Anger As Pupils Are Tested About ‘White Privilege’

A report warned that schools are being taken over by organisations teaching controversial ‘anti-racism’ views.

According to the campaign group Don’t Divide Us, in some classrooms, students are taking part in tests to check their ‘unconscious bias’.

In the online surveys, children were asked if they understood the term ‘white privilege’ and what they would do if a teacher mispronounced the name of a Middle Eastern student.

Staff are then given advice by external provider Flair on how they could make their school more inclusive, such as by introducing a ‘restorative justice approach’ for those involved in telling offensive jokes or ‘micro aggressions’.

Flair is one of dozens of third-party organisations delivering staff training or lesson content based on the controversial ‘critical race theory’, which teaches the idea of white privilege and labels Britain structurally racist.

Don’t Divide Us investigated 49 of the bodies working in English schools and discovered that all but one promoted critical race theory as fact.

It said this means schools are routinely violating the Education Act, which requires headteachers to prohibit ‘the promotion of partisan political views’ and to ensure a ‘balanced presentation of opposing views’.

Report author Alka Sehgal Cuthbert said that this was more than a few rogue teachers and dodgy lessons.

She said the profession was being racialised and that teachers were encouraged to see their professional development not in educational terms, but in terms of how ‘race aware’ they were.

She said that a pupil’s success was also being redefined in racial terms. How good an ally they were if white, and, if they’re non-white, how well they can spot and report microaggressions.

She said that these beliefs, embedded in theories of ‘critical social justice’, were anti-educational because they cultivated intellectual conformity rather than curiosity and that they were anti-ethical because they denied our common humanity, and treat children and young people as if they were adult citizens, and this was an abdication of responsibility.

The report calls for an independent review of third-party organisations that provide classes on ethnicity.

A similar inquiry into sex education was ordered by Rishi Sunak earlier this year following concerns that children were being taught inappropriate material, while parents were being prevented from seeing it. Flair was contacted for comment.

If your child is being taught this kind of woke stuff, they should exit the classroom. Everyone has free will, although with what is going on now in the classroom, free will seems to be an illusion.

I am so happy that I no longer have children of school age, it must be so awful for parents these days, and every parent should take an active interest in what they’re teaching these children.

And those parents that can teach from home, should teach from home because who wants their children to be brainwashed instead of being taught?

However, education has always been about indoctrination, nothing has changed really, just the content.

And how has this been permitted to happen? It’s like aliens have taken possession of our country.

When I see children coming home from school saying that they don’t have an opinion, then this is when I despair.

Teachers are there to teach, not brainwash our children and teachers should mind their own business and let parents discuss certain issues with their children in private at home. We do not need a divide in this country!

This isn’t educating, it’s brainwashing. Education is supposed to help children question, this is designed to make them conform.

Yob Is On The Run After A Snapchat Video Shows Him Throwing A Cat Into A Quarry Lake

A man has been captured on camera appearing to throw a cat off a quarry ledge, leaving it to plunge hundreds of feet into the water below.

Watchers of the Snapchat clip were left stunned after the alarming footage, which was filmed in Carnforth, Lancashire, went viral.

The screen-recorded video appears to show a youth throwing a black and white cat off the steep ledge of what looks like a former quarry, while a second youngster looks on in the background.

As the video ends, the boy moves nearer to the edge of the overhang and watches as the cat splashes into the water beneath, and doesn’t seem to emerge afterwards.

Lancashire Police confirmed they’re investigating the act of cruelty and appealed to the public for information.

The video was shared on Twitter with the caption ‘What have I just seen on my Snapchat?’.

It was captioned with the phrase ‘disgusting’ and the screen recording racked up more than 2,000 likes, quotes and retweets on the popular social media platform.

Users were quick to communicate their views in the comments, with many voicing their disgust over the disgusting footage.

One said that they hoped these people get named and shamed and get a good kicking.

A second agreed, saying that they hope someone finds the little f**king scruff and launches him.

A third added that this actually deserved jail time.

A fourth said that they were going to cry.

The user who shared the post agreed with the horrified comments, saying it was dreadful.

Meanwhile, others theorised that the cat may have already been dead before the abusive act, despite others believing it to be alive.

One user said that they thought the cat was already dead and in rigour mortis but couldn’t say how it had died though.

Lancashire Police replied to the tweet and wrote that they thanked them for flagging it and that they were aware and were looking into the incident and where it happened, and they appealed for anyone with information to get in touch.

A spokesperson for Lancashire Police said they were aware of a video which had been posted on social media which appears to show an act of cruelty to a cat in the Carnforth area.

The spokesperson said this was a matter that they were investigating and that they were establishing the exact circumstances and where it happened.

In all seriousness, if this person was prepared to do harm like this to a living animal, who knows what he will progress to in a number of years?

It makes no difference whether the cat was alive or dead, this is still an extremely horrible incident and it seriously needs investigating before the individual does this to a human being.

And the fact that was filmed and put onto Snapchat only indicates that this was a malicious act, and to be honest, anybody that can kill an animal is probably more likely to harm a person because they’re missing that empathy and have something missing from their emotions. Isn’t this how serial killers start off? And this kind of wickedness will only go a step further with every prospective crime that he perpetrates until no one is safe.

The King Is ‘Entirely Comfortable’ With President Biden Patting Him On The Back

King Charles was completely comfortable with being touched by President Biden at their friendly Windsor Castle meeting.

The US President, 80, technically broke protocol by continually putting his hand on the monarch as they met inside the quadrangle at Windsor ahead of a discussion about climate change.

As the two men prepared to listen to a performance of the US National Anthem, played by the Welsh Guards, Mr Biden put his hand on the King’s back.

The two men also laughed as they chatted together, signalling that they got on well.

Responding to the contact, a source inside Buckingham Palace said that his Majesty the King was entirely comfortable with that kind of contact, and what a wonderful symbol of warmth and affection it was between both the individuals and their nations.

Mr Biden met the King after spending just 42 minutes meeting Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at Number 10 Downing Street in London.

As Charles’s guest, the President strolled in front of the King as he inspected the Welsh Guards in the quadrangle at the castle.

The President’s engagement with the King came after a phone conversation earlier this year that Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, described as ‘incredibly warm’.

Mr Biden last had formal talks with Charles at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November 2021.

He attended the state funeral of Charles’s mother, Queen Elizabeth II, in September, but didn’t go to the Coronation, but his wife, Jill, attended instead.

Mr Sullivan said the President had huge respect for the King’s commitment to the climate issue in particular.

He said Charles had been a clarion voice on climate change and someone who mobilised action and effort.

Mr Sullivan told reporters as Biden flew to London that the President comes at this with enormous goodwill.

Once inside the Castle, Mr Biden and the King joined participants of the Climate Finance Mobilisation forum.

The group were led by Energy Secretary Grant Shapps and Mr Biden’s climate envoy John Kerry, among others.

After leaving Windsor, Mr Biden made his way to Stanstead Airport to fly to Lithuania ahead of a Nato summit in which the war in Ukraine and the US decision to send cluster bombs to the country would be high on the agenda.

It now appears that King Charles is about updating the monarchy, either that or Joe Biden needed to steady himself and thus the reason for the back rub.

Charles, William and Kate seem to have forgotten Royal Protocol, whilst they try to give the impression that they are one of us, but they’re not!

They’re not one of us and they shouldn’t pretend to be. And Joe Biden and King Charles are just two old men with nothing to offer the world. It’s all smoke and mirrors to conceal what actually goes on behind closed doors.

They are both global warming people who rant on about climate change and yet both of them fly around in private jets and helicopters while insisting the rest of us will die if we don’t live like Stone Age people, extremely hypocritical.

We also have to remember that these people are human beings, not Gods, and it’s quite different a man touching a man, but you wouldn’t have expected a man to touch the Queen when she was alive so therefore I don’t see any offence in it, besides, Charles probably realised that Joe needed to be supported and felt sorry for him. I suppose it was a good thing that Charles didn’t pat Joe on the back, he would have probably shattered the old boy’s spine.

Nicky Campbell Describes A ‘Distressing Weekend’ After Social Media Users Wrongly Speculated He Was The Star Of Teen Sex Pics Scandal

Nicky Campbell has spoken about his distressing weekend after he was falsely named as the BBC presenter accused of paying a teenager for sexually graphic images.

The broadcaster, 62, was among the well-known faces forced to clear their name after allegations that a BBC presenter paid £35,000 for explicit photos.

Presenting his BBC Radio 5 Live show on Monday, Nicky Campbell said, that obviously thoughts with the alleged victim and the family. So, a bit of perspective here, worse things happen at sea as they say, but it was a distressing weekend, he couldn’t deny that, for him, and others falsely named.

He said that he was having further conversations with the police in terms of malicious communication and with lawyers in terms of defamation.

It comes after he suggested he’d contacted the police about being falsely mentioned online in connection with the story.

He tweeted a screenshot which featured the Metropolitan Police insignia and the words, ‘Thank you for contacting the Metropolitan Police Service to report your crime’.

He wrote that he thought it was important to take a stand. That there were just too many of these people on social media, and that he thanked support from friends.

On his BBC radio show, a caller rang to say she was so enraged and cross that Mr Campbell and others had to come forward to clear their names.

Nicky Campbell responded that he was all good, Jeremy Vine and also others involved as well, Rylan Clark and also Gary Lineker, and that it was uncomfortable but as he said earlier worse things happen at sea and that they were big boys.

The BBC was to meet the Metropolitan Police on Monday as the corporation dealt with the allegations, after confirming a male staff member had been suspended.

BBC Breakfast host Jon Kay is the latest star to distance himself from the scandal, tweeting last night that he was enjoying some extra sleep and long-planned annual leave with the family, so there was no need to set his alarm clock.

It came after Gary Lineker and Rylan Clark publicly said they were not the presenter in question, with Gary Lineker tweeting that he hated to disappoint the haters but it wasn’t him.

Rylan Clark also wrote that he wasn’t sure why his name was floating about but re that story in the newspapers, that it wasn’t him babe, and that he was currently filming a show in Italy for the BBC, so people should take his name of their mouths.

If these people know they’re not guilty then they have nothing to be distressed about. However, it is outrageous that so many completely blameless BBC presenters are being shockingly slandered with such impunity by fools on social media.

Poor Nicky Campbell. However, more ominous things occur every day to people worldwide though, but at the moment, speculation is rampant about the identity of the latest BBC presenter – just say who the person is and be done with it, rather than dragging other presenters through the mire.

It’s important to take a stand because there are just too many of these people on social media, and it gives people on social media a potentially lunatic platform.

If people name others in the industry and get it wrong then they should be sued for defamation. We have no idea who this person is that allegedly did the crime and until the BBC releases that information we should all keep a lid on things because this is how people’s names get slurred and once out in the open it can never go back in the closet again. It’s out there and they say that what’s today’s new is tomorrow’s history, wrong!

Social Media And Online Gaming Dominate Brits’ Social Lives, With One In Ten Lacking A Single ‘Real’ Friend

New research reveals that almost one in ten British people say they haven’t got any friends in real life.

Instead, eight per cent of Brits between the ages of 18 and 70 emanate all their social interaction from the internet, the poll of 3,000 people reveals.

Extrapolated out to the wider UK population of about 55 million, that works out to 4.4 million people who have no ‘real’ friends they can count on.

Those Brits without real-life friends instead said they have ‘online’ friends, who they keep in touch with through social media, online games or email.

The study by life insurance specialists LifeSearch discovered that the remaining 92 per cent who did have friends had, on average, eight friends each.

The poll revealed men have an average of nine friends, with women having an average of seven.

Those aged 35-54 have the least real friends, with seven, compared to those aged under 35, who have an average of ten friends.

Brits over the age of 55 had an average of eight friends each.

The study also found that 55 per cent of the 3,000 people surveyed said they had a ‘best friend’, with their partner top of the pile.

All in all, more than a third (39 per cent) of those polled said their best friend was their husband, wife or partner.

Asked to reveal how they knew their best friend, those surveyed revealed the following:

How Brits know their best friends’ Relationship Percentage

Partner 39 per cent
School friend 9 per cent
Sibling 8 per cent
Parent 7 per cent
Hobby friend 6 per cent
Another parent at child’s school 3 per cent
Cousin 3 per cent

Barry Taylor, 44, of Watford, Hertfordshire, said his wife Claire was now his ‘best friend’.

The window fitter said he’d lost touch with friends from school and hadn’t seen his ‘hobby’ friends since giving up playing darts.

He said that he used to keep in touch with friends from school and meet up once or twice a year, and used to play darts in the pub league.

He said that he gave up darts after breaking his arm, and friends from school were all online these days as they’ve mostly moved away.

He said that his best and probably only friend was his wife Claire, and that was all that he need.

Sadly for some people, friends move away and as people get older and they’re on their own, they find it difficult to make friends because everything is done online.

Teenagers make friends effortlessly, particularly when they’re at school, and generally, they might keep those friends after they leave school, but people make different lives for themselves, or they move away or just make a different group of friends when they start work.

As we get older though we tend to have friends through marriage, but if that marriage ends or someone’s loved one dies, then that person is left isolated with no way of making new friends apart from online, which is extremely sad indeed.

Friends with children stop asking you over because they’re too occupied doing family things, or they think that they’re now more important than you are, or you might drop in on them and they’ve changed and no longer want to be your friend so people resort to online activities to bide their time away.

There are, of course, ways of meeting people like getting out and walking about, talking to people, going for a coffee, even a coach trip to meet people. However, not everybody is the same and not everyone is as outgoing as the next person, and sometimes it’s easier to hide behind a screen than to make actual contact because that’s the society that we’ve become because of social media.

Currently, The BBC Licence Fee Is £159, But Ministers Plan To Scale It Back To Ease The Cost-Of-Living Crisis

A newspaper outlet understands that the BBC licence fee would be cut in real terms under planning being considered by Ministers to reduce the cost of living crisis for households.

The £159 fee is expected to rise in line with soaring inflation next April, meaning viewers are facing a near double-digit growth in the charge.

Now Ministers have told MPs that they’re looking at removing the link between the fee and the Consumer Prices Index (CPI), which is presently running at 8.7 per cent.

A source said that ministers realise a near ten per cent rise isn’t exactly going to go down well, so they’re looking at moving from the standard annualised inflation figure to a different, lower measure.

Former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries announced in 2022 that the fee would be frozen for two years, before increasing in 2024.

However, the Government is considering options for replacing the fee with a different funding model after the BBC’s charter runs out in 2027.

The actual rise in April would be calculated by using the annualised CPI rate between October 2022 and September 2023 and the projected rate of 8.2 per cent would increase the licence fee by £13 to £172.

The move comes as the Corporation’s former chairman Richard Sharp suggested that more affluent households should pay more towards the cost of running the BBC and that the licence fee should be replaced by a tax on broadband bills or a household levy based on the value of the viewer’s property.

Richard Sharp argued in an interview with The Daily Telegraph that it was regressive to ask those on lower incomes to pay the same for their TV licences as wealthier households.

He said that he would be in favour of a form of mandatory payment, but there was one issue, which is it’s regressive, and that you could look at models around the world, there’s broadband tax, there’s household tax and there’s the licence fee.

Labour has said that it would consider means testing the fee if it forms the next government.

When she was in post, Ms Dorries warned the BBC that the licence fee needed to be reformed because the days of state-run television were over.

She published a White Paper, which declared that the Government planned to put in place a new funding model when the £3.2 billion a year licence fee deal expires in 2027, as part of plans to make the British broadcasting system fit for the streaming age.

Really, what should happen is that it should be scaled back to nothing, that would be a good start. The BBC earns enough profits without taxing the common people, but the only way to force that change is if everyone stands together and doesn’t pay it.

Every time a new home is built, the BBC gains an extra £159 a year for absolutely nothing. Consider how many homes are being built every year and then add it all up, that’s a lot of money the BBC gain for doing nothing extra.

You’ll be frothing at the mouth when they add it to your council tax, rather than discarding it for a choice-based system.

Cut all public funding for the BBC now. If the BBC are as good as they keep telling us, then they should go out into the real world and stand on their own two feet.

In this day and age, there’s no reason for a licence fee. The BBC is no longer the only provider of programmes or news and hasn’t been for an extremely long time.

It should be a choice. Those that want to pay for it can, and those that don’t want to can opt-out.

This government’s adding a further tax on top of taxes we already pay and this is immoral.

Let the BBC fund themselves – sink or swim and let everyone have a choice.

Meeting Official Healthy Food Guidelines Will Cost The poor Half Their Disposable Income

Research shows that Britain’s most impoverished families would need to spend half their disposable income on food to meet Government healthy eating guidelines.

Soaring food and drink prices have left numerous households struggling to afford the healthier alternatives recommended in the NHS’s Eatwell Guide.

The Food Foundation has cautioned that rampant inflation has hit the lowest 20 per cent of earners particularly hard.

A report by the charity, which campaigns for healthy, sustainable food, found that to comply with the guidelines, the most impoverished households would have to buy produce costing 50 per cent of their disposable income, which is the amount left after housing costs.

Nevertheless, the wealthiest 20 per cent need to spend just 11 per cent of their earnings on healthy food and drink. Last year, the poorest had to fork out 43 per cent of their disposable earnings.

The Eatwell recommendations include at least five portions of fruit and vegetables daily, starchy carbohydrates such as potatoes and pasta, protein such as beans or meat, and in much lower quantities, dairy or dairy alternatives.

It recommends that foods high in fat, salt and sugar should be consumed less frequently and in tiny amounts.

The Food Foundation has worked with other groups including the University of Cambridge, the markets consultancy Nielsen and the charity Action On Sugar to create its annual Broken Plate report.

It discovered that healthy food costs on average £10 per 1,000 calories, double that of less healthy foods at approximately £4.45 per 1,000 calories.

Nutritious produce has also increased in price far more quickly, partly as a result of poor fruit and vegetable harvests, by £1.76 per 1,000 calories compared with just 76p for less healthy foods. The NHS says men should eat about 2,500 calories per day and women 2,000.

Sir Stephen Timms, the Labour chairman of the Commons Work and Pensions Committee, said suggesting that households should spend almost 50 per cent of their income on groceries to meet the Government’s recommended diet was clearly not feasible, adding that they need to make a healthy diet affordable. Sir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats said the report should be a wake-up call.

It comes after the Prime Minister scrapped plans last month for a Government embargo on two-for-one junk food deals for food that’s high in fat, sugar and salt.

The real issue is that children aren’t familiarised with cooking anymore. School cookery lessons don’t exist, and children these days aren’t taught how to make nutritious meals, or how to budget, and we really should bring back home economics for all, this includes sewing lessons as well.

We’re paying way too much all over the place and everyone appears to want their cut. We pay the highest energy prices. Everything is extremely inflated in price. Most people can’t afford to eat healthily, while some companies make record profits, billions and we’re overpaying so they and their shareholders can line their pockets.

Personally, I eat what I want to eat and not what I’m told to eat.

And newsflash to whoever thought this one up. Poor people don’t have a disposable income!

School dinners are a joke, and none of it is very healthy, and not much of it, and it costs a pretty penny. Children have to go to school by law, therefore school dinners should be free all year round as well as a free breakfast. Too many school holidays and the long summer one is unnecessary these days since we no longer bring in a harvest.

This Is More Than Insensitive

A grieving mother has criticised police for congratulating themselves on Twitter with a Top Gun GIF for finding her daughter’s dead body.

Nevres Kemal said Kent Police’s Tweet, which boasted about finding a deceased person’s dead body within 90 minutes alongside a GIF showing two Top Gun characters high-fiving each other was horrendous and unacceptable.

Nevres Kemal’s daughter Azra Kemal was 24 when she died after falling from a motorway bridge in Kent, England, as she fled her burning car in July 2020.

It comes after Nevres Kemal said she’d had months of distress waiting for an inquiry into necrophiliac David Fuller’s crimes after it emerged her daughter was one of at least 102 women and girls sexually assaulted by him after their deaths.

A different tweet celebrates the police drone work used in the investigation with the hashtag ‘crackingbitofkit’.

She told Sky News that the tweet was just horrendous and that she couldn’t believe that professional police officers would high-five themselves and pat themselves on the back of her daughter’s demise.

She said that it was more than insensitive, it was unacceptable and what was this mindset of people investigating crimes on our behalf?

A different Tweet said within hours police were satisfied there were no suspicious circumstances, even though Mrs Kemal said she was told they were still investigating at the time.

The initial suspect, the man Azra was travelling with, said that in the darkness, Azra hadn’t seen the drop between the carriageways, as she climbed over the central reservation barrier.

He was released with no further action and the investigation closed before the end of its first day, but Mrs Kemal said she thought the investigation was wrapped up too quickly and a forensic post-mortem should have been carried out.

She said of the police that they should do the job that they’re supposed to do. Look at the information, look at the leads, look at the timelines, look at the interviews, and go back to the witnesses, because no one saw Azra die.

She said there should be a uniform process. If there’s death and there’s no witness to death, everybody should have that right to a forensic autopsy.

A Kent Police spokesman told a newspaper outlet that Kent Police carried out a full and thorough investigation following the death of a woman who fell from a road bridge of the A21, on 16 July 2020.

This is despicable, and did anyone from the police even think for a moment that perhaps they shouldn’t be publicising such things on Twitter?

All police forces should be barred from tweeting when it comes to things that they have been investigating. What they do off duty in their own personal time is up to them, they can put whatever rubbish they want about their own personal life, but not another person, and they have to be seen to police themselves to an acceptable standard. There should be more policing and less tweeting.

This was out of order, cruel and unprofessional and there was simply no justification for this tweet.

No one in the police force should be tweeting. They have a job to do and that isn’t tweeting. They claim they’re overworked and short-staffed, but they have time to tweet!

Perhaps if they spent as much time dealing with crime as they do on social media the UK would be crime free. And it appears that our police in the United Kingdom are no longer fit for purpose and they clearly aren’t policing by consent anymore.

And why wasn’t a post-mortem done? There was only one witness, and this tragedy wasn’t investigated well enough, probably because they were too busy on Twitter, tweeting messages that they shouldn’t have been.

Now Health Professionals Are Urged To Call Vaginas ‘Bonus Holes’

Women have criticised a charity after it suggested the vagina could instead be referred to as ‘the bonus hole’ to avoid upsetting non-binary or trans men.

Female rights campaigners rounded on the alternative glossary, branding it both misogynistic and utterly degrading.

It’s featured on the charitable organisation Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust on a page for health professionals who are treating patients who have the disease.

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The trust urged it wasn’t suggesting the term should be used by all women, but added it was important to reach trans men and non-binary people. But the ‘bonus hole’ term, which the cause says was developed with expert organisations who work with the LGBT community, was widely condemned.

The page also features a suggestion that the vagina might also be referred to as a ‘front hole’.

It’s entitled ‘Language to use when supporting trans men and/or non-binary people.

Conservatives for Women founder Caroline Ffiske told a newspaper outlet that the gender movement seemed actively to want to encourage body disassociation and hatred, in other words, to actively create more confused young people alienated from their own physicality and their own sex.

She said what better way than to use this utterly dehumanising language about our own bodies? And she said that to her mind this was grooming. Create the unease, the disassociation, the alienation, and then when they’ve done that, they step in with euphoric rhetoric about trans joy.

She said, fill the void you’ve created, but of course, those doing this won’t be around to pick up the pieces when young bodies are irreversibly damaged and young lives are destroyed and asked if there was a mechanism whereby these charities promoting harm could be struck off.

The glossary says it was created with the help of the LGBT Foundation.

It adds that using the wrong terms if a person doesn’t use them can lead to them feeling hurt or distressed.

Kellie-Jay Keen, the founder of Standing for Women, described parts of the glossary as an erasure of female language.

She added that the whole thing was loathsome but bonus hole and front hole were so misogynistic.

She said that if a woman was so triggered by the word vagina, then she would imagine that she needs serious psychiatric help rather than the world bending to her never-ending list of irrational needs.

She added that you would think that charities focused on cervical cancer would have better things to do than erase female language. Still, it was better than the Canadian cervical charity which devoted a whole section for men with cervical cancer.

This is positively insulting because this is how some women bring life into the world, and this expression ‘bonus hole’ somehow implies that it’s some kind of goal for men, or that it’s some sort of prize, and this is disgusting.

It sounds more like a term men would use when they get laid or score in a nightclub or one-night stand.

This word is degrading and discriminatory and extremely unprofessional, and any healthcare professional that can’t or won’t use the correct medical terms for body parts should be struck off.

I pretty much like the term vagina, but if we have to call the vagina a ‘bonus hole’ then men’s penises should be called ‘bonus skin fold’ instead, but then we shouldn’t give them ideas.

This really does have to stop now! Otherwise, the future will be too horrendous to imagine.

So now, what should we start calling health professionals – oh, don’t tempt me!

A Four-Star Spa Hotel That Laid Off ALL Its Staff To Accommodate 241 Asylum Seekers

A four-star spa hotel which is reportedly sacking all its staff and cancelling all events is facing legal action.

Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, is said to be accommodating up to 241 asylum seekers across its 77 rooms, under new plans by the Home Office.

According to a newspaper outlet, 95 full and part-time staff are facing redundancy from July 10 following the disclosure of these plans.

It reported that all events, including weddings at the venue, had been cancelled following that date.

Carmarthenshire County Council confirmed it’s now taking the hotel owners and the Home Office’s housing contractor to the High Court over claims that they have changed the use of the facility without planning permission.

Leader of Carmarthenshire County Council, Darren Price, said that Carmarthenshire County Council has recommended legal proceedings against Gryphon Leisure Limited, Sterling Woodrow Limited, Clearsprings Ready Homes Limited, Robert Horwood and Gareth Street regarding the material change of use without planning permission of the Stradey Park Hotel in Llanelli and that this case has been listed for a hearing on 7 July at the High Court at the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London.

Darren Price added that the Council are unable to make any further comments at this time due to the need to respect the legal process that is underway.

Dame Nia Griffith MP said in a previous statement that this was hugely concerning and that she would continue to oppose any such proposal very vigorously, making clear the very strong opposition from local people.

A Home Office spokesman said that the number of people arriving in the United Kingdom who require accommodation has reached record levels and has put our asylum system under incredible strain and that they’ve been clear that the use of hotels to house asylum seekers is unacceptable, and that there are currently more than 51,000 asylum seekers in hotels costing the UK taxpayer £6 million a day.

The spokesperson added that the Home Office was committed to making every effort to reduce hotel use and limit the burden on the taxpayer.

It came as the Home Office faces another legal challenge next week from two other councils over its plans to house migrants in two UK military bases.

West Lindsey District Council and Braintree District Council are opposed to plans to turn the RAF Scampton base in Lincolnshire and RAF Wethersfield in Essex into a haven for migrants.

Hopefully, they will be taken to the cleaners and fined heavily.

Our Government pledged to us that this would stop, but instead, they’re still enabling them to come to our shores, while our British-born homeless people are left on the street in this country – something isn’t right.

And how much is our government paying for these hotels? It must have outstripped what these hotels were going to get from the many bookings they already had.

This has happened to a lot of large seafront hotels which used to be topped with holidaymakers, now it’s ruined, and what used to be a beautiful place to go is now full of migrants.

Our government actually needs to start acting in accordance with the law, not just doing whatever they feel like doing.

There are over 300 hotels that have been taken over by the government to house immigrants crossing the channel. Thousands of people have lost their jobs because of this as well, so instead of helping our unemployment problem, they’re helping to cause it.

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