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Gavin Williamson Refuses to Rule Out More School Closures

by Michael Curzon
30 August 2021 9:44 PM

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson insists we shouldn’t get “carried away with these new freedoms” and has refused to rule out more school closures later this year as a “last resort” if there is another wave of Covid ‘cases’. The Sun has the story.

Mr. Williamson is pleading with parents not to lower their guard and to go on with testing at home.

He said: “It is important not to get carried away with these new freedoms and throw caution to the wind.

“The last thing we want is for schools to partially close again, or for whole classes of pupils to be at home isolating.

“That should be only the last resort. We need to do everything we can to avoid the levels of disruption we saw last year from the pandemic.”

Whitehall officials remain confident fresh school closures are unlikely and say the country is in a very different place to last year.

They point to the success of the vaccine drive and the fact there are detailed plans to squash outbreaks.

But Mr. Williamson insisted schools must still follow Covid precautions, with regular testing a key element.

He added: “Parents, too, have a responsibility to make sure children are tested regularly.

“I know there are many things people would rather be doing, but it’s really important to make time for it.”

Department for Education guidance states that secondary school and college students in England should be checked twice on site on their return, with lateral flow tests between three and five days apart.

Pupils should continue to test twice weekly at home until the end of September, when the policy will be reviewed.

Mr Williamson’s comments came days after experts said it was “highly likely” there would be high levels of Covid infection in schools by the end of September.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Gavin WilliamsonSchool

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago

The man is an idiot, utterly useless.

Anyway, looks like we could be in a whole world of shit, some real science..

https://www.bitchute.com/video/CoKkdJ85e6pi/

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gedhurst
gedhurst
3 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

That video needs to be seen by everyone. We all need to start preparing now.

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Think Harder
Think Harder
3 years ago

No definition of “another wave” and they hold the levers to the number of cases by a) the amount of testing and b) the lack of medical diagnosis.

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caipirinha17
caipirinha17
3 years ago

‘New’ freedoms? I don’t think so, Frank Spencer.

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BoycottEuropeanEmpire
BoycottEuropeanEmpire
3 years ago
Reply to  caipirinha17

Quite. A sinister turn of phrase that is just a little Orwellian.

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Annie
Annie
3 years ago

Old freedoms. Freedoms that were taken for granted in every civilised society.
This pseudoparliamentary swine does not belong within a mile of any civilised society.

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Stephanos
Stephanos
3 years ago
Reply to  Annie

This is very generous of you Annie. I would have said not within a trillion light-years of any civilised society.

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miketa1957
miketa1957
3 years ago

We need to do everything we can to avoid the levels of disruption we saw last year from the pandemic.

Easy. Schools return, no testing, kids who are ill go home. Minor disruption when the government stops paying the wages of teachers who refuse to work, but that has gotta be less.

Last edited 3 years ago by miketa1957
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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago
Reply to  miketa1957

They never mention this obvious option, do they? Quite clearly they want to cause disruption, and given that little in their approach appears to have changed, and we are heading into sniffle-season, it’s pretty much a cert that we will still have the same stupidity happening.

But not to worry – they have ‘detailed plans to squash outbreaks’ – they’ve still not worked out that all their fetish-rituals do bugger-all when it comes to an airborne virus, then?

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Nessimmersion
Nessimmersion
3 years ago
Reply to  miketa1957

Sounds just like wot Sweden is already doing.
Child feels ill, no testing of the child let alone classmates, child goes home till better.
Er, that’s it.

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Peter W
Peter W
3 years ago
Reply to  Nessimmersion

Oh, you mean like we always did?!

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Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
Major Panic in the jabby jabbys
3 years ago

Posted this earlier, fits in here too…

Is it correct that school children in Sweden are NOT tested and If a child is unwell with symptoms they are not tested but are sent home to recover – no other children are tested or sent home?
This simple system works well in Sweden – for what reason would it not work here or anywhere else?

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
3 years ago
Reply to  Major Panic in the jabby jabbys

The education unions….

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BoycottEuropeanEmpire
BoycottEuropeanEmpire
3 years ago

Oh dear. Ministry of all the talents this ain’t.

Last edited 3 years ago by BoycottEuropeanEmpire
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Jabba the Hut
Jabba the Hut
3 years ago

More priming for the stabbing of children. I’m not testing my children, we’ve now got a mountain of test kits.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

Well, the important thing is that some Minister’s brother-in-law is getting paid for sourcing them.

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Catee
Catee
3 years ago

“We need to do everything we can to avoid the levels of disruption we saw last year from the pandemic.”

The levels of disruption we saw were solely due to the governments disproportionate response to the scamdemic and the mind games they have been playing since the start.

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Susan
Susan
3 years ago
Reply to  Catee

It’s a threat, not a hope.

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helenf
helenf
3 years ago

I thought Williamson had been sacked from the post of Education Secretary! Was I just imagining it? Jeez 🙁

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James Leary #KBF
James Leary #KBF
3 years ago

NEW FREEDOMS???? Who TF does that thick piece of shit think he is?

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Moist Von Lipwig
Moist Von Lipwig
3 years ago

Not get carried away?

Please emigrate to the planet Mars, you totalitarian turd.

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Susan
Susan
3 years ago

Trite, tiresome, transparent, truthlessness.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago

Briefly translated – there definitely will be severe disruption. Not because there needs to be any but these sadists take a real pleasure in torturing school children.

Got to prepare them for their 1984 future.

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ellie-em
ellie-em
3 years ago

“…experts said it was “highly likely” there would be high levels of Covid infection in schools by the end of September.”

Of course there will be – that’s a given – after the vile, lying, scheming, evil gits have further manipulated the public and wangled the figures to suit their scary tale of a ‘pandemic’ and to push the nocuous crap in a syringe.

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Bobby Lobster
Bobby Lobster
3 years ago

We have schools that wont teach, hospitals that don’t treat, and police that wont protect and serve, and councils that WTF(sorry, WFH). We pay for all this, and only those that really keep the country running are actually doing their jobs.

Johnson and his lib dem ilk are allowing the unions to ruin this country again.

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BungleIsABogan
BungleIsABogan
3 years ago

He said: “It is important not to get carried away with these new freedoms and throw caution to the wind.

“New freedoms”????? WTF?

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marebobowl
marebobowl
3 years ago

Don’t we all wish we had followed a Swedish model rather than the ongoing fearmongering model. Who is paying these people to do this? Despite nearly two years of complete incompetence we keep putting up with it. Anyone else had enough?

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago
Reply to  marebobowl

They also seem to have given up all pretence now of this having any end point – having worked through many alleged exit strategies (three weeks to flatten the curve, when those at risk are ‘vaccinated’, when everybody has been “offered” a ‘vaccine’, etc), they now seem to have stopped bothering to claim any at all – presumably they now thing that the population has been browbeaten to such an extent that they will accept this going on indefinitely?

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Hester
Hester
3 years ago

New freedoms!? Doesn’t he mean basic human rights which were taken away by the regime he is part of and which are allowed to us by the same regime he is part of. I hope I live to see the day when these criminals are in the dock and I hope I see the death penalty intrduced forthem

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago
Reply to  Hester

There is no end / exit because we are only part way through the journey.

Next stage is to force the “passports.”

After that I believe at some point the world’s financial system will be crashed to be replaced by Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), cash eliminated and a slave society.

You will own nothing and be happy.

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NonCompliant
NonCompliant
3 years ago

“New freedoms”

That tells you everything you need to know about the current ruling political class.

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ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
3 years ago
Reply to  NonCompliant

People vote for this crap. Therein lies the problem

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Peter W
Peter W
3 years ago
Reply to  ComeTheRevolution

It’s not the occasional vote that is the problem it is the way people “vote” in polls – the only thing Johnson pays any attention to – and of course, how the poll questions are asked.

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Zoomer@14
Zoomer@14
3 years ago

Williamson is obviously on THE PAYROLL…’new freedoms’ ? Our right is freedom. Its not something a government gives.
Testing is useless whatever test is used. The only sinister thing is what is potentially in the tests being forced into the orifices of our children. THIS IS ABUSE.

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ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
3 years ago

Shame on the British people for voting for these scumbags.

Good interview with Peter McCullough here about the jabs:

“This Interview Could Save Your Life” Part Two: The Dangers of the Injections | Episode #20
https://www.bitchute.com/video/BxME0RDJ61S9/

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knee chee
knee chee
3 years ago

“…new freedoms”.

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Simon MacPhisto
Simon MacPhisto
3 years ago

Clearly, our country is run by idiots. Tragic.

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RickH
RickH
3 years ago

The coupling of the words ‘Williamson’ (Mr Fireplace) and ‘Education’ is one of the best oxymoron jokes around.

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Peter W
Peter W
3 years ago
Reply to  RickH

….and wouldn’t get the joke as he probably doesn’t know what oxymoron is. The word Moron he knows all about.

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Peter W
Peter W
3 years ago

Williamson is an ignorant buffoon. Just stop testing the kids and the “problem ” will go away. Stop your child abuse.

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ComeTheRevolution
ComeTheRevolution
3 years ago
Reply to  Peter W

Ignorant buffoon? No he’s the Spawn of Satan, a vile product of an evil system which grooms and nurtures these offensive little whores like Gavin Williamson because they need scumbags, they need these maggots to ensure the furtherance of their evil system. No decent person could ever do this, so they breed scum. Williamson is one such piece of excrement.

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Peter W
Peter W
3 years ago
Reply to  ComeTheRevolution

Perhaps I was being too kind!

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago

Kids on the front line of the drive to vaccinate everyone and to keep mass testing, and therefore the Big Lie, going.

Ask anyone wavering, especially those with school age kids, how we can possibly be contemplating closing schools given that everyone’s been vaxxed now. The longer this goes on, the more people who’ve been going along with it will start to wonder what the endpoint is.

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John Drewry
John Drewry
3 years ago

For God’s sake, parents, follow some American mothers, take your kids out of school and create new schools.

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Londo Mollari
Londo Mollari
3 years ago

Somebody needs to set the tarantula on him.

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Pavlov Bellwether
Pavlov Bellwether
3 years ago

‘Vaccine’, ‘Vaccinated’, ‘Vaccination’ NO. NO. NO. – anyone who tries to jab me, my family and my loved ones with that *monkey gunk* will learn the ultimate lesson. This is the hill I die on: FIGHT. BACK. BETTER. – Updated information, resources and useful links:  https://www.LCAHub.org/

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