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**Damien** · 14-01-2022, 16:30

I think we need to stage an intervention at this point. It seems Whitehall is smashed all the time.

**Chris** · 14-01-2022, 16:31

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I think we need to stage an intervention at this point. It seems Whitehall is smashed all the time.

You surely didn’t think this was the behaviour of people who are normally sober?

**Damien** · 14-01-2022, 16:38

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You surely didn’t think this was the behaviour of people who are normally sober?

I just assumed they were all on cocaine.

Carth · 14-01-2022, 16:55

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I just assumed they were all on cocaine.

papa smurf · 14-01-2022, 16:58

Photo emerges of Sir Keir Starmer drinking a beer with staff last year when Covid rules were still in place

Party on

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...party-row.html

Mad Max · 14-01-2022, 17:08

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Photo emerges of Sir Keir Starmer drinking a beer with staff last year when Covid rules were still in place

Party on

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...party-row.html

Yes but that was a work event.

jfman · 14-01-2022, 17:11

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Yes but that was a work event.

Come on Max. Who would have a beer with Keith if it wasn’t work?

ianch99 · 14-01-2022, 17:18

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I just assumed they were all on cocaine.

Is that why they look down their nose at us?

1andrew1 · 14-01-2022, 17:21

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Come on Max. Who would have a beer with Keith if it wasn’t work?

One of the more plausible defences I've heard!

**Hugh** · 14-01-2022, 17:55

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Photo emerges of Sir Keir Starmer drinking a beer with staff last year when Covid rules were still in place

Party on

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...party-row.html

Equally as wrong.

jfman · 14-01-2022, 17:56

Do we think that’s a bottle of the old wife beater? Seems more apt for a politician the neighbours phone the police on. Although not since he got new neighbours.

OLD BOY · 14-01-2022, 18:54

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https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/t...ning-p58stz0d2

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The scenario where Johnson survives is fairly simple. The Gray report, which Johnson’s allies are busy building up, is an anticlimax, refusing to say whether the prime minister should resign or opine on whether or not he broke the rules (Sue Gray’s remit is more to establish the facts than to pass judgment).

Sounds familiar…

But that is fair enough. It is the facts we need to know. And if it’s as bad as it looks, we all know how that will end.

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It literally doesn’t. There’s one forum member, maybe a second at a push, spinning a narrative here.

If you care to address my post in full I’ve quoted it below. Otherwise I’ll leave you to provide the late night comedy.

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I’m intrigued by how often emotive terminology comes out.

“Hate” quite frequently in relation to Johnson. As if it’s impossible that, devoid of emotion, anyone has simply reached the conclusion that he’s exceeded his usefulness (if indeed, he ever had any at all).

He’s not a Conservative in any traditional sense. His unification of the party related to one issue, and one only. One that he seized the opportunity of after famously penning two articles such was his lack of conviction for either side of the argument.

A populist is only useful to the extent they remain popular. And the mask has well and truly slipped

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You go around in circles, jfman, that was answered ages ago. Boris clarified that he wrote two articles to clarify in his mind which was the better of the two options, and that’s when he realised that Brexit would be best for Britain.

Boris’s popularity has taken a nosedive, but he will bounce back again. He always does.

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From Sky News

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...#liveblog-body

They’ve apologised, but perhaps they are waiting for the findings of the Sue Grey Enquiry before they tell us what they are apologising for, as they don’t want to pre-judge?

Sounds reasonable. Boris is truly mystified at what is being alleged and what he has done wrong.

Jimmy-J · 14-01-2022, 18:55

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But that is fair enough. It is the facts we need to know. And if it’s as bad as it looks, we all know how that will end.

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You go around in circles, jfman, that was answered ages ago. Boris clarified that he wrote two articles to clarify in his mind which was the better of the two options, and that’s when he realised that Brexit would be best for Britain.

Boris’s popularity has taken a nosedive, but he will bounce back again. He always does.

Probably on "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!"

OLD BOY · 14-01-2022, 18:58

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Ex-Covid taskforce head apologises for leaving drinks

I should think so too. She should have downed the lot - what a waste of good booze.

**Hugh** · 14-01-2022, 19:35

People have asked why none of the officers policing Downing Street noticed/reported any of these "work meetings with suitcases of wine"?

Who will ever know?

On a totally unrelated note, here is an article from the October 2020 edition of the Spectator, about a Met Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner who was "the ‘executive lead’ for frontline policing on Covid".

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/...ned-the-police