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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Plantminded said:
    Out of over 100 invited to the latest revealed "gathering", @raisingirl, it is reported that around 40 attended - some obviously had respect for the rules, themselves and their constituents! (Or maybe they didn't fancy a trip to Bargain Booze on the way!)

    I think most who were invited were either civil servants working for Boris, or his hangers-on rather than MPs.  That doesn't make those who did decide to 'brown nose' any better.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I have just opened a pack of mini Toblerones I was given for Christmas.  Some of them are white chocolate! :o  White chocolate for Toblerone - unforgivable!!!  I'll be writing to my MP about this.  He can read my letter after his next party with Boris.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Send them to me if you don't want them KT53. I'll oblige.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Naughty Boris,  but we mustn’t forget the thousands of people breaking the rules cramming onto the beaches,   💩ing into coffee cups or straight onto the beaches, no toilets open,  dropping food and rubbish, bins not collected,  parking along the roads, blocking them,   Did anyone come to Cornwall in May 2020.

    I know Boris shouldn’t have done that,  he should have been setting an example,  but thousands of people where not whiter than white,  they, also weren’t caring about COVID and that someone couldn’t visit their family.  
    It was chaos down here. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2022
    That's not the point @lyn ... totally a**e about face 😠

    And the police did fine a lot of them .... loads of cars travelling to the Suffolk coast from London got turned around and sent back ... whereas Cummings (who's the one pointing the finger now) and all his colleagues and bosses haven't even been properly investigated ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The white ferero rocher are sulking in the box here. Maybe we should have a chocolate swap thread.🤔
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I know it’s not the point Dove, but it is a point,  news making out every one was whiter than white, and they weren’t.
    As I said, they shouldn’t have met for drinks in the garden as they should have been setting examples but many others did. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ...and where some people were caught breaking the rules, they were fined. Typically, those making the rules get treated more harshly than anyone else. Personally, I think that's the right way. If politicians openly lie, then democracy fails doesn't it? Or else what do you believe? So far Boris has a record of lying - or should I say, not telling the whole truth.

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Quite true Steve,  at least out of the two Labour MP’s who were caught out at large gatherings,  one has acknowledged that he was wrong.  I think the other one said it was only government guidelines and not law.
     . 
    I don’t  think the BBC will mention those though. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    But isn't that irrelevant? I honestly don't care who else may have done something wrong and got away with it. I know people use phones while driving, but if someone gets caught they should be punished. Boris appears to have been caught - mainly by his own words. He lies Lyn. He has a history of lying. It was known before he became PM that he was economical with the truth.

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
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