Boris Johnson, beer fridge and closing parties

Two weeks ago, when public interest in Downing Street closed parties was in full swing, BBC Radio 4’s satirical. Story Questions started with a game designed to help students determine if they are “at work or not”. The host, Andy Zaltzman, urged them to “see if everyone you work with had a bottle of wine and was being beaten. . . If so, ask yourself, ‘Do I have a vague taste in wine?’ ”“ Yes! I screamed at the radio. Yet the small share of wine in the destruction of public trust in government is not a funny story.

For me, it has been impossible to ignore the role of wine in recent pantomime in British politics. The bottles were photographed at a Downing Street field meeting on May 15 2020 were seen as evidence that it was not a “work incident”, as Boris Johnson said, but party. And each new release has released some wine-related cases.

The Mirror newspaper is digging photo of a special wine fridge was handed over to the back door of 10 Downing Street for employees to store their cold bottles for the summer at “Friday” wine meetings, which the Prime Minister says he recommended.

Until recently, wine was considered a top drink, a top brand. Johnson’s obvious representation in this can be seen as a disregard for the ideas and commitment of the elect. That the employee was sent to the Co-op in Strand (open 24 hours) to fill suitcases and wine at the end of only one but two parties held on April 16 2021, the evening of Prince Philip’s funeral, and. for others the sure evidence that Downing Street was run as a last resort during the plague.

On the contrary, the only mistake the Tories made was that they were wrong Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labor Party, is said to have been seen with alcohol and a container at the regional office in northern England in 2021. No wine was affected, but the fermentation of the person working on it. In the case of Covid’s oppressive laws, even Johnson’s most influential supporters struggled to compare Starmer’s beer to several wine-making parties that took place around 10 Downing Street two years ago.

Worrying, perhaps, is what has been going on inside Parliament for many years. Their generous offering of bars, and their opening hours, can make Westminster feel like a better club than a workplace. A friend of mine, who previously ran a successful political promotion company from the Downing Street corner office, had a successful way of combining his dislike of drinking during the day with the need to quench the thirst and selfishness of his guest. They order a half bottle of champagne for both, and drink it carefully.

Wine also appears to be playing a key role in the campaign for a replacement for Boris Johnson, Liz Truss. The foreign secretary is said to be chatting with members of parliament and inviting them to an event called “Fizz with Liz”. Wine participated in the “trade talks” held by US and EU representatives at, respectively, the 5 Hertford Street beauty club, according to letters revealed by the Sunday Times, and the country where he lives in Chevening in Kent.

(In contrast, the chancellor Rishi Sunak, another candidate to replace Johnson, if removed, is a self-proclaimed teetotaler who, contrary to ancient tradition, did not spend his budget on a shipping box with a glass of British beer or whiskey. In the current climate of common sense, definite gentleness is essential.)

For months, when millions of civilians were deprived of regular drinking after work with colleagues, workers at 10 Downing Street held a party. It would seem, mostly due to the night rush to the supermarket, the goal being to drink as much alcohol as I could. Connoisseurship seems to have done nothing.

I am deeply ashamed of the way alcoholism is manifested all over the world. As James Lawther, a British Wine Instructor who has lived in Bordeaux for decades, writes sarcastically in an email, “drinking French wine is still done at the table with the right food (not a bag of crisps)”.

Thomas De Waen, a Brussels-based wine-loving colleague who also works, also refuses. Disposal Downing Street for La Tâche [one of the world’s rarest burgundies] it may be unfortunate but at least logical. Losing because of New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc is negligible. ”

In the case of alcohol consumption in the workplace, it shows the difference between British politics and those going to the commercial world. For him and his associates, “intoxication at work, regardless of the event, is a real nightmare. The move to reduce work becomes worse. “I do not think that a person like BoJo, whose whole job is so insignificant, would be so high in France or Germany.”

Personally, I am glad that the wine has become a waste democratic drinks in the UK. But I did not think that it would find itself in a position to undermine our entire democratic system.

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