I just did a massive involuntary cringe.
This is beyond anger now, if the media doesn't completely rip these fuckers a new arsehole in the next few days I'll never pay attention to any of them ever again.
Number of parties held at 10 Downing Street in run-up to Christmas last year when London was in tier 3 lockdown.
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I just did a massive involuntary cringe.
This is beyond anger now, if the media doesn't completely rip these fuckers a new arsehole in the next few days I'll never pay attention to any of them ever again.
But we need to concentrate on pro-Tory/British value reporting and television. that is the most important thing.
Must be nice going through life and not give a single shit about anybody else, I really wish I could be like that.
Hunt has been piping up recently after quite a long quiet spell, think it's him.
I thinks it's just someone on the comms team, Stratton was kinda forced on them by Carrie Johnson in her little love tussle with Boris and Dom.
Sure would be awkward if this party was reported on at the time.
I want to live in the alternate universe where Jennifer Arcuri brought down Bojo's reign instead of stuck-up entitled brat Carrie Symonds. Would make for quite a chapter in the history books.
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I wish I knew the British royalty well enough to fully appreciate this.
Is this a reputable source? This isn't being reported anywhere else.
In the Tories' minds, everyone who tries to hold them accountable is "playing politics". Which is ironic given Johnson is a fucking clown who doesn't give a shit about anything other than his own status.
Lmao, No 10 confirms Johnson didn't attend the party they say didn't happen.
What a fucking farce. How hard is it to just tell the truth? Pretty hard if you think you can act with impunity and aren't accountable to anyone ever.
We always say that, until somebody does have receipts, then the goalposts move again, and we're back to square one.
Brexit really did a number on this country. Tories didn't invent lying, but managed to use it as both a means to an end, and a solution for the problems caused by those means. He lied to the fucking queen and got away with it
BBC reported there was a separate Downing Street Christmas quiz in December: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-59580640
Dominic Cummings says there was a flat party on the 13th of November: https://twitter.com/Dominic2306/status/1468554606800220164
The media won't rip them apart because they were probably attendees at said parties, just look at today's front page of the s*n. It mentioned absolutely nothing about these parties to try and deflect from it
Was the video supposed to be recorded in 2020? Because that press room didn't exist until March 2021 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56413032
Have a think about that.
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So i presume it was built and went unused for a while?
...just because the BBC published their 'first pictures' of it in March 2021, doesn't mean it didn't exist before that.
We didn't have pictures of the surface of the moon until the 1960s, but I'm pretty sure it existed before then.
Even if that video is from March 2021 (which is probably isn't given that they're referring to a Christmas party that happened on "Friday night") what difference would that make to the substantive issue?
Sorry, the year is missing on the BBC link. Here's some better links.
en.wikipedia.org
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Point being, the video is supposed to be in dec 2020 but they were using the older all-wood room then. They wouldn't be having press conferences in the blue and union jack room until at least march 2021.
Downing Street Press Briefing Room - Wikipedia
First look at Boris’s new £2.6 million White House-style press room
The Government’s multi-media pound media room has been unveiled, but nothing’s really changed, says political editor Joe Murphy
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Point being, the video is supposed to be in dec 2020 but they were using the older all-wood room then. They wouldn't be having press conferences in the blue and union jack room until at least march 2021.
...the video isn't of a press conference. It's of them testing the facilities in the new room. Something they would do before they were using it. Say, in the months prior to March 2021... like December 2020, for example.
No 10 staff joke in leaked recording about Christmas party they later denied | ITV News
ITV News has obtained a leaked video showing Downing Street staff laughing about a party which was allegedly held in Number 10 last Christmas. | ITV National News
www.itv.com
lmao, whose alt is this?
Tories too scared to post on their main.
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I mean, isn't it fairly common knowledge that the reason the press conferences were delayed was because Stratton was shit? Which is something the leaked video certainly corroborates!
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I mean, does said poster think ITV wouldn't have checked the video and the circumstances out and verified it as far as possible before making it public?
The government could have whacked the media for the CGI or whatever is going on in the clip.
OK, didn't know about that, I'll look into it.
Even if that was true would they sit on a new studio for 3 months.
Anyway, I just found it interesting, it triggered my paranoia. Probably nothing in it really
Boris bridge across the oceanic munitions dump Johnson has a bit of form for this kind of thing.
Good link, thanks....the video isn't of a press conference. It's of them testing the facilities in the new room. Something they would do before they were using it. Say, in the months prior to March 2021... like December 2020, for example.
No 10 staff joke in leaked recording about Christmas party they later denied | ITV News
ITV News has obtained a leaked video showing Downing Street staff laughing about a party which was allegedly held in Number 10 last Christmas. | ITV National News
Indeed. And instead, Boris has said:
'I understand and share the anger up and down the country at seeing No 10 staff seeming to make light of lockdown measures, and I can understand how infuriating it must be to think that people who have been setting the rules have not been following the rules because I was also furious to see that clip. I apologise unreservedly for the offence that it has caused up and down the country and I apologise for the impression that it gives.'
Which would be a very odd thing to say, if you were watching a video that you knew was fake, or from a completely different time to the one being stated.
Ah, the 'just asking questions' defence.
Yeah, I'm sure that a studio they started building in autumn 2020 wasn't ready enough for rehearsals / trial runs months later, and that they've actually used deep fakes to make it look like numerous Conservative staff were present and saying stupid things, and that Conservatives are apologizing for the video and ordering inquiries, rather than just going 'BUT THERE WAS NO STUDIO'. That's clearly the logical conclusion to make here.
:). I lurk all the time but i was logged out. maybe i should stay lurking
i mean if you're just going to post absolute nonsense then sure. love to understand what brought on the sudden need to post.
Don't go, it's so long since anyone with a different political position(i assume) posted in a UK politics thread that we all got excited.
Paranoia levels maxed out I guess. I didn't realise it was a test of the new press room.