Now Britain’s top GP backs NHS workers in war over mandatory vaccinations

As nurses join anti-vaxxer rallies across UK...

NHS workers laid down their uniforms yesterday as thousands protested against Health Secretary Sajid Javid’s order that they must be vaccinated against Covid or risk losing their jobs.

Medics waved placards with slogans including ‘Heroes to Hated’ and ‘Clapped then Sacked’ as they marched against the policy that comes into force on April 1.

Protests were staged in cities including Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and London, where NHS staff and ambulance workers laid down their tunics on the steps of Trafalgar Square.

Their demonstrations came as the Royal College of GPs called on the Government to extend the deadline to prevent mass staff shortages in the health service.

Chairman Martin Marshall said compulsory vaccination for health professionals was ‘not the right way forward’ and about ten per cent of staff at some hospitals and GP surgeries had not had the Covid jab.

Protesting in London, ambulance worker Christabelle Gregory, 32, said: ‘People were once clapping for us but there’s no appreciation any more. I’m young and I’ve got antibodies from working on the frontline, so I don’t want the vaccine.’

Emergency care assistant Victoria Kesserwan, 36, from Oxford, added: ‘I am going to lose the job I love because I don’t want the vaccine. It is too new and we don’t know enough about it.’

Protesters chanted ‘My body, my choice’ as they marched in London from Regents Park to Downing Street, where NHS staff also hurled their uniforms at the gates.

The march was joined by more than 1,000 anti-vaxxers and other groups, including activists spouting conspiracy theories that the jabs are part of a global plot to kill and control the population.

Many of the NHS protesters wore

blue hoodies produced by the NHS100k campaign group, formed to oppose the NHS mandate. The group claims up to 100,000 health workers may lose their jobs if the Government doesn’t do a U-turn.

But The Mail on Sunday can reveal the group has disturbing links to anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorists and Far Right politicians.

The NHS100k website urges supporters to join Rebels On Roundabouts, an anti-vaxxer group whose supporters stand on roundabouts holding yellow signs claiming vaccines are killing children. On its website, the group claims the vaccine rollout ‘is a sinister control and depopulation agenda’.

After it was contacted by this newspaper, NHS100k said it had removed any reference to Rebels On Roundabouts from its website, adding: ‘This type of misinformation is dangerous and definitely not a view NHS100k agrees with.’

NHS100k has also urged its tens of thousands of followers to join the Workers of England Union, which is run by leaders of the FarRight English Democrats party.

The union claims it is not affiliated with any political party, but its leader is Stephen Morris, who is also national party secretary of the English Democrats. The union’s legal adviser is Robin Tilbrook, leader, founder and chairman of English Democrats.

Mr Tilbrook welcomed former BNP members into his party and has met the English Defence League and Britain First in the past. In December 2020 he appeared on an online video channel run by a neo-Nazi named Mark Collett, once leader of the BNP youth wing. Mr Collet is leader of the Hard-Right group Patriotic Alternative.

NHS100k said it was ‘not aware of any allegations that the Workers of England Union is run by people who identify as “Far Right”’. It added it had ‘no alignment’ with any party or other organisation.

Mr Morris said: ‘Workers of England Union will undoubtedly have members from various political parties. However, the Workers of England Union is politically neutral, we don’t have a political fund and don’t fund any political party. We are an independent trade union.’