Johnson and Sunak’s self-isolation exemption pilot scheme hit a screeching u-turn – 23+ savage takedowns

Oonagh Keating. Updated July 19th, 2021

Rumours of the public mood must have reached Downing Street – and a screeching u-turn was swiftly executed.

8am: No 10 spokesperson. The PM & CX will take part in daily testing pilot to allow them to continue working from Downing Street

10.38am: No10 spox PM “will not be taking part in the testing pilot” (nor will CX). PM to isolate at Chequers (his location when contacted by T&T) https://t.co/1vdbljRcYy

— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) July 18, 2021

Those following the news must have been developing whiplash by now, but they still managed to put up these funny responses.

13.

Not seen a pilot U turn that fast since Priti Patel got sacked by Theresa May

— Mikey Smith (@mikeysmith) July 18, 2021

14.

U turn if you want to, this Prime Minister's not for turn… oh, well actually…

— Keith Burge (@carryonkeith) July 18, 2021

15.

I guess the gap between the first announcement and the #UTurn is the time it takes to drive to #Chequers from Downing Street.

— Tom Murtha (@tomemurtha) July 18, 2021

16.

They obviously aren’t smart enough to pull off anything genuinely conspiratorial, but between Hancock and the ‘pilot scheme’ it’s like they operate with the express intention of making everyone go “ah fuck it”

— Ahir Shah (@AhirShah) July 18, 2021

17.

Official UK government advice for tomorrow pic.twitter.com/qq6CrwVnpT

— Jess (@BritishAOC) July 18, 2021

18.

Boris Johnson's Covid handbreak U-turns pic.twitter.com/S24Qetsq6I

— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) July 18, 2021

19.

Downing Street to myself this week. If there wasn’t a pandemic on I’d throw a party. https://t.co/4TQyF6cufh

— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) July 18, 2021

20.

Video footage of Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak suddenly deciding to self-isolate despite originally saying they weren’t going to. pic.twitter.com/cYZFXcKQK5

— Amanda (@Pandamoanimum) July 18, 2021

21.

Now I know why his hair looks like that. Constant u-turns pic.twitter.com/97hobQc4YV

— Mr Roger Quimbly (@RogerQuimbly) July 18, 2021

22.

we might not be able to achieve much else, but we can at least bully them out of their holidays https://t.co/GLjXZpELAz

— Grace Robertson 🏳️‍⚧️ (@GraceOnFootball) July 18, 2021

23.

As someone who has had to isolate for the week and cancelled 5 gigs to do so, let me say I am delighted they have abandoned this pilot scheme. In unrelated news I am abandoning my pilot scheme of posting dogshit to 10 & 11 Downing Street.

— Nish Kumar (@MrNishKumar) July 18, 2021

Gary Neville, who recently absolutely skewered Boris Johnson over his attitude to racism in sport, had a prediction.

13.00 : The PM states it was never the intention to take part in the pilot https://t.co/Hdi1FgLxRC

— Gary Neville (@GNev2) July 18, 2021

And as if by magic, Johnson made this thoroughly convincing claim that they had only briefly considered not self-isolating.

Like so many people I've been pinged by NHS Test and Trace as I have been in contact with someone with COVID-19, and I will be self-isolating until Monday 26th July. pic.twitter.com/X57gDpwDqe

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) July 18, 2021

As Deborah Meaden put it –

Just so you know BJ…I wasn't born yesterday… https://t.co/UHuVaiSK3S

— Deborah Meaden 💙 (@DeborahMeaden) July 18, 2021

To sum up Sunday …

Some days you get in the car for a four hour drive and you miss a whole political scandal.

— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) July 18, 2021

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