Metropolitan Police Considering Labour MPs’ Complaint About Downing Street Christmas Party
The Metropolitan Police is weighing up whether to investigate “retrospective breaches” of Covid laws amid calls for an investigation of a No 10 Christmas party held during 2020’s restrictions. BBC News has more.
The party took place on December 18th, with a source telling the BBC that “several dozen” people attended.
However, Covid restrictions in place at the time banned such events.
The PM, who was not at the party, said no Covid rules were broken but No 10 has not said how party-goers complied.
A source who attended the event told the BBC that party games were played, food and drink were served, and the party went on past midnight.
The Mirror newspaper, which was the first to report the claims, also said Boris Johnson gave a speech at a “packed leaving do” for an aide on November 27th, when the country was in its second lockdown and socialising was banned.
Writing separately to Met Police Commissioner Dame Cressida Dick on Friday, Labour MPs Neil Coyle and Barry Gardiner called for a full investigation into whether or not any laws had been broken.
Sharing his letter on Twitter, Coyle, the MP for Bermondsey and Southwark, in south London, said from reading the guidance, he believed “holding these events was a breach of the rules at the time”.
He said: “Like most constituents, I followed the rules and did not see my own dad last Christmas and, sadly, it was to be his last.
“The sense of outrage from constituents is palpable that they followed the rules whilst those responsible for devising and enforcing them were breaching them at the top of Government.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The Guardian has the same story on its live Coronavirus blog.
In the U.K., the Metropolitan Police have said they are considering complaints from Labour MPs that Boris Johnson and his No 10 staff held Christmas parties in breach of Covid regulations.
Labour backbenchers Neil Coyle and Barry Gardiner have each written to Scotland Yard asking police to investigate reports that two parties were held in the run-up to last Christmas at a time when such gatherings were banned.
Johnson has not denied the events took place but said no rules were broken – although he has repeatedly refused to explain how that could be the case.
In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said that while it did not routinely investigate “retrospective” breaches of the Covid regulations, it was considering the correspondence it had received.
On Wednesday, the Daily Mirror reported the prime minister gave a speech at a packed leaving-do for a senior aide last November when the country was in the midst of the second lockdown.
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zjHRLGdqYuQ
Don’t worry, Sergeant Constable Detective Officer Peter Pisspot is already on the case.
Good to see someone taking this situation seriously.
Perhaps I should make it clear to the downtickers that I wasn’t being sniffy about it. I think all his stuff is great and treats the subject with the ridicule it deserves.
Interesting to see the pot calling the kettle black, and the stoats assaulting the weasels – or is it vice versa?
Exactly. Glass houses and all that
If Coyle gave a flying fuck for his constituents he would have spoken up a lot sooner and very much louder about far more egregious matters than a party nearly a year ago. Faux pearl-clutching, political point scoring twat.
And a total fucking mug as well.
That’s the norm in the Labour party these days.
Actually I don’t give a single shit how many parties they have had. All I want is for the truth about The Situation to come out and our liberties to be fully restored.
The Police State being investigated by the State Police. Can the Police state what the State should police?
The Covid Ourobouros marches on.
Yes, a right Worm.
In the spirit of Christmas and good will to all men, can anyone tell me where I can get the new Pfizer Advent calendar, please? The one where some windows open onto a syringe, others onto a surgical mask or hand sanitiser, a few onto nothing at all and a massive coffin for 24th December.
Even if you could find one, I doubt you could afford it, unless you’re Jibjab, Sunak or similar.
On a similar theme, my afternoon session of old TV films keeps being interrupted by an ad for “free boosters” etc. I suppose it’s too much to hope that some of the Joe Public wake up and realise they’re not free, neither the jollop or the jabbers, and that they, their children and grandchildren, if not more, will be paying for this stuff (Pfizer and jabber about £35 per shot appx.).
I think you get a free one with your 13th booster.
Such largesse.
I’ve heard they are doing a loyalty card.
Yeah – you get a either free pack of 9 loo rolls or a six pick of baked bean cans for every 10 jabs. Should Tescos be worried?
They are sold out, but don’t worry, just like the jabs there’ll be another along in a couple of months
Just an irrelevant distraction from the Big Lie and global fascism
I don’t think the Labour party approve of people enjoying themselves.
Ah yes.. Labour.. the protector of the working classes..
More like the protector of their own arses
The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy
True. You’ve only to look at Gulag Wales under Dungford
Can none of them see how pathetic this sort of infantile behaviour is? Who gives a fuck if they broke some pointless and petty rules which achieve nothing? The only circumstances in which it would be worth making an issue of it is as supporting evidence to demonstrate that even the Tories don’t believe in the petty rules and that the rules should never be reintroduced.
No chance of that with the Labour Party of course, who are even more devout members of the Covidian Cult than the Tory Party.
The crimes this government is guilty of and they pull them up about a Christmas party. Clown planet.
Totally agree. From the very start this government has totally failed in its duty of care to the public and, in the process, committed egregious crimes against humanity. Those crimes are what the Fat Pig Dictator and his henchmen and hencewomen should be investigated for, not Christmas parties.
I don’t understand why people aren’t really livid about their parents being murdered in the ‘care homes’ of dehydration, starvation, neglect, and a large dose of Midazolam to shut them up forever.
Police considering to how to do, err nothing.
Just a mini diversion from the reality of this evil clown world.
But, one thing’s for sure, funny it ain’t.
Thinking people are being demonised whilst this goes on.
You utter bastards behind this.
I will sit by the river and watch your corpses go by…..
Party on,Dudes.
Did any of the party games involve pigs at all?
Did any not involve pigs?
2 legs or 4?
Apparently the two-legged variety’s idea of fun – ie. celebrating their colleague’s depraved sexual proclivities by nicknaming him “the rapist” or taking selfies in front of murder victims for a laugh on WhatsApp – even goes too far for members of the Conservative Party.
Pigs in curtains, apparently
Not blankets?
Apologies if this has been posted earlier
https://youtu.be/DK1vuPcGJ-A
He should of stuck to The Liverbirds
Talk about rank hypocrisy, given the actions of Labour at their party conference and after-parties. They are all as bad as eachother.
If the public thought there was a time to sweep away the vast majority of the Established political parties and politicians, now is that time.
Is Cressida Dick is stupid enough to be manipulated by the slimy arsehole that is Gardiner? Labour, Conservative and Met – they deserve each other as none of them have any integrity.
Ooh – look over there !
Off-topic: Good to see MSM covering the freedom protests around Europe today:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10274825/Anti-lockdown-protestors-hit-streets-York-Austria-Netherlands.html
Cinema & Co in Swansea are advertising “Muppet Christmas Carol” starring Drakeford as Scrooge..
https://twitter.com/swanseaonline10/status/1467137880418131974?s=21
Loads of comments criticising the cinema on there – it’s not clear whether the 77th have been on the case or whether there really are that many brainwashed, sanctimonious Covidians – or indeed a mixture of both.
He would be equally well cast as a muppet.
I suspect the overwhelming majority of the parasites in Westminster have at some point, and probably with regularity, breached the unlawful and arbitrary ‘rules’ they themselves sanctioned. Very few if any of these odious windbags truly believe their own narrative. They have no ‘fear’ of a ‘dangerous virus’.
Makes you wonder what else is staged. Videos of politicians getting the jab for example?
I suspect the videos of the jabs are real but what’s fake is what they’re being injected with – most likely a saline solution. I first became suspicious when the video of Mrs Windsor receiving the jab was aired. Of all the people in the UK, she would be the last one they’d use as a guinea pig.
Clickbait from The Times..
December 18 is when Boris Johnson must decide whether the Omicron variant will allow a normal Christmas. Even if it does, there could be trouble in the new year
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/will-christmas-be-cancelled-again-dgdjhxhlv
I don’t care any more. I refuse to take the knee to Bozo and Globocap. They can FO.
Seconded with extreme prejudice!
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…and if not, I’m sure we’ll invent some trouble instead.
Squirrel.
I don’t object to them breaking the rules, I object to the rules
Well, you ought to object to them breaking the ‘rules,’ not because these ‘rules’ are meaningful, but because these bastards have frightened people, including many vulnerable elderly who will have trusted the parasites, into abiding by these unlawful decrees, only to then spit in their faces by breaching their own decrees.
How many people have died alone because of the fearmongering and because they were told they couldn’t leave their homes/didn’t want to mingle in hospitals or ‘bother’ the sainted NHS? How many people have died, worsened or had an illness missed because their treatments were cancelled/put back or screenings were neglected?
You ought to be downright livid.
Nah it just helps confirm my reality, that all civil servants are *****, i’m past caring what they do. I’ll live my life by my rules.
‘Nah it just helps confirm my reality…’
Your reality? Are there multiple realities?
‘…i’m past caring what they do.’
Then why do you bother visiting these forums to moan about things they do?
‘I’ll live my life by my rules.’
Great, and they’ll live their lives by their rules. And their rules rule since they have the weight of the state and associated authorities on their side.
So you believe their narrative, do you? You are wasting your time getting angry, get even!
Well done you, you’ve awoken to the fact you are their slave, what are you going to do about it. Divert your anger at me?
The answer is self-reliance, never look to government to solve your problems, & stop thinking everything in life can be risk-free or guaranteed, live for today accept tomorrow is unknown.
Yikes!
‘So you believe their narrative, do you?’
What on earth would bring you to that conclusion? Try paying attention.
‘You are wasting your time getting angry, get even!’
Are you unwell?
You’ve swerved my points interacting with your previous post. Was this purposeful or do you have a hard time keeping up?
‘Well done you, you’ve awoken to the fact you are their slave, what are you going to do about it. Divert your anger at me?’
Are you having an aneurysm? I am responding to you on your own terms by taking your self-centredness and apparent subjectivity to their logical conclusion.
You’re apparently incapable of following an argument, instead banging on about ‘anger’.
‘The answer is self-reliance, never look to government to solve your problems, & stop thinking everything in life can be risk-free or guaranteed, live for today accept tomorrow is unknown.’
You’re tilting at windmills.
That was surreal. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen someone miss the point so badly.
One hates to say ‘try again,’ but you seriously need to try again.
Ahh! A socialist just looking for a fight because you know you’re impotent, good luck with that & your impotence.
‘Ahh! A socialist just looking for a fight…’
Bloody hell. You really are a moron. Don’t tell me, I’m a ‘socialist’ because I criticised your self-centredness? That’s non sequitur. This type of ‘reasoning’ is breathtakingly shallow. You’re an embarrassment.
‘…because you know you’re impotent, good luck with that & your impotence.’
Projection Your Honour!
You’re addressing a mirror. You are incapable of interacting with my posts. You have a staggering inability to follow an argument. And now you’re lashing out. What a mess.
The irony of an ‘anti-socialist’ misapplying the term ‘socialist’ is not lost on me. Marvellous stuff.
Hit the nail bang on the head there – that’s the point of this story. Get the public up in arms about people breaking the rules, thereby accepting the rules.
That’s muddle-headed. One can be ‘up in arms’ not because one ‘accepts’ these rules or that these rules are meaningful, but because these bastards have put the wind up people and frightened them into abiding by the very decrees they themselves sanctioned yet do not follow.
Regarding your theory about ‘the point of this story’, not only does it neglect the fact that the people largely already accept the rules and have done for nearly two years, making such a ‘plan’ wholly unnecessary, but this ‘plan’ would be needlessly risky since it could easily backfire given the patent double standard, with people ceasing to accept the rules they had long come to accept without a whimper.
If Mike Ryan of the WHO disputes the value of giving boosters to healthy people, why the Feck is this government of ours insisting on giving them to the detriment of monitoring the health of the elderly? Follow the money would be my guess!
https://news.sky.com/video/covid-19-no-evidence-boosters-to-whole-population-will-provide-greater-protection-from-omicron-12483965
The same could be said for this vaccine generally, at least for the otherwise fit and healthy under 65s, maybe even older.
The problem is that we (as many other Western nations are thes days) a nation of serious unhealthy, inactive and overweight people eating poor diets, loads of sugar (even I with my very sweet tooth have cut down a LOT in recent years) and getting almost no proper exercise.
I’d put good money on those who do look after themselves well – even OAPs – rarely succumbing to the coof.
Note how the country MOST affected in Africa by COVID is South Africa – the most ‘Weternised’ by diet and which has the most issues with obesity. Despite all the other problems plaguing Africans elsewhere on that continent, very few of its citizens outside of South Africa are dying of COVID.
I’m sure there were some rules, distance where possible and all that, but I seem to remember considering having a work’s do, hiring my entire extended family for xmas day last year, or at least having a business meeting planning our new venture together around lunchtime because it was allowed?
Not that I could give a fuck about their rules, I just remember thinking up loopholes, apparently so does Johnson.
I too had a Christmas party last year. In fact I never listened to any of the bullshit this government said. I saw friends and relatives throughout.
Yup, us too, with people from abroad no less!
Mixed feelings about this…
Obviously Police shouldn’t be investigating any breaches of covid restrictions, historical or otherwise.
However, if it draws attention to the fact that not even the people inventing these rules have any interest in following them because they are such a load of bollocks then I’m all for it!
I don’t think it’s a Lab v Con thing as most of the Tories officially support this nonsense anyway. Hopefully it will peak a few more people into realising the Emperor has no clothes on…
The emperor is currently both trouserless and displaying tourets tendencies: shouting that he does. Most covidians politely avert their eyes from his majesty’s appearance while taking his words as absolute.
Behave, you think the police are going to do anything?
It’s just more distraction & theatre for public consumption. There was an article in DM earlier today with Dick saying the police would only investigate if there was a complaint made, voilà! Invitation accepted.
The ones who disturb me the most are the public baying for rule breakers’ blood. These are bitter and twisted true believers if that’s not an oxymoron. As long as they predominate this nonsense will thrive.
There’s a very good reason why so many of us now subscribe to the notion of LibLabCon – with all the established political parties (I include the SNP, all those from Wales and NI and now the Greens, who are just the same as the hard Left of Labour pretending to be environmentalists) you essntially end up at a very similar result.
A near neighbour mine said as much recently, after our local District Council changed hands from solid Tory to Lib/Lab pact in 2019 after the shambles of the May era. The only difference in quality of service is that we now get woke tweets and awareness months for the alphabet community. Otherwise you’d never know.
Anti-lockdown protestors hit the streets in York, Austria and the Netherlands as Europe faces up to new Covid strain
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10274825/Anti-lockdown-protestors-hit-streets-York-Austria-Netherlands.html
As the utter absurdity of covidianism becomes more and more destabilising, when will all this finally fall to pieces?
Hopefully sooner rather than later. The key point of attack has to be to expose more forcefully the reported side effects of the ‘vaccines’ and the lunacy of ‘jabbing’ children. That is the elephant in the room and arguably the issues that governments are most sensitive to criticism about.
Not just the lunacy of injecting children (the latter don’t need it, even if it worked), but also the wicked selfishness of the adults doing the injecting. Those adults are injecting children with a drug the children don’t need because the adults think that they themselves will thereby be protected. Using children as human shields in other words. Cowardly and wicked.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/celebrity/rod-stewart-bans-anyone-who-isn-t-triple-vaccinated-from-his-christmas-party/ar-AARt2lV?li=BBoPJKU
Who?
Rod was always a cunt.
He’s banned from my party in that case then
Just thinking about this, but aren’t the Covid ‘offences’ all Summary-only? If that’s the case then charges have to be laid within six months of the offence taking place, so if it was nearly a year ago it’s time-barred and would therefore be thrown out of court (if anyone was stupid enough to take it that far).
That letter is all over the place as regards the crucial distinction between law and guidance too – it talks about people being fined for breaking the guidance. This is nonsense – they could only be fined for breaking the law, not the guidance.
Anyone else see anything ominous about this?
I’m probably not the best person to ask, I find everything the government does sinister.
But, how can they fine you if your cat is not chipped?
I like how your brain works, I missed that 1!
Yes. It’s not as though a cat is going to give the game away if it’s somehow reunited with its owner, the way a dog would.
‘ALL travellers to Britain will need to take a lateral flow or PCR Covid test 48 hours before departure in new travel crackdown starting on Tuesday to fight Omicron variant’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10275279/Pre-departure-tests-needed-international-arrivals-UK.html
Follow the money, not the science!
And I am reliably informed that rumours that any passengers caught with either Lemsip or paracetamol in their baggage will be subject to 2 years incarceration are just rumours. But I guess that things might change tomorrow!
Until the people making these rules up are dealt with, this will continue.
Neil Oliver is on good form tonight.
Although he has got a smooth brain on there now saying if I wear a mask it stops me spreading it to you, but if you wear one it doesn’t really stop you catching it?! Where do they find these fucking idiots..?!
He is, but that ‘doctor’ in Saudi, was giving crazy figures, they just say anything without any proof at all.
Luckily (for my blood pressure) I am a little behind and was able to skip past the remainder of his gibberish.