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@Haggis_UK As always...#LiarJohnson muddies water with obfuscation and evasion...aimed to confuse/brainwash members of the public including MPs of ALL parties - political, if any clarification is needed!

#OfficeGSBrown "this a moral issue" is root of the crisis at heart of UK Government!

@Haggis_UK With all due respect, does @CrispinBlunt seek to trivialise and deflect attention from the central rot at heart of UK Government under direction of #LiarJohnson?

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt Investigations into breaches of covid regulations, resulting from #LiarJohnson's absence of moral leadership are complex insofar as they involve different regulations in place at time of each transgression; carrying different penalties.

Some may incur financial penalties only.

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt However, ALL trangressions of covid regulations within No. 10, Whitehall, other government properties, including staff in government, whitehall and civil service, and also members of #LiarJohnson's family require assessment to determine extent of transgressions and penalties.

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt Given that any 'manager' is held responsible and therefore, accountable for the conduct and actions of staff reporting to him/her, it is expected that #LiarJohnson shall be required to accept full responsibility and accountability for all transgressions of staff reporting to him.

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt In addition, #LiarJohnson, #NotMyPM, shall be held accountable to the standard of the ministerial code whereby, if found to have lied or misled Parliament, @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords, HM The Queen, MPs across all parties and the general public, he is expected to resign.

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords theguardian.com/politics/live/…

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords One rule for #LiarJohnson and cronies, and another for everyone else!

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@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords In a public health crisis such as COVID-19 pandemic, there was good reason for regulations restricing normal activities - to curtail the spread of an infection; fatal to many and one that scientists and medical professionals were struggling to understand in absence of any cures.

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords "Westminster is an infectious place. A tiny germ of controversy or rebellion can spread across parliament, through Whitehall and into the prime minister’s office within hours."

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords "The windowless offices are cramped, MPs sit elbow to elbow in a Commons chamber that can only squeeze just over 400 MPs into its seats, two-thirds of the number in parliament."

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords "It is also a place of macho presenteeism, where the Greggs in Westminster tube station often serves as a nightly dinner spot for some of the most senior office-holders in the land."

"This was the situation when Covid-19 arrived in the UK."

NO restrictions on UK borders!

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords "The Guardian has spoken to a number of people who were there at the time. They revealed that the virus spread far more widely than has been reported, and spoke about the sense of PANIC ACROSS Whitehall as Covid threatened to PARALYSE GOVERNMENT."

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords Plus ça change - almost 'business as usual'!!

"Horrified staff and ministers, dealing with the worst crisis in decades, had to reckon with how the country could be run when everyone in charge was getting ill."

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords "Famously, Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock and Dominic Cummings contracted the virus. So did England’s chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, and the then cabinet secretary, Mark Sedwill. Ministers and their staff had it."

"Almost all the staff in Downing Street, too."

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords "It spread to special advisers across Whitehall and to parliamentary lobby journalists. Although the Palace of Westminster escaped any mass outbreaks among staff, several MPs caught Covid. Many in the office of the Labour leader, including Seumas Milne, had it."

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords "Jeremy Corbyn may have had it, although he was never tested and so has never been sure."

The obvious question: "Did ANYONE in UK Government give a thought for national security when flouting the 'regulations and laws' the entire UK population was expected to adhere to?

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords "But the situation was at its worst at the heart of Downing Street. For a number of days aides looked almost entirely to the then director of communications, Lee Cain, for direction."

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords “No 10 was a plague pit,” one adviser recalls. “No one outside the postcode quite knows how bad it got in there.”

Another said: “Lee was running the country, genuinely, for quite some time.”

Lee WHO? The director of communications!!

Rules & laws are implemented for a purpose!

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords "There are fewer workplaces less suited to social distancing than Westminster. High security means much business is conducted in person. MPs vote in packed & sweaty corridors. Staffers share desks. Most windows can only be heaved open a crack with brute force."

FOLLOW THE RULES!

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords "In the weeks leading up to lockdown, staff acknowledge there was NO SOCIAL DISTANCING to speak of, only jokes about how to most respectfully sing God Save the Queen while hand-washing."

#Liarjohnson also advocated, singing "Happy Birthday"

R.I.P. 🪦 154,702 - 170,000 counting!

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords "There were concerns, but there was also a lightheartedness. One aide held a birthday party for fellow Tories and served Corona beer. Johnson was sufficiently unconcerned to miss five Cobra meetings in January and February."

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords "It seems clear the UK was deeply unprepared for the pandemic – from out-of-date PPE to delayed preparedness training – while contingency planning was diverted to a no-deal Brexit."

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords "Lindsay Hoyle, the newly elected Speaker of the House of Commons, said the whole of government did not see until quite late the extent to which Covid-19 would radically alter everyone’s lives."

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords “I don’t think we got a picture [for a while] for how big of scale this was, or how it was going to affect the house. Like everybody else, we were underestimating how bad it was going to be."

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords "I’ll be very open, very honest about that. It was lack of understanding of what we were facing.”

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords "One of the few people still working in a high-profile job in Westminster who had experience of tackling a pandemic was the shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth."

“I was actually in Downing Street for swine flu 10 years ago,” the Labour MP said.

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords @CrispinBlunt suggests 👆 "But let's try and get it into perspective", when diminishing the consequences of #LiarJohnson aka PM, failing to adhere to the strict rules and laws implemented to SAVE LIVES by curtailing spread of the highly infectious COVID-19 virus; fatal for many!

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords theguardian.com/politics/2021/…

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords #PublicInquiry on UK Government mis-handling of COVID-19 public health pandemic NOW!

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords theguardian.com/world/2021/mar…

@Haggis_UK @CrispinBlunt @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords @threadreaderapp unroll, please