🚨 The House of Lords is now debating *mandatory Covid vaccines* for care home workers after MPs voted to destroy our rights in a shocking snap vote last week.
⬇️More to follow ⬇️
This Statutory Instrument is:
▪️ Muddled
▪️ Confused
▪️ Disjointed
Baroness Wheeler asks for urgent publication of clear and detailed guidance for this seismic vote.
"The Department has instead resorted to lying"
Baroness Noakes (@1SVN) accuses the Department of Health of acting dishonestly after they failed to produce a full impact assessment for Parliamentarians to vote on.
'If another 40,000 vacancies are added on top of it, how on earth is the sector going to cope with that?'
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (@LordPhilofBrum) questions the effectiveness of the law if it will lead to a mass exodus of workers from within the sector.
🚚 How about the driver who delivers food, should they be sacked?
🎨The arts + crafts teachers in my mum's home, will they be banned?
👮♂️ Will there be bouncers at the door?
@Fox_Claire accuses the Govnt of creating an ethical minefield by introducing mandatory vaccines.
🚨BREAKING
Mandatory vaccines for care workers is now law. Millions more workers will be affected.
The House of Lords passed the new law after just 90 minutes debate, with a regret motion noting there is insufficient evidence for it and that the severity of impact is unknown.
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Our new report exposes the hidden algorithms councils have been using to screen, monitor and profile people who receive benefits without their knowledge. ⬇️
These hidden algorithms “treat the poor with suspicion and prejudice".
Whilst these revelations are expected to concern foreign governments, it is important to understand this in the context of our own surveillance.
In recent years, the UK has acquired totalitarian-style surveillance powers under the guise of counter-terrorism - including hacking.
UK surveillance is arguably the most expansive system of any democracy in history. Safeguards are threadbare. The state has the power to hack devices of any individual, group, or even a nation. There is no requirement for reasonable suspicion of a criminal offence.
1. Review all prosecutions heard under the Single Justice Procedure in relation to emergency Covid laws.
2. Commit to scrapping the use of the Single Justice Procedure for Covid charges.
The Single Justice Procedure means people are being convicted + fined under confusing Covid laws in secretive 'trials' without meaningful oversight or review.
It is likely that hundreds of people have been wrongly convicted under this process.
(1/5) Big Brother Watch Director @silkiecarlo: “This judgment confirms that the UK’s mass spying breached citizens’ rights to privacy and free expression for decades."
(2/5) "Today, Mr @Snowden's courageous whistleblowing is vindicated as is the tireless work of Big Brother Watch and our allies in this pursuit of justice. Mr Snowden clearly deserves the protection of democratic nations across Europe for his selfless defence of human rights."