Britain Returns To LOCKDOWN After Mick Lynch Loses Support For Crippling Strikes

Public support for Mick Lynch’s crippling Christmas walkouts is draining away as Britain faces a lockdown by industrial action with the festive season in ruins for the third year running and businesses face losing billions.

Millions of employees must now work from home, some until 2023, due to union tycoons such as Mick Lynch shutting down essential services until January 10.

With the cold snap blasting the country, support for RMT union boss Mick Lynch on the picket lines seems to be decreasing, with a poll indicating support for the rail walkouts falling by eight points since October.

On day two of the RMT’s rail strikes, half of Britain’s rail lines are closed all day, as thousands of members at Network Rail and 14 train operating companies walk out in the long-running dispute over pay, jobs and conditions, with numerous regions of the country having no services, including most of Scotland and Wales.

Rail staff have been joined in strikes by Royal Mail workers, and nurses prepare to take unprecedented industrial action, which experts say puts lives at risk amid claims chemotherapy appointments have been axed as 100,000 medical staff remain at home.

Ministers will call an emergency Cobra meeting for the second time this week over the crisis that will last almost a month.

Britons had to sacrifice seeing loved ones over the holiday period in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID pandemic but now face having to do the same due to union barons closing down essential services until January 10.

Businesses have said the continuous postal strikes are costing them more than during the pandemic, with one forecasting £1 million in losses at the peak of the festive trading period.

Thousands of Christmas cards and packages have started piling up as Royal Mail workers prepare to mount picket lines outside sorting and delivery offices.

Two further Royal Mail strikes are scheduled for December 23 and December 24, in an increasingly bitter dispute over pay, jobs and conditions.

Royal Mail has brought forward the final posting dates for Christmas cards because of the industrial action.

The wave of walkouts billed as the ‘December of discontent’ is bringing untold hell on hard-working Britons in the run-up to Christmas.

Business owners say that their festive trading period, one of the busiest throughout the year, is being hit badly by disruption to critical services.

Enough is enough now, they should get back to bleeding work – don’t like the pay and conditions, find another job! Because all they’re actually doing is destroying other people’s lives – forcing them to close their businesses and let their staff go which then puts them on welfare.

However, saying that. It looks like the people of the United Kingdom are rediscovering its mutinous streak, which we all knew would happen eventually because we have a self-absorbed and greedy government, and it won’t just stop at walkouts, ultimately people will be so disgruntled there will be riots as well.

It was claimed that the average rail worker makes £44,000.

This figure is the median salary for rail sector positions. It includes train drivers, few of whom are involved in the RMT walkout, and excludes other employees such as cleaners, who are. The RMT says the median salary of its rail members is £31,000.

MP Grant Shapps said on 20 June 2022 that the average train driver earns £59,000, the average rail worker earns £44,000, and the average nurse, £31,000.

His comments were made during discussions about the walkout presently underway by railway workers represented by the RMT union over pay, working conditions and job cuts.

The £44,000 figure has also been repeated by Conservative MPs Nick Fletcher, Jonathan Gullis and Chris Philp when talking about the strikes.

This figure is broadly correct as the median rail sector salary is described in official figures. However, it’s not representative of the average salary of the employees who are striking in this particular action.

However, during an appearance on Newsnight on 20 June, government minister Chris Philp said that the median salary of all railway workers was £44,000.

The Department for Transport told the BBC this figure came from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) which calculated that the median rail sector salary was £43,747 in 2021.

The Tories know they’re going to be out eventually, so they’ve executed a scorched earth policy. Destroy the workers, deregulate the bank’s et cetera, and therefore after every crisis, the rich have got richer and the poor have got poorer.

This government has lost its ability to govern to the benefit of the people. Its only beneficiaries are illegals in dinghies, why because they will work for less and longer hours, so as far as our government is concerned, they are our future because there’s nothing like a bit of slave labour!

And they say slavery had been abolished, not on your nelly!

Last Resort!

Channel migrants could be put up at a Pontins holiday camp in a bid to cut taxpayers’ £6 million a day hotel bill for small boat arrivals.

The Home Office is in negotiations to hire an 820-chalet camp at Camber Sands in East Sussex.

Pontins offers budget holidays at the camp, which was purpose-built in 1968 just steps away from a five-mile-long Blue Flag beach.

The 32-acre site is an hour’s drive from Dover, where most migrants disembark from northern France, and a government source said it’s one of the options under review.

Alternative sites being discussed include disused student housing and Ministry of Defence properties, it’s understood. However, sources repudiated reports that there would be numerous holiday campsites ready to go as early as next month.

Accommodation at the Camber Sands base is in two-storey chalet blocks which sleep four to six people, plus separate bungalows.

It’s not known how many migrants could be accommodated at the camp, but if each bedroom is used for single occupancy, it could be between 1,000 and 1,600. Each chalet offers a bathroom, kitchenette and dining space.

Facilities at Camber Sands include a restaurant and an on-site pub, although these are likely to be closed if the centre is used for migrant housing. The Pontins chain was bought out of administration by Britannia Hotels in 2011 for approximately £20 million.

It comes after 555 migrants arrived in Britain over the weekend despite the sub-zero conditions. The total number to have arrived in small vessels since the beginning of the year is now 44,867, compared with 28,526 in the entirety of the last year.

Last week Home Secretary Suella Braverman promised to take extreme action to tackle the Channel crisis, after securing an agreement with European nations for a wide-ranging crackdown.

She heralded a really positive step forward after meeting European Union counterparts last Thursday and agreeing to closer work between the United Kingdom and the bloc’s agency, Frontex.

The ministers also signalled more stringent activity on social media goliaths which permit people traffickers to advertise on their platforms, and in another significant development, they demonstrated support for an EU-wide migration agreement, a move which was blocked during Brexit negotiations.

It could unlock the door to Britain taking part in a deal to return asylum seekers to the Continent.

Suella Braverman has pledged a dramatic shake-up of Britain’s asylum and modern slavery laws, amid concern they’re being manipulated by Channel migrants, and the Home Secretary said last week that the way she saw it was that they require extreme action, and they would do whatever it takes.

But what about our homeless veterans? No one cares, it’s a national disgrace. Mind you, it beats me why anyone would want to join the Armed Forces these days, they’re not used to defend our country, they’re there to meddle in other people’s homelands where they get their legs blown off and then our Government then throw them away like a discarded tissue, and they then have to rely on charities to help.

I understand that some of these migrants are coming across because of the conditions in their homeland, and who can condemn them if our Government are letting them in, but why can’t our Government accommodate them on a few cruise vessels offshore, they would be less likely to abscond from them and their cases could be dealt with in the meantime. At least that way our British citizens and veterans who are living on the streets in this painfully cold weather could be put in a nice Pontins camp where they would have a bed and food.

Staff At Brighton University Are Urged Not To Say ‘Christmas’ Because It’s Too “Christian-Centric”

The University of Brighton has instructed staff not to say ‘Christmas’ and instead call it the ‘winter closure period’.

According to a nine-page ‘Inclusive Language Guidance’ document sent to educators at the university, the word ‘Christmas’ is too ‘Christian-centric’.

The document says that staff should be ’empowered’ to use ‘inclusive language confidently and effectively, in order to ensure that both students and staff alike feel safe, valued and respected.

According to the guidance, generalities about a group of people based on their age, such as saying’ millennial snowflakes’ or ‘old people cannot use technology’, should be avoided.

The document reads that language and meaning are strongly conditioned by the prevalent norms of the culture in which they exist, and that overall attitudes, misconceptions and stereotypes are entrenched within modes of communication, and these factors are occasionally reflected, whether consciously or not, in the language that we use when communicating with and referring to others.

This suggests that communication, both verbal and written, may be offensive even when this is not our intention.

Andrew Allison, of the Freedom Association, said that Universities were supposed to be places where ideas were freely discussed.

He said that this was Orwellian and absurd, and that staff and students ought to disregard it and have a good Christmas.

Then, in a table informing staff on what not to say to students, they’re encouraged to avoid the term ‘Christmas closure period’ and replace it with ‘winter closure period’. The purpose of this was to avoid using Christian-centric vocabulary.

Meanwhile, staff were also urged not to ask students ‘What is your Christian name?’ but instead ask ‘What’s your first name?’ or ‘What is your given name?’.

In a statement sent to a newspaper outlet, a representative for the University of Brighton said that this advice was created with their staff and students and was part of their shared commitment to making Brighton a place where everyone felt respected and appreciated. The advice is just that, just guidance.

They added that words hadn’t been banned at Brighton, and neither was Christmas, as it was evident from the embellishments and Christmas trees in their building and across their campuses.

But really, what’s happened to our wonderful country and why has it been permitted to happen? Well, it seems to be that people are now terrified to challenge these minority crazies.

It’s Christmas for crying out loud, so in Noddy Holder’s voice… Merry Christmas Everyone!

Snowball Effect!

Spectators were left stunned after motorists failed to prevent a string of comedy car crashes in the snow.

Vehicles seemed to collide in slow motion while a bus slid into bollards as drivers struggled to remain in control in the increasingly dangerous conditions.

The collisions were captured on camera in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire and shared on social media in a video viewed more than 700,000 times.

In one clip, the driver of a silver Volkswagen was heard tooting their horn as a warning but was unable to bring the car to a standstill before it collided with a black Vauxhall.

A white BMW then also collides into the back of that, causing a further pile-up, as the driver of the Volkswagen leaps out from behind the wheel, despite onlookers urging them not to.

Footage also shows a cluster of six people attempting to help a black people carrier back onto the road, as a cyclist rides precariously nearby, but their efforts were useless as the car skidded off the street, only just coming to a stop before hitting a fence.

Another car is then seen sliding into some bollards, before a bus does the same, though the damage only seemed to be minor.

It comes as hundreds of motorists spent several hours stuck on the M25 in Hertfordshire overnight as snow and ice caused mayhem on the roads.

More travel disruption is anticipated on the roads, railways and airports, as well as school closures, after snow fell across parts of the United Kingdom, with up to 10cm more forecast today.

Snow and ice weather alerts are in force from the Met Office across northern Scotland, southeast and eastern England.

I’m not sure what’s more alarming, the weather or people believing they can drive in it, and now everything is crashing including our British economy, and these collisions were dubbed ‘comedy crashes’, I doubt those affected would agree, no matter how insignificant, and wait until the snow turns to slush and freezes overnight, the roads will be like an ice rink and those cheap charlie councils won’t even bother gritting the roads properly.

Councils need to start gritting properly because it appears to get less and less each year.

A snow plough and a bit of grit would sort the wintry conditions out, but I guess low-emission zones, bike lanes and smart motorways are far more important than good old public service and safety, but once again the UK has some snow and it all falls asunder.

They must have known that snow was on its way, that’s why it’s called winter, so why didn’t they grit the roads and paths? But I’m guessing that Brexit will be to blame for this, mark my words. I don’t know how yet but you can guarantee some snowflake will be along shortly to clarify why.

The trouble is, here in England we don’t get much snow for any length of time, so when we do get snow everybody flaps around like they’re actually surprised. Years ago we had dense snow that came up to our knees but we carried on like normal. Anyone would think that we’d not seen or driven in snow before!

This country is always so unprepared for snow, but then saying that the United Kingdom is always unprepared for anything that happens, and after paying our taxes all year, doesn’t look as if the councils have done anything to prepare or clear the roads – a wee bit of snow and the entire country goes to pot!

Personally, I wouldn’t use the word ‘comedy’ to describe car crashes as it appears that journalists haven’t heard of the term ‘fatality’ – there isn’t anything witty about car crashes at all.

Nursing Union Leaders Have Offered To ‘Pause’ Strike Due To Crippling The NHS, But Ministers Refuse To Meet

Ministers have refused an offer from nursing union leaders to delay a walkout due to incapacitate the NHS in exchange for face-to-face discussions over pay.

The Royal College of Nursing had offered to ‘press pause’ on a strike in exchange for talks with Health Secretary Steve Barclay, amid fears that the action by thousands of medics will worsen the health services problems.

RCN general secretary Pat Cullen, whose members are expected to take part in unprecedented strike action on December 15 and December 20, told a newspaper outlet she was keen to relieve strain on medical services ahead of the festive period, but Mr Barclay refused to personally get involved in negotiations over demands for a 19 per cent pay increase for nurses, and James Cleverly refused to go any further than his cabinet colleague, saying unions had to agree pay with the independent review body.

The Foreign Secretary told BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme that of course, they want to engage and of course, they want to get this settled.

It came as Sir Stephen Powis, medical director of NHS England, said that industrial action could hit attempts by the NHS to ease waiting lists ahead of an anticipated fifth wave of COVID this winter.

He told BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that waiting lists had been lowered to below two years in the summer with the aim of that dropping to 18 months by the spring.

He said that, of course, could be knocked off course and that industrial action was one thing but that there could be a significant wave of COVID, a new variant perhaps, and that there could be a peak of the flu, and that there was trouble brewing this winter, but that they would see how they get on.

Sir Stephen said the service is under enormous strain this winter and requires more staff, with 100,000 vacancies in England.

He said, there’s also a need for up to 2,000 additional medical school places, preferably based in regions of the country with the most significant needs.

He said that they need to retain staff and that they could recruit internationally, but ultimately they need to train more staff in this country.

Pat Cullen, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said it was deplorable that UK nurses were the lowest paid in Europe.

It’s definitely time for the people of the United Kingdom to have a voice in who governs them and they should hold an election now! But even if Labour did get in, would they be any better at improving things?

We have a Government that doesn’t want to govern in the interest of its UK citizens, but voting will change very little and Labour will be no better. What we need is a complete reform of how the parliamentary system works, along with how people are elected to office.

Our present system is based on voting in unqualified people based on their perceived popularity and how much money they can raise for the party to pay for the entrance fee.

In every other job in the world you have to have the relevant experience, and qualifications and pass an interview, so what credentials and experience do those running the major office of staff hold, which are relevant to the staff they oversee? Almost none and yet they’re appointed to those positions based on party politics.

The Department of Health said that the Health Secretary’s door remained open for further talks, but what’s the point of going through an open door if there’s no one on the other side to talk to? This Tory government is beyond useless, dodging its responsibility and that’s why these walkouts have gone on for weeks because they refuse to come out of their fridges to negotiate.

The Dump Of Evri Parcels Has Been Discovered In Large Numbers

Delivery company Evri has apologised to customers after enormous sackfuls of its parcels were left in the woods. The deliveries were discovered dumped at the end of Beacon Road in Luton, Chatham.

A local resident made the find while out walking in a wooded area near Ash Tree Lane.

Evri, previously known as Hermes, has issued an apology to impacted customers and says it’s since retrieved the items.

Reacting to pictures of the abandoned parcels posted on social media, one disappointed resident said that this could be why their package didn’t arrive.

While another online shopper added that they’d been waiting for a parcel since November 25 and they couldn’t get through to anyone.

The courier firm recently opened a huge new distribution depot nearby in Aylesford, Maidstone.

It’s come under fire in recent weeks following several complaints submitted by customers about unexplained delivery delays.

Shoppers have also raised problems over Evri’s tracking app and online support service.

A spokeswoman from Evri said that they could confirm that they were warned about a number of parcels that had been abandoned at a local fly-tipping site.

She said that their local team visited immediately and retrieved the items and that they contacted the police who were taking the necessary steps and they have also launched a full investigation, and that they apologise for any inconvenience caused and would like to reassure the public that this was a rare incident and wouldn’t affect deliveries moving forward.

She said everyone involved would be contacted and replacements or refunds organised.

Medway Council was also notified and was urging anyone with information to come forward.

Ian Gilmore, head of regulatory and environmental services at Medway Council said that the council investigates all fly-tipping incidents and would take all appropriate enforcement action.

He said anyone with details about the incident would be urged to contact their Environmental Enforcement team by phoning 01634 333333.

In a different incident, a large number of items were also discovered abandoned behind Medway Maritime Hospital.

They were discovered opposite a block of flats on land off Longhill Avenue and a local said the landowner had been told.

Unfortunately, it appears to be something every day with this company and perhaps they should give up the delivery game, and if it’s not one courier service, then it’s another. Sadly, it’s becoming a familiar culture that over the last few years we’ve all witnessed and experienced.

If anything you would have thought that the common practice of using tracking data would help with assisting in such matters, especially as both the firm and drivers are at fault in such cases.

You would have thought that because of such complaints previous to this that Evri should have at least vetted its workers prior to any hiring, including any contractual 3rd party agencies that may have been utilised. Either way, I think that we can all agree that this type of discourteous conduct needs to be controlled and perhaps even legislated to stop such low standards from occurring again.

And why would anyone believe that just because they switched names that the service would suddenly be any better?

These firms need to be made an example of, to prevent this dishonest and egomaniacal conduct, and when I see that my package is being delivered by Royal Mail, I’m inspired and relieved even with the walkouts that are going on, Royal Mail is still miles ahead from other courier companies.

Evri and Yodel are beyond doubt the worst, they deliver without ringing the doorbell and chuck stuff over garden fences without no effort to deliver properly and they just lose orders without a trace.

 

See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DWP Announces First Strike Dates Over Christmas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The DWP has been contacted for comment.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Her Name Was Known To Everyone

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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