There follows a guest post by Dr David McGrogan, an Associate Professor of Law at Northumbria Law School. He is unconvinced by the Government’s claims that it can do nothing to stop employers introducing ‘No Jab, No Job’ policies.
It is still as clear as mud what form vaccine passports might take and where they will be required. Will employers be able to require employees to be vaccinated in order to come back to the office? Will pub owners be required to ask customers to ‘scan in’ at the entrance? Nobody quite knows.
What is for sure is that the Government’s position, as ever, is one of naked dissembling. Since March 23rd last year Government ministers have used their purported powers under the Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984 to force businesses to close, to require the wearing of face masks in shops or public transport, to prevent people ‘mingling’, and much more besides. The scale of the interventions have been hitherto unimaginable. Yet when it comes to vaccine passports, all of a sudden the Government has discovered that we are best left to our own devices after all. It “believes that introducing a ban on [vaccine passports] would in most cases be an unjustified intrusion on how businesses choose to make their premises safe”, we’re told by a spokesman. Another source says the Government is “resigned” to the fact that employers will bar people who have not been vaccinated, and that it would not “legally be able to stop employees demanding [vaccination] as a condition of employment”. That’s right: it would be wrong – an unjustified intrusion, indeed! – to ban employers from requiring their employees to be vaccinated, or pub or restaurant owners from demanding it of customers. Moreover, it wouldn’t “legally” be possible at all. One imagines the members of the Cabinet sitting sadly and shrugging their shoulders “resignedly” at the prospect – they’d like to make vaccine passports unlawful, they really would, but what is an authoritarian Government with almost unlimited power to do?
Leaving aside the truly Orwellian warping of language here (it is apparently banning vaccine passports which would be the unjustifiable intrusion, rather than requiring their use!), this is utter hogwash. It is perfectly within the Government’s power to introduce legislation to the Commons banning employers from requiring employees to be vaccinated any time it chooses. Nothing would prevent it from doing so as a matter of legal principle (under our constitutional arrangements Parliament can create whatever legislation it wishes), and with its huge majority it would have no problem whatsoever having such a statute passed. And the Equality Act 2010 already makes it unlawful for shops, pubs, restaurants, etc. to discriminate on a number of grounds. The Act could be amended to include “vaccination status” as one of its protected characteristics, alongside disability, race, age, and so on, and that would be that.
If the Government intends to have vaccine passports becoming part of our ordinary daily lives it should have the guts to admit it, rather than spew this mealy-mouthed nonsense about not wanting to “intrude” in how businesses are run.
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They launched a country wide witch hunt over the pay gap myth, they’re pushing diversity quotas left and right, but somehow they’re powerless about this. What a bunch of fascists.
Come on Toby, the penny must have dropped by now ?
This isn’t about health, it’s about control and changing society beyond recognition.
The issue now is that we are at the start of phase 2 ie vaccine leads to vax/covid/common pass.
If people with influence stood up at the start of phase 1 and said no,no,no to control measures last March we could have headed this off with a popular revolt.
But no, too many well intentioned people caved in and trusted the Establishment.
We are now at a similar cusp where if people of influence speak up and rally a significant number of the clearly wavering peoples , we can stop this madness in it’s tracks.
If not it’s game over. Once the vaxpass agenda is started there will be no going back.
People with influence need lead a movement to unite globally, certainly within the West and stamp this madness out NOW.
This is our last chance. You were warned 12 months ago . Time is getting dangerously short for us to stop this.
It probably was about health to begin with, the government panicked and paid far too much attention to a small group of scientists. Since roughly June last year it has gradually changed to a combination of the government being unable to admit they were wrong and reign in people like Whitty and Valance, combined with a realisation that they can use public health as an excuse to maintain the massive power they gave themselves. I’m still not sure how much is incompetence and how much is the desire for control. This could be debated endlessly, but it doesn’t really matter, as the end result is the same and they need to be stopped. Some days I’m quite pessimistic and think that it’s already too late, given that the government have played an absolute blinder with their propaganda campaign and the majority of people would support or at least accept any measures that are now introduced. Sadly it takes a lot of courage for anyone who has spent the last year supporting lockdown, especially in public, to now admit they were wrong. Most people by now will be aware of the massive damage that has been done, and would prefer to ignore the evidence than admit to themselves, far less in public, that they were cheerleaders for a policy that will lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths as well as all the other harms.
I would agree with you about initially about health, except it was happening more or less in other countries. Part of me thinks they don’t know how to get out of the mess, but then I see how they are talking about going forward and my sceptic head tells me different. I even an starting to wonder if the narrative of the virus coming out of China even has an iota of truth. Often a mild flu season one year is followed by a more severe one the next year and many people, especially the elderly with underlying conditions. The psychological ramping up of fear along with ventilators, extra hospital capacity etc soon plays with people’s minds.
Nope Matt Dalby – you are dead wrong. (Unfortunately). All steps in the grand plan. See comments above.
Agree totally. They are just puppets on the world stage.
If it isn’t about control, if it was simply about a public health emergency, why would you need propaganda? The propaganda has been absolutely blatant.
It was never ever about Health, that is a thoroughly discredited theory and one which is was always meant to give the UK government an escape route, if things went badly.
The UK government was and is an integral part of the Covid event and its rogue elements have been in bed with globalist Bill Gates and some of the other robber barons for many years. Covid was a well planned scam, but it still lacked a large corrupt government to get it up and running and here I would suggest that Theresa May, for all her faults, wouldn’t have played the globalist game. No doubt though, the lifelong eugenicist and totally amoral scoundrel Boris Johnson was the answer to the globalist prayers (to Satan) and with Boris at the helm, their diabolical depopulation scam was ready to go. The rest is history.
My vote goes to Mr. Grates, and no Matt, the virus was always simply the vector for the required change.
They’ve (GloboCap) been war gaming it for over a decade now, terms like LOCKSTEP well understood by the players on how this would work out and roll over the ‘chosen’ populaces.
The panic/fearmongering around cases is a distractant. The plan has always been one of waves of carrot and stick bullying, subjugation till you forgot what your old normal lives entailed.
They’ve done spectacularly well, over a year in already with minimal pushback, with some countries such as Israel and Saudi-Arabia way-ahead with the new draconian AI/health ID systems fully installed and running well.
[Listen and weep]
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/urgent-message-to-the-world-from-israel_QjA2ZGj2lIuddRO.html
So I’m afraid to say folks, this is the hill we have to die on, if not enough pushback registers in the UK this week or so… the BUILD BACK BETTER bought politicos insitu, will dial in atop vaxx passports apps if they are voted through the following:
Social Credit Scores
CBDC time coded-spend it or lose it
UBI
Draconian 24/7 surveillance
Bio-tagging vaccines
Am not the biggest fan of PJW, however his latest vid does hit the spot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcmZG0H4HzE
So what is the end play goal?
“What they really want is a fully standardized Global data collection hub and retrieval format, and cross-border sharing of mandatory biometric health IDs of the entire population of the planet, in order for the stand-alone AI-powered command centre to work without a hitch, and for the purposes of calculating everyone’s potential contribution, and/or threat to the system…”
Have we all got that now?
Thanks Galene77. Neatly summarised. I have been struggling to get folk to see who is behind all this for many months and that everything which has taken place in the last 18 months are actually steps in implementing the grand plan. Everything is easy to check and there has been absolutely loads of evidence – and even outright declarations of intent on the WEF website, but too many people are branding it a conspiracy theory without even looking and checking themselves. Unfortunately these deniers will take us all down with them.
The lockdown has been about establishing the ‘digital’ covert surveillance society that politicians have long wanted but could not get set up. Lockdown enabled the Work(not) from Home agenda, in conjunction with the Magic Money Tree phenomenon, plus the weakest PM in history. The funding of institutions & global quangos like the WHO etc, by technocrats, globalists, the wealthy ‘elite’ and the WEF who have an agenda in place which is not being adequately promoted to meet its 2030 deadline became the deciding factor. News stories like the constant monitoring of private internet activity, the removal of people from ‘anti social’ media for saying things those ‘with’ power do not like. The censoring of news to only support lockdown, the censoring & silencing & abusing of very eminent people with alternative view points are silenced for not agreeing with the party line.
The likes of Handcock. Gove and others saw the opportunity to make a power grab, and introduce their planned takeover of the NHS as the best option as a data scraping machine. If you want to collect data on everyone, what better opportunity than the cover of the NHS since there are very few people in the UK who are not registered to use the services. The incorrectly titled Minister for ‘Health’ has for some time believed he owned the NHS and the numerous corrupt quangos that have been set up under that umbrella. He set up NHSX unit to digitize the NHS see this article: https://jmhealthnet.org/blog-news-posts/digitizing-nhse 2020 was the proposed deadline for this and Covid gave them the ultimate excuse. From there it is a steady down spiral from the NHS Track & Trace app, the Covid passports and the ‘Biosecure’ Health Shield that was implemented from the 1st April 2021.
Your data is for sale to the highest bidder. Matt Hancock did a dodgy COVID data deal with a CIA-backed private tech firm Palantir, and it is only thanks to OpenDemocracy who won an urgent legal case challenging the massive £23m NHS ‘data deal’ with controversial spy tech firm Palantir, that forced the UK government to climb down.
There has been a lot of money made by very few people, and those with their noses in the trough have invented entire new business sectors from the lockdown, whilst systematic destroying other sectors in the process. This is not about saving people from a virus.
What can we do to stop it? No dissenting voices are being listened to. I have written on several occasions to my mp (though have had only one vague reply) and feel powerless and frustrated and like tearing my hair out (except every strand is precious at my age). But seriously I am at a loss to know how we can fight this. Any ideas are hugely welcome.
The main thing to realise is we cannot right all the “progressive” brainwashing that’s been facilitated over recent years and return to a predominantly commonsensical form of government.
We are fighting a rearguard action to limit the damage these global agendas are going to cause to ordinary people , and to constrain encroachment of these agendas into our personal privacy and freedom.
There is no one charismatic leader who can become a talisman/lightening conductor for people on our side in this age of dispersed allegiances .
The only way is for influential individuals with public recognition to form up as a loose grouping to oppose the coming tyranny and communicate that to their followings while giving support to others in the wider group as the mainstream/govt attacks attempt to discredit the individuals one at a time.
There are many individuals eg Lawrence Fox who have a public platform but alone their voices are drowned out. Many entertainment/political/commercial figures are on our side but too reluctant to oppose the so called settled view of the mob .
If these people could be brought together as a coherent group it would quickly build as more people could see they are not in the minority at all.
Someone like Toby is in a position to at least set this kind of thing rolling.
For private individuals it is almost impossible to make any headway against the state sponsored orthodoxy but can lend support once the momentum begins.
So the mRNA vaccines can trigger auto-immune reactions months after the injection, especially when exposed to the ‘wild’ virus. This is what killed the test animals at rates of 20 to 100% of the test population.
Dr James Lyons-Weilers
https://www.bitchute.com/video/VntXNdJHUG08/
Thanks for sharing that video. It is the first time I have come across Dr Lyons-Weilers. He is a powerful speaker and one of the strikingly honest ones.
Basically, we are being culled
This was my concern with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which is why I would never have had them as I already have an autoimmune condition. Although my daughter-in-law has had the Pfizer vaccine developing antibodies 7 weeks post vaccination and she has an autoimmune condition.
I have been watching how the aids virus fear was ramped up and how the tests again don’t tell you anything, they are still making fortunes from it. The similarities are scary.
It’s on Bitchute
HIV-Aids- Fauci’s First Fraud
I lost 2 of my very best friends 1990 within 10 days of each other. Saw them both and each one looked as though they were in the final days of cancer. It’s been very raw for many years and only recently have I realised how needless their deaths were.
All these years later people are still being tested and killed especially in Africa.
If more people don’t wake up, to this will go on for years.
It is actually a step to permanently change the nature of society. The WEF partners make no secret of this. Whether part of the plan is to reduce the size of the world’s population – as per Gates desire which some WEF partners agree with – the jury is still out on that one.
Good document here explaining how Antibody Dependence Enhancement should have its own section in the consent form and be properly explained to the victims, sorry receipients, of the vaccines, sorry, not vaccines, genetic instruction delivery kits which use genetic modification techniques via mRNA to turn perfectly healthy cells into Frankenstein cells as they become spike making factories, in this unnatural, bizarre process. But it’s all good because covid has a 99.97% survival rate in the under 70s, so taking huge unquantifiable risks with your health makes perfect sense, especially for Covid.
“Global infection fatality rate is 0.15‐0.20% (0.03‐0.04% in those <70 years)”
Prof Dr John Ioannidis
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eci.13423
Anyway, it’s a good document to share regarding this very important subject of Antibody Dependence Enhancement…..
Informed consent disclosure to vaccine trial subjects of risk of
COVID-19 vaccines worsening clinical disease
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijcp.13795
“Results of the study: COVID-19 vaccines designed to elicit neutralis-
ing antibodies may sensitise vaccine recipients to more severe dis-
ease than if they were not vaccinated. Vaccines for SARS, MERS and
RSV have never been approved, and the data generated in the devel-
opment and testing of these vaccines suggest a serious mechanistic
concern: that vaccines designed empirically using the traditional ap-
proach (consisting of the unmodified or minimally modified corona-
virus viral spike to elicit neutralising antibodies), be they composed
of protein, viral vector, DNA or RNA and irrespective of delivery
method, may worsen COVID-19 disease via antibody-dependent
enhancement (ADE). This risk is sufficiently obscured in clinical trial
protocols and consent forms for ongoing COVID-19 vaccine trials
that adequate patient comprehension of this risk is unlikely to occur,
obviating truly informed consent by subjects in these trials.
Conclusions drawn from the study and clinical implications: The
specific and significant COVID-19 risk of ADE should have been and
should be prominently and independently disclosed to research sub-
jects currently in vaccine trials, as well as those being recruited for
the trials and future patients after vaccine approval, in order to meet
the medical ethics standard of patient comprehension for informed
consent.”
Already happened in the case of someone I know who got such a reaction post vaccination after first jab. Said person still determined to have second jab and any booster in autumn. No telling some people.
They will continue to push us as far as we let them. The passports fiasco is the first time there has been more than a trickle of dissent amongst the masses/MSM. We need to capitalize on the momentum and apply growing dissent to every facet of this horrendous, Orwellian nightmare…..NOW.
Hear, hear.
Like I said before, with that and their reasoning, they might as well abolish themselves, parliament, the judiciary and the police.
And just like Sars Cov 2, HIV has never been shown to exist…… mythical tools for their own nefarious purposes! Sorry wrong place and won’t delete!
Remember when HIV was the top story and people demanded to know if their GP or dentist were positive. I remember the government’s response and their defence of those with HIV. This has nothing to do with our health!
And just like SarsCov2, HIV has never been shown to exist…….. mythical tools for their own nefarious purposes.
But attempts to amend the Equality Act 2010 could fail, especially in the Lords, don’t you think? They are trying to weasel round it at present.
Yet another example of the government’s refusal to accept responsibility for any decisions it makes. It was the same with masks-no health and safety checks done so if you go down with bacterial pneumonia or pleurisy, the PTB will point you in the direction of mask exemptions and say that you didn’t actually have to wear one.
Likewise if employers decide they want you vaccinated, it will be them who end up being taken to court should something go wrong in the future not the government.
It is a modern day version of Pontius Pilate.
If, as is being reported, that life insurance policies won’t pay out for harms from trial vaccines, then how will that impact businesses that try to insist on vaccination?
And it is extraordinary given that Covid is now totally manageable in the UK with barely any hospitalisations and deaths. What is the justification to ‘manage’ this further?
Correct! In my view they should stop vaccinating. The “vaccines” were licensed for an emergency. The emergency is over.
Charleyfarley – the vaccines are a key part of the delivery mechanism for the Great Reset. See my reply to Corinna above. Check out the WEF website for yourself.
The justification which BJ and his WEF member cronies is that it is all steps in the rollout process of the WEF’s Great Reset plan. Nothing to do with the virus. That was the cover story. Even Schwab quite openly declares the coronavirus pandemic to be a window of opportunity to put their global strategy into action and bring the timescales forward. It is also why the government keep delaying removing all restrictions and renewing the ’emergency’ legislation. I think a lot of MPs are still oblivious to the WEF’s plans, or if they suspect this is what BJ, MH, MG, PV etc are involved in, are keeping quiet to protect their jobs, careers, pensions, perks in tact. Not a conspiracy theory by the way. Being a lead partner in the WEF plans is confirmed on the Gov.uk website. Those named have all been speakers at WEF conferences. Gates and Fauci are inner core members. BJ had a private meeting with Gates last summer.
You are absolutely right. The number of deaths is now right into the noise (and has been for some time) when considered against the 1500 to 1600 daily deaths from all other causes that occur in the UK.
Vaccination not recommended for pregnant women, unable to work because not vaccinated; being female of childbearing age are protected characteristics of the 2010 act(age and gender)
Vaccination not recommended in younger adults unable to work because not vaccinated; age is a protected characteristic under the 2010 act.
Unable to be vaccinated due to a medical condition; disability is a protected characteristic under the 2010 act.
Unable to be vaccinated for religious reasons; religion is a protected characteristic under the 2010 act.
I don’t like abortion, except in the rarest of cases. Can I claim a moral objection to vaccination/vaccine passports on the basis that tissue from aborted fetuses is/was used in the development of the vaccine or is contained within it?
A court upheld the honestly held belief in climate change as a protected characteristic in an employment case on grounds of “religious” belief. What’s the difference?
would expect this should qualify as a religious reason which would be protected charac under EA2010
Its a minefield
Also, do demands effectively to show medical records fall foul of (UK) GDPR? The “passport” would have to show name, possibly DoB, and vaccination status, a medical record. These are all PHI so collection would require a GDPR statement on the premises, a data controller, and huge liability (the EU version fines up to 4% of global turnover for transgression).
What is the GDPR position on this?
If employers insist on vaccination as a condition of continued employment could an employee demand to see the companies risk assessment for the procedure?
If so would that also apply to candidate employees or third party contractors?
As for the suppliers of goods and services, pubs restaurants etc., let’s leave that to the market.
Regarding risk assessment – yes of course. In fact employers are supposed to disseminate the results of their risk assessments by law to any of those individuals affected . You are entitled not only to see the original and scrutinise it but have the right to question or challenge the contents. We have plenty of evidence to demonstrate the level of risk SARS-CoV-2 poses and the effects of the disease it causes, Covid-19 on people (demographics, underlying conditions, FR – 0.23) and also the other control measures (at least 5 effective treatments – all approved and fully licensed and in use for decades) whereas the vaccines are unlicensed and use experimental mRNA technology so this control measure is unproven and does not prevent infection or transmission. Then there is the memory T cell issue which offers protection for years if you have been exposed to the virus, unlike antibodies which are temporary and typically last 2 – 6 months.
You have a legal duty of care to yourself under H&S legislation, so two can play at that game! You can do your research, marshall your facts and explain you have done your own risk assessment and concluded the potential risk of harm from the new, unlicensed gene-based interventions outweigh the risks of experiencing severe disease from a SARS infection.
I don’t agree with your ‘let’s leave it to the market’ suggestion. That is dangerous territory indeed. It is permitting discrimination and enabling an apartheid system by the back door – effectively sanctioning them. It is very difficult, costly and time consuming to pursue private litigation and takes anything from 2 – 4 years. Not practical. The government knows this, and since they have another agenda behind such passports (full ID records for every citizen for everyday use) then we need to stop this stage 1 of a stage 3 plan, or we will end up like the Chinese.
“Then there is the memory T cell issue which offers protection for years if you have been exposed to the virus, unlike antibodies which are temporary and typically last 2 – 6 months.” I was thinking about this aspect this morning SL – would imagine that any vaxx passport will concentrate on antibodies as opposed to the T Cells, which disappoints me.
What astounds me is that the government seems oblivious to the rising number of lawsuits being filed worldwide for loss of liberty, loss of livelihood and crimes against humanity. They can’t be unaware of this (though the mainstream media keep it hidden) but they just arrogantly carry on. They must be confident they’ll have the law on their side when it comes to the crunch.
I think they’re deluded.
If the government intends to have vaccine passports becoming part of our daily lives, it has to spend money developing or licensing an app, and amend data protection legislation to make hitherto confidential NHS records available for the purpose. If it doesn’t, then “nothing” is exactly what it must do.
Good article today in the Wall Street Journal headlined “Vaccine passports prolong lockdowns”. Note that Florida and Texas have already introduced legislation banning businesses from insisting on customers being vaccinated.
Opposing vaccine passports seems to be something progressives and conservatives might agree about.
Please stay with me on this.
The Government will soon be announcing the requirements for the UK housing sector to change the way it heats housing including insulation to meet the zero carbon target. John Gummer ( Lord Debden) runs the committee responsible for policy. He has already stated that it will probably require a change to the way we govern to bring this about, ie a command/control or totalitarian government.
The plans will require gas boilers to be replaced by other types of heating and sloid wall houses to be insulated internally or externally.
Conservative estimates put the average cost for eack household at £20-30k plus up to three times running costs over present costs. And then the heat will be up to 10C lower per house.
Now I think we are past debating whether all the covid19 stuff is just a mistake.
Its all part of the same plan that is absolutely necessary to create zero carbon, covid has been used to kick start the process that is all.
Very interesting, peyrole. Do you have a link for this ?
someone posted a link to this BTL yesterday.
The BIG PICTURE overview my fellow LDSceptics is really about carbon credits, and how many each of us still alive on this spinning rock will be allowed to consume when the Reset is locked in by 2030.
Hence why we need 24/7 track and tracing, in case we’re ever prone to any old normal non-hive mind behaviours (the 99%s that is)
Two PDF docs to fully digest, and the phrase (absolute zero)
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/1810/299414/REP_Absolute_Zero_V3_20200505.pdf?sequence=9&isAllowed=y
https://greatreset.com/files/TheGreatReset.pdf
Perhaps a depository of useful downloads could be indexed on this site?
However tis laughable… as to the New Normal lifestyle being greener. The amount of extra electricity needed to be generated has to grow exponentially to keep pace, giga-giga watts loads.
“Green renewable energy is neither green nor renewable. Sunshine and blowing wind might be renewable, but giant technological machines made to harvest the wind and solar are the opposite. That technology could ever be green or renewable is one of the greatest illusions ever.”
The doc Planet of the Humans is worth a view if you’ve never seen it.
Kinda also tells you why Bill and his Davostokracy techno friends may have decided to move swiftly to plan (b. on the energy consumption dilemma theme?
So how many spaces are left on the life boat?
Oligarchs, their wives, children and staff first….
I couldn’t agree more! We should take a leaf out of Florida’s book, not New York’s
When you ‘govern’ for favour, decide policy on the basis of inaccurate opinion polls, are not responsible for or accountable to anyone for your action or inaction, you will resign yourself to the fact that there is nothing you can do. If they do not want to ‘intrude’ in how businesses are run, they are so many businesses currently shut?
I think many are being uncharitable to government on this one. It looks to me like the Tories are planning to expose the concept to vaccine passports to the ‘free market’. If they were to simply ban it the oppositon and zero covid lobby could criticise and the potential would always be there to un-ban it. In this scenario however the ‘free’ market (consumers and customers) can vote with their feet and employees can have a potential field day with lawyers and risk assesssments. It looks like a plan to sink the idea to me!