The Prospect Of Being Arrested And Fingerprinted Makes Donald Trump ‘Deeply Anxious’

Donald Trump is extremely worried about the prospect of being arrested and fingerprinted as legal sources claim the New York City district attorney still has one more witness to question, suggesting his arrest could occur thereafter.

The former president claims he will be arrested on Tuesday over claims he paid porn star Stormy Daniels to keep silent about their alleged liaison, and if Donald Trump’s assertions about an imminent arrest are true, it would make him the first former president ever to face criminal charges.

A source told journalists from The New York Times, including Maggie Haberman, who broke several exclusives on Trump during his presidency that Donald Trump’s first legal encounter occurred in the 1970s and he has reportedly been deeply anxious about the prospect of being arrested since.

His concerns increased after his former Chief Financial Officer, Allen Weisselberg was arrested in 2021 and he was mainly covered in the media being escorted to court in handcuffs, and seeing his former close confidante in cuffs and flanked by officers shocked him to his core and those close to him said he couldn’t believe what they were doing to Weisselberg.

However, prosecutors inside DA Alvin Bragg’s office told a newspaper outlet that they didn’t know why Donald Trump thought his arrest would happen as early as Tuesday. Insiders said there’s still one more witness to testify before a grand jury, which could potentially delay his potential arrest.

A source close to Donald Trump’s advisors told the newspaper outlet that their best guess was Tuesday and that someone must have relayed that to the Republican before he took to Truth Social to make his claims, and that there had been no notification, other than illegal leaks from the Justice Department, and the DA’s office, to NBC and other fake news carriers, that the George Soros-funded Radical Left Democrat prosecutor in Manhattan had chosen to take his Witch-Hunt to the next level.

And that Donald Trump was rightfully highlighting his innocence and the weaponisation of the injustice system, and that he would be in Texas next weekend for a giant demonstration.

His claims come more than six years after Donald Trump’s lawyers paid Daniels a sum of $130,000 to keep quiet about the affair, with New York prosecutors considering if he should face charges. Donald Trump denies the affair and knowledge of the payments.

There’s no doubt that even if Donald Trump isn’t charged, this will hound him to the grave, but most Trump supporters, they don’t care that he paid most of his taxes in China and only paid an average of $750 in the United States the year he got elected.

They don’t care that he supposedly embezzled millions from a children’s cancer charity and his own charities to finance his election and other things that satisfied him.

They don’t care that he perpetually lied, and they don’t care that the obese malignant egomaniac can’t even string a coherent sentence together – in fact they don’t care about any of these facts. They just believe in the Chinese whispers and unproven allegations.

This orange stain isn’t deeply worried about anything. They’ve been trying to bring Donald Trump down for an extremely long time, but it never pans out, and Trump thought he had it bad, well he’s not, and for the life of me, I can’t understand why Trump voters have been doing everything to protect and shield Trump’s criminality – perhaps they all live in an alternate reality where morals are long gone and out of the window.

Elon Musk Says He’s Open To Buying Crisis-Hit Silicon Valley Bank And Turning Twitter Into A Digital Bank

Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet that he’s open to saving the crisis-hit Silicon Valley Bank and even using Twitter as a digital bank.

The sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has set financial markets into a frenzy, as experts warn it may not be a one-off and brace for the next domino to fall.

Elon Musk, one of the world’s wealthiest men who already bought Twitter for $44 billion last year, was responding to a Twitter user asking if Twitter should buy SVB and become a digital bank.

The chief twit, who frequently responds to questions involving current events, wrote: ‘I’m open to the idea’ on Friday.

California regulators shuttered the bank on Friday after a run on deposits pushed it into crisis, causing the largest US bank failure since the 2008 Great Recession.

Elon Musk also bought the struggling social media app in a protracted negotiation in 2022.

He agreed in April to buy it for $44 billion but attempted to back out of the deal to get a better price.

Finally, after legal threats, he ended up going through with the acquisition and completed his takeover on October 27, 2022.

According to CNBC, had he not completed the deal, he would’ve encountered action in Delaware’s Court of Chancery.

The ripple effect has already hit similar institutions, such as New York’s Signature Bank, which saw its share price plunge 23 per cent before trading was halted when the news of SVB’s demise came in.

The share price of First Republic, the 16th largest bank in America, also crashed by 14.8 per cent and Pac West fell by 37.9 per cent.

University of San Diego finance professor Dan Roccato warned that while SVB was a niche bank, more firms were likely to encounter troubling times ahead.

He told Fox News that he didn’t think they were going back to where they were in 2008 necessarily, but that these things weren’t one-offs’, and he said that his suspicion was that they were going to see a few more of these things creep up.

Silicon Valley Bank’s massive downfall is the second-largest bank failure in US history.

Its death on Friday, which has left customers terrified of losing deposits totalling tens of billions of dollars, is eclipsed only by the failure of Washington Mutual in 2008, which had assets of $307 billion when it went into receivership.

You’ve got to hand it to Elon Musk though, he’s always brainstorming and always getting himself in the news, and he certainly likes to share every brain fart he has with the general public in the hopes everyone gasps with each declaration, but then his brain farts are more brilliant than most people’s efforts.

Elon Musk is a brainiac, although we don’t want his head to get too big, but he will probably turn this around and make a fortune, not that he needs more money, but he is always forward-thinking, but people seem to be making a God out of this mortal man, and they seemingly idolise him. Perhaps Elon could govern America because it’s obvious the democrats don’t have a clue what they’re doing.

Digital currency is what they want, but is it actually a good idea?

Presently, we’re at a bit of a crossroads when it comes to digital currency.

Physical cash is still widely circulating, and governments and banks are still yet to make the leap to issuing a central bank digital currency. At the same time, more people are living a cashless life, which is what they want, and the cryptocurrency boom is very much happening.

This means that digital currencies are under more scrutiny than ever as governments, financial authorities, global corporations, and banks that make decisions start to take them seriously as a solution for the future.

Of course, digital currency could offer a wide range of advantages over conventional methods of payment, including faster payments and greater transparency, but there are also some disadvantages to take into account as well, like security problems and how explosive some currencies can be.

Of course, digital currency offers faster transactions. There are no fees. There’s better payment tracking and better protection against fraud.

There’s better accessibility and no inflation.

So, what are the drawbacks of digital currency?

Presently, most digital currencies are decentralised, so they’re not backed by a government or central bank.

This means that they’re not stable and open to a lot of volatility, which means they can lose or gain value very quickly, and those who trade in digital currencies can possess something worth a lot in one moment, but if the value falls, they can lose value rapidly.

If CBDCs backed by banks or governments were issued in the future, then they could be a much more secure solution, but then there is the security issue because while digital currencies remove the need for storing your personal details online, the currency you own may still be vulnerable to hacks, and there have been a number of cases of companies holding currency having it stolen in an attack. Traditional banks offer a wider range of protection and compensation for those that have their funds looted.

Then there’s the lack of regulation. 

The conventional financial industry is laboriously controlled, which helps to add stability and ensure there’s no improper activity.

Digital currencies presently exist outside of this regulation for the most part, which provides the user with freedom but also means they’re predisposed to more unsavoury practices.

While digital currencies are more accessible, there are also downsides. Most worrying is that this increased access can open the currency up to criminal elements looking to manipulate it for their needs, and authorities are most concerned about digital currencies being used for money laundering or to fund criminal activities.

Digital currency for the time being and most definitely in the future is a bad idea because unlike traditional forms of payment that have stood the test of time and look to have a solid future, digital currency is still new and very much in the early phases of development. Because of this, the outlook is uncertain, and there’s no guarantee that the funds you hold digitally will continue to be usable or retain value.

Let’s Pour One For Purim!

These pictures aren’t exactly what you might envision when you think of a religious festival, but among Jewish communities, the annual celebration of Purim can result in intoxicated lightheartedness as it’s celebrated with parties, fancy dress, amazing food and for the guys, a lot of booze.

The scenes in Mea Shearim were characteristic of the holiday, which marks the deliverance of the Jewish people from a plan to eliminate them in the Persian realm 2,500 years ago.

According to the tale, the plot was thought up by Haman, an official of the Achaemenid Empire. Haman was the advisor to Persian King Ahasuerus, but the plans were thwarted by Mordechai.

The story is told in the biblical book of Esther, which is publicly recited in the synagogue, known as the reading of the Megillah, as part of the annual celebrations.

This festive holiday is observed with the exchanging of mouthwatering food, drink and presents, consuming a sumptuous celebratory feast and contributing to the needy.

According to religious law, each adult must give at least two different foods to another person, and at least two charitable donations to the poor during the holiday. The giving of these food parcels, called mishloach manot, has become a huge part of the festivities.

To satisfy the aspect of charity to the needy, either food or money equal to the amount of food that’s consumed at a regular meal can be donated. In Synagogue, collections are also taken.

It’s a holiday which has been embraced by ultra-Orthodox Jewish people, who are known to throw enormous parties, complete with fancy dress and popular dishes such as three-cornered pastries called hamantashen, which are traditionally filled with raspberry, apricot, date or poppy seeds.

Seeds, nuts, legumes and green vegetables are customarily consumed on Purim, as is Kreplach, a dumpling filled with cooked meat, chicken or liver and served with soup.

Special breads are also generally consumed, and a dessert consisting of fried dough balls and vanilla custard, called Arany Galuska is customary for Jews from Hungary and Romania, as well as their descendants, but arguably the wildest part of the celebrations is the drinking of alcoholic liquids to the point of drunkenness.

The custom is said to originate from a statement in the Talmud, attributed to a rabbi named Rava, who allegedly states that men should drink during the celebrations until he can no longer distinguish between Arur Haman (Cursed is Haman) and Baruch Mordechai (Blessed is Mordecai).

It’s believed that consuming wine stimulates the experience of spiritual blindness, in that a person is unable to distinguish between good and evil while inebriated. However, men have had to restrain their drinking in recent years because, during the pandemic, senior ultra-Orthodox rabbis were forced to urge moderation as the enormous parties resulted in a coronavirus spike.

Although, I’m not entirely sure what to make of this splendour. Is that child smoking in the photograph, or do my eyes mislead me?

The festivities look amazing if you want to get plastered, but quite frankly they look downright medieval, and it looks like there will be some extremely aching heads after an evening like that, although it looks like they were having fun, just wondering where all the women were – perhaps they weren’t allowed to enjoy themselves? But it does prove that they’re human after all, just like most other people.

I must confess, it did look like fun, although I wouldn’t have wanted the headache the following morning, and can you imagine all of the collective heartburn of all those Jewish men after consuming hamantashen and kreplach, among other Jewish edibles? Oy Vey!

There Will Be A Delay In Retirement For 8.5 Million Workers

Almost nine million workers will be forced to wait longer for their state pension if the Government increases the retirement age to 68 in the mid-2030s.

The state pension age is presently set at 66 and is in the process of increasing to 67, and it’s legislated to increase again to 68 between 2044 and 2046, but ministers are considering plans to accelerate this by almost a decade.

According to estimates from the pension specialist Just Group, this will hit about 8.5 million workers approaching retirement, and it found that revving the increase in the state pension age would impact about 910,000 people each year.

While the state pension age is scheduled to increase in the 2044 to 2046 window, the Government wants this to happen by 2039, and industry experts have speculated that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt could announce an even earlier timetable, between 2034 and 2036, in the Budget next week.

Stephen Lowe, of Just Group, said that increasing the state pension age forces a radical shift in people’s retirement planning and that it means people will face a fundamental choice of financing an extra year before they receive their state pension, which is the bedrock of retirement income for many people or working longer.

Mr Lowe added that it was vital the government supports any change in the state pension age with a comprehensive and effective communications campaign and that they’ve seen in the recent past what serious difficulties it can cause people if they’re not aware of a change to their own state pension age.

A generation of women born in the 1950s was forced to wait an additional six years for their state pension after legislation was tweaked, giving rise to the Waspi (Women Against State Pension Inequality) campaign.

According to research from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a think tank, said that in the past, increasing the state pension age had also exacerbated social inequality across the country. The last increase disproportionately affected senior workers in the most impoverished regions of Britain.

The IFS calculated that this was because they’re less likely to have adequate private savings and therefore have no option but to work for longer while they wait to receive the state pension and that when the state pension age increased from 65 to 66, one in seven 65-year-olds were pushed into income poverty as a consequence.

Meanwhile, we import hundreds of migrants and hand them instant NHS, schools and homes – oh, and then we establish them as a protected species, who if we don’t keep our mouths shut might offend them, but then how else are we going to pay for the £5 billion a year hotel bill for all those young men coming across the channel – yes, of course, with the pension money that we worked for and paid into a system that had no intention of allowing us to have, yet we worked mercilessly hard for that!

And where are all these 68-year-olds supposed to work? Ageism is already rampant, which affects people in their 50s, if not before.

Of course, they don’t have to work, but they’ll have no choice because they won’t be able to access their state pension – the Government are complete schmucks, there’s no doubt about that and if they had a whole brain cell between them they’d be dangerous.

Suella Braverman Blasts Gary Lineker For Comparing Her Immigration Crackdown To 1930s Germany After He Used The Nazi Slur

Suella Braverman publicly slapped down Gary Linekar after he compared her migrant boats crackdown to the policies in Nazi Germany in the 1930s as critics call for his sacking and demanded to know why he was permitted to get away with it.

The corporation’s highest-paid celeb, who makes £1.35 million a year from the licence fee payer, will be spoken to by his bosses, but viewers and MPs insist he’s gone too far and must be sacked for another impartiality breach.

The Home Secretary said she felt that Mr Linekar’s comments were disappointing, and she told the BBC that she thought it was unhelpful to compare their measures, which were lawful, proportionate and, indeed, compassionate, to 1930s Germany.

Asked if he should resign or be sacked, she said that was a matter for the BBC and they would resolve that, and she invited Gary Linekar to visit Kent to see what the communities in Kent and Dover, and actually all around the United Kingdom are feeling about the issue.

The Match of the Day commentator has been constantly told off by the BBC about his often left-wing tweets, and in October last year, he was found to have violated impartiality rules after criticising the Tories and Liz Truss and has been cautioned several times about his tweets on the government and Brexit.

Tory MP Michael Fabricant demanded to know why the BBC was permitting Gary Lineker to get away with it, and that not only have Lineker’s ignorant Nazi comments upset MPs, many of the Jewish community think it vulgar while other broadcasters are asking why Lineker is allowed to get away with it.

Tory deputy chairman Lee Anderson said: ‘Yet again Gary Lineker has been allowed to kick about vile and baseless accusations, and the public is sick to the back teeth of it. It’s time to tackle this woke crisp salesman and hold him to account for the nonsense he spews. The BBC need to get a grip and finally show these people the red card’.

‘The BBC should disassociate themselves from these types of comments and ask themselves the question: ‘Is this the type of comment they expect from their publicly funded presenters?’

‘Instead of lecturing, Mr Lineker should stick to reading out the football scores and flogging crisps. This is just another example of how out of touch these overpaid stars are with the voting public’.

If the BBC don’t sack him, then perhaps everyone should cancel their TV licence Direct Debit at once, although I don’t presume to tell everyone what to do.

We shouldn’t suppress free speech, but there’s a time and place, and definitely not when you’re working for the BBC – it gives them a bad name.

Enough is enough from Gary Lineker and his big head that floats with prominence and believes that he’s above everyone else – well he’s not, and he should remember from whence he came.

Gary Lineker was born in Leicester and he was the son of a greengrocer, as were his grandfather and great-grandfather, and they ran a fruit and veg stall in Leicester Market, and Gary Lineker, who is caucasian, received racial abuse as a youngster because of his dark features. He out of anybody should know better!

This isn’t even about free speech, this is about the fact that he’s supposed to be impartial.

Unfortunately, Gary Lineker is extremely arrogant. He might do a reasonably good job working for the BBC, and then they pay him ridiculous amounts of money for doing it, and I agree that everyone has the right to their opinion as long as they don’t campaign it – wasn’t that how Hitler started out?

It’s Out There!

Spy plane images acquired by a newspaper outlet show a UFO flying near Baghdad last year.

The six pictures seem to show a skinny cylindrical-shaped entity over North Eastern Iraq, near Baghdad, moving across the screen from left to right.

The pictures were taken from a video filmed by a thermal camera in a United States Air Force (USAF) Reaper drone in May 2022 which has been dubbed the ‘Baghdad Phantom’.

A source with knowledge of the incident said the object was flagged in an Air Force repository as Unidentified Aerial Phenomena’, the government’s preferred term for UFOs, last year, because of its strange characteristics.

Fast-moving craft is powered by propulsion systems like rockets or engines that produce heat, but the thermal camera that filmed the entity showed it was colder than its surroundings.

The object also didn’t have any observable wings or fins, likely ruling it out as a glider.

A USAF source said the UFO had no visible propulsion and seemed to be under ‘intelligent control’.

The images were leaked to journalist and documentary filmmaker Jeremy Corbell and investigative journalist George Knapp and released shortly after midnight on Weaponized, their new podcast.

Jeremy Corbell told a newspaper outlet that what he and George had found is Reaper drone footage over an active war zone and that it showed an anomalous object which had been designated as UAP by their own air force.

He said that like their government, they as journalists were curious about what can be seen in the images and that the object appear to have no flight control surfaces, no traditional reactionary propulsion and it was cooler than its surrounding environment, and that this wasn’t your grandma’s rocket that they were looking at.

The six intriguing pictures show the elongated entity at the bottom of the screen moving from left to right. It appeared darker than its background on the thermal camera, indicating it was colder than its surroundings.

The pictures seem to show some type of trail or stream left in the ‘Baghdad Phantom’s’ wake, although it could be an artefact from the video from which they were taken.

Military coordinates on the bottom right of the images give the location of the Reaper Drone video as Northern Eastern Iraq, near Baghdad, and it’s understood that the UFO wasn’t fired at by the USAF, because it had no payload, for instance, a possible bomb, and didn’t get near to ground troops.

But you will notice that these videos and pictures are always so grainy, and to be honest, my security camera at home takes better images, but that’s what you’ll get from thermal imaging I guess.

Believers in aliens will see UFOs. Believers in the man in the sky see Jesus. Believers in ghosts see them in the shadows, and maybe Elvis is riding the Loch Ness Monster.

They said it was dark and cylindrical, no doubt it came from Uranus.

But I have no doubt that we’ve been under surveillance for years and not just from aliens – we are not alone!

UFO just means that it’s an object that’s been unidentified. It doesn’t mean that these objects are extraterrestrial objects/aliens, although there’s always that possibility.

A Man Was Tortured For SIX HOURS By Sadistic Thugs

A gang of barbaric criminals who tortured a man with a flamethrower, knives and boiling salt water for six hours has been imprisoned.

Dangerous Charlie Saunter, William O’Brien, and Kai Haruna attacked their victim in a drugs-related row.

Charlie Saunter, 23, along with his younger accomplices William O’Brien and Kai Haruna, both 20, also subjected the man to burns, dog bites and genital mutilation in a flat in Gravesend, Kent on July 5, 2020.

Police said that Kai Haruna repeatedly jumped on the victim’s chest until he passed out, while William O’Brien used his dog to stop the man from escaping.

Footage of the sickening abuse was shared online before being uncovered by detectives days later. Now, the trio of violent criminals have been jailed for a combined total of 35 years.

Detectives Constable John Carless, of Kent Police’s County Line and Gangs Team, said that these men were violent and dangerous criminals with zero regard for the law, and said that Haruna, O’Brien, and Saunter planned and launched a lengthy attack on their victim, subjecting him to vicious torture techniques over a period of six hours.

A sentencing hearing at Maidstone Crown Court, Kent, heard the trio had tortured their victim in a disagreement over money or the supply of drugs in July 2020.

Two days after the attack, Kent Police obtained video evidence of the incident which had been shared on social media and arrested the trio that same day.

While arresting the attackers, officers seized two knives as well as quantities of heroin and cocaine.

One of the officers was also wounded after being bitten by a dog during the arrests.

All three young men were charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent, which Saunter and Haruna both admitted. However, O’Brien had initially denied this charge but subsequently changed his plea to guilty.

Saunter admitted another charge of possession with intent to supply heroin and crack cocaine.

Their sentences also dealt with two different cases, concerning thefts and other acts of brutality.

Saunter, of Pevensey in East Sussex, was jailed for 13 years and six months, whilst O’Brien, of Greenwich, was given 11 years and Haruna, of Grove Park, London, was given eight years and three months.

All three will serve at least two-thirds of their jail time before they’re even able to apply for parole, and all will be subject to an extended licence period of four years upon their release.

Again this is pathetic sentencing by a judge. These people should have been incarcerated for a much longer prison term with no parole.

Sentencing these days for crimes like this are a complete joke.

The criminals clearly didn’t show any guilt or accountability for what they’d done and should have got a much lengthier sentence, and anybody that harms another living human being or even takes a life, because this man’s life will never be the same again should have been given life imprisonment because life should mean life with no parole.

To be honest, words fail me. These people are the scum of the earth and they should be locked up permanently. Not only did they harm another human being but they had drugs with the intention to sell, and they don’t just sell them to adults, they sell them to kids as well.

Our so-called justice system is totally broken and requires a complete overhaul.

It would have also been nice if we’d been told how the victim was. I would say I hope that he makes a complete recovery, but something like this, you’re never going to make a full recovery – for pity’s sake, they mutilated his man parts and he’s now disabled for life, not just physically but mentally as well.

Buried Since The Blitz

A Second World War Anderson shelter used during the Blitz has been discovered in a back garden.

Martin Tracey, 66, and his wife Allison moved into their new home in Coventry last summer and were surprised to find an Anderson shelter buried in their back garden.

Anderson shelters were buried in gardens throughout the country as millions of Britons hid from German bombs, and could protect up to six people from flying shell fragments.

Since making the discovery late last year, Martin’s great-grandson, James, eight, and granddaughter, Robyn, 32, made it their mission to uncover the bunker and embellish it with plants and flowers.

Martin said that the previous owners had been living in the house since the war and that a neighbour had said in passing that there might be a shelter in the garden.

The grandfather said the time capsule shelter was much larger than he believed it would be, and he added that it was amazing to have a piece of history in their back garden, and that it was really cool when they first discovered it, and that it was quite nostalgic because it was something that related to the history of Coventry.

He said the family that had been there before them, had been there since the war and that the home hadn’t changed hands since before the beginning of World War II, so inside of the house was a bit of a time warp.

He said that his wife who was a keen gardener, and his grandchildren chose to take it on as a project and have been clearing around it and opening it up since September last year.

He said originally, they wanted to have it taken out so they could have the garden flattened, but they were all so excited about the discovery that they have taken over, and he said that it was much bigger than he ever expected it to be, and that it was perfectly preserved inside, and that it was a very well made shelter.

The shelters, which were first designed in 1938, were given out for free by the government to lower and middle-income families to give them someplace to go during air raids.

Inside the Anderson shelter were benches made out of long pieces of slate, as well as some old battery-powered car lamps, bottles and pipework.

The shelter had been well concealed and lay undiscovered in the garden for more than 70 years.

Martin said that when they began clearing the bunker, they had lots of people popping their heads over the fence as they were interested in what was being found and that as far as they know, it’s the only one in the street.

He said it’s such an unusual feature to have in your back garden, and when it’s all finished they were hoping to have it like a little garden room, and that James even plans on sleeping in it when it’s all clean and dry.

He added that they’re busy getting it prepped for the summer when they also plan on opening it up to the public for a day so they can have a look inside.

They might also want to refurbish the structure because they might be needing it for its actual intent sooner than they think, and indeed it is a great bit of history that most of the world has forgotten about, although they need to be careful that the council isn’t round immediately to increase their tax, saying that they now have additional space.

And in this day and age, if someone else found it in their back garden, they might rent it out for about £400 a month.

This was an extremely good find, and it’s nice to see that they’re getting use from it, and a real-life history lesson and hopefully it will be a reminder of how people protected themselves from the perils of war.

London To Be Hammered By Snow And Ice 

Snow and ice could hit London as an Arctic blast will cause temperatures across the United Kingdom to fall below freezing tonight.

A yellow weather warning will be in place for the capital, the Thames Valley, East Anglia, parts of the Midlands and South Wales from 9 pm tonight until 10 am tomorrow, as well as in Northern Ireland.

Temperatures will plummet to -10C tomorrow in parts of the country as up to 30cm of snow could fall in isolated areas across Scotland. Other places could see 10-20cm of snowfall.

A level three cold weather warning has been triggered as the Met Office warns that sub-zero temperatures could pose a severe threat to vulnerable people.

The Met Office has extended its yellow weather alert for snow and ice to include much of England, Wales and Northern Ireland today as Britain shivers through the coldest day of the year.

Up to 4 inches of snow will fall across northern England and Scotland today. It will bring the threat of sleet and snow in the Midlands and southern England later in the week.

The forecasting body said temperatures in parts of the United Kingdom would drop below freezing tonight and will not top mid-single figures tomorrow or Wednesday.

An alert for snow and ice is already in place in much of Northern and Eastern Scotland and North East England. The area covered by it is set to extend as far south as Hull from tomorrow before it lifts at 10 am on Wednesday.

Met Office spokesman Grahame Madge said temperatures could fall to -1C in Manchester and 2C in London tonight.

Even colder overnight conditions are set to hit cities later in the week with the mercury dropping to -4C in London and -6C in Birmingham and Belfast.

Forecasters say temperatures are likely to remain far below average for early spring for much of the week. Below-freezing temperatures are expected to persist until March 11 at least amid a sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event.

Mr Madge said conditions could be comparable to those encountered during a cold snap in December 2022 and may not lift for almost a fortnight, and he said temperatures will be much, much colder than we would expect at this time of the year.

He said the pattern will set in for some time, and that we have got this feed of cold air coming in from a much higher latitude.

But don’t worry, Mayor Khan said he can regulate the weather if you pay him enough money, and if you give him enough ULEZ spondulix, your air will be like a springtime breeze over a flower-covered meadow, but back in the real world, he’ll claim he’s too skint to grit your roads and doesn’t give a stuff if the buses slide about – he’ll just use the scant bit of grit left in the depot to do the cycle lanes.

Of course, a scarf, hat and gloves would keep the freezing weather at bay, but numerous people don’t appear to know what these items are for. Instead, you see fools in shorts or nylon jogging bottoms and tee shirts.

This cold snap is what used to be referred to as winter, where snow was so thick it almost came up to your knees. We whined about it but we just got on with it. Nobody had time off from work, and if it was difficult to get into work, there were incentives to get there, like a little bit of extra cash in your pay packet at the end of the week. We even had car shares for people who couldn’t get to work because trains might have come to a stand still – but people managed.

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