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Keep Calm and Party On - Boris Johnson in Hot Water

Jan 23, 20227 minEp. 10454
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U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces calls for his resignation and major political backlash over revelations he attended secret parties during lockdown for the COVID-19 coronavirus.

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You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow. You may remember the outrage across Britain a couple of months ago when Boris Johnson was accused of throwing a secret party in the middle of lockdown against his own COVID rules. By the way, but the truth is there wasn't a secret COVID potty. Turns out there were many secret COVID parties, and now Boris may have partied himself right out of a job, and the walls seem to be closing in on Boris Johnson.

New Pole in fact for the Observer newspaper shows sixty three percent nearly two of every three Briton's want Johnson out. As many as twenty Conservative members of Parliament say they planned to submit letters of no confidence. Fifty four letters are required to trigger a no confidence vote in Parliament. Prime Minister Johnson his face calls to resign after reports that number ten Downing Street hosted parties over the past two years. The events were held when the United Kingdom

government imposed strict COVID restrictions and gathering. I recognize the enormous sacrifice that people have made. I apologize for misjudgments that may be made in number ten by me and anybody else. But please, can I ask him to wait for the inquiry to conclude one misjudgment that really hurts the apology to her Majesty the Queen over parties allegedly held in Downing Street the night before her Majesty sat alone at the funeral of her husband. You know this

sucks for Queen Elizabeth. I haven't seen her that disappointed since she found out what Prince Andrew did on his vacations. Apparently these are not the only photos Andrew and I can hardly blame her, you know. I mean, her husband had just died and here they were throwing parties without her. I mean, come on, this is our first chance in seven years to catch some fresh dick and know invites though that ship is messed up. Or you don't think

people move on, you grow up. But you can see why so many people have turned on Boris over his scandal, because while he was having parties, the people of Britain were dealing with severe lockdowns. And I'm not talking about American lockdowns. I'm talking about real lockdowns, like there were curfews, the government limited how many people you could see. People weren't even allowed to have anyone over for Christmas. Yeah, if Santa came down your chimney, you'd have to shoot

him dead. But they don't have guns in the UK, so you should have to beat him to death. And look, I know Boris isn't the only political leader who has been caught partying against his own rules, but he might be the only one trying to pretend that he doesn't know what a party is. Prime Minister Johnson maintains he believed it to be an official work event, not a party. Now in email leaks showing a hundred people were invited to socially distant strings in Downing streets and to even

bring their own booze. The idea that you walked into the garden, there's forty people there, the tables are laid out with food and drink, and there's alcohol being served in the middle of a lockdown, and you think that's the work event. That is just ludicrous, isn't it. You are just taking the mickey out of the British people. Nobody told me, and nobody nobody said that this was something that was against the rules. There was a breach of the COVID rules that we were doing something that

wasn't a work event. Yeah, no, nobody told me. I didn't know it was a party. How do you know what a party is unless somebody says it's a barty. How could you not know that that was a party? I mean, it's not a work event. They said bring your own booze. That never happens for a regular work meeting. No one's ever like, we really need to figure out our fourth quarter projections. So grab some tequila because dad

is making mother readers? And also, am I the only person who finds aware that the leader of the government is the one saying Nobody told me that this was against the rules. Nobody told me. Nobody told you. They're your rules, your rules to deal with a global pandemic. This isn't your kid's birthdays. You gotta remember the ship now. Boris's own former top aide says that he did warn Boris that the party broke COVID rules and that Boris

has been lying under oath to Parliament about it. But maybe these parties are just emblematic of how Boris thinks COVID rules didn't apply to him. Like apparently, back when Boris had COVID, he refused to stay in isolation, and it got so bad that his staff and this is completely true, had to put chairs in the doorway to his office to block him from leaving. Yeah, honestly, I was shocked when I read this, mostly because I didn't know it was that easy to stop British people from

going places. Turns out, if Africa just put a couple of chairs in front of England, who could have stopped colonialism. So as of now, Boris is in big trouble, or

as they say in England, trouble. And if you're a Prime minister who's been breaking the lockdown rules that you imposed on everybody else, you have to resign or you can do this near this morning, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced the end of all pandemic restrictions in the United Kingdom, saying that people will no longer be asked to work from home, masks no longer required in schools, the mandate to wear masks in public removed

as well. According to the Guardian, the swift change is seen as an attempt by Johnson to quell conservative anger over his lockdown breaching parties at Downing Street. Having looked at the data Cathley. The Cabinet concluded the once regulations laps, the government will no longer mandate the wearing of face masks anywhere or ship. Boris went from B Y O B to d G A F. You can't break the

rules if there are no rules. That's right, every body, no mosques, everybody, no restrictions, and no more haircuts, bitches. And yet you could argue that suddenly lifting restrictions is just a cheap and dangerous attempt to curry public favor at the cost of spreading a lethal virus. But on the other hand, restrictions are lifted, baby, So break out the liquor Britain. It's time for a work event. What's the Daily Show weeknights at eleven tenth Central on Comedy

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