Armageddon Is Looming As Vladimir Putin Watches His Military Prepare

Vladimir Putin watched on as Russia simulated a huge nuclear strike with practice launches of ballistic and cruise rockets.

The dictator remotely observed the annual exercise, called ‘Grom’ or ‘Thunder’, which uses test launches to put Moscow’s nuclear forces through their paces in a display of force to the West.

Defence minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Vladimir Putin that the exercises were intended to emulate a retaliatory massive nuclear strike by Russia.

The exercises involved the test firing of a Yars land-based intercontinental ballistic projectile from the northern Plesetsk launch site and the launch of a Sineva ICBM by a Russian nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea, only ten miles away from the shores of NATO member Norway.

As part of the exercise, Tu-95 strategic bombers also launched cruise rockets at practice targets.

The manoeuvres followed Vladimir Putin’s warning about his willingness to use all means available to fend off raids on Russia’s region in a reference to the country’s nuclear arsenals.

The Kremlin said that all tasks assigned for the exercise were fulfilled and all the missiles that were test-fired reached their set targets.

Such drills involving land, sea and air components have taken place on an annual basis to prepare the country’s nuclear forces and show their willingness.

The Biden administration said that Russia gave notice it planned to stage routine exercises of its nuclear abilities.

The Pentagon and US State Department said Russia had complied with the terms of the last US-Russia arms control deal in informing Washington of the forthcoming tests.

The Russian activities comes amid Moscow’s warnings of a purported Ukrainian conspiracy to detonate a radioactive device typically known as a dirty bomb in a false flag attack to blame Russia.

Ukraine and its allies firmly repudiate the allegation, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that it was absurd. Allies reject this blatantly untrue indictment, and Russia must not use false pretexts to escalate the war further.

NATO’s Stoltenberg emphasised that the 30-nation military organisation wouldn’t be intimidated or discouraged from supporting Ukraine’s right to self-defence for as long as it takes.

There are fears that Russia is pushing the claims because that is why the Kremlin is preparing to use the deadly device that uses explosives to scatter radioactive debris.

Vladimir Putin told a gathering of intelligence officials from the CIS group of ex-Soviet nations that the West was pumping Ukraine with heavy weapons, adding there were also plans to use a so-called dirty bomb for provocations.

What can I say, this dude really is a full-on loon, threatening to blow up the world because Russia, already the largest country in the world, needs a bit more space to spread out into, all that’s missing now is the white cat in his lap. The thing that makes me laugh is that while Putin is readying for Armageddon, the UK Met Office warns of an unseasonably warm week ahead.

People would rather see this as a threat, rather than Russia making it apparent to the Americans that they’re able to protect themselves if they need to, but undoubtedly with nuclear projectiles.

And if Vladimir Putin did set on Ukraine with nuclear power, why would he want it after it had been contaminated with nuclear waste, just shows what a lunatic he really is.

Vladimir Putin isn’t a lion, he’s more of an organised crime boss. He’s trying to rob land and resources, and he might be dressed up as other things, but really he’s just a crime boss, and the world shouldn’t be held to ransom by Vladimir Putin’s paranoia.

COUNCILS Will Now Issue Speeding Fines Of £130 To Anyone Driving Faster Than 20mph

A London council will start issuing £130 speeding penalties to anyone driving faster than 20mph as drivers fear they will be fleeced by authorities.

Wandsworth Council is launching a pilot scheme where it can give tickets to motorists exceeding the 20mph limit in residential areas, roads which often have fewer fixed cameras and mobile patrols from police.

The new power, lasting for up to eight months, will see the council stealing the £130 fine instead of it going into a central government pot. Penalties are usually administered by the police.

If considered a success, the scheme could be rolled out across London, where almost half of the streets have a 20mph limit.

Drivers will not be given three points on their licence, or have to attend a speed awareness course, under the scheme.

The AA has said that speeding should not be dealt with like a parking ticket.

Joe Ventre, from the Taxpayers’ Alliance, also told a newspaper outlet that speeding enforcement should not become fishing trips to secure money for councils and that motorists should be rightly concerned that speeding penalties will be more about filling council coffers than keeping roads safe.

He added that the cost of running the pilot shouldn’t put extra burdens on taxpayers.

The Labour-run council is targeting two residential roads where locals gripe about speeding motorists: Priory Lane in Roehampton and Wimbledon Park Road.

The former is popular among cyclists travelling between Roehampton and Richmond Park while the latter leads to the renowned tennis grounds.

Studies in both locations found that one in four motorists disregard the speed limit along Priory Lane and one in five do so along Wimbledon Park Road.

Wandsworth Council leader Simon Hogg said that speeding is one of the greatest problems for residents.

He told a newspaper outlet that if it’s considered a success, they will look to make it permanent and carry out enforcement in other parts of the borough where they know vehicle speeds are excessive.

All roads within London’s congestion charge zone have a limit of 20mph, with it seen as the default maximum in most of the 33 boroughs.

Transport for London announced that by March next year, a further 17 miles of roads in Camden, Hackney, Haringey, Islington and Tower Hamlets will have the same speed limit.

Wandsworth will lower the penalty from £130 to £65 if it’s paid within a fortnight, with notification letters being issued in the first few weeks, as motorists become aware of the changes.

This appears a total waste of time when we could be dealing much better to prevent knife and drug offences in our community, but they’re now scared to arrest people in case they offend them, it’s embarrassing, but this is council enforcement, who obviously think they are the police.

What they should be doing is making knife crime a financial penalty instead.

This is just a money-making racket, it has nothing to do with road safety at all. Driving 30mph isn’t speeding though, and to reduce roads to 20mph makes commuting even more unbearable, but we will all go along with it nonetheless.

This is all extremely lucrative, along with the Congestion Charge and the ULEZ charge, and any other taxes we pay. Next, they’ll be charging us for breathing fresh air, I’m sure that’s in the pipeline somewhere, although there’s no such thing as fresh air because it’s been contaminated with Benzene, Xylene, Sulphur Dioxide, Carbon Monoxide and other cancerous volatile organic particulates, and that’s not just from cars, although they are blamed all the time.

Yeezy come, Yeezy go!

German sportswear goliath Adidas has officially cut relations with rapper Kayne West over his controversial remark.

Kayne West, 45, has been accused of going on several anti-Semitic tirades on social media.

The rapper has seen his social media posts deleted and had accounts restricted because of the comments.

Adidas previously put its partnership with Ye under consideration earlier this month, and now says they could lose $250 million in the split.

Forbes estimates that Kanye West could lose his billionaire status with the loss of the Adidas x Yeezy collaboration.

Kayne West has split from multiple corporate partnerships in recent weeks including Balenciaga and GAP, and he was dropped by talent agency CAA.

Kanye West could lose his billionaire status after being dropped by Adidas amid growing backlash over his anti-Semitic rant, as GAP tears down his Yeezy products from their stores.

The rapper’s $220 million annual deal with the German sports brand, which is worth $1.5 billion in total, has been terminated after his controversial conduct.

According to Forbes, Kayne West, 45, is set to lose his billionaire status after cutting ties with the sportswear giant and is presently worth $2 billion.

The father of four’s wealth could plunge to below $1 billion after the termination of the brand, which comes after several other lucrative deals have been dropped.

Adidas reported that they would be ending their collaboration in a statement, with the sportswear maker having put its deal with Ye under review.

They claim that they made repeated efforts earlier this month to privately settle the situation.

GAP has also criticised Kayne West’s remarks, saying that they’re taking prompt steps to remove Yeezy GAP products from their stores and shut down their website.

Universal Music’s Def Jam has also condemned Kayne West’s comments, after splitting with the rapper last year.

They said that Def Jam’s relationship with Ye as a recording artist, its association with the GOOD Music label venture and Ye’s merchandise agreement with Bravado all ended in 2021.

They said there’s no place for antisemitism in our society, and they were extremely determined to combating antisemitism and every other form of discrimination.

It comes days after Kanye West claimed on a podcast that the sneaker colossus couldn’t drop him despite saying anti-Semitic things.

Adidas’ share price fell more than 50 per cent over the past six months and is expected to drop even further in the wake of the announcement.

However, Adidas does have links with Hitler and Nazi Germany.

The Dassler brothers, who took the trade names of Adidas and Puma, began shoe production in the 1920s in their hometown of Herzogenaurach, Germany, a hot spot for shoemaking in Bavaria with more than 100 individual shoemakers.

What distinguished Rudolph and Adolf ‘Adi’ Dassler was not just their readiness to become members of the Nazi party, securing their business success under Aryan supremacy, but their ambitions.

With the expansion of the war in December 1943, Hitler converted civilian business operations to military manufacturing.

Now instead of making sports shoes, the Dasslers made boots for Nazi soldiers as well as the Panzerschreck bazookas in their factory.

Both brothers were summoned to duty with Rudolf joining the Gestapo. Adi served only one year while his brother remained until the end of the war.

When Rudolf found himself in an American internment camp, he suspected he had been denounced by his brother who was now occupied making baseball and basketball boots for Americans.

A lifelong grievance separated the brothers. The one company was split, Adi started ‘Adidas’ and Rudolf launched ‘Puma’.

Kayne West deserves this because there’s no room for hostility and discrimination, and Adidas made the right decision and kudos to every individual and company that stands against hatred and prejudice because the world’s a much better place without it.

Kayne West is an obnoxious hate-filled man, and he needs to grow up and learn that actions and words have consequences, which he will do when he starts running out of money because nobody will touch him business-wise. He’s a disgusting excuse for a human being and his words will follow him for the remainder of his life.

Deliveroo-Style Same-Day Contraception Could Be Offered On The NHS By BIKE

MPs have backed calls for the NHS to provide a same-day delivery service for the morning-after pill after a Deliveroo-style pilot was trialled with students during the fresher’s week in Manchester.

The trial, which was the first of its kind in the United Kingdom, delivered emergency contraception to women using a bike courier hours after they completed a brief questionnaire online.

Conservative MP Caroline Nokes, chairman of the Women and Equalities Committee, told a newspaper outlet they all know the morning-after pill works most effectively when it’s taken as quickly as possible. That’s why they should be looking to lower obstacles to access and make it as non-judgemental as possible.

She said she would like to see services like this commissioned by the NHS, which would give people more confidence that they were accessing the pills online from reputable suppliers.

The pilot was launched by the sexual health platform The Lowdown in central Manchester between Tuesday 20 and Friday 30 September and allowed women over the age of 18 to order emergency contraception online via the questionnaire.

Orders placed before 5 pm were delivered to women for free by a bicycle messenger before 9 pm the same evening.

Alice Pelton, founder of The Lowdown said they launched the campaign to raise awareness about the issues surrounding emergency contraception, which no other company has done.

The morning-after pill is offered for free at GP surgeries and sexual health clinics across the United Kingdom, but this option isn’t available on weekends and women are usually questioned by a healthcare professional before receiving the pill.

Emergency contraception can also be purchased from some pharmacies after a consultation, but most only offer next-day delivery or require you to collect in-store.

Ms Pelton said that the morning-after pill is still associated with shame and the usual procedure of getting it can make you feel a tad rubbish.

She said women frequently need to trek long distances and have a public discussion with a pharmacist over the counter about how many sexual partners they’ve had, which can be quite an intense conversation, particularly when you’re a young student in a new city.

Last year, a survey of 2,086 women by the Lowdown discovered that 53 per cent of respondents had encountered difficulties accessing contraception despite local authorities being required to deliver a wide range of services to prevent accidental pregnancies.

But how about men carrying condoms, or is this just too simple for them to do?

Sadly women are browbeaten into believing that sex is sinful, which is an extremely peculiar Victorian perspective. Sex is not immoral but we’ve just been brainwashed by theology, but of course, we don’t want every other woman pregnant because she couldn’t get access to the morning-after pill, nor should a woman be asked a million and one questions as to why she wants it, it’s rather evident why a woman would want it.

Women generally don’t want to be having a discussion about their most private sexual details or relationships over the counter with the pharmacist in public. Of course, the alternative is having unwanted babies, and I believe that the delivery of the morning-after pill is the lesser of the two evils.

Of course, the NHS was created to deal with illness and sickness, not to facilitate sexual promiscuity, but as much as one might whine about it, there are numerous unwanted births that could have been avoided if women just had access to the morning-after pill.

There were multiple abortions in the United Kingdom last year, and spending funds to prevent them from having babies is just an investment.

We Will Create A Future Worthy Of The Sacrifices So Many Have Made And Fill Tomorrow With Hope

Rishi Sunak gave his first address as Prime Minister. It was one of the longest speeches delivered by a newly appointed Prime Minister in decades.

He spoke for five minutes and 56 seconds and promised to fill the future with hope:

Good morning,

I have just been to Buckingham Palace and accepted His Majesty The King’s invitation to form a government in his name.

It is only right to explain why I am standing here as your new Prime Minister.

Right now our country is facing a profound economic crisis.

The aftermath of Covid still lingers.

Putin’s war in Ukraine has destabilised energy markets and supply chains the world over.

I want to pay tribute to my predecessor Liz Truss, she was not wrong to want to improve growth in this country, it is a noble aim.

And I admired her restlessness to create change.

But some mistakes were made.

Not borne of ill will or bad intentions. Quite the opposite, in fact. But mistakes nonetheless.

And I have been elected as leader of my party, and your Prime Minister, in part, to fix them.

And that work begins immediately.

I will place economic stability and confidence at the heart of this government’s agenda.

This will mean difficult decisions to come.

But you saw me during Covid, doing everything I could, to protect people and businesses, with schemes like furlough.

There are always limits, more so now than ever, but I promise you this –
I will bring that same compassion to the challenges we face today.

The government I lead will not leave the next generation, your children and grandchildren, with a debt to settle that we were too weak to pay ourselves.

I will unite our country, not with words, but with action.

I will work day in and day out to deliver for you.

This government will have integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level.

Trust is earned. And I will earn yours.

I will always be grateful to Boris Johnson for his incredible achievements as Prime Minister, and I treasure his warmth and generosity of spirit.

And I know he would agree that the mandate my party earned in 2019 is not the sole property of any one individual, it is a mandate that belongs to and unites all of us.

And the heart of that mandate is our manifesto.

I will deliver on its promise.

A stronger NHS.

Better schools.

Safer streets.

Control of our borders.

Protecting our environment.

Supporting our armed forces.

Levelling up and building an economy that embraces the opportunities of Brexit, where businesses invest, innovate, and create jobs.

I understand how difficult this moment is.

After the billions of pounds, it cost us to combat Covid, after all the dislocation that was caused in the midst of a terrible war that must be seen successfully to its conclusions I fully appreciate how hard things are.

And I understand too that I have work to do to restore trust after all that has happened.

All I can say is that I am not daunted. I know the high office I have accepted and I hope to live up to its demands.

But when the opportunity to serve comes along, you cannot question the moment, only your willingness.

So I stand here before you ready to lead our country into the future.
To put your needs above politics.

To reach out and build a government that represents the very best traditions of my party.

Together we can achieve incredible things.

We will create a future worthy of the sacrifices so many have made and fill tomorrow, and every day thereafter with hope.

Thank you.

What a touching address, but just remind me what sacrifices he and his family, in fact, any member of parliament has made.

Rishi Sunak is always bleating on about us making sacrifices for forthcoming generations. Well, he can cram that right up his tush. What about the millions of people who are struggling right now?

We all have a right to a decent life, but you can be rest assured that this cold little man will take even more away from us.

He’s considerably inexperienced in politics, having only been in it for a brief time with the position of Chancellor being his only senior post. He’s also a monied man and has no experience of anything else.

Rishi Sunak’s father was a GP and his mother was a pharmacist. He went to prep school, then to Winchester College public school, I won’t even go into how much that cost back in the day, and then to Oxford and Stanford University.

He has no working-class friends by his own admission, and whatever his heritage, he’s another in a long line of Oxbridge-educated elite wannabe toff MPs with no knowledge of the life of an average person.

It Was Wrong Of Me To Make That Rude Comment

James Corden has finally acknowledged that he was ungracious and wrong to scold a server at one of New York City’s most celebrated eateries because they got his wife’s omelette order wrong, a move that saw him barred from the restaurant for a time.

James Corden, 44, returned to The Late Late Show and told viewers that he was disrespectful to the server after his wife Julia Carey, 46, found a bit of egg white in her egg yolk omelette at the restaurant Balthazar.

The British comic and talk show host said he was ungracious to the server when he barked at him and made a disparaging comment that he’d cook the egg yolk omelette himself.

James Corden’s rude behaviour saw Balthazar owner Keith McNally bar Corden from the restaurant, only for him to lift the embargo when the comedian called him to apologise.

Days later, James Corden appeared to U-turn on his apology after he snapped at a New York Times reporter who’d questioned him about the omelette incident saying he’d done nothing wrong, but James Corden last night confessed he’d made a mistake by making the rude and unnecessary comment to the server.

He said his remarks had been in the heat of the moment but vowed he would apologise in person to the staff at Balthazar.

Talking on his show last night, James Corden finally said that last week, there were stories about him being barred from a restaurant and that at the time he considered, you know, tweeting about it or Instagramming about it.

He added that he likes to assume a British perspective about things: ‘Keep calm and carry on’ and ‘Never complain, never complain’.

James Corden, looking at his parents Malcolm and Margaret who were in the audience, added: ‘As my dad pointed out to me on Saturday — he said, ‘Son, well, you did complain, so you might need to explain.’ Look, when you make a mistake, you’ve gotta take responsibility. So I thought I would, if it’s okay, share with you what happened.’

James Corden said his wife Julia Carey was given food she was allergic to even after explaining her food allergies.

He explained that in the heat of the moment, he made a scathing terse remark about cooking it himself, and that it was a comment he sincerely regrets, and that he understood the hardships of being a server, and that he worked shifts at restaurants for years, but it’s too late now because now his true colours have been revealed.

It wasn’t a statement, it wasn’t a straightforward apology letter to the restaurant, it had to be done on his show, which tells you all you need to know about his ego, and ungracious would be an understatement, and he’s actually only apologising to save his career.

But I’m assuming that if you’re paying toff money for a basic omelette, you’d expect them to be able to get it right in the first place. However, the server wasn’t the one who cooked the omelette, so why take your frustration out on them?

All James had to do is say that the omelette hadn’t been cooked correctly and could they please replace it with another one instead of ranting and raving?

Perhaps they should have stayed at home to cook their own food. There’s no need for all this disrespect, and common politeness is free, and James when an apology has to be dragged out of you, it isn’t an apology.

Tomorrow, Rishi Sunak Will Have An Audience With King Charles At Buckingham Palace

After a breathless few days of Tory manoeuvring, Rishi Sunak has been confirmed as the United Kingdom’s next Prime Minister.

Boris Johnson pulled out of the race last night despite claiming he had 100 nominations from MPs required to run.

Penny Mordaunt was the only other remaining hopeful but the Commons Leader failed to make the 100 threshold.

Rishi Sunak will take over from Liz Truss in Downing Street tomorrow facing a monumental task to stabilise the United Kingdom.

Liz Truss will chair a final Cabinet meeting at 9 am before departing No 10 to end her topsy-turvy spell in No 10.

Rishi Sunak will meet the King at Buckingham Palace before giving an address to the country outside No 10 at about 11.35 am, as he prepares to select his Cabinet amid skyrocketing inflation and energy bills.

Today Rishi Sunak pledged to run No 10 with integrity and humility but warned of profound challenges as he prepares to begin his premiership.

Rishi Sunak delivered the stark statement after being confirmed as the next Prime Minister when his sole remaining rival Penny Mordaunt failed to make the threshold of 100 nominations required to trigger a run-off in the Tory leadership battle.

Speaking to a camera at Conservative HQ, Rishi Sunak said the UK was a fantastic country and promised to work day in and day out, but pointed to serious economic issues.

Outgoing Prime Minister Liz Truss is expected to chair the last Cabinet meeting at 9 am tomorrow before making a final address as premier outside No 10. She will then travel to Buckingham Palace to formally offer her resignation to King Charles.

His Majesty will after that appoint Rishi Sunak as Prime Minister, with the incoming premier set to make his own address from Downing Street at about 11.35 am after travelling back from the Palace.

When Boris Johnson chaired his final Cabinet meeting in July, he was given Winston Churchill’s six-volume history of the Second World War following a whip round among his top ministers.

Liz Truss will also be expected to receive a gift from her senior team when she addresses them for the last time tomorrow, despite lasting just 44 days as Prime Minister before resigning.

Rishi Sunak received a rapturous reception when he made a 10-minute private address to MPs at Parliament this afternoon, telling his battalions that leadership contenders Boris Johnson and Penny Mordaunt, as well as his former rival Liz Truss, were all good Conservative colleagues and friends.

But what we actually need is a General Election, and we need it now! But of course, we won’t get one because there are not enough MPs to support it.

It will eventually come, and when it does the Conservatives would have torn themselves apart, and then there will be a giant mess when Labour takes control – and that’s another fine mess they will have got themselves into.

We need an election because this can’t carry on. It’s the people who decide who oversees this country, not the chosen few.

But what we really need is a bloody miracle.

I will never vote for the Conservatives, but unfortunately if when Labour does get in, the Tories would have left such a mess for them to clean up, and by that time our once great country would have finally gone down the pan.

Rishi Sunak will now be our billionaire Prime Minister, he has so much money he wouldn’t even know what poverty was.

It’s Not Your Average Garden Spider!

A terrified mother was left speechless after she found a tarantula the size of her hand scurrying across her front garden.

Sarah Rodmell, 30, spotted the enormous spider after she was alerted by builders who’d stumbled upon the eight-legged critter while carrying out renovation works on her home in Stapleford, Nottinghamshire.

Despite being terrified of spiders, the mother of two nudged the curled-up critter, now thought to be an aggressive species native to South Africa, causing it to move.

She then courageously scooped up the tarantula into a container before moving it into the kitchen and calling reptile experts to come to take it away.

Ms Rodmell, who works in a school, said it was 9 am and the builders were doing work on the roof and they left some of their materials outside on the front.

She said they saw this thing on the front curled up, but they didn’t know what it was but as soon as they found out it was a tarantula they all stepped back.

She said that she kind of gave it a little nude and it got on its feet and started wiggling, so they got a box and they poked it into it. She said it was a bit surreal to see it chilling in a box in her kitchen, and every time she stepped into her kitchen, it was like ‘Oh my God, I’ve got a tarantula in my house’.

It was later established to be an Orange Baboon tarantula, which has an incredibly painful bite and is native to Angola and other regions of Africa.

Ms Rodmell’s 13-year-old daughter Kacie identified the creepie crawly after noticing the unique markings on its back.

Her three-year-old son Rudi decided to call the giant spider Dobby and begged his mum to keep the lost spider.

Ms Rodmell added that she’s terrified of spiders but she worked in a care home and they brought snakes and a tarantula in, so she beat her fears of them, but said that she wouldn’t be going near any other spiders anytime soon.

She said that thankfully Washington’s Relentless Reptiles in Loughborough collected the spider straight away, and then a man got in touch with her after she put it on Facebook that he’d lost an Orange Baboon tarantula a while ago.

She said he lived on the same street as her but moved house in July. Somehow it survived until now, he just couldn’t locate it, so it must have escaped, but who would want a pet which is notoriously aggressive in nature and is known to have an extremely painful bite?

I guess I’ve described the average human being, some dogs and presumably all cats, but it doesn’t prevent most from keeping them as pets or as human companions. Although, I must confess I don’t actually like seeing creatures like this in captivity.

The guy said that he lost his tarantula in a house move. Did he not think to warn the appropriate authorities seeing as it was dangerous or that at least it was missing? Clearly, this man wasn’t extremely responsible, and if people can’t look after or care for their pets properly and keep them safe and protected then they shouldn’t have them.

Tarantulas are lovely and extremely clever critters, but if one dashed across my front lawn, I’d have to leave the planet, and why are people allowed to import these critters, it’s not much life for them living in a tank, it’s almost like being in prison, so it’s not surprising they want to escape, and with Britain warming up they can now endure our environment.

COVID Pandemic Worsens Backlog For Cancer Treatment, Pushing Patients To Wait 55 Days

Figures show that the average wait for cancer treatment in Britain is 55 days, one week longer than two years ago, and the lengthy wait is leading to avoidable deaths and makes the United Kingdom one of the worst places in Europe to get the disease.

Waiting time is measured from when a patient is referred by a GP to when they start their first treatment in the hospital.

Some parts of the country have more extended waits than the 55-day average.

The United Kingdom came 33rd out of 41 developed nations for cancer mortality in 2019, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) found. Only Estonia, Ireland, Lithuania, Slovenia, Poland, Latvia, Slovakia and Hungary were worse.

The UK’s annual cancer mortality rate, of 216 per 100,000 people is the highest out of the G7 countries. Experts believe the disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic could lead to survival rates declining for the first time in a generation.

In 2020, some 38,000 fewer people were diagnosed with cancer than in 2019.

Professor Sir Mike Richards, former cancer director at the Department of Health and now chairman of the UK national screening committee, told a newspaper outlet that across a spectrum of diseases, but especially in cancer, they offer a late diagnosis service in this country, and that needs to be tackled urgently.

He said that there are numerous factors, many of which were present long before the pandemic, but which were made worse by COVID-19.

Waiting times for vital CT and MRI scans have increased tenfold in the past three years, with about 300,000 patients waiting longer than six weeks for cancer tests in England, and in 2020, England performed 99 CT scans per 1,000 people compared with 113 in Spain, 150 in Germany, 196 in Denmark and 205 in Belgium.

Similarly, England performed 63 MRI scans per 1,000 people compared with 150 in Germany, 85 in Spain and 91 in Denmark. In the United Kingdom, approximately 167,000 people die from cancer every year.

Martin Marshall, head of the Royal College of GPs, said that the delays that they see in diagnosing cancer were a product of three factors, some related to patients, some related to the gatekeeper function of GPs and some related to the wider system.

Michelle Mitchell, from Cancer Research UK, said that delays of several weeks can often have serious implications in terms of prognosis and that early diagnosis and prompt treatment need to be a top priority for the Government.

That’s almost two months. Envision having cancer and sitting there for two months wondering if it’s spread because of the time wait. Wondering when you’ll get treatment, that’s mental torture. Wishing you were wealthy enough to get seen the next day, knowing that those with money will survive whilst you could die, it’s despicable.

The majority of us are enmeshed in a decreasing spiral as regards our living standards, long-term health and well-being. There’s simply no point trying to grow old now in the United Kingdom, but of course, that’s what our government want, they want us to all die extremely fast.

So, that’s a wait from the date of the decision on how to treat, this is surgery, radiation therapy, chemo et cetera, or a combination of all of them, but the actual wait from diagnosis might be much longer.

Now bang your pots and pans for the NHS! But it wouldn’t matter who ran the NHS or how much they ploughed into it. It’s a system that performs operations for gender new parts whilst cancer patients have to wait, and it needs to be changed to do what it was meant to do, instead of this mess it’s in now.

A PERMIT May Be Required For Oxford Drivers To Drive Across The City

Residents in Oxford may require permits to drive across the city centre if council plans get the go-ahead.

Under the proposal, which will be decided upon next month, households will be given permits permitting them to drive across the city 100 days per year per vehicle. Up to three permits will be allocated to each household, with one licence per person.

The system will be policed by ANPR cameras at traffic filter sites across the metropolis. Exemptions will be allocated for buses, delivery vans, HGVs, motorbikes and mopeds. A £70 fine will be charged to motorists without permits.

Duncan Enright, a county councillor overseeing the policy, said it was designed to cut local traffic and improve public transport journey times.

At the end of the trial, which could be extended up to a maximum of 18 months, Oxfordshire County Council will make a decision over whether to make the traffic filters permanent.

The restrictions, due to be introduced in August, will take effect between 7 am and 7 pm seven days a week in four of the six camera sites, but not on Sundays in the other two.

But one local resident criticised the permit scheme for being established on the pointless administrative borders of the City of Oxford rather than on distance or need.

Another commenting on a local newspaper report of the proposals pointed out that drivers already paid road fund licence to use the roads, adding that this was nothing but a means to make more money.

The cost of traffic filters is estimated to be £3 million and will be primarily funded by the bus service improvement plan grant. The county council’s consultation on the trial scheme closed earlier this month.

Its cabinet is expected to make a decision on November 29, but Mr Enright said he was confident colleagues would give it the green light.

Last year, Birmingham floated similar recommendations as part of its new transport strategy to reduce car journeys into and through the city centre. Schemes directing traffic to the ring road are already in place in the Belgian and Dutch cities of Ghent, Groningen and Leuven.

At the heart of the Oxford plan is a desire to ease traffic and make city living more enjoyable, boosting neighbourhood living where people walk or cycle within a 20-minute radius for everyday goods and services.

The city, home to BMW’s Mini factory, gave rise to Britain’s first full-time park-and-ride scheme in 1973. In February, Oxford introduced a pilot Ultra Low Emission Zone on a handful of city streets, with plans to extend the scheme across the entirety of the city centre.

However, it seems that the vast majority of people in Oxford don’t want this to happen.

The council have already put the low-traffic neighbourhood’s in place and it’s caused absolute chaos and gridlock, and this system will only add to the problem and turn car journeys that presently take 15 minutes into a journey that will then take an hour, so I’m not sure how this will reduce car emissions.

They will say that using public transport would be better, but when local bus companies are many drivers short and cancel many buses every day, it then leaves people stranded at bus stops, and then there are the extremely high rates of death and injury to cyclists.

Oxford was a once booming city and now the council are doing their best to destroy it, but then councils don’t work for the general public and we should know that by now.

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