Boris Johnson’s Covid announcement could have been an e-mail – 19 top responses

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Ant and Dec are ready for Boris's level 4 speech… pic.twitter.com/KoTRIHCnu5

— Joke Blog (@joke_blog) December 12, 2021

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All the nation wants to hear from @BorisJohnson at 8pm is his resignation.

— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) December 12, 2021

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Buzzing for the 8pm briefing pic.twitter.com/bZSan5r7mR

— Greg James (@gregjames) December 12, 2021

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Ah, so is *this* what "levelling up" means? https://t.co/wEYgBBdDps

— Debbie (@Deborah_Deborah) December 12, 2021

When it came, the speech was simply an announcement of a serious escalation of the vaccine booster programme. The phrase ‘Could have been an e-mail’ springs to mind.

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“Don’t really have anything to say, but I’m bored and horny and need a distraction from all the shitting and crying. Anyway, get a booster if you can, which you probably can’t, but that’s not my fucking problem because I’m on paternity leave, so y’know…try not to die, I guess.” pic.twitter.com/8SrpkltBTO

— Max Morgan 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@SpillerOfTea) December 12, 2021

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Worth contrasting tonight how Johnson has treated NHS staff – the derisory pay offer for nurses, the Downing Street-inspired media campaign against ‘lazy’ GPs etc – with what he’s now demanding of them.

— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) December 12, 2021

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Just addressed the nation. I’d give it five minutes if I were you.

— Gary Bainbridge (@Gary_Bainbridge) December 12, 2021

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Boris Johnson has given GPs twelve hours' notice that they need to vaccinate a million people a day from Monday morning.

— Dr Meenal Viz (@drmeenalviz) December 12, 2021

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So Boris Johnson did his speech about accelerating the booster jabs without speaking to NHS leaders first? And now booking websites are crashing. What a prick

— marcus 🇧🇧 (@marcusjdl) December 12, 2021

One GP, @irishayesha, had this to say.

I love how I, an actual GP…who was involved in the initial covid vaccination programme …has to tune in at 8pm with the public to find out that apparently we are vaccinating the entire adult population with boosters by the end of the year

— shinydoc (@irishayesha) December 12, 2021

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