New Passport Rules Coming Into Force Next Week

New passport rules could see British children born abroad refused admission to the UK. 

For the first time, dual citizens – including children and babies – will have to show a passport for flights, ferries or trains into Britain or pay for a ‘certificate of entitlement’ to the tune of £589.

The rules will come into force from as early as February 25, sparking backlash from Britons overseas who have been left blindsided by the shift in border controls.

All people born abroad to a UK parent are automatically eligible for dual citizenship that cannot be renounced until turning 18, but that will require them to either get a British passport or pay the £589 charge for a ‘certificate of entitlement’ to travel to the UK.

The changes for Britain’s dual citizens are coming into force as part of the Home Office’s new Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) programme.

Under the new rules, visitors from countries that did not previously require visas to travel to Britain will need to obtain ETAs before entering, including Canada and France. Additionally, it has been warned that there will be knock-on effects for British dual citizens.

Anyone travelling to the UK must prove permission to enter, with airline, ferry, and train firms able to deny boarding if the correct documents are not provided.

The changes that come into force from next Wednesday, February 25, specify that dual citizenship Britons have to show a valid UK passport or certificate of entitlement when arriving in the country.

That is because British and Irish nationals are exempt from ETAs. In the past, they would have been able to travel with non-British passports and use other documents to back up their citizenship if required.

Dual nationals include UK-born people who have acquired nationality from another homeland, those who naturalised or registered as British later in life and people who have been dual nationals since birth.

The Home Office’s new rules mean a British couple’s 10-month-old baby could be ‘turned back at the border’ when they leave for New Zealand in two weeks.  

His grandmother told The Times: ‘We’ve sent off an application with all the documentation requested, but have received a reply saying “you need to send his NZ passport as well”. 

‘We’re not going to do that because then he certainly won’t be able to travel, with no passport at all.’

The family has attempted to get through to the Home Office – but they ‘don’t have lines that deal with this’. 

The grandmother added they have also been to the High Commission in New Zealand, but they were ‘told to go away’ because ‘they don’t deal with this’.

It’s funny how Labour’s policies are making it harder for British citizens who have every right to enter the UK, while illegal migrants can enter the country from France with ease and receive free housing, food, and pocket money—all at the expense of taxpayers.

Our government are making it difficult for British people to return to the UK, while they merrily give away properties to those who despise this country, but then it’s also a cash and grab by our government.

It’s actually not funny anymore because our government are crushing hard-working British people while they carry on with this gentle approach when it comes to migrants entering the UK – the whole thing is crooked.

Britain has always been one of the countries which allowed people with more than one citizenship to enter with any valid passport. Now they pester people about their plans and connections to the country under the disguise of needing to know if they will attempt to access public funds, instead of accepting valid passports for entry at ports.

This probably makes sense to most people, but strictly speaking, a passport is a passport, and nobody should be delayed trying to get back for emergencies or funerals, et cetera.

Nearly 11,000 youngsters as young as four have been suspended

Thousands of children as young as four have been suspended for attacking teachers, as shocking statistics reveal record violence in classrooms.

Soaring numbers of reception-age children – the youngest year group in schools – have been sent home for out-of-control behaviour, according to a Mail on Sunday investigation.

As well as launching attacks on teachers, children aged just four and five have also been suspended for fighting with fellow students, bullying, and even sexual wrongdoing and bringing weapons to school.

There were almost 11,000 suspensions involving children in reception in England in the 2023-24 academic year, almost double the 5,993 recorded in official figures two years before.

The data, released by the Department for Education under a Freedom of Information request, included 4,500 suspensions for attacking teachers and another 2,367 for attacking a fellow student.

Again, figures – which are the latest available – had almost doubled in just two years, highlighting the rapidly declining level of conduct among the very youngest in the school system.

More and more children were also suspended for persistently disrupting classes, with numbers increasing from 1357 to 2427, while an additional 808 were sent home for making threats and for verbal abuse, increasing from 531.

In the past three years, there have also been 51 cases where reception pupils were sent home for having a weapon, 39 where they were suspended for sexual misconduct and even 14 suspensions for racism.

The figures also show that expulsions among four and five-year-olds have hit record levels, with 124 permanently excluded, almost twice the previous figure of 67.

The mushrooming violence and bad conduct back up concerns expressed by numerous teachers over how increasingly ill-prepared today’s school starters are, with children starting school without being toilet-trained and addicted to screens.

Pepe Di’Iasio, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said he believed that ‘many children are arriving in reception who struggle with communication and self-regulation, which can result in very challenging behaviour’.

One teacher, who works at a school in the North West but wishes to remain nameless, said: ‘We have a reception class of 25, but six are still in nappies.

‘The kids are dirty. Their clothes are filthy. It is lazy parenting. And these parents are letting them get addicted to screens too.’

Christopher McGovern, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, also blamed poor parenting and said ‘compulsory classes in parenting for some mums and dads may be the only way forward’.

It’s obvious that their parents are the source of this conduct, and violent children generally come from violent homes, and that hitting or even punching is the norm, so it’s not surprising that numerous children lack the social skills that are needed to exist, but instead they are smug, confrontational, entitled, unreasonable, slothful and lacking self-discipline, but also the liberal experiment of teachers treating pupils like they are friends and no discipline for bad behaviour failed spectacularly. No surprise there then.

Poor or absent parenting is failing these young children before they even start out in their young lives. Years ago, young children wouldn’t be able to start reception class until they were out of nappies, so where is the parenting? And I’ve witnessed that some parents don’t even bother to talk to their children; they’re too occupied looking at their phone screens.

Gentle parenting was never a good thing. Tough love is the way to go. I received it, and it did me no harm, and it seeded good values from an early age.

The trouble is that teachers have no authority to discipline children these days, and this is what happens, but they simply suspend the child, who is usually happy to be out of school – it’s like giving out candy to a child.

Jewish People Are Targeted Because Of Their Religion

Online users have commended Matt Lucas for his composure during an altercation with a pro-Palestinian demonstrator on the London Tube.

The British comedian, 51, was followed and filmed by Thomas Abdullah Bourne, a convert to Islam who uses the social media handle ‘White British Muslim’.

The clip starts by showing Mr Lucas, sporting a black jacket, red jumper and white cap, riding an escalator in a Tube station.

As he discovers he is being filmed, the Little Britain star tries to block his face with his right hand.

Mr Bourne then yells, ‘Free Palestine. Free Palestine, Matt Lucas’ to the celebrity comic.

After getting off the escalator at the top, Mr Lucas acknowledges his pursuer, asking: ‘Hi, how are you?’

Mr Bourne responds, ‘You don’t like what I’m wearing, do you?’ – a reference to the ‘keffiyeh’, the traditional, black-and-white chequered cotton scarf that has become a sign of Palestinian solidarity for numerous Western activists.

Rather than engage in debate, Lucas merely replies: ‘No, I have no comment about it either way.’

The activist then asks him: ‘You’ve got a problem with Palestinians, Matt?’

Mr Lucas replies just ‘No’ before trying to force the camera out of his face. 

Mr Bourne responds, ‘Don’t do that, don’t grab my stuff’ before Mr Lucas walks away, with the protester mumbling ‘Zionist’ to the camera. 

The activist’s exact motivation for targeting Mr Lucas is unclear, although many internet users have suggested that it has to do with his Jewish ancestry.

Mr Lucas was a signatory to the ‘No Hostage Left Behind’ open letter in October 2023, marking the release of two American and two Israeli hostages, but has not been a significant verbal presence on the conflict.

The missive also thanked then US President Joe Biden for his ‘unshakable moral conviction, leadership, and support for the Jewish people’ in Israel’s fight against Hamas.

Despite his parents’ Orthodox Jewish heritage, Mr Lucas grew up in a Reform Jewish home.

However, he has described himself as an ‘atheist’ and ‘fairly secular Jew’ in the past. 

Several members of the comedian’s mother’s family escaped Nazi Germany just before the Second World War. 

Mr Lucas was shocked to discover that one of his relatives was mentioned in Anne Frank’s diary when he participated in the BBC’s genealogy program Who Do You Think You Are?

To find out more about his German-born Jewish ancestry, the comedian, who gained notoriety as George Dawes on the bizarre Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer film Shooting Stars, travelled to Amsterdam.

Since they essentially need to be that radical to establish their belonging to their new group, white Islamic converts appear to be worse, but they love a convert. The shameful thing is that they’re treated as cannon fodder.

These white converts are absolutely fanatical, and quite intimidating, and they appear to be growing in numbers.

They want a vehicle to justify the venom they possess, and the convenient vehicle is the jihadist psyche.

This was indeed harassment, and an arrest should have been made. If the boot had been on the other foot, then someone would have already been in the slammer, but Matt Lucas presumably didn’t want to make a scene; he’s too nice for that.

Just imagine for one second that someone did this to a Palestinian with a headscarf – can you imagine the response, the rioting, the ongoing news articles? The Labour MPs would be falling over each other. These fools have now been encouraged, just as we all expected they would be.

Sadly, it only becomes harassment if the person feels harassed and makes a complaint. Matt Lucas didn’t even look slightly phased, and was certainly not reducing himself to the other person’s ideals. He just went on his way. Good on Matt – he ignored the bell.

Flipping Heck! Generation Z And Pancake Day

It’s a custom that dates back centuries, celebrating a pivotal point in the Christian calendar and bringing delight to generations of children – and adults.

However, it now seems that Pancake Day is the latest custom to be under threat, with most young Britons admitting they’re too scared or too lazy to make and flip a pancake themselves.

As many of us prepare to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, a study has revealed that three in five young Britons have never flipped a pancake.

And a fifth admit they have no idea how to make one from scratch.

Almost half of Gen Z say they are not even sure why pancakes are traditionally eaten on Shrove Tuesday.

It’s not just the younger generations, either – many people of all ages admit they don’t feel confident making them.

Nearly a quarter of Britons claim they have dropped a pancake onto the floor or hob while trying to flip it, and more than a third acknowledge they have burnt one while cooking. Many are choosing to completely opt out as a result.

A shocking eight in ten Britons say they will not toss a pancake on Shrove Tuesday this year, according to the poll of 2,000 Britons commissioned by Lyle’s Golden Syrup – and just three in ten plan to make them from scratch on the day.

Pancake Day has been celebrated in Britain for hundreds of years, celebrating Shrove Tuesday, when people were forgiven – or ‘shriven’ – of their wrongs on the last day before the start of Lent. 

As many gave up what were seen as indulgent foodstuffs for the ensuing 40 days leading up to Easter, pancakes were an excellent way to use up eggs, butter and fats from the store cupboard.

The first recipe to be written down in English appears in a cookbook published in 1439, and a host of traditions have grown up around the festival, with pancake-tossing races being held in numerous towns to this day.

In France, which shares the custom of using up rich foodstuffs before Lent, Tuesday is known as Mardi Gras or ‘Fat Tuesday’.

While Gen Z – those born between 1997 and 2012 – are evidently less likely to wield a frying pan themselves, many say they will mark the occasion by exploring playful new food trends.

Three in ten plan to treat themselves to pancake-inspired goodies from cafés, restaurants and coffee shops, such as pancake-syrup flavoured coffee or pancake-inspired sweets, ice cream and milkshakes.

Sadly, the UK has become a predominantly Islamic country, so pancake day is irrelevant, and ultimately it will die out altogether, along with Christmas and many other Christian traditions.

The supermarkets went crazy last year putting out Eid and Ramadan items, but there was scarcely any talk of Shrove Tuesday or Easter.

Every tradition is going now. The young generation has no idea about our history and heritage. All they care about is Love Island, TikTok or what the latest trainers are, extremely sad indeed.

Sadly, with Gen Z, if it doesn’t arrive by Just Eat or Deliveroo in a plastic tub that goes in the microwave, then they don’t have a clue what it is or what to do with it – do they even know what a frying pan is?

For fear of offending individuals of various religions, our children are no longer even taught about British customs in schools, and of course there’s no time because the teachers are too busy teaching them how to speak our language, go to the toilet, take a turn, play a game, hold cutlery as parents have now decided it’s not their job to be a parent.

A Total Of 70 Boat Migrants Will Receive Compensation

More than 70 small boat migrants have landed a taxpayer-funded windfall after the High Court ruled the Home Office acted unlawfully by taking their mobile phones on arrival in Britain.

The controversial policy, introduced during a surge in Channel crossings in 2020, saw asylum seekers searched, and their mobiles and SIM cards seized, with data in numerous cases said to have been fully downloaded.

According to reports, devices were frequently kept for three months or more, and some were never given back.

Judges later discovered the approach breached the European Convention on Human Rights, opening the door to compensation claims that could ultimately cost millions.

So far, 32 asylum seekers have obtained payouts totalling £210,800 – the equivalent of £6,587.50 each. 

An additional 41 cases remain unresolved. If they are paid at the same pace, the bill will increase to £480,887. 

At the time of the ruling, it was said that 1,323 migrants could potentially seek damages, fuelling fears the final cost could reach as high as £8 million.

A Freedom of Information response revealed the Home Office has already spent £735,000 contesting the case, according to The Sun.

It confirmed that of the £210,800 paid out, £163,900 accounted for ‘pure compensation costs’, while a further £46,900 was paid under Calderbank offers – confidential ‘without prejudice’ agreements – covering both compensation and legal costs without distinction.

The legal battle arises from a judicial review launched in November 2020 by three asylum seekers, identified only as HM, MA and KH.

The High Court heard that almost 2,000 phones were taken between April and November 2020 under what was described as a blanket policy.

Until July 2020, all seized devices and SIM cards were subjected to full data downloads.

After that date, downloads were restricted to cases where a ‘person of interest’ had been identified on a boat.

In January 2022, the matter came before the High Court, with judgment handed down two months later. 

Lord Justice Edis said then-Home Secretary Priti Patel accepted that the ‘blanket seizure policy… was not in accordance with the law’.

The judges discovered that seizing phones interfered with migrants’ rights to family and private life under the ECHR and that phones and PINs were taken ‘without any lawful authority’.

In their written order in October 2022, the judges ruled: ‘The Mobile Phone Policy was unlawful because it was unpublished.’

I’m at a loss for words since this will now infuriate every taxpayer.

This is absurd, these migrants are entering the UK illegally, and Labour are spending taxpayers’ money like there’s no tomorrow. Where are the human rights of the British people? Only our government would compensate someone attempting to illegally invade because they have all their priorities wrong, and the British people deserve better.

For goodness sake, they’re coming here illegally, with no papers and don’t even get investigated. Our taxes should be going to what is essential and enhancing our quality of life, those in true need, not filling the pockets of opportunists arriving on our shores. Perhaps we British people should be reimbursed for all the crime they are bringing to our shores. No, I didn’t think so!

Their illegal entrance to the UK should not have been compensated, and they should not have been permitted to claim anything once they were here. If our government keep giving, they will just keep coming, and all of this compensation money should have gone straight towards the cost of them being here and what it incurs. None of them should get a penny of it, and British taxpayers should get their money back that has gone on these migrants.

Send The Army Into London

Reform MP Nadhim Zahawi said it’s time to send in the army to the streets of London because the capital doesn’t ‘feel safe’. 

Speaking on LBC, the Tory defector was asked: ‘Do you feel safe in London?’ Mr Zahawi responded: ‘No, and I’m a big guy. I don’t feel safe that my 13-year-old can walk in London – that can’t be right.’ 

He continued: ‘If I were Home Secretary I’d be calling the chief of police saying “listen, if you need help we’ll send the army in.’

New crime statistics reveal that homicides in London are at their lowest number in a decade, with just over one unlawful killing (1.07) per 100,000 people last year. 

Mr Zahawi, 58, also said he wanted to ‘thank Jim Ratcliffe’, the billionaire owner of Manchester United, whose comments earlier this week that the UK had been ‘colonised’ by immigrants caused public outrage.

LBC host James O’Brien responded to Mr Zahawi’s comments: ‘If you want to bring in the army to do something in this country, it costs the local council £4,000 per soldier per week.

‘So you’re calling for other taxpayers to pay that while you’re on the hook for £5 million to the England revenue for avoiding paying your own share.’

Mr Zahawi was sacked as Tory Party chairman in 2023 after an ethics inquiry discovered he had failed to disclose that HMRC was investigating his taxes. He later paid nearly £5 million to settle his tax affairs.

James O’Brien continued: ‘Whilst £17 billion (in taxes) is paid by? Immigrants in the UK.’ 

Mr Zahawi recalled an incident that left him feeling unsafe, saying: ‘Yesterday I walked from my home in one of the most upmarket areas of London and an individual walked past me.

‘I literally walked off the pavement into the middle of the road, kept a very close eye, at 8 am.

‘He just looked like he hadn’t slept for a week and just looked like somebody that might be violent, I don’t know, but I just walked away from the pavement.’

London Mayor Sadiq Khan responded to Mr Zahawi’s comments that he needed to ‘stop being a pound shop version of Donald Trump’.

He said: ‘Rather than trying to copy Donald Trump, why not talk about our capital city?

‘We are the tech capital of Europe, the second biggest tech place in the world, cultural capital of the world, the music capital of the world.

‘Rather than talking our capital city down, why doesn’t the Reform Party behave like true patriots and talk our capital city up instead of copying the ideas of Donald Trump and JD fans? Think for yourself, man.’ 

He is correct, though; London has degenerated into a cesspool, and something needs to be done about it because nowhere feels safe.

This, of course, is not a job for the military; it’s the job for PC Plod to get out there and do their job, instead of sitting behind their desks checking for hurty words, and as for our military, there is none, not anymore. It’s all phoney numbers and troops that couldn’t sustain a one-year deployment; then again, there’s always the Army Reserve. In the meantime, our Met is being defunded, with them closing as many stations as possible, while manipulating data to serve their agenda.

London is not safe, in fact, nowhere is safe, and our government are in denial or just doesn’t care. You can’t walk the streets wearing anything expensive, and if you receive a phone call on your mobile, you either just don’t answer it or cling onto it for dear life because otherwise it will be swiped straight out of your hand. If it’s not superglued down or connected to you with handcuffs, you can guarantee it will be robbed.

Epstein Jail Guards Used ‘Fake Body’ To Trick Media Waiting Outside The Prison

Jail guards overseeing Jeffrey Epstein used a decoy body to mislead reporters gathered outside the prison after his death, while his real body was secretly removed in a separate vehicle, newly unsealed files claim.

According to an internal memo, a jail supervisor told FBI agents that staff at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Centre staged the ruse amid an intense media presence following Epstein’s apparent suicide in 2019.

The files allege that boxes and sheets were placed to resemble a human body and loaded into a white van marked as belonging to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, prompting reporters to follow it as it drove away.

Unbeknown to the media, Epstein’s real body was instead put into a black vehicle that left the building ‘unnoticed,’ permitting officers to transport the corpse privately.

The apparent ruse was carried out after an official alerted guards about the large number of journalists assembled outside the prison and said he would arrive at the loading dock with a separate black vehicle to remove the body.

The records also show that investigators highlighted a handwritten note discovered inside Epstein’s cell at the time of his apparent death, which was not treated as a suicide note by the medical examiner.

The note, which investigators said was ‘difficult to read’, seemed to document grievances about prison conditions, including complaints about food, showers and bugs.

The records, included in a tranche of three million newly released documents, describe how officers reacted to the heavy media presence outside the prison in the hours after Epstein’s supposed death.

After Epstein was pronounced dead at the hospital, his body was returned to federal custody at the prison while arrangements were made for its transfer to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. 

One interview note states that because of the ‘large news media presence,’ staff devised a plan to ‘thwart’ reporters as the body was removed.

According to the document, officers ‘used boxes and sheets to create what appeared to be a human body, which was put into the white OCME vehicle, which the press followed, permitting the black vehicle to depart unnoticed with EPSTEIN’s body.’

Other sections of the records tell how officers were stationed at a secure facility connected to the prison, where Epstein’s body was guarded while fingerprinting, and other procedures were carried out ahead of its transfer.

Epstein was being held in the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in New York on sex trafficking charges at the time of his death on August 10, 2019.

Now, I’m genuinely wondering if the man is still alive or if he’s smiling as he watches all of this media attention, and of course, having a fake body ready and waiting would suggest a degree of forward planning by somebody.

I didn’t believe he was alive until now. Perhaps he was the fall guy that never fell.

Why would the guards care if the media saw a body bag with someone’s body in it? Whether it had a fake body in it or the real body, it wouldn’t matter because the media report would be the same in both cases, and if he is still alive, he will be extremely well protected.

If it were not a tragedy, it would be almost comical. The guards failed to check on him, and they found a body but took no photographs – definitely a fishy rat here!

Pictures of his cell, where he was discovered, resembled a laundry room with multiple orange garments spread about. It was almost as if they were saying, ‘take your pick,’ and how he managed to cut the garments up has yet to be clarified.

Will Keir Starmer’s Shambles Hand Farage The Keys To No 10?

Nigel Farage will now gear Reform up to be prepared in case Labour’s descent into chaos initiates a snap general election. 

In a speech this afternoon, Mr Farage will lay out his intentions for his front-bench team and urge party members to be prepared to cast ballots before the end of the year.

While there are expected to be many positions filled by former Tories like Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman, he is expected to announce a number of positions held by figures outside politics, the Telegraph reported. 

While a general election is not expected to take place until 2029 and there remain numerous obstacles to one happening earlier, he will also say that Reform is beginning its recruitment campaign for prospective MPs.

It comes as Labour continues to eat itself over the appointment of former minister Peter Mandelson as US ambassador, after a slew of revelations about his closeness to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. 

The PM is holed up in Downing Street after the storm over the peer’s position as US ambassador claimed the scalp of Morgan McSweeney.

MPs are warning Sir Keir he must show he ‘gets’ the problem and is willing to lurch to the Left when he addresses a highly-charged meeting of the Parliamentary Party this evening.

However, there is speculation that the premier could just opt to walk away, with deathly silence from the most senior Cabinet ministers.

Last week, Mr Farage told a BBC documentary that Reform was only ‘half-ready’ for a general election.

However, he is expected to use his speech to say one could be held within a year due to Labour’s ‘instability’.

‘I will be bringing together a team to build an industrial strategy, one that can rebuild our national infrastructure and security that has been dismantled by the Tories and Labour,’ he is expected to say.

He is seeking ‘brightest and best’ to stand for the party whenever the next election occurs. 

Earlier, he wrote on Twitter: ‘ Labour is just continuing the chaos we saw under the Tories.

‘My money says Starmer won’t be far behind after Labour’s disaster in the elections this coming May.’

It comes as Labour faces two political crunch points in the coming months, the Gorton and Denton by-election later this month and the local and devolved assembly elections in May.

Sir Keir faces losing a seat in Greater Manchester that Labour won by 13,000 votes in 2024, and it could be on course for hammerings in Scotland, Wales and English council votes.

We clearly do need a change, but I’m not sure if Reform is that change.

If Reform does get in and then morph into Tory 2.0, Farage will see the biggest civil unrest against him since Maggie encountered the poll tax riots.

Immigration is our primary issue. It affects multiple areas like housing, jobs, GPs and crime, et cetera. Can voting Reform be any more harmful than what we have now? I guess we won’t really know until they get into power, if they get into power.

Sadly, I believe that Nigel Farage is going to turn out to be an absolute Spiv who has taken an awful lot of people in, but I truly hope that I’m wrong.

The problem is that some people are acting as though Nigel Farage is a saint, but like everyone else, he is flawed and will have many shortcomings. Still, I believe he has to be worth a try, given the mess of our current government.

Great Ormond Street Surgeon Harms Children

A Great Ormond Street Hospital orthopaedic surgeon who botched operations injured almost 100 children, a report has revealed – as a victim told of being left in ‘horrifying’ pain.

Some 36 of Yaser Jabbar’s patients suffered severe harm, a report published by Great Ormond Street Hospital has concluded.

GOSH released a review on Thursday into the activities of Jabbar, who treated hundreds of children from 2017 to 2022.

It was discovered that 36 children endured extreme harm while under the care of the surgeon, who worked on lower limb reconstruction.

An additional 39 patients sustained moderate harm, and 19 patients sustained mild harm.

The study also reported that 642 patients did not come to harm that could be attributable to the surgeon.

The disgraced surgeon no longer holds a licence to practise medicine in the United Kingdom and is believed to reside overseas.

He operated on children, causing them to experience chronic agony, deformities, lifelong nerve damage, and even an amputation.

Other patients have been left with drop foot – a debilitating condition where the foot cannot be pulled up, and the sufferer must bring their leg up high when walking to avoid tripping over.

Some found themselves living with legs of different lengths by up to 20cm after going under Jabbar’s knife.

GOSH ordered an independent review of the care provided to 721 patients who passed through Jabbar at the hospital.

An additional 68 cases were subsequently uncovered, bringing the total to 789.

Jabbar harmed between 85 and 100 children, the trust confirmed.

At least 32 of those suffered extreme harm, meaning potentially lifelong deformities or chronic pain, 36 were left with moderate harm, and 18 cases were mild.

However, some families of the children who feature in the report have criticised it, and claimed that a ‘cover-up culture’ will obscure the truth.

Some blame GOSH for ‘failing their children’, while others claimed the report – by external surgeons using patient notes – would leave more questions than answers.

One mother told the BBC last month: ‘Mr Jabbar was known for not writing up records or keeping notes correctly, but these reviews have been based on hospital notes. 

‘My daughter’s report doesn’t reflect her journey at all.’

Jabbar ceased treating patients at the world-renowned hospital in 2022 after concerns were raised about his work.

He left GOSH in 2023 after a report by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) found some surgeries had been ‘inappropriate’ and ‘incorrect’.

Someone should be held accountable for this and then prosecuted. 

We keep getting told how wonderful these doctors and nurses are, but some of them are coming over from other countries to work here, and in some countries, their standards are not the same as ours. We need British doctors and nurses, not some Jabbar the Hutt. It makes you wonder if anybody actually checked his credentials or even if they were genuine.

It also makes you question if something more nefarious was happening or if this was just a case of incomplete ineptitude, but honestly, what kind of quality system allows this to happen?

Jabbar worked at GOSH for years, but no senior managers or consultants who worked with him did anything about it; they just turned a blind eye.

To be honest, it is very unsettling that the system permits butchers to continue their operations for such a long time before malpractice accusations are thoroughly looked into and remedied, and it’s shameful that this man was permitted to flee the country. Is this the kind of conduct we have to get used to now?

The Elite Airborne British Army Regiment, The Paras, Will Not Have Parachutes

They have a reputation for daring and courage – seeing courageous action in Normandy, Arnhem, the Falklands and Afghanistan.

But the future of the legendary ‘Paras’ could be under threat from cost-cutting measures, which astonishingly include being forced to ditch their parachutes, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Instead of jumping out of RAF transport planes, the elite Parachute Regiment would deploy to frontline action in helicopters.

The plans – seemingly dreamt up by RAF chiefs to save money – were last night branded ‘strategic and operational madness’.

Tobias Ellwood, a former Tory Defence Minister, said: ‘No aircraft means no training, no mass jumps, no airborne infantry – the slow death of the most elite line regiment in the British Army.

‘With increasing global uncertainty, this is not the way to prepare for possible war.’

He also suggested that RAF chiefs’ real motive for asking for the cuts was because the huge A400M transport planes – which have replaced the smaller C-130 Hercules aircraft – were not suited to parachute drops.

However, that was refuted by one ex-paratrooper, who insisted the new aircraft were ‘cleared for parachuting last year’.

It is believed that the very contentious reduction was suggested as a component of the government’s long-delayed Defence Investment Plan (DIP).

That plan, originally scheduled for publication last autumn, has still not been published amid warnings that the Ministry of Defence is short of billions of pounds over the next four years.

A source said the RAF had asked for the Paras to no longer jump from its A400M planes on the grounds that there are simply not enough of the aircraft.

Last night, one former senior Parachute Regiment officer said: ‘While technically, you can parachute from a ‘copter, in practice you wouldn’t want to.

‘Combat troop-carrying helicopters often fly low to evade radar and, critically, they do not have the capacity or the flying endurance that the A400M offers to lift large numbers of paratroopers.

‘In effect, this cut-back would ground the Parachute Regiment and rule out any future mass parachute drop by British forces.’

Axing parachuting would allegedly save the RAF more than £15 million a year as it would no longer have to supply the ‘chutes’ and specialist training of pilots and aircrew, as well as the training of paratroopers.

The A400Ms are said to be in constant demand flying to the Falklands, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Poland, Estonia, USA, Australia, Kenya, Oman, Jordan and Norway.

It is not the first time the Paras – whose catchphrase is Utrinque Paratus (Ready for Anything) – have been caught in a row about a lack of planes. 

I was just wondering if our government were to remove all the illegal immigrants and fake asylum seekers who have plagued our shores back to whatever continent they came from. Wouldn’t the UK then have enough money to spend on its Armed Forces? Wouldn’t there also be enough money for our NHS, law and order, housing and local government? And when I said send them all back, I also meant those people who have been given citizenship/passports under a leftist socialist agenda. Where does it say that Britain must take all of the world’s unwanted and uninvited?

To be honest, only our very inept government workers could have thought of a parachute regiment without parachutes. This is just proof once again of the folly of this Labour government, which, despite what they say, continues to cut front-line defence spending.

This is frankly an invasion, and those who are attempting to protect us are hung out to dry by our disgraceful government.

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