At least fourteen holidays have been held in official government buildings since the beginning of the pandemic, despite the restrictions imposed on the British. Boris Johnson admitted to having participated in at least one of these alcoholic evenings.
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The British already knew for the late 2020 Christmas holidays in Downing Street, with board games and sofas at will, while they were all deprived of family meetings. They also discovered Monday, January 10 the proven existence of a “booze party” (an alcoholic evening) on May 20, 2020, to which Boris Johnson admitted to having participated, violating the rules of confinement, while the picnics in The parks were still forbidden and participations in the limited burials at thirty people.
Thanks to the Daily Telegraph, they also discovered with consternation Thursday 13, that the music has resonated until the middle of the night in the most famous impasse of the country, on April 16, 2021, watch the burial of the Prince Philip, in a huge national mourning. These events are “deeply regrettable”, said a spokesman for the Prime Minister Friday 14, ensuring that “Downing Street apologized to Buckingham Palace”.
The photograph had gone around the world: April 17, 2021, Queen Elizabeth II, 95, faces the coffin of her husband in the Saint-Georges chapel of Windsor. It stands alone, rules of social distancing obliges. Prince Philip is a controversial character, but the British communities widely with the mourning of their sovereign, ultra-popular, while tens of thousands of them cry their deaths from COVID-19. Even in Belfast, young people from Protestant neighborhoods end street fights caused by their rejection of the North Irish protocol, with respect for the queen.
Culture of impunity
Yet the night before, the wine flows to waves on the ground floor of 10, Downing Street where two parties beat their full, one in honor of James Slack, the director of communication From Boris Johnson, who leaves his duties to become deputy editor of Sun. With a luxury of detail, the Telegraph, strong support until then the Prime Minister, says that the music was insured by Shelley Williams-Walker, Mr. Johnson Special Advisor. The bottles were bought at Co-op, a supermarket at the end of the Strand (the boulevard passing in front of Downing Street) and transported in a suitcase. At the end of the evening, in the closed gardens of Downing Street, a convive has even tried the swing of Wilfred (18 months), the son of Boris and Carrie Johnson, and broke him.
Boris Johnson was not present that night: he had already gone for his second home checkers, says Telegraph. Nevertheless, this “Booze Party” shows how much a culture of impunity seems to have largely developed at the heart of the British executive. People charged with defining health constraints were the first, obviously, not to respect them.
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