The Conservative government in the UK has displayed in the past week that it has a very weird relationship with the truth. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and several of his cronies were busted for lying about hosting parties during lockdown last year – and the fibs don’t appear to have stopped there. Enter Sajid Javid…

The Health Secretary openly claimed in Parliament on Tuesday that it was Britain who ‘alerted the world to Omicron’. Nah, sorry, we’re calling bull on this one. And we’ve got the receipts to prove it…

South Africa’s Department of Health hosted a press conference on Thursday 25 November, presenting their findings on a ‘new variant’ that had ripped through the country – and was likely spreading overseas. Professor Tulio de Oliveira and his team were the first to identify B.1.1.529. All the UK did was spark a wave of nonsensical travel bans.

However, that didn’t stop Sajid Javid from trying to worm his way into the limelight. The minister, in response to a question from an opposition MP, seemingly lied about discovering Omicron unprovoked, when he was initially giving an answer about the UK’s testing capabilities:

‘There is no shortage of tests… the limiting factor, because of hugely increased demand… is the ability to deliver the tests, and having enough capacity to deliver the tests. But, may I remind the honourable member, it was the UK that alerted the world to the threat of Omicron.”

See here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWrcawR4xdI

Needless to say, Sajid Javid sparked a wave of outrage online, and it wasn’t long before Twitter users everywhere were calling him out. Sorry mate, but you don’t get to be the person who crushes Africa's travel and tourism industry, and then take credit for discovering the new variant yourself. It doesn’t work that way.

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This whites wants to claim credit for everything, I have never fancied the UK, they are bunch of hypocrites

Freestainworld:
This whites wants to claim credit for everything, I have never fancied the UK, they are bunch of hypocrites

Imagine a blatant lie like this on national TV. I shudder thinking what they say in private conversations about Africa in particular.