21st December But Officer it's just a working lunch

 

Cast your mind back to May 2020, when your knowledge of the letters in the Greek alphabet was zero, and ask yourself the question...when is a working lunch not a working lunch? 

Well the answer seems to be it is if you are gathered in the Downing Street Garden alongside up to 17 other non socially distanced people enjoying bottles of wine and an extensive cheese board at the end of what might well have been a long day at work or the end of a really hard week in the office. 

If on the other hand you had gathered together with a few colleagues on the Forest Rec, armed with a mere four bottles of Speckled Hen and a large sausage roll from Greggs, to simply unwind after lets say a 12 hour stretch in an ICU, trying to deal with irrate customers in Aldi or working unprotected on a city centre bus, then of course that is a criminal offence for breaking lockdown rules.

Not that it's one rule for one and another rule for others. I mean that would be ridiculous wouldn't it? Here in breaking news we can see Dominic Raab explaining the latest government policy to cabinet colleagues in another relaxed work gathering.





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