Jeremy Corbyn votes against compulsory jab for NHS staff and vaccine passport

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  1. >A vaccine should not become a privatised commodity used for corporate profiteering.

    >Instead it should be a global public good and shared with the world.

    What, like the EU has done, and given over a billion doses to poor countries? What a pathetic little gnome, who even refuses to say whether he’s been vaccinated or not!

    >Tonight I will oppose both compulsory vaccines for NHS staff, and the introduction of vaccine passports. Both measures are counterproductive and will create division when we need cooperation and unity.

    I can understand not voting for vaccine passports, but compulsory vaccines for NHS staff make absolute sense. He’s such a devious little worm. Thank fuck he’s irrelevant now.

    People who say we would have been better off with him in power or opposition are entirely wrong. He would have been a fucking nightmare.

  2. >”Mr Corbyn, who has not revealed his own vaccination status”

    That’s a “not vaccinated” then.. why would someone who’s had it even deny it? Vaccination has been basic medical science for a long time now.

  3. Good that he has stuck to his principles, a lot cannot be said for many others on the left in this time of mass hysteria. You would expect this from the Tories, but seeing the left hold their hands in this is pathetic.

  4. Another month, another shrinking of the the distance between the Corbyn brothers. I’d love to be a fly on the wall for their Christmas dinner.

  5. His quiet within his rights to not say whether his vaccinated or not. Just like the rest of us our medical history is between us and our doctors. I’m saying this as someone who couldn’t stand Corbyn as well. I would stick up for any of you over this, as personal medical information is private.

  6. Worth noting that Unison are against compulsory jabs too. Holding peoples livelihood to ransom as a means of ensuring compliance is not a good thing to have. I’m double jabbed but we need the carrot, not the stick to get to these people who haven’t been done yet.

  7. It’s almost funny to see some on the “left” hating this decision and some of the (further) “right” embracing it. Total flip in supporter base lmao

  8. Well, I’m not bothering with any more vaccinations. I was fine with them when they were optional and got two myself, now they are mandatory I get a funny vibe about the whole thing.

  9. Mandatory vaccinations for NHS staff sounds good in theory, but what actually happens here. They are told to get jabbed, they say no, the country is out of NHS employees at a time when they are desperately needed.

    I would much, much rather our NHS workers were vaccinated, but making it compulsory has the potential to push our already stretched services even thinner because it’s not like we can just replace the unvaxxed out of thin air.

  10. To be fair I doubt I’d be telling the fucking media if I had my vaccine if I was him after, y’know, someone actively tried to kill him a few years back.

    One side; rabid anti-Vaxxers who have proven they are willing to go to some serious lengths to fuck peoples lives up and the other? The media and online commentators.

    I’d probably keep quiet also.

  11. The passports I can live without, because frankly it’s a bit of a fucking headache. It also would involve some kind of order and organizing, and we are fucking terrible at that these days.

    The mandatory vaccines for patient facing NHS staff is a different story. You’re expected to be up to date on vaccines, so it would stand to reason that you’d need to be vaccinated during a pandemic. Otherwise you’re just adding to that problem, risking your lives as well as others.

    If you’re an NHS front liner and you dodge the vaccine, get Covid, pass it onto someone and they die, then that death is on you. No doubt about it.

  12. Getting vaccinated is proven to give “some” protection for the virus. However you can still carry and spread it to others even if you have been vaccinated. If someone doesn’t want to take the vaccine and they want to risk it without, then they are free to do so. It makes no difference to everyone else either way.

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