Scrutable

The Guardian wrote:[George] Freeman, the science minister, said that he did not know if a Christmas party was held in Downing Street - but that all the guidance was followed. Asked by Justin Webb on the Today programme if there was a party, Freeman replied: “I’ve no idea. I wasn’t there.” But he went on: “But I’m told by those who were that all the guidance was observed.” When it was put to him that, if the guidance was followed, then there can’t have been a party, be because they weren’t allowed, he replied: “I can’t say, I wasn’t there.” When Webb tried again, Freeman just gave the same answer. But he did say that he had “checked” and that he had been told by people who were there that “all the guidance was followed”. As the Telegraph’s Cat Neilan points out, there was an obvious hole in Freeman’s argument.

El Pollo Diablo wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 02, 2021 12:41 pm

“.. all the guidance was observed.” ... “all the guidance was followed”...

purplehaze wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:32 pm

The Met don't do retrospective crimes.

I'm wondering how many imprisoned due to cold cases being reopened are now going to appeal.

Lew Dolby wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:07 pm

purplehaze wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 05, 2021 1:32 pm

The Met don't do retrospective crimes.

I'm wondering how many imprisoned due to cold cases being reopened are now going to appeal.

Yep, they only investigate crimes that haven't happen yet !! WTAF !!

“There’s obviously several thousand of people who work on this estate and I’d be surprised if there weren’t some lifestyle users of drugs among them, I have to say.”

I'd watch out for anyone with a misplaced sense of confidence or who is excessively disorganised or who rambles on incoherently about children's TV characters at 10am on a Monday morning. They probably call themselves things like "Mikey G", or "Boris Jizzle" or "the Right Honourable Member for Chipping Sodbury" or something too. Bit of a White Christmas with lots of "Snow" if you know what I mean.

Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 05, 2021 4:48 pm

The Met certainly has a bias towards prosecuting minority reports.

FlammableFlower wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 06, 2021 2:02 pm

I wonder if anyone will ever be able to drug test the loos in No10?

FlammableFlower wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 07, 2021 10:11 am

Those Ros Atkins items are very good, and that one is particularly damning. I love how they have clips of people and then are immediately refute them.

De Peppa's school report, 1982 wrote:"Boris really has adopted a disgracefully cavalier attitude . . . Boris sometimes seems affronted when criticised for what amounts to a gross failure of responsibility (and surprised at the same time that he was not appointed Captain of the School for next half): I think he honestly believes that it is churlish of us not to regard him as an exception, one who should be free of the network of obligation which binds everyone else.”

tenchboy wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 07, 2021 2:58 pm

And again... aah fur wha now talks about something else entirely.
Both speaker and starmer should say ' w'd the right onerable c.nt just answer the f.cking question!?'
They're both loaded, set up for life, plenty of work w'd follow, they don't need this...
Just once!!!!

The recording is of a rehearsal on December 22 for Downing Street's proposed daily TV media briefings, which Ms Stratton was set to front before they were later abandoned.

Staff in the 9 Downing Street press room pose mock questions to help with her preparation.

Ed Oldfield, adviser to the prime minister, asks: “I’ve just seen reports on Twitter that there was a Downing Street Christmas party on Friday night, do you recognise those reports?”