{"id":1002316,"date":"2021-11-12T08:58:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T13:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1002316"},"modified":"2021-11-12T08:58:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T13:58:52","slug":"delingpole-what-colour-poppy-for-sacked-care-home-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/delingpole-what-colour-poppy-for-sacked-care-home-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Delingpole: What Colour Poppy for Sacked Care Home Workers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdelingpole-what-colour-poppy-for-sacked-care-home-workers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1002316&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1236494824-e1636715434912-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">On Armistice Day, 58,000 of the UK care home workers who have been lovingly tending our old folk throughout the pandemic have been booted out of their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Their crime? Refusing to get the vaccine shots which Health Secretary Sajid Javid now insists must be compulsory for all care home workers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to the<em> Daily Mail<\/em>, in a story<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10190187\/Care-home-chaos-commences-60-000-staff-sacked-overnight.html#newcomment\"> headlined <\/a><em>Care Home Chaos Commences as 60,000 Staff Are Sacked Overnight<\/em>, there are parts of England where one in five care home workers have not been \u2018fully vaccinated.\u2019 These include Manchester and the part of the country where I live, West Northamptonshire.<\/p>\n<p>Judging by some of the comments on social media, Britain (like so many other countries) is deeply, viciously divided on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>There are those who believe that the jab refuseniks are selfish and uncaring and thoroughly deserve to be sacked.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>And those who believe that the jab refuseniks are heroes, defending the principle of bodily autonomy in the teeth of outrageous government blackmail.<\/p>\n<p>It really doesn\u2019t matter what side of the argument you are on. I believe that if the government were acting in good faith it\u2019s one that could very easily be resolved by giving care homes and consumers freedom of choice on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Some care homes, understandably panicked by the government\u2019s relentless Covid scaremongering, would certainly opt to employ double-jabbed staff only.<\/p>\n<p>Others, however, might decide that there were more important issues to prioritise. They might decide, for example, that the long experience and moral courage of those sacked workers are exactly the kind of qualities they would want in their staff. Then the old folk and their families could decide where they felt they would be most comfortable and happy.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few years, I\u2019ve spent quite a bit of time inside residential care homes for the elderly, first when my 100-year old grandmother was still around, more recently with my late father-in-law.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>When you consign your loved ones to these places what you want, above all, is for them to be comfortable and happy. I\u2019d personally place these way, way higher on my priority list than \u2018slavish observance of government health and safety diktats\u2019. And I suspect that the residents feel the same way. They\u2019re perfectly comfortable with the idea of dying (care homes, after all, are known as \u2018God\u2019s waiting room\u2019). But until they do so, they\u2019d rather be among people that treat them like human beings rather than liabilities.<\/p>\n<p>This is what is so especially cruel and vindictive about the government\u2019s double vaccine policy. Many if not most of those 58,000 sacked workers will be precisely the kind of decent, committed sorts that you\u2019d want looking after your elderly. The inexperienced (but double-jabbed) folk who replace them may not nearly be so good.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019m stating the obvious here but it can\u2019t be said often enough: if the Boris Johnson regime really cared about the wellbeing of elderly people it would have rescinded this stupid and cruel policy.<\/p>\n<p>But the Boris Johnson regime doesn\u2019t care about the wellbeing of elderly people in care homes. Boris Johnson doesn\u2019t. Sajid Javid doesn\u2019t. And Javid\u2019s predecessor, Matt Hancock, definitely doesn\u2019t. None of them does.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why they\u2019re not interested in finding a solution to the problem, because the \u2018problem\u2019 is one they themselves deliberately created for a specific purpose: blackmail. The whole purpose of this exercise is to bully and cajole desperate workers with few transferable skills to get jabbed not because they want to, but purely to save their livelihoods.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>In <em>Telegraph&nbsp;<\/em>a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2021\/11\/10\/feckless-tory-government-has-charted-course-absolute-failure\/\">piece<\/a> titled <em>This Feckless Tory Government Has Charted a Course to Failure,<\/em> columnist Allister Heath splutters bemusedly: \u2018What is wrong with Conservative governments? Why do they always end up disappointing their most ardent supporters?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The answer is first that they are not remotely conservative in ideology and second that they couldn\u2019t be even if they wanted to be.<\/p>\n<p>From Australia and New Zealand to Canada and the US, from Germany to the UK, the campaign to get everyone vaccinated by hook or by crook is continuing apace.<\/p>\n<p>This notion prevalent in the \u2018conservative\u2019 MSM, that with just a few more trenchant leaders and op-ed pieces by right-wingers we can turn the oil tanker \u2019round and steer the government on a course for <em>Real Conservatism<\/em> again, is delusional fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the obvious, no-brainer Conservative thing to do would be to give care homes and care home workers freedom of choice.<\/p>\n<p>But the left\/right paradigm is a chimera, and probably always was.<\/p>\n<p>The globalist, biosecurity state, central bank digital currency control freaks are in charge now. And the very last thing these Malthusian mass-murders care about is the wellbeing of your granny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Armistice Day, 58,000 of the UK care home workers who have been lovingly tending our old folk throughout the pandemic have been booted out of their jobs. 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