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ITV (pol ed), Speakers for Schools (founder), writer (WTF), Hospice UK (vice pres), Arsenal (East Stand), Peston (as in #Peston show, 10.45pm Weds). So?

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    1. Robert Peston‏Verified account @Peston 18 Apr 2020

      The threat of #Covid19 to wreck our way of life was already clear to senior health experts on 22 January (this date is etched on my brain because I argued that day with colleagues that we had to discuss it on #Peston show). And on 11 February...

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    2. Robert Peston‏Verified account @Peston 18 Apr 2020

      I emailed ITV colleagues that a senior government source had told me “we should know within a fortnight or so if we are looking at a pandemic in the UK...The risk is 60% of population getting it. With mortality rate of perhaps just over 1%, we are looking at...

      169 replies 441 retweets 1,298 likes
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      Robert Peston‏Verified account @Peston 18 Apr 2020

      not far off 500k deaths”. Ministers knew by 2nd week of February the gravity of what confronted us. So I am literally gobsmacked by the @thesundaytimes disclosure that the PM was not prioritising the looming Coronavirus catastrophe till March.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/coronavirus-38-days-when-britain-sleepwalked-into-disaster-hq3b9tlgh …

      3:09 PM - 18 Apr 2020
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      • RiddlesdownFox #FBPA 💙NHS 🍃💚🍃 🐝 🐇🤗⭐🕯😷 Mz Karmski 💙 #SaveOurNHS Tim Nicholls💙 Simon Couzens #FBPE Cate Frustrated Creative Dominic Shaw Mel Whittaker 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💜💙🇵🇸 Frank Sengpiel 👨🏼‍🔬🌵🦊🦋🦉🌺 Dave Mason
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        2. The Defeat Of Brexit‏ @WTSecretary 18 Apr 2020
          Replying to @Peston @thesundaytimes

          In normal times, if a government were to cause the death of several hundred people through inexcusible negligence its members would resign. Here we have a govt which has already caused the deaths of thousands, with many thousands more deaths to come The whole cabinet must resign

          76 replies 238 retweets 817 likes
        3. Dan  🌍 #FBPPR #FBPA‏ @PistOffCreative 18 Apr 2020
          Replying to @WTSecretary @Peston @thesundaytimes

          Democide.pic.twitter.com/Z9PT2plJuu

          1 reply 19 retweets 89 likes
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        1. donna respirator‏ @AliceAvizandum 18 Apr 2020
          Replying to @Peston @thesundaytimes

          you mean to say that when they were texting you Cool Inside Source Knowledge they were actually playing you for a total idiot? who could have predicted this?

          1 reply 41 retweets 442 likes
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        1. Andy‏ @otterbotch 18 Apr 2020
          Replying to @Peston @thesundaytimes

          The people who are really gobsmacked are the rest of us who can't work out why a senior political journalist would still be thinking this government is competent, ethical, or trustworthy

          9 replies 45 retweets 431 likes
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        1. Paul Strasburger‏ @LordStras 18 Apr 2020
          Replying to @Peston @thesundaytimes

          I'm gobsmacked that you knew then but carried on pumping out Govt propaganda ever since.

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        1. James Foster‏ @JamesEFoster 18 Apr 2020
          Replying to @Peston @thesundaytimes

          "gobsmacked". Give it up. You're part of the problem.

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        1. Bint‏ @PalBint 18 Apr 2020
          Replying to @Peston @thesundaytimes

          This is what asleep on the job journalism looks like. Boris Johnson has long held a reputation for being slapdash and frankly downright lazy. Robert Peston is beyond pathetic.

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        2. Mrs Gee‏ @earthygirl011 18 Apr 2020
          Replying to @Peston @thesundaytimes

          Mrs Gee Retweeted Robert Peston

          Oh come on. You were still parroting the Tory line on CV19 in Marchhttps://twitter.com/Peston/status/1236739529303830530?s=20 …

          Mrs Gee added,

          Robert PestonVerified account @Peston
          Response from senior government source is “the Italians did several of the populist - non-science based - measures that aren’t any use. They’re who not to follow”. https://twitter.com/amateuradam/status/1236733713129639940 …
          1 reply 31 retweets 65 likes
        3. J Bee  🐝  💞  🔥 🖐 🔥 🌍  🕊‏ @MsParaDoxy 18 Apr 2020
          Replying to @earthygirl011

          Don't like Morgan but @ least he had the cojones 2 confront Hancock over Johnson & Cummings' #HerdImmunity & controversial remarks which allegedly amounted to "Protect the economy; if that means some pensioners die, too bad" #Covid19UK #PropagandistPestonpic.twitter.com/AjHnNcFWd9

          Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺
          1 reply 23 retweets 43 likes
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        2. Dan Hicks‏Verified account @profdanhicks 18 Apr 2020
          Replying to @Peston @thesundaytimes

          Why gobsmacked? Our Prime Minister was pursuing his democidal policy of “herd immunity”, which *required* doing nothing for as long as he could get away with. Our media’s failure to hold government to account cost lives in those crucial weeks—and may yet do again in weeks to come

          15 replies 68 retweets 443 likes
        3. Dan Hicks‏Verified account @profdanhicks 18 Apr 2020
          Replying to @profdanhicks @Peston @thesundaytimes

          Dan Hicks Retweeted Dan Hicks

          Perhaps when Boris Johnson was channelling Nietzsche in his “Superman Theory of Coronavirus” speech on 3 February you, @Peston, or others, could have challenged him—rather than continuing to parrot the latest from “unnamed sources” https://twitter.com/profdanhicks/status/1251551869383688194?s=21 …https://twitter.com/profdanhicks/status/1251551869383688194 …

          Dan Hicks added,

          Dan HicksVerified account @profdanhicks
          Boris Johnson's "Superman Theory of Coronavirus" (Feb 3rd) is not just a terrifying statement of this government's initial eugenic herd immunity policy for pure economic gain—it's also the most visible example yet of Dom Cummings' obsession with Nietzsche #Übermensch https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1251458390028664832 …
          7 replies 52 retweets 265 likes
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