The world has pulled up the drawbridge against the UK and its Covid variant – 15 favourite responses
Just a day after the new variant of Covid-19 that is spreading through the South East was blamed for all but cancelling Christmas, it’s managed to do what many Brexiters had on their wish lists – closed the UK’s borders.
Port of Dover closed to traffic leaving the UK "until further notice" due to border restrictions in France, over Covid concerns, authorities sayhttps://t.co/xdlTOJmnJf
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) December 20, 2020
It wasn’t just France pulling up the drawbridge, however.
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Reminder: From January 1st UK nationals will also face extra restrictions to enter the EU until the pandemic is over.
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) December 20, 2020
Krishnan Guru-Murthy gave this stark overview of the UK’s current situation.
New strain of COVID could be 70% more transmissible, Hancock hinting at months of lockdown, not clear if schools will return, British traffic cut off from Europe, No Deal days away – and MPs have broken up for Xmas, which has been cancelled. Make sense of that in a democracy.
— Krishnan Guru-Murthy (@krishgm) December 20, 2020
Needless to say, tweeters had a few things to say about it.
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they’re gonna call us corona island 🙁
— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) December 20, 2020
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The joke’s on the rest of the world, because we’d already had a vote to not allow ourselves to go anywhere anyway.
— Rich Neville (@RichNeville) December 20, 2020
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Now that Dover is closed, the rest of Europe has cut us off and we are facing imminent food shortages, we have the EU exactly where we want them.#Brexit#BorisFailedBritain
— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) December 20, 2020
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LITERALLY TRAPPED ON BREXIT ISLAND 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) December 20, 2020
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Brexiters whining about EU countries wanting to close their borders pic.twitter.com/e3ICCIQNhI
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) December 20, 2020
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Narrator: “And that’s how some of us found out that EU countries had control of their borders all along…” pic.twitter.com/JJtwY6s6bh
— The Media Tweets (@TheMediaTweets) December 20, 2020
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If irony was an island…
— Hugh Bonneville (@hughbon) December 20, 2020
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Looks like the whole country being put in Brexitier 4 by the rest of the world… When incompetence meets venality, and Covid and Brexit combine to expose the worst possible government at the worst possible time.
— ALASTAIR CAMPBELL (@campbellclaret) December 20, 2020