There’s TWENTY INCHES Of Snow On Mallorca, And The Waves Are 25 Feet High

Mallorca has been gripped by a winter storm that’s wreaking mayhem, with 20 inches of snow closing roads and cutting power to dozens of towns.

The Spanish holiday island is covered with snow and officials issued a rare red alert warning for the second day in a row as a further 15 inches is predicted to fall.

Storm Juliette struck Mallorca, known for its sun-drenched beaches, and has since brought blizzards and chilly weather to the Balearic island.

Spain’s meteorological agency AEMET warned the coastal regions in northern Mallorca would be hit with 55mph winds and 25-foot waves.

AEMET issued a red warning for snow and warned 15 inches would fall in the Serra de Tramuntana mountain range in the north of the island within 24 hours.

The meteorological experts had predicted 16 inches of snow would fall by early this morning, but more than 20 inches covered the town of Valldemossa where temperatures have plummeted to -2C (28.4 Fahrenheit).

The snowstorm has also led to power cuts in dozens of towns including Valldemossa, Alaró, Vilafranca and Port d’Alcúdia.

The 20 inches of snow has also forced the closure of up to 15 roads in the Serra de Tramuntana region.

The AEMET has also issued an amber alert for rainfall, with 100mm predicted in the Serra de Tramuntana range.

In the past eight hours the highest accumulated rainfall, 128.4 mm, has been recorded in Pollença, a town in northern Mallorca.

In the remainder of the island, orange and yellow warnings have been activated for winds of more than 70 km/hr and rainfall that could exceed three inches in some places.

Snow has also covered parts of Ibiza and it has an active yellow warning for 13 feet waves today, and in neighbouring Menorca, there were active orange warnings for 90 km/hr winds which have left the island cut off by the sea following the closure of port Maó.

Storm Juliette also hit Spain on Monday, leaving some regions completely white as heavy snowfalls hit across the country.

AEMET said the storm was predicted to cause low temperatures and intense cold winds across the country and the Balearic Islands until Thursday.

Elsewhere in Europe, hundreds of people in Croatia were stuck in their cars on Monday after a snowstorm stopped traffic and cut off parts of the country.

Unfortunately, shifts in the Earth’s trajectory around the sun and shifts in the tilt and wobble of the Earth’s axis can lead to cooling or warming of the Earth’s climate because they alter the amount of energy our planet obtains from the sun.

These changes, known as Milankovitch cycles, cause climate changes on time scales of thousands of years. They’re responsible for the rapid warming the Earth has experienced over the last 100 years.

Almost all of Earth’s atmospheric energy is ultimately emanated from the sun, so it makes sense that the planet’s position and orientation relative to the sun would have an impact on our climate.

These orbital and astronomical shifts repeat on time scales ranging from 26,000 to 100,000 years, and one can calculate their impact on the amount of energy our planet receives from the sun.

The effect of this changing solar input over time has been significant, and it’s forced the Earth’s climate in and out of cold and warm phases.

The ‘global’ part was right but they got the ‘warming’ wrong, they should have said ‘lying’. It’s always been a tactic to attempt to scaremonger for numerous years and yet there are still numerous people who fall for the same old drivel.

And how does paying £15 daily congestion charge save the planet? Just another money-making scheme, and if there is a shift in how our climate, this is just Mother Nature showing the world who’s in charge because it’s certainly not our Government, or that someone is playing about with the weather.

Whatever happens, it’s rather evident that humanity will not be on this planet forever, and we will all be in the history books if any form of existence comes after us.

We’ve been told that we’re destroying ourselves because we are destroying our ozone layer which protects us and other living things from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet radiation, but the depletion could have profound consequences on human health and the environment.

Ozone depletion and climate change are connected in a number of ways, but ozone depletion isn’t the main cause of climate change.

Climate change is concerned with how carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases are seemingly changing the global system. Ozone depletion, on the other hand, involves how certain industrially produced chemicals containing chlorine or bromine are harming the earth’s protective stratospheric ozone layer.

Of course, we’re an evolving race, and evidently, even monkeys may be evolving into a human-like race as they’re spotted leaving trees. So, perhaps a new wave of primates could be taking an evolutionary leap due to climate change and deforestation.

And millions of years ago, the species of humankind once consumed their lives swinging about the trees and then started to walk on the ground instead, and it appears as though the same process of evolution has the possibility of occurring again.

Governments use the cautionary effect to tell us a tale so that they can forewarn us of danger.

There are three fundamental elements to a cautionary tale, that can be introduced in a number of ways.

First, a taboo or prohibition is noted, some act, location, or thing is said to be a danger, although citation is required for this. Then, the narrative itself is told by someone who disregarded the warning and who committed the prohibited act.

Finally, the violator comes to an undesirable fate, which is often related in expansive and gruesome detail.

Cautionary tales are also frequently utilised to spread awareness of moral issues. For this reason, they’re frequently told to children to make them conform to those rules that either protect them or are for their own safety – it’s a form of brainwashing folks!

Now, all children believe that the world will end if they don’t do what they’re told to do.

Of course, the world is going to end – at some point!

The cautionary tale has been about for an extremely long time. Once it was called folklore, but it’s endured to the present day in another form, especially with the rise of modern mass media such as film and television, with so many public service announcements and public information films which frame themselves as cautionary tales regarding both societal issues and common dangers in modern life, forcing conformity by warning viewers of the hazards and directing them towards sidestepping the causes, or simply not doing actions that result in such dangers.

Fears Of Midwives’ Overexposure To Unsafe Levels Of Nitrous Oxide Have Led Hospitals To Suspend The Use Of Gas And Air Pain Relief During Labour For Mothers-To-Be

Hospitals are stopping the use of pain-relieving gas and air for mothers to over fears for midwives’ safety.

NHS Trusts have sought to temporarily suspend the use of laughing gas following concerns that medical staff are being exposed to dangerous levels in the workplace.

According to a newspaper outlet, the nitrous oxide and oxygen combination has been measured at 50 times higher than safety caps in some NHS units, but suspensions have also been labelled madness with the popular choice of pain relief taken out of reach for some.

Pregnant Amy Fantis is due to have her baby at the Princess Alexandra hospital in Essex which stopped use of the Entonox gas last month.

While the hospital has ordered machines which can break up the gas into unharmful components, it presently only has three of these to hand.

As a consequence, the hospital stressed that it may not be able to deliver gas and air to everyone who would like to use it and would prioritise use on a case-by-case basis.

Amy told the publication this was a stress that she didn’t need, having been dependent on the pain relief while giving birth four years ago.

She said that it wasn’t available to everyone and that she might not get it, and that her birth might only be 40 minutes, but that it was a stress that she didn’t need and that she understood that they have to keep midwives safe but to just take it away seems madness, and it would be the poor mums that would be paying the price.

Joanna Keable, head of midwifery at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust also added that mothers should be reassured that there was no risk, with safety concerns only arising with prolonged exposure.

She said that they should be reassured that there’s no risk to mothers, birthing people, their partners and babies and that the use of Entonox was temporarily suspended to protect their midwifery and medical teams from prolonged exposure to nitrous oxide in the atmosphere arising from the patient use of gas and air.

And she thanked all of the women and families who use their services to their maternity and medical team for their understanding and support.

It was said that increased levels of nitrous oxide had also previously been detected at a number of trusts including Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, and Watford General Hospital.

Before Watford General Hospital had installed air purifiers, it experienced levels 50 times above nitrous oxide safety caps last year.

Essex’s Basildon University Hospital was reportedly among the hospitals that temporarily discontinued the use of the gas but have since reinstated it following an investigation and additional ventilation measures.

A BBC report suggests that the Health and Safety Executive recorded a total of 11 nitrous oxide incidents in NHS trusts between August 2018 and December 2022.

Ipswich Hospital also temporarily stopped pain relief last year but is now using it again following the installation of new ventilation units.

An NHS England spokesman told a newspaper outlet that NHS England has been working with the Trusts where gas and air supplies have been affected due to differing and localised issues, and this was not a widespread issue and patients should continue to access services as normal.

It appears that they want to send us back to the dark ages in all facets of our lives, although lots of surgeries are done with conscious anaesthetics these days, but before long they’ll be handing you a stick to bite down on and a swig of cheap alcohol.

I wonder what it will be next, will they refuse to drive to work in case they’re run over, and pregnant mums in labour have to go to them?

Nitrous oxide, generally known as laughing gas is a chemical compound. At room temperature, it’s a colourless non flammable gas and has a slightly sweet scent and taste, and at elevated temperatures, nitrous oxide is a powerful oxidiser similar to molecular oxygen.

Nitrous oxide has significant medical benefits, particularly in surgery and dentistry, for anaesthetic and pain-reducing effects.

Its colloquial name, ‘laughing gas’, coined by Humphry Davy, is due to the euphoric effects upon inhaling it, a property that’s led to its recreational use as a dissociative anaesthetic.

It’s on the World Health Organisation’s list of Essential Medicines. It’s also used as an oxidiser in rocket propellants, and in motor racing to improve the power output of engines.

Hospitals need to vent this stuff safely so it’s not a danger in the workplace, and if so, this ‘laughing gas’ shouldn’t be a threat to anaesthetists and medical staff.

What will be next? Will they stop surgeons from using sharp implements in case they cut themselves? And I hope no wokies don’t see this because then any scheduled surgeries could be in for a blunt plastic scalpel anytime soon.

I’m now starting to wonder if hospitals have done this as a cost-cutting measure.

And if this ‘laughing gas’ is so harmful why has it not been reported before? Perhaps it’s because they couldn’t stop laughing.

Gas and air has been about for a rather long time. The first gas and air device used as a form of pain alleviation in labour was developed in 1935. They increased in popularity after the Second World War, and in particular during the first two decades of the NHS.

If gas and air are stopped there would likely be an increased chance of more epidurals, which is temporarily debilitating for the woman, and carries a risk, but gas and air would essentially lower the nominal risk that has been there for an extremely long time, by increasing the greater risks to the mother and baby.

It appears that they don’t care about the patient, now it’s all about health and safety, and during the pandemic, hundreds of women were forced to wear face masks while giving birth.

And one woman said that she said she felt like she was dying because she was in so much pain, and that while she was pushing the baby out she had to have this mask on her face and that the feeling of claustrophobia was just massive.

Jewish Community’s Disappointment In Kanye Being Celebrated At The Super Bowl

Noa Tishby is an Israeli actress, writer, producer, and activist, and last week she broadcast a video describing the Jewish community’s dismay at Kanye being glorified at the #SuperBowl, and in response, she received even more antisemitic attacks than she’d ever encountered.

Noa Tishby is Jewish, and she said that she watched the Super Bowl like a bunch of other people did, particularly because Rihanna was performing, but that as she watched her perform she began to feel incredibly uncomfortable, and that before the performance she saw social media posts calling Rihanna to bring Kanye on stage, but she thought that they’d probably know better than to perform songs by a guy who’s been so publicly antisemitic and who says that he loves Hitler.

Kanye called for Death Con 3 on Jewish people, and so much more, but Noa Tishby was wrong.

Rihanna’s first song ‘Bitch Better Have My Money’ was produced by Kanye. Rihanna also performed ‘Run’, and ‘This Town’, which featured Kanye and then she started singing Kanye’s song ‘All Of The Lights’.

After the performance, that song was number one on iTunes after 13 years. So, this was essentially a tribute to Kanye West at the Super Bowl.

That’s when Noa Tishby recorded a video.

Rihanna has so many hit songs. Did she have to do a Kanye song?

The title post went viral and it got 20 million views and impressions across social media.

It was picked up by Newsweek and other media platforms.

Many of Noa Tishby’s followers were also upset by Rihanna’s song choice, but numerous Kanye supporters came after Noa Tishby with horrendous antisemitic attacks, but a lot of the comments were too offensive to share, but they included attacks on her religion, her home country, her looks, her son, and her safety was threatened.

She got numerous Free Palestine, and a ton mostly, shut the $@#%& up hashtag Jew. She also found that there are many, many Hitler enthusiasts out there. A lot, with a lot of Hitler references such as Hitler, should have finished the job.

But this was not news to her. This is an everyday thing and every single Jewish person knows precisely what Noa Tishby is talking about. She calls it being online while Jewish because if you broadcast anything about Jew hostility, you get back every single trope and insult in the book. And this is what happens. This is what occurs when people believe the antisemitic trope, the conspiracy theory about Jewish power and Jewish control. Because if you believe that, then aggression against Jews is totally okay.

And make no mistakes, what’s online, goes offline. With antisemitic taunts shouted out at high school soccer games. Mezuzahs ripped off, and pork left outside dorm rooms at the University of Denver.

And two people were shot outside a synagogue in Los Angeles. And that was just a taste of what’s been going down.

She said she wished we had as much control and power as some people believe that we do, but we don’t. Yet anti-Jewish hostility is now totally normalised, and she said: ‘So, let me be clear once again, anyone who promotes Jewish hatred should not be promoted at the Super Bowl.

To be honest we could do without Rihanna and Kanye West. They’re both overrated, and we actually don’t need them, or their music. There are plenty of other brilliant singers out there.

Rapper Kanye West, also known as Ye, has posted antisemitic tropes on his social media accounts, shared antisemitic conspiracy theories with Fox News host Tucker Carlson, and later, on social media, threatened brutality against Jews.

And since launching a presidential bid during the week of Thanksgiving, he has gone on a media tour, going after Jewish people on podcasts and travelling with a posse of known antisemites.

In his latest appearance on the InfoWars talk show hosted by provocateur Alex Jones, Kanye West, alongside white supremacist Nick Fuentes, said people should quit dissing the Nazis and exalted Adolf Hitler.

Alex Jones, a far-right conspiracy theorist who’s been ordered to pay parents more than a billion dollars for insisting the carnage of their children in one of America’s deadliest school shootings was a hoax, pushed back on Kanye West’s praise, but made references to the Jewish mafia.

Later, Kanye West posted to Twitter a picture of a swastika combined with a Star of David. AJC called out the heinous Jew hatred on social media.

Why are we still giving Kanye West airtime, he’s obviously not well – pots of money, yet nobody in his life cares enough to intervene and get him some help.

No one has to collude to destroy his career, he’s doing that all by himself, and he’s on a destructive downward spiral and now it’s decomposing faster with every venom that escapes his lips, and why is anyone giving this fool interviews? Perhaps it’s to make him look like an even bigger fool, and he needs to beef up his security, otherwise, I can see another John Lennon moment coming up.

How can Kanye West be anti-semitic, he’s a man of colour, and he’d soon play the race card if it was his family that was being persecuted!

What Happened To The Child Stars Of These Classic 90s TV Ads?

‘It’s the Milkybar Kid’, cried the showgirl, peeking around the saloon door as her hero rides through the dusty street with a job to do.

The town proved to be too big for both the chocolate bar-waving cowboy in white and the hat-stealing bandito in black, who’d been busy scaring the locals.

A lash of the Kid’s lasso, and the bad guy was soon out of play, covered in treacles and feathers, while the star shared his namesake chocolate bars with his idolising fans.

For millions of 90s children, the bespectacled Milkybar Kid was as familiar as the taste of the creamy chocolate he famously waved, but is that where his story concludes?

A newspaper outlet took a peek at the life of child star Conrad Coleby, and the youngsters from other iconic television adverts like Dairylea, Breakaway, Hovis and Rolos to discover what happened to them after their 15 seconds of stardom.

He rides into town on a horse to save the townspeople from an evil sheriff before handing out Milkybar bars, shouting: ‘Milkybars are on me!’

The real-life Milkybar Kid, Conrad Coleby, 43, son of British actor Robert Coleby, has enjoyed a varied acting career since his time with Nestle.

The character has been portrayed by a series of blond child stars in Australia, with Conrad Coleby playing the lead part throughout the nineties.

After his time in the Western-inspired ads, Conrad Coleby launched a successful acting career, starring in Disney’s Sabrina Down Under and Home and Away.

He played heartthrob Dylan ‘Dutchy’ Mulholland in Sea Patrol and even shared a screen with Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in the 2013 blockbuster.

Conrad Coleby said in 2020 there was a downside to being so famous.

He said that as the Milkybar Kid in his younger days, he copped quite a bit of bullying for being one of the only youngsters in his neighbourhood to be on TV.

He said that he clearly enjoyed being bullied so much that he chose to give everyone more ammunition and became a professional actor later on.

He stepped away from acting in 2016 to pursue life as a photographer and now photographs action sports, portraiture and property.

Hovis: ‘Boy On The Bike’

The toils of the hardworking Hovis Boy, pushing his bicycle up a never-ending cobbled hill to the backing music of Dvořák’s New World Symphony was first featured in an iconic 1973 advert, directed by Ridley Scott.

The advert, which continued to appear on television screens throughout the 80s and 90s, was set in an industrial town but was actually filmed on Gold Hill in Shaftesbury, Dorset.

The moving clip was voted the nation’s favoured TV advert of all time in 2006.

In 2017, Carl Barlow, 63, conquered the steep hill with the help of an electric bike, just 44 years after the short originally aired.

Carl Barlow, who enjoyed a thirty-year career as a firefighter after starring in the advert, said it was strange to be back after all that time.

He said he recalls he had to push the bicycle up the hill numerous times for the best part of the two days of filming on Gold Hill.

The former child actor explained it was much easier this time around, and that he simply glided up the hill.

The advert had such an impact when it was first released that it was later parodied by The Two Ronnies.

Mr Barlow had been asked to audition when he was 13 years old and got the job because he could ride a bicycle and was happy to cut his hair, and he said that after the advert he had some teasing at school due to the pudding basin type haircut, but it was mainly in good fun.

He said that whenever he sees the advert he finds it particularly fascinating to see his younger self and that it feels rather surreal.

Dairylea: Would You Kiss Veronica Dribblethwaite?

The youngsters would do anything for Dairylea, this advert says, as three young boys having a sleepover in a tent are dissatisfied with their haul of food for a midnight snack.

One says he would even kiss Veronica Dibblethwaite for the cheesy snack, although he looks much less enthusiastic when he’s told by his friends they’ll watch him do it.

Chris Hoyle, formerly known as Chris Cook, was the ringleader in the advert and would go on to score an ongoing role in Coronation Street as Mark Redman.

He told I Love Manchester in 2018 that his life had been completely changed by the instant fame, and that he went from being a shy lad to having a bit of confidence. He said that he’d never gotten a Valentine’s card in his life, and the year he was in Corrie he suddenly got loads in the post from fans.

However, the teenager ran into trouble after he was found with cannabis, making national headlines and losing his Coronation Street role.

He said that he was devastated, and that it was a lot to handle, and that it was difficult at the time to shake off the drugs thing, and people used to shout things at him when he was walking down the street, and that it went on for years.

The actor found a second calling as a playwright, and his play The Newspaper Boy debuted in 2009 and was revived in a production for Queer Contact 2018.

He said he trained as an actor and he loved being in the rehearsals, but that writing gave him so much more creative freedom and control. Also, writing meant that he gets to play every character in his head.

Chris is presently filming in Yorkshire for a BBC drama, Boat Story, which is being made by the studio responsible for The Tourist and Fleabag.

Nestle: Breakaway Kid

The Breakaway bar, with its layers of chocolate and biscuit, was launched in 1970 and has been a pantry staple for families ever since, and in a 1986 advert, Matthew Shaw plays a young boy who’s robbed one of the chocolates from his sister.

‘It’s wicked,’ the child actor says at the end of the advert.

But Mr Shaw has continued performing since his turn as the hat-wearing chocolate thief and has had an expansive career in smaller productions.

He attended the Elliot Clark School of Dance and Drama before landing jobs at Children in Need and on Shameless.

The Merseyside-based singer has featured in innumerable pantomimes and starred on cruise ship productions of West End favourites, including Cinderella.

Nestle: Rolos Are Too Good To Share

Cees Molenaar starred in the 1995 award-winning Rolo elephant advert as a youngster, where he refuses to offer a young elephant one of the caramel chocolates, but the selfishness comes back to torment him (or Philip Childs, who plays up the grown-up chocolate lover) when the elephant smacks him in the face during a parade.

The advert was originally supposed to be for Dutch audiences but was used internationally after it proved extremely popular.

The Rolo advert fought off stiff competition to scoop the Grand Prix at Cannes in 1996, beating Nike’s Good Vs Evil spot, which starred Eric Cantona.

Philip Childs is a stage actor with credits on and off the West End. He’s also scored roles in Emmerdale, Eastenders and The Bill.

In a piece written in 2015, Philip Childs explained how he got the job and his delight when the advert was popular.

He said that he’s lost count of the number of people asking him if he gets regular free samples or that at times children should shout “neh neh neh neh neh!” at him in the street, but that he loved it, and he said.

He added that the story continues with a joyful reunion with some of the creative and production team and the grown-up Cees, now 27 years old and fluent in English, to celebrate 20 years since the making of the ad.

He said the news that it had won an award for being the best Dutch commercial of all time made him extremely proud indeed.

Mr Molenaar is now a father and worked for Klaas Puul in the Netherlands in fish processing.

The pair reunited in 2015, 20 years after the advert was filmed, to mark its success.

This was back in the day when boys were boys and girls were girls and they accepted it. Perhaps the world was a better place then?

There was the old Yorkie advertisement, and then there was the sultry Flake advert, which was brilliant.

Mind you, you also used to have boys that thought they were girls on Top of the Pops.

Boys and men had those tight loon pants that they sported back in the 70s, and the lads had long hair, and their trousers left you in no doubt of their sex.

And then there was Puff the Magic Dragon, which wouldn’t be permitted now with all the wokes out there – we all took a walk on the wild side back then. The good old days when people weren’t offended by life.

And it was an age when adverts were usually pretty amusing. Nowadays, they’re all just irritating babble that ticks all the boxes.

But all that adverts are is brainwashing. It’s always been brainwashing of some sort, but now it’s woke brainwashing. I now turn the sound off during the ads, or just download all the programmes so there are no pesky adverts, and if one creeps in I fast-forward it.

The Milkybar Kid would have been cancelled today, probably too white. And a small boy with a dangerous cap gun, well, he would have been taken into care for being a juvenile delinquent, and his parents would have likely been arrested for letting him get out of control.

Fruit And Vegetables Are Now Rationed At Tesco And Aldi

Empty red pepper shelves in Aldi in St Ives, Cambridgeshire, on Wednesday morning

Tesco became the fourth UK supermarket to ration fruit and vegetables, and the UK’s largest retailer has introduced a buying limit of three items per customer on tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers.

Hours before Aldi followed competitors Asda and Morrisons by imposing customer purchase limits on salad vegetables after supplies were hit by disrupted harvests in southern Europe and north Africa.

The cold temperature in Spain and Morocco has drastically hit the availability of vegetables in British markets along with skyrocketing energy prices.

The supply issue has been blamed on poor weather, transport disruption and high energy prices making British greenhouses more expensive to heat.

Growers in Europe and North Africa are reportedly sending produce to European supermarkets rather than to the United Kingdom because they’re more inclined to pay higher prices. Yet the UK are content to send aid overseas but doesn’t want to pay out more money to feed their own.

Tim O’Malley, of major importer Nationwide Produce, said wholesale spot prices for fresh produce have soared by as much as 300 per cent in recent weeks. If passed on to British consumers, these items would add several pounds to a weekly shop.

Oh, do behave, government ministers and the Prime Minister himself are racking it in, and instead of lining their own pockets, why don’t they have some spirited compassion and put some of that money back into the economy?

Aldi (Altrincham store pictured) is now limiting purchases of peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes to three units per person

Asked about the difference between shelves in the United Kingdom and in Europe, he said that it wasn’t about Brexit, it was about different buying models – yes, of course, it was, not! I bet the Prime Minister isn’t going short of a cucumber or two!

Our shelves are now empty, and the price being demanded by Spanish and Moroccan exporters has doubled for cucumbers, peppers, lettuces and onions, and the price of tomatoes has gone up a third and courgettes are two-thirds more costly since the beginning of the year.

Asda set purchase limits on eight lines of vegetables and fruit on Tuesday, while Morrisons imposed them on four lines on Wednesday.

Expats have gleefully been filming their full shelves in Spain (Malaga pictured) and across the EU amid shortages of tomatoes in the UK

An Aldi UK spokesman said that they were limiting purchases of peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes to three units per person to ensure that as many customers as possible can buy what they need.

Tesco said that it was working hard with its suppliers to ensure a reasonable pool of vegetables for customers in light of temporary supply challenges on some lines due to unfavourable weather conditions abroad.

Some people are saying that they came back from their weekly shop and all vegetables were in ample supply. However, I went to my Tesco Express which usually has an abundant supply of vegetables and I couldn’t even get one cucumber. I then went to another shop that also had no cucumbers, although they did have some other fruit and vegetables, but not very much. I wonder where we’re going to get our five a day now?

Spanish and Moroccan peppers, courgettes and aubergines in France

But this isn’t something that’s just happened. I’ve seen when shopping for fruit and vegetables for a while now that fruit and vegetables have been lacking, and sometimes when shopping most of the shelves on the fruit and vegetable section are almost empty and it looks like they’re halfway through a closing down sale.

The problem being is that when supermarkets do get fruit and vegetable stocks, they will take advantage of this and likely put their prices up so that people can’t afford to purchase them anyhow, and then they will go to waste and be chucked out.

The saying is that ‘Ve hav waze ov making you talk, but now it’s been changed to ‘Ve hav waze ov making fruiz walk’.

But here we go again, the cost of fruit and vegetables is going to rocket, yet I bet you can’t get any rocket in the supermarket!

After Losing Her Citizenship Battle, Shamima Begum Cannot Return To The UK

Shamima Begum has lost her fight for British citizenship, eight years after she left the United Kingdom as a 15-year-old schoolgirl to join Islamic State (ISIS).

Shamima Begum, who left east London at age 15 to join the Islamic State, had been challenging the decision taken by the then home secretary, Sajid Javid, in 2019 to strip her of her British citizenship.

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) decided this decision was lawful and ruled that the suspicion she’d been trafficked to Syria was inadequate for her to succeed in the appeal.

The judge, Mr Justice Jay, found that there was a credible suspicion she was the target of trafficking, nevertheless, Mr Justice Jay concluded that the Home Secretary wasn’t formally required to consider this when he removed her citizenship.

Mr Justice Jay also said the Secretary of State’s conclusion that she travelled willingly to Syria was as stark as it was unsympathetic.

Shamima Begum’s lawyer said that it was far from over and would be contesting the decision. Their statement read: “Regrettably, this is a lost opportunity to put into reverse a profound mistake and a continuing injustice.”

Shamima Begum married the notoriously hardline IS member Dutch national Yago Riedijk, 27, aged just 15 and she had three children with him who all later died.

She was discovered by a British journalist in a refugee camp in 2019, after IS lost the ground war in Syria, thus making the government knowledgeable that she was still alive.

Shamima Begum’s British citizenship was then stripped and she was barred from entering Britain following being considered a threat to the nation, she’s been fighting to return to the United Kingdom ever since.

Bahrain and Nicaragua, very recently are the only nations other than the United Kingdom that strip citizenship in bulk. Since 2000, the United Kingdom has deprived at least 212 people of citizenship, more than ten times as many as France or Australia.

In 2020, the Court of Appeal gave her permission to return to the United Kingdom to appeal her revoked citizenship. Then in 2021, the Supreme Court overturned this, finding national security fears outweighed the right to an effective hearing.

Giving the judgment of the tribunal, Mr Justice Jay said that reasonable people would differ over the circumstances of Shamima Begum’s case and that those advising the Secretary of State see this as a black-and-white issue when many would say that there are shades of grey.

Shamima Begum and her two friends were not stopped by the police, school and local authority and the commission said that there were state failures and possible breaches of the state’s corollary protective duty, between December 2014 and February 2015, which could be explored.

Shamima Begum might want to come back to this country but our Government will definitely not let it happen. However, she was a 15-year-old girl departing the United Kingdom through a British terminal that let her through. Were there no alarm bells ringing when she arrived at the terminal or even going through the departure gates with her friends? Perhaps someone was paid off to allow them through the departure gates?

Whether she was brainwashed by ISIS along with her school friends does make you wonder, but she did go on to enthusiastically recruit others into the bloodthirsty regime and was part of a group that aggressively policed morality. A group that battered women in the street for showing even a wrist.

She was recruited into ISIS, but did she go willingly or was she brainwashed? I don’t think we will ever know. But she was 15 years old, just a child – she was a British citizen, and we have children younger than that in the United Kingdom who’ve committed vile crimes and murders, but we don’t throw away the key.

She should be allowed back, but put in prison for a very long time, or at least until such time she’s been rehabilitated because she was legally a child at the time. What’s different here is that she isn’t the right colour or faith.

Conservative Chief Lee Anderson Says He’s Not A ‘Lunatic’ For Demanding The Death Penalty Be Reinstated

Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson says he’s not on some lunatic fringe for wanting to bring back the death penalty.

The blunt MP for Ashfield said he’s entitled to have opinions after backlash to comments declaring capital punishment has a 100 per cent success rate.

Mr Anderson was given the post by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in his reshuffle last week.

In an interview with The Spectator magazine a few days before his appointment, he said he would support the United Kingdom reintroducing the death penalty.

The Prime Minister was forced to distance himself from the comments to confirm that neither he nor the Government, shared his view.

Talking on Nadine Dorries’ TalkTV programme with Nadine, Mr Anderson doubled down on some of his controversial assertions, insisting bringing back the death penalty wasn’t some lunatic fringe view. However, he did admit that it was never going to be Government policy.

He said that it wasn’t a big surprise to his constituents and that he wasn’t all of a sudden coming out saying that he supports the death penalty and that this was an opinion that he’s always held since being a teenager, but that it wasn’t some lunatic fringe view.

And he claimed the policy was even backed by 52 per cent of the country and millions of Conservative voters, and that he knew that this was never going to happen, it was never going to be Government policy, and it would never get through Parliament.

He said that he was entitled to have opinions, even if there were some people in his own party in Parliament that didn’t agree with them.

Asked by Boris Johnson’s sister Rachel, a guest on the show, whether he felt like a rat that had jumped on a sinking ship, after switching sides in Parliament, Mr Anderson said that he didn’t feel like he’d jumped on the sinking ship.

Mr Anderson served as a Labour councillor in Ashfield before defecting to the Conservatives in 2019.

The now-Tory MP has been dubbed ’30p Lee’ for claiming that meals could be prepared for that sum and suggesting people using food banks couldn’t budget.

In 2021, when the men’s Euro 2020 football match was taking place, he promised to boycott England games in protest against the players’ anti-racism stance of taking a knee before matches.

He says that he’s not a lunatic, although he protests too much, and he’s not a very pleasant man, although it appears that all the Tories are horrible because how often have the Tories sentenced to death with austerity and cuts?

He said that he’s not a lunatic, but we know precisely what he is, he’s a bog standard, ten a penny, lying, money-grabbing Tory opportunist of the worst kind, and it’s fairly evident that the Tories are in a total dilemma. All their major policies have failed, Brexit has been a catastrophe, they messed up over the pandemic, and now they’ve become pathetic. Although, Brexit wasn’t a Tory policy per se. David Cameron was the prime minister at the time. It was voted in by the British people, but the idea was put there by Government.

Let’s face it if you put something in the minds of people enough times, they will start to believe it, it’s called the illusionary effect.

Perhaps he’s been given the position to be a lightning rod for the Tories? Because while he’s playing the doofus, attention is being taken away from the rest of the Tory party, and they get away with all sorts while attention is diverted.

This will inevitably go to his already enormous ego, and he might even start chucking his weight around, although he’s probably not very popular with the backbenchers, and I really can’t see him lasting long.

A Woman Who Claims She Is Madeleine McCann Says A DNA Test Will Be Conducted Soon

It’s been said that a woman who claims she’s Madeleine McCann has said that she will take a DNA test shortly.

Julia Wendell, from Poland, went viral after creating an Instagram account named @iammadeleinemcann, saying she started wondering if she was Maddie a few months ago after hearing something from her grandma.

The young woman also claims to have a freckle on her leg and a speck in her eye in the same places as Madeleine.

She’s 21 years old but believes her age could be wrong. Maddie was born in May 2003, meaning that she would now be 19 years old.

However, German investigators believe that Maddie, who vanished during a family break in Portugal in 2007, was killed by a sex predator Christian Brueckner, but despite extensive searches and countless police investigations, the child’s body has never been discovered.

In recent months, people have taken to social media as part of a trend to show their similarities to Maddie.

The most recent unsupported claims, made on TikTok and Instagram, have seen Ms Wendell comparing her images to those of Maddie as proof that they’re the same individual.

She now alleges that the McCanns have approached her to take a DNA test, and hopes to be in direct contact with them in the coming days.

The woman claimed on her Instagram story that she spoke with someone from Madelein’s family and that she will have the chance to talk with Madeleine’s parents and that a DNA would be done soon.

Meanwhile, a source close to the McCanns told a newspaper outlet that the family are taking no chances, and that they’re willing to look at all leads, and that it was essential that they look at all of the factors, and that the girl does look similar, there was no disputing that, and that if what she says is true, there is every chance it could be her, and that all adds up.

In a post published, the woman claims to have talked to someone who was alleged to be Madeleine’s cousin, and who told her she could have a chance to speak to Kate and Gerry McCann to arrange a DNA test, but these claims haven’t yet been addressed by Madeleine’s family.

Her Instagram bio, on a profile that has now accumulated more than 200,000 followers, and says that she thinks she could be Madeleine and that she needs a DNA test.

Is she Madeleine? Who knows, but to be frank I don’t believe she looks anything like her, but who am I to judge, but we do need the truth. Or is she just some fruitloop that’s opened up some social media instead of attempting to contact the parents discreetly? Although it would be wonderful if it were true, but we shall have to wait to find out.

While Shivering Brits Battle On, Rishi Sunak’s Wife Jets Off On A Luxury £7K-A-Week Holiday

As shivering Britain battles the cost of living crisis and skyrocketing fuel bills, the Prime Minister was feeling the heat.

Rishi Sunak’s millionaire wife has escaped it all by jetting off with the children on a luxury, money-no-object sunshine holiday, and it’s added uproar from critics over a Prime Minister happy to let money-grabbing energy goliaths make record returns as hard-up customers face crippling rising bills, with no chance of any type of holiday this year.

Akshata Murty, 42, left her husband’s Richmond constituency in North Yorkshire, where temperatures dropped to 2C this week with 70mph winds, to lap up India’s 36C sunshine on the costly paradise beaches of Goa along with daughter’s Krishna, 11, nine-year-old Anoushka, and billionaire parents Naranya and Sudha.

The family enjoyed speedboat and jet ski rides across crystal clear Goan waters and Ms Murty, who has a £690 million stake in her father’s tech company Infosys, was photographed basking on Benaulim beach where a seven-night full-board holiday costs £7,500.

Meanwhile, her husband is under fire back home, blamed by unions for failing to impose a tough windfall tax on money-grabbing energy goliaths.

British Gas owner Centrica has coined in record earnings of £3.3 billion while sending bailiffs to force fit prepayment meters on vulnerable customers.

A couple of weeks ago Shell announced doubled returns at £32.2 billion while BP banked £23 billion, and hiking up electricity prices helped the United Kingdom wing of France-owned EDF Energy turn a £1.12 billion profit.

Labour MP Justin Madders stormed that the contrast between the Prime Minister’s wife soaking up the sun in the lap of luxury and the people of the United Kingdom paying exorbitant prices to greedy energy companies couldn’t be starker.

Gavin Sibthorpe of the GMB union said that millions were struggling as a direct result of policies forcing millions of households to cut back, with bills going up and their pay down and that many were questioning whether they could afford any kind of break this year.

He said that Rishi Sunak will never have a clue how that feels and that he and his ministers were completely out of touch.

Meanwhile, back in Goa, Indian heiress Ms Murty, who used her former non-dom status to save an estimated £20 million in taxes, went on a £10 a head jet ski ride with a local fisherman who runs water sports for sightseers.

Some might say that people of wealth shouldn’t be shamed because they have money and that they shouldn’t have to stop spending it or hide away eating ready meals so that they don’t offend others, and that might be true, but she’s the Prime Minister’s wife, which makes it slightly different.

And apparently, Rishi Sunak’s wife potentially dodged up to £20 million in UK tax by being non-domiciled and paid £30,000 a year to keep the status, disclosures that came amid increasing political tension.

Akshata Murty gets around £11.5 million a year in dividends from a stake in an Indian IT company and declared non-dom status, which permits people to evade tax on foreign earnings.

Apparently, the required tax was paid by Ms Murty but refused to say where, as the information wasn’t relevant, and evidently, it’s possible for someone in the multimillionaire position to take advantage of tax havens on income earned outside the United Kingdom.

However, now, Rishi Sunak’s wife has now given up her non-dom status after a political row, which threatened to jeopardise her husband’s career prospects, and Ms Murty revealed that she would start paying British taxes on all her worldwide income, although she insisted that the move was solely voluntary.

The bottom line is that Ms Murty isn’t using taxpayer’s money, she’s a multimillionaire, and she’s spending her own money. However, she is in the public eye because of her Prime Minister husband.

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