PROTESTORS in central London have sparked chaos as hundreds gathered to call for an end to the Government’s vaccine mandate as NHS 70,000 workers may lose their job if they keep refusing the jab.
Thousands of protesters flocked to central London to remonstrate against mandatory coronavirus vaccination for NHS staff. Dramatic footage shows protesters dancing to Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall, suggesting the Government’s measures go too far and encroach on civil liberties. With the new rules coming into effect on April 1, there are serious question marks over what the future holds for up to 70,000 health care workers unless they get jabbed in the next 67 days. Today furious NHS staff and their supporters tried to raise awareness about the issue in a bid to overturn the new Covid mandate passed in Parliament.
The NHS100K is an initiative launched last November by a group of ambulance workers who are are desperate for freedom of choice and against the idea of compulsory vaccines.
As stated on their website, their aim is to “connect the 100,000 plus health and social care staff in the UK who, it is estimated, will lose their jobs on April 1, 2022, as well as all of those who support our freedom to choose”.
The website adds: “NHS100k.com brings together NHS, care, and social work colleagues, vaccinated and unvaccinated, clinical staff and non-clinical, who are saying NO to a mandate.
“We stand united in favour of freedom of choice, bodily autonomy and informed consent.”
NHS staff face having their contracts terminated and being made redundant if they remain unvaccinated.
And the dearth of midwives in the UK could worsen, should the 2,000 unjabbed midwives choose not to get incoluated in the next 10 weeks.
One of the protesters, Kerry, who was interviewed by MyLondon lifted the lid on why she refused to get jabbed.
She said: “I’m not an anti-vaxxer at all and had one vaccine.
“I think I should make my own decisions about what I put in my body, I’m more than willing to lose my job over it.”
A number of hospital trusts and general practitioners have warned that if the new rule isn’t scrapped there could be an alarming staff shortage.
Today’s protests in the capital should serve to overturn the decision which could have disastrous repercussions, both for the workers financially and for the country’s healthcare services in general should those 70,000 be given the marching orders.
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said: “Health and social care workers look after the most vulnerable people in society, who could face serious health consequences if exposed to the virus.
“Ensuring staff are vaccinated is the right thing to do to protect patients and those in care.
The vast majority of NHS staff have had the vaccine which is our best defence against COVID-19.”
Source: Express.co.uk
