{"id":66979,"date":"2022-01-14T02:04:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/youve-been-taking-the-ps-for-two-years-gary-neville-lays-into-sajid-javid-following-johnson-defence\/"},"modified":"2022-01-14T02:04:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T20:34:54","slug":"youve-been-taking-the-ps-for-two-years-gary-neville-lays-into-sajid-javid-following-johnson-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/youve-been-taking-the-ps-for-two-years-gary-neville-lays-into-sajid-javid-following-johnson-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You\u2019ve been taking the p**s for two years\u2019 Gary Neville lays into Sajid Javid following Johnson defence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gary Neville has torn into Sajid Javid after he defended Boris Johnson who is facing widespread criticism for attending a \u201cbring your own booze party\u201d in the Downing Street garden in May 2020 during the Covid lockdown.<\/p>\n

Johnson gave his \u201cheartfelt apologies,\u201d during PMQs on Wednesday over his attendance at the garden party, which was leaked by ITN News courtesy of an email sent by Johnson\u2019s principal private secretary Martin Reynolds who invited more than 100 employees to the event.<\/p>\n

The prime minister has insisted that he thought the gathering was a \u201cwork event.\u201d<\/p>\n

While facing scrutiny from opposition MPs<\/a>, Johnson did receive some support afterwards in the form of home secretary Sajid Javid who took to Twitter and wrote: \u201cI completely understand why people feel let down. The PM did the right thing by apologising. <\/p>\n

\u201cNow we need to let the investigation complete its work. We have so much to get on with including rolling out boosters, testing and antivirals – so we can live with Covid. <\/p>\n

However, this defence did not impress football pundit and former Manchester United player Gary Neville who has quite the experience in defending himself (goals not government scandals).<\/p>\n

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Known for making his feelings abundantly clear on political issues, Neville took Twitter to slam Javid for defending his boss.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople still working from home and kids wearing masks and you lot weren\u2019t scared in Lockdown 1, yet terrified us all . You\u2019ve been taking the p**s for 2 years,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

It appears there are plenty of people who agreed with Neville, and that Johnson\u2019s actions cannot be defended.<\/p>\n

While others were worried that people would interpret Neville\u2019s tweet as saying that Covid isn\u2019t dangerous or serious because he\u2019s said the government weren\u2019t scared of the virus.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first time Neville has tweeted his anger towards the government over a scandal, as back in December when allegations of a Downing Street Christmas party arose, he told Johnson to \u201cdo one\u201d in an epic Twitter rant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gary Neville has torn into Sajid Javid after he defended Boris Johnson who is facing widespread criticism for attending a \u201cbring your own booze party\u201d in the Downing Street garden in May 2020 during the Covid lockdown. Johnson gave his \u201cheartfelt apologies,\u201d during PMQs on Wednesday over his attendance at the garden party, which was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":66980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3266],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1642106095_\u2018Youve-been-taking-the-ps-for-two-years-Gary-Neville.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}