A gaggle of round 100 wig-wearing Boris Johnson ‘look-a-likes’ are partying outdoors Downing Road whereas belting out chants of ‘it is a work occasion’.
In a tongue-in-cheek nod to the brewing ‘partygate’ row, the revellers, wearing fits and sporting paper masks of the Prime Minister’s face, have been noticed dancing to music on Whitehall.
The group, some draped in Union Jack flags and others carrying beer bottles, have been heard chanting ‘my identify is Boris’ and ‘it is a work occasion’.
It comes because the Prime Minister faces but extra flack over the partygate row following additional revelations about conduct at Downing Road throughout final yr’s lockdowns.
Final night time it was revealed that No 10 employees boozed at two leaving events the night time earlier than the Queen grieved alone at Prince Philip’s funeral.
It’s claimed that in one occasion, within the basement of No10, aids had been boozing so ‘excessively’ that one particular person was despatched to a close-by Co-op with a suitcase on wheels to fill with wine, beer and spirits.
There was even a disco the place employees DJed and it grew to become so raucous that one attendee broke child Wilfred Johnson’s swing set, in accordance with the Telegraph.
The most recent revelations got here simply days after Boris Johnson apologised to MPs within the Home of Commons after attending a ‘carry your individual booze’ backyard get together at No. 10.
Nonetheless his apology sparked a backlash after claiming that he believed the drink-fuelled occasion, which passed off at a time solely two individuals had been allowed to satisfy outdoors in a public area, was ‘a piece occasion’.
Chants of ‘my identify is Boris’ and ‘it is a work occasion’ outdoors Downing Road as possibly 100 bewigged Boris lookalikes jig round on the street. Totally surreal pic.twitter.com/3g6BCK1Hzl
— Liz Bates (@wizbates) January 14, 2022
A gaggle of wig-wearing Boris Johnson ‘look-a-likes’ are partying outdoors Downing Road whereas belting out chants of ‘it is a work occasion’
In a tongue-in-cheek nod to the brewing ‘partygate’ row, the group, wearing fits and sporting paper masks of the Prime Minister’s face, have been noticed dancing to music on Whitehall
The group, some draped in Union Jack flags and carrying beer bottles, have been heard chanting ‘my identify is Boris’ and ‘it is a work occasion’
It comes because the Prime Minister faces but extra flack over the partygate row following extra revelations about conduct at Downing Road throughout final yr’s lockdowns
It comes as as we speak Mr Johnson has stated sorry to the Queen over a lockdown-busting leaving do in Downing Road simply hours earlier than Prince Philip’s funeral.
The PM’s spokesman stated an apology had been made to Buckingham Palace over the ‘regrettable’ behaviour in April final yr.
‘It’s deeply regrettable that this passed off at a time of nationwide mourning and No10 has apologised to the Palace,’ the spokesman stated.
Nonetheless, it’s understood an official known as the Palace and aides refused to say whether or not Mr Johnson – who was not on the booze-fuelled occasion – can be talking to the monarch personally concerning the problem.
Earlier, James Slack, who’s now deputy editor of The Solar newspaper, stated sorry for the ‘anger and harm prompted’ by the occasion on April 16, which he stated ‘mustn’t have occurred on the time that it did’.
‘I’m deeply sorry, and take full accountability,’ he stated.
He stated he couldn’t remark additional because the matter had been referred to Sue Grey’s investigation. It’s understood the highest civil servant’s probe will think about the night time’s occasions, though it’s unclear whether or not she knew about them earlier than as we speak.
Keir Starmer accused Mr Johnson of ‘degrading the workplace of PM’ within the wake of the newest grim revelations, and may resign.
Mr Slack’s leaving get together was one among two held that night time – the opposite being for an outgoing official photographer at No 10.
Mr Johnson was already stated to be on his approach to Chequers when the revelry began.
However the revelations are yet one more blow to the PM, who didn’t stamp out a celebration tradition in No 10 at a time when tens of millions of Britons had been making big sacrifices by way of the pandemic.
England was in step two of the federal government’s roadmap on the time, which means there was a strict ban on any indoor gatherings of greater than two individuals from completely different households, and the restrict was six individuals outdoor.
Any bigger gatherings for work functions needed to be ‘fairly vital’, in accordance with the rules on the time. And there was a possible £10,000 fantastic for individuals who organised such occasions.
International Secretary Liz Truss risked inflaming the scenario additional by telling the general public to ‘transfer on’. ‘He has apologised, I feel we now want to maneuver on and speak about how we’re going to kind out points,’ she advised reporters.
Andrew Bridgen has change into the newest Tory MP to inform the Prime Minister to stop over ‘partygate’, insisting his place had change into ‘untenable’ due to the ‘ethical vacuum on the coronary heart of our authorities’.
A former Cupboard minister advised MailOnline the newest claims had been ‘terrible’. ‘It’s the cumulative impact. The events are piling up with homosexual abandon. The timing of this newest one is devastating,’ they stated.
At a stormy PMQs on Wednesday, Mr Johnson confessed that he spent 25 minutes at a ‘BYOB’ get together on Could 15, 2020 throughout the first nationwide lockdown, however insisted that he thought it was a ‘work occasion’ and was allowed beneath the foundations in place on the time
Tonight’s bombshell allegations — the primary that any lockdown-busting events passed off in 2021 — will pile additional strain on the embattled PM, who’s preventing for his political life over the ‘Partygate’ scandal. Pictured, a picture of an alleged lockdown-busting get together in No10 on Could 15, 2020
One Downing Road staffer was despatched to the Co-op on The Strand, subsequent to Trafalgar Sq., to fill a suitcase with extra booze
Downing Road employees allegedly boozed ‘excessively’ at two leaving events the night time earlier than the Queen was compelled to grieve alone her personal on the Duke of Edinburgh’s Covid-secure funeral final yr
‘Even when Johnson wasn’t current and did not know, what it says concerning the tradition at No10. He is already bought kind as somebody who’s detached to the foundations, they do not apply to him. He is clearly allowed a tradition in No10 to say something goes.’
On the eve of the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral, the place Her Majesty was set aside from her household due to social distancing, Downing Road employees danced within the basement and drank within the backyard, boozing so ‘excessively’ that one particular person was despatched to a close-by Co-op with a suitcase on wheels to fill with wine, beer and spirits.
There was even a disco the place employees DJed and it grew to become so raucous that one attendee broke child Wilfred Johnson’s swing set, in accordance with the Telegraph.
Witnesses claimed that round 30 individuals attended the 2 gatherings, which had been held in several components of the Downing Road advanced earlier than combining within the backyard.
It’s alleged that one of many teams moved outdoors at round midnight due to a worry that an excessive amount of wine was spilling on the basement carpet as they danced.
The paper reported {that a} No10 determine even ‘had a go’ on a toddler’s swing belonging to Mr Johnson’s son Wilf — and snapped it.
That Friday, Britain was in a interval of public mourning over the loss of life of Prince Philip, the nation’s longest-serving consort and the Queen’s husband of greater than 70 years. The heartbreaking image of her sat taking a look at his coffin, alone in St George’s Chapel at Windsor Fortress, has change into one of many defining photos of the pandemic.
‘It was a piece occasion within the basement really’: Footage of Boris Johnson disco dancing turns into large on-line hit as flood of memes over Downing Road events scandal continues
By Dan Gross sales for MailOnline
A video of Prime Minister Boris Johnson dancing with a lightsabre-wielding London Meeting member at a Christmas get together practically ten years in the past has re-emerged amid information of extra Downing Road events.
The widely-shared footage of what’s believed to be a 2013 bash set Twitter and Instagram ablaze as we speak.
One wag who posted it added the caption ‘It was a piece occasion within the basement really’.
The footage reveals Mr Johnson dancing with Jeanette Arnold OBE, who had been a member of the London Meeting since 2000.
Ms Arnold – who grew to become chair in 2015 – appears unlikely to be sharing a dancefloor with the PM sooner or later.
This week she tweeted her disgust on the studies of the No 10 lockdown breaking events.
She stated: ‘I doubt whether or not the PM has an sincere bone in his physique so regrettably he’s not going to do the respectable factor and resign.’
The PM regarded very youthful as he danced to the vigorous strains of All Night time Lengthy on the bash
The humorous movie confirmed the PM dancing with Jeanette Arnold OBE in 2013 as she held lightsabre
Mr Johnson having a whale of a time on the black and white checked ground
The dancing video reveals Mr Johnson and Ms Arnold dancing as she holds an illuminated blue lightsaber.
It’s really a Lucasfilm prop apparently given to the now-PM by the late Christopher Lee, who starred within the hit movies.
Web merriment at Mr Johnson’s rationalization of the Could 2020 get together confirmed no signal of abating as we speak.
One photoshop-savvy Twitter person created a brand new model of the Now That is What I Name A Get together Anthems – after all swapping the phrase ‘get together’ for ‘work occasion’.
One other modified Arsenal footballer Thomas Partey’s surname to the identical factor.
Elsewhere a photoshoot of the PM and Rishi Sunak with beer barrels was reappropriated for a predictable new objective.
And one prankster even joked concerning the Met Commissioner turning to music as a DJ named Cressida Decks.
witter person created a brand new model of the Now That is What I Name A Get together Anthems, altering it to ‘work occasion’.
Arsenal footballer Thomas Partey’s surname was modified to a unique phrase in a single meme
A photoshoot of the PM and Rishi Sunak with beer barrels was reappropriated to mock him
One joked concerning the Met Commissioner turning to music as a DJ named Cressida Decks.
James Corden was featured shouting get together on one tweet concerning the gatherings at No 10 and its gardens.
In the meantime an image of a nightclub rave was captioned as a ‘work occasion’ by one witty internet person.
A gaggle of individuals in a swimming pool holding drinks got comparable remedy.
And an illustration of a bunch of primates having a tea get together was captioned ‘One more work occasion for the cash worshipping cult’.
This morning the Prime Minister’s former director of communications apologised over a No 10 get together the night time earlier than the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral.
James Slack, who till final yr was Mr Johnson’s director of communications, apologised on Friday morning for the ‘anger and harm’ his leaving get together in April 2021 had prompted.
James Corden was featured shouting get together on one tweet concerning the gatherings at No 10
An image of a nightclub rave was captioned as a ‘work occasion’ by one witty internet person as we speak
A gaggle of individuals in a swimming pool holding drinks had been additionally described as a piece occasion
A drawing of a bunch of primates having a tea get together was captioned ‘One more work occasion for the cash worshipping cult’.
Mr Slack stated he took ‘full accountability’ and was ‘deeply sorry’.
It got here after The Telegraph reported that advisers and civil servants gathered after work for 2 separate occasions on April 16 2021, because the nation was in a interval of mourning after the loss of life of Prince Philip.
The occasions had been to mark the departures of Mr Slack and one of many Prime Minister’s private photographers, the newspaper stated.
The 2 occasions are stated to have began individually and later merged.