A civil servant said she felt forced to resign from her job at the Department of Work and Pensions after being investigated for sharing posts from Reform U.K. on her personal Facebook account. The Times has the story.
Michelle Cochrane, 45, who had been working as an administration officer at the DWP since July 2021 said she ran into trouble with her employer when she started sharing social media posts that were critical of Labour in June and July this year.
The posts related to immigration, the early release of prisoners and the handling of public finances by Labour.
There were 14 posts in total, including 11 from Reform, one by the U.K. Independence Party, one including a Daily Express news article and one post from Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform.
One post by Reform featured a picture of people on a boat at sea wearing life jackets and read “watch the population explosion in real time” and “Britain needs Reform”.
Cochrane, from Blyth, Northumberland, added a comment to another post by Reform, reading, “time not just to limit it, but end it”.
Despite the posts being on her personal Facebook account — which made no reference to her work or employers — Cochrane was told in August that she would face a disciplinary hearing.
She was told that an investigation would be undertaken into the posts she shared and she would probably be dismissed if she was found to have committed gross misconduct
During the disciplinary hearing in October Cochrane argued that she had a right to “freedom of speech” and claimed other colleagues had shared posts from other political parties without facing repercussions.
The civil servant said she felt “railroaded” into resigning as she felt her dismissal was a “foregone conclusion”, saying she wanted to protect her mental health from the “traumatic” episode.
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if you don’t need a mechanical ventilator you should be at home in bed with a lemsip
One of the very few plus points of this total shit show is that it might have stopped the type of plonker who would have gone to A&E with a broken nail or a bit of wind. But then I suppose their places might have been taken up by the ludicrous hyperchondriacs who are clearly actually having propaganda-induced panic attacks rather than genuinely suffering from the deadly Covid. Many of my mates have had Covid (as have I), but only one still claims she ‘almost died’. Not surprisingly she’s a self-obsessed drama queen.
ha! yes – I think people should pay upfront for A&E or GP visit and get paid back if its not trivial
That was my conclusion when noting empty GP waiting areas during 3 appointments in the course of a week just over a month ago.
Absent the hypochondriacs with imaginary conditions who are most likely the same individuals still ‘shielding at home’ 12 months after the arrival of scary Covid.
I have a friend who talks on Facebook about her “recovery journey” after Covid. One step from “Covid survivor” type stuff.
She is a triathlete and had a high temp with increased heart rate during her infection. Had a check up and sent home.
Or given Ivermectin, dexamethasone, etc, to get them better faster and out of hospital. Or an asthma inhaler.
This PPE story is a diversion. Anecdotally, at my local hospital patients are being sent to Covid wards if they have respiratory symptoms, even if they test negative for the virus. They go in these wards without the virus, they come out with it. Sometimes in a box. Someone needs to get a proper investigative journalism hat on and actually uncover this outrage.
Last I remember reading (some months back) such was the scale of Government over-ordering of PPE that some Container docks were jammed solid with bulk containers full of PPE with nowhere to go.
But these findings were discovered by an international team of researchers, I’ll have you know!
Official guidelines.
Drawn up by “experts” presumably. Who’d have thought it?!
“The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine can give strong protection to children as young as 12, the two companies have announced following a trial.
In a small study involving 2,260 US volunteers aged 12 to 15, there were no cases of Covid-19 among those who have been fully vaccinated. Eighteen of those who received a placebo were infected.”
but how is their fertility?
How many of those infected had any symptoms?
If they don’t get symptoms, why do they need a vaccine?
If they don’t have symptoms, they don’t spread the virus, as illustrated in the article above, therefore they don’t need the vaccine.
Sushhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Quite a long time ago lockdownsceptics showed a chart that compared Covid deaths among working age people broken down by job type. It showed that health/care workers were no more likely to die from Covid than the working age population. This would appear to show that a supposed lack of PPE last spring was never a major problem despite all the media hype.