//I don't understand why it's so difficult to see that the hypocrisy and double standards at play//
Such is the red mist that's once again descended that even 'double standards' have acquired double standards. It's probably futile to repeat an alternative point of view yet again but nevertheless I will.
I don't see double standards at all. Common sense should dictate that if people are working together day in and day out it matters not whether they're drinking a cup of tea or a glass of wine Would drinking a cup of tea together (which doubtless they do throughout their working day) have produced the same result? I doubt it very much. Furthermore, does walking through the back door into the garden rather than staying inside render the 'crime' more serious? The bleating about funerals and being separated from loved ones, as if the people involved were ignoring those rules, together with the disingenuous absurdity of the notion that the nation was in mourning on the eve of the Duke of Edinburgh's funeral and therefore the queen was owed an apology, is simply ludicrous, but feed it to the hysterical masses - and it works.
Had those office workers invited people from outside to join them I could well understand the complaints - and I would be furious too - but they didn't. They are obliged to be together because they work together - and within a work environment I can’t see that it matters where they sit or what they drink. Had I been working in those offices it wouldn't have occurred to me that 'rules' were being broken.
This whole thing is an absolute nonsense designed by people clearly sharpening their knives, with the former pariah but curiously now flavour of the month that is Cummings leading the charge. Double standards there alright!
So what's really going on? Several have already hinted - very hopefully - that Boris's departure could herald our re-entry into the EU - but none of them have an agenda, do they? Of course they don’t. They’re all squeaky clean doyens of morality. Not a dishonest bone among them.
PS. Some people have a very odd idea of what constitutes a party. A birthday cake and a quick rendition of 'Happy Birthday To You' doesn't cut it for me.