One Notion Labour - Cruddas suggested cutting benefits if parents did not vaccinate with MMR jab

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One Notion Labour - don't you just love them and don't they just love you?

Fortunately One Notion Labour have distanced themselves from this crackpot idea by one of their policy guru type One Notion 'thinkers'.

"Parents should lose their child benefit if they refuse to immunise their children with the MMR jab, a senior Labour MP has suggested.

Families will have to prove their child’s vaccination records are up to date to qualify for handouts, said Jon Cruddas, who is leading the party’s policy review.

The MP for Dagenham & Rainham suggested the measure, which is already in place in Australia, could be a way to link behaviour with state benefits and services.

However, Labour rushed to dissociate itself from the idea last night, saying ‘it is not part of the policy review’."

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2429738/Cut-benefits-parents-fail-children-MMR-jab-says-Labour-MP-party-moves-quickly-say-policy-review.html

Christ on a bike there are some fascists on here. Let me get this straight. Some people would agree to willingly deprive a child of an education because that child's parents are genuinely concerned about the safety of a vaccination? Surely, if your child is vaccinated they are protected. If another child isn't vaccinated then that is a matter for their child and their conscience alone.

I know a victim of thalidomide. That was a 'perfectly safe drug' or, at least it was thought so at the time. We're still seeing victims of CJD years after those victims ate beef which they had been told was perfectly safe. Hepatitis is still a problem for people who had blood transfusions before blood was routinely checked for such things. All drugs provide varying degrees of risk and the management of that risk has to be the domain of the (preferably) informed parent.

When my daughter was due to have her jabs I did a lot of research before hand and came to the conclusion that it was safe enough for the benefits to outweigh the risks. Consequently, she got jabbed. However, whilst I might disagree with someone who came to the opposite conclusion, it is certainly not for me, or anyone else, to force that parent to inoculate their child which appears to be the de facto premise of this idiotic proposal.