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Welcome to Worst Hot Take of the Week – a column in which @MULLET_FAN_NEO crowns the wildest hot take of the week.
Reasonable take: Ah yes, a rise in demand for tests as schools re-open and increasing numbers of people return to work, who could have foreseen such a situation?
Brain rot: Rude that the entire UK population isn’t applauding the fabulous government 24/7, actually, says senior Tory minister whose investment firm was recently accused of “cashing in” on the pandemic.
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Witnessing Jacob Rees-Mogg go about his business in the House of Commons feels like watching a period actor at an English Heritage site who has permanently trapped himself in character after accidentally ingesting too much mercury. Merely observing his form is like gazing at a living fossil from a bygone era, a horseshoe crap in a three-piece suit trained to rule over the masses from his hatching.So when met with criticism of the government’s famously flawed coronavirus testing system, following weeks of reports about people being offered COVID-19 tests 100 miles from home and then not even getting them in some cases, it would have been uncharacteristic of him not to accuse the British public of being snivelling ingrates.Responding to a question about tests from his Labour shadow, Valerie Vaz, Rees-Mogg insisted: “Instead of this endless carping, saying it’s difficult to get them, we should actually celebrate this phenomenal success of the British nation in getting up to a quarter of a million tests of a disease that nobody knew about until earlier in the year.”This was despite the fact Boris Johnson had already appeared before the Commons liaison committee and conceded that the COVID-19 testing system “has huge problems” – that there isn’t enough testing capacity, that deaths rates “will rise”, that many people are “deeply frustrated” and that any plan for a large-scale use of near-instant tests is “a long way off”.
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