Please Sir, Don't You Want Some More ? - Ep 4 - Two Jims, Jon, John and Liz.

Two Unionist Northern Irish Members of Parliament and three Labour veterans take the number of MPs over 65 we have asked about their current vaccination status to 20.

It is just over a week until the 2025 Spring Covid 19 Vaccination campaign will begin 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 in autumn, when it was everyone 65 and over who was elligible.

Neverthless, those who have campaigned for a halt to the use of the Covid shots pending proper long term safety studies are incredulous that the products are still going into arms.

Not as many arms, though, these days.

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. 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 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 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.

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 did not? It’s a reasonable question, we feel.

We sent them all a letter on 17th December 2025 asking if they were still taking the shots, as per government advice.

For the fourth week running we have not had a single positive response. Those politicians once so keen to roll up their sleeves and roll out the megaphone now do not want to talk about whether they have taken these products, 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.