
Lockdown partygoers at Tory HQ actually posed for a photo – 17 scathing responses
We don’t know whether people will be able to get a home testing kit, a PCR test or a booster appointment today, after problems with all three over the last two days, but if you need piss for anything you’ll definitely be out of luck because the Conservative Party has taken it all.
EXCLUSIVE: Extraordinary image of raucous Christmas party thrown by Tory aides at party HQ during coronavirus restrictions last year.
Party hats, drinks, an entire buffet – while we were all banned from meeting just one other person socially indoors.https://t.co/ykGoZZGckk
— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) December 14, 2021
We’d like to see MPs try to spin this one as being somehow necessary for work, since – frankly – a lot of those poses aren’t even necessary for parties and they definitely wouldn’t make it easier to get the filing done.
Pippa Crerar’s latest scoop on the Tory shenanigans resulted in the immediate resignation of the party’s organiser, former London Mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey, from his post as chair of the London Assembly’s Police and Crime Committee.
Well I think it was nice for Shaun Bailey to invite all of the people who voted for him to attend his party
— Matt Chorley (@MattChorley) December 14, 2021
It may well have repercussions for the other 23 staff and guests present, though presumably not prosecution by the Met Police, as the flagrant disregard of Covid rules took place in the past.
Here’s how people have been reacting to the news.
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Despite the health risks, heroic Tory party workers swiftly come to the aid of a staffer who collapsed choking on a cheese ball. pic.twitter.com/RdhqrQZHxR
— Armando Iannucci (@Aiannucci) December 14, 2021
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THEY EVEN GOT CATERING IN https://t.co/gciab5A4Yx
— Angela Rayner (@AngelaRayner) December 14, 2021
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Shaun Bailey will get the headlines but what on earth is billionaire Tory donor & property developer Nick Candy doing there? https://t.co/LKPyymYsHO
— James Oh Brien (@mrjamesob) December 14, 2021
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"Has that blasted photographer gone?" pic.twitter.com/1qJIyZLvlH
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) December 14, 2021
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Some bubble 🕺 💃 🎉 https://t.co/pFaoidFxYF
— Gary Neville (@GNev2) December 14, 2021
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One of these things is not like the other. One of these things doesn’t belong. pic.twitter.com/ksPZukKDJZ
— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) December 14, 2021
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Full marks to Shaun Bailey for resigning as soon as he's caught attending a party during lockdown. That's what anyone with even a shred of integrity would do.
— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) December 14, 2021
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See that table on the left? That's catering. Some low-paid workers had to prepare that food and arrange those dishes and set up the trays and burners and then go back later to clean it all up, booze and pathogens and all, and then they couldn't see their families. https://t.co/3krdyOhXXN
— Heather Burns (@WebDevLaw) December 14, 2021
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The fact they took a photo of them violating rules millions were forced to endure shows they are as contemptous of ordinary people as they are plain thick. https://t.co/Lj3T0Plcqg
— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) December 14, 2021