The petition in December 2020 actually peaked at over 428k signatures. More than #UsforThemUK have ever managed in support or following. It beggars belief they claim to speak for parents & children as they very clearly do not.
Further more the governments official response was one huge gaslighting exercise and the measures they refer to #UsforThemUK campaigned against and this was before masks in class & testing was implemented by government. Cont…
Also let’s not forget we were assured with a fancy plan that should cases rise there would be a swift raft of measures applied that went as far as remote learning and closing classes. It was NEVER used and quietly dropped. Why ?
This though, only 3 months after Jennie Harries told us all there was more chance of our children being hit by a bus than catching covid, we are now being told the risk of them becoming severely ill is very low.
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#UsforThemUK stop lying will you, you were a minority, parents voted with their feet, it wasn’t safe for staff as no vaccine, the only online activists were yourselves and shady associates. If only you had been silenced and ignored. Cont….
LD 1 parents had already removed their children, schools had closed year groups due to unsafe staff levels and were looking to take Easter a week early. I never saw one parent who thought closing schools was ridiculous we were all waiting for the PM to get off his 🍑
December 20 a petition to close the schools (in favour of remote) amassed 405k signatures and went to debate where the request was ignored mainly and politicians banded about what they were doing, why we shouldn’t close schools. Meanwhile covid levels were rising exponentially