Parents say they will keep their children at home if (as seems likely) the Covid vaccine roll-out is extended to 12-15 year-olds to stop them from being “peer-pressured” into getting ‘jabbed’ because they fear children will be given the final say on the matter. The Telegraph has the story.
Family groups said that the law appears to give children the ultimate say over vaccination, with the confusion causing panic in families. …
“We have seen an incredible amount of concern among parents about the suggestion that parental consent for children as young as 12 may either be overridden or not needed if you are relying on Gillick competence,” said Molly Kingsley, the co-founder of the parent campaign group UsForThem.
“We have heard a lot of parents saying that if it happens they will keep their children off school for the duration of any vaccination programme.
“Were vaccination of children to happen on school premises without fully respecting the need for parental consent it would really prejudice parents’ trust in schools.”
Guidance circulated to NHS trusts says that most 12 to 15 year-olds should be deemed “Gillick competent to provide [their] own consent” over jabs.
That refers to a 1985 legal decision which ruled that a teenage girl could obtain contraception without her parents’ involvement.
Children who are deemed “Gillick competent” can give consent themselves, meaning that permission from parents would not ultimately be necessary for the Covid vaccine.
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Who are these people, sheesh get a grip!
The BBC is little more than a propaganda mouthpiece. I have other insults for them but you risk getting five years in chokey in the current climate.
Actually I can well imagine some kids getting upset about all the graphic and deeply unpleasant ( although totally natural, of course ) footage of animals killing and eating other animals. That’s why I always favoured David’s programmes because they didn’t get you all emotionally attached to a family of snow leopards or lemurs, give them all names, then have them attacked by a predator or injured and left to die slow and painful deaths ( I’ve never understood this ‘golden rule’ about how the camera crew can’t get involved and save an animal in distress if they were able. I’d be straight in there! ) as that can hardly be described as “family friendly entertainment”. Even I found some footage harrowing at times!
But crying over a planet that isn’t actually dying? Yes, quite, get a grip indeed! lol
I’m reminded about a famous Bob Newhart skit…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BjKS1-vjPs
It’s the consequence of the “cute” Disney-fication of wild animals where they have names and personalities.
David Attenborough and his programmes are a British institution and he’s been one of my heroes my entire life. What a total disappointment to see this amazing and hugely experienced and knowledgeable legend of a man climb aboard the climate change bandwagon in his twilight years, because, obvious talent and household name status aside, this is what he’s going to be remembered for if he’s not careful. What I don’t understand is why on earth he’s doing it because he surely, not with the vast amount of knowledge he’s gathered over the decades, must know that what he’s saying is not just inaccurate but blatant misinformation. I don’t get what’s in it for him to be part of the propaganda machine that is the BBC and the climate agenda.
Another person I had massive respect and admiration for has ended up being a whopping let down. I’m bummed, David, totally bummed out. You should have known this was BS from the get-go.
Attenborough was always a low life who created stories to brain wash rather than inform, he’s no scientist at all. It’s become more obvious lately that’s all.
David Bellamy took the honourable route ….. and the BBC dropped him like a hot coal.
Attenborough? Follow the money.
More or less everything the BBC does is propaganda masquerading as something else – news, entertainment, sports reporting. It’s a political/”social justice” campaigning organisation pretending to be a broadcaster/news provider.
For me, there are two indicators of truth:
1: What I witness directly with my eyes / read from reliable unbiased sources, and
2: The things that happen on my side of a screen.
Anything outside of those categories might as well be science fiction / fantasy.
Attenborough and (no doubt) Brownlow are dedicated eugenicists and hate anyone not in their “elite”.
They also cannot stuff enough cash into their boots.
All this fits neatly with the BBC’s priorities.
The GangGreen Agit-prop (at your expense) will continue.
Neighbour told me she was about to clean the patio windows. Child just back from school said don’t bother Mummy, the world is going to end soon.
True story.
Does our new King make a completely impartial, non-political, contribution to the propaganda?
Just asking ….. since I won’t be watching.
Oh please; be kind to the sainted Attenbollox; hobknobber with and climate conscience for the hoi polloi – he only lies when the day has a y in it.
Perhaps the main motive driving the relentless pursuance of the net zero agenda is that, if it is dropped now and the climate is then seen to “recover” (as in lower global average temperatures, less adverse weather events, etc) then that “recovery” cannot be attributed to renewable energy (as it is not widespread enough as it is to have any claimed significant effect), or to any kind of “command and control” structures that would otherwise have been put in place to “tackle climate change”. The climate will self-regulate, and so those stalwarts of the “net-zero solves the crisis” philosophy are racing to put in place as many measures as they can BEFORE the climate does this naturally, so they can claim it was the artificial “climate change” mitigation measures wot done it!
Maybe it is precisely because the global warming narrative is running out of steam, with global average temperatures plateauing, that the climate change warriors are panicking as their narrative collapses around them. It’s a bit like prescribing a medication to a patient who doesn’t really need it – they’ll never know that they would have recovered anyway without the pills, but the doctor prescribes them anyway before they get better because he wants to prove he’s right.
Presentation, and claiming a link between A & B, rather than just observing meteorological reality, is the political game. Otherwise known as the work of the spin doctors.