Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab Accused Of Hurling Tomatoes At Civil Servants From Pret a Manger Salad

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab is facing a string of claims that he mistreated civil servants amid reports he angrily hurled tomatoes and has been nicknamed ‘The Incinerator’.

It follows claims that Ministry of Justice staff was offered a way out of the department when Dominic Raab was reinstated as Justice Secretary amid apparent concerns over his past conduct in the position.

Dominic Raab is alleged to have presided over a culture of fear during his previous time there, with unknown civil servants arguing he acted in a derogatory, rude and aggressive way, with one branding him a bully.

On one occasion, he is said to have thrown tomatoes from a Pret a Manger salad across a table in a fit of anger because he wasn’t happy with the way he was being briefed.

Dominic Raab has also reportedly earned himself ‘The Incinerator’ title because he burns through staff so fast.

A spokesman for the Deputy PM dismissed the allegations as complete hogwash and said he always acted with the utmost professionalism, but more accusations about Dominic Raab’s behaviour emerged dating back to his time as Brexit Secretary in 2018.

According to a newspaper outlet, a formal expression of concern was sent to the Cabinet Office about his behaviour but no further action was taken.

However, fellow Tories rode to Dominic Raab’s defence, with MP Helen Grant stating she’d witnessed an extremely worthy Minister with high professional standards when working with him when he was Foreign Secretary.

Tory MP Eddie Hughes also said he’d never seen Dominic Raab be disrespectful to anyone during his time in the housing or Brexit departments, adding that he was extremely hard-working and expects others to be as well.

There appear to be a lot of official complaints being made against Dominic Raab, but they were all alleged, and who made these complaints? What did this man really do? Oh yes, he launched a tomato because he was having a bad day. Don’t most people have bad days, it’s what makes us human beings, although I’m sure some in parliament are still walking on their knuckles.

Can we please stop this now and focus on getting this mess of a country back on its feet? Honestly, the cost of living crisis is far more important than a few tomatoes.

Let’s be real here, tossing a tomato at a civil servant is hardly headline news. Now if it had said he hurled a hand grenade, that may have gotten some response.

What is the media trying to do? Make these MPs and civil servants into gangsters – it was a tomato, not a machine gun – next, they’ll be calling Dominic Raab ‘Al Capone’.

Dominic Raab was just being a typical Tory and chucking his toys out of his pram, only this time it was a tomato! He’s not a bully, he’s just a powder puff.

Charles Will Give Staff A One-Off Bonus Of £600 Out Of His Own Pocket

According to sources, King Charles III will hand staff on lower wages a bonus out of his own pocket to help them to get through the cost of living crisis.

A newspaper outlet reported that the new ruler has told hundreds of royal employees that they will be given up to £600 on top of their pay this month.

As winter draws in and fears of a recession loom, the one-off sum is expected to go towards covering rising energy bills and mortgage costs.

The staff members who will be receiving the financial boost are said to include cleaners, footmen and servants.

Over the summer, Charles, then Prince of Wales, asked MoneySavingExpert Martin Lewis, who he awarded a CBE, for a brief to try to understand how rising energy bills were impacting people.

As part of the Palace’s reported scheme, staff making less than £30,000 a year will receive £600, while those on higher wages will get one-off payments ranging from £200-£400 depending on their earnings.

Rather than coming from the taxpayer, the bonuses are expected to come from the King’s personal income.

Single workers living in accommodation supplied by the Royal Household are expected to receive £200 each. Meanwhile, those with earnings between £30,000 and £40,000 will receive £400 extra.

Figures recently revealed that there are 491 full-time staff employed at the inhabited royal palaces, which include Buckingham Palace, Balmoral and Windsor Castle.

It comes ahead of next week’s budget, in which Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is expected to limit public sector pay rises.

Buckingham Palace has been contacted for comment.

This is an extremely nice gesture from King Charles, although I suspect he will get a lot of criticism, whatever he does, but no matter how large or little it is, every bit benefits, but typically only envy will come from those who don’t receive it.

However, if the King actually wanted to be plentiful, he would be giving his workers a permanent pay rise. He’s a multi-billionaire, he should pay them a proper wage in the first place, so that they don’t need handouts, but then let’s not forget that he paid his staff their full wages out of his own funds during the lockdown when they couldn’t work, and he didn’t take the Government furlough payments.

The King didn’t have to do that, and it’s a very thoughtful gesture, and how many other men of means would do that? Hey Rishi Sunak, perhaps he should be taking a gold leaf out of the King’s book and supporting those out there that are becoming destitute!

Due To Cost Of Living Concerns, Almost TWO-THIRDS Of Britons Are Rationing Heating At Home

New figures reveal that almost two-thirds of Britons say they’re taking measures to ration their heating because of the cost of living crisis.

In numbers which show the despair felt by the country about the state of its and their own finances, more than half (56 per cent) are also worried about how they will heat their homes this winter.

Numbers released by the Office for National Statistics also reveal that two-thirds have trimmed down on non-essential spending, and more than four in 10 have cut down on their food shopping.

It comes as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt prepares to give his Autumn Statement next week which is expected to include tax rises and public spending cuts.

Last week the Bank of England warned the United Kingdom faced the latest slump in more than a century.

The ONS found that the cost of living remains the area of biggest concern to voters.

More than nine in 10 (93 per cent) said it was an important issue, compared to the NHS (82 per cent), the economy generally (79 per cent) and climate change (66 per cent).

Some 91 per cent of those polled said their cost of living had increased in the past year, with 77 per cent noticing an upsurge in the past month.

Almost half (47 per cent) said they didn’t expect to be able to save any money in the next year.

The most common actions

The most common actions reported by all adults because of the rising cost of living were spending less on non-essentials and using less gas and electricity at home.

Also, about half (46 per cent) of adults with a mortgage reported being extremely or moderately concerned about changes in mortgage interest rates.

Jeremy Hunt warned of a difficult road ahead as it revealed the economy went into reverse in the third quarter.

The Chancellor suggested he’s engaged in a damage limitation exercise after a 0.2 per cent fall in GDP between July and September, saying his Autumn Statement aims to make any recession quicker and shallower.

The figure wasn’t as bad as feared, after the Bank of England and analysts pencilled in a 0.5 per cent contraction for the UK plc in the three months. However, it suggests the UK might already be in a downturn, technically defined as two consecutive quarters of decline.

Many people are worried about putting their heating on, and some still haven’t put their heating on at all and are just carrying a hot water bottle around with them.

It’s getting colder now and just getting up in the morning to go to the bathroom, it’s freezing and those people that don’t have a tumble dryer or do have one and can’t use it, clothes are taking ages to dry, and we haven’t even reached the really cold spell yet.

It’s almost like we’ve regressed as a society by almost 80 years, and our Government need to do something about this, especially now that they’re making record profits, and the people of the UK deserve better than this.

What we must avoid here is our elderly and vulnerable being left to freeze to death. Many elderly and vulnerable will die this winter because they won’t be able to afford to put their heating on.

So far this winter the weather has been rather mild for this time of the year, but still cold since we had such a hot summer, but the coldest months are yet to come with January and February approaching, along with a proper cold snap which will probably be quite brutal.

In A Swiss Factory, A Worker Falls Into A Vat Of Molten Aluminium At 720C

A worker miraculously survived after he fell into a vat of molten aluminium at a factory but managed to drag himself to safety.

The 25-year-old electrician fell into a furnace filled with 720C (1,328F) molten aluminium while he was working at the factory in St Gallen, northeastern Switzerland.

The young man was immersed in the molten metal up to his knees but managed to brave the pain and pull himself out of the furnace.

He had been carrying out work with a coworker on the furnace holding the aluminium on Wednesday evening.

The man fell into a circular opening at the top of the furnace.

Two emergency Swiss air rescue doctors and paramedics looked after him at the factory. He was then helicoptered to the hospital with extensive burns.

St Gallen City Police are investigating how the accident occurred.

This was a terrible accident, and this guy probably only endured that kind of heat because his nerve endings were fried, and it’s extremely doubtful they will be able to save his legs, that’s even assuming the poor man survives such horrendous injuries.

David Walliams Makes A Sexist Attack On A Female Competitor On Britain’s Got Talent

A leaked transcript has revealed that Britain’s Got Talent judge David Walliams branded an elderly contestant a ‘c**t’ and made sexualised and demeaning comments about a female contender while recording an episode of the ITV talent show.

David Walliams, one of the UK’s best-known television personalities and children’s book writers, was recorded referring to one contestant as a ‘c**t’ and saying of another: ‘She thinks you want to f**k her, but you don’t.’

The X-rated comments, told by a newspaper outlet, are said to have taken place during a recorded audition performance at the London Palladium in January 2020.

In one incident an older performer engaged in lighthearted repartee with the judges in which he made a jibe about David Walliams.

After the audition, the pensioner left, after which David Walliams is said to have described him as a ‘c**t three times.

Microphones used to capture the conversation between the judges picked up the remarks.

In a different incident, a female contestant auditioning on the same show had walked off stage.

When her performance was over, David Walliams commented that she was like the slightly boring girl you meet in the pub that thinks you want to f**k them, but you don’t.

David Walliams then repeated: ‘She thinks you want to f**k her, but you don’t.’

He later added: ‘I know, she’s just like: ‘Oh, f**k off!’ I was saying, she thinks you want to f**k her, but you don’t.

‘It’s the last thing on your mind, but she’s like: ‘Yep, I bet you do!’

‘No, I don’t! I had a bit of a b***r, but now it’s going, it’s now shrivelled up inside my body.’

The former judge of Britain’s Got Talent, Piers Morgan tweeted that the allegations were just the tip of the iceberg and he labelled David Walliams a nasty fraud.

Piers Morgan was a judge on the show for the first four series. While the fifth series took place with only three judges, David Walliams started judging on the show in 2012.

He judges alongside Alesha Dixon, Amanda Holden and Simon Cowell.

There’s no indication that the other judges heard the comments or made any such comments themselves, and these were the only such comments across three episodes looked at by a newspaper outlet.

In a statement, David Walliams told a newspaper outlet that he would like to apologise to the people that he made the rude remarks during breaks in filming for Britain’s Got Talent in 2020.

This is supposed to be a family fun show and David Walliams needs to go, but unfortunately, most celebs are unbelievably pompous, and now, maybe David Walliams can join James Corden for an omelette to discuss their trip to Cancelvill.

David Walliams is just another so-called, not-so-funny man on TV and this show’s definitely past its sell-by date, but then again, where would all these presenters be if the show stopped? Perhaps they’re past their sell-by date as well.

If a person who works in this industry doesn’t know about a hot mic by now, they never will, or they just don’t care. It’s not like he was in his living room, he was at work enveloped by audio and visual recording devices.

The trouble is, these people are so full of themselves that they truly think they’re better than and more noteworthy than other people – news flash, you’re not! And an apology alters nothing. It was clearly what he was thinking and saying at the time.

This show is no longer about British talent, so the title should be altered, and the selection of judges is the biggest issue. We don’t need judges that are barely attired, leggy brainless judges or mouth look at me, and we now need a new arrangement of judges that really concentrate on the artists and their talents.

Wetherspoon Hits By Cost Of Living Crisis

JD Wetherspoons is preparing to sell 39 pubs after it revealed slowing sales and substantially increased prices across the group.

The pub chain, which already sold off five sites for £1.9 million in the last three months, also announced it can’t rule out price increases.

The group saw like-for-like sales drop by 1.1 per cent in the five weeks to November 6 when compared with pre-pandemic trading in 2019, having increased by 1.5 per cent in the previous nine weeks.

Compared with a year ago, sales increased 10.1 per cent in the first nine weeks of its financial year and were 8.9 per cent higher in the past five weeks.

JD Wetherspoons now operates 23 fewer pubs than it did in March 2021, when it ran 870 outlets.

A newspaper outlet, following the announcement of selling off pubs, the group said most of the venues it had put on the market were within a mile or two of other sites.

It said trading was mostly in line with its expectations but that October had been a quieter month. The group added that costs, especially in respect of labour, food and repairs, were substantially higher in the first quarter.

Wetherspoons spokesman Eddie Gershon said Wetherspoons aims to be as competitive as possible in terms of pricing in its pubs. He said that with inflationary pressures on the hospitality sector, they couldn’t rule out price increases.

Shares in the company dropped 3 per cent in early trading on Wednesday.

Wetherspoon chairman Tim Martin said the company remains cautiously hopeful despite the cost of pressures hammering the hospitality sector.

He said he previously set out various threats to the hospitality enterprise and these continued to apply.

He said, those caveats aside, in the absence of further lockdowns or restrictions, the group remains cautiously upbeat about future prospects.

Pubs have been struck by a cocktail of cost increases as inflation sends prices skyrocketing, with staff requiring higher salaries and demand among cash-strapped pub goers wanes.

Tim Martin warned last month that the company was facing a significant challenge to persuade punters back into its bars after they got used to drinking cheap supermarket beer during the pandemic.

It came as the firm said last month that sales increased from £773 million to more than £1.7 billion in the year to the end of July, but were still behind the £1.8 billion the group made in 2019.

No business ever operates smoothly, it’s just another day in the office sorting out all the garbage, and in all fairness to Wetherspoons, they’re still a fantastic place to meet and start a night out, get a few cheap glasses in and then go on to someplace else.

They’re the best price pub in the United Kingdom. Two meals and two drinks, and a place for someone to meet up with their friends, and the staff are always pleasant, attentive and busy.

Yes, Wetherspoons might be having financial troubles, but it will probably endure whilst other smaller pubs will shut down because of the cost of energy, and it’s extremely hard running a business, and Wetherspoons is a huge premise with loads of overheads, but they’re prices are still the lowest you’ll find.

Eggs Pelted At King Charles And Queen Camilla

A man has been arrested after allegedly tossing eggs at King Charles and Camilla.

The Monarch and Queen Consort were walking around York, Yorkshire when they came under fire from a lone egg man.

As crowds assembled behind barricades lined across the pavement to a road closed off for the Royals to stroll down, vehement shouting could be heard.

Daily Mail’s royal expert Rebecca English reported that outside a row of independent businesses, someone shouted in the direction of the King that the country was built on the blood of slavery.

Uniformed police then rushed to swarm the suspected assailant under the supervision of men who appeared to be private security.

And if some people had their way, another royal might have been the new ruler of England, and he definitely didn’t harvest grand popularity with British citizens after the personal facts about his marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales became public knowledge.

People preferred William and Kate, the newly minted Prince and Princess of Wales, and they’re adored, along with their children, and people still have an affinity for Princess Diana, but she never wanted to be a queen, but she was the queen of people’s hearts, and that proved to be the case.

Charles publicly disclosed that he began having an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles in 1986 while he was still married to Princess Diana, and he also treated Princess Diana badly on a number of occasions, and the people who were extremely protective of Diana were simply unwilling to move past Charles past offences.

Many didn’t want to see Camilla as a queen, but now Camilla has the title of Queen consort, which came with the Queen’s approval before her demise.

People didn’t want a petulant King, and Charles isn’t exactly lauded by biographers, and even those with a credible link to him are quick to point out his faults, and he’s been portrayed as petulant and cold, and some of his private tirades and huffs have been made public, further hurting his reputation.

Until very recently, numerous British citizens were concerned about how effective Charles would be as King. The position of a reigning monarch isn’t one to be taken lightly by any means, and people worried that he wouldn’t rise to the occasion.

King Charle’s reign as king will inevitably be far shorter than Queen Elizabeth’s time on the throne, and the fact that Charles will have a much shorter reign concerns people.

King Charles doesn’t have the charm and warmth that Princess Diana had. He comes off as cold and has even been described as a snob. Prince William, on the other hand, has reached out to people much as his mother did, and he has a compassionate way about him, and that’s what many people want to see in a king.

King Charles has taken a stand on important environmental issues such as sustainability and climate change, but he’s fallen pitifully short on animal welfare matters. Whereas Prince Harry decided not to partake in a grouse hunt in 2018, Charles has gone so far as to call fox hunting ‘romantic’.

Charles has a record of not being loyal to important people in his life, or even to himself. He betrayed the love he had for Camilla to marry Diana, then he betrayed Diana to carry on an affair with Camilla, plus, he went against the royal family’s wishes for him about the divorce he ultimately chose, and while this was ultimately the right decision for him, it left people with lingering sour thoughts about him.

Biden and Sunak Are On The Verge Of A Major Deal

The Prime Minister hopes to reach an agreement with Joe Biden this month that could see the US supply billions of cubic feet of natural gas to Britain in the coming months to help reduce the energy crisis triggered by Vladimir Putin.

The deal, which was initiated by Liz Truss, would shore up the UK’s energy supplies and lower the chance of blackouts, which the National Grid has warned are likely this winter.

Ironically, this would make the United Kingdom more reliant on gas produced by fracking, just weeks after Rishi Sunak reimposed a prohibition on the controversial technology in the UK.

Around two-thirds of US gas is now produced by hydraulic fracturing, which has turned America back into a net exporter of energy in current years.

Andy Mayer, energy analyst at the Institute of Economic Affairs think tank, said exploiting the UK’s vast reserves of shale gas would be more environmentally friendly than importing supplies from the US and would generate enormous tax revenues and economic activity.

He said banning UK fracking while striking deals to import US-fracked gas prioritised climate posing over climate action and it reduced our energy security, risked higher bills and undermined public finances, and he said that imported gas, cooled and sent in vast tankers, had a higher carbon footprint than gas drilled at home.

He said that anti-fracking campaigns were not environmentally sound when we remain reliant on fossil fuels for 75 per cent of our primary energy and that Downing Street confirmed talks about a deal were underway but refused to comment on the details.

The PM’s official spokesman said the US was a country where there was more that they could do together to tackle energy price spikes. He added that they were still consulting with the US on what the right approach might be.

One government source said Rishi Sunak was likely to discuss the issue with Joe Biden at next week’s G20 summit in Indonesia. The United Kingdom is also in talks with both Norway and Qatar about long-term gas supply deals.

Ministers hope the new energy security partnership with the US could be sealed as early as this month. Meanwhile, former Cabinet minister Lord Frost also said there was a degree of hypocrisy in attempting to import more fracked gas while banning its extraction in the United Kingdom.

We have plenty of our own fracked gas, but evidently, it’s not environmentally friendly, but it’s okay to buy it from the US, that’s bonkers. Let’s not make our own energy, let’s ban it and then spend double somewhere else.

Rishi Sunak is off again giving billions away. Meanwhile, people can’t afford to put their central heating on, while Rishi is wealthy enough to heat his own pool and buy from Waitrose, he’s not one of us and never will be.

Ah yes! Let’s abandon our own self-sufficiency and make other countries richer to appease the swampy people holding this country hostage.

Words just can’t express my frustration with this government. How can Rishi Sunak tell us with one hand that we’re facing a 40-50 billion Armageddon hole, but then send billions overseas to help them cope with climate change and anyone who proposes Net Zero should be ostracised? And it looks like the US has got us over a barrel, just like Vladimir Putin.

Fracking is not ideal, and getting it from the US is even worse, but the United Kingdom possibly will be in blackout this winter if something isn’t done soon, and I would rather that a deal was secured so that British homes will remain warm this winter. It of course also boosts Joe Biden’s odds of winning a second term as President of the United States.

Star Of Carry On, Leslie Phillips, Best Known For His Catchphrases ‘Ding Dong’, ‘Well Hello’, And ‘I Say’, Dies At Age 98

Carry On star Leslie Phillips, who brought laughter to living rooms across the country, has passed away aged 98.

Known for his ‘Ding Dog’, ‘Well, Hello’, and ‘I Say’ sayings, the actor had been suffering from a lengthy illness.

Younger fans might remember his voice from the Harry Potter movies, in which he did the voiceover for the Sorting Hat.

Actor Leslie Phillips, who starred in 150 movies, suffered a life-threatening stroke in 2015 and had been recuperating at home.

He would fondly remember how generations of fans would ask him to repeat his famous sayings ‘millions of times’.

Leslie Phillips, instantly recognisable for his harmonious, RP tones, had an original London accent but received elocution lessons to improve it, but despite his light-hearted humour, he had a tragic private life.

His ex-wife Penny Bartley, who he stayed in contact with after their divorce, was killed in a house fire in 1981, and in 2011 he was rocked by the suicide of his second wife, the former Bond Girl Angela Scoular, but he discovered love again and married third wife Zara Carr in December 2013.

During a seizure in 2015, after a stroke, Zara Carr gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.

Paying tribute to her late husband, Zara Carr, now 63, said that she’s lost a wonderful husband and that the public has lost a truly wonderful showman, and she said that he was quite simply a national treasure. People adored him, and he was mobbed everywhere he went.

Tottenham-born film legend Leslie Phillips was still performing before the stroke, voicing the Sorting Hat of the Harry Potter movies and acting in several British TV dramas including the Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Revolver and Agatha Christie’s Marple.

He was born on April 20, 1924, into a working-class family and made his first film appearance as a child in the 1930s.

He’s thought to be the only actor still alive who performed at Pinewood Studios in its first week after opening in 1936.

During the Second World War, he was commissioned in 1943 as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery and transferred to the Durham Light Infantry in 1944, but his death, almost two years after Barbara Windsor passed away, means only Jim Dale is left from the Carry On films that made him a huge star.

Despite his brilliant personality and well-lived life, he was always the gentleman playing the scoundrel.

All of my life this man brought laughter into my home, but now we’ve lost one of our loveliest old luvvies. His personality was never spiteful or snide to get a laugh and he really knew how to flirt which was the sense of his fun.

Wasn’t he just amazing and he gave so many people so much joy with that fabulous dirty voice of his?

He was great with that old-school charm of his, but sadly today, that wit of his would be cancelled.

He was indeed a credit to our entertainment industry and a pleasure to watch on TV.

A Couple’s Wedding Is Canceled Because The Venue 300 Miles Away From Channel Will Be Used For Asylum Seekers

A couple told of their devastation after their wedding in a luxury hotel 300 miles away from the English Channel was cancelled due to the venue being secured by officials to accommodate asylum seekers.

Simon Pritchard and Lucy Campbell, 28, were just five weeks away from tying the knot at the four-star Hilton Garden Inn in Snowdonia before being notified via Zoom the event had been called off.

Reacting to the news, Lucy Campbell said that when they were told the venue was being cancelled, they were both completely gobsmacked, and that they’d been counting down the days for the wedding to happen, and that when they told them they just couldn’t believe it, especially the reason they gave them.

A string of local councils is now taking legal action against the Home Office to prevent the Government from using hotels in their area.

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said this was only a temporary measure and officials were urgently looking for more basic accommodation.

He said the hotels were not a sustainable solution and that they want to ensure they leave the hotels as quickly as possible and to do that they would need to disperse individuals to other forms of accommodation.

He said they may need to take some larger sites to provide decent but basic accommodation and of course, they will need to get through a backlog so that they can get more people out of the system.

According to a newspaper outlet, using campsites is one of the alternatives being considered.

Mr Pritchard and Ms Campbell, from Towyn, Conwy, were expected to marry in front of their three children on December 10.

They’d made the booking a year ago, but were told it had been cancelled.

Ms Campbell said that she didn’t blame the staff, the people who had to tell her because it was out of their hands, but she wasn’t sure how to take the claim that the hotel had no choice in the matter, the Home Office just demanded it.

Local Conservative MP Robin Millar has criticised the use of the £146 to £300 a night to house asylum seekers and pledged to raise the problem with Home Office ministers.

He said that he would be clear because he was concerned about the practicality of the property, in its location for the purpose it will be used, and that the hotel wasn’t a detention centre, and that it was remote and unsupported by the appropriate services.

Venues that profit from illegals at the expense of our own citizens should be boycotted permanently, but there isn’t much this couple can do about it, not really if the Home Office has commandeered the hotel, although it’s extremely unfortunate for the wedding couple.

It’s also extremely sad for the hotel because rooms will be destroyed, and then the hotel will have to clean up after these migrants who won’t care how they leave it after they’ve left, and the only people who can take them to court is the hotel proprietors themselves, but you can bet they’ve been paid very charitably for their services.

It’s time councils, particularly in London objected to housing the raft brigade. There are literally thousands, standing outside nice warm hotels, in Primark tracksuits, all smoking, laughing and having a fantastic time, it’s an absolute disgrace.

They should be prevented from accessing benefits, health care, and free housing. If that stopped I wonder how many would come over then? And in the meantime, British people can’t afford to put their central heating on – you couldn’t make this up if you tried!

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