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Boris Johnson's #Covid19 response is a study in "dither and delay".

"Britain was given a head start to tackle the coronavirus as it spread through other countries.

Much of that time has been wasted"

@LBC #c4news #bbcaq #Newsnight

All 'journalists' who repeatedly told us Boris Johnson was "following the science", even tho' his actions contradicted those of almost every other nation, & criticism of him was biased & insincere:

You were wrong, & 1000s will now likely die because of it
At every single step of the way, Johnson has been days, & often weeks, behind the other major countries in responding to #Covid19

From his "let 250k old & vulnerable people die" approach (which was never "following the science") to refusing to enforce social distancing

#c4news
Thousands more old and vulnerable people than necessary will die because of Johnson's "dither and delay" over mass testing and enforced social distancing.

That blood will be on his hands.

#c4news @LBC #covid19UK #coronavirusuk #r4yoday
@LBC Dominic Cummings outlined the govt's strategy: "herd immunity, protect the economy and if that means some pensioners die, too bad"

#CoronaVirusUK #COVID19UK @LBC #r4today Image
"We don't feel like we are being supported from the highest levels"

NHS doctor Guddi Singh says there's a "huge amount of anxiety" around having to face a "tsunami" of #coronavirus patients with a lack of protective equipment
@LBC #bbcaq #bbcpm #Newsnight
'Ex Cygnus' was a secret UK govt exercise in 2016 to examine the govt's preparedness for a flu pandemic

"The then CMO said the UK “could not cope with the excess bodies” & had “inadequate ventilation” in its hospitals.

@LBC #r4today #c4news #Newsnight

"She explained that “in a moderate or severe influenza pandemic, demand [for critical care services] may outstrip supply, even when capacity is maximised.” Yet this doesn’t seem to have made any difference to our subsequent planning"

@LBC #C4News #bbcpm #Newsnight
REMINDER: there are plenty on the hard right of the Conservative party who support letting your parents and grandparents, (plus many others in younger age groups) die in agony rather than spend taxpayers' money to protect them

Toby Young is not an outlier
@LBC #C4News #Newsnight Image
Politico's ⁦@Jack_Blanchard_⁩ on one month in British politics

#CoronaCrisisUK #COVID19

@LBC #bbcwato #wato #Newsnight #C4News ImageImage
.@PrivateEyeNews on Boris Johnson "following the science":

"What's most striking about Britain's idiosyncratic approach to tackling the #coronavirus pandemic is the lack of public support from senior scientists and public health experts outside the govt circle"

@LBC #C4News Image
'We could have pushed the button on ventilator capacity in January'

Ex justice minister, Dr Phillip Lee says the govt knew from a report that the UK had a ventilator capacity problem.

#BorisLiesBritonsDie

#Coronavirusuk #covid19
@LBC #r4today #C4News
@LBC Cambridge University research suggests if the UK locked down just one week earlier the epidemic would have been three times smaller - saving thousands of lives.

#BorisLiesBritonsDie

#Coronavirusuk #covid19 #Newsnight
@LBC #r4today #C4News #bbcaq

“This is guerrilla warfare.”

Professor Anthony Costello says a world expert on epidemic control told him that social distancing alone would not be enough to “suppress” the spread of the coronavirus.

@LBC #c4news #newsnight #r4today #HerdImmunity

@LBC "An executive at the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine... said he could have carried out up to 1,000 tests per day from February. But the call never came. “You would have thought that they would be bashing down the door”

via @Reuters

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Observer 19 January 2020:

"The risk to the country is described as very low..."

@LBC #r4today #c4news #Newsnight Image
@LBC Things you won't read in the Tory press: Ireland started from a similar position to the UK in terms of underfunded healthcare system & ICU beds, but because of Johnson's herd immunity policy & delayed lockdown we're dying at over twice the rate as the Irish.

@LBC #r4today
@LBC Johnson's govt used NHS patient data to model ‘herd immunity’ a week after they supposedly dropped the policy acc. to @guardian

@LBC #r4today

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@LBC @guardian "Leading Oxford professor blasts the Government's failure to introduce a lockdown sooner and was 'completely out of step with almost all other European countries" (Daily Mail)

@LBC #bbcpm #c4news #newsnight

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UK's fmr chief scientific adviser says Boris Johnson's slow response to coronavirus cost lives.

"Why we didn't respond so much sooner once this epidemic broke out in China, I simply don't know”

@LBC #r4today #C4News
#Newsnight #bbcqt

businessinsider.com/coronavirus-uk…
Never ever forget that this govt has been lying every day about something important, from what action it is taking, & what science it is following to how many British citizens it is killing.

Every. Single. Day.

@LBC #bbcqt #r4today #C4News

We know Boris Johnson was told about CoronaVirus in December & he even included the threat in a speech on 3 Feb.

So wtf did the self-appointed 'Clark Kent' do to protect us between being told of the deadly disease, & his first COBRA meeting on 2 March?

@LBC #r4today #C4News ImageImage
@LBC Germany made proper preparations for COVID19 and has dealt with the pandemic with competence, exposing Boris Johnson's unscientific dither and delay which we are now measuring in 1000s of body bags.

#BorisLiedBritonsDied

@LBC #r4today #C4News #bbcqt #bbcaq
Here is that Johnson speech on 3 Feb.

“There’s a risk that new diseases such as #coronavirus will trigger a panic & a desire for market segregation that go beyond what is medically rational to the point of doing real & unnecessary economic damage”

@LBC
Even today's "Boris Daily" says that Johnson's quest for herd immunity will take up to ten waves of COVID19, involving mass deaths, and lead to economic catastrophe.

@Telegraph

#BorisLiedBritainsDied

@LBC #bbcaq #Newsnight
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All key points in the devastating Sunday Times thread can be found in my tweets above stretching back to 18 Mar

As I have said for weeks, Johnson's laziness & incompetence cost 1,000s of British lives

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#BorisLiedBritonsDied

@LBC #marr #ridge #c4news

Meanwhile the deluded and ideologically driven are busy throwing everyone under the bus except for their cult leader.

They are shameless even as 1000s of their fellow citizens die at Johnson's hands.

@spectator

#BorisLiedBritonsDied

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@LBC #marr #ridge #C4News Image
Not for nothing Johnson is known as 'Britain Trump'; their incompetence & belief that leadership is for self-aggrandisement means that in the UK & US valuable time was wasted on self-serving projects while a growing, massive, & deadly threat loomed

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@LBC #ridge #marr #c4news ImageImageImageImage
At the #CoronaInquiry Johnson will not be charged with a crime because politicians are immune from the criminal justice ordinary folk face when our mistakes & negligence lead to death.

But don't dismiss Johnson as a joker when he's really a killer.
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@LBC #marr #ridge #C4News Image
A useful thread with key points from the devastating Sunday Times article on Johnson's laziness and incompetence for those who can't get passed the paper's paywall.

#BorisLiedBritonsDied

@LBC #marr #ridge #C4News

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