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
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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
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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?
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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
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I'm gobsmacked that you knew then but carried on pumping out Govt propaganda ever since.
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"gobsmacked". Give it up. You're part of the problem.
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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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Oh come on. You were still parroting the Tory line on CV19 in Marchhttps://twitter.com/Peston/status/1236739529303830530?s=20 …
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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
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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
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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 … - Show replies
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