Prince Harry Was Told By Charles Not To Bring Meghan To Balmoral To See The Dying Queen

It was said that King Charles told Prince Harry not to bring his wife Meghan Markle to Balmoral Castle as he and other senior royals rushed to the bedside of the dying Queen.

Amid the personal family tragedy on Thursday, when the Queen passed away at the age of 96, a small household drama was playing out concerning the Duke and Duchess of Sussex.

It was a fortuitous coincidence of sorts that Harry and Meghan were in the country when the prince’s grandmother passed away, sparing him an emotional and undoubtedly traumatic transatlantic dash as the Queen’s health failed.

Despite the hostility of the past few years, no one would begrudge him the opportunity to grieve his dear Granny, with whom he’d always enjoyed a warm and fun-loving relationship, but as the royal household was engulfed in concern for the ailing monarch, the Sussexes provoked an unprecedented flurry behind the scenes by announcing that Harry and Meghan would both be travelling to Balmoral.

According to a newspaper outlet, Prince Harry was at Frogmore Cottage when he received a call from his father asking him not to bring Meghan, and that Charles told Harry that it wasn’t right or appropriate for Meghan to be in Balmoral at such an extremely sad time, a source told the newspaper, and it was pointed out to him that Kate wasn’t going and that the numbers should be restricted to extremely close family, and that Charles made it extremely clear that Meghan would not be welcome.

Meanwhile, a newspaper outlet said that Harry wasn’t initially called when senior royals made their way up to Balmoral, like his brother Prince William was, due to constitutional reasons.

A royal insider also said that it was rather difficult to spend too much time with someone you know is about to publish a tell-all book about you, and another added that they believed the general response to Harry and Meghan’s behaviour had been one of disbelief.

News of their plans came via a small group of media the Sussexes consider it appropriate to deal with and it was tweeted out by a journalist at 1.53 pm.

The statement read, from a spokesperson that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would be travelling to Scotland. This was, of course, news to the Palace and it didn’t go down well with many behind royal walls who were really unbelieving.

And whilst one understands that Meghan Markle would have wanted to support her husband, it was best on this occasion that she supported her husband from a distance.

We shouldn’t dislike Meghan Markle, but she did marry into a Royal Family that she didn’t truly understand, and that’s why Royals should only marry other Royals because it’s an establishment that dates back a long long time.

I’m not a King Charles III fanatic. I also don’t believe that he will make a strong King, but nevertheless, he is the King now, and I’m sure he will do the best that he can, in the brief time that he will reign, and I’m sure that when Harry and Meghan’s next book comes out it will be dicey and delicious, and it will prick up some ears, and we definitely shouldn’t be making this moment about Harry and Meghan. Harry and Meghan are the least of our concerns and the first and foremost should be the mourning of Her Majesty and sending positive thoughts to the family.

It’s With Great Sadness That King Charles III Mourns The Passing Of A Much-Loved Mother And A Cherished Sovereign

Charles has paid tribute to his beloved Sovereign and much loved Mother Queen Elizabeth II, as he’s confirmed as Britain’s new ruler.

The message from His Majesty The King came just half an hour after the peaceful death of the Queen was declared.

Clarence House has confirmed that Charles is now King, and will be known by the regnal name of King Charles III, but as his name is Charles Philip Arthur George there was a possibility that he could have opted to use one of those names instead.

His statement read: ‘The death of my beloved Mother, Her Majesty The Queen, is a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family.

‘We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished Sovereign and a much-loved Mother. 

‘I know her loss will be deeply felt throughout the country, the Realms and the Commonwealth, and by countless people around the world.

‘During this period of mourning and change, my family and I will be comforted and sustained by our knowledge of the respect and deep affection in which The Queen was so widely held.’

Charles was by his mother’s side for much of the day after catching the royal helicopter from Dumfries House in Ayrshire with his wife Camilla.

His younger sister Princess Anne was already at Balmoral after royal duties also took her to Scotland.

They were joined by other senior members of the Royal Family including Her Majesty’s other two children, Andrew and Edward, and Prince William.

The family rushed to the Queen’s Scottish residence after an unusual statement from her doctors revealed they were worried about her health and were keeping her under medical supervision.

Charles has become monarch at 73 years old, almost half a decade older than the Queen was when she found herself in the same position.

He’s likely to launch a radical overhaul of the monarchy in the wake of his mother’s demise, having often talked about a slimmed-down front line.

Royal watchers believe the former Prince of Wales is keen to ensure there are ‘no hangers-on’ in the Firm, with each member being expected to pull their weight in a new and more streamlined monarchy.

The idea of a slimmed-down monarch was evident to see during the Platinum Jubilee in June when the Queen banned those appearing on the Buckingham Palace terrace to working members of the Royal Family, but King Charles’ original model, which reportedly involved a close core of just seven people, including himself, has been hurled into doubt following a sequence of external events.

However, we must recognise that King Charles has now lost his mother, and you’re never old enough to lose a mother. Queen Elizabeth was a remarkable woman, and was a constant in our lives and had a tremendous sense of responsibility, but sadly Prince Philip reached out to his Lilibet and said come home to me.

The Queen was not only a National Treasure, but an International Treasure, but she was never the same after her dear Philip passed away, but she still rallied to give us the confidence to get through COVID with the simple words ‘We’ll meet again’.

Lilibet fell in love with Philip as a 13-year-old girl, and she fell in love with him the instant she laid eyes on the stunning 18-year-old when he was the proud Prince of Greece.

She was determined to marry him, despite parental resistance, and she was proven right, and as Queen Elizabeth II she barely ever made a bad judgment call.

We all like a good love story, and theirs may well be the greatest, and most enduring.

However, she made a vow to devote her life, however brief or prolonged it may be, to the service and duty of her people, and not once in seventy years did she once waver.

The Queen saw fifteen Prime Ministers in the time that she reigned, and she also remained a steadfast, stable and consistent presence in our lives. Now we have to envision a world without our magnificent Queen Elizabeth II but I doubt that we will ever see another ruler like her again.

What Happens Now The Queen Has Passed Away?

The death of the Queen in Scotland has now triggered contingency plans known as Operation Unicorn.

As part of the long-held so-called London Bridge arrangements for the aftermath of Elizabeth’s death, Unicorns puts in motion additional ceremonial events in Edinburgh ahead of the logistics of moving the Queen’s coffin back to London.

The Earl Marshal who’s in control of the plans will, along with royal aides and the Government, be rapidly altering the overarching timetable to include the Scottish element, as the military, clergy and the police turn their attention to the immense practicalities.

The Royal Family had already made the urgent dash to Balmoral, with Charles, the new king, and the Queen’s other children, with Princess Royal, the Duke of York and the Earl of Wessex at the monarch’s bedside.

As preparations get underway for the funeral, the accession procedure for a new head of state starts instantly.

Prince Charles, 73, is now effectively king even though protocol dictates that he is proclaimed as the new ruler the day after the Queen’s death.

This will take place at a gathering of the Accession Council, which usually assembles at St James’s Palace in London. The codename for King Charles’s accession to the throne is Operation Spring Tide.

Members of the Royal Family will be expected in the forthcoming days to hold a poignant vigil around the Queen’s coffin in St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh.

Also at Balmoral are the Duke of Cambridge, now the successor to the throne, and Camilla, the new Queen, and the Countess of Wessex. Initially, the Queen’s coffin is expected to be at rest in the Ballroom at Balmoral.

The Scottish Parliament will be suspended, with Her Majesty’s body expected to first be taken to Edinburgh on the Royal Train in a voyage lasting more than five hours to lie at rest overnight in the Palace of Holyroodhouse.

The next day her coffin will be brought up the Royal Mile to St Giles’s Cathedral for a service of reception.

The Queen’s children are expected to stage a vigil around the Queen’s coffin, known as the Vigil of the Princes, while it lies in the cathedral. Members of the public are expected to be allowed in to file past the Queen’s coffin to pay their respects.

The Queen’s coffin will then be put on the Royal Train once again and be taken back to Buckingham Palace in London.

Of course, the Queen was extremely old, but it’s still a shock that she’s died, and another significant thing that’s happened in a brief space of time, but we also shouldn’t forget that Queen Elizabeth was a woman of elegance, refinement and subtle strength, who managed to be a mother, lady and a ruler, and she was one of a kind, and the last of her kind, and our nation will never be the same again because she gave us her life as sworn.

She was a true British Queen who will be remembered throughout world history, and she was the foundation of the United Kingdom and her legacy will go on.

She was dedicated to her duty and reigned till her final days, and it may be a long time before we see anybody like her again, but now it’s time to let the Queen rest in peace because she served her nation with integrity and elegance.

Good luck to King Charles III because the Queen will be an extremely hard act to follow because her Majesty fought the fight, finished the race, and kept the faith.

Royal Family Prepare To Gather At Queen’s Bedside In Balmoral

An RAF jet bringing Prince William, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and his wife Sophie, Countess of Wessex, touched down in Scotland as they raced to be at the Queen’s bedside to join a vigil led by Prince Charles and Princess Anne.

Her Majesty’s children and grandchildren have rushed to Balmoral after doctors demonstrated their concern for the monarch’s health while she was being kept under medical supervision. However, Prince Harry is journeying to Aberdeenshire without his wife Meghan Markle, who’s remaining at Frogmore Cottage.

In an unusual statement regarding the 96-year-old’s health, Buckingham Palace described the Queen as comfortable after her doctors examined her this morning, hours after she was advised to rest instead of attending a meeting of the Privy Council on Zoom last night.

A royal spokesman said that following further evaluation this morning, the Queen’s doctors were worried for Her Majesty’s health and advised that she remain under medical care. The Queen remains comfortable at Balmoral.

Prince Charles, Camilla and Princess Anne were believed to be with the Queen, whose health seems to have declined this morning.

The heir to the throne was seen holding a briefcase and took a royal helicopter to Balmoral from Dumfries House with his wife this morning. Princess Anne was already at Balmoral after an engagement this week.

At 4 pm a jet from RAF Northolt in London to Aberdeen disembarked bearing the Duke of York, Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, and his wife Sophie, who filed off the aircraft led by Prince William. Their convoy of cars reached Balmoral at 5 pm.

Prince Harry wasn’t on board but it was believed that he was on his way to Balmoral, separately from the other Royals, whilst Meghan will stay in London and won’t attend the WellChild awards as scheduled, but Meghan could possibly join Harry in Scotland at a later date.

Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge remained behind and was spotted in Windsor going to pick up George, Charlotte and Louis after their first full day at their new school.

Buckingham Palace announced that the Queen’s immediate family were informed with her successor, the Prince of Wales, and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, rushing to her bedside from their Scottish residence Dumfries House in Ayrshire by helicopter.

Sadly the Queen has now passed away peacefully, and it’s heartbreaking that the Queen is gone because it will feel to many that she’s been around forever, and for the majority of us, she’s the monarch we’ve known forever.

Unfortunately, the Queen began to go downhill when her beloved husband Prince Philip died.

Of course, many people hoped that she would recover but it really had to be accepted that the Queen was old and frail, but she also lived a wonderful life, and she represented an epoch that is now gradually fading, and I actually don’t hold out much hope for the future without this persistent force, loyalty and strength, and the Queen’s demise will now be that moment of transition.

The Queen had been this country’s strength, with Prince Philip by her side, and she’s been an unyielding Queen and had devoted her whole life to Britain with duty and service.

Queen Elizabeth I was called the lady of ‘The Golden Age’. Now Queen Elizabeth II should be called the lady of ‘The Incomparable Age’, and we will probably never see a monarch like Queen Elizabeth II again, at least not in our lifetime, and it’s sad that our children and their children after them will not fully share that experience of having a Queen like her. 

London’s Prettiest Market Was Started By England’s Richest Woman

In 1837, Angela Burdett-Coutts became England’s wealthiest woman.

Her banker grandfather Thomas Coutts died, leaving the 23-year-old Angela Burdett-Coutts an endowment of £1.8 million.

Angela Burdett-Coutts refused to give any money to her suitors who were after her money, although she did host grand bashes in which Dickson, Gladstone, Disraeli and even Queen Victoria were invited as her friends, but her true passion was her generosity, and she gave money to hundreds of causes, at home and abroad.

She opened Ragged Schools, helped workers out of the sex trade, placed disadvantaged boys into the Royal Navy and helped soldiers in the Crimean War. She even helped set up the RSPCC and worked for the RSPCA.

In 1871, Queen Victoria made Angela Burdett-Coutts a peer, she was the first woman to ever accept the honour.

It’s almost impossible to calculate how many good causes obtained help from this extraordinary woman, and often her account entries just recorded the sums and the description ‘donation’.

She carried out a great deal of development work in poverty-stricken areas of east London, and in the mid-1800s, Bethnal Green was a notorious pigpen.

Angela Burdett-Coutts purchased land and founded the Columbia Market Buildings, designed by architect Henry Darbishire. It was a splendid, covered market in the style of a shopping cathedral.

The idea was to supply employment and homes for local people and provide East Enders with cheap and healthy produce.

The market was a monumental Victorian Gothic pile, with space for 400 stalls, surrounded by shops, and quarters for the vendors to live above the shops, and it was a hugely ambitious undertaking, but without a decent railway link, and the plan line out of Bishopsgate station never emerging, and with the competition from Billingsgate and other established London Markets, the Columbia Market failed to make money, so it closed in 1886, but Angela Burdett-Coutts also concerned herself with improving accommodation in the East End, and spurred by Dickens, she also built the U shaped Columbia Dwellings, of several levels, with a three-tier Gothic arch built into the brickwork of the main section.

Sadly none of these Coutts buildings survives today and were replaced by Sivil House and Dorset Estate in the 1960s.

However, Columbia Market’s fortunes changed with a move from Saturday trading to Sunday, giving Jewish merchants back their Sabbath, which meant that vendors from Convent Garden and Spitalfields started bringing their weekly leftovers to Columbia Road, and the market then began to specialise in plants and cut flowers.

The second world war saw Columbia Market struggle again, but a new rule in the 1960s whereby retailers would lose their stalls if they failed to show up regularly injected some much-needed vibrancy into the street, and when gardens became trendy again in the 80 and 90s, thanks to Ground Force, interest in the market flooded.

Today, Columbia Road is as filled with visitors as it is with residents on a Sunday morning, with popular shops, pubs and eateries which throng the surrounding streets, and even though Angela Burdett-Coutts is no longer with us, it would be nice to believe that she’s wandering around this incredibly beautiful part of her legacy.

However, even though Angela Burdett-Coutts acquired these newfound riches, she was swamped with letters from keen admirers, so much so that she and her governess Hannah Meredith came up with a signal to terminate meetings when a bachelor proposed to her.

She was even stalked for two years by Richard Dunn, a bankrupt Irish barrister desperate to get his hands on her wealth, but there was one man who caught her eye, the Duke of Wellington, to whom she proposed at the age of 33 when he was seventy-eight, however, he refused, certain that he was too old for her, but her life’s work began when she met Charles Dickens, shortly after she inherited her wealth, and while their relationship was never romantic, the pair shared an intimate friendship, and Angela was the author’s inspiration for the character Agnes Wickfield in David Copperfield.

Angela Burdett-Coutts was called ‘the Queen of the Poor’ by her fans and she was to become the first woman to be made a Baroness in her own right before becoming the first female Freeman a year later.

Randi Weingarten Admits Educators Have Become Social Justice Warriors

The president of the American Federation of Teachers said that politicians have turned teachers into social justice warriors, who can’t teach certain books.

Union boss Randi Weingarten appeared to take a swing at Republican politicians when she said that teachers’ hands were tied because they’re not allowed to discuss some issues or teach specific books.

During her rant, Randi Weingarten specifically mentioned not being able to teach The Diary of Anne Frank. A school district in Republication-led Texas recently prohibited an illustrated edition of the well-known diary that is frequently taught to middle school children.

In a back-to-school town hall alongside luminaries such as Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Randi Weingarten, 64, said that politicians have turned teachers into social justice warriors, and she said that very few teachers believed that they were going into teaching to be social justice warriors.

She also expressed her view that teachers are burnt out because they’re required to be masks police and regulate what they can teach, and she went on to say that has been what’s created some of the burnout, and that was not parents. That’s politicians! Parents just want the best for their children, and so do the teachers.

Randi Weingarten had been questioned about how to tackle the teacher shortage in America when she made her comments.

She had earlier said it was essential for educators to feel respected in their roles, and she continued that it’s not been easy, not just the last two years, but the injustice, the unfairness, the absence of opportunity, the lack of a level playing field, and teachers are basically the first responders to all of this, and what they ask for is they ask for respect.

Randi Weingarten ended by stating that people would want to be educators if they knew they’d be respected.

In August, Politico reported that the US was facing a deficit of about 300,000 educators.

The website blamed the reason for the shortage on uncompetitive wages, hazardous working conditions and the lack of job security.

Speaking to the Washington Post about the shortage, Dom Domenech, the executive director of the School Superintendents Association said that he had never seen it this bad and that right now it’s number one on the checklist of issues that are concerning school districts.

Dom Domenech also said that necessity is the mother of invention, and hard-pressed districts are going to have to come up with some answers.

On Randi Weingarten’s watch, the AFT has pushed back against schools re-opening post-COVID 19, flown in the face of CDC guidelines by imposing mask mandates on school districts and promoted a progressive agenda that includes the tenets of Critical Race Theory turning classrooms into frontlines in an increasingly divisive political and cultural war.

Talking to a newspaper outlet Tiffany Justice, founder of Moms for Liberty, a non-profit organisation aimed at organising, educating and empowering parents. Randi Weingarten said that she was an arsonist that pretends to be a firefighter.

Since Randi Weingarten took leadership in 2008, the management of the union coffers had been harnessed and used almost entirely in the interest of the Democrats.

This is appalling. It’s a teacher’s job to teach math, science, history et cetera. People might have personal viewpoints on social issues, but that is their problem and shouldn’t be pushed onto anyone else, and the education system has to be restored and taken away from these lunatics.

Teachers are employed to do one job – teach. They can be social justice warriors in their own time, just leave our children out of it, but if they can’t do that then perhaps we should homeschool our children because homeschooled children achieve vastly better than state-taught children do.

They need to stop brainwashing our children because eventually, it will be a one-party system, and that’s not what the founding fathers wanted, and it appears that those who run American teacher’s unions despise children, well at least they act as though they despise children.

The teacher’s unions are the number one obstacle to education reform, by far. They stand in the way of school choice, school safety, and almost any endeavour to enhance teacher quality or reform schools in any way.

They feed off and encourage, incompetence and lack of accountability, and no one harms America’s youth as much as the teacher’s unions.

This Is The Bizarre Moment Boris Johnson Waffles On About Buying A New KETTLE To Ease The Cost Of Living Crisis

Boris Johnson has been slated on social media after announcing Brits should purchase a new kettle which could save them £10 a year on their soaring energy bills.

The outgoing Prime Minister said in his final major policy address that those suffering from the cost of living crisis should spend £20 for a new kettle to help save in the long run.

He said that if you have an old kettle that takes forever to boil it may cost £20 to replace it, but if you get a new one you will save £10 a year every year on your electricity bill.

Twitter users have branded the advice as strange and jokingly called it the definitive solution to solve the cost of living crisis.

One Twitter account said that we have waited for Boris Johnson and the Government of which Liz Truss is a part of to inform us what we should do about the extraordinary living crisis that we’re facing and yet who knew the solution would be a new kettle.

Another said, so if they spend £20 on a new kettle, then they could save a huge £10 a year on their bills. What a brainiac idea, but wait! You have to have the £20 to spend on a new kettle in the first place.

Other Twitter users pointed out that a £10 saving was nothing against the current price hike, with energy regulator Ofgem announcing that the price cap would jump to £3,549 in October.

The advice was given in Boris Johnson’s last major policy speech in Suffolk, where he pledged £700 million to the Sizewell C power station to help Britain generate its own energy.

Boris Johnson warned it would be complete madness not to move ahead with the nuclear project as Russian President Vladimir Putin wreaks havoc with global oil and gas markets.

The Russian President has been accused of using gas reserves as a spear amid heightening tensions with the West.

It comes as Russian energy colossus Gazprom cut off its gas supplies to Germany via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline for maintenance work on Wednesday, further rising tensions in an already tight electricity market.

However, this is not bizarre at all. It’s just Boris Johnson’s lack of connection to reality, and it’s more proof that the entire Tory Party are economic illiterates that don’t understand what having no money is like, and how it feels to have to be reduced to charity for food and what living in Tory Britain is actually like while the party donors sit back and take more for themselves. 

The United Kingdom is crumpling under the burden of Tory wealth protection. Our services are failing, criminality is increasing and all while the one per cent watch their finances skyrocket.

We have a broken energy market, and a broken housing market, while offshored billionaires tell the people who the lastest distractionary scapegoat is.

The Tories have dragged us back to the worst inflation figures in thirty years. The Tories have dragged us back to the worst personal taxation in seventy years. The Tories have dragged us back to the worst NHS in twenty years. The Tories have dragged us back to the worst level of national debt ever. So, if you want to vote Tory for economic mismanagement that drags you backwards, then you can, it’s your choice, but hopefully, now, everyone will understand that Boris Johnson is doing what he’s always done – openly laughing at us helpless peasants.

Is Working From Home Coming To An End?

A new survey has shown that working from home could lead to home energy bills being stretched by an additional £2,500 each year.

Experts suggest home workers will herd back to the office this winter to sidestep the extreme energy bills.

Energy regulator Ofgem reported on Friday its price cap would rise by 80 per cent to £3,549 per year in October.

A newspaper outlet said that bills were expected to increase again to £5,400 in January and even further to £6,600 in spring according to forecasts from energy analysts Cornwall Insight.

The average British worker is heading into the office one and a half days per week, meaning remote working will probably lead to an energy bill of £789 in January, compared to £580 for those going to work.

Sarah Coles, of stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown, described the horrible scale of the energy price increase.

She said even for those who consider themselves to be comfortable, this is a serious enough crisis that they’re going to need to find new solutions.

She said people may have to rethink how they use their heating, so rather than leaving it on all day, they concentrate on attempting to keep as much heat as possible in the rooms they’re using, through things like more drought proofing.

An official survey indicated that in May, it was revealed three in four adults in Britain were now trekking to work at some point during the week, up from two-thirds a month ago, but the data issued by the Office for National Statistics also discovered about a third of people were continuing to spend part of their week working at home.

The figures point to a change in certain kinds of public behaviour over the past two months, a period coinciding with a stable fall in COVID-19 infections.

Consultancy Advances Workplace Associates claim the average workplace attendance is 29 per cent across UK offices.

The Office for National Statistics said in July that 37 per cent of Londoners were working away from the office, compared to 14 per cent before the pandemic.

The Citizen’s Advice Bureau discovered that day-to-day energy uses could add greatly to monthly bills and that boiling a kettle three times a day would cost £8 per month or £100 a year, under the October energy price cap.

Also, running a desktop computer eight hours a day would cost £35.68 per month, but then you have to take into account the cost of people commuting into the office, not to mention lunch at the local diner or staff canteen, the odd coffee, social beverages after work, office attire, suits et cetera. Either way, commuting or energy bills will be a rip-off, that’s assuming the trains are even operating so that people can get to work, all extremely timely, don’t you think?

Energy prices have risen tremendously and are about the skyrocket even more because of this war between Russia and Ukraine, while Russia and China get richer and richer, but we in the West are facing a catastrophic winter where tens of thousands of Brits will die this winter.

But even if you don’t use this country’s excessive erratic public transport networks you’re still being bent over a barrel by costly fuel prices, and before anyone mentions cycling or walking to work, it’s just not a practical choice for most people, and energy companies are continuing to make billions in profit.

Is there actually an energy crisis or is it just the shareholders and executive greed at the expense of the taxpayer?

Malnutrition-Related Murder

A vegan woman convicted of murder in the malnutrition death of her young son was convicted on Monday to life in jail.

Sheila O’Leary, 39, whose family observed a stringent vegan diet, was convicted in June on six charges, first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter, child abuse and two counts of child neglect, in the death of Ezra O’Leary.

Her sentencing in Lee County, Florida, had earlier been delayed four times. She displayed no feeling as the verdict was read out, and told the judge she didn’t wish to make a statement.

Her husband, Ryan Patrick O’Leary, remains in prison while awaiting trial on the same charges.

Investigators said the couple, who lived in Cape Coral, told them the family consumed only raw fruit and vegetables, although the toddler also was fed breast milk.

A police report said that the 18-month-old boy weighed 17 pounds and was the size of a seven-month-old infant when he perished in September 2019.

Investigators said the couple had two other children, ages 3 and 5, who were also underweight.

Amira Fox, the state attorney, said the two endured severe neglect.

Court records show that a fourth child had been returned to her birth father during an earlier malnutrition case in Virginia.

Doctors found Ezra hadn’t been fed for a week by the time he perished.

Sheila and Ryan, who have also been charged with murder and are awaiting trial, called 911 after Ezra stopped breathing.

Paramedics pronounced the toddler dead at the scene. They also examined the couple’s older three children.

The couple were charged in December 2019 after Ezra’s cause of death was announced.

No pictures have ever been released revealing what state the child was in when he perished, but prosecutors at Sheila’s trial described a skinny child who frequently cried, and that she decided to ignore his cries. She didn’t need a scale to see his bones.

Sara Miller, Assistant State Attorney said she didn’t need a scale to hear his cry.

The couple also had a three-year-old and a five-year-old who were severely underweight.

Their skin was yellow and one suffered such poor dental hygiene that their teeth were black.

Sheila also has an 11-year-old daughter from a prior relationship but her health was vastly better than that of the other children, due to her spending time with her father in Virginia and eating a proper diet.

But this wasn’t about veganism, it was about them not being fed at all. The toddler hadn’t eaten in weeks.

The child was being given food that even if the amount had been enough, he would have perished regardless.

We all want our children to be healthy, but a strict diet isn’t one of them, but there are aficionados out there that appear to learn from each other. The internet is inhabited by zealous fools who seem to link all types of useless studies to prove their point, and people who want to believe it, will believe it, and then they will spew their idiocy onto other people, it’s called the media and advertisement conditioning, and I wonder what Vegans will spin on this one? And what lame justifications they’ll come up with to try to shift the blame away from the Vegan lifestyle.

But the spin on this was that a toddler was being fed on a Vegan diet, but this poor child hadn’t been fed for weeks, so the article should have been focused on how this mother was starving her children and not that they happened to be vegan.

Postal Workers Walk Off The Job In The Biggest Walkout Of The Summer

More than 100,000 Royal Mail postal workers were on a walkout after unions rejected a two per cent pay rise in a dispute that could last until Christmas.

Letters won’t be delivered and some parcels will be delayed in what’s being portrayed as the biggest walkout of the summer so far.

Strikes are also set to take place on August 31, September 8 and September 9 after 97.6% of members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) voted in favour of industrial action.

The union has a mandate to continue the action for six months, meaning the walkouts could carry on until January, affecting the crucial Christmas trading period as well as the busy Black Friday weekend.

It’s the latest in a string of demonstrations across the country this summer, with bin strikes presently taking place in more than 20 council regions in Scotland and strikes scheduled over the August bank holiday on buses operated by London United.

Dave Ward, general secretary of the CWU, said that there could be no doubt that postal workers are fully united in their determination to secure the dignified, proper pay rise they deserve.

He said that we can’t keep living in a country where bosses rake in billions in earnings while their workers are forced to use food banks, and he blamed Royal Mail’s adjusted operating profit in the year concluding March 2022 of £758 million and its decision last November to hand shareholders £400 million in dividends.

Strikers have been expressing contempt towards Royal Mail’s CEO Simon Thompson, with chants of ‘What do we want?’ Thompson out. When do we want it? Now’, ringing out on the picket lines in east London.

RMT general secretary Mick Lynch also addressed a demonstration of postal workers outside the Mount Pleasant Mail Centre in London.

Royal Mail said it has contingency procedures in position to minimise disruption and will prioritise the delivery of medical prescriptions, Special Delivery and Tracked 24 parcels on walkout days, but it said that items posted the day before a walkout, the day of, or on the days after might be disrupted and the company urged customers to send packages and letters as early as possible.

Mr Ward continued that their members just lost complete faith in the actions of the company, and the board and they’d lost confidence in the leadership and people will understand that when they see the way that the company have conducted itself.

Nevertheless, a mass general walkout is right around the corner because hard-working Brits have had enough of the most ineffective, directionless, cruel, self-serving anti-British political party of all time, and I’m in full support of any industrial action.

Boris Johnson is as useful as they come as he sits there in his nursey playing with his Crayons. What a useful fool he is.

Fed Ex, DPD, Hermes et cetera are going to be pleased, and rightly so because the Unions are going to send Royal Mail the same way as British Leyland, British Steel, British Shipbuilding, British Coal, the dockers and print workers.

It appears that everyone is being taken for fools and it’s time to rebel because enough is enough, and there certainly seems to be a threat of a general strike.

A general strike would bring the government and the country to its knees, and hopefully a new government, now that would be something.

People might think that they won’t suffer if they don’t get their post for a day or two, but they will notice when vital letters stop being posted through their letter boxes and it’s time to make a stand.

A two per cent rise is not that much in the grand scheme of things!

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