Johnson: We want to prevent the #NHS being overwhelmed...

Also Johnson: I will not provide a definition of what "overwhelmed" looks like.

#CovidBriefing

The @10DowningStreet briefing room sound kill-switch operator is gonna be looking for a new mixing desk after tonight? Unless he's a friend of Putin... #covidbriefing #matthancock

Amazing what they can do with these Zoom backgrounds @10DowningStreet #covidbriefing

Have @10DowningStreet press conference journalists been told by @HMTAllegra that they'll be barred if they ask about #Arcuri during #covidbriefing Q&As? The relevance?: trust, cronyism and is the PM a proper man to lead & trust during (before or after) a pandemic. #nolan

God. The Tories bloody LOVE the #NewVariant don't they? Gives them a massive new excuse for being shit. Hancock doing the whole "if ONLY it weren't for the new variant*" schtick...

(*Fact check: you'd still be shit...)
#covidbriefing

Where the fuck is this surge in testing capacity coming from? #covidbriefing #PrimeMinister #borisjohnson

Smug posh twat Matt Hancock calling post deliverers "posties" is vomitous.

#covidbriefing #ukgovernment #uk #uksucks

Welcome to tier 3. #covidbriefing #COVID19 #liverpoollockdown #tier3

So no mention from @BorisJohnson for those who have previously shielded or the most vulnerable. I'm lucky I can work from home, but what about those who can't? A lot of us are of working age! I know @AndyBurnhamGM and @AndrewHWestern will be making the case for us. #covidbriefing

Now waiting to play the latest round of ‘Check how (a) what ministers announce and (b) media reporting of same each match against the official gov published guidance’.

Twice ministers have got our family's hopes up, only to have mis-announced their own rules. #CovidBriefing

I'm currently in an isolation ward recovering from a stem cell transplant. If you're moaning that you have to put a bit of cloth over your nose and mouth in the shops or have to leave the pub early, I have no sympathy whatsoever #covidbriefing #COVID19

"To look out for each other, to protect each other"

Unless we're tories or Tory allies off to break some fucking rules. Like your own dad you fucking hypocrite & fucking Dominic Cummings, his flight to Durham & eye test in Barnard Castle.

I'm so fucking angry rn #covidbriefing

Six months more lockdown for an #excludedUK that's had sweet FA since March, anyway? Fair support for all, otherwise restrictions will implode under economic imperatives. We're not all in tax payer-funded MP-level salaries and benefits, #LiarJohnson. #covidbriefing

Is CummingSki #liarJohnson's invisible enemy? #covidbriefing

Is it just me, or does the PM’s decision to hold the #covidbriefing at the exact same time as the long-delayed first episode of #gbbo2020 just capture the spirit of this entire fucking banjaxed car crash of a situation?

Wasn't the #10downingstreet #Covidbriefing science boffin once in #TheMightyBoosh?

Interesting that the public aren't trusted by @10DowningStreet to ask a 'live' question during the pseudo-democratic 'scutiny' of the daily #Covidbriefing Show. IllusionOfScrutiny

That's a "yes" then, re Cummings was more than an observer at Sage meetings #10downingstreet #covidbriefing

Can somebody ask @10DowningStreet's #covidbriefing today at least one of the following

Who is in charge?
Where is Patel?
Why did the gov refuse EU ventilators?
Do taxpayers pay for the private room/treatment #Johnson had prior to ITU?
Where is the RussiaReport?
@paulwaugh