UK Brexit minister Lord Frost has reportedly resigned from the government over its "political direction" https://t.co/gAlgcMWyUG
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) December 18, 2021
Lord Frost has resigned because he knows his Brexit deal is disintegrating in deep crisis and he wants to get out before the whole fiasco and disaster of Brexit is pinned on him personally as Johnson’s factotum and lackey
— Andrew Adonis (@Andrew_Adonis) December 18, 2021
Brexit minister , Lord Frost, resigns… the Brexit Secretary , David Davis, resigned..the day after the referendum UKIP leader, N Farage, resigned…they all run a mile rather then face the practical consequence of their delusional fantasies.
— steve richards (@steverichards14) December 18, 2021
Bollocks to all the Lord Frost resignation ‘reasons’. He’s going because he crowed, threatened, struck stances and FAILED.
— David Aaronovitch (@DAaronovitch) December 18, 2021
The deal I negotiated is shite. The promises I made were hollow. My threats were empty, my promises were illusory, my vision delusional, and I created a disaster that will damage my nation for a generation.
— Russ Jones (@RussInCheshire) December 18, 2021
But I'm quitting because of *masks*.
https://t.co/7gEwwn9bN5
Senior EU official: “Good riddance”
— Mujtaba (Mij) Rahman (@Mij_Europe) December 18, 2021
No love lost
Of course the letter doesn't mention Northern Ireland once. All the sound and fury and destabilisation Frost was responsible for, and it never really mattered.
— Matthew O'Toole (@MatthewOToole2) December 18, 2021
I do wish @duponline would stop demeaning us all by indulging the idea that Brexiteer Tories care about this place. https://t.co/r1vLW7l4gk
DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson says Frost’s departure would be a bad sign for Boris Johnson’s commitment to removing the Irish Sea borderhttps://t.co/fdBqQn8qBi via @IrishTimes
— Simon Carswell (@SiCarswell) December 18, 2021
My favourite Brexiters are currently the ones who think that the best way to recover from a self-inflicted punch in the face is to punch yourself again, but harder. https://t.co/JabvKCUCk9
— James Oh Brien (@mrjamesob) December 18, 2021
JUST IN 🚨 Thousands gather at Downing Street over Covid anti-lockdown protest pic.twitter.com/P4ALFWf13h
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) December 18, 2021
Good to see that the thing that moves some people to action against me isn't the blatant corruption, the outlawing of protest, suppression of voting or privatisation of the NHS, but not being able to cough in someone else's face. #londonprotest pic.twitter.com/UA3a20ysDN
— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) December 18, 2021
Classic.
— Trumpton (@Trump_ton) December 18, 2021
"I don't want my kids to wake up in some sort of utopia" pic.twitter.com/fxOv9d3iCI
A few thousand people on the streets of London today in a protest against vaccines while 150,000 ghosts walk silently among them, powerless to protest against being dead.
— paul bassett davies (@thewritertype) December 18, 2021
This alone is just extraordinary. Over 100 Tory MPs in the group… pic.twitter.com/eykOUjWG7W
— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) December 18, 2021
#Number10 in ‘state of panic’ over further Allegra Stratton videos which #MoS says refer to his mistresses and love-children. https://t.co/f82EPoR2sY
— Graham Lovelace (@glovelace) December 18, 2021
Liz Truss is going to be Prime Minister isn't she? pic.twitter.com/XLleQrqFV1
— Planet Belfast 💙 Get vaccinated 😷 🇪🇺 (@Planet_Belfast) December 18, 2021
Meanwhile…
Breaking News: The Netherlands ordered a full lockdown until mid-January in Europe's strongest reaction to the Omicron variant so far. https://t.co/uSsO32fS50
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 18, 2021
New York hit a record of new coronavirus cases as the omicron variant fueled a wave of infections and pushed Broadway theaters and the Rockettes to cancel holiday shows https://t.co/45Izmy5QQ8
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 18, 2021
The coronavirus testing capacity in the U.S. is facing enormous new pressure, with holiday travelers waiting in long lines to be tested, overworked laboratories struggling to keep up and rapid at-home diagnostics flying off pharmacy shelves. https://t.co/23JHHJ9nTt
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 18, 2021
I've been thinking about this for the last few days, and this statement is going to haunt the Biden administration. The sarcasm was stupid, uncalled for, and watching these long C 19 testing lines, making Omicron worse. https://t.co/3LuUAWfR0e
— ProfB (@AntheaButler) December 18, 2021
Due to the recent spike in the Omicron variant and out of an abundance of caution, there will be no live audience for tonight’s taping of “Saturday Night Live” and the show will have limited cast and crew.
— Saturday Night Live – SNL (@nbcsnl) December 18, 2021
The omicron wave is like a hurricane hitting land. It will be bad. We need to prepare ourselves to limit the damage. Vaccines (especially boosters), testing, masks, ventilation. The storm will pass. I desperately hope as many people as possible will be safe when it does.
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) December 18, 2021
The Overnight Note 