The 2025 Spring Covid 19 Vaccination campaign has begun in the UK.
Adults aged 75 and over, residents in care homes and everyone aged over the age of six months who is immunosuppressed are being advised to take another shot.
This is a change from the criteria in use last autumn when everyone aged 65 and over was eligible.
Nevertheless, those who have campaigned for a halt to the use of the Covid shots pending proper long term safety studies are incredulous that these products are still going into arms.
Not as many arms, though.
Official data from the NHS says that 6,784,514 adults over the age of 65 took Covid jabs in the autumn campaign.
Estimates for the total number of adults over the age of 65 meanwhile range between 12-13 million. Meaning lots of people are not taking these shots any more.
Their reasons for not doing so are presumably many and varied and not any of Hunt & Gather’s business - or so we would ordinarily say.
When they are members of the political class who once so enthusiastically lauded the products in question, that’s different.
If that particular subset of 65 year olds has changed its position on Covid 19 vaccines we think it’s everyone’s business.
The DUP’s Jim Shannon (who according to Wikipedia turned seventy a week ago) broke down in tears in the House of Commons in January 2022 when talking about his mother in law, who died alone during a lockdown. He was content to post details of his vaccination appointment on Twitter in 2021.
Jim Allister, who leads the Traditional Unionist Voice (a Northern Irish Reform to the DUP’s Conservatives) has been a vocal critic of draconian Covid era policies but was happy to post about his own vaccination on X.
Labour’s Jon Trickett, John McDonnell and Liz Twist are all on the public record endorsing and encouraging the vaccination campaign. See the video above for details.
Every one of these politicians is over the age of 65. So are they amongst the six million or so adults over 65 who did take a Covid shot last autumn? Or are they amongst the six million or so who were eligible and did not? It’s a reasonable question, we feel.
We sent them all this letter on 17th December 2025:
For the fourth week running we have not had a single positive response. Those politicians once so keen to roll up their sleeves and break out the megaphone in support of these products now do not want to talk about whether they are still taking them, or about whether their families and constituents should do so.
MPs asked: 20
Positive responses: 0
Join us next week for the next five names on our list.
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