People are upset about the party because they missed loved ones funerals.

Some people have some fairly good answers elsewhere in the thread, but I'll offer some alternatives.

I think many people are annoyed by all of it, but when it comes to the general public they're not as politically aware as some people. I'd say the main reasons this story is a bigger factor are:

1. Because the general public are largely controlled by the media and Johnson has expired his usefulness to the establishment now, not last year.
2. It's a far simpler concept to see wrongdoing in this circumstance, and harder to deny fault, rather than be aware of the cause and effect of various government policies having impacts on people remotely.
3. Likewise, his attempt to lie his way out of it, as usual, is all the more insulting when it's so brazen that even the most uninformed observer can see it's a lie.

I get enraged that partygate is the thing that might topple the clown car, not the corruption and spaffing away of tens of billions of pounds of money that could have been used to save lives rather than try to manufacture a way to keep the money mill grinding away.

The number of people who are generally critical thinkers that I have heard parrot the 'unprecedented circumstances ' tripe is disturbing.

SARS, MERS, Ebola, Swine flu, Bird flu they all had the potential do do this. Scientists have been warning for years about the risks of a pandemic.

What sort of government doesn't have contingency plans in place? That is without considering the lessons we could have learned from the Asian countries who used their experience of previous epidemics to deal with it effectively. Or the fact we watched Italy go to shit.

I think that many people are angry at the way the whole thing was handled. There were plans, years in the making, ready to go and rather than follow the science they decided to use nudge theory and care more about finances than people. So yeah, some folk are angry about that.

But the personal insult of the wide tongued cunt and good entitled buddies having parties while we had tears and loneliness is equally important.

For me, it pisses me off that while wide tongue was popping corks and laughing it up with his elite few, I was watching my daughter's character slowly disappear during lock down. They missed their birthdays, their holidays, their play dates. And probably rightly so given that the potential for the pandemic affect at the time was terrible.

But to know that we made that sacrifice and these fuckers just lapped up the caviar while we were stuck in doors?

Fuck them. And everything they hold dear.

Fuck them all.

[deleted]

I have always hated the Tories. Because of covid I was unable to visit my terminally ill dad in the hospice to say goodbye. With a great deal of time and support I was able to accept this because it was necessary I was doing my bit to keep people safe. And then I find out that Johnson and Co were living it up at fucking garden parties. I despise the whole party with every fibre of my being for that alone, but the covid "response" dwarfs all of that. Johnson should be on trial for mass murder, never mind a slap on the wrist from the Met.

#Too many liberals in this thread? Join r/GreenAndEXTREME today for a lib free experience!

We are partnered with the Left RedditⒶ☭ Discord server! Click here to join today! And Click here to follow r/GreenAndPleasant on Twitter.

I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.

Emotional reactions aren't always entirely rational.