Children As Young As Nine Are Given Puberty Blockers At The Tavistock Centre In Scotland

According to a bombshell investigation, children as young as nine have been given drugs for puberty blockers at a Scots gender clinic dubbed ‘Scotland’s Tavistock Centre’.

The report by NHS clinicians found youngsters with gender dysphoria have been given the drugs at the NHS-run national gender service in Glasgow, a disproportionate number of whom were on the autistic spectrum.

Many also had conditions such as anxiety and depression, increasing fears over future legal action from those who may claim to have been misdiagnosed.

The dossier revealed similarities between the Sandyford clinic in Glasgow and the Tavistock child gender identity development service (GIDS) in London, set to be shut down after it was heavily criticised in a review by Dr Hilary Cass, whose report said it was unsafe for its young patients.

The report into the national gender identity service revealed that a total of 91 youngsters aged between nine and 17 were referred to paediatric endocrinology between 2011 and 2019.

Two-thirds of those referred were birth-assigned females.

Almost a quarter were on the autistic spectrum, and 37 per cent had mental health disorders such as depression.

Only six out of 64 young people eligible for fertility preservation finished the process.

Campaigners have called for the clinic to be closed, and a spokesman for campaign group For Women Scotland said that the parallels with the ill-fated Tavistock were stark and that endocrinologists were halting children’s puberty with experimental drugs, and it was said that it was vital that the Scottish Government acted immediately to close Sandyford and to not do so would be gross medical negligence and likely to attract, as is happening in England, legal claims from former patients.

Dr David Bell, a psychiatrist who raised concerns about the Tavistock said that there was a lack of proof worldwide on the effects of prescribing puberty blockers for gender dysphoria and there was considerable concern that they may interfere with brain and bone growth.

He said that a national gender service was the wrong model and that these children and young people needed to be understood in the context of the other mental health problems they were experiencing.

The findings were revealed in a study paper by NHS clinicians who carried out an assessment of the Scottish service, which they said had clear benefits for youngsters with gender dysphoria as it had a range of different specialists.

This is so immoral and there are no success or fail statistics for these procedures, phycological or physical. In fact, after decades, they’re still classified as experimental and how can an adult make an informed conclusion without understanding the dangers, particularly when it comes to a youngster?

This should be made illegal and the immoral people behind this should be named and shamed because they’re destroying people’s lives, and this is the reason why we end up with crowds of people demonstrating, but then, of course, they get yelled at and abused for protesting, but ruining children’s lives is not acceptable when they’re ending up with irreversible bone density problems and brain development issues, yet the money keeps rolling in for pharmaceutical companies.

These mad experiments have been going on for far too long, going back hundreds of years, so nothing has changed, and all in the name of science and the public purse.

This is simply disgraceful and this place should be closed down, and where is the safeguarding for these vulnerable children? It’s disgusting what is happening to these children. Too noisy, here take a pill, being a child, here take a pill!

A Mother’s Heartbreaking Farewell

This is the tragic moment a grief-stricken mother elephant carries the limp body of her deceased calf to its final resting place in a powerful funeral ritual.

Sad footage illustrates the mourning elephant taking her calf towards an acacia tree in the Torra reserve in Damaraland.

Other members of the herd unite and walk together in silence as part of a respectful parade for the late elephant.

The calf was less than a week old when it died after water dried up in the region.

While other younger elephants continued to play in the reserve, many of the more senior members all turn and stroll towards the tree where the calf is laid to rest.

Safari guides told Corriere Della Sera they’d never seen elephants performing a funeral ritual before.

The two rivers serving the Torra reserve have both run dry in recent weeks with the wells also out of order.

After the ceremony, the elephants continued as a group in hope of discovering water.

Elephants have been known to observe funeral ceremonies, frequently spreading branches over a corpse soon after death.

They also have been seen raising their feet above a dead body as a mark of remembrance or scattering their remains.

This is heartbreaking, and a clear reminder of the importance, and respect for our families, and some animals are amazing, and we as human beings should learn from them.

Elephants are such beautiful creatures, and this is so painful to watch. They’re living, breathing souls who feel pain just like humans, and we should respect all animals.

Elephants are extremely intelligent emotional creatures, and we should be doing more to protect them and understand them. They’re beautiful animals and it’s just a disgrace we don’t treat them with respect.

Animals are far more intelligent than we give them credit for and as human beings, we’re more stupid than we believe we are, and hopefully, these creatures will outlive the human species.

Perhaps we should spare a thought for those beautiful creatures and indeed all the others in the world, whose sheer existence is endangered every time a human being buys stuff that they don’t need or want. Stuff that has to be manufactured, needs to use the world’s resources in order to do so, usually not caring what habitat is sacrificed on the altar of human selfishness. Think twice before buying something new. Do you actually need it, or just want it?

There are so many amazing species in this world.

We, humans, are meant to be at the top of the food chain but time after time we see animals showing more care, more respect, more compassion and more openness towards each other than we ever do either to them or to ourselves. We may be the most evolved species but when you see things like this, I just can’t accept that we’re the better species.

No creature (human beings) on the planet is more brutal, more violent, or capable of deceit, or capable of killing the world. Every other creature is a blessing to the planet, and living according to nature’s plan – we’re the only deviant species.

These animals have very similar sentience as us humans, yet we treat them so differently, but they’re such a beautifully evolved species, yet some societies kill them just in order to collect what, in effect, toenail clippings, and then you have to think about the calves being torn away from their mother’s and butchered.

After Joining I’m A Celeb, Matt Hancock Is Expelled From The Parliamentary Tory Party

Matt Hancock was booted out of the parliamentary Tory party after sensationally revealing he’s agreed to star in I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!

The former Health Secretary, who quit after breaking his own lockdown rules by having an affair with long-time aide Gina Coladangelo, will become the 12th celebrity heading to the Australian wilderness.

The news started a prompt rebuke from Conservative high command, with Chief Whip Simon Hart confirming he’d had the whip removed, the same fate that befell fellow Tory MP Nadine Dorries when she went on the show in 2012.

Simon Hart said that following a discussion with Matt Hancock, he’d considered the situation and believed that this matter was serious enough to warrant suspension of the whip with direct effect.

Matt Hancock will remain as MP for West Suffolk but act as an independent, and while he’ll be able to keep his party membership, he won’t be able to stand for election as a Conservative hopeful, vote in party contests or stand for committee chair positions.

A political ally said he’d admitted he was unlikely to become a minister again and wanted to connect with younger generations.

The ally said that politicians like Matt Hancock must go to where the people are, particularly those who are politically liberated and that Matt’s of the belief that we must embrace popular culture, and rather than looking down on reality TV, we should see it for what it is, a powerful tool to get their message heard by younger generations.

According to the source, Matt Hancock first downed the chance to appear on I’m A Celeb because of the instability the government was facing at the time. Nevertheless, he now feels the administration is stable and considers his stint on the show as an excellent opportunity to talk about issues he truly cares about.

The ally said that when he was first approached to take part, and while he was flattered and intrinsically interested, it didn’t take him too long to turn the opportunity down because of the instability Government was facing at the time.

They said that Rishi Sunak has made a terrific start and the entirety of the Conservative Party is united behind him. Rishi has a big majority, so he can get his plan through Parliament, and Matt talked to the whips, in the same way any MP would when going on a foreign visit, which happens all the time.

The issue here though is that Matt Hancock has now made the Tories look even more like a circus show, but then I guess we needed a good chuckle, and his constituency party should have got rid of him a long time ago, especially when he broke his own rules, and it’s mind-boggling to the average person why Tory devotees worship this joker and lick his clown shoes, and it’s actually perfectly evident now that the Tories have no intention to help with the cost of living crisis, but they do intend on lining their own pockets.

The reality TV show shouldn’t be called I’m A Celeb, it should be called I’m A Politician who broke God knows how many COVID rules while sermonizing to the public.

Matt Hancock was a joke of a minister, a joke of the government, and the joke of the country, but then I suppose you could say that about the lot of them whilst they’re busy feathering their nests at our expense, and clearly Matt Hancock doesn’t think with his brain, just other regions of his body.

Skimpy Coffeeshop Outfits Allowed For Bikini Baristas In Seattle

A Washington State city’s dress code ordinance stating bikini baristas must cover their bodies at work has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal court.

The decision in a partial summary judgment came after a long legal fight between bikini baristas and the city of Everett over the rights of employees to wear what they want.

The proprietor of Everett bikini barista stand Hillbilly Hotties and some workers filed a legal complaint questioning the constitutionality of the dress code law.

In 2017, the city of Everett passed a law mandating all workers, owners and operators of quick service facilities to wear clothes that cover the upper and lower body.

The ordinance detailed coffee stands, fast food eateries, delis, food trucks and coffee shops as examples of quick service businesses.

The group also challenged the city’s lewd conduct ordinance, but the court dismissed all the baristas’ claims but the dress code question. 

The US District Court in Seattle found the city of Everett’s dress code ordinance broke the Equal Protection clauses of the US and Washington state constitutions.

The Court found that the ordinance was, at least in part, shaped by a gender-based discriminatory purpose, according to a 19-page ruling signed by US District Judge Ricardo S Martinez.

US District Judge Ricardo S Martinez said the record showed that the law was passed in part to having a negative impact on female employees at bikini barista stands.

He said there was proof in the record that the bikini barista profession, indeed a target of the law, was completely or almost entirely female, and that it was difficult to imagine how this law would be equally applied to men and women in practice because the ordinance forbids clothing normally worn by women rather than men, including midriff and scoop back shirts, as well as bikinis.

Bikini baristas were indeed a target of the law, the court even ruled, adding that the profession was comprised of a workforce that is almost entirely women.

Barista Emma Dilemma told HeraldNet, that she believed that this protects protection from law enforcement touching their bodies, and she asked who was approving her outfit. Was it her female boss or some random male officer that she doesn’t know?

One of the plaintiffs Matteson Hernandez wrote that in some countries they make you wear lots of clothing because of their religious views, but in America, it’s different because you can wear what you want to wear.

So, in Seattle, you can poop on the sidewalk and burn down buildings, but they have a problem with a little cleavage, yes, that’s Seattle for you.

However, that’s not just a little cleavage, and no respectable man would want their daughter working like that, it’s called having a moral compass, but if we say that, which I just did, then we’re being extremely judgemental, but the lassies seem to be having fun or is it exploitation because this business trades on the ground of overtly objectifying women and using sexuality to make them money.

However, I’m always amused by women who believe places like this exploit women. The women there have a choice and they have enough sense to make their own decisions – it’s their body, their choice and the irony of it all is all too rich, but would you want your wife or daughter working there, or would you respect their judgement?

Clearly, this place wants to drum up business like Hooters or any place like that, and whoever wants to see this kind of stuff will go there.

Another Mass Barrage Of Missiles Is Launched By Vladimir Putin Against Ukraine

Dozens of Russian rockets have collided with cities across Ukraine as Vladimir Putin ramped up his aggression on civilian infrastructure.

Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Kyiv, said parts of the city were without power as witnesses reported at least five explosions across the capital.

Rockets also hit the cities of Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipro and the Cherkasy area, in central Ukraine.

The Ukraine military claimed that Russian strategic bombers had fired more than 50 cruise missiles at the country and 44 of them were shot down.

It comes two days after Russia’s Black Sea fleet was damaged by explosive-laden drones in an attack blamed on Ukraine.

Kyiv region Gov. Oleksii Kuleba also said that one person was injured and a number of homes were damaged.

In Kharkiv, two strikes struck critical infrastructure facilities, according to the authorities, and the subway stopped working.

Officials also warned about potential power outages in the city of Zaporizhzhia resulting from the strikes there.

According to local authorities, critical infrastructure objects were also hit in the Cherkasy area southeast of Kyiv, and the explosions were reported in other parts of Ukraine. In the Kirovohrad region of central Ukraine, the energy facility was hit.

According to regional Gov. Serhii Borzov, in Vinnytsia, a rocket that was shot down landed on civilian buildings, resulting in damage but no deaths.

Some parts of Ukrainian railways were also cut off from power, the Ukrainian Railways reported.

Russia has been targeting civilian infrastructure including electricity and water supplies in an obvious attempt to freeze Ukrainians in their homes as winter hits.

Encountering setbacks on the battlefield, Moscow appears to be targeting civilians to break their will to continue the fight. Such attacks are war offences, under international law.

It comes after a weekend in which Russia accused Ukraine of a drone attack on its Black Sea fleet.

Moscow has since removed its support for ships taking grain out of Ukraine’s ports and into world markets, saying it could no longer ensure their safety.

Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister, added that another batch of Russian rockets strikes Ukraine’s critical infrastructure.

He said that instead of fighting on the battlefield, Russia fights civilians, and said that they shouldn’t justify these attacks by calling them a response. Russia does this because it still has the rockets and the will to destroy Ukrainians.

It’s evident Russia can’t match Ukraine in close combat, so they had to fire rockets from afar, but you can’t win a war if you can’t fight in close combat, and bombing cities makes no strategic contribution to the war for Russia but merely solidifies the will of the defenders and those who support them. Has Vladimir Putin learnt nothing from 20th-century history?

Russia is in the last throes of despair, committing as many war crimes as they can, and now the average life span of a Russian mobilised soldier is two weeks, and now they’re bringing WW2 weapons out of storage and begging Iran for military support. Vladimir Putin is the most destructive terrorist beyond compare and he deserves a humiliating end.

Vladimir Putin is following in Hitler’s footsteps, and I’m shocked that the Russians don’t see it as well, and plus he’s obviously targeting the civilian population with his filthy Russian tactics.

Russia will never recuperate from this, and although Russia has an impressive history, one man just annihilated a nation with his tiny pecker.

Vladimir Putin has run out of power, this is why you’re seeing him come out in small bursts and then he’s buying from other rogue regimes like Iran and North Korea, all so that he can puff out his little chest and have a good news day.

A Man Throws Three Petrol Bombs At The Dover Immigration Center Before Driving To A Nearby Petrol Station To Commit Suicide

Eyewitnesses said that a man hurled petrol bombs connected to fireworks at a centre for processing migrants in the port of Dover and then killed himself.

The assailant, a white man sporting a checked shirt, drove up to the centre in a white SEAT sports utility vehicle.

A photographer said that he launched three petrol bombs, one of which didn’t go off. He then drove to a nearby petrol station and killed himself, it was said. The police arrived minutes afterwards and cordoned off the site.

The incident came after almost 1,000 migrants arrived in the United Kingdom after crossing the Channel on Saturday.

Army bomb disposal units have now been seen examining the car allegedly involved in the incident. Police have cordoned off a BP petrol station on the A20 opposite the Home Office immigration centre, once known as Tug Haven. The authorities could be seen standing by a white 69-plate SEAT SUV thought to have been driven by the suspect.

The area has been closed off with police tape, while the vehicle, which was parked by the rear car wash, had been covered with blue tarpaulin.

A bomb disposal pickup truck was also spotted at the petrol station with two Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) specialists seen examining the SUV.

Suella Braverman has said she’s receiving regular updates after a distressing incident in Dover when flammable devices were tossed at a migrant centre.

The Home Secretary tweeted that there was a distressing incident in Dover, and said that they were receiving regular updates on the situation.

The Home Secretary said their thoughts were with those affected, with the tireless Home Office staff and police responding, and that they must now support those officers as they carry out their investigation.

Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick will visit both Dover and Manston over concerns about tensions and overcrowing at the immigration centres.

ITV reported that Immigration Minister Robert Jenrick will visit both Dover and Manston over concerns about tensions and overcrowding at the immigration centres.

While Dover MP Natalie Elphicke told the news outlet that she alerted the Immigration Minister about growing tensions around migration after an incident raised concerns.

A Home Office spokeswoman said that they were aware of an incident at Western Jet Foil, Dover and police were in attendance and that it wouldn’t be appropriate to comment further at this stage.

Instead of spending millions per day on bringing migrants to this country wouldn’t it be better to spend that cash on care for our elderly and homeless, and making this country a better place? And our government should be taking away the incentives for migrants coming to this country and using the money on what is actually needed, it’s not rocket science.

Our British government need to wake up quickly, otherwise, it might actually look like they’re deliberately letting this happen, and it appears now that too many people are making far too much money out of the majorities pain and future suffering, and it seems that our government don’t have control of these events, and you have to ask yourself this question – is there anyone even running this country or not because it actually doesn’t look like it to me.

People are getting so sick of the lack of response by our leaders – what a complete and utter mess this country is in, and it appears that it’s past the point of no recovery.

It needs to stop now because it’s getting ridiculous and our government needs to get tougher on this situation!

The King Makes £1 Million Selling 14 Of The Queen’s Beloved Racehorses

King Charles has made more than £1 million by selling off 14 of the late Queen’s beloved racehorses, strengthening fears that he might be preparing to wind down the royal racing operation.

The King sold more than a third of his mother’s racehorses, which he inherited upon her demise last month, at the renowned Tattersalls October sales in Newmarket, Suffolk this week.

The royal racehorses made him an average of £76,821 each, £1,075,500 in total, with Charles’s first race-winning horse ‘Just Fine’ being sold for £300,000.

Trained by the Queen’s longest-standing trainer Sir Michael Stoute, ‘Just Fine’ won an outstanding victory in Leicester earlier this month, the first win since the late monarch’s demise on September 8.

He was one of four of the Queen’s former horses that sold for six-figure sums.

Meanwhile, ‘Love Affairs’, which was the Queen’s last winner at Goodwood two days before her death, sold for £38,000.

Charles has already had some success since inheriting his mother’s racehorses, with ‘Perfect Alibi’ earning him £28,000 with victory in a Listed contest at Yarmouth earlier this month, but despite this, there are whispers that the new monarch might be preparing to wind down, or at least scale back, the royal racing operation.

A source close to the Royal Sandringham Stud in Norfolk said there’s talk of winding down the breeding process over three years until it ceases to be a commercial operation.

The source said that the Royal stud could be a museum in three years and that it would be a real shame.

A Royal source confirmed Charles will reduce the number of horses but added that the connection between the family and the horse racing enterprise will continue and that there was a desire to continue with the practices and connections with Royal Ascot but not on the same scale as Her Majesty because she had a passion.

The source added that some horses have already been sold as part of the natural churn of buying and selling that comes with running the collection.

The Queen usually sold around seven horses a year, so this month’s sale represents a significant increase, but speaking before the auction, Tattersall’s spokesman Jimmy George denied that the sale of 14 horses was anything out of the ordinary, and he told the BBC that the Queen had brood mares of her own, and she would breed them and sell them and that you can’t keep them all.

It’s an extremely costly pursuit, even just caring for a horse costs a lot, let alone training and breeding et cetera. Perhaps it would be better to streamline it, particularly if your passions lie elsewhere because you need to be fully committed to the process or move the horses on.

It makes perfect sense, especially if Charles doesn’t share his mother’s affection for horses or horse racing.

King Charles made a ton of money just by selling all those horses. I mean, how much money does this born-to-be-rich guy have? Why can’t he give some of that obscene wealth to struggling people? That would certainly then make him a Monarch fit for our times! But right now, he’s a King who has castles, and racehorses, while some people out there are starving and freezing.

The Queen spent money on her hobbies, of which horse racing was the primary one. Clearly, Charles doesn’t have the same pursuits and he doesn’t have to because he’s more interested in conservation, and he should be allowed to spend his own money how he sees fit, but a little hand out to the needy and disadvantaged wouldn’t go amiss, particularly those soldiers that went to war for their country and are now living on the streets.

In The Absence Of The New Prime Minister, Akshata Murty Supervises The Removal Men

Rishi Sunak’s multi-millionaire wife Akshata Murty has been spotted giving instructions to movers unloading the family’s furniture as the Prime Minister’s press secretary confirmed that they were moving back into No 10 Downing Street.

Akshata Murty was looking relaxed in fur sliders, grey leggings, a light grey jumper and a black fluffy gilet, as she was pictured strolling into No 10 for the first time since her husband became Prime Minister, just six months after the family moved out of Downing Street to their £6.6 million Kensington townhouse.

Movers were also spotted carrying a double mattress and what looked like a barbeque into No 10 Downing Street.

The Sunak family has decided to return to the No 10 flat, where they lived while Rishi Sunak was Chancellor of the Exchequer, instead of moving into the more spacious flat at No 11, and that has been the custom for prime ministers since 1997 when Sir Tony Blair swept to power.

As two moving vans parked outside the house, the recently appointed Chairman of the Conservative Party Nadhim Zahawi was also photoed strolling past in a matching navy tracksuit and a green baseball cap.

Yesterday, Ms Murty, a British-born Indian heiress and fashion designer, was spotted exiting the couple’s London home sporting a black baseball cap, a white long-sleeved sweatshirt, black tracksuit bottoms and black sliders.

Speculation was rampant over whether the family would retreat to earlier living arrangements, with Rishi Sunak dividing his time between Downing Street and his house in west London.

In April Rishi Sunak, his wife Akshata Murty, their daughters Krishna and Anoushka and family labrador Nova moved out to be nearer to the children’s £22,000 a year private school.

Coming around the same time that news emerged that Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murty, had claimed non-dom tax status, reportedly saving her millions, there was a belief the move was linked to a wish to evade media attention, although Rishi Sunak denied that at the time.

But earlier this week, Rishi Sunak’s press secretary told reporters they would be moving into the No 10 flat, where they used to live.

Asked whether the family intends to decorate the flat, his press secretary said that they were not aware of it.

It means that they won’t live in the flat above No 11, which was refurbished by Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie for an estimated £200,000 in the so-called wallpapergate scandal, which notoriously involved gold wallpaper that cost thousands of pounds.

So, Rishi Sunak is the Prime Minister and his wife is the first lady, and she has a ton of money, although her worth has got nothing to do with the Prime Minister’s ability to do his job, although he’s set for life now, mind you, he was set for life before becoming Prime Minister, and think of all those book deals and conference speeches to keep the millions rolling in for years and years after he’s done with being Prime Minister.

The man bragged about having no working-class friends and then he expects us to like him. He’s not for the needy, he’s only out there for himself, and he wouldn’t know deprivation if it slapped him between the eyeballs, but at least his wife looks happy.

However, I suppose we should give the poor man a chance. It appears that he’s easily the best academic, financial and business knowledge of any of them, but we’re very possibly stuffed if he can’t improve things.

State Pensions

With the cost of living spiralling, people across the country need certainty about their pensions.

Most pensioners have a fixed income and millions of over 66s depend on the state pension as their primary source of money to buy life’s necessities.

The UK state pension is the worst in the developed world, with nine out of ten older people getting £142 per week or less.

The Triple Lock was introduced to protect the state pension from falling further behind earnings and inflation, as it had done for several decades.

The Lock means that each year the state pension should increase by the higher of prices, earnings or 2.5 per cent.

The Conservatives pledged to maintain the Triple Lock in their 2019 Manifesto, but suspended it, supposedly for one year, in April 2022, citing the unique circumstances of the pandemic. This resulted in a rise of only 3.1 per cent on the state pension in April when inflation was already heading towards 10 per cent.

The Government is contemplating whether to suspend or discard the Triple Lock again, at a time when most older households are struggling to pay their energy and food bills.

The Daily Express has joined the over-60s campaign organisation Silver Voices in launching a petition to persuade the Government to protect and support pensioners, asking the Government to maintain and recommit to the triple lock.

Getting your pension is not a benefit. It’s not something that the DWP are handing out to you because of your age, it’s something that most people paid into while they were working from the age of 16 and pensioners are worth every penny of what they paid in from their hard earnt wages.

UK pensions are one of the lowest in the western developed world and people are now tired of the broken promises by their government.

That’s if people ever get their pensions because people have been chasing theirs for years. Now, this isn’t a social handout, it’s money they have paid into so that they can retire at a reasonable age. Now you have to work till you drop. But this is money that people paid into, it’s NOT a handout by our government, but the government seem to believe that you’re not entitled to it and also has the cheek to put an age limitation on it.

So, what are the government doing with our hard-earned money because they’re definitely not giving it to us, so where’s it gone?

These people have worked hard for over 60 years and have been looking forward to getting their pension so that they don’t freeze to death or go hungry, but our government seem happy to pay out billions on illegal immigration when charity should begin at home, particularly when they’ve contributed for years working.

Now, people who paid into a system from the time they started work, want what they’re owed, and rightly so, it’s their money, not the government’s because essentially the government are stealing their hard-earned money and using it for things that they shouldn’t be using it for.

People have paid into their pensions, but some fool in government has spent the investment money.

Pensions are a disgrace and pensioners are being robbed, and pensioners have worked and contributed all their lives and they deserve their money. It was promised and promises must be kept if the government want its credibility to be seen, and governments that break promises should be disbanded immediately.

The state of this country is not the fault of pensioners who’ve been the spine of the economy for years, and as such, should not be punished for the government’s incompetence.

New Crackdown On Dodging Rail Fares Increases Fines Five-Fold To £100

The penalty for rail fare dodgers is to soar fivefold to £100 in a crackdown.

The Department for Transport (DfT) expects to recoup more of the £240 million lost to fare evasion on the railways in England and Wales each year.

It follows concerns that the current £20 fine, introduced in 2005, was no longer a deterrent.

A DfT spokesman said that with over £240 million lost every year due to fare evasion on their railways, it’s important deterrents are effective and fair.

On top of the £100 fine, fare dodgers will also have to pay the price of the ticket they failed to buy. The penalty will be cut to £50 if payment is made in 21 days.

The increase, to be introduced in the spring, brings railways in line with other transportation providers, such as Manchester’s Metrolink.

It also means penalties in England and Wales will be more elevated than in many European countries, such as Germany where evaders pay £55, and France, where they pay £46.

The DfT added that fare evasion costs train operators, rail passengers and taxpayers who ultimately subsidise the journeys of those who deliberately travel by train without paying the correct fare, and said that the Rail Delivery Group estimates that in a normal year about £240 million is lost through fare evasion on Great Britain’s railways.

The Department of Transport said that when placed against the profound effect coronavirus has had on passenger numbers and industry revenues, it’s never been more important to minimise the cost of fare evasion to the railways.

Penalty fares are only given in instances where there were facilities to purchase a ticket at a passenger’s departure station, and they have passed signs stating the consequences of not having a ticket.

The DfT said it will give an update in spring 2022 on when the new penalty fare in England and Wales will be introduced.

There are countless people caught after surveillance, who are regular fare dodgers on costly routes, and commuter routes serving London. Mind you, I look forward to the day when we the people can fine them for late trains, cancelled trains, dirty trains, and having to stand up on full trains, and no dining car facilities et cetera.

Perhaps they should open up more ticket offices and have more ticket collectors, and I do appreciate that this might require some joined-up thought on their part, but if they did this, then maybe there might not be so many fare dodgers.

Ticket collectors don’t even check tickets on board anymore, and haven’t done for an extremely long time.

All they have to do is put foolproof barriers up. No pass, no ticket, you can’t get through or even jump them, it could be done with a wee bit of thought, or they could implement a system that you can’t get to the train unless you have a valid ticket and that it would be physically impossible as the gates would be stopping you – problem cracked.

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