1/🧵Blood on their hands!
So schools drove b117 growth in the south-east, late government response saw many thousands die, billions lost from an extended lockdown, strain now spreading around the world
And now UsForThem are trying to remove masks from classrooms!
#edutwitter
So schools drove b117 growth in the south-east, late government response saw many thousands die, billions lost from an extended lockdown, strain now spreading around the world
And now UsForThem are trying to remove masks from classrooms!
#edutwitter
https://twitter.com/NafeezAhmed/status/1376901725269995523
2/ How many grassroots organisations have multiple government links, multiple articles in RW papers every week, get coms support from Conservative PR gurus and can enlist one of the most expensive multi-billion law firms to threaten the UK government?
How is this funded?🤷♂️
How is this funded?🤷♂️
3/ Consider how hard @SafeEdForAll_UK @Parents_Utd have fought to get a bit of airtime, how hard the still ongoing struggle to stop CEV/CV parents being fined. The inability so many groups have had in having their voices heard by this government.
4/ Compare petitions set up by the grassroots parents groups calling for more safety measures and caution vs UfT calls to remove measures and ignore infection levels (they still question schools moving to KW&V in Jan despite the death toll)
UfT got a fraction of the support
UfT got a fraction of the support
5/Surveys of the general public, ParentKind etc all show UfT well out of synch with most parents.
See @UsEngland and @UptonAndrea's accounts to see how UfT supporters themselves complain on facebook that they don't get enough support from the public, labelling them sheep etc
See @UsEngland and @UptonAndrea's accounts to see how UfT supporters themselves complain on facebook that they don't get enough support from the public, labelling them sheep etc
6/ This isn't the only change UfT accomplished in reducing safety in schools, initially masks in secondary were due to be mandatory, this was quickly reversed after pressure from the skeptics and their wing of the Tory party the CRG.
7/ Been trying for a month now to get masks removed from secondary, producing a hostile template letter to heads.
How did it go, 600 schools put of thousands got letters, surely grassroots movement would require much larger take up to get so much airtime?
How did it go, 600 schools put of thousands got letters, surely grassroots movement would require much larger take up to get so much airtime?
https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1367510316884582401?s=19
8/ Although small in number, the hostility of these letters was enough to be raised at EdSelect Committee.
Unfortunately @halfon who regularly promotes UfTs Telegraph articles refused to denounce this behaviour.
Unfortunately @halfon who regularly promotes UfTs Telegraph articles refused to denounce this behaviour.
https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1369782846748000257?s=19
9/ However this is unsurprising as in the summer UfT were invited to give evidence to the EdSelect Committee on remote learning. No other parent group has had the same access to government, they even met with Johnson before the decision for full return in Sept was made
10/ It's been bad enough having gov refuse to share any plans with unions before leaking them to papers who then accuse us of not engaging properly with the gov.
But to know UfT are also told before us?!
Seriously
But to know UfT are also told before us?!
Seriously
11/ One of the greatest failings of Johnsons leadership besides failures to lockdown earlier is the refusal to recognise the role schools play in transmission.
Ignored SAGE in summer
Ignored half term lockdown
Ignored schools in Nov lockdown
Forced schools to stay open in Dec
Ignored SAGE in summer
Ignored half term lockdown
Ignored schools in Nov lockdown
Forced schools to stay open in Dec
12/ For those that claim Johnson did all he could...
He still sent students back in Jan with infections completely out of control. If brave workers hadn't submitted S44s I don't know if he would have acted, many more thousands would have died.
He still sent students back in Jan with infections completely out of control. If brave workers hadn't submitted S44s I don't know if he would have acted, many more thousands would have died.
13/ This is a mockery of democracy and shows the us or them crony mentality at the top of the Tory party.
Grassroots groups struggle to be listened to, even with FSMs where there was clearly huge public support they did all they can to resist.
Grassroots groups struggle to be listened to, even with FSMs where there was clearly huge public support they did all they can to resist.
14/ Yet when a bunch of lobbyists who move in the same social circles asks them to ignore scientific advice in the middle of a pandemic, be it UfT, or Sunak bringing in the GBD, they find an immediately sympathetic ear. Johnson knows what side his breads buttered.
15/ Party management over public health, CRG operating as skeptics parliamentary wing using same trick as ERG with May to operate as a party within a party to apply pressure on policy has proven effective, particularly pre vaccination programme when Johnsons position was tenuous
16/ Because despite their sycophantic scrabbling, plenty in this cabinet would turn on Johnson if they thought they had a shot at No10.
However the pandering the lobbyists and gaslighting has impacted policy around the world.
Incalculable damage done.
However the pandering the lobbyists and gaslighting has impacted policy around the world.
Incalculable damage done.
https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1375128328345096196?s=19
17/ This is the consequence of bending to political pressure⬇️
https://twitter.com/AlisonGeorge10/status/1376966701821128707?s=19
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