Michael Gove says there is a “strong case” for the introduction of vaccine passports “in appropriate locations”, such as at Premier League football matches, arguing that “everything… we can do in order to reduce [the risk of Covid transmission], we should”. He hopes that “some form of certification” will be introduced across all four nations in the U.K. “This,” he believes, “is the right way to go.”
In an interview with the BBC, Gove said that vaccine passports would “make sure we can have greater confidence that big events are not likely to be super-spreader events”. He cited the “spike” in Covid cases following the Euro 2020 games – which experts believe helped squash the latest peak – and said certification would help to “make sure that major activities… are safe” because those who are vaccinated are “less likely to be carriers of the virus”.
This is exactly the sort of “nonsense” that Hugh Osmond, Founder of Punch Taverns, criticised on Sunday when he highlighted that, under Government plans, someone who is fully vaccinated but has Covid will be allowed into a “large venue” but someone who is unvaccinated yet doesn’t have Covid will be barred.
By saying that certification checks will make venue owners more confident that their events are not likely to be “super-spreader events”, Gove also appears to have forgotten the results from 10 recent Government trial events. These identified just 28 positive Covid test results among 58,000 participants *without* the use of vaccine passports.
Despite all this, Gove insists that “the case for certification, overall, is a strong one”.
You can watch the BBC interview here.
Stop Press: Gove says that those who refuse the vaccine are “selfish”, according to Politics For All.
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I am confident that there is an injection that contributors to this site would like to administer to Mr Gove and his peers – and it’s not a COVID vaccine!!
The case for vaccine passports is about scape goating the vulnerable, those with autoimmune disabilities who are medically advised not to have the jab, and others who wish, for good reasons, not to. It is cover for the government’s failed policy and a distraction from their failed lockdown.
History has seen some ugly times when authoritarian governments stigmatise and blame minorities for difficulties their countries face. I never thought I would see British cabinet ministers using such language and making such a case which, to all intense and purposes is against everything our country stands for and which we have spent two world wars standing up for.
Selfish??? This man is a murderous psychopath.He must know what is going on.
It looks as though the real damage caused by the experiment will start to manifest itself in a year or two. How much of the population have already exposed themselves to this?
Jeez this is scary, and they want to push it into children as well?
This needs to be seen. Absolutely no sensationalism or loony left leanings. This is deadly serious. Too late for too many.
https://153news.net/watch_video.php?v=8HMBYA6M42DH
Interestingly my broadband blocked this site ! I had to turn VPN on to access it.
Selfish eh??? I’d rather be selfish than a thick, know f*ck all about anything, useless arsehole!!! In fact I will donate my shots of snake oil poison to him as a selfless act….not bothered if he’s already been jabbed (suspect he’s managed to avoid the REAL stuff) he can have more to make him ‘safer’
Gove is a fascist prig who is to be dispised, not only for being the man pushing for social apartheid based upon coercion and medical status, but for disloyalty, someone to whom even Brutus could give a lesson in the meaning of loyalty.
Hell is not hot enough for him.
Gove is no more qualified than I am to make decisions on health issues. I suggest it is a good thing if young fit people with no underlying health issues catch Covid-19, have mild or no symptoms and subsequently become immune to it. This is what is happening here, but much slower than it should if we didn’t have the unjustified restrictions, and is happening or has happened in Sweden much quicker because of their minimal restriction policy. It is what is called herd immunity and what normally happens to viruses when nature is allowed to deal with them until they fade into insignificance. Unfortunately, our government has been listening to SAGE committees and being influenced by modelling both of which have provided inaccurate advice and in the case of the modelling at extreme levels.
There are many scientists providing accurate advice about protecting those with particular vulnerability to serious illness from the virus, giving advice to minimise the effect on others and allowing natural immunity to develop, but the government choose not to listen to them and fight their far more accurate advice with distorted data, lies and propaganda. If we had the far higher level of immunity, which… Read more »
The case for Segregation passports must be debated in Parliament whatever Gove says.
A nasty, ugly man, inside and out.
That a lying toad like Gove calls me selfish for refusing the vaccine causes me little distress I must admit.
A issue with using health/Covid passports is as explained in this, by a Brit living in France.
https://britishexpats.com/forum/france-76/pass-sanitaire-939724/
They got got Bells Palsy after first shot of Moderna. That is not life threatening by maybe life changing. He must have a second shot before qualifying for the the French passport.He is still receiving treatment for the problems with one of his eyes. That is to go on for 6 months thus he has not fully recovered from the inflamed nerve. The poster says he dose not know what to do now since another shot is likely to aggrevate the nerve and lead to a worse situation.
So now Fracne ahs intorduced passorts of teh important things in life inculding public transport he is sort of stuck.
I can’t wait to hear about the super-injunction stopping us from knowing about Gove…
There’s likely a reason Spitting Image depicted him as a sexual pervert. Insider knowledge.
Coke and cocks.
Michael Gove and his authoritarian instincts have no place in the Conservative party. He has questionable loyalty and should at the very least be sacked from his ministerial role and better still, leave the party along with his supporters.
Fascist dickhead doing what fascist dickheads do
Well if we have to have passports, they will need 24 hour body guards for the rest of their natural lives. Freedom takers always lose their freedoms too…eventually!
Can I draw readers attention to the paper from Goves office regarding vaccine passports which frankly isn’t worth the paper its written on. Gove clearly has volte faced again from the conclusions his own office reached less than a month ago
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/999408/COVID-Status-Certification-Review-Report.pdf
and whilst we are about it. Javid publicly apologised for using the word cower in describing those still living in terror, but not a peep about Gove calling selfish those who refuse for whatever reason to take this Governments unlicensed drug, which is still classified as experimental into their bodies. For me it confirms everything I thought that this terrible group of people is capable of.
“Gove says that those who refuse the vaccine are “selfish”,
Hang on, iirc the vaccine neither stops one getting the disease nor stops one spreading it it only reduces the symptoms of the disease for the one who has taken the vaccine – so Gove has this completely arse about tit, it’s the vaccinated that are selfish are they not???
The latest bollocks going round twatter is that the vaxxed spread it 80% less than the unvaxxed!
Delusional thinking abounds.
Mr Gove
i will tell you what is “selfish”: it’s demanding people like this poor lady take the vaccine to “protect others” (with a product that does not give sterilising immunity) – ie, with a barefaced LIE – and then denying her suitable recompense for her injuries because you indemnified the drug company and are limiting her access to financial reparations to £120,000.
https://nationaldailyng.com/woman-loses-legs-may-also-have-hands-amputated-due-to-covid-vaccine/
OK she is in the states, but this is what you are doing here too. No difference.
https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/london-firefighter-43-left-paralysed-20946027
A London firefighter has been left unable to work after contracting a rare illness that’s left him paralysed from the neck down.
Dave Elson, 46, a firefighter based at Greenwich Fire Station, was said to be previously fit and healthy according to his close friend and former colleague, Rob Hyde who spoke to My London.
Rob said he had received the news on June 12 that Dave was diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare and serious condition that affects the nervous system.
“We’re not 100 per cent sure but two weeks beforehand he had his first coronavirus jab,” Rob said.
He’s a smarmy prick end of.
What a cnut this Gove is.
Yes! Mr Gove , Im just like you. Self first, self second and if there iis any left me me me. So fuck off twat
Selfish eh, Gove? And if those Jews had been able to decline the experiments Mengele and others carried out on them, would they have been selfish as well?
How selfish to want to decide for yourself what medical treatments you accept.
Selfishness is a virtue, you totalitarian turd.
Your totalitarianism, totalitarianism as such, depends on altruism, the morality of sacrifice and death and no sacrifice is ever sufficient for you,
My life is mine, no yours, not the property of the Branch Covidian communist doomsday cultist party.
Gove has always wanted vaccine passports, he has never been able to make a rational case for them, no such case is possible.
Also, selfishness is a virtue.
“Case for vaxports strong”.
You can trust these crooks to make the strongest case they can for it at any rate. As they have been instructed…
Does anybody believe Gove and Vine ever looked at each other and thought “phwoarr” or was it as arranged a marriage as those between Gordon and Sarah and William and Ffion?
I am so furious tonight. But probably being so is pointless. Earlier today I received the email from Tottenham Hotspur Football club that said it was trialing the vaccine passport in August ahead of the Government’s roll out on 1 October. I won’t be attending. And I will be asking for my Season Ticket money back. I refused to be part of their ridiculous “test event” for the league cup final – I didn’t even watch on TV let alone buy a ticket for it. There has to be a line in the sand and this is it for me in regards to football.
https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2021/july/club-to-trial-nhs-covid-pass-at-arsenal-double-header/
I’d already exhausted myself with letter writing, pushing back and holding my lines everywhere, but this is becoming overwhelming now.
And I cannot believe how Gove thinks he can pop up and say that the case for these things is “Strong” without any evidence and he thinks so little of people that his words carry weight in the absence of proper policy, evidence and research. There can be no doubt at all now that we have fallen into a non democratic tyranny. Shame on Gove and shame on those business that believe in… Read more »
Chin up mate, I stopped watching footy over a year ago as I saw Mr Gates saying unvax’d people weren’t getting into stadiums.
I’m past caring now, didn’t watch the kneeling millionaires either.
Bigger fish to fry. Well done 🙂
I suppose there’s no chance now that this crap won’t get through parliament?
I’ve got better things to do than have anything to do with this nonsense, even though I have enjoyed sport over the years. If this nonsense doesn’t end, hopefully a vibrant alternative culture will developed, it’s looking like at least ten per cent won’t be “double-jabbed”.
An alternative culture, filled with the type of people I’d prefer to spend time with, is what I’m holding out for now.
Anyhow, there’s been a big increase at our anti-lockdown church since this shambles started. Some of us will choose places where we’re treated like humans. Small acorns and all that.
You should get a group to
Stand outside and ask people to
do breath tests to enter…
ask who they voted for
if they have any previous convictions
If they speeded
unpaid fines
are in debt arrears
Because they’re all possible once you accept the social credit schemes of our neo-feudalist over-fiends.
WHAT A DESPICABLE LITTLE TURD HE IS.
So true …
Its good to be selfish✊🏻
Total wanker- he should be locked up