i am genuinely angry about this. many people including me and my family have followed every rule during covid. This meant my wife and kids didn't see my in-laws for many many months which was very upsetting for my wife. We both work in the NHS and literally our lives during restrictions has been one long cycle of slogging our guts out at work then home and repeat over and over again.Sluffy wrote:A question for everyone - is anybody on here actually genuinely angry about these 'parties' at number 10?
Let me be clear my view is that you lead by example and that the leader takes ultimate responsibility - so Johnson should resign.
I'm not angry or fuming though.
I can understand how many of these events happened - it's normal to say a few words at a leaving gathering, or thank staff for their hard work when the occasions occur. I can understand work meetings being held in the garden during a Covid summer and tea and biscuits being made available. I can even understand a bottle or two being opened in the office to celebrate someones birthday after work, etc.
It wouldn't surprise me in the least if similar things didn't happen in some shape or form in nearly every large office, factory or store in the country over the last two Covid summers.
Yes they shouldn't have and similar to the saying 'Caesar's wife should be above suspicion', Johnson should carry the can for it happening under his own nose - and mainly by his own Spads.
Rules are rules after all - and Number 10 was telling us what the rules were!
I just feel that there is an awful lot of hypocrisy behind this from people who have probably broken a few Covid rules themselves over the last two years.
Johnson should go for many reasons, this being only one of them (I find his lying about them more damning and damaging than the parties themselves) but I can't get worked up over a number of ill judged but mostly understandable reasons for many of these gatherings to have initially occurred. They shouldn't have happened but I can understand mostly why they did.
I tend to see this being more as a means to an end, in the same way Al Capone was brought down, namely he wasn't jailed for being a murderous killer - which he was - no one could prove that but they could prove he fiddled his tax returns and that's how they got him in the end.
Anybody genuinely angry over people who were working all day legally and the same people sat at the same desks deemed to be acting illegally just one minute later???
I guess if you lost a loved one you might but I'm sure exactly the same things (and worse) were happening daily throughout the country in one form or another.
Number 10's offices should have been beyond reproach - they weren't - but not everything is black or white is it?
Meanwhile Boris and his cronies seem to think that because they introduced these restrictions that they don't apply to them. A friend of ours lost her Father during covid and she couldn't even attend his funeral as she was classed as vulnerable. That is the kind of sacrifices many of us have taken just to be constantly slapped in the face by these idiots thinking they are above the law.