The 14 most stinging takedowns of Nadine Dorries who said only a crystal ball could have predicted Lockdown 2

8.

I actually think the average 7 year old, if presented with the scientific advice would have been able to predict a lockdown. https://t.co/LL7B6QoQtS

— Fleur Hitchcock 😷 (@FleurHitchcock) October 31, 2020

9.

I thought Cummings and his team of "super forecasters" had a room full of crystal balls in their Whitehall "NASA command centre". https://t.co/1U9F2es3dA

— David Head (@DavidHeadViews) October 31, 2020

10.

Maybe these people don't know about the trajectory of the 1918 influenza pandemic because nobody erected a statue to it outside Argos. https://t.co/6nYV5YhyTc

— A Skellington Inside Some Meat (@Scriblit) October 31, 2020

11.

Fucking hell, Nadine. I could have predicted it using one of those folded up paper things you made at school to find out your favourite colour and who you were going to marry out of A-ha.

Green and Mags Furuholmen, in case you're wondering. https://t.co/VE5RO5AQSu

— Lisa Oh The Horrorsworth! 😱😱😱😱 (@WorksWithWords) October 31, 2020

12.

Oh FFS. I give up. I really do. https://t.co/R5IXPAZs1r

— Tim Bale (@ProfTimBale) October 31, 2020

13.

yep this was a bolt from the blue https://t.co/KezyLquylT

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) October 31, 2020

14.

At this stage I'd trust an actual piece of round glass to run the country over this lot. https://t.co/cLJ2pqKJVT

— Declan Cashin (@Tweet_Dec) October 31, 2020

In future, Boris Johnson might do well to follow this advice from Hugo Rifkind.

It's not for me to suggest that I know what works or not, and what science indicates what. But the lesson of the pandemic so far has been that everything we do, we do at least three weeks too late. So let's think about what we'll be forced to do in three weeks, and just do that.

— Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) October 13, 2020

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