The U.K.’s human rights watchdog admits that forcing care home staff to get vaccinated against Covid would be a “significant departure from current public health policy”, but has endorsed the move anyway. Support of the idea from the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) could tip the balance away from the likes of Health Minister Nadine Dorries who oppose the “no jab, no job” policy, towards the view – held by both the Prime Minister and the Health Secretary – that legislation on this matter is necessary “to reach a position of much greater safety for care recipients”. The Guardian has more.
Ministers are considering changing the law to make vaccination a condition of deployment for people in some professions that come into regular close contact with elderly and vulnerable people at high risk from the coronavirus.
In a report to the Government seen by the Guardian, the EHRC admitted that making vaccines compulsory for care home staff would be a “significant departure from current public health policy”.
But they judged that ministers were “right to prioritise protection of the right to life for residents and staff” and said it would be reasonable for care home workers to need a jab “in order to work directly with older and disabled people, subject to some important safeguards”.
The Guardian adds that the EHRC is likely to make a similar recommendation about healthcare workers. Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi has suggested that NHS staff could also face mandatory vaccination, though the idea has received firm opposition from both the Royal College of Nursing, which has a membership of 450,000 registered nurses, and the Royal College of General Practitioners, representing over 50,000 British GPs.
[Whitehall is right to be nervous on this point: research suggests that health and social care workers who feel greater pressure from their employers to receive Covid vaccination are more likely to decline it.]Zahawi said no decisions had been made yet, and stressed there was a precedent: surgeons were required to be vaccinated against hepatitis B. He added: “It would be incumbent on any responsible Government to have the debate, to do the thinking about how we go about protecting the most vulnerable by making sure that those who look after them are vaccinated.”
A Government source said: “We think it would save lives.”
There is nervousness in Whitehall about making moves to force anyone to have a coronavirus injection, given the fear that this could make people who are already vaccine hesitant even more resistant.
However, now that care workers had been eligible for vaccines for months due to their high position on the priority list, the EHRC said some demographic groups that were less likely to get vaccinated were “disproportionately represented in the adult social care sector workforce”.
The EHRC said mandatory vaccination could risk further excluding these groups “from access to employment”, so a proportionate approach with important safeguards was needed.
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Silly buggers…
Fringe minority groups funded by dark money causing the destruction of our social values and structures.
And on what scientific or other theoretical basis can they claim migrants are victims of climate change and not people after the free money, food, accommodation and healthcare not available in their own countries?
It does not matter.
If you have ever had the misfortune to encounter someone from the Socialist Workers Party [see picture to this article] you will understand.
I wonder how many of these lefty self-pleasurers are offering a room to these migrants? People are sick to their back teeth of this and I can only see this going one way – a violent pushback. That is, of course, what the powers that be want.
There was a homeless guy on Five Live this morning when discussing the Stockholm Barge. He said how grateful he would be to be given free shelter on that Barge after some woman was crying about that Barge being an abuse of Human Rights!
Near where I live it has been decided not to spend millions refurbishing an old folks home to house migrants because it would not be value for money. Apparently it was good enough for old people who worked all their life and paid taxes, but not good enough for so called asylum seeks allegedly fleeing persecution or death unless millions were spent on refurbishing the place.
None whatever. If these illegals were foisted on them they would be up in arms against it.
I’m hugely in favour of Just Stop Paying These Imbeciles With My Taxes … and maybe also Just Give Them A Good Hiding, this being repeated as necessary to make them shut up. The problem these people have is that they have no problems and never had any. Not even drivers accelerating towards them to make them jump out of way quickly, a not that uncommon occurence, at least in Reading.
They make a nuisance of themselves and disrupt society here because they get away with it. They realise they would end up in the gulag in they tried it in China.
The mentalists have just gone up a notch then. Ignorant plonkers! Good on MP Jill Mortimer for making a stand in parliament yesterday regarding this issue;
”Tensions on the Tory backbenches over the failure to stop small boat Channel crossings exploded today as an MP told Rishi Sunak that “enough is enough!”
In a dramatic intervention during PMQs, Hartlepool MP Jill Mortimer got up and told Mr Sunak that one of her constituents was murdered on Sunday by an asylum seeker stuck in a hotel in the town.
She demanded that the Prime Minister get the illegal migrants out of her constituency without hesitation as she tried to contain her anger over the continued crisis.
As the House audibly hushed for her question, Ms Mortimer said: “On Sunday Terrence Carney, a 70-year-old Hartlepudlian, was murdered by an asylum seeker.
“People are afraid and angry.”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1825207/tory-mp-civil-war-rishi-sunak-migrant-crisis-pmqs/amp
I’m sure that there’s a rather unpleasant connection between the money lavishly disbursed under the government’s “Northern Powerhouse” and the various local authorities’ aquiescent silence about the number of illegals that are being foisted on them. Hartlepool is quite obviously being used as a sink for many of these unwanted arrivals, without any attempt to get the support of the local residents.
Perhaps the monkey hangers should change targets.
Two remarks:
1) Aren’t you glad that the police is compiling impressive knife-crime statistics by confiscating pocket-knives of perfectly law-abiding folk? Tackling violent criminals with knives would really be asking too much of them. That’s not safe!
2) The people who voted for this ‘slick’ bankster evading the question with platitudes are singularly unsuited for selecting the leader of anything as they likely belong to the class being ripped off by door-to-door salesmen.
A solution:
Arrest all the JSO protesters and lock them up with the illegals on the prison ship.
A few months “cultural enrichment” will do them a power of good.
But you don’t lock up your own useful idiots. You them to do your dirty work for you.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/heart-damage-study-adds-weight-to-call-for-immediate-ban-on-mrna-vaccines/
A dump but an important one detailing the myocarditis issues caused by the “vaccines” and which affect everyone jabbed.
I see more DNA contamination has been found in all 27 vials of Pfizer and Moderna product tested, this time in Canada. I think whatever research team look for this they’re going to find it because it’s there. It’s great these results are getting replicated all over the world though. That carries more weight than any amount of once ‘gold standard’, now totally corrupt, peer-review, in my opinion. Jessica Rose and Kevin McKernan are two of the authors of this new paper;
https://osf.io/mjc97/
”BREAKING- Latest study on 27 vials.
All vials exceed the guidelines by orders of magnitude using Fluorometry.
All vials are under the guidelines using qPCR for single dose. Over once you take many.
XBB1.5 still has the problem.”
https://twitter.com/Kevin_McKernan/status/1714957605762724129
As I posted a day or two ago Mogs these findings are slowly but very surely becoming mainstream. The next Scamdemic is going to be a hardsell.
Re-open the coal mines. This bunch of blithering idiots have too much time on their hands and need a proper job.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/vigano-americans-satanic-globalist-elite/
Another dump but this from Archbishop Vigano so worthy of our attention.
Bloody hell! Not a Christian but I stand by all he wrote.
No wonder he’s in hiding. He’s a lovely, genuine Christian man from whom I received a blessing last December when he addressed MD4CE. His faith, honesty & humility is an inspiration to all of us, believers & non-believers alike. He’s on our side.
Just like BLM supporting Hamas!
JSO do know that the military industrial complex is the biggest user of fossil fuels and producer of environmental toxins, let alone the much maligned C02, don’t they? Wouldn’t it make much more sense to protest outside munitions factories, military bases and the like than pointless stunts like this? Perhaps they’d like to glue themselves to the runway by that weather station at RAF Coningsby, or stop a tank convoy on the A303 near Andover……oh, wait…..
They could go to Gaza city and protest there.
But wait a second what has oil got to do with migrants? ———Ah yes ofcourse mass immigration is another leftist policy as is getting rid of fossil fuels. ——–But I thought climate change was supposed to be about “science”? ——-Nope it never was. It is almost certain that if you are one of those useful idiots that glue yourself to the road you will be in favour of unlimited immigration. —–It is in their DNA.
Simple answer handcuff a refugee to each one of the protestors and wish them well. Sure there would need to be checks in place to make sure the hand cuffs weren’t removed from either party but that’s easy to do.