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Saigon said:
Perhaps so, but doubt it. I do know that a funeral was restricted to half an hour, with extremely limited and monitored attendance.
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Which, I could be wrong so happy to be corrected, was more to do with what the officiating people thought was correct (in their terms of reference) as opposed to what those that were attending thought was appropriate.

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Ewan said:
Oh to have a life so stress-free to able to agonise over the minutiae of someone else‘ drinks party.
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807 people were prosecuted in that week for doing the same thing , I know i'd be pretty cheesed off if I'd been fined because I had friends in the garden for drinks , if it's proven they did break the law they should be prosecuted the same as anyone else.
 
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Wack61 said:
807 people we prosecuted in that week for doing the same thing , I know i'd be pretty cheesed off if I'd been fined because I had friends in the garden for drinks , if it's proven they did break the law they should be prosecuted the same as anyone else.
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Totally agree.
Every time I have been caught speeding I have been busted and even had my license suspended and paid the fines.
40 plus years in the Motortrade I have been arrested too and locked up in a cell more than once.
Let's see how BoJo and his posh mates enjoy that.
I can tell you it's no fun and I never got prosecuted.
All the evidence and more is there for the Police to do their job.
If he wants to know what being locked up is like he can ask Jeffrey Archer.
 
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Ewan said:
Agreed. If you break the law and get caught, you must face the consequences.
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Yes, but, apparently, you or I should be fined £250, but if you are a 'posh' politico you should also be publicly vilified and then lose your job. Double standards, anyone?
 
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IMHO it's not just about breaking the law. Downing Street staff are at the heart of the UK government and the public must be able to trust them, so if they knowingly and continually broke the rules they made, their judgement on other affairs of state can be questioned.

Did they really believe the Covid 'facts' they were feeding the public at the time? If they did then their own sense of self preservation and care for colleagues and families should have been paramount, and it clearly wasn't.
Were they just stupid? If so, then why did they have their jobs in the first place?
If a supermarket shelf stacker repeatedly made 'mistakes' they would be dismissed, and yet we are supposed to believe that the clowns in Downing Street who put their own and public health at risk during a pandemic were guilty of nothing more than misdemeanours.
We don't need an 'independent' report to confirm events when senior staff have already done so. What we need is people of substance and integrity in Downing Street, not halfwits who think the rules don't apply to them.

Sorry for the rant, but I and my family have good reason to be bl00dy angry about the revelations, and no amount of buck passing should be allowed to save anyone's skin; it is not about double standards, it is about the integrity of the UK government.
 
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MarkMas said:
Yes, but, apparently, you or I should be fined £250, but if you are a 'posh' politico you should also be publicly vilified and then lose your job. Double standards, anyone?
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Some people would ask, why was so and so’s leaving do more important than my nans funeral. And the answer would be, it wasn’t, they just didn’t give a ****. And they made the rules, for everyone’s apparent benefit.

The big loser here is the rule of law, the following of rules. So yes - double standards all round, from now on, for everyone. And that is why they should be punished more.
 
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If the 'Posh' politico is the one pushing through laws and then lies repeatedly when caught then I don't really see any double standards. Surely it's called being held accountable, something all politicians and public servants should be. If I'd have been caught lying in my job on so many occasions then I'd have had action taken, eventually being sacked. Boris clearly has his supporters for whom he can do no wrong, that much is clear, as for the rest of the general population, Boris and cronies seem to hold them in low esteem. Whilst we allow such a low bar for our public servants they will continue to do as they wish, and one of the saddest things I see written in lots of places is ' They're all at it, all parties'. We shouldn't allow it, simple as.
 
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It's really rough that Boris and his party animals had a party when we who elected them were locked down missing out on seeing friends, family and funerals (my mother died during the first lockdown at the other end of the country where no hotels were open for me to stay.)
But why are the news media full of it when they and other party animals oversaw the Royal Navy reaching the point where, a couple of weeks ago, one of its submarine hunters looking for Russian submarines was sneaked up on and bumped into by a Russian submarine.
I find this worrying. I feel undefended. I thought their first duty was defence of the realm.
 
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Wack61 said:
807 people were prosecuted in that week for doing the same thing , I know i'd be pretty cheesed off if I'd been fined because I had friends in the garden for drinks , if it's proven they did break the law they should be prosecuted the same as anyone else.
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Absolutely. If It is found laws have been broken then action will need to be taken. If not all the people that have been fined will quite rightly expect these to be refunded. I suspect a technical clause will provide a get out for the government.
What I found amusing is the culture of drinking on the premises/office. Having worked in the public sector for years, this sort of behaviour was outlawed decades ago. Absolutely unacceptable in modern business life.
 
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philw696 said:
Yeah we have issues here too Adam but politicians do go to prison for telling lies and lining their own pockets if they don't go into hiding.
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Bonnet de dooche et Mange touts Philippè

Just because Mrs Macron has a bigger suasage (allegedly)!than mr Macron (and most en here) is non reson to have a go at le incompetence de Boris.
Je just saying.

J’arrest le case.’

( translation from Oz to scots to Middle East to Cypriot to french and sp maseratitititititut)
 
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Wattie said:
Bonnet de dooche et Mange touts Philippè

Just because Mrs Macron has a bigger suasage (allegedly)!than mr Macron (and most en here) is non reson to have a go at le incompetence de Boris.
Je just saying.

J’arrest le case.’

( translation from Oz to scots to Middle East to Cypriot to french and sp maseratitititititut)
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I need to be drinking what you're on mate :)
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