Patients Went To A&E 4.7 Million Times Because They Couldn’t Get Advice Or Treatment From Their GP

An official study indicates that up to 4.7 million visits to hospital accident and emergency units in the past year may have been due to people being unable to see their GP.

Research by health watchdog the Care Quality Commission (CQC) discovered nearly one in five A&E patients studied had resorted to emergency departments because they couldn’t get guidance or treatment elsewhere.

Of those, the research found, around one third (35 per cent) said there were no appointments available and 30 per cent said they were not able to get through to or access the service.

Not all of those who sought help before going to A&E tried their GP, with slightly more opting to call the NHS 111 line, but those who did seek help were almost twice as likely to say they hadn’t managed to see, speak or chat online with a health worker as those who rang 111.

The CQC’s findings were based on interviews with 422 patients just before Christmas at two A&Es in East London, King George Hospital in Ilford and Queen’s Hospital in Romford.

If repeated across England, the results would mean up to 4.7 million of the record 24.4 million A&E attendances in the past year were because people had no other choice.

The findings came after representatives at last month’s British Medical Association conference voted in favour of plans to cut the number of patients they see each day to reduce their unbearable workload, but Dennis Reed, of campaign group Silver Voices, said this would drive more people to A&Es, which are already overstretched.

The CQC said the results couldn’t be generalised as the study was a small snapshot survey confined to one place, but the Patients Association said it showed patients went to A&E when they couldn’t see a GP.

Welcome to broken Britain, the country that’s falling apart everywhere, and what exactly are these GPs doing if they’re not seeing patients and still getting paid for it? Obviously counting their ill-gotten earnings.

It’s called stealing a living, not earning a living.

The government should start sending £500 bills to practices that are seen by A&E that could have been easily dealt with by their GP.

Most GP practices pride themselves on making sure patients don’t get to see a GP. They now don’t allow pre-booking GP appointments either, which means you have to plan your life around trying to see a GP, and because of this A&E and 111 are overloaded thanks to GPs still in hiding, and Boris Johnson should make them go back to work because at the moment it’s pretty well established that one could die before one can talk to, let alone see their GP, thus, it’s hardly surprising that people head off to the local hospital.

We’re considered to be one of the wealthiest and most developed countries in the world, but we can’t see a doctor.

They created walk-in centres in some areas. They were great because you could walk in there, take a ticket and just wait to be seen and it took a lot of pressure off the NHS and A&E departments.

Now you’re supposed to send a snapshot of your condition to your GP so that they can analyse it, this is absurd because so many grave illnesses are being overlooked, yet everyone else is supposed to get back to the office and carry on with their lives – GPs are a disgrace and are getting paid for being a disgrace.

The United Kingdom Has Monkeypox

Health bosses said that Monkeypox is in the United Kingdom and now two more people have been diagnosed with it in cases not connected to the previous infection.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said that one of the two people, who live in the same household, is being treated in a hospital.

The cases, which are the eighth and ninth ever confirmed in the United Kingdom, are not related to the earlier documented case in England reported on May 7.

The UKHSA said that close contacts of the latest two cases are being offered information and health guidance as a preventive measure.

Monkeypox is a rare viral infection which kills up to one in ten of those infected but doesn’t spread easily among people.

The disease was first noticed in the United Kingdom in 2018 after a traveller brought the virus back from Nigeria and it spread to two other people, including one NHS nurse who caught it from bed linen.

Health bosses said it’s important to stress that the overall threat to the general public remains extremely low.

One of the latest cases is being cared for at the infectious diseases unit at St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, in London.

The UKHSA said that the other person is isolated and doesn’t presently need hospital treatment.

Health officials added they’re examining where and how the pair acquired their infection.

The case reported earlier this month was a person with a recent travel history from Nigeria, which is where it was believed they contracted the disease, before travelling to the United Kingdom.

Dr Colin Brown, director of clinical and emerging infections at the UKHSA, said that they have confirmed two new monkeypox cases in England that were not connected to the case reported on May 7.

He said that while investigations remain ongoing to determine the source of infection, it’s essential to stress it doesn’t spread easily between people and needs close personal contact with an infected symptomatic person and that the overall risk to the general public remains extremely low.

He said that they were contacting any potential friends, family or contacts in the community and that they were also working with the NHS to reach any healthcare contacts who have had close contact with the cases prior to confirmation of their infection, to access them as necessary and furnish guidance.

He said the UKHSA and the NHS have well established and robust disease control procedures for dealing with cases of imported infectious disease and these would be strictly observed.

Britain effectively doesn’t have any borders, therefore it’s vulnerable to all types of problems coming in, and they should quit letting people in freely from random countries, and no doubt this will be another excuse for another lockdown but don’t worry the WHO will be able to make a decision for the entire world.

But let’s face it, it’s the government’s job to keep us all in fear, so that we need them, and yet they still mess up everything they touch by letting people into the United Kingdom with open arms.

This is the outcome when people from all over the world stream in, unchecked. We’ve already been brought to our knees economically because of COVID and now this. Next, we’ll all have the overwhelming urge to swing through the trees, scratch under our armpits and have a desire for bananas, and it appears that 2022 is the year that just keeps on giving.

Shoppers Who Have Become Ill After Eating Chicken

Britons who have become ill after eating cooked chicken have called for additional things to be added to the nationwide recall list after more than 100 other products were removed from shelves amid a salmonella scare.

Shoppers have reported being violently sick after ingesting chicken wraps and sandwiches, including ones not presently included on the UK Food Standards Agency’s (UKFSA) recall list.

The authority issued the inventory of 113 products after salmonella was detected at the Cranswick foot processing plant in Hull during a routine internal inspection.

It sparked 12 other food sellers, including supermarkets, coffee shops and convenience stores, to remove items from their shelves, with Co-Op, Amazon, Costa and Starbucks the latest big-name food chains to be impacted by the contamination scare.

Pret, Sainsbury’s, Aldi, Leon, M&S and Waitrose also quit selling some or all cooked poultry products due to the scare, which has seen products even grabbed from shoppers’ hands in some cases.

Tesco released a checklist of cooked poultry products it warns could be affected. Tesco’s list of 14 items includes plain chicken breast slices, BBQ breast pieces and flammed grilled chicken thins.

Shoppers told a newspaper outlet how they became ill after eating chicken products in recent days. One, Peter McKernan, 41, bought a Southern Style Fried Chicken Wrap from a Southern Co-Op in Weymouth on Wednesday evening.

The father of three, who runs a window cleaning business, consumed the wrap soon after and then was violently sick overnight, and believes that he suffered from a kind of food poisoning, though the product doesn’t presently feature on the recall list. He said that he bought the wrap at about 7 pm and by 12.20 am he was being violently sick.

He said that he woke up with a stomach ache and that he then started throwing up and had a bad tummy, and that he was up and down until about 4.15 pm and he was going to a charity garden party at Buckingham Palace the following day which he didn’t enjoy because he still felt unwell.

Mr McKeran urged Co-Op to look into other chicken products. Southern Co-Op has been contacted for comment.

Caroline Austin said her four-year-old son Harvey fell ill after eating pre-cooked chicken from a supermarket, which she didn’t name.

She said he was violently sick with an upset stomach during the night, but that neither she nor his brother was unwell.

I’m not ill after eating chicken, I’m just sick of eating chicken that’s genetically modified so it becomes bland and rubbery. Chicken is highly processed and it’s garbage food, and if people have got sick from eating the chicken, imagine how the poor chickens must have felt being killed so that we can eat a chicken wrap.

Sadly now everyone wants cheap convenience food, so to do that you need mega factories to produce it, but by doing that you scale up production and contamination risk, and I suspect there’s a bit of fowl play going on here!

However, Chicken, eggs and salmonella have been associated for ages, and now there’s an outbreak of it everyone goes crazy because they’ve got sick. To be honest, I don’t normally get sick eating it, I get sick at looking at the prices of it.

There’s no surprise that people are saying that they have got ill eating it because now I can hear the sound of the lawyers sharpening their quells as the media induce hysteria.

A Man Who Chopped Off His Own Penis And Testicles To Become A Nullo

A man cut off his own penis and testicles using an ultra-sharp ceramic blade so he could become genitalia free ‘nullo’, and then kept his severed organs in the freezer until his mother threw them out.

Trent Gates, a 23-year-old from Washington DC, removed his testicles in a DIY surgical procedure conducted in his own apartment in April 2016, before chopping off his penis in a North Carolina motel room eight months later.

Trent Gates, who says he sanitised the knife for safety and took only analgesics in preparation, was motivated to perform the extreme procedure after seeing another famous ‘nullo’ called Gelding at the age of 15.

A ‘nullo’, also known as a smoothie, is someone who had undergone radical body transformation by having their genitals, and sometimes nipples, surgically removed.

The subculture doesn’t necessarily relate to a person’s sexuality, though many consider themselves eunuchs. Trent Gates identifies as a non-binary person who’s sexually attracted to men.

He said that he used a ceramic knife because it’s sharper than steel, and less ripping and tearing, adding that he took every precaution before surgery and went to the hospital immediately afterwards.

He said that he actually didn’t have an issue with the pain. That he used a little bit of a numbing agent, a little bit of lidocaine on it, and took five milligrams of oxycodone that they prescribed him when he did his balls to take the edge off, and that the same surgeon stitched him up on both occasions.

He told a newspaper outlet that they made sure he got psychiatric treatment just to make sure he was sane and that it was a good decision and the therapists and the psychiatric team said he was good and that he was sane, miraculously.

To help him heal from the procedure, Trent Gates inserted a catheter for several weeks to ensure there was a hole through which he could urinate.

When he removed his testicles it took about a month for the wound to heal, while the place where his penis once was took three weeks.

He explained that he felt driven to do the surgery and Trent Gates said he always felt somewhere between a man and a woman, an androgynous in between.

He said that he had no wish to be a woman and that it was kind of a middle ground in between the two, an androgynous in between.

While it appears that the world has gone totally mad, it really hasn’t, but a few of its passengers have.

Trent must have been very determined or just desperate to perform surgery on himself because I can’t even remove a splinter from my own finger without an ‘ouch’.

Meanwhile back on earth body dysmorphia is a mental disorder and clearly, this man is not sane, and I really hope this won’t encourage loads of copycats, and how come he didn’t bleed to death? And he’s lucky to be alive after doing that to himself. He should have just stepped away from the knife drawer.

Now when he’s out with his mates and they dare him to do something crazy and they say to him that he hasn’t got the balls, will he just nod and agree with them?

We might all believe that he’s crazy but who are we to judge, having never been in that situation. I just hope that the man is happy because there’s no going back now.

To be fair, even if you were having this procedure done in a hospital there would be a significant amount of blood loss which could have killed him extremely quickly, not to mention infection, and you would need a highly trained surgeon and a team to carry out such a procedure – fake news, perhaps!

Being Called ‘Love’, ‘Hun’, Or ‘Babes’ At Work Is Demeaning And Infantilizing

Calling women at work ‘love’ or ‘hun’ is demeaning but it’s acceptable to use ‘mate’ for a male coworker, a judge ruled at a tribunal involving a funeral firm manager who was sacked for using improper language towards female staff.

Mike Hartley had argued he was a target of the Me Too movement when he was fired from Blackpool based funeral firm D Hollowell & Sons Limited in January of this year.

A Manchester tribunal heard how he regularly called women ‘sweet’, ‘love’, ‘chick’ and ‘honey’, which he claimed was the same as calling male counterparts ‘mate’ or ‘lad’.

However, the tribunal found it was wrong to compare the two, as the way he addressed men didn’t determine them in the way his names for women did.

Employment Judge Pauline Feeney said that calling someone ‘mate’ or ‘lad’ was not a pet name in their view, it’s a nickname, and that they weren’t demeaning, but that chick, babes, honey, hun and sweetie were all derogatory and infantilising ways of referring to women.

The final straw came when he called a coworker ‘Rachie boobies’ after making a remark about peeking up her skirt, leading her to file a sexual harassment complaint which led to his dismissal.

The hearing heard how Mr Hartley started working as a driver and bearer for D Hollowell & Sons Limited in 2017 where he was promoted to client liaison and HR manager the following year.

In 2019, colleague Rachel Anderton complained about him making insulting and extremely inappropriate remarks.

The panel heard Mr Hartley asked to add her to Facebook immediately after meeting her, asked her what her vital statistics were when enquiring about uniform size and called her pet names such as ‘honey’, ‘babe’ and ‘chick’ multiple times.

During one funeral appointment, Miss Anderton asked the self-described happily married man if he could look under a Moses basket and as he did so, he asked ‘What, am I looking up, your skirt?’ the tribunal was informed, and the panel, which was held remotely, heard that this shocked and upset her.

The panel was told he would walk into the office saying ‘honey, I’m home!’, call her a ‘good girl’ and said that she was ‘curvey in all the right places”.

On another occasion, Mr Hartley had walked into her office and called her ‘Rachie boobies’ which he later explained was a ‘Freudian slip’ as he had meant to call her ‘Rachibobs’, the panel heard.

There are numerous women who men will call ‘darling’, ‘sweetheart’ or ‘love’ and have never complained about it or brought it to their attention that they feel uneasy. Why? Because they’re smart enough to know it’s not meant in an offensive way. However, anything past that, like a man looking up a woman’s skirt is just pervy in every sense of the word.

To be honest, if a man called me ‘darling’, sweetheart’ or ‘love’ it would probably make me smile for the rest of the day. However, if a man said he was looking up my skirt, he’d probably get a punch in the face, there’s a significant difference, and soon men won’t be able to speak to women at all.

Undoubtedly, Mr Hartley was an idiot without a brain cell. Calling someone ‘love’ is okay but talking about their breasts or making comments about looking up their skirt is way out of line, and he only has himself to blame.

It seems everyone gets offended by something these days. Just say that you feel offended and move on unless it happens over and over after they’ve been told.

We seem we live in a ‘me, me, me’ world now where everyone gets offended. Let’s track back to the 60s and 70s were everything was so much better.

Indian Surgeon Plans To Transplant Womb Into A Trans Woman

A surgeon in India is going to try to transplant a womb into a trans woman who was born a man, with the view of making them pregnant.

The risky procedure will involve taking the reproductive organs from a dead donor or a patient who has transitioned the other way and had theirs removed.

There has only been one reported case of a womb being inserted into a trans woman in the past, but she died from complications only months later.

Impregnating a trans woman would be an even greater feat and would require the use of IVF and a C-section because they don’t have a fully functioning vagina.

Dr Narendra Kaushik, who runs a gender reassignment clinic in New Delhi, has said he’s extremely optimistic he can make a success of the procedure, and he was quoted as saying in a newspaper outlet that every transgender woman wants to be as female as possible, and that included being a mother.

He said the way towards this would be with a uterine transplant, the same as a kidney or any other transplant, and that this was the future, but that they couldn’t predict precisely when it would happen but that it would happen very soon.

The surgeon hasn’t disclosed the recipient or given a timetable for the surgery, but he added that they have their plans and that they’re extremely optimistic about it.

Dr Kshuik’s clinic, Olmec, is at the hub of a thriving industry in New Delhi that’s seeing the city rival Bangkok as the sex-change capital of the world.

He said around a fifth of his clients are from abroad, with many flying from the United Kingdom, where gender reassignment surgery is free on the NHS but subject to waiting times.

Dr Kaushik told a newspaper outlet that many of their patients tell them that their sexual partners don’t even notice that they weren’t born with female sex organs and that it’s their aim is to make it so that they live as normal a life as possible as a woman because they aim for an aesthetic ideal.

However, while gender reassignment surgery is well established, the science behind womb transplants involving trans people was still vague.

There has been more than 100 successful woman to woman uterus transplants since 2014, and scientists are now able to impregnate female recipients.

Although there are some people who say that it shouldn’t be allowed and that it’s wrong on every level, and that it will not end well.

It’s an extraordinarily complex hormonal journey that a female body has to go through to make a healthy child – can it be done artificially and are humans smart enough to do it?

Anyone thinking of going through this procedure, it’s their body, their choice, but does this go against nature and will it come back to bite us on the butt? And surely there is much more important work that surgeons could or should be doing?

There are so many problems in the world and suddenly this has been made a priority!

And if you have any sort of transplant the patient will need immunosuppressant drugs to prevent rejection, what effects will these drugs have on the baby? And would it cause birth defects and other issues?

And just because they can accomplish this kind of surgery, doesn’t mean they should, and there are many biological women that are unable to conceive that are being offered this procedure, but sometimes we have to accept that we can’t have everything we want, and becoming a parent naturally is one of those things. There are plenty of children in the foster system, adopt instead.

The 74-Year-Old Dennis Waterman Has Died

Legendary TV actor Dennis Waterman has died at the age of 74, his family have revealed.

Dennis Waterman was one of the most popular television performers of the 70s and 80s. He starred as bodyguard Terry McCann in Minder after first finding stardom as a hard nut cop George Carter in The Sweeny.

In more recent years, he starred as Gerry Standing in the BBC’s New Tricks, and throughout his career, other TV roles included ITV’s Where The Heart Is, The Canterbury Tales and Moses Jones, both for the BBC.

In a statement, his family said he passed in Spain with his wife Pam at his side.

They said that they were extremely saddened to inform people that their dear Dennis passed away peacefully at his home in Spain, but the family kindly ask that their privacy be respected at this extremely difficult time.

Tributes have flooded in as news broke of Dennis Waterman’s death, and producer Jonathan Sothcott tweeted that Dennis Waterman was one of their biggest TV stars throughout the 70 and 80s, an everyman figure who felt like one of them. A natural and fine actor.

He was excellent in The Sweeny, amazing in Minder, and they definitely don’t make them like that anymore.

Actor Stuart Anthony said that Dennis Waterman has left us, but he was a gifted and charming man and it was such a loss to the industry.

Newsreader Kay Burley posted that a brilliant actor who was a staple on our screens throughout the 70s and 80s and that she adored The Sweeny and she loved Minder even more.

DIY SOS presenter Nick Knowles also reflected on a charity golf trip he took alongside Dennis Waterman.

Nick Knowles tweeted that he played golf on a tour to Bermuda with Dennis Waterman. He said that he wasn’t much of a golfer, but Dennis was, but that it was time spent with Dennis between games that was well worth the trip and that he was a genuinely charming fellow.

Presenter and comedian Paddy McGuinness said he’d always wanted to be the character of Waterman’s Terry McCann, and in a tweet, he wrote that he and his Phoenix Nights castmates used to sing the tune to Minder on tour and on the Karaoke and that he was gutted that he never got to meet him because he always wanted to be Terry McCann and that he was another idol from his childhood just gone.

A star has died that can never be replaced. He was one of TV’s greats and always good to watch, and he will be having a heavenly drink with John Thaw and George Cole this evening, and condolences to his family at this heartbreaking time.

Watching Minder was fantastic and many people loved watching it, particularly the chemistry between “Terry and Arthur” which was TV gold.

He was such a fantastic actor whose characters were threaded into the fabric of an era which has been all too quickly and sadly disappearing into the past, never to be seen or lived again.

He was a proper all-round geezer, a great actor and full of wonderful laughs.

The Heatwave Starts Here!

Britons were set for a relaxing day in the sunshine as people herded to the UK’s beaches and parks to take advantage of more generous temperatures that could reach highs of a whopping 23C (73.4F) today.

Last week saw highs of 22C (71.6F) but the next seven days could bring even hotter temperatures to Britain. The mercury could edge towards 26C (78.8F) next week, which could make it warmer to be in Britain than in Mexico.

Alex Burkill, a forecaster at the Met Office, told a newspaper outlet temperature today would be mostly high, with the chance of good weather this and next week, although just when higher temperatures in the mid-20s kick in was difficult to forecast.

He said Sunday would be a decent day for many with some warm and bright spells. He added temperatures of the mid-20s weren’t out of the question, but there were no guarantees.

He said that Britain would mostly have good and dry weather today, although the northwest may see showers in the evening.

The Met Office said that sunshine had not been distributed evenly across the United Kingdom this morning and that things would get fairer through the day as the clouds lift and break up over the next couple of hours, and that the UK pollen count was also thought to stay high today and tomorrow as summer beckons.

The Met Office advised people to remember the sun’s rays could be powerful enough to burn in the United Kingdom from about April to September and added there was a high pollen count from trees and some grass today.

Low lying clouds and swathes of mist cleared this morning as sunlight appeared to provide Brits with a magnificent Sunday in the sun.

The Met Office predicted the day would become more windy and cloudy, particularly in the northwest, which would see patchy rain and a brisk wind in Scotland and the west of Northern Ireland, and that the evening would bring a frost in some of the southeast but that it didn’t spell the end of Britain’s mini heatwave.

The beginning of the week will see sunny periods with a few clouds in most parts of England and Wales, while wind and periodic rain would impact Scotland and Northern Ireland, and the mercury could climb to 21C (69.8) in London on Monday, which could mean the capital would be warmer than popular holiday destinations including Turkey and the Costa del Sol.

In England, a bit of sun comes out and it’s a heatwave.

Admittedly it is a lovely day here. The sun is shining and it’s really lovely, but hardly a heatwave, but it is nice and warm, and let’s face it, anything warmer than the north pole is always good.

Of course, a heatwave in the United Kingdom is anything over 15C – a bit of snow and it’s a Siberian winter and the entire country grinds to a halt. It’s actually rather amusing because it seems that here in the United Kingdom we all seem to be obsessed with the weather.

Clearly, it is getting warmer as we tiptoe into the summer, but seriously why is the weather making the news? Now I could understand it if they said that there was going to be a huge heatwave in the North Pole tonight, now that would be news!

The best news on this though is this. It said “Britons”, and the headlines were very discriminatory because not everyone in England is a Brit in the United Kingdom, and they should have just said the United Kingdom instead.

After A Bomb Blast In Luhansk, Dozens Are Feared Dead

According to the governor of the Luhansk region, two people have been killed and 60 more are feared dead following a Russian airstrike on a school in the Ukrainian village of Bilohorivka.

Regional governor Serhiy Haidai confirmed via the Telegram messaging app that approximately 90 people were using the Belogorovskaya school basement as a bomb shelter when the site suffered a direct hit.

Footage and pictures of the school show the extent of the destruction, with large areas of the structure reduced to debris and a team of firefighters drafted in to fight the consequent fire.

Serhiy Haidai said that rescuers managed to pull thirty people out of the ruins, but that up to sixty more remained enmeshed in the basement and were thought to be dead.

Serhiy Haidai reported that the blaze was extinguished after almost four hours, and then the debris was removed, but unfortunately, the bodies of two people were discovered, and sixty people are likely to have perished under the rubble of the buildings, and that rescuers continued to work from the early hours, trying to remove the remaining debris to free any remaining survivors.

Serhiy Haidai said that according to preliminary information, shelling in the village of Shypilovo destroyed a house and 11 people remained under the building’s rubble. There was no direct response from Russian authorities.

The latest devastation in Luhansk comes just one week after the Lysychansk Multidisciplinary Gymnasium, a prestigious Ukrainian school built in the 19th century, was completely destroyed in another attack.

Footage from the incident shows the shell of the historic structure crumbling as flames raged throughout its corridors and hallways.

Haidai said that after the victory of Ukraine, they will make every effort to restore the gymnasium, while former graduate Yana Goncharenko told Ukrainskaya Pravda that it was created more than 100 years ago by the Belgians and that it was among the top 100 schools in the country. It endured two world wars and the battle for the city in 2014, but animals without morals burned it down in 2022.

The brutal airstrikes on civilian shelters and residential sites came as the World Health Organisation (WHO) said it would help investigations into Russian war crimes by recording instances of targeted aggression on Ukrainian healthcare facilities.

WHO Emergencies Director Mike Ryan told a news conference yesterday that the organisation had already documented 200 separate attacks on hospitals and clinics in Ukraine since the conflict started on February 24.

Vladimir Putin is a monster nurtured by sycophants, cowards, criminals and Judases. He’s rewritten history, redrawn maps, and reissued educational, reference media to try to wipe out the existence of Ukraine in the minds of Russians.

Now he’s attempting to bomb an entire country out of existence. A country that saw four million of its people slaughtered by Stalin, and Ukraine might be in pain now, but Russia will pay the price and guilt for years, and Vladimir Putin’s encroaching empire-building must stop.

How one man can cause so much death and destruction is beyond me. It’s a disgrace how he’s waging war on innocent civilians and children, and he’s turned into the most hated man on the planet. NO! I correct myself, he is the most hated person on earth – he’s a child assassin.

He purposely targets schools, hospitals and nurseries and he’s as evil as the Nazis, and now Russia will eternally be a pariah country.

We believed that Russia had moved on from Medieval times, but it appears we were fooled.

William and Kate Want To Be Known By Their First Names And Not By Titles

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge reportedly want to be known by their first names and not titles after the blunderous tour of the Caribbean, and now Prince William and Kate Middleton want to update the Royal Family after their Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas expedition which was hit by public relations blunders and protests.

This would include getting rid of bows and curtsies along with their ceremonial titles so they would be known as just Kate and William.

A royal source told a newspaper outlet that a major factor had been the eight-day trip which was branded tone-deaf to modern sensibilities.

They said they want to be more approachable, less traditional, less stuffy and break away from a lot of the traditions.

The source said the general consensus was that the tour seemed out of date, out of touch, too traditional and stuffy.

So now it will be more William and Kate rather than the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and they want to try to sidestep the bows and curtsies in public, be more approachable, less traditional, less stuffy, and break away from a lot of the tradition and focus on a modern monarchy.

Royal sources also said he’s determined to update the institution after struggling to move on from the bad press and will complete a root and branch review.

The news comes as the Queen moves ahead with slimming down the Monarchy, and the Palace revealed that only senior Royals, which don’t include Prince Harry and Meghan or Prince Andrew, will be on the palace balcony for the showpiece Platinum Jubilee celebration.

A Palace spokesman said the Queen has decided this year’s traditional Trooping the Colour balcony appearance on Thursday, June 2 will be limited to Her Majesty and those members of the royal family who are presently undertaking official public duties on behalf of the Queen.

Harry and Meghan said they would attend nonetheless with their children for the Jubilee next month – in a bombshell announcement made just minutes after the palace’s own statement.

The future of the monarchy and the Commonwealth came under scrutiny after William and Kate’s tour of the Caribbean where they encountered fierce backlash during the eight-day long tour around Belize, Jamaica and the Bahamas.

Formality and tradition are what keep the Royal Family from being different from the rest of us and I guess that’s the appeal, and most people enjoy watching all the pomp and ceremony and it would be sad to see that vanish.

The Monarchy is all about tradition, and if you haven’t got that then there is no Monarchy, but although all the pomp and ceremony is great, what’s wrong with just no-frills William and Kate, so at least they look a tad bit human, rather than one of the Stepford wives?

We don’t want a Royal Family that’s the same as everyone else because people enjoy the pomp and ceremony and titles that’s all part of that. I suppose a bow and curtsey could be done away with. I could never understand how everyone got so hot and bothered by that, but at least keep the things that make Royalty different from the rest of us.

Deep down we know they’re just human just like the rest of us and they all fluffer-doodle out of their backsides and their excrement does stink, but people like the dream and fantasy of Royalty, but they are just like us, they just wear a crown!

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