"Untitled, these people worked together. They were not mixing with people outside their 'bubble'. How difficult is that to understand?"
Naomi, it may not be difficult to understand but it's incorrect and also irrelevant. The rule at the time was ""no mixing of households indoors, or most outdoor places, apart from support bubbles."
If what is being reported is true then there may have been up to 40 people at the party (including at least one senior member of government) and some of those in attendance were not even staff. This would not have been a support bubble and they didn't all work together.
I don't think anybody would care that a group of colleagues met up for a few drinks after work had it not been for the fact that this particular group were responsible for telling us that we must not do the same thing and we would be fined thousands of pounds if we did. Under the same set of rules people were also prevented from visiting dying relatives in hospitals, limits were put on the number of people who could attend funerals etc.
This issue isn't about people having a drink after work. This is about the sheer hypocrisy of the government and the way that they appear to treat the general public with disdain.