17 unimpressed reactions to the Downing Street briefing that could have been an email
10.
People need to make a film called Carry on Covid
— Will Black (@WillBlackWriter) January 4, 2022
11.
positively Churchillian pic.twitter.com/aX5yQmYEKI
— Toby Earle (@TobyonTV) January 4, 2022
12.
218,724 cases today, so the government has announced 100,000 tests per day, which will be done using testing kits we've run out of. pic.twitter.com/ZCSV2lQVl6
— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) January 4, 2022
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Boris Johnson announces 2500 new "virtual hospital beds" aka 2500 new hospitals
— Politics for Ava (@AvaSantina) January 4, 2022
14.
Absolutely nothing Johnson is saying is surprising or new. This looks a lot like an effort to reassert himself as "The Prime Minister" and to divert attention from Starmer "The Prime Minister in waiting" #DowningStreetBriefing
— Otto English (@Otto_English) January 4, 2022
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"Wear a mask, especially indoors, don't take risks". #DowningStreetBriefing #BorisResign #BorisJohnson #Covid_19 pic.twitter.com/qtRNfUIZ2s
— Andrew (@andrew2021k) January 4, 2022
16.
So let's see. Omicron is just a cold and the pandemic is almost over, but the only fair comparison to how bad things are is a year ago, with a different variant and when hardly anyone was vaccinated?
And even so we are not that far off 1st wave peak & hospitals declaring crises
— Prof. Christina Pagel (@chrischirp) January 4, 2022
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BREAKING – The "virtual hospital beds" that the government have just invented (your beds, with no medical assistance) are now owned by an American Pharmaceutical company after Rishi sold them off while on holiday, along with whatever's in your medicine cabinet.
— HappyToast ★ (@IamHappyToast) January 4, 2022
To sum up.
I thought the best way to reassert my leadership would be to call a briefing for no apparent reason then make it obvious that I have made zero effort to prepare for it.#DowningStreetBriefing
— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) January 4, 2022
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