I once cheated on my girlfriend with her mum; she dumped me and stopped taking my calls. #CancelCulture.
My political party caused the worst death rate on the planet and then some people refused to vote them into office again. #CancelCulture
My favourite teacher used to read Mein Kampf to us every day in Year 2 and now there's a petition to ban her from teaching. #CancelCulture
All the CEOs in our company rose to their positions based on their extensive professional experience in human trafficking and now people won't buy our services. #CancelCulture
That news channel is full of people who spread lies about a pandemic that killed 100K Brits, supported a president who said Mexicans were mostly criminals, and deny systemic racism exists so minorities keep suffering, and people are boycotting their advertisers. #CancelCulture
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Hi @GrantShapps
Apart from freight drivers, you need to restrict the number of people who can enter the UK to the number of hotel rooms available for mandatory quarantine.
If we get Covid down to low numbers by May, but a vaccine-resistant strain has already got in, It's on you.
Thanks @Lee4NED for publicly saying the reason you won't impose mandatory hotel quarantines on travellers from all countries is that the policy may become permanent. (from a government with 15+ U-turns)
Makes holding you to account for the consequences much easier. @SkyNewsIsabel
Thanks @MattHancock.
You just publicly admitted that you're only going to impose mandatory hotel quarantine on countries where you've already identified that there's a new variant.
Waiting for a Covid disaster before you take preventative measures has worked really well so far!
1/5 If not for the pandemic, the path we were on was going to see the UK government unlawfully allowing unchecked goods into Northern Ireland, forcing the EU Commission to tell Ireland "To avoid a hard border and protect the Single Market, we need France-Ireland border checks.".
2/5 That would put the Ireland in a position of having to choose between being letting Brexit damage peace, being dragged out of the Single Market or uniting Ireland.
That's a horrible position, entirely the UK government's fault, but it avoids any abrupt border disasters.
Today's interview with Robert Jenrick and the one Matt Hancock did on GMB prove that all the Tory MPs have been given one simple instruction:
Under no circumstances admit to doing the wrong thing, or any responsibility for the consequences of that wrongdoing.
In both circumstances...
Matt Hancock would have looked better if he had simply told @susannareid100 & @piersmorgan that he regretted not getting the kids their meals sooners.
And Robert Jenrick would have looked better if he'd said something along the lines of "I believe we were too hopeful about how things would go, and too worried about damaging the economy our citizens have to live in."