Boris Johnson’s ‘Partygate’ investigator allegedly hosted one of them – only 9 responses you need

John Plunkett. Updated December 18th, 2021

You’ll remember a short while ago Boris Johnson appointed the country’s leading civil servant to investigate all those alleged lockdown-breaking parties at Downing Street.

Well now Simon Case will no longer be doing the investigating, after claims emerged that he had hosted an event himself over the same period.

And if ever one development summed up the state of where we are right now, this is surely it.

+UPDATE+

The Cabinet Secretary – Simon Case – who is investigating lockdown-breaking parties held at Downing Street last December…

…had 2 lockdown-breaking parties in his office last December.

— Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@nicktolhurst) December 17, 2021

Well, only allegations at the moment but we’re sure the investigation will reveal all, right? Anyone?

If only someone could have seen this coming.

No10 a couple of weeks ago, when asked to confirm Simon Case wasn’t personally compromised on the matter of Downing Street parties: “I think you can be assured that due diligence has been followed on that.”

— Ben Kentish (@BenKentish) December 17, 2021

Here’s the story so far, just in case you’re in need of a recap.

To summarise past fortnight:

– Mirror alleges Xmas Party in No 10

– No 10 denies it

– ITV News shows staff laughing about party

– PM asks Simon Case to investigate

– Multiple other parties alleged

– PM continues to deny rules broken

– Simon Case accused of having party

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) December 17, 2021

And these are surely the only jokes you need.

So the bloke investigating the parties that never happened actually attended one of them. We really should have seen that coming.

— James Oh Brien (@mrjamesob) December 17, 2021

TV series idea – CASE CLOSED – veteran detective Simon Case investigates murders in a small rural village but every week he turns out to be one of the perpetrators + has to flee to a new village.

— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) December 17, 2021

Now we know why Boris Johnson and Oliver Dowden were so sure Simon Case investigation would find no evidence of wrongdoing

— John Crace (@JohnJCrace) December 17, 2021

Simon Case resigns from investigating the Xmas parties that didn’t happen but if they did they followed all the rules. pic.twitter.com/iaQmmxYLwt

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) December 17, 2021

Now we need someone else to investigate the people who have parties who investigate people who have parties who told the country not to have parties

— Rosie Holt (@RosieisaHolt) December 17, 2021

It's almost as if we all new Simon Case was compromised from the very beginning. It's almost as if literally everyone warned that this would happen. I'm expecting them to announce Stanley Johnson to step in to the investigation role.

— Jess Phillips MP (@jessphillips) December 17, 2021

starting to think Simon Case may not have been the ideal choice to investigate Downing St Christmas parties

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) December 17, 2021

These absolute car crash fucksters – are they having a bet on who can be the most inept? Are there no grown ups left in the Tory party? The party investigator hosted his own party?! Who will they get to replace him – Charlie Sheen? pic.twitter.com/EibFpb86RN

— Stephen Mangan (@StephenMangan) December 17, 2021

Simon Off the Case

— John Crace (@JohnJCrace) December 17, 2021

And if you want the full, forensic low-down on how the hell we got here, these videos by the BBC’s great Ros Atkins is all you need.

THREAD 1/7: Civil servant Simon Case has quit the investigation into Downing Street lockdown parties last year. In the last two weeks we’ve posted five videos on the story overall and they've been watched over 14 million times. The first was on Dec 2. pic.twitter.com/nUHQaOk9Zd

— Ros Atkins (@BBCRosAtkins) December 17, 2021