The May 2020 10 Downing St Cheese and Wine ‘meeting’. Their lockdowns & ours
The illegal cheese and wine ‘meeting’ in the 10 Downing St garden in mid-May 2020 also marks another shift in the Tory Culture Wars. Any self-respecting anti-Tory knows that in the 2020s the pairing is cheese and craft beer.
The gathering also underlines what we saw with Dominic Cummings and indeed Professor Neil Ferguson of a sense of their lockdowns and ours. They can continue to go about their business as they will. No doubt others with large gardens away from public view were doing the same. Meanwhile those many, sometimes with small children, in City flats without access to outside space were being harassed and sometimes arrested by the police in parks and public gardens.
Still others will have been hospitalised with COVID or seen friends and relatives sadly die
Lockdown by class is probably no more than we should expect in Tory Britain 2021.
It reflects the culture of an arrogant political grouping believing they do not and should not be held accountable to the same standards as others, in a sense the pre-democratic culture that William Cobbett referred to as Old Corruption.
A summary of the points above together with other views is covered in the Guardian (21st December)
“Not a party” because no alcohol served at ‘business meeting’ as discussed ad nauseum.
Alcohol served at this ‘business meeting’ but also “not a party” ?
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