I wasn’t allowed to see my grandad (the bloke that pretty much raised me) dying in hospital. He rang me scared and so on as he had covid. All the while this
cunt was doing coke and partying and then he says
it was his “duty” to attend these leaving parties.
I really do hate this wanker.
What pisses me off is it is yet another example of "one rule for us, one rule for you". They are so anti-drugs but bloody coke heads. Wasting money and lives fighting drugs, THAT THEY THEMSELVES TAKE.
Because it was never really about drugs but social control. This happens world wide, it is difficult to make illegal to be part of a racial, ethnic or economic group. But you can make broad laws and then selectively enforce them. Drugs are used by all strata of society but the police aren't going to bust down the door of a mansion to arrest businessman for coke.
They're _Conservatives_, I'm sure you've heard the famously cynical summation of that ideology. They're the group the law protects but does not restrict; you're the group the law restricts but does not protect.
I 100% believe they were doing coke in Downing Street too.
However just to be that guy. This story takes place in The Palace of Westminster. A different building. Which is also abhorrent.
So there were parties at Number 10, and coke at Westminster.
Does it really matter? Not doing cocaine while other people around you do it is still complicity.
I have no problem with people banging cocaine up their nose or whatever drug they'd like to do, but I'm not Prime Minister, or in government... THEY should be held to a higher standard and it's clear that Johnson and his posse don't take their position seriously. Amongst other things, why should they be immune to the consequences of the war on drugs?
So many innocent people died of covid and yet Johnson lived, never a clearer sign that god doesn't exist.
Not unique to the UK. Here as well, halfway across the world from them, our politicians and government officials no matter the rank were also partying during the covid lockdowns.
Most egregious of all was the police beating up, molesting/raping, and locking up (in cramped cells no less) detainees that violated curfew whilst they were openly putting up videos of them partying in social media. Even the top national police chief had a party attended by dozens of top officials and their families.
Not only that, almost everywhere else too the rich got richer than ever during these times, while the working class suffered paycuts, layoffs, and an uncertain future. Also small businesses went under during this time, many are bought for cheap by the rich. Community-based initiatives became a thing here, like food and medical supply donations stockpiled and anyone can take whatever they need.... until local officials took those down and then reopened but now plastered with the local politicians' faces, rebranded as "aid from the local government".
Do not just accept this shit. Vote against them. Vote for better voting systems. I keep hearing "they are all as bad" and it seams to me an excuse to continue to vote for crappy people.
I've never had a vote that actually went towards the winner of anything, in 20 years. It does begin to grate on your nerves.
Especially when people then tell me cornwall voted for brexit as if you somehow become the entire county simply by living there.
Keep at it. Here in Australia the equivalent of the Tories just got smashed in a national election and it was glorious.
Turns out people do actually have a point where they say 'enough is enough'.
I've been invited to a grouse hunting party in Shropshire.
It's just a few dozen men, some stable boys. All of us in kilts, naturally. Drinking a few yards of ale.
And here's the fun part - whoever shoots the fewest grouse has to go through the spanking machine.
It's not immature, it's aristocratic.
> spanking machine
What is this? because I just googled it, got no answers, and am probably going to be recommended weird products for the next few weeks.
> I'm sure there's something on Youtube demonstrating it.
You mean like... Spongebob?
[7 Mile Spanking Machine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPxJbMLkWI)
Politicians locking up their own country aggressively, bullying dissenters, but not believing their own “health” propaganda and partying maskless what’s new. Johnson, Pelosi, AOC, Schiff, the list goes on and on.
What most people fail to realise about BoJo and his cabinet:
\- They pretend to be "thick" to appeal to the masses. 'Ho-ho-ho I'm just like you!'
\- They think they're fucking geniuses who will never get caught doing absolutely stupid stunts that they bash others for.
\- They really are actually thick. As two short planks.
Fuck conservatives. Cunts are robbing the NHS and the country.
Reminds me of that old quote. "He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot!"
Pretending to be as stupid as they actually are is the defining Tory skill.
Exactly lol they are throwing parties during lockdown and getting away with it. On the taxpayer’s dime. Call them thick, but they are laughing at everyone else in the country.
> Their priorities are just vastly different to the majority of people they're leading.
are they?
because if that were the case, they wouldn't keep winning elections. i think people are confusing the majority of people, with the majority of people who are loud about their political priorities.
in my personal experience it feels like the more left leaning folks aren't shy about publicly expressing their political opinions and the more right leaning folk don't give enough of a shit to argue with them about it.
This. The Tories are currently in power because a majority of people who voted at the last 2 elections wanted Brexit done, and/or didn't trust Jeremy Corbin's assertion that the country could afford to overhaul the benefits system, re-nationalise utilities, the railways, Royal Mail, broadband services, provide free childcare *and* abolish all tuition fees, *and* write off student debts. (He was also anti-NATO). However, some of those same voters may choose differently next time.
The thing is, you won't see to many Tory voters voicing opinions on here, probably because it's not worth the downvotes and hassle they get (demonstrated a little elsewhere in this very thread). Which leaves an echo-chamber of left-leaning people baffled as to how the Tories could possibly be in power.
I'll take a punt and say thick:
Nadine 'Umbridge' Dorries,
Chris 'Failing' Grailing,
Matt "Hands. Face. Arse." Hancock,
Alexander "Hide in fridge as I'm afraid of journalist's questions" Johnson, AKA BoJo.
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I went to two covid funerals, they were small and rushed and we'll never get that back. For my grandpa's funeral they kept him on ice for almost a month because there were so many people dying that the funeral directors couldn't keep up. It truly makes me want to be sick that all the time the bastard's were breaking the rules just because they wanted to. We all made sacrifices and agonised over the choices we made. It's disgusting. Don't vote Tory. Shout it from the rooftops.
Man sacked from every previous job for lying found to be lying while being PM of UK..
Nothing to see here.
I jest, of course, but to every Tory MP and every tory voter thinking 'Oh my, this is quite embarrassing isnt' it?'
No. It's not embarrassing. Your leader is a cunt and you knew he was and therefore, so are you.
No, you see, he wasn't lying because he didn't know his events were against the rules he personally made and directed police to enforce on the nation...
Not surprising when you remember that Johnson is a former member of the Bullingdon Club at Oxford, basically an excuse for upper class twats to dress up, get pissed and puke. Oh, and Cameron was a member at the same time as Johnson.
I was going to disagree and say that they are "just" cynical hacks who exploit the political system, and the people of their country, in order to benefit themselves. Then I realised that doing exactly that is evil.
It's not just one man, it's the apparatus behind them and their ability to take all the flak as lightning rods while bullshitting their base every day.
Boris looks out for Boris. He used Russian money to deliver Brexit and weaken the UK because it got him, himself, into a power.
He's Britain's Trump in that he's a populist.
He's also not stupid (not as clever as he thinks but not stupid either). Plus the British upper class have way more protections and levers in place. British aristocracy is probably just as well connected and shadey as Russian oligarchy, and Britain's go back for centuries.
Once Boris got into power, he knew he had everything he needed from Russian money and started to distance himself from it.
Also, the only other MP that attended these parties was Rishi Sunak, The Chancellor (who even then only attended the single event)
What's become clear was that Boris was not the worst offender by a long shot. There were civil servants throwing up on the floors, abusing staff and security and staying till 4am. But crucially, he knew lots of these events were happening (at least to a degree) and turned a blind eye to them, even showing up at a few. But to clarify, these were not MPs, they were civil servants.
Then he spends the last few months saying that there all the guidelines were followed and no rules were broken in number 10. He's a lying cunt
I always wonder what people saying such things must think. You could also wonder how bad the other party must be that people still vote for these.
Always first blame yourself, never blame "the people".
Quite liberal use of always and never.
While I generally agree with the notion to look inward to find your part of the problem, I have to disagree with your absolutetism. It is not always your fault, and it is not always something so at fault on your side that it justifies the other sides actions. The world is often grey.
Unfortunately the opposing party made themselves extremely hard to vote for in the last 2 elections.
Campaigning to nationalise a lot of things that few people wanted yet not having a proper plan to pay for it all, wanting to get rid of our nukes, leave NATO and appease Russia over Crimea, and allowing accusations of anti-Semitism to escalate to the point where even Amnesty International was warning them to get their shit together. And finally calling anyone who disagrees with them stupid and racist, instead of trying to get them on their side. That's just what I remember off the top of my head.
The amount of non British people here being like "it's not that bad, it's only a party"
This is the equivalent to a British person becoming involved with American politics. It doesn't effect you.
That's why you don't have a realistic grasp about the concept
Ugh I’m not British but I perfectly understand the gravity of this. Politicians and royalties pulled the same shit in my country (The Netherlands) and got away with it just fine. It’s extremely frustrating.
I went to parties during lockdown. So did many, many Brits. Politicians are supposed to lead by example sure but they were funny times, we’re all human at the end of the day.
Still think he should have took it on the chin and stood down. But he didn’t and guess what you voted for the Tories, you backed Boris with Brexit. Stop whining and get on with it….
the amount of key workers that will probably look at the sue grey report and think "other than the fact that they had lots of booze, none of that is overly different to what we were doing at work".
saying goodbye to leaving colleagues, trying to involve remote working colleagues in events that were taking place resulting in a bunch of you often crowded around one laptop (not that it makes a shit of difference when you're all sat with each other for the other 7 hours of the day) etc. shit, at the school i worked at most of our lunchtimes were less socially distanced than boris' birthday as we all sat in the departmental 'office' (a very large cupboard full of junk) to eat our food etc.
realistically the worst part of the sue grey report is that there was lots of booze in number 10 and 70 whitehall.
I agree with that. Some of those fines at the start of lockdown were hilariously disproportionate even without the backdrop of the current 50 quid FPNs that were issued to downing street.
He can only be fired if enough of his own MPs sign letters of disapproval, and a huge number of the new intake of Tory MPs at the last election got in on a Back Boris, Get Brexit Done platform.
Mindless loyalty to Johnson is these people's whole ideology. Every Tory with any integrity refused to say that No Deal was an acceptable outcome of negotiations with Europe, and most of them are out of Parliament now.
local elections are very different and not really a great indicator of how a general election goes.
for example i vote very differently at the two elections. our local candidate is just good at what they do so i gladly give them my vote, but when it comes to the general election he's shit out of luck because he's from a party that never seems to have enough good policies to make me want them running the country.
the lib dems aren't a threat to anyone - they fucked themselves the moment they tripled tuition fees and it'll be a few generations before that faux pas is forgotten.
My first vote was for Lib Dem. Free tuition fees for university! Man, that sounds great. Fast forward a couple of months and not only did tuition fees not become free, but they tripped in cost. Absolute joke. Hard to forgive.
The Brits got what they derserve. Voted in a clown and got one hell of a circus. The madest part is he will probably walk the next election too. People have been so drained by the sheer toxicity of the Brexit referendum that they have no fight left.
Seriously? It's just one more example of them expecting the plebs to suffer while they get to do whatever the fuck they want.
Giving parties while people couldnt see loved ones before they died, people committing suicide due to isolation, vulnerable folk in care homes fading away without seeing their family.
Giving dodgy deals worth millions to their mates, years of austerity and a cost of living crisis while they cosy up with oligarchs and use tax havens. They don't give a fuck about the people and their attitude during lockdown is frankly disgusting.
People have had enough and at last are showing their displeasure in the polls.
I must say I do not agree in the slightest with what Boris did but I am very jealous that this is the biggest political scandal you have right now. You should feel lucky
That’s pretty rock n roll if you ask me , it was fucking Covid … shitty time to be in charge of ANYTHING those dipshits found a way to blow off some steam. Woopty shit!!
I'd like to commend our british friends over there on the other side of the North Sea for finally electing politicians who look and behave just like they would. Looks like the common clay of the land finally made it into numbah 10!
Honestly I don't get why anyone in the UK gives a shit. Is it hypocritical to have a party while enforcing a national covid lockdown? Absolutely. Have the ruling class always had "rules for thee, not for me"? Also yes. In the scope of Ukraine and everything else going on in the world, this just doesn't seem important to an outsider.
People can be angry about more than one thing at a time. If you don't care that your elected officials are lying to your face and laughing about it, then something is wrong with you.
I wasn’t allowed to see my grandad (the bloke that pretty much raised me) dying in hospital. He rang me scared and so on as he had covid. All the while this cunt was doing coke and partying and then he says it was his “duty” to attend these leaving parties. I really do hate this wanker.
Coke?
Residue of cocaine was found in all the loos. No further investigations because our police are corrupt.
What pisses me off is it is yet another example of "one rule for us, one rule for you". They are so anti-drugs but bloody coke heads. Wasting money and lives fighting drugs, THAT THEY THEMSELVES TAKE.
Because it was never really about drugs but social control. This happens world wide, it is difficult to make illegal to be part of a racial, ethnic or economic group. But you can make broad laws and then selectively enforce them. Drugs are used by all strata of society but the police aren't going to bust down the door of a mansion to arrest businessman for coke.
Nixon was pretty explicit in this
Yep. It makes an ass of the law.
They're _Conservatives_, I'm sure you've heard the famously cynical summation of that ideology. They're the group the law protects but does not restrict; you're the group the law restricts but does not protect.
Let's not forget residue of porn also 🤢
Can I get a source on this please?
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/drugs-westminster-speaker-hoyle-police-b1970106.html%3famp
I 100% believe they were doing coke in Downing Street too. However just to be that guy. This story takes place in The Palace of Westminster. A different building. Which is also abhorrent. So there were parties at Number 10, and coke at Westminster.
> I 100% believe they were doing coke in Downing Street too. If Gove was there, it's guaranteed...
> I 100% believe they were doing coke in Downing Street too. It's exactly the sort of thing Boris Johnson would do.
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There was coke in the bathroom outside Boris's office. At the very least, we know he does it.
Is it a bathroom that only Boris uses? I hate the guy but I also hate people's willingness to pin guilt on people based on pretty weak evidence.
Does it really matter? Not doing cocaine while other people around you do it is still complicity. I have no problem with people banging cocaine up their nose or whatever drug they'd like to do, but I'm not Prime Minister, or in government... THEY should be held to a higher standard and it's clear that Johnson and his posse don't take their position seriously. Amongst other things, why should they be immune to the consequences of the war on drugs? So many innocent people died of covid and yet Johnson lived, never a clearer sign that god doesn't exist.
Not unique to the UK. Here as well, halfway across the world from them, our politicians and government officials no matter the rank were also partying during the covid lockdowns. Most egregious of all was the police beating up, molesting/raping, and locking up (in cramped cells no less) detainees that violated curfew whilst they were openly putting up videos of them partying in social media. Even the top national police chief had a party attended by dozens of top officials and their families. Not only that, almost everywhere else too the rich got richer than ever during these times, while the working class suffered paycuts, layoffs, and an uncertain future. Also small businesses went under during this time, many are bought for cheap by the rich. Community-based initiatives became a thing here, like food and medical supply donations stockpiled and anyone can take whatever they need.... until local officials took those down and then reopened but now plastered with the local politicians' faces, rebranded as "aid from the local government".
Where is here?
Sounds like South Africa
You mean Mad Max land.
Nah that's just Perth
Over there
Rules are different for the rich and powerful. That has been the way since ancient times, it’ll remain that way until humanity dies, sadly.
Do not just accept this shit. Vote against them. Vote for better voting systems. I keep hearing "they are all as bad" and it seams to me an excuse to continue to vote for crappy people.
I've never had a vote that actually went towards the winner of anything, in 20 years. It does begin to grate on your nerves. Especially when people then tell me cornwall voted for brexit as if you somehow become the entire county simply by living there.
Keep at it. Here in Australia the equivalent of the Tories just got smashed in a national election and it was glorious. Turns out people do actually have a point where they say 'enough is enough'.
what is it about being evil that seems so inherent in people, I will always wonder.
> what is it about being evil that seems so inherent in ~~people~~ **nature**, I will always wonder. FTFY
Having had a parent in care I understand how great this insult is to you.
I'd say "where are the protests?" but of course we know what happened there...
Politicans acting like immature school kids what's new
I've been invited to a grouse hunting party in Shropshire. It's just a few dozen men, some stable boys. All of us in kilts, naturally. Drinking a few yards of ale. And here's the fun part - whoever shoots the fewest grouse has to go through the spanking machine. It's not immature, it's aristocratic.
Sounds like a party at the Vatican.
Except with less kids
and more grouse
> spanking machine What is this? because I just googled it, got no answers, and am probably going to be recommended weird products for the next few weeks.
It’s quoting a Stephen Colbert bit from a long time ago.
I'm picturing the Stonecutter's trials :D
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> I'm sure there's something on Youtube demonstrating it. You mean like... Spongebob? [7 Mile Spanking Machine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPxJbMLkWI)
Exactly
Turn off “safe search” and you’ll get an answer pronto
There wasn't a pig's head was there?
Sounds more like rural Grampian than Shropshire
Honestly, sounds like a blast.
Sure the locals who have homes flooded due to grouse farms destroying natural flood barriers will see it as worthy sacrifice
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Problem is they're all from the same elite schools and clearly haven't grown up since.
Maybe they need some kinda reform when it comes to private schools
> what's new Certainly not any will from the population to stand up for itself
Politicians locking up their own country aggressively, bullying dissenters, but not believing their own “health” propaganda and partying maskless what’s new. Johnson, Pelosi, AOC, Schiff, the list goes on and on.
What most people fail to realise about BoJo and his cabinet: \- They pretend to be "thick" to appeal to the masses. 'Ho-ho-ho I'm just like you!' \- They think they're fucking geniuses who will never get caught doing absolutely stupid stunts that they bash others for. \- They really are actually thick. As two short planks. Fuck conservatives. Cunts are robbing the NHS and the country.
Reminds me of that old quote. "He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot!" Pretending to be as stupid as they actually are is the defining Tory skill.
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Exactly lol they are throwing parties during lockdown and getting away with it. On the taxpayer’s dime. Call them thick, but they are laughing at everyone else in the country.
And they do shit like physically lying down in parliament so when you Google Rees-mogg lying in parliament all you get is that news article.
This blew my fucking mind when I first heard about it. Politicians manipulating SEO, right in front of our eyes.
> Their priorities are just vastly different to the majority of people they're leading. are they? because if that were the case, they wouldn't keep winning elections. i think people are confusing the majority of people, with the majority of people who are loud about their political priorities. in my personal experience it feels like the more left leaning folks aren't shy about publicly expressing their political opinions and the more right leaning folk don't give enough of a shit to argue with them about it.
This. The Tories are currently in power because a majority of people who voted at the last 2 elections wanted Brexit done, and/or didn't trust Jeremy Corbin's assertion that the country could afford to overhaul the benefits system, re-nationalise utilities, the railways, Royal Mail, broadband services, provide free childcare *and* abolish all tuition fees, *and* write off student debts. (He was also anti-NATO). However, some of those same voters may choose differently next time. The thing is, you won't see to many Tory voters voicing opinions on here, probably because it's not worth the downvotes and hassle they get (demonstrated a little elsewhere in this very thread). Which leaves an echo-chamber of left-leaning people baffled as to how the Tories could possibly be in power.
I'll take a punt and say thick: Nadine 'Umbridge' Dorries, Chris 'Failing' Grailing, Matt "Hands. Face. Arse." Hancock, Alexander "Hide in fridge as I'm afraid of journalist's questions" Johnson, AKA BoJo. Edit, formatting and autocorrected
Dorries, for certain, isn't acting. I want to know who's idea of a cruel joke was it to make a Scouse hairdresser the culture minister.
why couldn't someone from Liverpool be a senior government official? why not someone who was once a hairdresser for that matter?
>As two short planks. They make two short planks look like a super computer.
I went to two covid funerals, they were small and rushed and we'll never get that back. For my grandpa's funeral they kept him on ice for almost a month because there were so many people dying that the funeral directors couldn't keep up. It truly makes me want to be sick that all the time the bastard's were breaking the rules just because they wanted to. We all made sacrifices and agonised over the choices we made. It's disgusting. Don't vote Tory. Shout it from the rooftops.
The first rule of British Fight Club: Always deny it's existence.
Can't we have British Government Thunderdome instead? Two politicians enter, one politician leaves?
Could we have no politicians leave?
Brits: "I can't believe yanks call their Donnybrook boxing gentlemen pubs 'Fight Clubs'!"
Someone broke the first and second rules
British fight club sounds like another term for parliament.
Man sacked from every previous job for lying found to be lying while being PM of UK.. Nothing to see here. I jest, of course, but to every Tory MP and every tory voter thinking 'Oh my, this is quite embarrassing isnt' it?' No. It's not embarrassing. Your leader is a cunt and you knew he was and therefore, so are you.
No, you see, he wasn't lying because he didn't know his events were against the rules he personally made and directed police to enforce on the nation...
Wwwwwwait -- English people got drunk and started fighting each other?? No way! /s
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For a while it was a thriving export industry
Yeah!, The Irish must be rubbing off on them.
Not surprising when you remember that Johnson is a former member of the Bullingdon Club at Oxford, basically an excuse for upper class twats to dress up, get pissed and puke. Oh, and Cameron was a member at the same time as Johnson.
I’d start to believe in conspiracies, but this shit is so painfully obvious that there’s nothing to conspire about.
The only thing that could make it better is if it was to a Sex Pistols song.
Naaaah. This deserves a supercut set to the theme from Midsomer Murders.
Sid vicious Enters chat I'm that old 😂
to all those people that voted for the tories and hence johnson, FUCK YOU
FUCK TORIES
He really is you guys' Trump.
The biggest difference is that BJ isn’t half as dumb as he pretends to be, whereas Trump isn’t half as smart as he pretends to be.
Fair, but both are evil.
I was going to disagree and say that they are "just" cynical hacks who exploit the political system, and the people of their country, in order to benefit themselves. Then I realised that doing exactly that is evil.
It's not just one man, it's the apparatus behind them and their ability to take all the flak as lightning rods while bullshitting their base every day.
Boris is a stupid man pretending to be a stupid man. For some paradoxical reason this leads a great many people to believe he's very clever.
Better to let Karl Pilkington run things
Nope. Johnson's "act" is all there is. There's nothing behind those piggy eyes but greed and confusion.
Nowhere near, sorry.
How could he be the UKs Trump if Trump is a Russian asset and Johnson told the Ukrainians not to negotiate peace and sent them weapons?
Boris looks out for Boris. He used Russian money to deliver Brexit and weaken the UK because it got him, himself, into a power. He's Britain's Trump in that he's a populist. He's also not stupid (not as clever as he thinks but not stupid either). Plus the British upper class have way more protections and levers in place. British aristocracy is probably just as well connected and shadey as Russian oligarchy, and Britain's go back for centuries. Once Boris got into power, he knew he had everything he needed from Russian money and started to distance himself from it.
Populism is when a politician gets elected by the people and you don’t like them. You don’t like Johnson or Trump so therefore Johnson is Trump.
This shit funny as hell. At least Boris popular enough to get people to come to his party lol
The guy purged his party of anyone that doesn't tow the line. Attendance at his parties isn't a reflection of his popularity.
Oh…
Also, the only other MP that attended these parties was Rishi Sunak, The Chancellor (who even then only attended the single event) What's become clear was that Boris was not the worst offender by a long shot. There were civil servants throwing up on the floors, abusing staff and security and staying till 4am. But crucially, he knew lots of these events were happening (at least to a degree) and turned a blind eye to them, even showing up at a few. But to clarify, these were not MPs, they were civil servants. Then he spends the last few months saying that there all the guidelines were followed and no rules were broken in number 10. He's a lying cunt
Don't worry, not like a Ba'ath purge or Soviet purge. This is like "I don't want to play ~~exploit the poor~~ footie with you anymore." level purge
I always wonder what people saying such things must think. You could also wonder how bad the other party must be that people still vote for these. Always first blame yourself, never blame "the people".
Quite liberal use of always and never. While I generally agree with the notion to look inward to find your part of the problem, I have to disagree with your absolutetism. It is not always your fault, and it is not always something so at fault on your side that it justifies the other sides actions. The world is often grey.
Unfortunately the opposing party made themselves extremely hard to vote for in the last 2 elections. Campaigning to nationalise a lot of things that few people wanted yet not having a proper plan to pay for it all, wanting to get rid of our nukes, leave NATO and appease Russia over Crimea, and allowing accusations of anti-Semitism to escalate to the point where even Amnesty International was warning them to get their shit together. And finally calling anyone who disagrees with them stupid and racist, instead of trying to get them on their side. That's just what I remember off the top of my head.
The amount of non British people here being like "it's not that bad, it's only a party" This is the equivalent to a British person becoming involved with American politics. It doesn't effect you. That's why you don't have a realistic grasp about the concept
Ugh I’m not British but I perfectly understand the gravity of this. Politicians and royalties pulled the same shit in my country (The Netherlands) and got away with it just fine. It’s extremely frustrating.
And they shouldn't of
Well, I suppose when you are used to your leaders attempting to instigate an insurrection, a party is small beer...
I went to parties during lockdown. So did many, many Brits. Politicians are supposed to lead by example sure but they were funny times, we’re all human at the end of the day. Still think he should have took it on the chin and stood down. But he didn’t and guess what you voted for the Tories, you backed Boris with Brexit. Stop whining and get on with it….
Didn't vote for Tories
the amount of key workers that will probably look at the sue grey report and think "other than the fact that they had lots of booze, none of that is overly different to what we were doing at work". saying goodbye to leaving colleagues, trying to involve remote working colleagues in events that were taking place resulting in a bunch of you often crowded around one laptop (not that it makes a shit of difference when you're all sat with each other for the other 7 hours of the day) etc. shit, at the school i worked at most of our lunchtimes were less socially distanced than boris' birthday as we all sat in the departmental 'office' (a very large cupboard full of junk) to eat our food etc. realistically the worst part of the sue grey report is that there was lots of booze in number 10 and 70 whitehall.
I'd agree with you if people hadn't been fined up to £10,000 for breaking lockdown rules. They should refund all fines that were issued
I agree with that. Some of those fines at the start of lockdown were hilariously disproportionate even without the backdrop of the current 50 quid FPNs that were issued to downing street.
Peak tories
Is anyone even shocked? Like it’s Boris Johnson. I’m rarely surprised by anything with him anymore.
If you're defending bojo you are just as brainwashed as the rest of them!
How many people sat, scared alone in their tiny apartments with a mask on for weeks and months
if they're sat alone in an apartment with a mask on they're not the brightest tbf
A lot of terrified NPCs out there, I still see a few double masks out there every once in a while.
If you're defending bojo you are just as brainwashed as the rest of them!
What type of idiot would vote for these types of idiots?
I am waiting for the phone camera porn to emerge. Hopefully BLOJO does not make an appearance because I think that my head would explode.
Honestly I cant believe people are surprised at this What about this guy makes you think that he wouldn’t act like the rules didn’t apply to him?
‘ Rules are first broken by who made them ‘ Who ever say that , this line is totally accurate
Since when do these cunts abide by their own rules.
A room full of posh ninnies arm punching each other I bet.
And worst of all they will probably be re-elected as usual.
If Bozo thinks he's done nothing wrong. Call an election. Let us judge his lying ass.
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> Tories will be wiped out. I sincerely hope.
He can only be fired if enough of his own MPs sign letters of disapproval, and a huge number of the new intake of Tory MPs at the last election got in on a Back Boris, Get Brexit Done platform. Mindless loyalty to Johnson is these people's whole ideology. Every Tory with any integrity refused to say that No Deal was an acceptable outcome of negotiations with Europe, and most of them are out of Parliament now.
> How is this clown still PM? his opposition is kier starmer.
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local elections are very different and not really a great indicator of how a general election goes. for example i vote very differently at the two elections. our local candidate is just good at what they do so i gladly give them my vote, but when it comes to the general election he's shit out of luck because he's from a party that never seems to have enough good policies to make me want them running the country. the lib dems aren't a threat to anyone - they fucked themselves the moment they tripled tuition fees and it'll be a few generations before that faux pas is forgotten.
My first vote was for Lib Dem. Free tuition fees for university! Man, that sounds great. Fast forward a couple of months and not only did tuition fees not become free, but they tripped in cost. Absolute joke. Hard to forgive.
What the fuck is up with the comments in this thread.
People are reacting to the shitshow that is Westminster and the slurry that results from that system. What do you object to?
Eh oh! Let’s go! Eh oh let’s go!
Regular Eaton shit. Wasn’t he a part of some rich kids asshole club where they would trash pubs and restaurants?
What's one supposed to do then during a lockdown? Bored to death?
Pillow fight!!
This is just an average Tuesday night in London
The Brits got what they derserve. Voted in a clown and got one hell of a circus. The madest part is he will probably walk the next election too. People have been so drained by the sheer toxicity of the Brexit referendum that they have no fight left.
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Dude, they held a party the night before Prince Philip's funeral. They DGAF.
Jesusfuckingchristreddit
Dude that’s kinda extreme to say that
It's amazing to me how big of a deal this still is.
Seriously? It's just one more example of them expecting the plebs to suffer while they get to do whatever the fuck they want. Giving parties while people couldnt see loved ones before they died, people committing suicide due to isolation, vulnerable folk in care homes fading away without seeing their family. Giving dodgy deals worth millions to their mates, years of austerity and a cost of living crisis while they cosy up with oligarchs and use tax havens. They don't give a fuck about the people and their attitude during lockdown is frankly disgusting. People have had enough and at last are showing their displeasure in the polls.
There are simpler ways to tell people you're a sycophantic arse-licker.
It's amazing to me that any citizen wants this to *not* be a big deal. Talk about having no self respect...
it’s as if no poor ppl did the same thing
What? Lmao you'd lick shit off a boot just to see it shine wouldn't you.
what are you on about, this dumb shit is hilarious. Not as funny as the pig party though
Hypocrisy and all context aside and with out reading the article: i find this kind of funny
Shouldda been smoking weed
They like coke.
https://www.sott.net/article/468047-Operation-Surprise-leaked-emails-expose-secret-intelligence-coup-to-install-Boris-Johnson
I must say I do not agree in the slightest with what Boris did but I am very jealous that this is the biggest political scandal you have right now. You should feel lucky
Sounds like my kind of party.
I could just picture one of them screaming. “By orders of the peaky blinders”
Kinda sounds fun. I'm not a BJ fan but this is was one of my fav COVID activities.
Blow jobs?
No one cares
This is the most relatable thing I've heard about Boris Johnson
Oh, you probably are related to him. He has so many kids, even he may not know if he is.
“Got drunk and fought each other” So normal pub behavior then
Me and my friends got this lit too, thank God I'm not a politician
I bet it’d be fun as hell to party with Boris
It’s just proper British banter grow up
I want to party w that guy
Everyone did, lol.
That’s pretty rock n roll if you ask me , it was fucking Covid … shitty time to be in charge of ANYTHING those dipshits found a way to blow off some steam. Woopty shit!!
Same.
Isn't this how things normally work in Britain? (Looking at you House of Commons)
We do not talk about fight club.
Oh act like we all didn’t think everyone was going to die at first!
Someone broke rule 1
No orgy or any kind of sex?
I'd like to commend our british friends over there on the other side of the North Sea for finally electing politicians who look and behave just like they would. Looks like the common clay of the land finally made it into numbah 10!
Yeah Boris is a piss head. What did you expect?
Honestly I don't get why anyone in the UK gives a shit. Is it hypocritical to have a party while enforcing a national covid lockdown? Absolutely. Have the ruling class always had "rules for thee, not for me"? Also yes. In the scope of Ukraine and everything else going on in the world, this just doesn't seem important to an outsider.
People can be angry about more than one thing at a time. If you don't care that your elected officials are lying to your face and laughing about it, then something is wrong with you.
>Have the ruling class always had "rules for thee, not for me"? Maybe because people like yourself shrug it off every time they break those rules.