The number of Tory MPs who say they will vote against the Government on vaccine passports has increased slightly to more than 50. Even more encouraging is that criticism of Boris Johnson’s plans is coming from within Cabinet, with one member saying: “It’s not who we are.” MailOnline has the story.
Mr Johnson is facing a fresh headache, with some of the opposition [to vaccine passports] reported to be coming from ministers in his own Cabinet, who believe the policy was “railroaded” through by Michael Gove.
One told the Times: “I’m not comfortable with the Government being able to use health information to cut off access to certain parts of society.
“This is the kind of thing that Dominic Cummings would endorse. It’s not who we are. Once you start doing these things where do you stop? We need to tread very carefully here. There are concerns across the cabinet about denying people their freedoms.’
Another added: “My concern is that this is destabilising the party. A carrot approach is far better than a stick approach. We shouldn’t be taking people’s liberties away, we should be encouraging them.”
Dominic Raab and Grant Shapps are among the senior members of the cabinet to praise businesses who have not allowed unvaccinated staff to return to the office, amid concerns the Government is encouraging a ‘jabs for jobs’ policy.
Experts have warned companies doing so may face legal action, with fears of a host of discrimination claims sparking calls for ministers to outlaw such policies.
A worker who is forced to have a jab would be suffering an “intrusion” on their body, advice from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development claims.
As a result, firms “cannot forcibly vaccinate employees or potential employees” unless legally required to do so, according to the group, which represents HR professionals.
Care home staff is the only sector that so far is subject to mandatory Covid jabs, although reports suggest the Government has been looking in other areas too. …
The Equality and Human Rights Commission has also advised against blanket ‘No Jab, No Job’ policies, according to the Sun, particularly given medical reasons prevent some people from getting the vaccine.
But huge firms in the U.S., including Facebook and Google, have already insisted employees must probe [sic] they’ve received doses before going back to work.
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For years now, I have completely ignored the Not-Journalism spewing from the “news media outlets” listed in the first graph.
Reuters, centrist? Pull the other one. As for the BBC, that stalwart of the Trusted News Initiative which gives us blanket censorship, psyops nudgery and outright cancellation of anything outside The Narrative ™, words fail.
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/reuters-fact-check-covid-social-media-pfizer-world-economic-forum/
BBC centrist? I stopped reading there.
Negativity in headlines / news content increases in proportion to propaganda communication. When this kind of collective obsession with negativity and fear enters the collective consciousness we would expect to see, as we have, the onset of an acute mental health crisis. Newspapers are not there to represent a reliable gauge of the state of the world, but too many people believe they are.
It is a fact that a perusal of the local media in any region within a country would reveal that the kind of gloom pedalled by the national and international “legacy media” organisations is mostly a mirage, i.e. when you zoom in on local media you find that the situation is nothing like as bad. Of course I have the utmost sympathy and compassion for the residents of war-torn regions, etc, but it doesn’t translate to impending global meltdown.
A blind belief in the mass media as it stands is enough to cause a mental health crisis in anyone, let alone those susceptible!
Western civilisation is exhausted and will soon receive its coup de grace. So things will get worse. As adumbrated in When the Towers Fall, a coronal mass ejection is about to wreak havoc, probably this autumn. The coronavirus was a portent of what is to come.
If anyone can beat Joy Divison (1979-80) for slightly downbeat lyrics and music please let me know.
Morrissey.
I’d also add Leonard Cohen to the list.
The Verve had a cheery insight to share:
“It’s a bittersweet symphony, that’s life.
Try to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money then you die”
So it’s not all doom and gloom, then!
One of my all time favourite bands.
Whether “music” has negative lyrics or not is irrelevant: it’s nearly all bland crap and not worth listening to ….. which is why stations like Greatest Hits Radio (music from the ’70s, 80s and 90s) is going great guns.
I have been saying for some time that pop music and TV were generally much more upbeat in the 60s & 70s. Watching and listening it strikes me how everyone involved seemed to be enjoying themselves without trying to lecture or berate us and how they were able to entertain us without graphic sex and violence. I find the 21st century cynical and depressing but whenever I point this out to younger family members I am told that we were all stupid- literally stupid in some cases whatever that means- because we didn’t realise how awful things were. Whatever happened to innocent fun?