Doctors Say It’s Time For Me To Die, But I’m Not Going To Give Up

‘By the time you read this, I could be dead. That’s according to my doctors who, for the last year, have repeatedly told me that I have only days to live. But I am a fighter and will continue to fight.’

These are the devastating words of a very sick, yet inspiringly rebellious 19-year-old girl who claims that she will be sentenced to almost certain death if NHS doctors are victorious in their bid to withdraw her life-preserving treatment.

Painstakingly dictating her thoughts from an intensive care unit, it’s evident her will is utterly undimmed by the numerous obstacles she encounters in her fight for survival.

For she is now not just battling her incredibly rare degenerative disorder, but also the medical and legal establishment, which she feels has marshalled against her.

Despite the deep importance of her case, a newspaper outlet can’t even tell you her first name, any details of her family, or the hospital that treats her.

Instead, her identity has been reduced to the initials ‘ST’ by a draconian court order stopping her from putting her name to her heartbreaking account.

‘They’ve done everything they can to stop me telling this story,’ says the spirited teenager of her extraordinary legal battle with the NHS Trust which has attempted to put her in palliative care.

‘I have found myself trapped in a medical and legal system governed by a toxic paternalism which has condemned me for wanting to live.’ Determined to tell her ordeal she has, together with her parents and brother, spoken — anonymously for now — exclusively to a newspaper outlet.

She said that her condition, mitochondrial depletion syndrome (MDS), a genetic disorder which limits the functioning of the body’s cells, was made worse by a bout of COVID in August last year, resulting in her being hospitalised.

She said via her family who act as conduits for the interview that she was given a tracheostomy, which makes it difficult for her to speak, but lying in her hospital bed, she managed to dictate a message.

The tracheostomy is an opening made at the front of the neck so a breathing tube can be inserted and allows her to speak only in short bursts. Other communication comes by notes she writes herself, and the use of a device called a Smartbox, comparable to an iPad in appearance, which helps those with little speech.

Vitally, she insists that while her MDS has caused kidney damage, muscle weakening and a loss of hearing, it hasn’t affected her brain and she’s hoping to return to her A-level studies shortly.

She relies on regular dialysis, is fed by a tube and is attached to a ventilator that helps her breathe, but despite all her ailments, like any teenager she still enjoys watching Love Island, messaging her friends on Instagram, scrolling through social media and playing board games.

Life is life, and while her brain is still connected to her spinal cord and still working there’s no reason why this 19-year-old girl should be sentenced to death, and whatever judge puts his signature to this court order is a disgrace, and the young lady’s wishes should be respected.

However, it all boils down to money and how much money she’s costing the NHS. 

The NHS is not about making her life as comfortable as possible at all. They don’t care about that, all they care about is how much money it’s costing them, and they should be ashamed of themselves. What if it was one of their loved ones? They’d soon change their tune.

And of course, it’s not the first time the NHS has refused treatment to a patient.

This girl wants to live and she should be given that opportunity. She will know when she’s had enough of fighting, and she should be given that choice.

The NHS will tell you there’s no money in the kitty for this young lady to receive treatment. Meanwhile, consultants are on 150k+ a year and have been striking for a 30-per cent pay hike.

She was told that she only had days to live, but here she is still alive and fighting for the right to be alive, and this sounds like nothing more than the NHS’s pride being bruised because they were wrong.

This is an extremely scary situation where caregivers have decided that this girl must go because they don’t want to be wrong, but the NHS will drag this out and fight this young lady in the courts. They want to save money, however, by dragging this through the courts they’re wasting taxpayers’ money, and hurting her family, both financially and emotionally, all to protect their financial interests.

This young lady has every right to try other treatments and to travel overseas if her family can raise the funds.

This young lady should be admired, but unfortunately, we have allowed Trusts to become bullies responsible for who lives and who dies based upon a spreadsheet – it’s wrong and it shouldn’t be allowed because otherwise, we may as well say that she’s an animal and animals that get really sick should be put to sleep. As human beings, we don’t have the right to say who lives or dies, apart from the person who is sick. They have that right – this young lady said NO! NO does not mean YES!

The Chinese Communist Party Wants To Punish People Who Wear ‘Offensive’ Clothes By Jailing Them For 15 Days And Fine Them £500

It has emerged that the Chinese Communist Party has proposed a new law that will see people who wear the ‘wrong clothes’ fined £500 and imprisoned for 15 days.

A newspaper outlet reported that the law would allow those who produce, disseminate, publicise, and spread items or speeches that could hurt the Chinese nation’s spirit or damage the Chinese nation’s feelings to be penalised.

Critics allege the law is vague and a violation of basic citizens’ rights’ to select one’s own attire. Others argue that it could stimulate the spread of populism and ultra-nationalism and intensify oppositional sentiments.

There’s been a growing anti-Japanese feeling throughout China in recent years under the leadership of President Xi Jinping. His rule has also witnessed an upsurge in nationalism.

Police have previously temporarily detained people in China for wearing clothing that was reportedly linked too closely to Japan.

A woman wearing apparel from the Tag dynasty was ousted from the archaeological Park in Wuhan on Thursday after staff wrongly believed her outfit was from Japan. The newspaper claims she was removed thrice.

It came after a woman was detained for several hours last year in Southeastern Suzhou for wearing a Japanese kimono and taking photographs in the street.

Legal professionals acquainted with the proposals claim the legislation lacks a clear definition and reportedly fear that it could result in extreme enforcement.

China University of Political Science and Law professor Zhao Hong questioned what would happen if an officer had a personal interpretation of the hurt and initiated moral judgment of others outside the scope of the law.

Lao Dongyan, a professor of law at Tsinghua University, echoed the sentiment and argued for the removal of the suggested law.

She reportedly said that the regulation could also stimulate the spread of populism and ultra-nationalism, further deteriorating the public opinion environment, and may also intensify oppositional sentiments in some countries.

Others believe the legislation is another attempt by Mr. Xi’s regime to control Chinese citizens in every aspect of life.

Some of us might find this slightly absurd, but the globalist WEF that seems to be running Westminster sees China as the ideal society they’d like us to become.

The problem is, it is happening here in the United Kingdom with the criticism of leftist trans ideology, ultra feminism, socialist climate change dogma, race and the list goes on, and if some pencil neck is initiated it could warrant a visit from the ‘Thought Stazi’, who are thinly camouflaged as the police.

Next, we’ll be penalised for wearing nice clothes and will only be permitted to purchase six new items of clothing every year. They might even get you to rent your attire!

Very similar things are occurring in the United Kingdom. Ban this, ban that, get rid of free speech, free thought. You can’t say this, you can’t think that, and anybody believing we’re different needs to give their head a little shake.

I wonder how long it will be before we get banged up for using too much electricity, and China is where our Government and politicians take their inspiration from. And who decides what is ‘offensive?’.

Soon new positions will be made available for totalitarian police patrol called the ‘clothing police’, which will come with excellent conditions and good rates of pay!

This will be yet another mafia-style racket for the Leader of Khan of the People’s Republic of London to follow and money in on.

It’s Mc-Scurry time! Moment Giant RAT The ‘Size Of A Foot’ Scuttles Around McDonald’s Diners’ Feet

A huge rat the ‘size of a customer’s foot’ was captured on camera brazenly dashing about McDonald’s in Notting Hill, leaving diners screaming as it scuttled around their feet.

Appalling footage shared on Twitter shows the rodent scampering along the McDonald’s floor before taking shelter behind an oblivious diner’s chair.

Shocked customers could be heard screaming in the background, before finally crowding around the unexpected visitor to take pictures and videos.

Luke Scott had visited McDonald’s in Notting Hill Gate, London, yesterday as he was craving a vanilla milkshake.

The 48-year-old was about to leave after learning the milkshake machine was broken when he heard a scream of terror so loud that he thought the restaurant was being robbed.

Instead, Luke was in for a surprise when he spotted a big rat the length of his foot that was confidently scuttling around the fast food outlet’s floor right by customers’ feet.

Luke, who works in the media, claims the rat-induced panic resulted in McDonald’s staff evacuating customers from the restaurant two minutes later and temporarily closing down the store.

The father of two claims that the body of the rodent was huge and that its size left him in no doubt that it was a rat and not a mouse.

Luke, who lives locally in Notting Hill, said that he walked in and went to the self-service machines to try and get a milkshake, but the milkshake machine wasn’t working. He said that he was about to turn and leave, and then somebody shouted loudly and he thought that it might be a robbery.

He said that he looked around and a couple of people were jumping up and then somebody shouted ‘rat, rat’. He said that he just saw it run across the floor and he felt like people wouldn’t believe it unless they saw it, so he started filming.

He said that it ran towards him, but with other people in the way it stopped and got caught in someone’s bag and feet and then they jumped out of the way, and what was amazing was that it went along the barrier to where someone was sitting, completely oblivious, as she sat there eating her meal and the rat was sat at her feet trying to climb up her chair.

He said that there was a mini-conference going on behind the counter with staff, and then someone who was a bit more senior came forward and said they were closing the store.

Sadly, rats are everywhere, and it probably had nothing to do with the cleanliness of that particular McDonald’s. It was more likely caused by all the rubbish and leftover food from the Carnival that was covering the pavements and roads, and it looks like that rat got left behind after the big cleanup.

It wasn’t a huge rat, it was just a standard rat looking for food. Rats are everywhere, they always have been, but of course, they’re more prevalent where humans litter food, and let’s face it, we have a nasty habit of littering, and the rat was taking advantage of a situation where food had been littered, perhaps it just prefers McDonald’s for a bite to eat!

It was hardly a giant rat and the poor little fella was probably more terrified of all the screaming folk around it. It probably came out for a bit of peace and quiet after the Carnival.

Unfortunately, rats spread diseases and are not suitable for an eating establishment.

Fees Rise 13 Percent A Year Amid Fears Pet Owners Are Ripped Off 

Britain’s £2 billion veterinary industry is being examined by the competition watchdog amid concerns that pet owners are not getting value for money and that the cost of care has skyrocketed faster than inflation.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is launching a review of the sector, looking at consumer experiences and vet business practices for household pets in the United Kingdom.

It’s worried that pet owners are not given easy access to information about pricing and treatment choices when deciding which vet to use and which services to buy.

The regulator added that figures indicate that vet costs have also surged at a more rapid rate than wider inflation.

With numerous independent vet practices being snapped up by larger chains in recent years, it’s worried that pet owners may not be aware their vet is part of a group which owns others in their area, and possibly of services being sold to them, such as diagnostic tests or treatments at a specialist animal hospital.

According to the CMA, this could impact pet owners’ choices and reduce the incentives for local vet practices to compete.

Sarah Cardell, chief executive of the CMA, said that caring for an ill pet can create real financial pressure, particularly alongside other cost of living concerns.

She said that it was really important that people get clear information and pricing to help them make the right choices.

She added that there’s been a lot of consolidation in the vet industry in recent years, so now is the right time to take a look at how the market is working.

The CMA said the number of independent vet practices had fallen sharply in recent years, with those accounting for 89 per cent of the UK veterinary industry in 2013, but only around 45 per cent by 2021.

It’s calling for pet owners and vet practitioners, including surgeons, nurses, practice managers and vet businesses, to give their views via the CMA’s website, at gov.uk/vets-market-review.

Ms Cardell said that when a pet is unwell they often need urgent treatment, which means that pet owners may not shop around for the best deal like they do with other services. This means they may not have the relevant information to make informed decisions at what can be a distressing time.

She added that they want to hear from pet owners and people who work in the sector about their experiences.

The thing is, these businesses have been at it for years, and insurance hasn’t helped either because insurance companies have gotten greedy.

The smell of money is irresistible, and anyone for believes they’re working in the interest of the animals is sadly mistaken. Unfortunately, the vets who run these practices charge obscene amounts of money.

Inflation increases and everyone gets on the bandwagon up and down the country. Evidently, animals don’t matter, as it appears human beings don’t matter either. If you can’t afford it, then starve, if you’re ill, then don’t worry about it, just die. It’s a dog-eat-dog world (pardon the pun) and everyone is out for themselves. As long as I’m okay Jack, who cares!

In effect, it’s just blackmail and they have us over a barrel, and greed preys on everyone, and then we have no choice but to pay these exorbitant prices, and it’s not short of a cartel, and big companies and Government are controlling you, right in front of your eyes – at least Dick Turpin wore a mask.

I suppose some people will say that if you can’t afford an animal, then don’t get one. As they say, if you can’t have a child, don’t have one – hell, let’s get rid of the whole human population while we’re at it!

A Car Involved In A Crash Was Fined £60 For Parking On Double Yellow Lines

Traffic wardens really did reach a new low as they slapped a £60 parking penalty on a car which had been involved in a collision.

The car, seen with its windscreen smashed, was given a fine because it was stopped on double yellow lines in Manchester city centre on Tuesday.

A photo displays a black Volkswagen parked in Deansgate with damage to its exterior.

A yellow fixed penalty notice (FPN) can be spotted tucked behind a windscreen wiper, while a warden seems to be arguing with a woman nearby.

Only a few feet away from them stands a policeman who attempts to slow traffic.

The incident stands out in a crowded list of strange happenings involving double yellow lines over the summer.

In June, a car was lifted by a tow truck before yellow lines appeared to be painted underneath in Norwood, south London, with the angry motorist saying he was then fined for parking illegally.

Bus driver James Dee, 43, says he drove to work as usual, parking his red Vauxhall Zafira before starting his shift at a nearby bus depot. He insists that there were no lines or restrictions on the road when he parked. But when he returned to his vehicle that evening on Beadman Street, he was baffled to find it facing the opposite direction with double yellow lines under his back wheel and a parking ticket attached to it.

CCTV published in a newspaper outlet last night seems to demonstrate how the incident unfolded.

Mr Dee said that he couldn’t believe it. Not only did the council move his car to paint the lines, but they then had the cheek to slap on a parking ticket, which he’s now having to appeal. He said that he’s absolutely fuming and that he’s not paying a penny.

He said that where he left his car there were no lines whatsoever, but that when he came back in the evening at about 8.30 pm, his car was facing the opposite way to how he’d parked it. There were double yellow lines underneath his back wheel and a ticket on his window.

Meanwhile, in July, Edinburgh residents were left confused after tiny double yellow lines, measuring just 30cm long were painted on their residential road when a council installed a new cycle path.

There must be criteria for employment of a traffic warden, probably one bereft of compassion, bereft of common sense and bereft of a brain.

On the upside. Imagine how crime would decline if parking wardens took over from the police. They would be everywhere, hanging around shops to catch thieves, outside tube stations to catch mobile phone snatchers, outside homes to catch burglars and near walls and fences to catch graffiti idiots. But how many of those would be innocent bystanders as well?

Traffic wardens clearly don’t have a brain cell between them because a traffic warden on duty in a popular coastal town slapped a parking ticket on an ambulance attending an emergency. The warden was dubbed a ‘plonker’ while other residents called the act ‘disgusting and ‘an absolute outrage’.

Imagine the stress of having an accident in your car and then having to appeal a ticket. This creates undue stress and makes an already bad situation even worse.

Give a moron a uniform and you still have a moron but in uniform. Let’s face it, traffic wardens are not employed for their intellectual prowess.

However, the fact that the police officer said nothing to stop the traffic warden speaks volumes.

A Nuclear War Is ‘Inevitable’ Following The Ukrainian Invasion, Warns Russian General

A Russian general who wrote the nation’s ‘war bible’ has warned that nuclear war is the inevitable conclusion of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The chilling forecast came from retired Major General Alexander Vladimirov, who authored Russia’s three-volume book called the ‘General Theory of War’.

The veteran commander warned in an interview with journalist Vladislav Shurygin that for the transition to the use of weapons of mass destruction, only one thing was needed, a political decision by the Supreme Commander in Chief Vladimir Putin.

He said that the goals of Russia and the goals of the West were their survival and historical eternity and that this meant that in the name of this, all means of armed struggle available to them would be used, including such a tool as their nuclear weapons.

He warned that he was sure that nuclear weapons would be used in this war, inevitably, and from this neither they nor the enemy would have anywhere to go.

He said the sooner their politicians and leadership realise this, the sooner they start to train troops and the population for this, the more chances they will have for survival, which means victory.

In Vladimirov’s 2013 book, the retired Major General argues that there’s been a transition from the traditional theory of war, where there was a distinction between peace and war, to a permanent state of war which is characterised by constant fear and insecurity.

During his interview, Vladimirov, 78, said training of troops was vital so they have the ability to wage war under the conditions of the use of weapons of mass destruction.

He said that his book has key lessons for Russians.

He said that if you want peace, fight until you win. If you want a long and strong peace, bury the hatchet on the territory of the enemy along with him. He added that they need to be prepared. Prepare the Army, the State, the Economy and the population of the country.

He spoke as Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu declared Russia was imposing a tremendous toll on Ukraine in the war, despite Western support for Kyiv.

He said that from the start of the so-called counteroffensive, the enemy’s losses exceeded 66,000 men and 7,600 ammunition units, and that during the last month, Russia downed 159 (Ukrainian) HIMARS missiles, 13 cruise missiles and over 1,000 drones.

It doesn’t seem as though Russia will ever be a civilised nation, but it seems as if they’re forewarning the US what will happen if they keep interfering in a war that shouldn’t have transpired in the first place.

We should be extremely cautious because if this isn’t a threat and they’re stating an undeniable truth that if NATO continues to escalate things in a war that doesn’t concern them, the unavoidable consequence will be a full nuclear exchange in which everyone dies – this isn’t very difficult to comprehend.

Russia’s nuclear power should have been taken away from them a long time ago because they’ve demonstrated that they’re a threat to the modern world. They’re a superpower that could nuke the world and destroy us all. Vladimir Putin is in a win-win position. He can dangle this nuclear threat over our heads and if he believes he’s failed what he came to do, he will nuke us all anyhow.

It only takes a few devices to annihilate most of human life, and there will be no victors, only losers. Depending on the intensity of the exchange, they could destroy a planet – game over!

As Eminem Orders Vivek Ramaswamy To Quit Using Lose Yourself On The Campaign Trail, A Newspaper Outlet Looks At Pop Stars Who Famously Said No

A catchy song with meaningful lyrics might strike some presidential candidates as the perfect song to drive their campaigns, feel-good anthems and underdog tales. But as much as a candidate may believe a piece of music aligns with their politics or persona, musicians frequently respond with outrage.

Stern letters are sent by lawyers demanding that the cord is abruptly yanked from the speakers, and when it’s not a public scolding soon ensues.

In the latest bust-up, Eminem lashed out at Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s use of his hit song Lose Yourself.

Here the newspaper outlet looks back at all the showdowns between popstars and politicians, from Dr. Dre and Marjorie Taylor Green to Adele and Donald Trump.

The real Slim Shady told 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy to stand down and quit rapping to his tunes on the campaign trail.

According to a newspaper outlet, Eminem reached out to the music licence BMI and asked that the Ramaswamy campaign’s licence to use his music be withdrawn.

Ramaswarmy had performed Eminem’s Lose Yourself 11 days before the letter was sent, at the Iowa State Fair, entertaining an early morning crowd assembled to hear him speak alongside Iowa’s Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds.

In a letter dated August 23, a BMI representative got in contact with Vivek’s campaign lawyer about the publisher’s music licence for political entities agreement.

It said the label had received communications from Marshall B. Mathers III, aka Eminem, objecting to the Vivek Ramaswamy campaign’s use of Eminem’s musical compositions (the ‘Eminem Works’).

The correspondence goes on to say that the letter serves as notice that the Eminem Works are excluded from the agreement effective immediately.

It said that BMI would consider any performance of the Eminem Works by the Vivek 2024 campaign from that date forward to be a material breach of the agreement for which BMI reserves all rights and remedies with respect thereto.

Ramaswamy had performed libertarian-themed raps under the stage name ‘Da Vek’ during his undergraduate years at Harvard University and has been a longtime fan of Eminem.

Ramaswamy said that he didn’t grow up in the circumstances that Eminem did. Ramaswarmy’s Indian immigrant parents were an engineer and a physician, but he continued that the idea of being an underdog, people having low expectations of you, that part spoke to him.

It didn’t prevent Eminem from allowing sleepy Joe Biden to use his music when running for president. Perhaps he liked Biden more than Ramaswamy.

It’s not like Ramaswamy’s selling the song. However, he does need permission to use it. And let’s face it, he’s using the music to achieve notoriety for his campaign, and Eminem has every right to say no!

Mind you, Eminem’s sell-by date is well and truly over. Perhaps he should be thankful that anyone wants to play his music. It was awesome back in the day, but now other legends have taken over. But Eminem has rights. He’s not attempting to silence anyone. He’s just asking for it not to be used and for Ramaswamy not to use his music to promote himself.

It’s sort of amusing that the world’s greatest musicians have to keep telling Republicans to stop using their music, and it seems that they can’t find any popular musicians who agree with their politics. Perhaps it’s time they rethought their politics.

Mind you, do excessively rich musicians know what’s actually good for the common people?

It’s Going To Be A Hot One!

Families are soaking up the heatwave at UK beaches on the last day before children return to schools as temperatures are set to hit 29C today.

After a rather dismal summer, the start of autumn is bringing brighter days, with mercury forecast to hit highs of 32C by the middle of the week.

Images show Britons enjoying the sun at popular seaside locations, lakes and parks around the country on Monday.

The Met Office says a jet stream, which has been bringing mostly unsettled spells of weather to the United Kingdom, is continuing to move north, allowing higher pressure to build widely across the UK.

It also explains a second explanation for the heatwave. The former tropical cyclone Franklin continuing to move into the North Atlantic, amplifying the build-up of high pressure.

Met Office Deputy Chief Meteorologist, Chris Butler, said that fine and settled conditions would develop and that along with this we would see a rise in temperature across most parts of the United Kingdom next week.

He added that many places could expect to see maximum temperatures rise to 25C or above for several days, which would bring some locations into the realm of heatwave conditions. Although the highest temperatures were likely to be in the south and east of England. These areas also have higher temperature thresholds for heatwave conditions to be declared.

He said, so, while some areas may just miss out on the actual definition, regardless of thresholds, many areas would enjoy a fine period of weather with plenty of sunshine and temperatures were likely to be the highest for many since June or early July.

Met Office senior operational meteorologist Amy Bokota added that most places were going to see wall-to-wall sunshine by the middle of the week, which is something we hadn’t seen for much of the summer.

She said that it’s going to feel warmer than we would expect for the start of autumn, particularly in London and the South East, where the heatwave threshold could be met, but that it would also feel humid and muggy in some areas, with temperatures in parts of the country staying above 20C (68F) overnight, making for uncomfortable sleeping conditions.

Warm and sunny weather spread across the country over the weekend with beachgoers herding to beach spots from Bournemouth in the south of England to resorts in the north.

But really, we need weeks of this good weather to make up for the tragic summer we’ve had, and who would really want to go to the beach when our Government has allowed companies to dump all their waste into our waters?

Oh my God, the sun is out, let’s all panic, and don’t forget to put sun tan lotion on. It’s sunshine and believe me it won’t last that long, but it’s lovely while it’s here, and of course, it’s the hottest on record. They have to say that because they have to keep up with the climate narrative, don’t they? And just think that in three months’ time, it will be December. Although it would be lovely if we had a nice warm Christmas, now that would be something to talk about where climate change is concerned.

Next, they’ll be telling us it’s all to do with climate change and that we’re doomed, what utter rubbish. The ecosystem is supposed to change like it’s done for thousands of years, and it seems that any weather is proof to the climate nuts.

A coalition of more than 1,600 scientists critical of their peers’ hyperbolic assertions about climate change drew a prominent recruit to sign their 2019 declaration that the climate emergency was a myth.

John Clauser, who won the Nobel Prize in physics, became the second Nobel laureate to sign the document with 1,607 other scientists condemning the idea of a climate crisis.

But I’m guessing that the main agenda for this week will be global warming.

The Gap In Pay For Female Spies

A newspaper outlet revealed that female spies are being paid much less to do the same frontline roles as male agents.

Figures from MI5, where 47 per cent of staff are women, reveal a 16 per cent gender pay gap.

A third of spies at MI6, the Secret Intelligence Service, are women but they’re paid 7.3 per cent less, and the pay gap is 11 per cent at listening centre GCHQ, where a third of staff are women.

Women are employed as agent handlers, intelligence officers and surveillance operatives, some of the most important roles in intelligence work.

Their work includes dealing with possible sources who are prepared to speak only to women.

Earlier this year Anne Keast-Butler became GCHQ’s first director.

MI5 has also had two female chiefs, but a woman has yet to be appointed as ‘C’, the codename for the head of MI6.

While the chiefs make salaries of up to £170,000, many of the junior staff earn about £30,000 a year.

MI5 boss Ken McCallum, GCHQ’s director general for strategy Katherine Hammond, and Sir Richard Moore, the head of MI6, said there was still work to be done on both equal gender representation and the pay gap.

If women stopped working tomorrow there would be a blip, if men stopped working we would be living in caves and the deceased would be in a cliff of carcasses.

I read somewhere, which I found particularly funny that ‘women don’t exist no more’. Evidently, neither does the English language or good grammar.

Of course, not everyone works for MI6 and is a spy, and I’m guessing that a female working environment is relatively new and that it was originally a male-dominated institution. However, I can’t imagine that the pay gap for women is lower just because they’re women, can you? But then it’s always been more James Bond, than Jane Bond.

Typically, all government positions were put on a pay band, so I’m not sure how this gender gap came about. But then this is media reporting and like all media reporting only about 78 per cent of their stories are true. It either didn’t happen, or it didn’t happen anything vaguely like it was reported.

Equal pay means that men and women performing equal work, or work of equal value, must receive equal pay, and equal pay has been a legal requirement for decades and is presently covered by the Equality Act 2010. However, even though it’s an Act of parliament, it doesn’t always get adhered to.

The media continue to amaze me, coming up with subjects that make these disclosures. What happened to general news or information of significant importance to the people?

It only takes one man to say that men are more intelligent than women, and then you have all the male sheep following.

Perhaps we should all go back to good old traditional family values, where men worked and supported the family and women looked after the children and the home. That children should be seen and not heard, and men could beat their wives and children into oblivion without any repercussions. What do you think? It isn’t so nice when you say it out loud, is it?

I guess, this would be great for dinosaurs, but we know what happened to them!

Since the beginning of time, women have been brainwashed that taking care of their children, husband and household is what they were supposed to do, what they were born to do. Of course, men are needed, not just for procreation or recreation, but because it gives us women something to do!

A Permanent Memorial Will Be Dedicated To The Queen

The Cabinet Office has announced plans to create a suitable tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of the monarch’s reign ahead of the first anniversary of her death this Friday.

The plans for a permanent memorial to the late Queen and a national legacy programme in her honour will be unveiled in 2026 to honour what would have been Elizabeth II’s hundredth birthday.

The Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee will consider and suggest recommendations for a fitting tribute to the nation’s longest-reigning monarch following her death on September 8, 2022.

The Cabinet Office said that the initiative will be jointly supported by the UK Government and the Royal Household, with Lord Robin Janvrin, the late Queen’s former private secretary, appointed as chairman.

The independent body set up to create the honour will consider Elizabeth II’s life of public service and the causes she supported and will seek guidance from the public.

The Government said it will support the proposals and evaluate funding options, with any plans to be unveiled to coincide with what would have been the Queen’s hundredth birthday in 2026.

Senior figures and experts are set to be assigned to the committee to develop ideas and bring their suggestions to the King and Prime Minister.

Lord Janvrin said that it was an honour to be asked to chair the Queen Elizabeth Memorial Committee.

He said that it would be a unique challenge to try to capture for future generations Her Late Majesty’s extraordinary contribution to our national life throughout her very long reign.

Lord Janvrin is a trusted figure who worked at Buckingham Palace in various positions from 1987 to 2007. He was honoured in 2007 and sits as a crossbench peer in the House of Lords.

Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden said that Queen Elizabeth II was our longest-reigning monarch and greatest public servant.

He said that Lord Janvrin will now begin the important work of designing a fitting tribute to her legacy of service to our nation and the Commonwealth.

The late Queen unveiled a statue of her father George VI on The Mall in 1955, while a statue of The Queen Mother was pitched nearby in 2009.

After the death of George VI in 1952, funding was raised for grants to community organisations working to improve the well-being of young and elderly people, including the creation of day centres and clubs.

Let’s hope this statue is a fitting one, unlike the catastrophe that was Princess Diana’s, and why does everything in this country take so long? Just unveil the plans and get on with it – it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to draw up the plans for a statue, and at least that way our Queen will never be forgotten.

Queen Victoria had many lovely statues all over the country and so should Queen Elizabeth II. I’d like to remember her as she was before she died, with her walking stick and cardigan on, and then perhaps some younger ones of her around the country.

Nobody is around forever and a statue is a lasting memorial that reminds future generations of who this woman was. Her statue should either be in Westminster or The Mall looking towards Buckingham Palace, and some of her beloved Corgis would be amazing, just to display the real person that was our Queen.

Here’s another good idea – the Queen Elizabeth Medal, the QEM, for public service (charity work et cetera), which would rank above an OBE.

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