The long-awaited return of children to the classroom last month did not lead to a surge in Covid infections, and the “vast majority” of positive test results in schools are likely to be false, according to reports. But the Department for Education (DfE), following a review, has not changed its guidance about secondary school pupils in England being advised to wear face masks in classrooms, as well as in communal areas. The Telegraph has the story.
Face masks in the classroom are to stay in place after the Easter holidays, the Government has announced, despite low Covid rates among school pupils.
Secondary students should continue to wear masks when they return to school for the summer term, in both lessons and corridors, as a “precautionary measure”, officials at the DfE said.
They explained that the policy will now be dropped as part of stage three of the roadmap out of restrictions, which will happen no earlier than May 17th.
Ministers have been accused of “betraying” children by continuing to insist on face masks in the classroom during the summer term, given the “serious harms” that they are potentially causing.
The UsForThem organisation, which campaigns against intrusive social distancing and mask-wearing measures in schools, is consulting its lawyers about this latest announcement.
Masks-in-class to remain until at least 17th May with an expectation they are then dropped as part of Step 3 out of lockdown.
— UsForThemUK
Still no harm assessment, and no evidence of the promised review.
We are consulting our lawyers.@camillahmturner @JuliaHB1 https://t.co/8PZtxcHYnV(@UsforThemUK) April 6, 2021
Molly Kingsley, the co-founder of the group, has said: “It’s really disappointing that this measure remains in place for frankly a day longer given that there seems to have been no assessment of the harms it causes.”
We believe that the detriment to children of this measure is potentially serious and ongoing. It was not clear which evidence the introduction of this measure was based on, nor what evidence is that supports it still being in place.
This measure is manifestly not in the best interests of children. We were told it was a temporary measure, and it is another example of the Government moving the goalposts and yet another betrayal of children.
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Interesting revelations here, and it becomes apparent why Starmer isn’t interested in Elon Musk investing in the UK. Musk has declared, ”This is war” over on X;
”The British are coming, to meddle in our elections!
In an explosive leak with ramifications for the upcoming U.S. presidential election, internal documents from the Center for Countering Digital Hate—whose founder is British political operative Morgan McSweeney, now advising the Kamala Harris campaign—show the group plans in writing to “kill Musk’s Twitter” while strengthening ties with the Biden/Harris administration and Democrats like Senator Amy Klobuchar, who has introduced multiple bills to regulate online “misinformation.”
The documents obtained by The DisInformation Chronicle and Racket show CCDH’s hyperfocus on Musk — “Kill Musk’s Twitter” is the first item in the template of its monthly agenda notes dating back to the early months of this year.
The Center for Countering Digital Hate is the anti-disinformation activist ally of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party, and a messaging vehicle for Labour’s neoliberal think tank, Labour Together. Both the CCDH and Labour Together were founded by Morgan McSweeney, a Svengali credited with piloting Starmer’s rise to Downing Street, much as Karl Rove is credited with guiding George W. Bush to the White House.
The CCDH documents carry particular importance because McSweeney’s Labour Together political operatives have been teaching election strategy to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, leading Politico to call Labour and the Democrats “sister parties.”
McSweeney is an ascendant figure, having just been promoted to Starmer’s Chief of Staff in something of a palace coup after the abrupt resignation of longtime Labour fixture Sue Gray. McSweeney is lionized, not just for a Carville-style rightward tilt within the party, but for mastery of fundraising and dark money, having reportedly pulled a host of new wealthy donors to Labour in the last two years.
After 25 years of the “special relationship” being essentially “one-way traffic,” with Washington politicos advising the Brits, the Democrats “now believe they actually have something to learn from Labour,” as Politico explained. Democrats will supposedly learn from Labour’s tactical brilliance. For example, Starmer countered former Conservative PM Rishi Sunak’s accusations of being soft on immigration by promising to “smash the criminal boat gangs” bringing migrants across the English channel.
The new British government also believes that a Harris defeat would leave Starmer “alone” as the “keeper of the center-Left flame” and in “worrying isolation” as “the Grand Atlantic Alliance’s last hope.”
https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/election-exclusive-british-advisors
And to further cement the story here is Reclaim the Net on the same subterfuge. Morgan McSweeney certainly thinks he’s fighting with the big boys. And Kneel wants to be very careful, the American Deep State won’t think twice about having him Magafulied if he phooks up.
British politicians interfering in American elections. What would the courts think…oh well skip that.
Naughty, naughty Kneel.
https://reclaimthenet.org/the-british-operatives-determined-to-kill-elon-musks-free-speech-platform-x
https://www.globalresearch.ca/global-tyranny-un-summit-future/5870659
And here is why the Democrats don’t care.
At the recent Summit of the Future 193 nations signed up to committing us to their vision of dystopia…
“Lost in the hoopla of the coming US presidential election and the pandemonium of current global affairs was an unheralded summit last month that could cause more upheaval on the planet than anything our self-described world leaders have thrown at the populace yet.
On September 22, representatives of 193 sovereign nation-states gathered at the United Nations headquarters in New York City to adopt a Pact for the Future.
The document, which includes a Global Digital Compact and a Declaration on Future Generations, promises to “open the door to new opportunities and untapped possibilities,” according to UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
The landmark agreement, which Guterres called a “step-change towards more effective, inclusive, networked multilateralism,” contains 56 “actions” that countries pledged to achieve.
The net effect of the Pact for the Future and its two so-called annexes is intended to radically accelerate the push toward completion of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and its Agenda 2030.
Marketed as a blueprint to “lay the foundations for a sustainable, just, and peaceful global order—for all peoples and nations” (and who could possibly object to such a heavenly vision?)—this latest flurry of UN paperwork may have set new records in linguistic maneuvers and platitudes per page.”
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Sounds like 193 countries have signed up for immiseration. The big difference between the signatories is, unlike Kneeler, the majority will just ignore it if it’s not in their self-interest.
“the majority will just ignore it”
Exactly.
Whoa, you two!
Brilliant piece and Brilliant comments..but I’m left behind here!
Bit thick, but, explain for the many watches and future members of the sceptic, in laymens term?
One for all and all for one!
Thanks Dinger.
https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/election-exclusive-british-advisors
Kneel thinks he’s big enough to help Kamala Harris win the US election. He’s flexing his muscles. Of course he could also get badly burnt.
Hat tip Guido.
McSweeney & his cohorts set up a US office to export their methodology with aim of shutting down independent media & in particular X.
They got funding from Hollywood bigwigs & others. Teamed up with the Democrats & set about targeting X, Matt Taibi & others.
The methodology basically targets advertisers, persuade advertisers not to place adverts by claiming that X, or whoever, are spreading misinformation.
Wouldn’t you love to be in the room when Starmer goes to visit Trump & in walks Elon? Priceless.
Starmer, McSweenet et al are more dangerous than we gave them credit for.
Exactly.
First Amendment … no longer fit for purpose.
That depends on your purpose, doesn’t it? It was fine until they altered the purpose.