There’s A Possibility That Stage 2 Of HS2 Could Be Scrapped

Rishi Sunak is facing widespread outrage amid claims that the second phase of the controversial HS2 high-speed rail line could be axed to save money.

Ministers have already poured £2.3 billion into the Birmingham to Manchester Phase 2 of the massively over-budget project.

But Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt are said to have been told that scrapping it now even at this late phase would save a further £34 billion, money the Chancellor could use elsewhere in his Budget this November.

The Prime Minister’s spokesman refused to confirm that the scheme would eventually reach Manchester. He declined to comment on ‘speculation’ but said the Government was committed to the project as a whole.

The troubled project has been the target of much outrage from environmentalists and Tory backbenchers, with the first stage carving a new route through leafy Middle England.

Earlier this year ministers shelved the development of a central London terminus at Euston under the Phase 1 scheme which links London and Birmingham, instead ending journeys in the suburbs to save money.

The idea that Phase 2, which is divided into two parts, may be binned, first reported by the Independent, has left critics questioning whether it was worth all the cost and the political and environmental damage so far.

Tory MP Michael Fabricant said scrapping Phase 2 would be sensible and would protect rural areas north of his Litchfield constituency, where Phase 1 will join the current West Coast mainline.

He told a newspaper outlet that lovely places south of us were currently being wrecked by HS2, adding that not only would it save £60 billion by the time it’s all finished, but it would also mean you could run a train at about 125mph from Manchester (on the existing line) then it would speed up when it got to the HS2 stretch, which is north of Birmingham anyway.

He criticised the impact of the building programme at Prime Minister’s Questions, saying ending work after Phase 1 could save other constituencies where work is yet to start.

Tory MP Greg Smith, whose Buckinghamshire constituency has been blighted by building work for the scheme, called HS2 to be scrapped. Although £20 billion has been spent so far for the London to Birmingham leg, known as Phase 1, Greg Smith quoted figures compiled by Labour peer Lord Berkeley that suggested losses could be lowered to £8 billion if the land acquired was resold.

This was all a waste of money just to knock a little time off someone’s travel.

They should also knock back 10 billion off foreign aid. Stop spending millions on invaders and cancel HS2.

This has to be the biggest white elephant ever built, and if we’re going to judge the Tories on nothing else, it should be this because the cavalier attitude towards public money is a complete disgrace.

This country never seems to be able to actually build or deliver anything anymore. Our schools, hospitals, and even our government buildings seem to be crumbling around our ears, and the cost of living is incapacitating us.

We don’t own any of our essential infrastructure to deliver energy, water et cetera, and we can’t seem to build a railway line despite throwing billions into it. We can’t even deliver working or reliable navy, army or air force equipment. All we seem to be capable of is giving money to those who don’t even pay a penny into our government coffers, be it foreign aid, or migrants, and this is how our country has become such an utter mess in the last 30 years.

There Is Widespread Criticism Of Tony Blair For His Arrogance

Tony Blair has been criticised after his arrogance today, suggesting junk food is taxed until it’s too expensive for the poor to eat, in a bid to reduce obesity in the United Kingdom.

The former prime minister urged the Government to have a more interventionist approach to public health, with an increase in the sugar tax alongside new levies on foods high in fat and salt, and advertising prohibitions.

He said ministers needed to help create the circumstances in which poorer families choose healthy food and likened the situation to the fight against smoking when he was in No 10, which included a ban on publicly lighting up indoors.

In an interview with the Times, he dismissed concerns about a ‘nanny state’ approach as a ‘minority view’, and said direct action was needed to make Britons take personal responsibility for their health.

But Professor Karol Sikora, a leading cancer expert who’s an advisor to the World Health Organisation, compared the concept to the Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) in London, the £12.50 daily green car levy whose expansion has provoked a surge of protest over the summer.

He said that Tony Blair’s arrogance knows no bounds. Who will end up financially suffering? The poor, just like the Ulez.

He said that public health wasn’t purely about bans, taxes and restrictions, but Tony Blair wanted to put out a positive message, encouraging and enabling people to take responsibility for their health.

If they want people to eat healthy, then they should take the not-so-healthy products off the racks and make the healthy products affordable, but of course, they won’t do that.

Tony Blair told the Times that we’ve got to shift from a service that’s treating people when they’re ill to a service that’s focused on well-being, on prevention and how people can live more healthy lives.

He said that you can’t run a modern healthcare system where people are going to live much longer unless they take some responsibility. You’ve got to help them do that, and he said the way of helping them do that, particularly with poor families, was to create the circumstances in which they can choose healthier foods.

This week it was revealed that record numbers of young girls are hitting puberty too soon, with some as young as four, as experts blame obesity as a fundamental factor.

Does this make Tony Blair an egomaniac, just wanting to control people’s lives for his own kicks, and should he be ignored as it does appear that he could be a threat to democracy and normal people’s lives?

The simple truth is that Tony Blair doesn’t care about us. He doesn’t care about our children or our freedoms, welfare or safety. The only thing that he’s interested in is his own power, and to keep expanding it wherever doable.

This is out-and-out communism, and he’s a danger to our society.

Governments are all about running our lives. They’re supposed to support the people but they never do because it’s all about them. Anything to inflate their ego and bank accounts.

To be fair Tony Blair has always been an idiot and a first-class douchebag and will always be.

He lectures about unhealthy food like junk food, but in fact, he’s the junk food of politics. What gives him the right to dictate to anyone what they can and can’t do?

So, the wealthy can be obese, but if you’re poor you have to be skinny. One rule for them and another for us.

Iceland Has Now Joined The Amazon Family!

Thousands of Icelands products will now be available on Amazon after the supermarket brand struck a deal to sell products on the e-commerce giant’s website.

The discount supermarket joins Morrisons and Co-op as a third-party supermarket partner on the Amazon marketplace.

To start with, Iceland products on Amazon will be available to shoppers living in designated postcodes across Greater Manchester, with availability set to be extended to more Amazon Prime members across the United Kingdom in the coming months.

The new partnership will see Iceland’s own label fresh and frozen items, and brands including Greggs, Heinz, Myprotein and TGI Fridays all available to purchase on Amazon.

Items will be sourced straight from local Iceland stores and delivered by Amazon couriers.

An Amazon spokeswoman said that teaming up with third-party retailers they know their customers already love gives them the opportunity to offer customers even more choices and delivery options from their product ranges directly from their website.

Commenting on the decision to sell Iceland products, Amazon said it hoped to offer shoppers all their grocery needs served through one relationship, one app, and a familiar experience.

Same-day delivery of Iceland goods with two-hour scheduled time slots will be free with Prime membership on orders over £60.

However, a delivery fee of £2 for orders will apply on orders between £40 and £60, increasing to £4 on orders between £15 and £40.

A minimum order value of £15 will also be in place.

David Devancy, Iceland’s chief customer and digital officer said that they were committed to helping their customers shop in the way they want and access their great value products whenever they need them most and that partnering with Amazon is yet another way Iceland customers can get their hands on their exclusive brands and freezer favourites.

He added that this was also an exciting opportunity for them to introduce new shoppers to the benefits of shopping with Iceland.

Amazon began involvement with supermarket chains in 2016 when a wholesale supply deal was struck with Morrisons.

This saw the supermarket supply fresh and frozen groceries to customers on what was then known as Amazon Prime Now and Amazon Pantry.

By 2019, the partnership evolved with Morrisons becoming a retailer on the Amazon marketplace, and the following year a dedicated Morrisons online storefront was unveiled.

In 2021, Co-op made 10,000 items available to purchase on Amazon, giving Prime members the ability to do ‘their full Co-op grocery shop’ on the site.

Buying in Iceland was always an affordable alternative to other stores. They were extremely cheap and the food wasn’t that bad, especially for bigger families who have to work on a budget. However, looking around the store recently I have found that their items are a lot more costly now and that some things I can get cheaper elsewhere.

To be honest, I was surprised how much prices in Iceland have actually gone up, and you can already order Iceland products straight from Iceland, so what would be the advantage of ordering through Amazon?

This is the reason why! Eventually, all stores will be online, through Amazon or other couriers. The only difference is that with Amazon you have to be a Prime customer, which means you have to pay to be a Prime customer, in which Amazon make lots of lots of money.

We’re becoming a dystopian society where everything will be done online, with no shops to speak of. Maybe the odd corner shop if you’re lucky and then they will become so costly we won’t be able to afford it.

Our Government don’t want us to have any free will, and they will ultimately have us over a barrel. They will do it gradually so that people don’t notice too much and before long, life as we know it will be a thing of the past.

Campaigners Accuse Government Of ‘Sleight Of Hand’ By Saying Pensions Triple Lock Is ‘Unsustainable’

A minister admitted that the pension triple lock is unsustainable and could be watered down.

In a bombshell move, Mel Stride suggested retirees might not get the anticipated 8.5 per cent rise next year, despite a pledge to keep the state pension at least in line with earnings.

The warning from the Work and Pensions Secretary heightens fears about the triple lock, which has dragged up retirement incomes after years of neglect.

Mel Stride said the Government was committed to keeping the mechanism ‘at the moment’ but insisted it wasn’t ‘sustainable’ in the long term.

Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner repeatedly declined to say whether her party would commit to the triple lock in its election manifesto, and Rishi Sunak sidestepped questions about whether the Conservatives would do so. Former Tory leader William Hague, who’s close to Rishi Sunak said it was time to ‘unpick’ the triple lock and move to a cheaper system.

The triple lock guarantees that the state pension will increase in line with either inflation, wages or 2.5 per cent, whichever is the highest.

It was introduced by the coalition government in 2010 following derisory increases of as little as 75p a week under Labour.

Official figures revealed that average earnings increased by 8.5 per cent, which is higher than the expected inflation figure, but Mr Stride suggested ministers may strip out the value of bonuses when calculating next year’s triple lock figure, cutting the potential state pension rise to 7.8 per cent and saving the Treasury hundreds of millions of pounds.

The move would hit 12.5 million older people. It would mean that someone on the new state pension would get an additional £15.90 a week next year rather than £17.33, costing them £74 a year.

The basic state pension, paid to millions who qualified before 2016, would increase by £12.18 a week rather than the expected £13.28.

Mr Stride stressed the need for any increases to take into account ‘affordability and the position of the economy’.

But campaigners accused the Government of ‘sleight of hand’.

Dennis Reed, of the campaign group Silver Voices, said pensioners would take a very dim view indeed if the Government starts watering down the triple lock in this way, and that the Government said it was committed to the triple lock, so people don’t expect this sort of sleight of hand to reduce it.

The triple lock isn’t ‘sustainable’ but if you’re a Prime Minister, MP or civil servant then everything is ‘sustainable’. They wouldn’t dream of watering down their salaries – odd that, isn’t it?

If they can’t afford it, then they should stop giving billions away to boat people and Ukraine.

That pension pot was paid into by hard-working people out of their wages. It was paid in good faith that when they reached pension age they would get a state pension. But it’s not really a state pension when you think about it. It’s money that people paid into, knowing that they would get a relatively decent pension when they retired. It’s a bit like putting your money into a bank in good faith for safekeeping and being able to take it out when you need to – what if the banks said ‘No, you can’t do that. We don’t have enough money to cover it’.

It’s people’s money that they paid into a scheme, not the Government’s money, so what have they done with all of that money that wasn’t theirs in the first place? They spent it, that’s what they did!

An 8 Per Cent Rise In Rail Fares Next Year Could Be ‘Eye-Watering’ For Commuters 

Commuters were warned they face being battered by an 8 per cent rise in rail fares next year in the latest blow during the cost of living crisis.

If the Government uses the same formula as this year to calculate the 2024 increase in train fares in England, then passengers are set for an eye-watering hike.

Figures published by the Office for National Statistics revealed Britain’s average earnings growth for July was 8 per cent.

This was the measure to which the Department for Transport aligned this year’s cap on fare increases after average earnings growth for July 2022 stood at 5.9 per cent.

Ministers have confirmed next year’s fare increases will be below the Retail Prices Index measure of inflation for July, which was 9 per cent but have not revealed what formula they will use.

If they do push forward with an 8 per cent increase, it will be the highest rise in train fares in England since the privatisation of the rail networks was completed in the 1990s.

An 8 per cent increase in rail fares would see annual season tickets from Woking to London rise by £310 to £4,190.

An off-peak return from Manchester to London would cost £112.20 following an £8.30 hike.

Norman Baker, a former Liberal Democrat transport minister and director of external affairs at pressure group Campaign for Better Transport, said that the Government has yet to confirm next year’s rail increase, but if it follows the same formula as last year and uses today’s average earnings growth rate, passengers would face eye-watering increases.

He said, rather than hammer rail passengers yet again, the Government should freeze rail fares, as they have done with fuel duty until the long-promised ticketing reform takes place.

A Department for Transport spokeswoman said that following last year’s biggest ever Government intervention to cap rail far increases well below inflation, they would continue to protect passengers from cost of living pressures and they wouldn’t increase next year’s rail fares by as much as the July RPI figure.

The spokeswoman also said that any increase would also be delayed until March 2024, temporarily freezing fares for passengers to travel at a lower price for the entirety of January and February as the Government continues with its plan to halve inflation.

About 45 per cent of fares on Britain’s railways are regulated by the Westminster, Scottish and Welsh Governments.

These increases are absurd and yet the Government want fewer emissions on the roads, and they try to facilitate this green policy for all to abide by, yet they want to increase travel – who are they kidding, themselves or us?

If people can’t afford the train anymore, then they will simply travel by car if they have a car, or if their car is Ulez exempt.

If people don’t drive or their car isn’t Ulez exempt, and they can’t afford the train to get to work. What we will see is more people having to give up their careers, or look for work closer to home. If they have to give up their job, there will be more people claiming Universal Credit, which the taxpayer pays for, but if nobody is working and nobody is paying their taxes, who’s going to pay for their Universal Credit? They will then tell you that they can’t afford to pay people on Universal Credit and people will end up living in a dystopian society, under a dystopian Government.

Our entire rail network system is an absolute disgrace, and one seldom gets the service they pay for in advance.

MP Say Dangerous Driving Should Be Punished The Same As Carrying A Weapon

MPs have warned that criminal punishment for unsafe driving should be the same as owning a weapon because cars have the potential to be deadly.

Convictions for unsafe driving can result in a maximum sentence of two years, compared with four years for having an offensive weapon in a public area.

A report by the All Party Parliamentary Group for Walking and Cycling has now called on the Government to bring the penalty for unsafe driving up to four years.

The report said that in addition to being a very useful tool, a car has the potential to be a lethal weapon and that those who drive dangerously were effectively wielding a lethal weapon.

The group, which is led by Tory Selaine Saxbury and Labour’s Ruth Cadbury, said it was too common to hear of drivers who cause death or injury receiving a low sentence or penalty.

They also want to see motorists fined and handed points on their licence if they travel at just one mile per hour over the limit.

Drivers are considered to be speeding if they surpass the limit by 10 per cent plus 2mph.

The MPs also want disqualified motorists to be forced to retake their driving tests before being allowed on the road.

Their report said mandatory re-testing should be widened beyond those convicted of dangerous driving to anyone who’s punished with disqualification.

It argued that re-testing could prove an effective way of keeping dangerous drivers off the roads and protecting other road users.

Politicians spend too much time trying to criminalise the population rather than helping and supporting them. Perhaps politicians should be sacked for breach of conduct and fraudulent expense claims.

Admittedly, cars can be dangerous, but what about cyclists who don’t even know what a red light is for – they just sail through them with no regard to the pedestrians that are crossing the road? Cycle lanes should be banned because they are dangerous to the public and also to other motorists on the road.

Other than cyclists, MPs should quit obsessing about drivers and concentrate on shoplifting, assault and burglary because these are crimes that are perpetrated by thousands every day causing actual fear and distress to their victims but with zero consequence to the criminals.

How many cases are there of people carrying a bladed weapon that gets dropped by the police, or they’re given non-custodial sentences?

What One Man Closes, Another Expands! 

Aldi is eyeing up former Wilko stores and could hire employees from the collapsed chain as shoppers strip shelves bare in the last days before the retailer closes.

Aldi has said it wants to open 500 more stores in the United Kingdom after marking the opening of its 1,000th store in Surrey as part of its ambitious expansion plans, and UK and Ireland chief executive Giles Hurley said it could use former Wilko stores for new sites.

Asked whether it’s looking at ex-Wilko stores, Giles Hurley told a newspaper outlet that with an ambitious target of 1,500 stores, they would look at all the opportunities and that it came down to the availability and suitability.

His comments came as images emerged of the sorry scene in a Wilko store as a handful of customers wandered around the near-empty aisles picking the last discounted items off racks.

The days of Ashford’s Wilko store are numbered, and the scenes inside paint a bleak panorama of its approaching closure after more than 20 years.

Next week it will close its doors, along with three other Kent branches, following the chain’s collapse into administration.

Aldi recently said it was calling for staff impacted by the collapse of retailer Wilko to get in contact as it has about 6,000 jobs presently available across its stores.

Aldi revealed that it’s creating 800 positions in new stores over the coming months and said it hopes to offer these long-term retail roles to those who have lost their jobs as a result of the Wilko downturn, with a range of positions available from Store Assistant and Caretaker all the way to Store Manager.

Long-time Wilko customer Julia Halliday, from Ashford, can recall its days as a supermarket. She said that she’s shopped there forever, adding that she can remember when it used to be Sainsbury’s.

She said it’s been there for so long. Everything in there is good value and she buys all her pet stuff there. The home area is good, so now she doesn’t know where she will go.

She added that it was a nice shop. The staff there are nice and she’s going to miss it being there. She was quite shocked it was closing and very gutted.

Husband and wife Claire and Dave Drummond said the loss of Wilko was a blow for the high street, and that they were guilty of shopping online, but that was another gutting thing with more people out of work.

The good thing is that Wilko stores will be made into other shops and not made into apartments for boat people.

It’s such a shame that Wilko has gone into administration, and I hope that all their staff manage to get jobs elsewhere. I do like Aldi, although I wish we had one local to us. All I can say is that we all need a little bit of help in these troubling times.

However, Aldi appears to have done an excellent deal in cherrypicking some of the Wilko stores.

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.

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