It was in an appendix at the end of the lockdown rules that allowed anyone who “attended Eton, Oxbridge or is otherwise sound” to have garden parties. Duh.
He also very clearly said this morning to Kay Burley when pressed on them drinking alcohol in the workplace that these were hard working people enjoying a drink **after** work.
Drinks after work, is not work.
Government is saying it was a meeting, Raab is saying it was a gathering after meetings.
Lots of people are gonna be having ‘business meetings’ this Christmas instead of parties, if harsher rules do come in…
I remember that guy who created a business so he could havr more people around ‘working’…
The more leaks and evidence that comes out breaking their own rules or going against the advice, the less people will obey rules. I know I don’t believe anything they say when evidence comes out contradicting themselves…
Yes. Just wear business suits and you do not breach the rules!!! What a rotten fucker. They go straight full speed in the (red) wall and still deny all wrongdoings. Fucking politicians. I am quite fed up. And nobody moves against this corrupt and cheaters’ cabinet. In cre di ble ! Wake up
I thought parties were allowed because it is a Crown estate. So Raab is correct, this party I believe was legal.
So it’ll be fine for every family in the UK to have a business meeting at Christmas with their families.
In that Allegra Stratton leaked video, 3 months before this picture was taken, she says “is cheese and wine alright? It was a business meeting” and her adviser says “No”.
Now Raab is using that exact defence. Fuck me.
Public will not forgive this to Boris. But I suspect Tory party will sadly get away with it, with another leader.
Yes… We definitely going to trust they will obey the new rules they impose.
Their basically laughing in our faces as we suffered. Why should we ever trust them again?
Certain politicians are not going to stray off what they were briefed to go out on the rounds to say.
Interviewers must die a little inside every time they see one of their faces.
They just broke the lockdown rules in a very limited and specific way.
Boris, on the 17th May:
> ‘You can now spend as much time as you like outdoors, for example sitting and enjoying the fresh air, picnicking, or sunbathing. You can meet one other person from a different household outdoors, provided you maintain social distancing.
One person, and social distancing must be maintained.
> Keep work areas 2 metres apart and allocate one person only to each work area.
Seems pretty unambiguously *not* within the lockdown rules.
Pretty poor selection of cheeses at the table.
Must be a supply issue.
How? These people are proving themselves to be absolute liers. What else are they lying about i wonder?
They have been caught out several times but trot out the same line for each obvious rule break; not everything can be fine if they are causing scandals every few days. The British public have been fooled many times in the past but even they have limits and Tories are running out of luck.
It clearly wasn’t, but the Met don’t care and the government, to quote a vaguely apposite *Blackadder* scene, twist and turn like a … twitsy turny thing, so nothing will happen except even less people following any further restrictions.
The prime ministers wife shouldn’t be at work meetings. And she shouldn’t be socialising. Either way she should be there.
I mean, all I have to do is look at the picture to know that’s a lie.
‘Garden gathering’..?
Party. Just call it a party for fuck sakes…
This motherfucker, with all the elegance and countenance of a punched-up foreskin on xanax, wants to gaslight and lecture the public about the true meaning of hard work. Despite doggy-paddling in the shallow end of some foreign pool as he wilfully ignored all the bells and whistles of the situation in Afghanistan as it was happening?
I hope he takes an extra xanax and shits himself. Twat.
They must be falling over themselves laughing while they push through unpopular bills under this distraction.
Is no one gonna talk about how the dude with his hands up looks like he’s from a medieval tapestry
If that’s a work meeting then I’m the Queen of Sheba.
They are clearly unwinding *after* a day of hard work. Which is fine – except they were telling us we could do no such thing at that point.
I don’t even understand how all these staff were allowed into the office at all – surely their jobs could be done from home?
Because they explicitly exempt themselves from the lockdown rules… So yes he’s correct. But he’s still a cunt.
No gatherings except work means no gatherings except for work. So yes this broke lockdown rules.
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It was in an appendix at the end of the lockdown rules that allowed anyone who “attended Eton, Oxbridge or is otherwise sound” to have garden parties. Duh.
He also very clearly said this morning to Kay Burley when pressed on them drinking alcohol in the workplace that these were hard working people enjoying a drink **after** work.
Drinks after work, is not work.
Government is saying it was a meeting, Raab is saying it was a gathering after meetings.
Lots of people are gonna be having ‘business meetings’ this Christmas instead of parties, if harsher rules do come in…
I remember that guy who created a business so he could havr more people around ‘working’…
The more leaks and evidence that comes out breaking their own rules or going against the advice, the less people will obey rules. I know I don’t believe anything they say when evidence comes out contradicting themselves…
Yes. Just wear business suits and you do not breach the rules!!! What a rotten fucker. They go straight full speed in the (red) wall and still deny all wrongdoings. Fucking politicians. I am quite fed up. And nobody moves against this corrupt and cheaters’ cabinet. In cre di ble ! Wake up
I thought parties were allowed because it is a Crown estate. So Raab is correct, this party I believe was legal.
So it’ll be fine for every family in the UK to have a business meeting at Christmas with their families.
In that Allegra Stratton leaked video, 3 months before this picture was taken, she says “is cheese and wine alright? It was a business meeting” and her adviser says “No”.
Now Raab is using that exact defence. Fuck me.
Public will not forgive this to Boris. But I suspect Tory party will sadly get away with it, with another leader.
Yes… We definitely going to trust they will obey the new rules they impose.
Their basically laughing in our faces as we suffered. Why should we ever trust them again?
Certain politicians are not going to stray off what they were briefed to go out on the rounds to say.
Interviewers must die a little inside every time they see one of their faces.
They just broke the lockdown rules in a very limited and specific way.
Boris, on the 17th May:
> ‘You can now spend as much time as you like outdoors, for example sitting and enjoying the fresh air, picnicking, or sunbathing. You can meet one other person from a different household outdoors, provided you maintain social distancing.
One person, and social distancing must be maintained.
He also [said about workplaces](https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-address-to-the-nation-on-coronavirus-10-may-2020):
> And to ensure you are safe at work we have been working to establish new guidance for employers to make workplaces COVID-secure.
Those rules (the earliest version I can find) are [here](https://web.archive.org/web/20200615230903/https://www.hse.gov.uk/coronavirus/working-safely/index.htm) and they say:
> Keep work areas 2 metres apart and allocate one person only to each work area.
Seems pretty unambiguously *not* within the lockdown rules.
Pretty poor selection of cheeses at the table.
Must be a supply issue.
How? These people are proving themselves to be absolute liers. What else are they lying about i wonder?
They have been caught out several times but trot out the same line for each obvious rule break; not everything can be fine if they are causing scandals every few days. The British public have been fooled many times in the past but even they have limits and Tories are running out of luck.
It clearly wasn’t, but the Met don’t care and the government, to quote a vaguely apposite *Blackadder* scene, twist and turn like a … twitsy turny thing, so nothing will happen except even less people following any further restrictions.
The prime ministers wife shouldn’t be at work meetings. And she shouldn’t be socialising. Either way she should be there.
I mean, all I have to do is look at the picture to know that’s a lie.
‘Garden gathering’..?
Party. Just call it a party for fuck sakes…
This motherfucker, with all the elegance and countenance of a punched-up foreskin on xanax, wants to gaslight and lecture the public about the true meaning of hard work. Despite doggy-paddling in the shallow end of some foreign pool as he wilfully ignored all the bells and whistles of the situation in Afghanistan as it was happening?
I hope he takes an extra xanax and shits himself. Twat.
They must be falling over themselves laughing while they push through unpopular bills under this distraction.
Is no one gonna talk about how the dude with his hands up looks like he’s from a medieval tapestry
If that’s a work meeting then I’m the Queen of Sheba.
They are clearly unwinding *after* a day of hard work. Which is fine – except they were telling us we could do no such thing at that point.
I don’t even understand how all these staff were allowed into the office at all – surely their jobs could be done from home?
Because they explicitly exempt themselves from the lockdown rules… So yes he’s correct. But he’s still a cunt.
No gatherings except work means no gatherings except for work. So yes this broke lockdown rules.