It Has Been Approved By The Palace For Prince Harry To Wear His Uniform At Westminster Hall On Saturday

A decision to allow Prince Harry to wear his military uniform during a special vigil in honour of the Queen was last night branded a victory for common sense.

It comes after reports claimed that Princes William and Harry are set to take part in a special vigil in honour of the Queen on Saturday.

The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Sussex will reportedly join the Queen’s six other grandchildren in a special 15-minute vigil at Westminster Hall.

It’s thought the eight grandchildren will pay respects to the Queen by standing in silence beside Her Majesty’s coffin, in a setting which will mirror the Vigil of the Princes.

The special memorial saw King Charles, Princess Anne, Prince Andrew and Prince Edward, stand guard at St Gile’s Cathedral in Edinburgh earlier this week.

Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward will replicate the vigil at Westminster Hall Friday night, but it will now reportedly be followed by a separate event by the grandchildren on Saturday.

According to a newspaper out, in a further twist, the Duke of Sussex will be permitted to wear military uniform at the event following a Palace U-turn.

Prince Harry had, up until this point, been prevented from donning military colours, following his decision to step back from frontline royal responsibilities.

However, a row erupted following news Prince Andrew, who’s also been banned from wearing his uniform following sexual assault allegations, claims he denies, will be permitted to wear his military colours at the vigil on Friday.

And sources close to the Sussex’s, talking to friendly reporters, insisted the Palace U-turn didn’t come following pressure from ex-serviceman Prince Harry.

One such journalist, Omid Scobie, the writer of the couple’s biography, claimed the Palace had succumbed to public opinion after thousands had complained about the decision to ban him and not Prince Andrew.

Meanwhile, a royal source revealed to a newspaper outlet that common sense had prevailed.

According to a newspaper outlet, Prince Harry has reportedly been given special dispensation to don military colours on Saturday’s vigil. However, it’s not clear what livery he will wear, given that he no longer holds a position in the military.

The Duke of Sussex has so far been unable to wear the military uniform during any of his public appearances following the Queen’s demise.

Both Harry and Andrew both served and deserve to wear the uniform, otherwise, it would be like saying that they didn’t serve their country at all, and well done to our new King – benevolence is the hallmark of a Great King.

Harry and Andrew deserve to wear the uniform as much as anyone else who’s served in whatever capacity, but why the need to dress up? It’s the kind of thing that children do, and is King Charles III showing great weakness? And if he is let’s hope it’s only for this week.

However, this is the Queen’s funeral, which they appear to have forgotten about, and maybe they should wear suits like everyone else would have done, but instead, they’re all fussing about their titles and ensembles at this time when they should be mourning their poor mother and grandmother, but bless them, they all get to play dress up.

I actually hoped that King Charles III would be a fair and resolute King who would uphold the rules, but it seems he’s already demonstrating that it’s one rule for them and another for everyone else.

A Bank Holiday Will Be Observed For Queen Elizabeth II’s Funeral

It’s been confirmed that the day of the Queen’s funeral will be a Bank Holiday.

The new King Charles III formally endorsed the order at St James’s Palace, London today as he was proclaimed sovereign.

While the Bank Holiday has been approved, it’s still not been established which day the Queen’s funeral will be held on, although it’s expected on the 10th day of mourning, Monday, September 19.

This means that there will now be 10 Bank Holidays in total this year, with an additional one earlier being added because of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. Usually, the United Kingdom has eight Bank Holidays a year.

Paying tribute to the Queen at the throne room of St James’s before the assembled Accession Council soon after 10.20 am, the King approved the order.

Lord President of the Council Penny Mordaunt said that drafts of two proclamations, one setting the day of Her late Majesty’s state funeral as a Bank Holiday in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Two, appointing the day of Her late Majesty’s state funeral as a Bank Holiday in Scotland, and of two orders in council, directing the Lord Chancellor to affix the great seal to the proclamations.

King Charles III answered that he approved.

Users on Twitter responded to the news of the Bank Holiday soon after the announcement was made. With one person saying that a Bank Holiday for the State Funeral. What a day that will be – sad indeed, but glorious.

There were, of course, mixed responses with one posting, saying not another Bank Holiday.

The Cabinet Office said that details of the Queen’s funeral and other forthcoming ceremonial and commemorative events would be disclosed in due course.

The department also warned of crowding and delays on some public transport as people strive to pay their respects. They said that they realise that numerous people will journey to Buckingham Palace and other royal residences as a mark of their respect.

They said that they expect large crowds, which could pose risks to public safety, and that those who do travel are requested to observe any instructions given to them by stewards and the police, and that they anticipate substantial crowding and delays on some public transport, and that the public should check ahead and plan accordingly, and that as people would expect, a number of organisations would now be making practical preparations including contingency planning for the State Funeral and related events.

Access to some areas, particularly in Central London will be restricted, with road closures and diversions that will cause delays to vehicles and pedestrians.

But will this really be treated as a proper Bank Holiday comparable to Christmas Day where stores, theme parks et cetera are closed? Perhaps not because life goes on regardless, and perhaps it should be left down to businesses to decide if they remain open or not.

Some people may even use the day to see family et cetera. That doesn’t mean they don’t feel sad that the Queen has passed away, but for many, she was not their family.

Of course, this is history in the making. The first death of a reigning Monarch in 70 years and I’m sure the majority of the British people will be watching with tears in their eyes.

It’s lovely that this is being done, out of a mark of respect for the beloved Queen, but it’s also important to be part of that with our children so they can understand and remember this moment in history, and that their children and their children’s children will no doubt study and remember the Queen in the future.

It Is Formally Confirmed That Charles Is The King Of England

The country will watch the new King being formally declared monarch as the ceremony is televised for the first time.

Today was the first time in history that the Accession Council in the State Apartments of St Jame’s Palace would be broadcast, and it began at 10 am.

A Principal Proclamation is then read in public from the balcony overlooking Friary Court at St James’s an hour later, and it’s read by the Garter King of Arms.

It’s followed by proclamations around the country, with the second one in the City of London at the Royal Exchange at noon, and further proclamations in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales at midday tomorrow.

Buckingham Palace issued details of the arrangements, and it was confirmed cameras would be permitted inside the State Apartments to capture the proceedings for the first time.

In honour of the new King, union flags will be flown at full mast from the time of the Principal Proclamation until one hour after the proclamations in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, then they will be returned to half-mast to mourn the death of the Queen.

Charles automatically became King after the death of his mother, but the Accession Council is usually called at St James’s in London within 24 hours of the death of a ruler.

It’s being orchestrated a day later for King Charles III because the announcement of the Queen’s death didn’t come until Thursday evening, meaning that there wasn’t enough time to put the plans in motion for Friday morning.

The Palace said that his Majesty The King would be proclaimed at the Accession Council at 10.00hrs on 10th September in the State Apartments of St James’s Palace, London and that the Accession Council would be attended by Privy Councillors and would be split into two parts.

This means that in Part I, the Privy Council, without the King present, would proclaim the Sovereign, and formally approve various powerful Orders, including the arrangments for the Proclamation.

Part II is the holding by The King of His Majesty’s first Privy Council. The King will make his Declaration and read and sign an oath to uphold the security of the Church in Scotland and approve Orders in Council which facilitate continuity of government.

Historically, the entire Privy Council is called to the Accession Council, but there are presently more than 700 privy counsellors who are primarily serving or former politicians, although Camilla, the new Queen, and Prince William are counsellors and are expected to attend.

This is bittersweet, although King Charles’s accession to the throne is welcoming and should be celebrated, but of course, in everyone’s heart, we will all still be thinking of The Queen who has just died.

Charles knew that he would grow up and one day become King, but it’s still extremely sad that the Queen has passed away, instead of withdrawing from her official duties so that she could hand it over to her son and just be by his side to support him as King, but the Queen was never going to abdicate because she vowed she would serve her country until the day she died and that’s what she did.

Of course, Charles didn’t have to keep his name, he could have used his other names, George or Arthur, then he would have been known as King Arthur and his wife could have become Camillalot.

However, there actually was no need for this ceremony to be on television, and it should have been held in private because King Charles and the rest of the Royal Family are in mourning, but now he has to perform for the rest of the world like a performing monkey, and let’s face it, the rest of the country have to put up with cancellations of all kinds, yet this is allowed, it’s disgraceful.

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.

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