Meanwhile the staff on the front-line are not being given priority vaccinations for protection. This is not a rumour, it is a serious issue that needs addressing.
The order in which UK citizens are to be vaccinated has been placed at the discretion of a committee of medical / epidemiological experts, remote from direct interference by political interests. Their brief is to enable the maximum possible preservation of life. This is exactly the way things should be done. The most vulnerable will be inoculated first, regardless of profession. So a clinically vulnerable airport worker / bus driver / supermarket worker will be vaccinated as a priority anyway, but a fit 20yo will not. And there are plenty of "invisible" professions which are exposed to elevated risk too: how often do we pause to think about those keeping our sewers functioning or emptying our bins? We could spend months debating who should be front of the queue for the jab.
Keep in mind that the NHS holds records of our date of birth and comprehensive medical history. Under the current system, that is the data they need to organise a successful super-efficient vaccination programme. And that is what we're seeing ... getting on for 500K inoculated each day. But start complicating this with demands by fringe interest groups that particular sets of workers should be prioritised, and suddenly the NHS has to collect employment data and disrupt everything to a massive degree ... all to accommodate early jabs for fit and healthy young adults ahead of those at far greater risk. The current system is absolutely spot-on. Keep virtue-signalling politicians and agenda-led pressure groups well away from this.
many people are having to queue outside in the freezing weather.
If this is so then it is a valid concern and you are right to highlight it. There is nothing sensible about forcing people to queue outside in freezing wet February weather on the pretext of 'protecting their health'. If we want to fill our hospitals with flu and pneumonia cases (never mind C-19) this is the perfect way to go about it. Never forget that this is peak season for colds and more serious respiratory viruses generally. We must be careful not to blindly subject the traveling public to a substantial known risk in the name of protecting them from a less-likely new one. Vulnerable people die from pneumonia too. MAG should attend to accommodating passengers in a warm, dry space in the depths of Winter.