See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil

There’s always a black sheep in the family, and this is no different for Prince Harry. He’s now become the black sheep of the family, the same goes for Edward VIII and Princess Margaret, who was also the ‘spare’.

Princess Margaret was an extremely unhappy person and stopped from marrying the man that she loved, but she was a remarkably outgoing individual and concealed her sorrow with drinking and partying.

Princess Margaret could have done what Edward VIII did and married the man that she loved, but that would have meant that she would have been excommunicated from ‘the firm’ and sent on her way, but she enjoyed the money and the notoriety that went with being Princess Margaret.

Prince Harry was extremely fortunate because he was allowed to marry the woman that he loved, but he wasn’t satisfied with that, he wanted to expose the Royal Family for what they actually are – they’re no different from anybody else, with blood flowing through their veins with thoughts and emotions, only those thoughts and feelings are not allowed to be shown to the world because they’re the Royal Family and it’s not becoming to display emotion, instead it’s all hidden inside the gates of the Royal Palace.

Even King Charles was eventually allowed to marry the woman that he loved, after the failed marriage and death of Princess Diana.

The Royals are allowed to divorce, but once they were never allowed to marry divorcees, but now somehow they’re allowed, and it’s understandable that the Royal Family have to a point permitted itself to be modernised, but what about those that preceded them and were not allowed to marry for love and were ousted from ‘the firm?’

What about all those secrets that stay within the walls of Buckingham Palace? What about the children Nerissa Bowes-Lyon and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, they were the first cousins of Queen Elizabeth, and they were discreetly detained in the Royal Earlswood Asylum for Mental Defectives in 1941.

Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon were the daughters of the Queen Mother’s older brother John Bowes-Lyon, but Nerissa and Katherine weren’t living in any royal residence, instead, they resided in a drab mental health establishment.

Nerissa and Katherine lived in the Bowes-Lyon family home in Scotland until 1941, and according to a 1987 report from Canadian outlet Maclean’s, it was their mother Fenella Bowes-Lyon who chose to put them in full-time supervision in the English town of Redhill in the county of Surrey, their father John had passed away in 1930, the facility’s name at the time, Royal Earlswood Asylum for Mental Defectives, reflect the unenlightened culture of shame surrounding those with mental illness and disabilities.

As of 1963, Burke’s Peerage deemed an authority on British royal genealogy, had Nerissa and Katherine recorded as dead since 1961.

The public was made aware that the Bowes-Lyon cousins had been alive and residing at the Royal Earlswood after Nerissa Bowes-Lyon passed away in 1986. Her grave close to the hospital was found by reporters which was a plastic marker with her name and a serial number, but evidently, an unknown donor paid for a proper gravestone after the news broke.

The discovery that two royal cousins lived that way in secret would have been a scandal for Buckingham Palace, and it was suggested that the Queen knew about Nerissa and Katherine’s situation, but that it was a matter for the immediate Bowes-Lyon family.

But there were three more of the Queen’s cousins that had also been placed in the Royal Earlswood, which made headlines in 1987, and it was reported that the daughters of Harriet Fane, Katherine and Nerissa’s mother Fenella’s sister, had committed her three daughters Edonia Elizabeth, Rosemary Jean, and Etheldreda Flavia Fane on the very same day indicating the two sisters made a collective conclusion about what to do with their children.

Genealogists said that all five may have shared a genetic imperfection handed down by the 21st Baron Clinton, and not the Royal Family, but madness, bastardy and divorce are the three skeletons that rattle loudest in the royal cupboard, and it appears to be the Royalty’s unspoken fear.

And if skeletons are clanging about the Royal household, which I’m sure there are many, then Prince Harry’s going to have a field day with whatever he knows, and he’s not going to be silent about it!

DWP Announces First Strike Dates Over Christmas

Union chiefs have announced their first in a surge of walkouts at the Department for Work and Pensions as employees walk out for two weeks over Christmas.

About 200 benefits staff will down tools between December 19 and 30 at three Jobcentres in Liverpool and a back office in Doncaster.

The union expects it to disrupt benefit ‘conditionality’ interviews which would usually lead to sanctions.

The Public and Commercial Services union walkout is over nine days, December 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 29, 30 and 31.

PCS officials said the targeted action would cover only a fraction of the union’s DWP members, but more dates are likely to follow in its bid for a 10 per cent pay rise.

It comes after more than 100,000 civil servant members of the PCS voted for strike action at 126 government bodies.

The union has already announced 12 days of rolling strike action at National Highways over Christmas and New Year, a month of strike action across 250 sites of the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency and the Rural Payments Agency.

Dates for the Passport Office and Border Force, where troops could be drafted in to cover for striking employees, are likely to be announced in the forthcoming weeks.

PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka said that their members have been plunged into ever-increasing depths of deprivation and that people shouldn’t have to depend on food banks to feed their children or be forced to make the choice of either working from home because the travel to work is too costly or working in the cold under blankets because the price of heating is too expensive.

He said it’s a disgrace that their members in the DWP, the government’s own workers are claiming the benefits they pay out to others.

The DWP has been contacted for comment.

It came as the Fire Brigades Union opened its first vote for firefighter walkouts over pay in almost 20 years.

Up to 33,500 firefighters and control staff will vote between now and January 30 after rejecting a 5 per cent pay proposal.

FBU general secretary Matt Wrack said that strike action would always be a last resort, but that they were running out of options.

He said that numerous firefighters and control staff were frantic, with some struggling to afford to live and that it was terrifying and an extremely serious state of affairs.

The trouble is, the Tories only seem to find money for the wealthy, and the country is being run by millionaires and they just don’t care, and ultimately, there will be a general strike all over the board, and it’s going to happen, maybe not this week or next week, but it will happen!

There’s something ironic about these guys that dish out benefits and sanctions and now they’re striking – what a joke!

Our troops and volunteers won’t even make a dent, even if they do drive the ambulances to A&E they won’t be able to hand them over and go, they will have to wait until there are enough staff, beds and trolleys available. It will only be then perhaps that they will acknowledge the enormity of the job! And let’s face it, that’s not a walkout, it’s a two-week Christmas holiday.

Paramedics Walk Out Days Before Christmas As Ambulance Strike Dates Are Announced

More than 10,000 ambulance workers across England and Wales will strike days before Christmas if the Government declines to open pay talks, the first national ambulance walkout in 30 years.

Three unions revealed the dates members will walk out, coordinating industrial activity for Wednesday 21 December.

Members of the GMB union, who include paramedics, Emergency Care Assistants, call handlers and other attendants, will also walk out on Wednesday 28 December after a decade of below-inflation pay awards generated a staffing situation.

Not all union members at all ambulance trusts supported strike action, with some unions at some services failing to meet strict turnout thresholds set by the Tory government.

While GMB members met the threshold for walkouts at nine ambulance services, Unison members met the threshold at five services and Unite met the threshold at three.

At all but one of the regional services spanning England and Wales will see GMB strike action, apart from the East of England.

It’s part of a surge of strikes across health services, railways and the public sector after NHS staff were offered a pay rise worth as little as 4 per cent despite skyrocketing inflation.

The walkout will happen a day after Royal College of Nursing members stage their second walkout, also over pay, and RMT members are hurtling towards four days of action next week at train companies, plus a Network Rail strike from 6 pm Christmas Eve, after rejecting a 4 per cent a year pay rise offer.

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch admitted services would wind down more quickly than expected on Christmas Eve, and people would have to depart early for festive getaways.

Yet Rishi Sunak didn’t raise the walkouts at the Cabinet meeting, despite days left to prevent chaos on the railways in the run-up to Christmas.

Labour’s Deputy Leader Angela Rayner said the militant Tory Government was to blame, adding that when she spoke to the trade unions they were very clear they didn’t want to go on strike and that they wanted to settle the dispute.

On the railways, the government was still endeavouring to force minimum service levels, which would mean workers having to break walkouts, but Downing Street refused to confirm a timescale for a divisive move.

The Prime Minister’s spokesperson said that unions still had time to step back and prevent some of the misery the public face.

The Government and everybody in it gets a pay increase set every year and it’s always way exceeding inflation, but you never hear them say it’s too much, they always take it and top up their already sky-high salaries – in fact, I don’t even know what most of them do to earn it. So, good for the strikers, and believe me, non of them take delight in going on strike, but if they don’t make a stand now, they’ll be trodden all over for years to come, especially while we’re under this Conservative government, although I’m not sure that Labour would have backed down to the unions either.

Our government has systematically underfunded the NHS solely to sell it off to the highest bidder, and the rot from our government was established a long time ago and they’re just waiting to put a tin lid on it.

This will likely be the last chance to salvage what’s left of our NHS, and not only that, all front-line workers should be paid a top-notch salary because without them we would be pretty screwed, and I hope that they can accomplish what they want even if it is going to hurt a lot of us.

Her Name Was Known To Everyone

Kirstie Alley was born in Wichita, Kansas, in 1951, but it wouldn’t be long before she high-tailed it from home and started her travels from the small screen to the silver, and into the hearts of America.

The daughter of a lumberman and one of three children, Kirstie Alley moved to Los Angeles after dropping out of college in her sophomore year.

While working as an interior designer, she appeared on a string of game shows and for the first time was broadcast into living rooms across the nation. It was just the beginning.

In 1982, just past 30 years old, Kirstie Alley landed a part in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, which was followed by Blind Date in 1984, and then the television series North and South a year later.

She scored a hit alongside Mark Hamon in the 1987 comedy Summer School and found herself on the way to fame the same year after landing the role of Rebecca Howe in the hit television sitcom Cheers.

As Rebecca, the dry and droll-witted manager of the Cheers bar, Kirstie Alley shone and took home the 1991 Emmy for actress in a lead position. Receiving the honour, Kirstie Alley’s spirited character and sharp sense of humour came to the forefront, as she thanked her husband, Parker Stevenson, for giving her the big one for the last eight years.

In 1989 her movie career started to soar when she appeared alongside John Travolta in the first Look Who’s Talking film. The film grossed $300 million and was followed up by a couple of sequels.

She won her second Emmy award in 1994 for David’s Mother, a made-for-television movie in which Kirstie Alley portrayed a mother caring for an autistic son.

By 1995 she had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as her film and television credits continued to rise, adding a notable performance as the proprietor of a New York City lingerie company in Veronica’s Closet from 1997 to 2000.

Some of Kirstie Alley’s other film credits include Sibling Rivalry in 1990, It Takes Two in 1995, For Richer or Poorer in 1997, and Drop Dead Gorgeous in 1999.

In 2005 she starred in her show Fat Actress, a predominantly unscripted comedy that explored how her body image became the centrepiece of her career and tabloids of the day.

Kirstie Alley’s weight came to the forefront of her public image around 2004 after tabloids relentlessly covered her weight increase, but she was fierce, never backing down, no matter what media outlet endeavoured to destroy her.

Kirstie Alley was a stunning woman and a fantastic actress who was badly ostracised by Hollywood for her political beliefs, but she will still be sorely missed, and anyone who followed her social media would know that she was defined by her love of being a Grandmother, an animal enthusiast and avid cook, along with being a no-nonsense woman when it came to fools endeavouring to mess with her.

And whoever or whatever she supported politically, why should that be controversial? We should all be able to support whomever we want, without fear or repercussion.

Personally, I can’t stand Donald Trump, and I wasn’t actually that bothered that she liked Donald – perhaps she saw something in him that no one else could, but she was a gifted artist, and it sure shows how nasty liberal Hollywood can really be. God forbid an actor be a free-thinking individual.

Her fearlessness should be respected. She had a mind of her own and didn’t swallow the kool-aid, and she was unapologetically herself!

Sleepwalking Into Food Crisis

Britons could shortly encounter shortages of tomatoes, cucumbers and pears as farmers warn that the United Kingdom is sleepwalking into a food supply crisis amid skyrocketing fuel, fertiliser and feed prices.

Ahead of an emergency press conference, the National Farmers Union (NFU) said the Government needed to step in to help primary producers under unbearable strain from growing costs, with fertiliser prices tripling since 2019 and the price of feed and diesel up by 75 per cent.

Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine and the coronavirus lockdowns have pushed up the price of food, energy and fuel this year.

The NFU warned yields of energy-intensive crops like tomatoes, cucumbers and pears are likely to hit their lowest level this year since records began in 1985, while milk prices are likely to fall below the cost of production and beef farmers consider decreasing the number of cows they breed.

Union president Minette Batters informed the BBC that egg shortages driven by Britain’s worst-ever outbreak of bird flu and the culling of huge numbers of hens could just be the start.

She said that shoppers up and down the country have for decades had a guaranteed pool of high-quality affordable food produced to some of the highest animal welfare, environmental and food safety standards in the world, but that British food was under threat, at a time when global volatility was endangering the equilibrium of the world’s food production, food security and energy security, and she feared the country was sleepwalking into further food supply crisis, with the future of British fruit and vegetable supplies in jeopardy.

Andrew Opie, director of food and sustainability at the British Retail Consortium, said that retailers were used to managing pressure across their supply chains.

He told the broadcaster that supermarkets source, and would continue to source, the vast preponderance of their food from the United Kingdom and know they need to pay a sustainable price to farmers.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) insists that Britain has a heightened degree of food security which is built on supply from various sources, including robust domestic production as well as imports through steady trade avenues.

It comes after multiple supermarket colossi introduced a brief buying limit of eggs per customer as a precautionary measure amid the impact on the supply of growing prices and bird flu.

The Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) previously reported that the pace of food price inflation was expected to reach a peak year-on-year of between 17 per cent and 19 per cent in early 2023.

Sadly the Government are out to starve and control you!

And in Holland, they’re stopping farmers from producing food, and the Dutch Government are in the process of conducting mandatory purchases of farms.

Just as the EU reduced farm production in the United Kingdom, instead paying farmers not to produce.

Just like the fabricated egg situation, eggs are more affordable abroad than at home and the EU has asset stripped the United Kingdom and we’re now seeing the fruit of their labours.

This has not all happened just by chance and the objective is a one-world government where we will all be reliant upon our Government, where the masses will ultimately own nothing, but will apparently be happy.

We will have unelected bodies governing the world, the elite who have no authority controlling it all, and only the people can contain this now, and the last two to three years should have opened everyone’s eyes to see that opposition political parties have remained muted and turned a blind eye to it – they’re all together in all of this!

There Will Be A Battle Between Harry And Meghan’s Netflix Show And The Public, Royals, And Media

Meghan and Harry’s impending Netflix documentary may criticise the Royal Family and even the public over the way the couple feel they have been treated.

The series is reportedly scheduled for release on Thursday and royal sources have already claimed they expect the performance would be ‘Ophrah with more crying’, but a glimmer of what viewers may get to experience also emerged in details of a discussion Harry had with a friend before the sit down with the talk show Queen.

Senior sources told a newspaper outlet he’d expected the Royal Family to find the interview rather shocking, and that those Brits need to learn a lesson.

In the interview, which attracted 17.1 million watchers, Harry and Meghan said the royals had asked questions about how dark their son would be and had ignored her pleas for mental health support.

Buckingham Palace sources said there was mounting frustration and weariness at the flurry of complaints that Harry and Meghan relentlessly and publicly make about their treatment by the remainder of the Royal Family.

A slick trailer for the six-part programme was released last week, teasing personal moments and evidently threatening to disclose other details of the couple’s complicated relationship with the family they stepped away from.

Insiders added that the Prince and Princess of Wales were surprised but not that surprised that the advertisement was released during their high-profile visit to the US, threatening to overshadow it.

The grand trailer posted online on the second day of William and Kate’s visit to Boston is the latest broadside in an evidently never-ending attack against ‘The Firm’ by the Duke and Duchess.

In a rare and remarkable intervention, Royal sources told how King Charles and Queen Camilla were not worried but fatigued by the Sussexes’ stream of criticism. An exasperated Palace source highlighted the word ‘wearied.

The Royal Family made magnanimous and extremely deliberate gestures’ to include Prince Harry as much as possible in the late Queen’s funeral in September, including asking him to wear his military livery during a pivotal vigil, but they’re now being compensated with near-constant outbursts, it’s claimed.

Palace insiders emphasised the irony of the numerous public interviews and television appearances the Sussexes have carried out while talking about how they want a new life away from the public eye. Meghan and Harry, who live in the celeb enclave of Montecito, California, criticised Royal life in an interview with Oprah Winfrey last year.

But the thing is, and what’s most important is that Harry will always be the Kings son and the Prince of Wales’s brother and a Royal prince in his own right by birth. He was famous from the day he was born and will continue to be celebrated with or without his titles. The titles don’t matter as much as people seem to think they do.

The thing is, the Royal Family do have a lot of skeletons in their closet, and Harry and Meghan could have sailed off into the sunset to enjoy a happy ever after, but Harry is indeed his mother’s son and probably is consumed by resentment and discontent and does have the desire, to tell the truth about the Royal Family and what goes on in it – perhaps people need to know about those skeletons in the closet, once and for all because I’m sure the Royal Family are not above reproach!

Harry and Meghan only have each other now, and I truly hope their love is strong enough to sustain what will come next.

The Birth Rate In Britain Is In Danger

A study has discovered that almost half of UK adults aged between 18 and 50 are not intending on having children, with the birth rate set to plummet.

Some 46 per cent of those polled by Ipsos said they’d settled against children or didn’t plan to have any more.

More than half said this was for financial reasons. Two-thirds cited personal reasons, such as being too young or too old or feeling discouraged at the possibility.

Britain’s birth rate has plunged to 1.61 children per woman, compared with 1.94 a decade ago. Experts say this will mean the population will hit a peak of 71 million in the 2040s before falling to 57 million by 2100, a level that was last seen in 1989.

The declining rate will leave Britain with an ageing populace, provoking fears of additional strain on the NHS and care system and an undermining of economic development, but environmentalists believe a shrinking population will cut carbon emissions and improve quality of life, and that voids in the labour market will be sufficed by robots and computers.

Sixty-two per cent of adults surveyed said decreasing the cost of childcare or making it complimentary would encourage people to have more children.

Childcare is more costly in Britain than almost anywhere else in the rich world, amounting to more than half the earnings of the average parent according to a study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. In most European countries it’s well below 20 per cent.

A falling birth rate isn’t unusual in the United Kingdom. Fertility is declining across much of the developed world, with South Korea having the lowest figure of 0.81 children per woman.

France, however, has a much higher rate than most similar developed countries, at about 1.8 children per woman. Experts think this is because the country offers more parental leave and an affordable method of childcare.

Dr Aveek Bhattacharya, research director at the Social Market Foundation think tank, said that in much of the rest of the world, birth rates had been declining in the United Kingdom for several years, and to some degree, that probably reflected more options and greater freedom, better economic opportunities, stronger reproductive rights, and weaker social pressure.

He said that at the same time, people normally say they would like to have more children than they end up having, which indicates considerable barriers of cost, as well as working and living conditions that might not be amenable to starting a family.

However, the increasing expense of child care and other costs doesn’t appear to be a concern for immigrants now in the United Kingdom because the statistics for fertility rates are generally higher for immigrant mothers, and the world as a whole is a mess and overpopulated, so I can understand why people are choosing against having children now.

Nonetheless, we do now have an ageing population, and the potential for a declining birth rate, so I can’t condemn people for not wanting to have children.

The country is in a state, full of anguished families that can’t afford a mortgage or childcare, which can, unfortunately, end up costing more than a mortgage.

To be honest, if I had my time again, I wouldn’t want to bring children into this world either. I mean, why would anyone want to bring children into this cesspit of a country?

It’s the soaring cost of house prices that makes life extremely costly, caused in part by immigrants, with millions of them arriving, driving up house prices by the law of supply and demand.

Forty years ago, it was possible to purchase a house on a mortgage and raise a family on a one-person salary. Now house prices have doubled in real terms, meaning that you need two paychecks to buy a house, but then with the mother working, you would need to employ childcare, which is also costly.

Rail Chaos Looms As Pay Talks Falter And Unions Warn Of Another Round Of Strikes

Union chiefs threatened a Christmas of chaos on the railroads last night as talks over pay and job security faltered.

The RMT warned that another round of industrial action was highly possible and blamed rail bosses for failing to table an improved offer. The union called off three 24-hour strikes at the eleventh hour earlier this month as expectancies of a breakthrough grew and both sides entered intensive talks.

But general secretary Mick Lynch last night said discussions with Network Rail had stalled. He said the bosses of 14 train companies involved in the dispute had also failed to make a formal request in writing despite nearly six months of discussions.

The RMT secured a fresh six-month mandate for walkouts last week, meaning strikes could continue into next summer.

It’s expected to target the Christmas and New Year holiday period to impose maximum damage at one of the most lucrative times of year for businesses and when families travel to see loved ones.

Mr Lynch, said last night that they’d been patient and had demonstrated good faith which hasn’t been returned.

The economy is estimated to have taken a £600 million hit so far because of the RMT strikes. The TSSA rail union last night said it would continue talks.

Passengers were already encountering extreme disruption due to line closures for £120 million of engineering works over the festive period. Network Rail will carry out 300 engineering projects, meaning all services from London Liverpool Street have been withdrawn.

There will also be no Southern services from London Victoria.

Liverpool Street will be closed from Christmas Day until January 2 as the work, including bridge building and track care, is carried out.

Greater Anglia, Stansted Express and c2c services will be hit by the shutdown. Southern and Gatwick Express services to or from Victoria will also be suspended over the same period. Numerous services will be diverted to London Bridge.

Avanti West Coast services between London Euston and Glasgow, which stop at Manchester and Birmingham, will run on a condensed schedule from Christmas Eve to December 30.

A spokesman for the Rail Delivery Group, which represents operators, said any walkouts will only cause further distress for customers and struggling businesses.

What despicable human beings. People have had to spend years being away from their families or being locked down and now they’re trying to ruin Christmas for families when we finally need a bit of joy in our lives.

Thank goodness I work from home because now I can stick two fingers up at these people who are holding the general public to ransom.

It’s a poor service at the best of times and let’s not forget the cost of going by train which is ridiculously expensive, it’s all about greed, and most people will be staying home this Christmas because it’s going to be bleak as most people are skint thanks to Tory policies, but it might be good to remember that trains don’t just move passengers from A to B, trains are part of the food supply chain as well, and Mick Lynch gets an extremely good salary and a supremely comfortable Christmas while the fools who follow him get sweet FA.

Yep, good old Mick Lynch. He’s not losing any money but the strikers are. It’s a bit like the 80s when the miners were on their knees and Scargill was popping down to London to dine at the Ritz.

The public has had enough of all this drama. If the unions don’t like what they’re getting they should perhaps look for another job instead of creating stress and misery for us working folk while the paymasters couldn’t care less.

When A Teenager Was Referred For Urology Treatments, He Was Told He Would Have To Wait For Two-And-A-Half Years To Get An Appointment At A Hospital

A teenager who was referred for hospital checks has been given an appointment by a scandal-hit NHS trust, in June 2025.

The boy’s father said he was stunned after Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) confirmed that the date in the letter was not a typing mistake.

His 16-year-old son was referred to the hospital trust for assessment of a urology-related problem but will be 18 when the day of his appointment comes about in 951 days.

SaTH, where the NHS’s worst maternity scandal took place in which 201 babies and nine mothers died over two decades, has apologised and said it acknowledges that the present wait was not acceptable.

It explained that recruitment problems and pressure due to the continued effect of COVID had led to delays.

The boy’s father said of the appointment letter that he believed it was a typo and was going to ask if they meant 2023 and thought that it might a nine-month wait, and the person in the booking office said that they’d fielded a lot of calls, especially for urology.

He told the local newspaper that the family couldn’t afford to go private and were left alarmed at the wait for his son to be seen over an issue which causes him significant pain.

He said that his life wasn’t in danger but that it was a sensitive problem and he’s 16 years old, and that they were expecting that it would be a few months, but to be informed it was 951 days, over two and a half years, was absurd.

Shrewsbury Liberal Democrat councillor Alex Wagner said the situation was a damning example of the quality of the NHS service in Shropshire. Sheila Fryer, interim deputy chief operating officer at SaTH, said that they would like to apologise for the delay with a urology appointment and that this length of delay was rare and that they wanted to reassure the family that they were doing everything they could, alongside partners, to reduce the amount of time patients were waiting for an appointment, and she added they were also working with other healthcare providers to see if they could support the reduction of waiting times.

Maybe the family should tell the NHS this boy needs gender surgery – they would slot him in to see someone the next day – our NHS is all-to-cock because possibly by the time this poor boy is seen, his situation would have deteriorated and it will cost the NHS even more money to fix the problem and don’t worry about the pain this poor lad has to suffer in the meantime.

Maybe he should have arrived by boat because that appears to be the quickest way to get medical treatment these days, while Rishi Sunak travels the world funding a war, and not our war might I add, giving more of our hard-earned taxes away, but of course, he doesn’t have to line up in a queue for the NHS to fit him in, he can jump the queue with his fat private healthcare because he’s an out of touch privileged doofus.

Wake up everyone, we are paying more tax, but we’re getting much less than we’re paying for, and the Government are rubbing their hands together and laughing at us because people are more than willing to put up with this balderdash.

I think that a lot of doctors on the NHS aren’t treating patients so they’re then forced to go private because that’s the way things are going now… private all the way!

Britons Snap Up Wood-Burning Stoves As Energy Bills Rise

Demand for wood-burning stoves has surged as Brits opt to warm their dwellings the old-fashioned way amid skyrocketing energy bills.

Retailers are reporting a lack of stoves, as manufacturers struggle to keep up with demand following supply chain and manufacturing problems during the pandemic and a shortage of materials like cast iron and steel.

Some dealers have reported people purchasing several log burners at a time as temperatures plunge.

Consumers are snapping up burners as they battle increasing bills, with the Russian aggression on Ukraine continuing to push up gas prices.

Wood-burning stove sales jumped by 40 per cent between April to June to over 35,000, compared to 25,000 for the same period last year.

Cornish company Anevay stoves said it’s seen a 10 to 20 per cent growth in sales month to month since the start of the year.

CEO Dawie Cronje said that while they’re delighted to be supporting customers who’ve been squeezed by energy bills, the company is struggling to keep on top of the rising demands.

Dawie Cronje said that the company’s lead times had increased from a week to a month due to waiting times for laser cutting and materials.

He said that steel in general had been an issue price-wise, the price of everything. Welding was power intensive, so that also went on energy bills.

Choice Stoves, an online dealer in Lancashire, posted on its website that it had suspended online orders due to the UK stove shortage.

According to a newspaper outlet, Backwoodsman, a retailer in the Highlands, has reported a 165 per cent boost in sales in the last year.

The seller posted a notice on its website saying they’re extremely busy due to the effects of the energy crisis, with surveys taking up to six weeks.

Lancashire stove fitting company Bowland Stoves also announced that they’re completely booked for installations until next year, and that if you’re still thinking of having a stove installed to beat the Gas and Electric prices, why not book your survey and installation for next year now?

In September, DIY store Toolstation revealed that its sales of chainsaws had also increased by a third in a matter of weeks.

A representative for the company said at the time that they suspected the demand was being driven by customers firing up their chainsaws to cut logs and lumber for wood burners as many try to ease the impact of energy hikes.

Some people already have burners, but have not put their central heating on, and have just been closing doors in rooms. Now let’s see if the Government introduce some form of tax at some point, and of course, burning stuff releases carcinogens, where’s the Green in that?

It definitely generates pollution as well as CO2 emissions, but what choice have people got with the rising prices? And whatever you do you will be made to pay through the roof, and if these wood burners take over you will definitely see more rules because you can’t defeat a satanic government.

And once you factor in the cost of purchase and installation which is rather costly and the fact that wood isn’t cheap anymore unless you know a guy, then it will take years to make your money back. Having said that they’re really nice things to have and they look and smell great.

However, if your house is pre-70s, when we all burnt coal in open fires, then it won’t cost that much to fit. All you’ll have to do is get a chimney sweep (do they even exist anymore?). And you should only burn seasoned wood, left to dry out and not green.

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