Sue Gray report in depth: how many times was Boris Johnson drunk in charge of a nation?
Isn’t it a shame that Sue Gray’s report into the drunken party culture that prevailed at Downing Street from early 2020 until late 2021 (at least) is so uneven.
Parts of it are thoroughly researched, but other parts – especially, it seems, where Boris Johnson is concerned, are amateurish.
Consider the report’s entry about a gathering in the Downing Street flat on the evening of November 13, 2020.
Ms Gray states that after the announcement that Dominic Cummings and Lee Cain were leaving, a meeting was held in the Number 10 flat to discuss the handling of their departure.
It started at 6pm, involving five special advisors, and Johnson himself turned up at 8pm. Food and alcohol were available and the “discussion” continued into the evening with people leaving at various points.
This was not a works gathering – it was a party.
If it had been a works gathering, then it would have taken place in an office – not the flat. Alcohol would certainly not have been available – have you ever been to a work meeting where booze was being served up to all and sundry? I haven’t! People attend work events to work – not to drink. And everybody would have stayed until the meeting was closed by its chair, if it were a works gathering.
Johnson was getting drunk with his mates in his flat and they simply pretended it was a works gathering to diddle the rules, or so it seems to me. Doesn’t it look that way to you?
Ms Gray’s report states she had to halt her investigation because the police inquiry began, and did not re-start it when the Met had finished their dog’s dinner of a probe because she did not think it was “appropriate or proportionate” to do so.
Is this because she feared that she would expose her boss’s lawbreaking further than it already has been?
I’ve looked in detail at just three events so far. All were parties, and Boris Johnson participated fully in all of them. At those times, he was drunk in charge of the nation – and these were times when the nation needed a sober hand at the helm.
It was a flagrant abuse of power that both the Met Police and Ms Gray seem to have been doing their utmost to cover up. Shame on them – and shame on all of us if we allow them to get away with it.
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I can’t help but wonder if this is not down to the alleged tweaking of the report by Barclay?
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/claims-boris-johnsons-chief-staff-27077757
I really don’t understand the attitude of so many who have a position of power or authority. Do they really believe that their position affords them privileges the rest of the minions are not entitled to?
It beggars belief.
Sorry, wrong question, it should be “How many times was Boris Johnson sober in charge of a nation?”