Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi said in a House of Commons speech tonight that the vaccination of healthy 12-15 year-olds would go ahead from the beginning of next week – and confirmed that children, not their parents, would have the final say about whether to get jabbed. MailOnline has more.
Mr. Zahawi also reiterated the safety of the vaccine for children, saying the decision to offer the jab to 12 to 15 year-olds had followed advice from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) and had been “unanimously approved” by the U.K.’s Chief Medical Officers.
“We will now move with the same sense of urgency we’ve had at every point in our vaccination programme,” he added.
It comes as parents, experts and teaching unions today warned of tension in schools after the U.K. signed off on plans to offer Covid jabs to healthy 12 to 15 year-olds – which will see children get the final say on whether they are vaccinated.
Around three million under-16s are due to start getting their jabs from next week after Chris Whitty endorsed the move today, claiming it would help prevent outbreaks in classrooms and further disruptions to education this winter.
Doses will be largely administered through the existing school vaccination programme and parental consent will be sought.
But children will be able to overrule their parents’ decision in the case of a conflict if they are deemed mature and competent enough, which has caused fury.
Angry parents fumed against the move to leave the decision with young children who “can’t even decide what they want for tea, never mind” a vaccine, which carry small risks of side effects such as heart inflammation.
Professor Simon Clarke, a microbiologist at the University of Reading who is in favour of jabbing children, warned that giving youngsters the final say could lead to pupils being bullied by their peers into taking the jab.
He told MailOnline: “It will cause rows I think… You may end up in a situation where a minority, it will probably be the unvaccinated, get bullied and excluded by other children.”
Earlier headteachers revealed they had already received letters from pressure groups threatening legal action if schools take part in an under-16 vaccination programme.
The teachers’ union NAHT demanded urgent reassurance medics will be responsible for concerns about consent and vaccination rather than being left to schools, which could lead to tension with parents.
Children’s rights campaign group Us for Them said it needed a “cast-iron guarantee” from the Government that all parents would get the final say on whether their child is vaccinated.
Professor Whitty revealed today that children will be able to override their parents’ decision if they pass a “competence assessment” by the medical professional charged with administering the vaccine.
Under decades-old medical law used for other routine vaccines, youngsters get the final say if they are judged to have sufficient intelligence to be able to fully understand – and therefore consent to – vaccination.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Sarah Knapton, the Science Editor of the Telegraph, points out that Chris Whitty’s recommendation was distinctly lukewarm, which is bound to create confusion among parents.
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It is the word ”offer” that is so sinister. It smacks of a greasy, shifty person in a dirty raincoat ”offering” children sweeties to seduce them into their evil clutches.
That’s about what it is, I suppose. And who fits that bill perfectly?
So now a child can choose to have a potentially life changing experimental injection without any questions over the validity of their decision making, how long do we think it will be before statutory rape is no longer a crime?
After all, if 12 year old Ella-Jane thinks 67 year old Harold really loves her, and she really likes the way they do special cuddles, where’s the harm, right? Her body her choice, guv. Unless the kid happens to have not left the vagina yet, in which case you can vacuum it out and put the twitching carcass in the fucking blender with state approval.
Welcome to Hell, where we dine on the pain of children. My name is Moloch, and I’ll be your Baby BBQ-er today.
It is the gleefully arrogant way they announce this. It is nothing less than perverted, and they really do sound as if it’s giving them FAR too much pleasure….
Words fail me.
Children are now adults. The Agenda rolls on.
What a mad world we live in. A child needs parental consent to have a school photograph but not to have an experimental drug.
England – I am ashamed of you
A website promoting fully informed consent for any procedure has exemption forms:
The two main objectives of PROMIC are to facilitate:
https://www.promic.info/
This Government is a disgrace and Whitty should hang his head in shame and do the decent thing and kill himself. He is sentencing some children to death so why should he not suffer the same fate? I absolutely loathe this Government and cannot believe I voted for them.
Nadhim Zahawi = Evil Scumbag
I hope he dies a slow and painful death – soon…
The “medical professionals” inflicting these toxic pricks are about as qualified as a boozer darts player.
This is the exact same argument that paedophiles use when raping children: I considered them competent to consent. The exact same.
Or “well they asked/gave their permission me to do it” – could not bring myself to type “gave my informed consent” as we all know that is a fallacy (because we don’t know all the ingredients in these jabs, do we?)
God knows what long term effects these Frankenshots will have on young bodies – for zero benefit. Very evil. A sort of child scrifice to the Gods of the New World Order.
The bullying won’t just come from peers. The government will place the same restrictions on unvaccinated 12-15 year old as they are on unvaccinated adults, especially around international travel. The pressure on children to get “jabbed” will be immense, and all for the wrong reasons. But it’s good for their mental health, apparently (sarc). Parents should seriously be considering taking their children out of school if they haven’t done so already. The government and education system clearly don’t have our children’s best interests at heart. Indeed, they seem hellbent on destroying their mental and physical well-being and any hopes of a bright future.
Sorry I repeat:
WHY?
Does anyone know what the so-called benefits are? Is there a list available for scrutiny somewhere?
I’d love to see it.
The dangers are there, publicly available for all to see and they are feckin’ REAL.
How have we got to this? It’s completely unnatural. Humans don’t do that to their children, do they? Not in a civilized world.
These are our children/grandchildren FFS. What sort of parent would consider allowing such a thing without even a tiny bit of research?
Pure fuxxing EVIL on an unprecedented and epic scale.
Remember? 3 weeks to flatten the curve, freedom once the elderly and vulnerable have been stabbed, etc etc etc.
Back then if anyone had told you where the whole of the Western world would be by the end of September 2021 because of a respiratory virus whose overall survival rate is more than 99.8% of those infected, you would have accused them of being a full-blown tin hat-wearing conspiracy theorist. Wouldn’t you? I would have.
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I read some detailed predictions, very early on.
While I didn’t assume they were correct, I didn’t dismiss them, either. Since then, I’ve been mentally ticking off the list!
“It will cause rows I think… You may end up in a situation where a minority, it will probably be the unvaccinated, get bullied and excluded by other children.”
Yeh…that’s because the kids will follow their parents example. what a wonderful nation of role models we have become.
This is the price we have to pay for letting it get so far. Monkey see, monkey do…
It was up to the adults to say I DO NOT CONSENT and the children would have followed suit.
You cannot expect the children to say no when most of the population are proudly claiming to be ‘double jabbed’
You cannot expect the children to say no when the ‘double jabbed’ look at the un-jabbed as great big dirty biohazards.
I may be wrong, but I cannot remember Gillick competence ever being employed in medical practice outside the contentious field of abortion up to my retirement in 2008, and certainly not in connection with routine vaccinations. Surely we’d have had many headlines about anti-MMR parents in conflict with their children were it so.
This sounds to me like deliberate obfuscation – trying to rewrite history to make it seem as if nothing has changed, whereas in fact a principle that was highly restricted in law – and required a high bar of individual evidence in children nearly always over 15 – has been used as a lever to remove parental responsibility in this (and in the equally contentious gender reassignment trade).
This satisfies nobody. Neither the anti vaxxers to the weirdo parents who frankly want to sacrifice their kids to ‘protect’ others will be pleased as it is only one jab so I can’t help but think that the government want to cause friction so that they can do a swift u-turn.
Take up too low etc.
I hope I’m right.
Wrong headline. Fury as parents told children can choose risky jabs.
Given that children have almost zero risk of getting ill and that the mass experimental medication does not seem to reduce spread materially, there can be no real public health justification for this.
A charitable explanation would be that a panicky government wants to be seen to be doing something.
A less charitable explanation would be that the government is enjoying wielding power too much.
It’s clearly way, way worse than that, Stephen.
Good news in the US that ex FDA virologists are speaking out, and the figures claiming efficacy for the vaccines are being questioned at last in public.
See Robert Kennedy’s Children Defence website.
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The Corona Fraud has been the perfect tool for the parasite class to disguise the fact that they have gambled away and stolen generations of wealth. Now it seems they aim to turn us against each other so they can pose as the saviours and retain power while we are reduced to warring peasants, fighting over who is the most virtuous and biologically pure.
very concisely put, and well said
“We will now move with the same sense of urgency”, while continuing to stoke a sense of panic, and achieve our ends before the rubes have chance to think straight. Mwaa, haaa, haaa!
We are being deliberately driven towards civil war. Friends and families have been driven apart by increasingly lunatic and incoherent policies built on lies, while a large proportion of the population have been brainwashed into cult-like behaviour and trained to believe they are more virtuous and biologically pure. Now children are being targeted for more of the same division and prejudice, and a minority is being ‘othered’ by those in power before our eyes. It’s a recipe for bloodshed, and it seems this is to be the fate of Western society.
Eugenics never did end well. I could virtually guarantee there will be serious trouble this decade (indeed, one could say it has already started).
Let the bloodshed start with those that are behind this fiasco.
The “aryan” vaccinated.
“the unvaccinated, [will] get bullied and excluded by other children”, said Professor Simon Clarke, showing his concern that children choose wisely!
On that logic, if black children are bullied at school, they should certainly have their skin lightened rather than address the bullying.
You mean Clarke is suggesting they get vaccinated to stop bullying? Talk about bad logic from him…
I thought woke people thought all responsibility lied with the abuser, not the abused? Guess only when it suits them…
There was a time when fathers would know how to deal with adults that interfered with their kids.
Some of us still do and will.
Myocarditis/pericarditis had already “an estimated excess risk approaching 200 cases per million vaccinated males 16-17 years of age” according to FDA’s approval (p.23)
estimated to 1 in 5,000 in males of this age group, so what’s the risk/benefit ratio, ie one of an imminent heart inflammation compared to severe covid and death in kids?
And we don’t even know what may present itself in 2-5-10 years from now, or even further… Insanity, madness.
https://www.fda.gov/media/151733/download
And that 1 in 5000 will be wildly underestimated.
More than 100 Ontario youth sent to hospital for vaccine-related heart problems: Report
https://torontosun.com/news/provincial/over-100-ontario-youth-have-been-sent-to-hospital-for-vaccine-related-heart-problems
Once again …
Chemical Ali looks far more trustworthy.
First time I posted the pictures, someone protested that Ali had been framed. Noting all the more recent lies about Bashar al-Assad, I don’t have trouble believing this.
There is no justification for the emergency authorisation of the ‘vaccines’ at all as far as I am concerned, but no one in their right mind can claim there is an emergency in the 12 – 15 year old age group, so how on Earth can this authorisation be extended to this group? My son is 15 years old. I have pleaded with him not to have it. I don’t think he will, but his mother is on the other side of the argument and he lives with her.
There is no emergency. This cannot be allowed to proceed.
The bottom line is no healthy 15 to 17 years old as died from Covid. None.
Plus the one things that most teenagers crave is to be accepted by their peers. The unvaccinated will be bullied.
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BREAKING NEWS: First Tory MP to break ranks calls for the resignation of Chris Whitty. Is this the start of a rebellion against the decision today?
Hopefully, but probably not.
Shame there weren’t such calls for him to resign when he reversed his formerly relatively sane position on covid, in March 2020.
If the catastrophically incompetent and harmful panic response to covid isn’t cause for wholesale political and medical establishment resignations, I don’t know what could be.
But hopefully this push on “vaccinating” children will be a crime too far for some at least of the Guilty Men.
None of this is about incompetence.
He should resign, then tried for treason and be hung by the neck until he is very dead.
One, now we need 600 plus to join him.
Why is he sorry for speaking the truth?
Whitty should be dragged through the streets as an example that pseudoscientific tyranny will never be tolerated.
It’s time this ugly pig was dealt with.
I feel so bad for saying this . Chris Witty has no wife and children of his own this is the problem right here . Chris Witty will not be able to understand the concerns parents have about this vaccine being used on their kids because he is not a parent himself.
I am not a parent ( 24 years old) but the way my mum worries about me I will never understand fully until I become a parent myself in the future.
I have no kids, but I have been fighting passionately alongside the parents to warn others about the vax dangers. It’s not because he hasn’t got kids, it’s because, I believe, he’s an evil enabler. Someone who is going along with the psychopaths who control the narrative, carrying out their instructions in the full knowledge of what they are doing is wrong! Either that or he’s got a gun to his head.
Bought, threatened, both? Since when has any democratic gov’t approved such a thing? It makes no sense and must be stopped.
Whitty has been a depopulator Bill Gates disciple for a decade or more and has been amply rewarded for his loyalty. Of course he is not the only one.
Don’t feel bad for saying it. You are clearly a person with empathy and can put yourself in another person’s shoes.
Something the CMO cannot.
Never feel bad for speaking truth. Childless nonces and barren witches like Witty, Sturgeon and Treaona May should never be trusted with the future of a society.
What’s stopping you?