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3. Clusterf**k
Unprecedented
The Downing Street Lockdown Drinking Scandal
There's only one word to describe the Downing Street lockdown drinking scandal, and it's not party gate, it's clusterfuck. It was the fire that raged, eventually burning the house down. Some of us think the house could have been saved if the fire had just been put out earlier, but it wasn't. In that sense, it's also a spectacular example of the eternal truth that the cover-up is invariably worse than the crime. Offing up to some people having far too many drinks as key workers under extreme pressure during a global pandemic would have been extremely painful. But it would have been done and dusted by that Christmas, and we would have moved on by now
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