Dominic Cummings says PM agreed 'bring your own booze' party should go ahead
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- Published on Jan 16, 2022
- Boris Johnson's ex-top aide Dominic Cummings has accused the Prime Minister of lying to parliament about parties in Downing Street.
Referring to the "bring your own booze" party organised by principal private secretary Martin Reynolds on 20 May 2020, Mr Cummings said the Prime Minister had agreed the party should go ahead.
At least two other people had said the party should not happen, the former aide said.
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It's a shame it only becomes serious when Boris lies to parliament.. not the public.
@karl smith who cares what he looks like he needs to just go
I like the weathered hair look as PM & not The Starmer Look 🤣
@Catherine Hobbs my birthday lol
@Michael Weller remember remember the 5th of November
@Be Real yeah sounds good to me
When one of these parties took place in December the year before last, I was in hospital and nearly died of Covid-19. Many people lost their lives and loved ones from Covid-19, and I think it is disgusting that these parties ever took place at all. It is disrespectful to all those who have been affected. Not only should Boris Johnson be answerable, but also those who attended these ill founded events should be made answerable, too!
@Fish_speckle she wasn't expecting them to, she needed a doctor to arrange for palliative care at home, no one came.
People at that time could only meet 1 other person and outside not indoors, not a hundred other people for drinks and jollies.
Many people in this country have short and selective memories.
@Hope springs that isn’t a direct link to the parliament, nhs hospitals were close to full capacity and the government couldn’t have just created spaces for non covid patients
i agree
@Blossom why?
In no other country would this man still be in a job, embarrassing what we’ve become over the past 5-6 years.
Trump??
BJ should take some lessons from Narendra Modi.
*cough* Donald Trump *cough*
@EE CC they had no choice..
This was why Boris was so hesitant to sack Cummings when he broke the rules, said at the time he has dirt on Boris, time will tell, and here we are
@Giant Dwarf567 he got sacked in the end
@Luke A and that's ok, that's your choice, but I think after watching Boris sniggering at his own despicable behaviour yesterday many of us are just becoming more angry and want all of them out, they have ruined lives and caused many unnecessary deaths these last 2 years, it's unforgivable
@david faulds That's like saying all Americans are fat, or all British are polite, it's nonsense.
Now we know why Boris didn't sack Cummings. He's got too much on him.
Cummings and Johnson will cancel each other out both their careers are over, yesterday's men.
@Jordan Cummings and the staff at No. 10 have had plenty of photo opportunities that can be presented and now manipulated. Let's await the findings of the inquiry
Everyone has broken the rules at some point
Has he lied to Parliament? Has he ever told the truth to Parliament?
Lies again? Is it rude to stop a live interview through video when the speaker had not yet completed message?
He didn't study the truth module at university, can't blame him for not knowing what that thing even is. 🤔
I don't have a great regard for Cummings but I am loving this drip drip drip.
I’m in two minds as it’s all becoming stupidly stressful!! We all have to brace ourselves for the next scandal… like wtf 😆
I agree. I think it’s only the tip of the iceberg.
I'm no Tori but seeing Cummings twisting the knife does give me some respect for the man
Doesn't matter why he is doing it if it's true!
Same thing over here in the USA. The focus is on drinking parties but would people be less outraged if the gatherings were hors d'oeuvres? Imo, No, people were not allowed to have coffee together let alone drinks. 99% of people would have loved a get together but there were fines, public humiliation, quarantine. And all we hear is we are over reacting. It’s not the UK alone, it’s most “leaders” thinking they are special.
bang on point!
This just confirms the reason Johnson didn’t sack Cummins…he had too much on him.
Corrupt to the core!!
Cummings is playing a blinder in all of this, I luv it.
@Night Owl Yeah we dont care what he says. Let him bring the evidence, such as these "photos" and its golden. Better than Eastenders.
@J1465 I concur!
Playing a Blinder! Needs to get his eyes tested then! Maybe take a drive in the country!
When the rats turn on each other......
Yep, better than eastenders.
My dad passed away from covid complications in November 2020 , my gripe is that I wasn't even able to attend the funeral as I live abroad due to covid restrictions .
And our politicians were not abiding by the same rules as us .
so sorry for your loss, i agree.
So sorry for your loss.
How awful sorry for your loss. Honestly this government should be ashamed
And once again, nobody addresses the massive elephant in the room: how come these people were unafraid of infection, when they told us that just breathing from 6 feet away could 'kill granny'? Surely the point isn't ignoring the rules, but how come they could just ignore covid?
@Kat Adam dont think so.... evidence is pointing in an entirely different way....
One reason could be that early medication’s that we already have an existence can work monoclonal antibodies And antivirals antihistamine steroids secondary bacterial infection antibiotics and any clotting starts anti-clotting medication
Spot on!!! let them have this diversion, our questions will still need to be answered
Furious! I feel physically sick…I lost my grandad, not allowed to be with him in final moments or at the funeral….!!!! I’ve never hated anyone in my life….I cannot forgive him not even look at him…
@Fiddle Castro how many were in that party out of curiosity. Was it by invitation or were they already in work
@Antony Stringfellow Yeah i agree. Its a prob a little bit to abstract for a lot of people though.
Sorry about your loss but much worse than these parties is the fact that many died because the government decided giving public money to their friends was more important than saving lives.
While UK PPE companies were selling their products to foreign governments, the UK government was giving money to people who had no connection to or experience with PPE production.
I'm a little surprised that these criminal acts, that resulted in many deaths, are not seen by the British public as being more important.
Come on Cummings spill the beans. There's more to this than parties. As much as I dislike Cummings, I love how they will all throw each other under the Bus.
I really hope he has saved the best till last - and he has a real biggy up his sleeve...
Never mind The Bus! Team Britain needs a New Coach!
Under a Brexit bus with another great big lie on the side.
I said it when dom got the heave..."watch this space...lots more to come"...would be good if the weasel took down big dog...
Saying "Bring your own booze" that's so it keeps it under the radar, knowing it was wrong to be holding partys
Cummings will destroy boris and good for him keep going cummings bring them all down
Lol. He lies to parliament every week.. Never held accountable...
Why am I not surprised anymore by anything this government does. Also am I the only person who thinks listening to so many top Tories talking about waiting for Sue Gray's inquiry is looking more and more like the whole thing is going to be a whitewash.
Sue Gray's claim to fame was lobbying to block freedom of information requests.
What I understand from this Sky News segment is that they are saying it's ok to lie to the public but it's a crime to lie to parliament???
At the same time people were fined for sitting on a park bench!!
He lied to the queens face...and here people are surprised he lied again 🤦♀️
With friends like Dominic C one does not need any enemies😂😂
THIS IS THE SAME CUMMINGS THAT CLAIMED HE ACTED REASONABLY AND LEGALLY WHEN DRIVING 260 MILES FROM HIS HOME TO DURHAM DURING THE LOCKDOWN ?
He should have been fired then but he had seen too much apparently
Yes also GSK on the same road as Barnard Castle.
Was doms mum a director on pharma?.
Could he have been to big pharma ?
I think Boris has beaten him hands down, Boris is a serial offender.
It's not about the party it's about lying to parliament that's more serious
@Skylar Jones what’s your solution? I didn’t vote for him but it’s outside of my control and not worth my time worrying about.
Oh really...not about vulnerable people dying in care homes, or no PPE, or 36 billion on a track and trace, or millions in croney contracts...but lying to parliament is very naughty.
@Bono it always mattered to me, long before he became PM! However, it's an infinite source of frustration to know that it doesn't seem to matter to others! I mean really- a PM that regularly lies to parliament and to the public but laughs it off as though it's no big deal - and people going along with that?!
@Bono how operation save big dog going, there is no excuse for hypocrisy when it involves the extermination of human rights and more generally... humans...
Cummings is out for blood and he'll get it. What goes around comes around. BoJo showed him the door, told him to get out immediately and not to come back. BoJo will be closing the door very shortly, from the outside.
I wouldn't put Boris in charge of looking after the coats at one of Clowning Street's parties.
Never mind The Coats!. Just JACKET in Boris!
🤣
Dominic Cummings is a perfect example of how these psychopaths will stab each other in the back if they feel it will help them.
Honest Dom !! He has no credibilty
Honest Cummings
For someone who waited over a year how underhand.
Hes just a liar the same
It's what politics has and will be all about unfortunately
They're just setting everyone up for the new "team" ... cos the old teams had already lost the trust of the public.
the new team better get ready for a few surprises, half the reason they're hanging on is so they can massage statistics and shred evidence
Never have I ever been so embarrassed to live in this country as I have in the last month.
I'm ashamed to be a brit
Only this month? 😆 😆
Cheerio
Find something better to do with your time.
Yes, Cummings is accurate, a good few people were after a purge of the apparatchiks at the time. Many who were are either backbenched or gone completely. I've never been a parliamentarian, but I am a Tier One Constitutional Lawyer known to John Bercow.
How can anyone still give this LIAR the benefit of the doubt?? Shameless.
@j bh They're both liars. The difference is that Cummings lost his job because Carrie didn't like him, its just Johnson's turn to lose his job for lying to the country. Again...
Although Boris should carry the can (no pun intended) anybody who attended the party is equally at fault. Everybody has responsibility for themselves and if they broke the rules they should all be prosecuted, including Cummings,
agreed, and all who knew..... we were advised to snitch on our own neighbours dont forget.
Not really, they're not the prime minister who crested the rules they were inviting people to break so what'd with the false equivalence?
In any other walk of life, job wise, Johnson would have been sacked. Also, what other workplace allows alcohol on site, let alone, drinking on site.
@Mark Banner It was always so in Banking in the City. Solicitors usually have a well stocked drinks cabinet. I almost forgot, so does the Catholic church !
Hedge Funds stock FREE alcohol in staff refrigerator and drink it during work hours.
If your job is to persuade people to do dodgy things what better way to do it than get them per hissed at an illegal party, breaking their own rules.
Pubs, restaurants, cinemas?
@Mark Banner lol doesn't look lol that deflection is working with the wider public, unlucky gammon.
This guy needs to be careful, and if I was him I wouldn't be taking any trips around Paris in a black Merc 😂
He might have to… just to test his eyesight lol
Cummings needless betrayal of the office of PM may not go unnoticed by the security services, who traditionally place the value of life below that of keeping one's mouth shut.
That sinister 'Spitting Image' puppet of Cummings is more of a likeness than I imagined - in fact it is almost the real thing
Yeah going through any tunnels 🥴🥴
phillip's gone!
Steve Baker is a honourable man, he would make a excellent Primeminister.
The focus is very much on discrediting the current leadership, not on suggesting any better possible alternatives..
throw the guy a leaving party and he'll still turn up to the office on Monday
Here we have Japans prime minister resigning over a health concern but BoJo gripping his role as tightly as possible - even if on his death bed
@Aisha Arshad Alam nonsense. They use ivermectim. Ask the Japanese prisoners of war about their honor. My dad was one
Japan have all but stopped the vaccine
I love the Japanese prime minister
@Aisha Arshad Alam like all groups. Only when it suits them
Well, Japan is known for having honour embedded in their culture and values. Britain clearly doesn't.
It's like watching a Netflix series play out in real life.....
No one, not even the greatest satirists alive at the moment could write this.
Can't Boris just be honest for once ...
it's not in his blood
No, he's a Tory.
The problem is he has told that many lies, he doesn't know what the truth is anymore.
Everything is one big story mashed up together
No chance
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Every single one of them that was there should loose their jobs.
@Galerak Yes if it would have been the likes of us, we would have all been dismissed from our jobs
@Kevin Beck I haven't seen a list of names for that party or the one in the cellar. Funny that innit. It's like they know they did wrong and now they're trying to hide.
Correct, we would not have lasted the week, funny how none of them have said yes i was there
If I recommended that someone didn't do something like that I would have emailed so that there is written evidence that this was sent. Would be interested to see if Cummings emailed it
Wow, the PM gave a green light for the booze to be brought in and the party to begin.😳
Just forget about parties just fire the guy already
Italy had Berlusconi, we have Boris. The only difference being Belusconi admitted to the parties.
Berlusconi didn’t hold parties whilst in lockdown!
true
Unfortunately Berlusconi now is going out of his way to become president!!!! Unbelievable....
Funny it’s taken Cummings nearly 2 years to bring all this out into the open … doesn’t make him look good
Embittered ex employee
Prolly already tried the blackmail route ...
Hmph! Dominic Cummings has only demonstratably shown how duplicitous he is! I have never liked him and equally pronounced as my distrust of our current PM. I trust neither of them!!
He’s got away with lying to Parliament on other occasions. It seems to be no big deal to big dog.
'big Dog" snollygoster a more appropriate name. An old Etonian snollygosyer.
Trying to distract us with the licence fee thing won't work.
Every person who attended should be fined, like all the others who broke the lockdown rules, and all the money should go to the NHS.
The police who let the people in should also be held accountable.
Would loved to have been a fly on the Wall at the meeting between Gray and Johnson
If there was such a meeting Matthew?
Boris has to be one of the most famous drug addicts. There's no other explanation for his actions.
On a Trip alright! An Ego Trip!
We need a political reform i swear. If this was germany he would be gone
We'd also have 1 million unregistered refugees....
i've been blogging about this for a few years now, we need a peoples union and a peoples fund. These politicians forget they are public servants, if we had a peoples union, they would be more answerable to us as a nation. We could remove certain things like their ability to be paid for knighthoods ets, and independant watchdog, and we'd have our own money too...... if we were hiring people to run a business, would we employ any of these people, I think not.
Get rid of first past the post for a start. Gives Labour and Conservatives too much power for getting such a low percentage of votes (relative). Bit of competition might make them actually need to reform.
Not just Germany; any other country other than America and he’d probably be gone. But a lot of other world leaders would have the common decency to not need kicking out and would walk
Monty Python script writers couldn't have bettered this little debacle. Cleese, Palin, Idle etc would have had a ball acting this out. Maybe a new series of Fawlty Towers filmed inside number 10?
The Life of Boris.
great idea!!!
Never seen The Thick of It? its exactly what goes on in number 10 ahaha absolute chimps behind the controls
@J Rivett FFS! Prime Minister
Fawlty Gov? Fawlty 10? 10 fawlty street??? johnson playing himself.... he wouldnt know if it was a set or a workevent anyway.... add in frank spencer, hugh grant, mr bean and dig up benny hill oh add in trump and scott mcborrisson
That’s the problem with our country we’ve lost our backbone there nothing in place to protect us when corruption occurs
The only difference is we accept it, time and again. Would French citizens be at home rolling their eyes or commenting on TheXvid?
Corruption occurs in every walk of life, it's endemic. The only difference is the scale.
Johnson is clinging on like an unpleasant dangleberry.
Dominic Cummings the man who drove 400 miles on the motorway to test his eyesight during lockdown, totally discredited !!!
Alexander 'boris' Johnson simply doesn't believe any rules apply to him, until they do they won't and he'll get away with it
Why not put the Family name 'Alexander Kemal' ?
he actually smirks when he answers too..... he cant help it
Absolutely agree. It’s right out of the Trump playbook and for some reason it seems to work every single time.
@J C er yes
Breaking news Borris walks away with no criminal charges!
Violate the ordinance not criminal law.
Breaking news he may have lied to Britain but he hasn’t broken any laws
We are only human he says people make mistakes" we couldn't tell the judge that.being rich has exemptshons.
Being rich buys much better legal representation. The law is no different, the best story teller wins the day.
As Cummuings was in his job at the time will Gray be interviewing and including the evidence from Mr Cummings and the people to whom Mr Cummings refers ?
Everybody loves a work event. Imagine the tax expense claims that might come out of it.
I had such respect for Dominic in the early days as he trued to change the way forward but now may respect has gone as he is a bitter man undoing all the good work he did.
Yeah because nobody where I live was having parties and constantly breaking the rules.
Oh come on now! After getting a superb education in honesty & dignity from his respected Father how could anyone even suggest such a disgusting thing.The mind boggles.
I've said all along that Boris is not MP material. He is like an overgrown schoolboy!
Dianne Abbot as a mother law would be my worst nightmare. Give me Boris every time.
Not that I support Boris in any way shape or form but to take Cummings word for anything is a bit rich considering what happened with him !!
I love how they forgot that Dominic Cummings is as much as a narcissist as they are to turn on them in a second and kick them when they are down.
We all.know that boris wouldn't have locked down or closed anything and let us all out to party and carried on regardless but boris isn't in charge he just does as he's told and keeps taking the payments
Just shows how snakey they all are, Boris wiped Dominic’s 30k council tax bill clean then Dominic stabs him in the back, just shows how fake they are all, they’re all the same, tories I mean.
I want to know who is paying for all this wine and crates of Moet ? The taxpayer???
Time to oust the oaf. A national embarrassment.
So just checking do people believe that the guy who travelled during lockdown said no to the party? No, didn't think so.
So that means it's OK then because Cummings went also
Is that Dominic Cummings who wrote a blog post and then changed the date on it to make it look like he predicted covid
😂
I doubt very much that he raised safety concerns.
i low key love watching them turn against each other like 🐀’s 😂
And another question. These different functions were drinks claimed on expenses?
Your comment should be at the top of the list! the answer is probably yes!
OMG more great news for Boris Johnson!!
Many people must be refunded ,all those fines,but not 1 for Boris.
Are we just going to forget that Cummings ignored the rules too?
Cummings, when he left No10 as an ex-employee should have had a restraining order placed on him.
good old dom, sticking it to bojo at every turn, calling boris a liar...........tell us something we dont all know dom !
Why aren't all the people who've spend the last 2 years informing us via youtube that they've never followed covid restrictions not coming out in support of Johnsons partying?
because they dont care? its a complete non story in their eyes.
Together with all the small business owners who gratefully accepted the grants and all those who sat at home on furlough and getting paid for it.
People are such hypocrites.
Boris shouldn’t have started telling us lies when he was caught. No shame and no style. Resign Johnson.
Have we forgotten Mr Cummins drove how many miles to see if his eye sight was working. How dare he put other road users at risk. And of course he drove out of London to his second home when he should have stayed at his 1st home. Who lies!!!!!!
Well, Boris does !!!!!!!
Both of them, but only one does it from the front bench.
Amazing this is happening now when a significant number of care workers are going to be replaced with asylum seekers. But this is the 247 story.... Also distracting from expenses, the immigration budget going over 1 million per day, the EU carbon tax pricing plan con and so on and so on....
How much longer are the British public going to allow Boris to take them for complete & utter fools. First Brexit & now this, he's made us all look fools on the world stage time & time again.
Brexit... so your a remoaner? Don't say the British public because they voted for brexit.
Do people not get bored of being outraged by politicians lol.
It's the same here in oz too, they are all corrupt! Time to GO,
Oh of course we can trust everything Dominic says! Hey Sky, is this a case of my enemy is not friends when we both hate the same person?
"A big lockdown cricket" is what made the pandemic worthwhile.
Said by the man who drove 300 hundred miles to 'test his eyesight'. Sounds legit.
It's about time PMs and MPs were held to the same standards everyone else has to hold. They should stop acting like the rules don't apply to them, only then will we start to trust them again
Of *course* Johnson knew about the Reynolds email invite! As a former parliamentary private secretary said, "it's inconceivable" he wouldn't have known; besides, the party happened in 10 Downing Street: how would Johnson have not known about that for goodness sakes?! And Johnson has lied to parliament many many times!
From now on, when someone mentions the Conservative Party, I'm going to have to ask for clarification as to what they mean.
What people need to understand is Cummings didn't go willingly, I fully believe the information he provides is true, he wants to screw Boris over and knows full well he's got enough to get the job done
Boris accused of lying by an even bigger liar with a longer nose.
... in Dom we trust... 🤣🤣🤣 media are so two faced they couldn't look themselves straight in a hall of mirrors... 🤣
Like a remix of SHAGGY'S old song "It wasn't me"
DC came in and he caught me red-handed
Sneaking with the drinks next door.
He caught me boozing by the counter (It wasn't me)
He saw me drinking on the sofa (It wasn't me)
We even danced in the disco (It wasn't me)
He saw me sloshed me on the camera (It wasn't me)
He saw receipts from the Co-op (It wasn't me)
He saw my invite to the party (It wasn't me)
He heard the DJ play it louder (It wasn't me).......................
It's time for him to go the world has no need for corrupt public servants .
Question why do people feel they need someone over them ? An they don't care if their corrupt are not as long as they have someone. Today's public servants sees themselves as gods rules religion totalitarianism
And replace him with who?
Then let it fall we all should be tired of corrupt public servants
It can't function without them, there would be no one left.
One of the most powerful men in the world brought to his knees by a blog. LOL
Can we all thank Cummings for his help along the way the past several months
@James Golbey who even cares if he’s guilty as well
We must really thank the UK'S Behavioural Insights Team and their team of online influencers for their part in molding the behaviour of the british public. Also not forgetting the british army's 77th brigade of the 6th (United Kingdom) Division, 13th Signal Rregiment, GCHQ, The Tavistock institute, The Tony Blair Institute to Global Change and SAGE psychologists as well as many others I've not mentioned. Their tactics, tenacity and their overall ability to control the narrative by way of various programming techniques and by flagging and removing dangerous content, comments and misinformation online, is what is really helping us to achieve our overall agenda.
The definition of pointlessness: Sue Gray interviewing Johnson and expecting anything but lies and half truths.