No problem with No. 10 gatherings

A GROUP of people working together in connecting offices putting their health at risk, whilst others work in the relative safety of their own homes, decide to get some fresh air after work and, keeping the required social distancing, have a glass of wine and a lump of cheese. What is the problem? Would it have been more acceptable if they had tea and biscuits?

They were in the same ‘work bubble’ every day. It has no relevance to the distress of people unable to make contact with dying relatives due to the restrictions imposed by the government to try to stop the spread of the virus.

At the time my sister died and I was unable to attend her funeral but I have no problem whatsoever with the Downing Street gatherings.

I seem to recall large gatherings of NHS staff outside their hospitals to receive the claps of the public on ‘Clap for the NHS nights’. So that was OK?

I assume these same staff met daily in their staff restaurants. Well I know they did because a member of my family works in a hospital restaurant.

This furore over parties at Downing Street is more about revenge by a discredited Government advisor and an opportunistic campaign by opponents of the PM whom,

some might recall, had already in May 2020 been in hospital fighting for his life with Covid as a result of having to meet so many people from around the world as part of his duty.

As part of their diatribe a labour MP suggested that by taking their own wine to the May gathering participants would be making unnecessary journeys to the wine retailer. Some of us lesser mortals do keep a bottle or two at home.

Brian Taylor