That, he said, was the reality for the “little man”, comparing his experience with that of the prime minister and his associates, who have been fined for attending a Downing Street 10 party during the lockdown. “A fine of £ 1,000 for us, £ 50 for them. It’s a joke. Where is the justice? Apart from anger, I’m disappointed, because they play it believing it will go away, it’s just a 50 £ fine. Did they party all the way, when how many people suffered who could not see family or grandchildren? “I burst into tears seeing so much need from the people we served.” Callum Harrison was fined for having two friends around. His anger over the opposite pandemic was echoed by Calum Harrison, who was fined for having two friends at his home with eight people in October 2020 when he was a student at Newcastle University. He remembers very heavy “authoritarian” policing, with secret cars and intimidating patrols in areas where many students lived. “The police were very aggressive, very hostile towards us, even though we tried to talk to them and said it was the first time we had broken the rules.” Kieron McArdleb was fined 100 100 on his birthday after having three friends. Each person present was fined 100 100, which he said represented “a few weeks of food”. He believes that, in the light of government violations, the fines paid by the people should be donated to charity. “It’s one rule for us, one for them. They are escaping murder all the time, the government should be ashamed of itself. “Looking back on the people who supposedly set the example and set the rules, they had a lot of parties, it’s just not fair,” he said. Kieron McArdle, who was fined 100 100 during the first lockdown when three friends visited him in his Warwickshire garden for his birthday after spending weeks alone, considers lying to be the worst aspect of the Partygate scandal. “It was complete contempt for others and the lies that caught me – there were no parties, there were no parties. The starting line was that it was all workshops. “I could have told the police that the three children here are my colleagues,” he said. “In order for the prime minister to lie in parliament, he has violated the ministerial code, he must leave. He must resign. “He has no credibility, he has become a laughing stock.” Ali Lawrence believed he was in accordance with the law. Ali Lawrence, a musician from York, was fined 200 200 despite showing police copies of the coronavirus rules he thought were in line with the law, worrying about the precedent the Johnson behavior. “The big excuse is that we can not change our leader because of the war in Ukraine. But the way I look at it is that, with all the atrocities that Putin has committed in Ukraine, he is obviously lying and everyone can see that. But how can the leader of our country call him when it has been proven that he did the same? It makes fun of all this. “We need a leader who at least seems to be worthwhile.”
