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.
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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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