https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61201166
... so we've spent a fortnight in hysterics for a 9 minute 6 person gathering on the PM's Birthday, that by the law at the time was probably legal. Still good job there's nothing really important going on in the world....hang on!
Making the same point ad nauseam doesn't make it any more relevant. (If Johnson had murdered somebody, TTT would still find a reason to find it acceptable).
he had a gathering with people he works with anyway. Now I don't know the specific wording of the law but that was allowed at the time. I would like to see plod's reasoning.
He has been fined, so no it wasn’t probably legal it was certainly illegal.
He has not contested the judgement, which he surely would if he genuinely thought a miscarriage of justice had occurred.
gromit: "He has been fined, so no it wasn’t probably legal it was certainly illegal." - not been tested in a court, plod is not judge and jury, are you seriously saying that people are guilty because plod says so?
"He has not contested the judgement, which he surely would if he genuinely thought a miscarriage of justice had occurred. " - because it is sometimes better to avoid all the agro of going to court and pay a small fine, discussed here: https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Society-and-Culture/Question1793167.html
Hang on .... why are you posting about this? My impression was you wanted everyone to stop going o about it cause there's more important things going on? Yet here you are weeks later STILL going on about it.
Gatherings were permitted for up to six people outdoors, but they were not permitted indoors. It was not until more than two weeks later, on 4 July, that indoor gatherings between two households were permitted.
I don’t buy the too busy to prove his innocence argument. He would just get his lawyer to do the work, with minimal agro for himself.
There have been more than fifty fines. If they were ‘probably legal’ surely one of those would have contested it? If the Met are wrong 50 times, that would set alarm bells ringing. They have all accepted the fines because they all know they were guilty.