The Met decision not to investigate the Downing Street party has confused and angered people

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Police won’t investigate the party which allegedly took place at No 10 in December 2020. The lockdown soiree is causing a major headache for Tories because it would have breached coronavirus (Covid-19) rules in place at the time. This was also a time when millions of people sacrificed time with family and were restricted from attending funerals to follow lockdown rules and protect the NHS.

Already senior communications advisor Allegra Stratton has resigned over the row. PM Boris Johnson is also under pressure to go. Yet the police won’t touch it. They say they don’t do retrospective investigations in cases of this kind. And now people are questioning the very concepts of crime and time.

All crime matters

Angry citizens have been airing their concerns on social media. A Twitter user called Foxy got straight to the point. Because, until time travel is invented, all investigations are retrospective:

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Another Twitter user, Roger Call, raised more bread and butter concerns in quite a sarcastic and satirical manner:

This other contributor responded with a timely meme of Met chief Cressida Dick as a clairvoyant:

Time cops

Twitter user Hira pondered how frustrating it must be for cops to never be able to investigate crime that has already happened:

While this Twitter user offered some practical advice: if arrested, just point out that your crime had happened at some point in the past and therefore can’t be investigated:

Sky‘s Beth Rigby tweeted the Met’s full statement about investigations – or lack of them.

Rigby’s tweet is itself slightly ironic. The journalist was taken off air last year for attending a party in breach of coronavirus rules.

The sacrifices people made

As the latest scandal has played out, many people have come forward to talk about the sacrifices they made during the 2020 Christmas lockdown. People like Rosie, who had a child during the restrictions:

Twitter user Kojo Richmond said that there was no way the breach should go unpunished after what regular people had to endure:

Rebecca Fewtrell tweeted about her anger at the government. Her 38 year old husband had passed away before Christmas. She and her young child were left to deal with their grief in an isolating lockdown.

We know it’s always been one rule for the ruling class and another for us. But never has that fact been as stark as this week amid the new revelations. While Britain suffered, the Tories appear to have flouted the rules they themselves imposed. And that needs to be dealt with.

Featured image – Wikimedia Commons/Sgt Tom Robinson RLC.

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    2. I agree with brycewilby, but am also adding that if not that, then everyone who was fined for breaching covid rules should be re-imbursed, and the police arresting or fining them should themselves be fined/arrested for fining and arresting people, along with the judges who agreed with letting off the elites, for operating a ‘them and us’ legal system, and refusing to bring criminals to justice because of thier staus, money, and power.

      None of us should obey any laws that the elites of this world don’t obey, and none of us should be fined or punished for copying the elites in their criminality. They are supposed to lead by example, not ‘do as we say, not as we do’. If they want law to be of any value to anyone, they MUST lead by example, or be MADE an example of.

      These politicians are the vilest creatures on the planet, they are not there to help us or the nation, they are there to help themselves, and all claims to the contrary are false and extremely cognitively dissonant. History speaks loudly that they are nothing more than fakely-elected criminals, and the Police are nothing more than their uniformed thugs and criminal-protecting policy enforcers.

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