The Inheritance Tax Is Expected To Be Cut By Jeremy Hunt In The Autumn

Jeremy Hunt is poised to cut inheritance tax in the Autumn Statement in a move that could reduce Tory pressure over dire polls.

The Chancellor is increasingly expected to act to ease the burden next Wednesday after inflation declined slightly quicker than expected.

He is also thought to have a tad more wriggle room after Treasury revenues were boosted by increasing wages pulling people deeper into the tax system.

Treasury sources have emphasised that the package will not include anything that fuels inflation, and must be ‘affordable’.

Jeremy Hunt is likely to move on business taxes first, but insiders have sounded increasingly warm on the prospect of trimming IHT.

Many Tories argue it’s a tax on aspiration and decreasing it would draw a remarkably precise dividing line with Labour for the election.

Official figures revealed inflation dropped by more than anticipated to 4.6 per cent in October, its lowest level for two years. Experts had predicted a rate of 4.8 per cent.

Downing Street had previously played down ‘speculation’ on cutting inheritance tax, with Whitehall sources saying in September that there had been ‘no discussions’ about including the measure in the Chancellor’s autumn statement.

However, Jeremy Hunt said that the Government was shifting to the ‘next part’ of its plan.

He said that they were now beginning to win the battle against inflation and they could move to the next part of their economic plan, which was a long-term growth of the economy.

The move would be welcomed by Tory backbenchers, including former business secretary Jacob Rees Mogg who said IHT should be ‘extinguished’.

Inheritance tax is levied at 40 per cent after death and raises more than £7 billion a year. Although most estates fall below the starting threshold, which can be up to £1 million, surveys indicate it’s widely unpopular.

Rishi Sunak was challenged on taxation during PMQs.

Tory MP Greg Smith asked the premier to ‘agree in principle’ that the higher rate tax band was never meant to catch police sergeants, nurses and teachers.

Rishi Sunak said that he agreed with him and was pleased that the vast majority of people would continue not to pay the higher rate and that he shared his ambition to cut taxes for working people.

He said that right now inflation was falling and they were sticking to their plan, delivering a halving of it this year, because that was the most effective tax cut they could have delivered for the British people this year, rather than making it worse, as the party opposite would.

This will make little to no difference to real people. Meanwhile, their ‘you will own nothing and be happy’ proceeds at speed. They will make sure you own nothing and that will be nothing left for your children to inherit.

This is a scorched earth policy. They know they’re on their way out in the next election so they’re filling their own and rich backer friends’ pockets with gold. I wouldn’t be surprised if they tried to bring back sending children up chimneys because this is what Tories do.

They’re also spending 8 million a day on hotels for illegals, how about cutting that before hitting British taxpayers?

You pay income tax and then Inheritance Tax, which only promotes less saving. Less production and fewer incentives to work hard and save. 

The only thing you’ll probably inherit is a cold and then the Tory Party would tax that given half a chance. 

Suella Braverman’s Parting Shot To Rishi Sunak… And Why She Wrote It

Suella Braverman wrote an incendiary 1,318-word resignation letter which revealed a string of secrets from her time in Rishi Sunak’s Cabinet.

The former home secretary levelled point-blank parting shots at the Prime Minister’s character and leadership and delivered a harsh verdict on the Government’s chances of success in tackling the small boat crisis.

Here we look at what Suella Braverman wrote and explore the background to the main points she raised with the Prime Minister.

Suella Braverman was sacked as home secretary by Rishi Sunak on Monday, and in a blistering letter, the ex-Cabinet minister accused the Prime Minister of breaking a string of promises on migration, the Rwanda asylum deal, Brexit and gender protections.

Suella Braverman revealed a previously unknown written deal with Rishi Sunak, setting out areas in which she says he agreed to support her.

These included several specific policies on immigration, as well as on post-Brexit agreements and protecting biological sex and ‘same-sex spaces’.

She said that Rishi Sunak agreed to a ‘document with clear terms’ during his second leadership campaign in October last year, in exchange for her ‘pivotal’ support in his bid to take over from Liz Truss as Prime Minister. Suella Braverman then went on to accuse him of treating their deal with ‘equivocation, disregard and a lack of interest’.

Suella Braverman then confirmed for the first time that she wanted the Illegal Migration Act, passed earlier this year to go much further.

She believed it would be necessary to disapply human rights law in illegal migration cases, making it easier to deport people, but she said that Rishi Sunak insisted on ‘compromises’ in the legislation.

Suella Braverman argued that, even if the Government won its appeal over legal challenges to its Rwanda policy in the UK’s Supreme Court, ministers would ‘struggle’ to execute it.

For the first time, the former home secretary publicly acknowledges the Rwanda scheme would be fraught with problems, painting a significantly different picture from what she had said while in office.

Attempts to remove small boat migrants to Rwanda will be ‘far from secure’ against legal challenge and lead to ‘months’ of delay because of what she describes as Rishi Sunak’s ‘betrayal’ of their agreement.

Suella Braverman made the extraordinary assertion that the Prime Minister failed to respond to ‘multiple’ letters in which she proposed a backup plan to the Rwanda scheme.

Suella Braverman’s letter must have been a challenge for the leadership, but she’s also full of broken promises, and nothing much was accomplished under her tenure.

We should definitely be banning boat people from our country, whilst our homeless people live on the streets, it’s appalling that people who were born in this country are treated so abysmally.

It wasn’t even a resignation letter, she was ditched like a scrap of garbage, although she’s just as much of a snake as Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson was. It’s amusing how they all throw their toys out of their prams when playtime is over.

Rishi Sunak has got to go because he’s just not got any spine. We need powerful leadership in politics, not watered-down schmaltz.

What we need is a Prime Minister who will deliver to the needs of the people, and a system that works, not some of the time, but all of the time.

Perhaps we should give the Lib Dems a go for a change, perhaps then students will get their education back instead of wasting millions on wars that don’t concern us but claim that they do.

Mexico’s Awestruck Worshippers Film Virgin Mary Statue ‘Crying’

Worshippers in Mexico were left in amazement after witnessing the real-life ‘miracle’ of a statue of the Virgin Mary ‘crying’ and the stunning scene was captured on film.

The apparent miracle is said to have occurred at a church in El Canal, a community in the state of Colima.

Hundreds of believers and spectators have flocked to the spiritual statue in hopes of seeing the weeping Virgin Mary for themselves.

Some have even said the statue’s eyes became red as the tears came trickling down.

Local resident Victor Ramos said that similarly, when we cry, our eyes become red, and the same happens to the image.

Other locals have gone on to associate Mary’s tears with the ongoing violence in the state of Colima this year.

As of October, there have been 702 intentional homicides confirmed by the Colima Prosecutor’s Office.

The statue’s tears have made spectators believe she’s attempting to signal peace in the violence-filled community.

Though the so-called miracle has astonished many, it didn’t impress Professor Luigi Garlaschelli who spoke about the science behind the statue. He noted some statues have the ability to absorb water based on their materials.

Luigi Garlashelli said that you need a hollow statue made of plaster or ceramic.

He added the outside of the statue is typically accompanied by a waterproof layer.

Once the hole at the top of the statue is filled with water then the ‘porous material with absorb it’, but if there’s even a slight crack in the structure it could cause water to drip out.

In April, a Vatican academy in Italy set out to investigate ‘mystical phenomena’ around the world including ‘weeping’ statues of the Virgin Mary, stigmata and ghost sightings under plans for a new dedicated observatory.

The Pontifical Mariana International Academy, which described itself as a scientific institution of the Holy See, has hoped to uncover ‘around a hundred ongoing phenomena’ in Italy alone.

On top of delving into the mysterious crying Virgin Mary all over the world, they have also committed themselves to investigating ghost sightings, interior locutions and stigmata, which believers see as bodily marks, scars or pains corresponding to the crucifixion wounds of Jesus Christ.

In September 2019, other worshippers said that they saw ‘tears’ streaming down the face of a painting of the Virgin Mary as a ‘sign of God’ in a church facing bankruptcy.

Some would say that this was a very disrespectful hoax to pull and that some people have no shame, but then when has the church had any shame? But then it’s not just the Virgin Mary that’s weeping these days!

There’s definitely a lot to cry about in this world and even the statues are brokenhearted, but then I guess for good to be acknowledged, bad must exist, we were not promised a perfect life, and statues don’t cry.

Three Decades Later, The Flower Tattooed Woman Is Identified

A murder victim known only as ‘the woman with the flower tattoo’ has finally been identified as a British 31-year-old after three decades, with the hunt for her killer still underway.

Rita Roberts was violently killed before her body was dumped in a river in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1992.

She’d moved to Antwerp from Cardiff in February of that year and her family last heard from her when they received a postcard a few months later, in May.

Shortly after, on June 3, her body was found floating against the grate of a water treatment plant in the Groot Schijn River, near Ten Eekhovelei, with detectives saying it had possibly been in the water for some time.

She was wearing distinctive neon sports clothes and her most notable physical feature was a tattoo on her left forearm of a black flower with green leaves and ‘R’Nick’ inscribed underneath.

She remained unidentified for thirty years until an international effort to identify her body was launched this year and a relative recognised her tattoo, allowing her agonised family to say goodbye at last.

Rita’s body was discovered near Antwerp’s Sportpaleis events hall in a busy residential and shopping area in the Deurne district of the city.

The river, which runs alongside the A1 motorway, flows from the Provinciaal Groendomein Riviernhof towards a water pumping station.

When an appeal to discover her identity started in May this year, detectives described her as being aged between 20 and 50 years old, about 170cm in height and of a stout build.

She had light skin and mid-length dark hair and was wearing a t-shirt and dark blue Adidas training trousers.

Now that she’s been identified, Belgian authorities are calling on the public to come forward with any information they may have as they continue to search for her killer.

An international appeal was launched which saw Belgian, Dutch and German police collaborate with INTERPOL to try and identify 22 women thought to have been murdered.

The pioneering Operation Identify Me marks the first time INTERPOL has made public some details of Black Notices, which share critical pieces of information about unknown bodies.

While many of the victims’ identities are still unknown, a family member in the UK recognised Rita’s tattoo on the news and came forward, contacting The International Criminal Police Organisation and Belgian authorities online.

However, did her family not contact the police in the United Kingdom so that they could contact the police in Belgium when they realised something was extremely wrong? Did the police not join the dots of the woman’s dead body that they discovered, and why did it take so long?

Traces of DNA on a body that has been in the water for a prolonged period of time erode depending on how long the body has been in the water, so I’m assuming that the body had been in the water for a long time, but with such a unique tattoo, it’s odd that it’s taken so long to identify the body.

I know that if I had a family member that I’d not heard from in weeks, let alone decades, I would be actively seeking their whereabouts, and if a family member has only just come forward then something majorly wrong had happened with the investigation.

Antwerp is a hotbed of crime now, even more so than back then, and it would have probably had a lot of bodies piling up. It’s a transient population with lots of illegals, so I would imagine that she just got logged as a Jane Doe and periodically appeared in cold case reviews and she fell through the cracks.

Parents Are Forced To Pick Up Their Children From The Roadside

Furious parents had to collect their children from the side of the road after a bus driver quit in the middle of their journey home.

The students from Kingston Maurward College and the Dorset Studio School were travelling from Dorchester to Bournemouth when the driver decided she had enough and walked out on her job, pulling over near a depot in Poole.

Parents following their children on an app saw that the bus, which had already broken down on the journey and had been replaced by another, had stopped at approximately 6.30 pm on Wednesday.

One concerned mother said her son told her the students had to disembark onto a busy road, prompting safeguarding concerns from parents.

The service for the two schools has been run by transport operator Kura since September but has had a number of teething problems.

A parent said it was the third time this term that the bus had broken down and the driver said she quit because of concerns about the vehicles.

She said she never left any children unattended. Some parents came to collect their children while others boarded another vehicle sent to the scene after she alerted a manager she did not want to work for the company any longer.

She said she waited with the remaining children until all of them had been picked up by their parents and that she did not abandon any of the children.

She added that as far as she was concerned, they were her responsibility until they’d all been picked up whether or not she worked for the company at that time and there was no way she would have left any young child on the side of the road.

A concerned mother said that this was the third time this term that the 703 bus had broken down and it made her wonder whether the buses were fit for purpose.

She said that when she called Kura to ask them what the problem was, they said they didn’t even know, but the buses were breaking down left, right and centre.

Kingston Maurward College principal Luke Rake said the driver pulled over near the closest bus depot and the manager at the depot raced down to replace the driver.

He said that 95 per cent of the routes ran like clockwork but admitted there had been problems with the 701 and 703 services.

The bus driver had enough and quit. She never endangered the children, and if the parents weren’t happy they should have driven their own children to school, especially if the school was outside of their district because sometimes as parents we have to pick up the slack.

The driver should have, however, continued her journey until the end and then quit her job, rather than quitting her job midway through the journey. However, I can understand why she was utterly fed up with the buses breaking down, which has been admitted by the company.

The school should also realise that the cheapest contract winner is not always the best, and cutting corners usually means cutting quality as well.

Air Canada Slammed For Disconnecting Disabled Woman’s Ventilator

Air Canada has come under increasing fire in recent months, with the beleaguered airline now accused of disconnecting a disabled woman’s ventilator on a flight.

Bosses at the privately owned airline were hauled in front of the Canadian federal government to answer questions on a raft of reports of inadequate treatment of disabled passengers.

Alessia Di Virgilio, a disabled woman who uses a wheelchair to move and a ventilator to breathe, was filmed having her breathing device disconnected on an Air Canada trip in an undercover CBC report. A lift was also dropped on her head by attendants at the firm, whose CEO was paid $9 million USD in 2022.

Another wheelchair user, Rodney Hodgins, was forced to drag himself off an Air Canada flight over a mix-up. And Harish Pant, 83, died following a flight after suffering medical distress. His daughter claims Air Canada refused to divert, then flew on for nine hours to their planned destination.

After three separate recent incidents, including the case of Rodney Hodgins, Air Canada admitted it had violated Canadian disability laws. Canada’s minister of transport, Pablo Rodriguez, said the airline must do better.

He wrote on X that all Canadians must be treated with dignity and respect. Full stop.

And it isn’t just disabled flyers who are complaining with hundreds of passengers, including a film star, slamming Air Canada over its lousy service.

Air Canada told a newspaper outlet that it was taking drastic action to improve the experience of disabled flyers and highlighted multiple customer service awards it’s recently won.

Airline staff should be trained for such things as a person who has a ventilator, but also a disabled person should be accompanied by someone who is also qualified in its use.

The question is should wheelchair users be allowed on an aircraft because, in the event of a major evacuation, this could cause significant loss of life to passengers. However, disabled or not, they’re entitled to travel like everyone else because we’re not allowed to discriminate.

If a disabled person with a ventilator boards an aeroplane, it’s pretty self-explanatory that the ventilator should not be disconnected because they wouldn’t be able to breathe, but then I didn’t say the airline had any common sense, in fact, clearly, they didn’t have any common sense.

Air Canada should have refused to fly the passenger, once they have taken on the responsibility…. the responsibility is theirs.

If Air Canada didn’t want to deal with a passenger who had a ventilator and wheelchair, then they should have simply said NO and not taken on the responsibility, but they did and thus once they were on the aircraft they took responsibility, or not in this case.

They should have at least had some inkling as to know not to disconnect the ventilator. That being said, we humans appear to have a long history of being totally unprepared to deal with disabled individuals.

This does not, however, explain why the airline didn’t land early for the elderly man who evidently was having severe medical problems but remained on course for their destination.

If a person is not satisfied with an airline they’ve used frequently, then they should make arrangements to use another airline if they can. You know the saying, ‘Once bitten, twice shy’.

Honestly, you would think that these airlines were big enough to have nurses on hand to be assigned to disabled passengers. An airline nurse could be trained for special issues regarding the safety of moving passengers to and from the aircraft.

The Gangsta Gran of Middle England

A coke-dealing granny was found to have £8,500 of a Class A drug concealed in her semi-detached home following a police raid.

Julie Cobley, 62, lived a desirable middle-class lifestyle in the village of Deanshanger in Northamptonshire, financed by the little wraps of white powder she would distribute from the doorstep of her £400,000 home.

It then emerged that Ms Cobley had been leaving packages of drugs by her bins and in small bags taped just outside her letter box for her clients to collect, dropping off notes of cash in exchange.

A court heard how neighbours in the peaceful, leafy street initially took Ms Cobley at face value but, eventually, at least one grew suspicious at the steady stream of visitors who would turn up at any time of night and approach her house, but never rang the bell or went in.

An anonymous tip-off to police led to a raid that recovered 16 individual wraps of cocaine in a safe along with more of the drug in three clear plastic bags and a green plastic container.

A mobile phone and a bundle of cash were also seized from the property following the swoop on July 27, 2022.

Ms Cobley was charged with possession with intent to supply a Class A drug.

She was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment, which was suspended for 12 months, fined £187 and ordered to pay £230 in court costs at Northampton Crown Court.

Northampton Police hailed the community for supplying them with important details.

Neighbouring Policing Sergeant Josh Ellard, who conducted the investigation, said that the warrant was executed as a direct result of community intelligence and information from members of the public who were worried about drug-related issues in their area.

He said that tackling and preventing drug harm was a matter of priority for the Force and that they will continue to act on the concerns of their communities to disrupt drug dealers, who prey on the most vulnerable people in society and bring misery to others.

He added that this was a prime example of how they can work together with their partners and residents to take positive action against issues affecting them and he would urge anyone who has concerns about drug dealing within their local communities to keep reporting suspicious activity to them.

When a newspaper outlet tracked her down, Ms Cobley was carrying a pricey designer bag and sporting knee-length boots and a faux fur trimmed coat, getting into her stylish estate car with personalised plates.

To be honest, nobody can live on a state pension, so drug-dealing Grannies probably aren’t that uncommon, and I’m guessing she’s not much of a role model for her children and grandchildren if she has any, but let’s face it, she’s hardly a kingpin is she?

Waiting Lists Reach A Record 7.8 Million But…

Hundreds of thousands of pounds are being spent on teaching NHS personnel how to be more courteous to each other, as waiting lists reach an all-time high.

A newspaper outlet revealed that doctors and nurses are being sent on ‘civility courses’ to learn how to sidestep personality conflicts and have a better working relationship with coworkers.

It’s aimed at lowering the cost resulting from workplace bullying and harassment in the NHS, which a study by Middlesex University London Business School has put at £2.3 billion a year.

However, some staff question whether public money should be spent on politeness classes at a time when waiting lists for routine treatment have struck a record 7.77 million.

NHS England (NHSE) said that the training by management consultants thought to cost thousands of pounds a day, was necessary for ‘complex culture change’.

One NHS worker who attended a course said that the training was telling them basic stuff, such as the importance of being polite and patient with colleagues. The NHS worker said that they weren’t sure if this was a good use of taxpayer’s money and that training was given by consultants in their 20s and 30s who had probably never worked in the NHS and that it could sound a bit patronising if a younger person is telling older staff how to behave.

One of the hospitals piloting the project, St George’s in Tooting, London, has spent £20,000 on external management consultants. The hospital trust’s management says this was a one-off cost so that it could train its staff to run in-house courses.

A spokesman said that while they expect their staff to always be respectful, whether they receive training or not, this would give them the skills to cope with pressured situations, ensuring they can continue to provide the best possible care for their patients.

A national programme to reduce staff bullying and harassment has cost £660,000 to date, according to figures provided by NHSE. From 2021 to 2023, it financed 440 places on a course titled Principles and Practice of Restorative Just Culture.

Plans for further national training are on hold during a consultation period, but NHSE says individual trusts can book training directly with Northumbria University. Yet Health Secretary Steve Barclay has said he wants to see far less taxpayers’ money being paid to outside consultants.

NHSE said that there’s considerable evidence that promoting civility and respect improves patient outcomes by ensuring staff can freely share views regarding a patient’s care.

This type of expenditure is why the NHS is an abysmal crater, with more non-contributors arriving every day.

Perhaps if we weren’t treating the entire world and its extended family this wouldn’t have happened, and they should also get rid of the managers who manage managers who are all overpaid.

The problem is as long as the elite and politicians can afford to go private nothing will change, because they just don’t care, and it’s mind-boggling what they spend our money on. It’s also a blatant theft of public funds and there should be a full and transparent inquiry into this while there are people that are sick and can’t get any support.

Politeness costs nothing and should be part of everyday life, but unfortunately, there are too many self-entitled people who think nothing of being disrespectful and offensive with no repercussions. One should put their brain into gear before opening their mouth, something that is sadly lacking these days.

Listed For Sale

It was hailed as Britain’s flagship ‘megalab’, a £1.1 billion cutting-edge diagnostic centre to counter COVID-19 and protect the country against future epidemics.

Announcing the project in November 2020, then-health secretary Matt Hancock said the laboratory ‘confirms the UK as a world leader in diagnostics’, capable of carrying out 300,000 tests a day.

However, three years later, the Rosalind Franklin Laboratory, named in recognition of the famous British scientist, stands empty, a monument to waste and incompetence, and up for sale on the property website Rightmove.

Industry insiders claim the government is now attempting to offload the world-leading facility for a fraction of its cost to taxpayers, who were forced to finance almost twice its initial £588 budget.

Instead of being at the forefront of the fight against COVID, the project opened six months late, encountered problems with equipment, staff and construction and typically processed only 11,500 tests a day before closing 18 months later.

Desperate estate agents are now offering packages that will see the custom-built facilities at Leamington Spa in Warwickshire broken up to attract ‘start-ups, scale-ups and small and medium-sized enterprises’.

MP Matt Webster stormed that he was told last summer that irrespective of COVID they would be utilising the facility.

“They said for other diagnostic purposes, for cancer, cardiovascular and metabolic disease.

“UKHSA said the UK needed that facility.

“Now they are abandoning it – why? What are they proposing as an alternative?

“So many jobs have been lost

“I was originally told the cost was £1.1bn, they’ve now said half of that which I find hard to believe.

“I asked honest questions in the chamber but no one would tell me what the cost was.”

Real estate agent Avison Young is trumpeting the sale as an ‘unmissable opportunity’, but casual browsers on the property website may be confused by features including ‘facial recognition access’ and ‘dirty and clean’ corridors.

Experts have told a newspaper outlet that there’s no demand for the 236,231 sq ft site, which was once lauded as the largest testing facility of its kind in Europe.

Jon Curtis, a leading expert in the field of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing DNA samples that he couldn’t see any private companies taking this on as a whole, only a government would.

He said post-COVID they should have had a low-cost, world-leading testing facility, but now it’s for sale. A legacy of failure and a vast waste of many hundreds of millions of pounds.

It’s outrageous how our government waste our money while squeezing the highest-ever taxes from us.

However, it does look like the ideal place to house all those migrants they’re letting into our country, and look, it’s already owned by the government, yet they’re too stupid in Whitehall to make use of it.

When will those who squandered billions of our hard-earned taxpayer money be properly held to account? They should be dragged into a court of law, this includes the experts who lied to us, created false models to intimidate us and wallowed in the limelight, making enormous amounts of money while destroying the lives of many and our economy for years to come.

Journalists used to investigate to get the facts, but now they just bow to their masters, never publishing the truth. Newspapers installed fear into a nation and then coerced the public to have vaccines they said were safe. Labelling those who did their research as anti-vaxers and tin foil hate wearers when they were attempting to conceal the truth.

It’s surprising how gullible the public can be, but gradually the truth is being exposed regarding COVID-19, and vaccines, and it’s been fabricated as a slow release to eventually get the public to rise up against the establishment. You only have to look at the latest bait articles on the new conflict to see how newspapers help to create division, hatred and eventual confrontation.

The Nation Remembers Its Dead

A two-minute silence was immaculately honoured by the enormous gathering at The Cenotaph.

Hundreds of military veterans constructed a square about the memorial to the war dead having arrived behind a marching band for Remembrance Day.

They were joined by cadets from the three military branches who stood in solemn honour as the Last Post sounded at 11 am, with the chimes of Big Ben in the background.

The hundreds of supporters of far-right leader Tommy Robinson gathered opposite Downing Street and observed the silence along with others assembled at The Cenotaph. Police equipped with riot helmets kept watch on the crowds who waved a Union Jack and a cross of St George flags.

As a bugler signalled the end of the silence applause followed by chants of England erupted from a section of the masses. This quickly ended as the wreath-laying ceremony began.

The only sound was that of a helicopter passing overhead.

Fights broke out earlier in the day as Tommy Robinson and hundreds of his followers arrived in Whitehall as police officers attempted to maintain a ring of steel around the Cenotaph ahead of a huge march in solidarity with Palestinians later in the day.

However, fears that far-right supporters would clash with pro-Palestinian protesters didn’t materialise at the crucial 11 am time.

There were no Palestinian activists in the crowd which stood 10 deep behind metal barriers.

As chants of ‘England till I die’ and ‘Let us through’ echoed near the war memorial, police reinforcements raced to contain the mob as they jostled to be allowed to join the enormous crowds assembled.

Dozens broke through and police could be seen striking out at those pushing through with batons, as it was reported some of those gathered hurled bottles towards police officers.

This comes as crafters marked Remembrance Day by decorating postboxes with poignant knitted and crocheted tributes which included planes, soldiers and poppies.

People from Yarn Bomb Hemel Hempstead, which has more than 900 members, 30 of whom are active, had put up around 35 toppers, both old and new, to pay their respects to those who served.

Christine Allsopp, one of the organisers of the group, alongside Paula Wright and Annette Simons, said that this would be the group’s sixth year marking the remembrance period, with everything from planes and soldiers to tanks being replicated in knitted and crocheted form.

It’s disgraceful to see that those who gave everything to a country are now in such a mess these days.

Most people have someone in their family who lost their life in a war someplace, and it’s only right that we show them some respect and tremendous respect to all who attended The Cenotaph yesterday.

There was a two-minute silence yesterday, broadcasted as families stood watching or listening, while everyone else went about shopping, but not everyone commemorates Remembrance Day, and it’s extremely astonishing how very few people wear a poppy these days.

It appears that people are afraid to show their allegiance to their own country. Numerous people give donations but decline the Poppy. Extremely sad!

The thing to remember is that we commemorate Remembrance Day and yet thousands of ex-service personnel sleep on our streets with no support or help, and this doesn’t appear to be a priority for the Home Secretary.

Yes, it might have been a lifestyle choice for these people who joined the Armed Forces, but they performed for the Monarchy. Some gave their lives in war, and those who came back from the war should be looked after, whether it was a lifestyle choice or not, and very few of them get any help for lasting mental health problems and PTSD.

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