I'll take Nicola Sturgeon over Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak and Matt Hancock, any day of the week #CovidInquiry
And that - everyone - is how you skewer a mendacious, toxic, lying waste of space like Boris Johnson.
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Amazing intro from Krishnan Guru-Murthy #CovidInquiry
'The government during covid was a disgusting orgy or narcissism. And that was according to Boris Johnson himself as he struggled to deal with the pandemic and clashed with his advisers. Evidence from Dominic Cummings and
Boris Johnson shown note from his private secretary recording him on 19 March 2020 saying:
'Why are we destroying everything for people who will die anyway soon? Bed blockers.'
His response: 'It wasn't designed to be publicly broadcast.'
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Hugo Keith, 'Did you ever read SAGE minutes?'
Boris Johnson, 'Once or twice'
HK, 'There were hundreds of minutes from SAGE but you only read a fraction of them?'
BJ, 'That sound's right to me, yes' #CovidInquiry
Absslutely disgusting from Johnson on Downing Street parties #CovidInquiry
Boris Johnson, 'I haven't looked at all the evidence'
Brenda Campbell, 'On Dec 18th 2020, her father, aged 67 was going to die of covid, he died alone, five days later'
'The juxtaposition. On Dec 18th
Boris Johnson tries not to smirk as he explains the missing WhatsApps (from 3:06 onwards) #CovidInquiry
'I don't know the exact reasons. It looks as though something to do with the app going down and then coming up again. And then somehow, not. Automatically erasing all the
Hugo Keith, 'Did you drive to Barnard castle?'
Dominic Cummings, 'Yes'
HK, 'Did you take your wife and child in the car?'
DC, 'Yes'
HK, 'Why did you need your wife and child in the car in order to test your eyesight' #CovidInquiry
Michael Gove speaks over Claire Mitchell (Scottish Covid Bereaved) repeatedly.
A perfect demonstration of what Helen MacNamara was referring to in her evidence, that women were belittled, spoken over and dismissed #CovidInquiry
Boris Johnson insists that Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance knew about Eat Out To Help Out.
Hugo Keith brings in all the evidence to show that they didn't #CovidInquiry
A rude and insulting exchange #CovidInquiry
Pete Weatherby from Covid 19 Bereaved Families for Justice asks Boris Johnson a series of questions and he deflects and interrupts repeatedly
🔹Johnson struggles to understand a graph, then refuses to accept what the graph shows
Why was your phone was missing 5000 WhatsApps?
'It looks as though it's something to do with the app going down and then, um, coming up again. But, somehow, automatically, um, erasing all the things between that date when it down and when it was last backed up.'
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Oliver Dowden on Michelle Mone, 'Every single piece of PPE procurement went through a proper due diligence process'
Rishi Sunak at #CovidInquiry 'We put in place a new way of doing it. So rather than individual contracts that would be agreed, as would be normal with the scrutiny
NICOLA STURGEON (on Boris Johnson)‘His utter incompetence in every sense is now offending me on behalf of politicians everywhere…
He is a fucking clown.’
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I was asked to defend Nicola Sturgeon on BBC radio yesterday.
I’m sick of the trial by innuendo she’s enduring and said so.
I also thought the way in which Tory toff Alister Jack attacked her for crying was vulgar in the extreme. Such bad taste. #CovidInquiry
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THE LOOK ON HER FACE!!! OH MY GOD!
During a discussion about a Cobra meeting that Boris Johnson skipped... Johnson just said he didn't really take the word 'pandemic' seriously at the time.
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Boris Johnson HAS ALREADY had to apologise for lying this morning!!
He tried to deny being told about how crap his government was at the time.... Then had the messages read to him! #covidinquiry