As did the SNP, Labour, the Lib Dems, The Greens and just about every other political entity in the UK. - probably
I'd put money on the author of this scribble likely not following the rules to the letter regarding social gatherings, either.
That's not to say that I'm admonishing any of these people, just that if it honestly came as a shock that the Tories weren't following their own rules, then they're either a bit dim, a bit naive, or both.
I'm an incredibly solitary individual. I only really have one person that I regard as a truly close friend and don't really socialise beyond them and their immediate social circle. I like it that way. I don't drink, do drugs, have kids, prescribe to religion, watch football or really partake in many of the usual social activities that people traditionally enjoy, but even I found it hard going being cut off from the outside world to the degree that we were for so long. Fuck knows how normal people managed it!
Boris is a fucking clown, but there are far more important governmental indiscretions in regards to the Coronavirus pandemic than Bojo and his pals having a few drinks together. We should be focusing on those.
(, Sat 15 Jan 2022, 23:54, Reply)
ah, the "but he's doing it too, Miss" defence, employed to school children the world over to excuse bad behaviour
But I'd make two salient points
* we expect leaders and those making the rules for others to abide by to at least fucking follow them themselves if they expect and penalise us to. If you can't do that, don't be a leader then
* they weren't having a secret visit to their sick nan who they hadn't been able to see in months and it just got too much, dammit. they were getting sloshed in parties with the people they see everyday, anyway. Dont play the "big sacrifice" with these fuckers. It wasn't, they could just have easily not broken the rules and still physically seen and talked to them each day. They did it because they thought the rules don't apply to them, they're for the plebs
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 16 Jan 2022, 0:09,
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To be fair
A substantial portion of the populace uses that defence.
Of course it is for the plebs, Boris feels he is an exception and will therefore foster a culture of that.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 16 Jan 2022, 0:20,
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Like I said, I'm not admonishing them.
The old managerial mantra of "Never ask an employee to perform a task you wouldn't be prepared to perform yourself" is very, very apt in this situation. They were setting the example to which they expected us all to follow, and the fact that they broke those rules so soon after setting them, and believing they wouldn't get found out (!) is beyond moronic.
I just find this (largely) manufactured outrage over these parties a bit disingenuous. Did we really believe that they were following their own rules? I bloody didn't.
I suppose a part of the upset is in the confirmation of those suspicions. But still. The private contracts cronyism is a much more serious issue than 'partygate', and it's being swept under the rug completely by all this nonsense.
(, Sun 16 Jan 2022, 0:20, Reply)
I take your point that having a party in breach of regulations isn't the worse thing they've done
for me, like trump's near continuous dickishness while in office, this hardly moved the needle in my already shit opinion of them
but I don't think the anger is manufactured. You said yourself how difficult it was not seeing your close friends. A lot of people across britain have made similar sacrifices, and it has been one of the hardest things they've done in their lives.
So when they see the very leader and party in power that directed them to make this sacrifice, and many of us have followed the rules, ignore them for something as trivial as a work piss-up, that outrage isnt manufactured.
And while there will be hypocrites getting sanctimonious like there is with most things especially on the internet, there's a shitload of people who have followed the rules and done it hard only to have this shoved in their faces, and their anger is very real
Anyway, it was more for the billy bragg joke than the sentiment that I posted
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 16 Jan 2022, 0:30,
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No, but most of us are selfish cunts when it boils down to it.
It's just human nature.
(, Sun 16 Jan 2022, 0:21, Reply)
except it's not.
and yeah yeah libertarians will bang on that that's our instinct, but it's not. for every cunt acting selfishly, there are more behaving decently.
sure, people aren't saints, but most people did the right thing.
are you that sockcooker bloke?
(, Sun 16 Jan 2022, 0:58, Reply)
Not really, I'd guess at intermittently altruistic/selfish depending on the situation.
As usual, it's probably a spectrum of behaviour.
Being completely selfish is almost a pathology in itself.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Sun 16 Jan 2022, 1:35,
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Yeah human nature is to be selfish which is why we never developed communities or got influenced by kin selection or anything like that.
It's why most mothers eat their newborn babies and why as a species we place no value on family and friendship. Yes indeed, all the evidence supports the argument that human nature is selfishness.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Sun 16 Jan 2022, 14:11,
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You sound like a right laugh.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Sun 16 Jan 2022, 0:39,
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Fuck off
My wife wasn't allowed me by her side during the main bits of child birth (that's the bit where a woman has something outlandish come out of her foof [special lady garden] where in fairly recent years she just did a die). Where it's really important to do a big relax but she was just surrounded by strangers.
Fuck off you childish non-lived twat about your theoretical labour this, tories that.
If you're going to lead a team you need to be absolutely above all that and be above it all.
Oh jolly oh haha he's such a cad etc fuck off and lead the country. It's that the best we've got?!
China - that man is crushing a country of 1.4 billion and on track to be absolute leader completely controlling each one's life.
Russian - richest man ever despite gdp of less than japan, Italy, France South, korea and Canada...
Uk - some clown who does a big haha, oh jolly good old bean, gives priority PPE deals to his cabinet's buddies, went to eton and recited a kipling poem in Myanmar and lies shamelessly while taking bungs to do up his work address.
It is embarrassing.
(, Sun 16 Jan 2022, 1:36, Reply)
Do you think your lack of social contact explains your regular outbursts on here?
Have you considered that using /links as your therapist might not be very healthy behaviour?
(, Sun 16 Jan 2022, 7:48, Reply)