Whilst the country had one of the highest death rates in the world from Covid-19, they were celebrating over Cheese and Wine and drinking themselves sick over a Karaoke machine.
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When they refused to learn lessons and allowed the virus to run riot in the second wave, killing more people than it had in the first, they instead prioritised Secret Santa.
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When they were texting colleagues about getting away with it, we were having to text our families telling them they couldn't come to their loved ones' funerals.
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The messages in the report show they knew how disrespectful they were being to the families they were failing, but that didn’t bother them.
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Not content with partying whilst he failed to protect our loved ones, the Prime Minister has now spent months ignoring and lying to us.
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He has treated us like they treated their cleaning staff and security who challenged their law breaking at the time: like we’re an inconvenience, like we’re dirt.
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The Tory MPs that have kept him in power are no better.
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They should know that just as we will never forget being apart from those closest to us whilst they passed away, or having to hold miserable funerals with only a handful of people, millions will never forgive them for the disrespect they've shown."
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"It’s clear there has been a culture at @10downingstreet that said the law did not apply to those who worked and lived there, even to the point that when a security guard challenged them, they were laughed at and mocked.
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Those laws that were so flagrantly breached were designed to protect people.
Nearly 200,000 people across this country have lost their lives to Covid-19.
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More people gathered to raise a glass to a departing colleague off to a new job than could gather and comfort each other at our loved ones funerals.
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"Like the rest of the country we struggle to see how these pictures show anything other than the Prime Minister breaking the laws the rest of us lived by.
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They raise serious questions as to how he has only been issued with a solitary fine.
Whilst these images do not come as a surprise, they do once again twist the knife into bereaved families wounds.
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We must not pretend that these actions are okay. This is the highest office in the land breaking the laws which were designed to keep us safe.
We've long warned that the Prime Minister is a walking public health hazard and these images show that to be the case.
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Charlie Williams, spokesperson for Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice:
“I lost my father in a care home back in April 2020.
We kept him there because we had been told that no one in the care home had Covid, that he would be safe.
But later we learned from the staff, who were fantastic, that 27 patients had in fact died from the virus there.
For the thousands of families like mine who lost loved ones in care homes, the last two years of cover ups and denials have been unbelievably painful.
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We’ve always known that our loved ones were thrown to the wolves by the Government, and the claims made by Matt Hancock that a ‘protective ring’ was made around care homes was a sickening lie.
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After everything it’s still unbelievably painful that @BorisJohnson was partying & breaking his own lockdown rules, while we were unable to be at loved ones' sides in their dying moments, or in miserable funerals with only a handful of people.
We were following the rules.
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The fact that @BorisJohnson and @RishiSunak then lied about it, and would have continued to do so if the police hadn’t intervened, is truly shameless.
They broke the law.
But even worse, they took us all for mugs.
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When we met the PM in the @downingstreet garden – the same one where they had these parties – he looked us in the eyes and said he had done everything he could to save our loved ones.
It’s now indisputable that whilst bereaved families were unable to be at their loved ones' sides in their last moments, or stood at their funerals alone, the people responsible for protecting us in Downing St were partying and rule breaking en masse.
It’s a reality that is unbelievably painful for bereaved families to face as we try and move forward with our lives.
It’s plain as day that there was a culture of boozing and rule breaching at the highest level of Government, whilst the British public was making unimaginable sacrifices to protect their loved ones and communities.
The man responsible for that culture is the Prime Minister
Last night, Conservative MPs couldn't even look bereaved families in the eye as they held yet another party on the day of the first partygate fines and anniversary of the National Memorial Wall.
It all felt pretty familiar: once again politicians are inside drinking while bereaved families are left out in the cold.
They would have done better to spend some time at the memorial wall with families to understand how much pain their rule-breaking has caused for so many of us who followed the rules and couldn’t see our loved ones.