Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Wow. You may remember the
Speaker 1: outrage across Britain a couple of months ago when Boris
Speaker 1: Johnson was accused of throwing a secret party in the
Speaker 1: middle of lockdown against his own COVID rules. By the way,
Speaker 1: but the truth is there wasn't a secret COVID potty.
Speaker 1: Turns out there were many secret COVID parties, and now
Speaker 1: Boris may have partied himself right out of a job,
Speaker 1: and the walls seem to be closing in on Boris Johnson.
Speaker 1: New Pole in fact for the Observer newspaper shows sixty
Speaker 1: three percent nearly two of every three Briton's want Johnson out.
Speaker 1: As many as twenty Conservative members of Parliament say they
Speaker 1: planned to submit letters of no confidence. Fifty four letters
Speaker 1: are required to trigger a no confidence vote in Parliament.
Speaker 1: Prime Minister Johnson his face calls to resign after reports
Speaker 1: that number ten Downing Street hosted parties over the past
Speaker 1: two years. The events were held when the United Kingdom
Speaker 1: government imposed strict COVID restrictions and gathering. I recognize the
Speaker 1: enormous sacrifice that people have made. I apologize for misjudgments
Speaker 1: that may be made in number ten by me and
Speaker 1: anybody else. But please, can I ask him to wait
Speaker 1: for the inquiry to conclude one misjudgment that really hurts
Speaker 1: the apology to her Majesty the Queen over parties allegedly
Speaker 1: held in Downing Street the night before her Majesty sat
Speaker 1: alone at the funeral of her husband. You know this
Speaker 1: sucks for Queen Elizabeth. I haven't seen her that disappointed
Speaker 1: since she found out what Prince Andrew did on his vacations.
Speaker 1: Apparently these are not the only photos Andrew and I
Speaker 1: can hardly blame her, you know. I mean, her husband
Speaker 1: had just died and here they were throwing parties without her.
Speaker 1: I mean, come on, this is our first chance in
Speaker 1: seven years to catch some fresh dick and know invites
Speaker 1: though that ship is messed up. Or you don't think
Speaker 1: people move on, you grow up. But you can see
Speaker 1: why so many people have turned on Boris over his scandal,
Speaker 1: because while he was having parties, the people of Britain
Speaker 1: were dealing with severe lockdowns. And I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: American lockdowns. I'm talking about real lockdowns, like there were curfews,
Speaker 1: the government limited how many people you could see. People
Speaker 1: weren't even allowed to have anyone over for Christmas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if Santa came down your chimney, you'd have to shoot
Speaker 1: him dead. But they don't have guns in the UK,
Speaker 1: so you should have to beat him to death. And look,
Speaker 1: I know Boris isn't the only political leader who has
Speaker 1: been caught partying against his own rules, but he might
Speaker 1: be the only one trying to pretend that he doesn't
Speaker 1: know what a party is. Prime Minister Johnson maintains he
Speaker 1: believed it to be an official work event, not a party.
Speaker 1: Now in email leaks showing a hundred people were invited
Speaker 1: to socially distant strings in Downing streets and to even
Speaker 1: bring their own booze. The idea that you walked into
Speaker 1: the garden, there's forty people there, the tables are laid
Speaker 1: out with food and drink, and there's alcohol being served
Speaker 1: in the middle of a lockdown, and you think that's
Speaker 1: the work event. That is just ludicrous, isn't it. You
Speaker 1: are just taking the mickey out of the British people.
Speaker 1: Nobody told me, and nobody nobody said that this was
Speaker 1: something that was against the rules. There was a breach
Speaker 1: of the COVID rules that we were doing something that
Speaker 1: wasn't a work event. Yeah, no, nobody told me. I
Speaker 1: didn't know it was a party. How do you know
Speaker 1: what a party is unless somebody says it's a barty.
Speaker 1: How could you not know that that was a party?
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not a work event. They said bring
Speaker 1: your own booze. That never happens for a regular work meeting.
Speaker 1: No one's ever like, we really need to figure out
Speaker 1: our fourth quarter projections. So grab some tequila because dad
Speaker 1: is making mother readers? And also, am I the only
Speaker 1: person who finds aware that the leader of the government
Speaker 1: is the one saying Nobody told me that this was
Speaker 1: against the rules. Nobody told me. Nobody told you. They're
Speaker 1: your rules, your rules to deal with a global pandemic.
Speaker 1: This isn't your kid's birthdays. You gotta remember the ship now.
Speaker 1: Boris's own former top aide says that he did warn
Speaker 1: Boris that the party broke COVID rules and that Boris
Speaker 1: has been lying under oath to Parliament about it. But
Speaker 1: maybe these parties are just emblematic of how Boris thinks
Speaker 1: COVID rules didn't apply to him. Like apparently, back when
Speaker 1: Boris had COVID, he refused to stay in isolation, and
Speaker 1: it got so bad that his staff and this is
Speaker 1: completely true, had to put chairs in the doorway to
Speaker 1: his office to block him from leaving. Yeah, honestly, I
Speaker 1: was shocked when I read this, mostly because I didn't
Speaker 1: know it was that easy to stop British people from
Speaker 1: going places. Turns out, if Africa just put a couple
Speaker 1: of chairs in front of England, who could have stopped colonialism.
Speaker 1: So as of now, Boris is in big trouble, or
Speaker 1: as they say in England, trouble. And if you're a
Speaker 1: Prime minister who's been breaking the lockdown rules that you
Speaker 1: imposed on everybody else, you have to resign or you
Speaker 1: can do this near this morning, the British Prime Minister
Speaker 1: Boris Johnson has announced the end of all pandemic restrictions
Speaker 1: in the United Kingdom, saying that people will no longer
Speaker 1: be asked to work from home, masks no longer required
Speaker 1: in schools, the mandate to wear masks in public removed
Speaker 1: as well. According to the Guardian, the swift change is
Speaker 1: seen as an attempt by Johnson to quell conservative anger
Speaker 1: over his lockdown breaching parties at Downing Street. Having looked
Speaker 1: at the data Cathley. The Cabinet concluded the once regulations laps,
Speaker 1: the government will no longer mandate the wearing of face
Speaker 1: masks anywhere or ship. Boris went from B Y O
Speaker 1: B to d G A F. You can't break the
Speaker 1: rules if there are no rules. That's right, every body,
Speaker 1: no mosques, everybody, no restrictions, and no more haircuts, bitches.
Speaker 1: And yet you could argue that suddenly lifting restrictions is
Speaker 1: just a cheap and dangerous attempt to curry public favor
Speaker 1: at the cost of spreading a lethal virus. But on
Speaker 1: the other hand, restrictions are lifted, baby, So break out
Speaker 1: the liquor Britain. It's time for a work event. What's
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