Online today, a parody video of Boris Johnson talking about Partygate with an anti-corruption officer unit was posted.
It shows footage of clips from the Prime Minister merged into a police interview conducted by Anti-Corruption Unit 12 or AC-12. This is the professional standards section that was featured in the smash crime drama.
This was posted on social media by Led By Donkeys (an anti-Brexit activist organization), with the caption: “If you have one shred compassion for all those family members who suffered so much and who lost so much,”
Jed Mercurio, who wrote Line of Duty for the BBC, also shared the satirical clip on Twitter.
According to the TV writer, it was “brilliant work” by the camapaigners.
An online spoof of Boris Johnson was interviewed by Line of Duty’s anti-corruption unit about Partygate.
The video was created by Led By Donkeys, an anti-Brexit group.
One of the show’s main characters, Superindent Ted Hastings, played by Adrian Dunbar, is seen to be grilling Mr Johnson about Partygate
Boris Johnson photographed himself at a wine and cheese event on May 17, 2020, was one piece of evidence in the mock interview.
These fictional officers were not impressed by the Prime Minister’s denials or rebukes.
Original series spent six seasons trying to figure out who H was, the mastermind behind OCG (organised crimes gang).
Superindentent Ted Hastings (played by Adrian Dunbar), DI Fleming (Vicky McClure) and DI Steve Arnott (Martin Compston) were the main characters in the show.
They are not the mystery man “H” but Boris Johnson, and they interview them in spoof footage.
In the real drama ‘H’ turned out to be a bumbling police detective within their own ranks.
However, in today’s parody video, DI Fleming, DI Arnott, and Superindent Havetings question Mr Johnson over his participation at a ‘bring you own booze’ garden party scheduled for May 20, 2020.
The video contains clips of Johnson explaining to Parliament that he believed implicitly that this was a work-related event and could technically be considered to have fallen within the guidelines. These were used strategically to answer the questions by the officers.
The video was quickly liked by more than 39,000 users on social media within two hours.
The clips of Boris Johnson answering questions about whether he was at Downing Street parties were cleverly merged with footage from the TV drama.
Other ‘evidence’ in the Line of Duty-style grilling was a photo of Mr Johnson’s spokeswoman, Allegra Stratton, joking about a Christmas party with fellow aides at a mock press conference (left) and a photo of Mr Johnson’s principal private secretary, Martin Reynolds, who invited more than 100 people to a ‘bring your own booze’ party on May 20 last year (right)
On social media, users quickly commented on the parody video that had almost 40,000 views in less than two hours
Twitter user Joanne Pen said: ‘If the Met won’t do it, at least we can always rely on AC-12’.
Prue Biddle, a Facebook user, said that the video was “utterly brilliant” and “spot on”.
It came after Boris Johnson insisted ‘categorically’ that ‘nobody told me’ a ‘BYOB’ bash in the Downing Street garden was not a work event – despite his former chief aide Dominic Cummings offering to swear on oath that he did.
The PM today denied lying about Partygate but admitted he was ‘deeply sorry’ for his ‘misjudgements’ as he desperately tried to defuse explosive claims from Mr Cummings that he misled Parliament.