It begins! Calls for NHS lanyards to be removed because of the Nowak killing

[SocialistMammy]

I suppose this knee-jerk over-the-top reaction was inevitable.

There are calls today - including from Kemi Badenoch - for public sector staff, including the NHS! to stop wearing "political" lanyards.

These could be just showing that you're a decent person who opposes genocide, or that your patient is safe with you regardless of your sexuality or gender identity when they are being treated.

And this is all because .. of the murder of Henry Nowak.

So, despite the calls from Nowak's family not to politicise their poor boy's death - that's EXACTLY what the far right are now trying to do. And the NHS has NOTHING to do with that police officer.

Where this is heading looks very ugly - we've got a World Cup starting shortly, and that's going to mean England flags being used to attack minorities. Will footballers have to make statements about diversity being anti white? Probably - it feels like the far right think this is their time now and ANYTHING is up for grabs.

It will be lanyards today, deportations tomorrow. Mark my words.

The NHS supplies branded lanyards, those are the ones that should be worn. When I worked for the NHS I carried my ID in my pocket.

It is only certain views, that is why people have reached the end of the road with the woke multiverse, it is just a big bag of nonsense with loads of people virtue signalling along the approved bandwidth.

Well no because the NHS is entirely captured by one side of the political aisle, I was attempting to be non partisan...

The BBC misquoted Farage and had to apologise so all sorts of things can be said on there which are not factually correct.

2024 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-68629616

What utter bollocks.

yes complete bollocks https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2209802/london-hospital-trans-ideology

I see the OP has provided two (ludicrous) posts and not engaged further. Hmm.

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Just how many lanyards/badges/pins would it take to represent all the different types of minority/marginalised groups in this country?

Whether you like it or not lanyards have become politicised and symbolic of performative activism. They should have no place in the working environment.

Big bag of nonsense! What a great phase. Can you allow me to use that at work. It sums up all sorts of things I come up against (I work with local authorities)

That’s a claim by one whistleblower in one hospital. Try harder.

My nhs trust has had this in their policy for years and I’m talking like 20yrs when I started.

When I first started in the NHS, the rules were nothing other than your works issued lanyard/ID card. Then slowly over time, more and more things made their way in. It needs to go back to just issued ID.

This and I would suggest that the best way to do it is to do what I was used to when I worked and managed which was no badges except professional organisation and official name badge and the same for lanyard.

That's what I thought, which is understandable. But I think it's time to say it like it is, not 'both sides' it.

I don’t get what you’re saying? I work for the nhs and don’t wear a lanyard that says I’m against genocide as surely for most people that’s a given? I don’t wear anything over political as sick patients are not the people to preach to. I prefer to treat humans as humans regardless of their beliefs and don’t discuss my own with them.

I'm guessing @MotherofPufflings
doesn't want blokes in the women's loo (or on the women's ward).

I'd get off the operating table (if I hadn't already seen his Pro Palestinian badge at a prior consultation!)

Yes, it lumps everyone to the right of Corbyn in a big ‘far right’ mass.

So Palestinian patients wouldn’t feel safe unless the NHS staff wear a badge with their flag?
What about all the other people from other conflict zones?

yup. I started working on the NHS in 1975 and retired in 2007. In all that time and over several NHS organisations, the rule was always the same. Professional organisation badge and NHS name badge /lanyard only

I want to see schools stripped of all political indoctrination next.

This is it, how would it feel to have escaped, say, Sudan and to see that the NHS staff member cared enough about Gaza to put it on their clothing but not your plight?

If that’s the price then yes. I think they are much less divisive than Palestine or trans. But no one needs to wear a poppy to do their NHS work.