We’ve Been Eating Chocolate Wrong All Along!

Food experts have said that Brits have been consuming chocolate the wrong way, it should never be kept in the fridge and should be consumed at 11 am.

A new study, commissioned by Galaxy, found the UK is a country of chocoholics, with 34 per cent munching on chocolate daily.

Natalie Alibrandi, a food scientist, has unveiled the most common faux pas people make when enjoying sweet foods.

The most typical mistake is when chocolate is kept in the fridge as humidity levels are too high, and a lot of people in the United Kingdom are making this typical mistake.

A study of 2,000 adults found that 78 per cent of people stored chocolate in the fridge.

The best temperature for a chocolatey treat is 18C.

The food scientist told a newspaper outlet that if chocolate is too warm, it will crumble or dissolve in your hands. If you can’t hear it snap when it breaks, it’s likely not at the right temperature.

Putting chocolate in the fridge can also cause oxidation to happen, causing sugar blooms, where the taste and aroma from other foods are transferred into the bar.

Alibrandi also said that 11 am time is the most suitable time to consume chocolate. This is because cacao contains both sugar and caffeine suggesting it’s good food to fuel you until lunchtime.

The study found that only one in five adults eats chocolate in the morning, but how many people even store chocolate? Well, they nearly had me there!

I certainly know that the best time to eat chocolate is when you fancy it, and let’s face it most people don’t store chocolate, they hide it from the kids!

Everyone is different though, and some people just prefer it directly from the fridge, and good luck keeping it at 18 degrees in hotter countries or during the summer months, and why are all these experts telling us what to do when we pay for it, so why shouldn’t we do what we want with it?

I really do wish that these people would stop saying we’re doing it the wrong way. Quite frankly, these experts are more irritating than Philip Schofield, and generally, when buying a bar of chocolate, it never makes it home, never mind into the fridge or cupboard.

I don’t suppose anyone actually cares how they consume their chocolate, they just eat it the way that they want, until the day comes when a whole bar is the same size as a small bar but costs an entire week’s wages.

To be fair the entire thing is absurd because if you lived in hotter climes and you didn’t store your chocolate in the fridge you’d probably be drinking it instead of eating it.

There’s only one way to eat chocolate and that’s by putting it directly into your mouth, now that’s called professional eating, and I must confess I am a tad partial to a box of Quality Street, does this mean that I have to eat the entire box by 11 am?

But isn’t this gaslighting? Trying to get people to believe there’s something wrong with them because of the way they like to eat their chocolate? Making them believe that they’re in the wrong, which is quite diabolical when you think about it.

And there was tragic news from the Nestle factory today as hundreds of boxes of chocolate fell on top of an employee. He tried in vain to get help but every time he yelled, ‘The Milky Bars are on me’. His fellow workmates just cheered.

As New Chancellor Jeremy Hunt Prepares To Axe MORE Key Planks Of ‘Lame Duck’ Liz Truss’ Economic Policy TODAY, The Pound Surges

Jeremy Hunt will take a wrecking ball to ‘lame duck’ Liz Truss’s economic policies today in a frantic bid to calm the markets, as Torie’s warn she must be gone in days.

In an extraordinary 6 am statement, the Treasury said the new Chancellor will announce an overhaul of the catastrophic mini Budget within hours rather than waiting until Halloween.

He’s expected to ditch plans to knock 1p off the basic rate of tax, one of the Prime Minister’s flagship measures, but there’s speculation he will go much further, with some believing he will reverse stamp duty reductions, with only the cut to national insurance looking safe, all legislation has all but cleared Parliament.

The theatrical intervention, which sent the Pound spiking, comes as ministers raced to fill a £72 billion void in the public finances after Kwasi Kwarteng’s fiscal package sparked a total meltdown, but despite jettisoning her closest ally Liz Truss is still looking in serious trouble. Despite Work and Pensions Secretary Chloe Smith having been slated to do broadcast interviews this morning, no Cabinet minister came out to shore up her position.

Jeremy Hunt is being openly described as the ‘de facto PM’ while about 100 MPs are said to have written to 1922 chief Graham Brady, who returns from holiday today, urging him to change party rules so the premier can be ousted.

Jeremy Hunt, who yesterday insisted the Prime Minister was still in control despite forcing her to ditch her tax-cutting agenda, is expected to speak on live TV at around 11 am setting out his plans in the hope that markets will calm down and prevent further collapse in the value of UK Bonds, known as gilts.

He will then make an address to the House of Commons at 3.30 pm, in which he’s expected to announce U-turns in cuts to the basic rate of income tax and corporation tax.

With more reversal now anticipated, the pound increased dashingly against the dollar and the euro this morning with all eyes on how the gilts market moves when the market opens in London at 8 am.

It comes as Tory MPs will attempt to oust Liz Truss this week, making her the shortest-serving Prime Minister in history, despite Downing Street warning that it could trigger a general election. There are assertions that Rishi Sunak and Penny Mordaunt could be put into No 10 and No 11 as part of a ‘coronation’ by MPs. Others believe Jeremy Hunt may use his position to force himself into Liz Truss’s job.

But it’s now got to be said that the Conservatives are the party that broke Great Britain, although we shouldn’t overlook the foolish nature of those that voted for them, but then the global plan is bigger than we give it credit for. These people could quite easily starve us to extinction if they could get away with it.

I can’t think of a single success story under the Conservatives in the last twelve years, and everything feels like it’s gone backwards, and can anyone honestly say that they’re better off financially, or that our services have improved? And before anyone says they handled COVID well, perhaps we should stop and engage our brains first. Think of all those deaths, care homes and abuse of our money et cetera. No, it’s all been a total catastrophe.

Nobody said things would be easy, but Brexit has been even more costly than anyone could have predicted. The only thing that came out of the Brexit vote was those blue passports, and the deregulation of EU red tape, which meant that Tories voted to allow companies to pour raw sewage into our waters and the opportunity to get rid of workers’ rights and human rights. All you have to do is look at the state of Britain since 2016.

American Jews Are Told To Get Their Act Together By Donald Trump

Donald Trump lashed out at the American Jewish people on Sunday morning for not being more appreciative of his administration’s work with Israel.

The ex-president claimed he was so popular there that he could be the country’s next prime minister.

The message, posted on his Truth Social app, instantly made the rounds on Twitter where it was criticised throughout the morning. Donald Trump was accused of making a veiled threat against American Jews during a period when extremist violence was already becoming more prevalent.

It comes shortly after a well-known supporter of his, rapper Ye who was formerly known as Kanye West, was pulled from Instagram and Twitter for a series of anti-Semitic remarks.

Donald Trump said on his Truth Social app that no President had done more for Israel than he had and that rather surprisingly, however, their wonderful Evangelicals were far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, particularly those living in the US.

And he said that those living in Israel, though, were a different story. The highest approval rating in the World.

Donald Trump concluded that in the US, Jews had to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel before it was too late.

It’s worth mentioning that Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is a devout Jew. Trump’s daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism before marrying Kushner.

Critics on Twitter instantly went after the alarming comments.

Aviva Klompas, the co-founder of the group Boundless Israel, accused Donald Trump of threatening US Jews in his post, and then here’s Donald Trump adding fuel to the antisemitic dumpster fire by demanding American Jews demonstrate allegiance to him because of Israel, and then he tops it all of with a veiled threat.

Lawyer David Leopold, who served on the Biden-Harris transition team, said that a lot of antisemitism to unpack here, but one thing is evident, Donald Trump has no problem threatening American Jews.

How extraordinary to hear an anti-Semitic fascist billionaire begging for support from Jews, journalist Craig Unger wrote on the platform.

Well, Donald Doofus just threatened Jewish people in America, and Donald Trump had made similar religiously divisive remarks, including in 2019 when he called American Jewish voters who supported Democrats disloyal, but this can only be a good thing because while he’s doing all that he’s putting yet another nail in his own coffin.

Every group he estranges is a block of votes lost.

Let’s see, educated women, Gold Star moms, veterans, people of colour, Asians, NFL players and now those of Jewish faith. I’m guessing he’s going for the Nazi look, and next, he’ll be building extermination camps, and in the end, all he will have left is Krazy Kanye.

Looks like Donald Trump is playing the fiddle to a new audience now, all of the angry white men living in jail, where hopefully soon Donald Trump will be spending a long long time.

The man is an incredible egomaniac, and undoubtedly seriously sick in the head.

No one has made more money than me. No one has slept with more women than me. No one has indebted the US more than me. No one has had a more messy presidency than me. No one is more healthy than me. No one talks more bullshit than me. No one has killed more Americans than me, thanks to COVID. No one is more incompetent. No one spreads more lies than me (okay, perhaps my good friends Putin and Kim came close). No one has paid so little taxes in the US. No one has deceived the American people more than me, because it’s all about ME, ME, ME!

Buckingham Palace Will Not Be Occupied By King Charles III For FIVE YEARS

Sources claim that King Charles III won’t live in Buckingham Palace for up to five years and will instead wait for the completion of the site’s £370 million renovation in 2027.

As the palace continues its 10-year refurbishment, the new King and Queen Consort Camilla are expected to divide their time between up to four other castles.

A source told a newspaper outlet their primary home will continue to be Clarence House, only 400 yards away from Buckingham Palace and where they’ve lived for 19 years.

The couple moved into the five-bed residence in 2003, one year after the Queen Mother passed away.

It’s understood they’ll spend three nights each week at Clarence House, two nights at Windsor Castle and weekends at Sandringham in Norfolk.

The new Monarch was spending at least one night a week at Windsor Castle as the Queen’s mobility problems deteriorated in the year before her demise.

The source said that refurbishment was very far behind schedule but the Monarch should be living at Buckingham Palace, with the source saying that it’s the core of the monarchy in London, otherwise it risks becoming just a tourist magnet, and effectively they have a King without a palace to live in.

The couple also has their idyllic country private home, Highgrove House, near Tetbury in Gloucestershire.

King Charles acquired the grounds in 1980 and has dedicated much of his excess time and energy to making the grounds and garden around the house pristine.

Buckingham Palace is about halfway through its biggest refurbishment since before the Second World War, which includes new wiring, plumbing and heating.

I can’t say I blame the King for not wanting to move into Buckingham Palace, it’s a tad drafty, and too much of it for the public to peruse for it to feel like a real home, and no doubt, even more, a palace gossip, and my best guess is that by the time the Prince and Princess of Wales get there they will rather not live there either.

And we actually do need to quit calling him King Charles III. I promise that if we just call him the King, people won’t start thinking we’re talking about Elvis Presley, or that he will be resurrected and one day move into Buckingham Palace. Elvis was the king of bling, and Charles is definitely not that.

But renovation for Buckingham Palace is going to cost tons of money, money that could be used to help the needy, education, NHS and the police, and with all of King Charle’s numerous homes, I’m surprised he doesn’t lose track of where he’s staying tonight, tomorrow or next week.

However, we British people have a talent for tenaciously maintaining our ageing structures, well that’s when we’re not knocking them down to make way for more contemporary ones, and let’s face it, you wouldn’t expect to move into your elderly mother’s home without some type of renovation work, so I guess we can’t expect the King to do so either, or should we just abolish the hypocritical monarchy?

And if you believe that the Royal Family aren’t spending taxpayers’ money to fix up the Palace, then who’s money are they spending? It’s not their own money that’s for sure, and some people just aren’t falling for this idiocy anymore.

I do have to agree though that the UK economy does benefit by billions every year through Royal tourism, which is an industry on its own.

Royal tourism employs more than 100,000 full-time workers across numerous industries and employs 100,000 part-time employees.

The Royal Family generates billions for 1,000 of charities around the world every year. HRH Queen Elizabeth alone generated more than one billion supporting her chosen 600+ charities.

Is An Indian Summer On The Way?

Britain will enjoy 20C temperatures at the beginning of the week with warm air from Africa set to keep mercury above average until Halloween.

The Met Office confirmed the South and South East will be the driest and warmest regions of the country over the next week.

However, conditions over the next 24-36 hours will be unsettled with extensive parts of the North encountering rain and powerful winds.

After a short period, the weather will settle down, with most areas in the British Isles staying dry.

A representative from the Met Office told a newspaper outlet that with low pressure anchored to the southwest of the United Kingdom during the coming week, winds will remain from a south-easterly direction.

The spokesperson said this will act like a pump, bringing some relatively warm air for October northwards from Iberia and France. Daytime maximum temperatures will reach 18-20 Celsius in some southern regions, whereas the average high for mid-October will be close to 14 Celsius.

Nick Finnis, the Netweather forecaster, told a newspaper outlet that some computer models show 22C and 23C by midweek, bringing an Indian Summer.

He said that an extremely generous plume of air from northwest Africa looks like it’s being pumped across Europe and to Britain, which is up to the low 30s in France, and over 20C in southern Britain.

An Indian Summer can be defined as a warm and calm period of weather during the autumn.

The most elevated temperature in October ever registered in the United Kingdom was in 2011 when temperatures skyrocketed to 29.9C in Gravesend, Kent.

Last year October was a warm month with a typically autumnal blend of weather types with warm periods and frequent showers.

According to the Met Office, average maximum temperatures were more than 10C above long-term averages.

Experts have said the favourable conditions will continue up until Halloween on October 31.

The news comes after the Met Office issued a yellow warning last month when the weather was expected to cause disruption to transport and businesses.

I suppose that will be nice. At least then we won’t have to put on our central heating for a little while, and at least our elderly won’t freeze to death, well until the end of October, then we’ll likely see them dropping like flies because they can’t afford to keep their heating on.

So, let’s hope that we have an extremely mild winter and the heating doesn’t have to go on too much, but what we could really do with is an offset till the Spring so that we can keep our heating bills down, but you can bet our arses that we’ll be freezing this winter.

Of course, the longer it says warm, the longer we can keep the heating off, but can you imagine the energy companies, they will be so annoyed if we barely use any, and it was only last week the weatherman was spewing off about us having an arctic winter – propaganda at its best, wouldn’t you say? Now all they will be talking about is climate change again which will spark mass demonstrations.

I’m really shocked the woke brigade are still letting us use the word ‘Indian Summer’. There will be controversy over that next.

There’s no such thing as climate change, this is pretty much the norm every October, and if sea levels are rising why are politicians buying beachfront homes, but of course, they’re attempting to whip up support for even more enslavement through this drivel.

According To A Poll, Prince Harry Should Be ‘Banned’ From The Royal Family If His Memoir Damages The Firm

King Charles III reportedly won’t invite Prince Harry to his Coronation if his book attacks Camilla, the Queen Consort.

Prince Harry should be expelled from the Royal Family if his memoir harms the Firm, according to a poll. Carried out between October 12 and 13 with 1,624 respondents, TECHNE UK found nearly seven in 10 Brits believe the Duke should be banished if his new book includes adverse statements.

In the vote, a tremendous 68 per cent of respondents agreed that Harry should be banished if his memoirs have adverse information.

Meanwhile, 22 per cent said the Duke shouldn’t be banished, and another 10 per cent said they didn’t know.

According to the pollsters, among those polled men were more likely to back Harry being expelled if his book damaged the Royal Family and 71 per cent to 61 per cent were women.

Across ages, there was consistent support for Harry being banished if his book was damaging, with 18 to 34-year-olds at 66 per cent support and over 64 years old at 68 per cent.

The poll also found support for potentially banishing Harry was consistent across political groups.

It found that 69 per cent of Labour voters in the 2019 general election supported it, whereas 68 per cent of Conservative voters were in favour.

Out of 57 Green Party voters surveyed, 73 per cent were in favour of potentially banishing Harry, and 68 per cent of Liberal Democrats were in favour.

Support was also almost identical between Remainers and Brexiteers, at 69 per cent and 68 per cent respectively.

The Duke of Sussex’s memoir will be published by Penguin Random House, and was originally expected out in fall 2022 but could be published in 2023.

Reports suggested Harry was looking to revise his memoir after the demise of Queen Elizabeth II on September 8.

According to a newspaper outlet on September 25, Harry was concerned that some of the disclosures in his book might not look so good, following the public outpouring of support for the monarchy.

A source told a newspaper outlet that Harry had tossed a spanner in the works as he was desperate to get it refined in the light of the Queen’s demise, her funeral and his father Charles taking the throne, and it was said that there may be things which might not look good if they come out so soon after the Queen’s death and his father becoming King.

Prince Harry is irrelevant, even below the spares, and therefore surplus to requirement. They can banish him from the ‘Royal Family’, but they can’t banish him from their family because he’s blood, and it doesn’t matter how much you sugarcoat it, he will always be blood.

People can disparage Prince Harry as much as they want but he will always be part of this unique family, and I’m sure there are many skeletons in their closet just waiting to break out and tell their secrets, and I’m not sure why people are so worried about knowing the truth – if it was any other family people would look surprised and have their say and then move on with their lives, but because it’s the Royal Family everyone appears to want to make such a big deal about it. What people need to realise is that at the end of the day, Royal or not, they still have the same coloured blood flowing through their veins and they’re far from foolproof.

Picky Eaters Are Created By Parents, Says Mum

A self-confessed ‘crunchy mum’ has provoked an outcry after claiming parents enable their children to become finicky eaters.

The mum of one shared a video of her toddler happily consuming a meal, with the statement: ‘Opinion of the day: kids are not picky eaters from birth. Parents inadvertently help them become picky’.

The comment understandably raised the wrath of other parents, who called the mum out for parent shaming.

One mum responded that some children are born with sensory problems that stop them from consuming particular foods and that they’re not always fussy eaters.

Amber commented, “Tell me you only have one child without telling me you only have one child. My first made me feel like I was the best parent.”

Krissie Leanne responded that it was simply not true. That her son consumed all types at that age, and now he won’t touch certain things no matter how hard they try. He’s six now.

It prompted the mum to follow up with a video response, where she embellished her view.

She said that she wanted to explain that there was a distinction between fussy eaters and having likes and preferences. That she wasn’t talking about a child not liking squash and therefore they’re fussy and it was the parent’s fault. She said she was talking about the children that will only eat processed junk food because that’s what the parents feed them because it’s easier, but this explanation only generated more of a stir, with other mums claiming every child is different, and so are their preferences.

Some parents do everything right with their first child and yet they end up being the pickiest eaters, but that it’s easy to feel superior when everything is going right, but when children start to get some independence and want autonomy that’s when things can take a surprising turn.

However, it’s this mother’s view, but no one has to agree with it – every child is different. However, in this day and age, there are some fussy eaters that have been created, others have sensory disorders, and everyone needs to take a step back and let every parent do what they need to do with their child because it’s their child and nobody else’s.

Children can be extremely fickle, one day they can love something and then the next day they will gag at it.

I know that having food is better than not having any food, but I do tend to agree that most children won’t eat their veggies. I used to hide the veggies in with the mashed potato so that my children wouldn’t notice them, although kids aren’t stupid and to be honest it didn’t always work.

My youngest son who is Autistic was the worst because he has awful sensory problems even now and he’s a grown adult, but I still tried to get him to eat stuff if I could but would never force him because he’d generally be sick.

Processed foods aren’t the best things for our children, but more and more processed foods are on the market these days that sometimes we don’t have a choice particularly if we are on a tight budget, which at the moment we are.

Some children are generally good eaters, but then, later on, become finicky eaters. This mum clearly hasn’t had her child refuse food yet, but she will because as we get older our tastebuds change.

At the end of the day, every family is different. There are people that just feed their children quick meals but there are other people that don’t. Some eat well and some don’t, but we shouldn’t judge each other because what one person does might not work for another, and we just need to quit comparing, as long as we are doing the best that we can, that’s all that matters.

LifeSkills Colleges In Suffolk, Essex And Yorkshire In Administration

A specialist education provider for 16-18 year-olds has gone into administration, with pupils and parents being given one day’s notice of the colleges closing.

But the Basildon training provider administration sparked demonstrations Friday 14th October 2022.

LifeSkills did have independent centres in Suffolk, Essex and Yorkshire that provided learning for those who weren’t engaged by the school system.

Furious families and students protested against the closure of a college after it was announced it had gone into administration immediately after an ongoing dispute with the government.

The aunt of one pupil, who didn’t want to be named, said her niece, 16, was in tears at the sudden closure.

LifeSkills, which is located in Town Square, Basildon told staff and students that the business would be put into administration.

LifeSkills said 80 jobs would be lost.

The social enterprise was formed in 2002 in Bethnal Green with training centres later set up in Basildon, Lowestoft, and Rotherham.

According to the latest 2016 Ofsted report on LifeSkills, the company was a national independent learning provider with its head office in Rotherham.

Families, students and teachers rallied around on the 14th of October, in Basildon Town centre with placards and megaphones demanding the college be kept open.

Numerous students in the study programmes have low prior achievement, particularly in English and mathematics, and have complex personal and social needs.

Mandy Balding, 54, from Basildon whose son Harry goes to the college said that it had made a massive difference in his life, that he suffers from autism, epilepsy and also social communication disorder, where he doesn’t integrate well with other people.

Talking to BBC Radio Suffolk, the aunt of a student at the Lowestoft college, said her niece rang her on Thursday in hysterics, crying, and that everybody was totally devastated.

The college has been a lifeline and for some of these youngsters it’s the only thing that gets them out of the house, otherwise, they would just sit indoors and do nothing, and the closure will have a terrible impact because basically, it will mean they will be losing their life.

In a statement, a LifeSkills representative said that an ongoing dispute between the Education and Skills Funding Agency and Department for Education had affected funding and made the social enterprise unviable.

Amy McManus, 32, from Wickford an ex-teacher at the college said that she taught at the college for a little over six years and that each of the children that came there goes into small class sizes that they need to be able to succeed in education.

The company said that over the last 20 years, LifeSkills had done some fantastic work and they’re proud to have helped the education of over 22,000 young people.

In Basildon, there’s nothing else like this and other colleges are too large for these young people because they require smaller classes and fewer students per staff, so these classes are so important to these young people.

But while they have tried everything to save the company, it’s not been possible and they’re extremely sad to be in this situation, and they would like to thank their brilliant team for all of their hard work and for creating a really great company.

A Department for Education representative said that they can confirm that LifeSkills Solutions Limited had informed them that they had gone into administration following a funding audit that identified data anomalies and that they were working with LifeSkills to find alternative high-quality training providers for the students affected so they can complete their training.

When A Juror Refuses To Wear A Mask, The Judge Jails Him For A Day

A North Carolina father of one spent 24 hours in jail for refusing to wear a mask as ordered by a judge despite no state or country directives in place.

WRAL reported that Gregory Hahn, 47, a US Navy veteran, was among several of 98 jury duty candidates called to Harnett County court who showed up not wearing a mask because there were no such restrictions or warnings in place.

Despite the fact that masks aren’t required in the building, Judge Winston Charles Gilchrist mandated that everyone in his courtroom wear a mask.

When Hahn refused, the judge warned him that he would be held in contempt of court and could spend a month in jail, but the man refused to back down.

 

He said that he wasn’t going to wear a mask.

Harnett County Clerk of Superior Court Renee Whittenton noted that Gilcrist is the only superior court judge in the county with a mask mandate.

She said you can go into any district courtroom without a mask, you can come into superior clerk court without a mask and the district attorney’s office without a mask, but Judge Gilchrist has a mandate that you must wear a mask, she told WRAL.

Despite the judge’s directives, Hahn said there was never notice in the jury summons he received, nor were there any signs around the courthouse, and that the irony of all this was that the judge was speaking to him without a mask and that if safety was such a problem, then he will go to jail because there are no mask requirements with inmates.

Hahn said that he felt there was some discrimination in the judge’s determination to jail him, saying he was indeed bullied for standing up for what he believed in.

Remembering his day in jail, Hahn told Carlson that it was the worst 24 hours of his life and that he had to make a phone call to his minor child who was home.

He said he got signalled in. That he got changed into an orange uniform. He was given a roll of toilet paper, toothpaste, a towel, and a mat, and then he was walking with prisoners to a cell.

Hahn added that he never believed this could happen in this country.

Hahn works as the CEO of Construction Optimize, a local marketing and leadership consulting company.

This, of course, is a total abuse of authority. Nevertheless, the judge has total jurisdiction to set the rules in his court, and if you ignore them you can be found in contempt and imprisoned, and it appears that this isn’t an overreach – you obey the regulations or you suffer the consequences.

It’s a mask for Christ’s sake, and they really do nothing apart from show that you’re obedient, and I for one will not be compliant for anyone – I’m not a dog! But for those that do want to be obedient, I’ll give you a leash.

We might as well have been forced to wear pointed hats for protection against the virus, than the masks that were provided. Frankly, the past few years could have been scripted for Monty Python.

My honour, this man didn’t even have a trial, and the person who accused him was also the person who judged him. He also didn’t have the chance to see the evidence or defend himself.

The next thing we’ll see is real total control with judges being able to conduct panty inspections, foot fungus inspections and body cavity searches – get a grip.

Miriam Margolyes Stuns Radio 4, Today Presenters, By Dropping The F-bomb Live On Air

Comedian and actress Miriam Margolyes stunned BBC Radio 4 listeners by telling presenters what she’d actually wanted to say to the new Chancellor Jeremy Hunt.

Jeremy Hunt had been questioned by journalist Justin Webb about his plans for the government’s latest economic strategy on the Today Programme, in the slot before Margolyes.

The 81-year-old comedian had been on the show to talk about the death of her friend, Harry Potter actor Robbie Coltrane, who passed away yesterday, but Miriam Margolyes went slightly off-piste and chose to make her opinions about the new Chancellor known.

She said that she never believed she’d be sitting in the seat that Jeremy Hunt was sitting in, and she said that when she saw him there she just said: “you’ve got a hell of a job, the best of luck”, but what she really wanted to say was “f*** you, you b*****d!” But you can’t say that.’

Webb attempted to interrupt the comedian when he realised where the conversation was going, saying: ‘Oh no no no, you can’t say that.

‘We’ll have to have you out of the studio now.’

The show quickly moved onto the sports segment.

Before discussing the Rugby League World Cup, presenter Claire Balding said she was just slightly recovering from Miriam Margolyes.

Webb had to give an apology soon after the faux pas, telling listeners after the world cup was discussed that when he watched the Rugby on BT Sport they always apologised when you hear words that you perhaps shouldn’t have heard when they put it on BT Sport in the scrum.

‘Well, we apologise to you if you heard a word that you shouldn’t have heard earlier on. The rest of Miriam Margolyes’s interview was wonderful though…’

Webb signed off the programme describing it as a very eventful morning.

Hunt was conducting his first round of media interviews since he replaced Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor yesterday.

He has said he will meet with Treasury officials later on Saturday and with Prime Minister Liz Truss on Sunday.

Social media was rife with reactions to Miriam Margolyes’ brazen remark.

Ex-BBC journalist Jon Sopel had no comments for the exchange, just responding with shocked and laughing emojis.

Author Michael Rosen just said: ‘Miriam Margolyes! She’s done it again.’

Former BBC producer Dino Sofos described it as perhaps the most wonderful moment in the Today Programme’s history courtesy of Miriam Margolyes.

I’m not sure why everyone’s so surprised by Miriam Margolyes – have they never met this woman before?

Most people just think that Miriam is a terrible person. I simply like the fact that she speaks her mind and is extremely blunt about it, although sometimes if you’ve nothing nice to say, better not to say it at all Miriam, but let’s face it, Jeremy Hunt is an extremely disliked so-called Conservative.

Miriam does like the odd swear word here and there, okay, more here than there sometimes, and why shouldn’t she, it’s human nature to do things that other people don’t like and I’m sure she does it to capture attention as well, and well done Miriam for expressing her mind, not many people would, and I’m sure she probably often upsets the woke brigade.

The thing is, you know what you’re getting when Miriam Margolyes’ comes on your TV, so if you don’t like what she’s got to say, turn off your TV set or shift to a different channel. Nobody’s putting a revolver to your head, you don’t have to watch it!

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