’t playing it off as a ‘work meeting’ the exact same excuse that Allegra Stratton used as a joke in the famous viral clip?
As in, in the clip that kicked this whole thing off, the Press Secretary literally jokes about calling the Christmas party a work meeting. And now here we are, with the Tories trying to play off this garden party as a work meeting…
Yeah, I often bring my wife and child to important business meetings.
Imagine turning up to work meeting with a bottle of wine, your partner and your child.
They’re fucked in the head if they really think people will believe that lie.
Even if there was an element of talking about work, and even if they were all shagged after a gruelling day it doesn’t fucking matter, because sitting there together chatting round a table was still fucking banned at the time. Inviting your wife to work meetings even if it was her house would also have been a _very_ loose interpretation of the rules, if not flat out against them.
The cheese and wine just makes it look more sus, but even if you take that away they still should have been socially distanced etc.
I fully believe this.
In the sense that I believe that their work meetings involve alcohol all the time.
Even if we believe it, “it’s a meeting” isn’t enough. At the time, work meetings were only permitted if they:
* Were ‘absolutely necessary’
AND
* Couldn’t be held remotely
AND
* Maintained 2m social distancing at all times
Seems a very important meeting to be boozing through.
[deleted]
Their problem is that they’ve burned through all their benefit of the doubt. If this was all there was, then an outdoor gathering of colleagues who all work in the same building could be explained away. Not all work meetings have laptops. But you add this into literally everything else and it just looks like people not sticking to the spirit of the rules even where they stick to the letter.
So either he broke the restrictions or he drinks on the job.
Both are unacceptable.
Any work meeting at which there is wine is not going to make good, rational, evidence based decisions. By having meetings in which participants can get drunk, the Government is seeking to make poor decisions. Which is a definite and deliberate decision of having such a work meeting. By organising such a meeting – cheese and wine do not appear out of nowhere – focus is taken away from the actual work being done and is focused on the hedonism of the participants. Which leads to poorly evidenced, irrational, impulsive decisions. To consciously organise such a work meeting – which would be necessary to get people to the appointed place at the appointed time – is to consciously organise a work meeting that is intended to have poor outcomes. Which is not good government – it is not good governance – it is not good management, by any stretch of the imagination.
The decision to allow spouses to attend ensures that either nothing of any sensitivity could be discussed or that sensitive information was discussed in the presence of people who had no place hearing that information. That kind of behaviour leads to, for example, insider trading and is highly regulated in some industries. The only real conclusion is that the Garden Photograph celebrates the intention of the Government to make irrational and corrupt decisions. The admission that it is a work meeting is an admission that irrational corruption is policy. It is what is intended.
If it had been a party it would have been illegal in one way, but it was a work meeting and so was illegal in so many other ways.
As has been pointed out several times this excuse is a slap in the face to anyone with half a brain and a functioning conscience.
Fingers crossed that there will be more pics leaked now they’ve come out and issued a denial. That’s been the routine the last few weeks right?
Show us the minutes of the meeting then. If that is one of the critical meetings our diligent and conscientious Government was tirelessly working through to support a suffering country, there should be minutes.
There should also be no cheese and wine, but then that might explain some of their decision making.
Unpopular opinion incoming.
For me, I’m not suprised or particularly outraged by this photo, although the lies appearing now to try to explain it are pathetic.
I imagine most of the people in this photo work within a few feet of one another within Downing St. and must do because they run the country. A few drinks outside after work to discuss events informally is likely not introducing extra risks. Although stupid and ill-advised and technically illegal, it’s not suprising that “meetings” like this happen in Boris’ Downing St. and many other places during the pandemic. Neither am I that bothered by it, so long as government runs smoothly and the best decisions are made for the benefit of the country (all debatable).
For me, much more damning than this photo, is the scandal of Tory MPs profiteering out of the pandemic on PPE deals, or the second jobs scandal… or cash for peerages. It’s corruption that should crucify this government and that needs to be rooted out but doesn’t seem to cause half as much outrage or media attention as this farcical but ultimately fairly harmless episode.