Ummm, I think you may have your years mixed up, it was May 2020, not May 2021.
Government advice at the time was to work from home if possible and not mix outside of your family, or at least not in groups of more than 6
Also add in what @pap has said above and I can see the outrage.
Yes, and workplaces were open and people were mixing. I was in work (I cannot do my job from home). I mixed with people. Risk was managed by LFT but the reality was people âmixedâ. I work in a brewery ⌠nuff said. People had drinks. Letâs worry about more important things.
The cunt is a liar. I hope he stays because it will fuck the tories.
Because they have broken, once again, their own guidance and lawsâŚ
What were the Covid rules on 20 May 2020?
Throughout the pandemic there has been a mixture of guidance and legal restrictions relating to behaviour likely to spread the virus.
Legal restrictions are underpinned by sanctions - where breaking the law could result in prosecution. Guidance - unless itâs also backed up in law - is not enforced by fines or court action, explains Stuart Nolan from the Law Society.
In terms of guidance :
The government said at the time that you could only meet one person from a different household outdoors and you had to follow social distancing guidelines.
When it came to workplace gatherings, the guidelines said: âWorkers should try to minimise all meetings and other gatherings in the workplace.â
They further said: âOnly absolutely necessary participants should attend meetings and should maintain 2m separation throughout.â Generally, workers were told to âreduce the number of people you spend time with in a work settingâ.
There were also a number of legal restrictions in place in May 2020:
People could not leave their homes - or be outside the place they live - without a reasonable excuse, which included work (where you couldnât work from home), exercise and getting things like food and medicine.
For people who broke these rules, the police in England could fine them ÂŁ100 for the first offence which could then double for each further offence up to a maximum of ÂŁ3,200.
It would be difficult to see how the Downing Street event would have been in line with these rules, argues barrister Adam Wagner.
âIf you were doing something which wasnât necessary for work then you werenât outside of your house [with] a reasonable excuse and you were potentially committing a criminal offence.â
However, Mr Wagner added that as the prime minister and his wife live in Downing Street they would not have technically left their home to attend the party.
Mr Wagner is involved in a case to bring a judicial review against the Met Police for not investigating the alleged parties.
The law also banned gatherings in a public place of more than two people, unless they were all members of the same household or the gathering was âessential for work purposesâ. However, lawyers have noted that Downing Street is not a public place.
1922 Committee are meeting tonight. Douglas Ross, leader of the Scottish Tories, is calling for him to resign.
Just after Carrie got the place redecorated as well. Iâll suspect sheâll have the painters in for a long time if Boris is ousted.
Brilliant
Heâs going to ruthlessly bore Boris into resigning?
Theyâve got to do something exciting, itâs their centenary. 
WTF?
In what version of reality did someone think tonight would be a good time for Boris to do a Party Political PowerPoint?
âChancellor Rishi Sunak, who has been visiting a pharmaceutical in the West Country, has not been available for interview.â
Pencilled in to take the reins? 
One potentially good outcome of Borisâ downfall is that his successor might punt that supercilious cunt Ress-Mogg into the long grass
I reckon it will be Gove. No-one likes the cunt so would certainly not have invited him to any parties. Heâs clean as a whistle in that regard.
Not sure that youâre putting this in the correct context.
At its heart, this is about the PM and pals driving a coach and horses through the very authoritarian rules they themselves created, while they set the police about prosecuting anyone flouting them in public.
It looks like this Omicron lark has quietened the COVID thing a bit in terms of severity, but if we ever had to return to more restrictions, Boris has absolutely no authority to insist we follow the rules and many people arenât going to.
His continued presence in the role is a public health risk.
From BBC
â Johnson has now cancelled a scheduled visit to Lancashire because a family member has tested positive for Covidâ
Hiding from the media more like.
Ffs
I donât think we can afford the required security 
It wonât be Gove.
But if it is, you can safely assume that the party (or the 1922) have no interest in being re-elected next time round.
