Supreme Court Rules In Favour Of Colorado Baker Who Refused To Bake Gay Wedding Cakes

Jack Phillips was sued by a transgender attorney for refusing to fulfil her order.

Autumn Scardina ordered a cake that was blue on the outside and pink on the inside.

She wanted the cake to celebrate her gender transition on her birthday, but Phillips declined to make it because of its statement, but the judge ruled last year that the matter was about a refusal to market a product, not compelled to speech.

The baker’s lawyers are now challenging the ruling which saw Phillips get a $500 fine. Phillips famously won a partial Supreme Court victory in 2018 after he refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.

The baker who won a partial Supreme Court victory after declining to make a wedding cake for a gay couple on religious grounds is now challenging another ruling that went against him over a refusal to make a gender transition cake.

The lawyer for Jack Phillips on Wednesday challenged Colorado’s appeals court to overturn a ruling made last year in connection with a lawsuit brought against him by a transgender attorney.

Autumn Scardina put an order in 2017 with Phillip’s cake shop in Denver for a blue birthday cake with pink filling to signify her gender transition, but Phillips, a Christian, refused to fulfil the request, swearing in court last year that he didn’t believe that someone could switch genders and would not celebrate somebody who believes that they can.

In a June 2021 ruling, Denver District Judge A Bruce Jones said Scardina was denied a cake in breach of the law and fined him $500, the highest fine under Colorado’s Anti-Discrimination Act, but while Phillips said he couldn’t make the cake because of its message, Jones said the case was about the refusal to sell a product, not compelled speech.

Jones wrote that the anti-discrimination laws were intended to ensure that members of our society who have historically been treated unfairly are no longer treated as ‘others’, but now Jake Warner, an attorney representing Phillips from the conservative Christian legal advocacy group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), is pushing for the court to overturn the ruling on the grounds that forcing Phillips to bake a cake conveying a message in contradiction with his beliefs is equivalent to violating his right to free speech.

Phillips famously won a partial victory at the US Supreme Court in 2018 for declining to make a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.

Back in the day, a businessman had the right to decide who they did business with, but it appears that privilege has been withdrawn.

Can you imagine if a gay doctor in a private practice chose not to deal with heterosexuals? We should quit being so prejudiced and start appreciating our lives, but then why didn’t this lady just go and choose another baker? And it’s not like she was attempting to push her beliefs onto him, but then I guess it’s his business, his right to refuse.

However, we don’t live in a civilised society, and where do you draw the line? What if somebody doesn’t want to sell to Christians, Muslims, people of colour or even white people? Common sense is that we should eliminate all this nonsense, and learn to be tolerant of other people.

For heaven’s sake, it’s just a cake. Phillips didn’t want to make the cake and that’s okay, although prejudiced, but still just move on and use another baker, there was no need to involve courts and lawyers.

It Seems That… Insulation Is Missing From The Ceiling

Well, Charles is no attractive King, and Camilla tries to look the best that she can, and undoubtedly they’re especially suited to each other because neither of them has any alluring qualities.

They should also do away with all the King and Queen agenda because they don’t actually do anything for this country – it’s just a title and it comes with loads of cash.

Princess Diana was used. She probably did care for Charles in her own small way, but unfortunately, Charles’s heart already belonged to someone else, and the Royals should have just let Charles and Camilla get married when they first fell in love with each other and before they got married to someone else.

All this Royal stuff is hogwash anyhow. Their titles really don’t mean anything, and they don’t run the country or make laws, they have other people do that like our Government.

It’s all wishy-washy to me and ladled with lots of hooplas, and it’s ancient and should be phased out, but only our Government and the people of England will determine when to end the monarchy, and that’s not going to happen anytime soon.

Charles and Diana should never have gotten married. He was in his 30s and in love with another woman before he was basically forced to marry Diana, probably to produce royal successors.

Diana was only 19 and probably had no idea what she was getting herself into. It’s also an extremely heartbreaking story, and it was obvious right from the start that ultimately Charles and Camilla would find their way back to each other, and with the Queen’s approval.

Charles and Diana were never happily married, that was obvious right from the start, she was merely a teenager, but it ensues in Royal circles so that they can produce an heir to the throne, and I truly hope that this experience thwarts any future Kings or Queen’s having to give up their true love for the throne, and the headdresses that are modelled are atrocious, but then they all go together like birds of a feather, and I guess if the roof leaked at Buckingham Palace they could always use the feathers on the hats as insulation – it would definitely be more affordable.

It seems that when you’re royalty you can do whatever you damn well like, and hats should only be modelled on specific events like in churches, the Kentucky Derby and then there’s the Monarchy.

Camilla isn’t beautiful by any stretch of the imagination, but the King adores her, and whether we like it or not he’s going to be married to her for some time.

Camilla was never good at fashion before and she’s certainly not good at fashion now, but you know what the old saying is: ‘ You can’t teach an old dog new tricks’, and as for that hat, somewhere a toilet seat lid is missing its fabric cover.

We’re Flying Under The Radar!

Princess Anne cut an understated figure as she arrived at JFK airport to catch a commercial flight home after a low-key visit to New York this week.

The Princess Royal, 72, could be seen holding two of her own bags as she strolled through the airport, having been on a whirlwind tour of the metropolis this week.

The Queen’s daughter carried out an outstanding four royal engagements on a whirlwind tour of New York City yesterday as she became the first senior royal to visit the US since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle moved to California in 2020.

Her visit to the US is the first trip made by a senior member of the Royal Family since Harry and Meghan stepped down as working royals and moved to Santa Barbara, California, shortly before the pandemic.

Arriving at the airport, the Princess Royal was dressed in a sleek black outfit, with black tailored trousers and a dark blazer.

Meanwhile, she wrapped up against the chilly New York weather with a thick polo neck jumper.

The mother of two added a pop of colour to her ensemble with a white and black neck scarf, which she wore around her neck.

The understated royal could be seen holding a number of her own bags for the expedition, including a handbag and a large green backpack-style bag.

Meanwhile, she also appeared to be sporting a hanging set of pearl earrings.

The Princess Royal, 72, demonstrated why she’s frequently dubbed the hardest working royal as she made a surprise appearance in the east coast city to visit several different places and present awards.

After arriving at John F Kennedy Airport on Tuesday, the Princess Royal was greeted by His Majesty’s Consul General for New York, Mrs Emma Wade Smith, and was thereafter the guest of honour at a gala dinner for the English Speaking Union at the Cosmopolitan Club.

Before attending the dinner, Anne, who is the honorary chair of the Campaign for Illuminating Future Generations, also took a trip on the Staten Island ferry to attend the National Lighthouse Museum, and then attended a Reception at the View at the Battery.

The Princess Royal then attended the Residence of His Majesty’s Consul-General for New York to present honours, before whizzing off to the gala dinner held by the Gordonstoun American Foundation at the Racquet and Tennis Club on Park Avenue, which she attended in her role as patron of the Campaign for Gordonstoun.

Princess Anne has numerous guises. She’s an Olympian, a down-to-earth family matriarch who rejected royal titles for her children, and she’s a frugal country woman with a fondness for anything equine and a punctilious public servant, and she’s also frequently named one of the hardest working royals.

Princess Anne has a reputation for her sharp wit and funny sense of humour, and in the footage, Her Majesty’s Assistant Private Secretary Tom Laing Baker can be heard introducing her, as Anne beams and says: “Good morning at Windsor.” Emerging on the screen, the Queen said: “Good morning. I’m very glad to have been able to join you.”

Anne then tries to give her royal mother a rundown of how to use the video call, asking her: “Can you see everybody? You should have six people on your screen,” to which she responds: “Yes, well I can see four anyway!”

The Princess Royal then jokes: “Actually, you don’t need me. You know what I look like!”

Princess Anne is extremely down to earth and is probably the most normal out of all her siblings, and she works hard and never grumbles about it – perhaps some of the other Royals should take their cues from that.

Russia Is Pushed Back Twelve Miles By Ukraine

Ukraine has pushed Russia back by twelve miles in the south as dramatic footage shows the blistering speed of attacks that have sent Vladimir Putin’s men running for their lives.

Videos taken in Kherson in current days show Ukrainian forces storming Russian defences in American-made Humvees under artillery fire, and soldiers moving en masse across fields in the face of the retreating foe.

Britain’s MoD said that Ukraine’s offensive in Kherson, which has been grinding on for more than two months, entered a new phase on October 2 with Kyiv’s men advancing twelve miles down the Inhulets and Dnipro rivers.

Meanwhile, more footage shows Ukrainian soldiers fighting near the metropolis of Lyman, in the north of the country, which fell to Kyiv’s men at the weekend, exposing other Russian positions in the Donbas to further attacks.

The slew of the video was posted online by pro-Ukraine accounts after weeks of near-total silence from the frontlines as troops carried out their aggression against Russia. Still, now, as they take territory and capture dozens of towns, footage documenting their battlefield heroics has been released.

Two extremely dramatic pieces of footage show American-made Humvees leading a charge across fields in Kherson as Russian mortar shells fell around them.

Steering between shell holes and what seemed to be destroyed or abandoned Russian vehicles, the Humvees reached a tree line and offloaded dozens of troops who then continued to attack.

More footage shows Ukrainian soldiers riding on top of an armoured vehicle somewhere along a forest road in Kherson when they struck two mines.

The troops flew off the top of the vehicle and into a nearby ditch where they started shooting into nearby trees believing they were being shot at.

Fortunately, it seems that whichever Russian troops laid the mines were not nearby at the time, and none of the Ukrainian soldiers was injured.

Tallying up three days of extreme activity in Kherson, British military intelligence said that Ukrainian units had pushed the front line forwards by up to 20km (12 miles).

The Ministry of Defence said that Russian forces had typically broken contact and withdrawn, rather than stand and fight, although added that Ukraine did not yet endanger the main Russian defensive positions.

However, Vladimir Putin’s commanders had put themselves in a difficult situation, and the MoD states to stay and defend the west bank of the Dnipro as Vladimir Putin is believed to have ordered or retreat across the river to more suitable places on the other side.

This is, of course, excellent. However, why are they not calling for a truce? And I see that this story has replaced the one about the enormous systematic Ukrainian war crimes, but not a huge surprise I suppose.

Of course, the Ukrainians are brave, but when it comes down to it, it’s all about killing each other, although I’m not doubting that the Russian vermin need to be destroyed because there is no doubt in my mind that Vladimir Putin will never allow for peace talks, and there will be no peace until he’s gone, and let’s hope that the Russian soldiers know their way back to Russia and don’t stop running until they get there.

Losers, particularly loser dictators don’t usually last long after a disastrous military defeat, and relatively soon, the Russian elite will decide it’s in their best interest to ditch Vladimir Putin, and Putin should be ashamed of himself for sending untrained soldiers to die because of his own ego.

However, I can see Vladimir Putin reacting by sending thousands of more Russian to their deaths while he sits in a bunker thousands of miles away stressing that one of his inner circles will assassinate him.

As Miserable As ever, Prince Harry

A royal biographer claims that Prince Harry looks as miserable as Edward VIII after stepping down from royal duties alongside his wife, Meghan Markle.

Hugo Vickers, who’s written books about the Duke of Kent and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, claims both Harry and Edward VIII appeared to cast sadness after cutting relations with the Royal Family.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex quit their royal responsibilities in 2020 in an apparent endeavour to sidestep media scrutiny and the pressures associated with being working royals.

Similarly, the Duke of Windsor, who’d once been King of England relinquished the throne in 1936 in order to wed American divorcee Wallis Simpson, a partnership that was fought by the UK government.

Although Edward VIII never confessed remorse about his abdication, Mr Vickers claims he’d never seen anyone with such sad eyes as the ex-ruler.

He said that he believed the reason the Queen always had such sparkling eyes was that she devoted herself to duty.

He alleged that Edward VIII took the path of perceived happiness by marrying Wallis Simpson, but in the end, it’s duty that makes you happy.

The author said that if you’d woken him up at 4 am and questioned if he had any remorse he would have probably said no, but if you truly want to know what he actually felt, just look at his eyes.

Mr Vickers argued that Prince Harry has also seemed unhappy after giving up his life as a functioning royal.

He said that as for the Duke of Sussex, who knows what’s going to happen to him? He said he thinks he looks absolutely miserable.

The biographer also addressed new King Charles III’s vision for a slimmed-down monarchy, alleging it’s risky for the royal family.

He said the Queen and Prince had almost 2,000 organisations between them. You’ve lost Prince Andrew and Prince Harry, so who’s going to do it now?

Mr Vickers’ remarks came just days after Buckingham Palace released the first official photograph of King Charles III with his Queen Consort, Camilla.

By their side stood the Prince of Wales, his eldest son and successor, indeed a good deal taller than Charles, and the recently appointed Princess of Wales, his wifey.

The photo is brimming with symbolism of course. The new monarch is shown with his son and heir while looming behind them is a glowering picture of King George III, the longest reigning male sovereign in British history.

Prince Harry might not look happy, but on the other hand, why would he want to come back to such a claustrophobic existence? I mean, what’s in it for him, he’s just the spare, and we should just accept that this is what he wanted.

I would imagine that what he was actually bothered about is that his own blood family didn’t give a damn about him, although he did leak stories about them. On the other hand, on the day that the Queen died, they should have all put their differences behind them for a while at least, but snubbing Harry didn’t make them look very good.

Let’s face it, one image out of millions has been taken, then someone will write an article about it, and then expect everyone to be so concerned about it while others will be freezing this winter.

Does it actually matter why Prince Harry looks so unhappy? Is everybody really that concerned? Probably not! And to be fair, Harry looked rather pitiful, even before he got married – this is probably his normal look anyhow.

A Petition Calling For An Early General Election Is Signed By 500,000 People

Almost half a million people have signed a petition demanding an early general election in the wake of Liz Truss’ turbulent time in office.

Parliament will now argue the UK government and parliament petition after it passed the 100,000 threshold on September 29, the day Miss Truss pledged to stick by her contentious economic strategy.

Four days on, and the signature count now stands at more than 470,000.

A debate date has yet to be determined.

Petition organiser Darrin Charlesworth said that the chaos engulfing the United Kingdom government was unprecedented. Around 40 ministers quit leaving departments without supervision during the cost of living, energy and climate crises.

Darrin Charlesworth said that war rages in Ukraine, the Northern Ireland Protocol has also damaged relationships with Europe, recession looms, and the United Kingdom itself may cease to exist as Scotland seeks independence, and said that this is the greatest set of challenges we’ve seen in our lifetimes and that we should let the people determine who leads us through this turmoil.

The government shrugged off the petition on September 20, saying that the United Kingdom was a parliamentary democracy and the Conservative Party remains the majority group, and it was said that the prime minister had promised to ensure opportunity and prosperity for all people and forthcoming generations.

The government said the Tories in charge would remain the case given the party’s triumph in the 2019 general election which saw Boris Johnson elected prime minister.

So unless an earlier one is called, the next election won’t be until January 2025.

It added that a shift in the leader of the governing party doesn’t initiate a general election and that this has been the case under governments of flourishing political colours.

According to digital archives, and it’s fair to say a lot has occurred since then, the petition was made as early as July.

At the time, it had only a dozen or so signatures. But it accumulated thousands of signatures in the weeks leading up to Liz Truss’ instalment as prime minister.

The petition was established months before Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget catapulted the country further into crisis, sending the pound into a tailspin and leading the Bank of England to intervene before it was too late.

Even former culture secretary Nadine Dorries said that Liz Truss should call for a general election, but then this is what occurs when you have ‘it’s my turn to be Prime Minister’ kind of appointments, which was what sort of occurred with Gordon Brown.

To be honest, give it a few months and people will be begging for Boris Johnson to come back.

I thought at least Liz Truss would take a bit longer to mess things up, so congratulations on becoming the fastest Prime Minister to get the worst PM ever title – now she’s defeated all the records.

I’m sure many of my readers will join me in personally thanking all those shortsighted Tory Party members who elected Liz Truss as our Prime Minister without our approval.

I thought at least once they elected a new Prime Minister that we would be able to look forward to at least a short while without some backscratchers running the country with their noses in the trough.

A ‘Devastating’ New COVID Wave Has Already Begun In The United Kingdom, Say, Experts

Experts have warned that Britain is already at the start of a devastating new COVID spiral that may incapacitate the NHS this winter.

Early data showed that new subvariants of Omicron are developing around the immunity that was built up through vaccinations and COVID infections.

Some scientists fear the new immune evasive variants may cause genuine concerns for the already on its knees NHS as the cold winter approaches and seasonal pressures start to bite.

Others have insisted that an autumn surge was unavoidable. Despite worries of resurgence, Liz Truss’s Government is unlikely to bring back any pandemic-era regulations because sky-high immunity rates have morphed the disease into something that closer resembles the flu, a seasonal virus the country lives with every year.

COVID cases grew 14 per cent last week, according to the most up-to-date figures. Around 1.1 million Britons are presently infected, statisticians calculate.

The leap marked the first sustained rise since mid-July when the summer surge peaked and ministers encountered calls to bring back economically crippling curbs which were axed as part of the living with COVID approach.

Officials allege a reduction in testing and the sketchy surveillance of new immune evasive subvariants, a knock-on effect of No 10’s new approach has formed the ideal storm for another COVID spike.

COVID experts say the immune evasive variants of the virus are already beginning to generate a small boost in infections.

Professor Tim Spector, an epidemiologist and co-founder of the COVID ZOE app, told a newspaper outlet that it looks like we’re at the beginning of the next wave and this time it’s affected more senior people slightly earlier than the last spiral.

He explained that symptoms are also presenting themselves slightly differently than in prior variants, meaning many infected individuals aren’t seeking COVID tests.

He explained that manifestations are also showing themselves slightly differently than in previous variants, meaning many infected people aren’t seeking COVID tests.

Professor Spector asserted that numerous people were still using the government approaches about symptoms which were wrong.

He said at the moment, COVID starts in two-thirds of people with a sore throat. Fever and loss of smell are actually rare now, so many old people may not even believe they’ve got COVID and say they’ve got a cold and not get tested.

The University of Warwick virologist Professor Lawrence Young said that they’ve really taken their eye off the ball with COVID tests. He said that they can only detect variants or know what’s coming by doing sequencing from PCR testing, but that’s not going on anywhere near the extent it was a year ago.

The thing is if you need a booster after being completely vaxxed, need a face mask after being completely vaxxed, need to be tested after being completely vaxxed, and are still hospitalised after being completely vaxxed, it’s probably time you realised that you’ve been conned, and it’s amazing that we scarcely saw the flu anywhere last year. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence though as they start to accentuate COVID again, and this time it’s probably better to let nature takes its course.

There were many people who had the jab and some of them ended up with Carditis, and are still suffering and are on lifelong medication for it now. Some people were forced to have the jab or lose their jobs, especially if they worked for the NHS, and some people had the jab and then later died of a heart attack, and they weren’t even elderly. There was a report on it every week, it was crazy.

Thousands Of Young Australians Are Considering Moving Overseas By The End Of The Year

New research reveals that more than one in five Australians are contemplating departing the country within the next year.

The data came from the latest AustralianNOW study by Quantum Market Research.

The study found that Australia was set to lose about 600,000 people.

The report says that with an increasing proportion of Australians planning to relocate internationally and Australia’s net overseas migration not set to completely recuperate until 2024, the country is expected to face a possible cumulative loss of around 600,000 people.

Young people are driving those numbers, with almost 40 per cent of those aged between 18-29 looking to move.

Men are more interested in relocating internationally compared to women. The majority cited job opportunities as the reason.

The report said that those looking to relocate are more likely to be aged 18-29 (73 per cent) and male (56 per cent compared to 41 per cent for women).

Lifestyle and quality of life have trumped cost of living as the strongest driver of a potential relocation (up from 40 per cent in February 2021 to 49 per cent in August 2022.

Cost of living and housing affordability are strong secondary drivers at 45 per cent and 36 per cent respectively.

Overall, 52 per cent of metropolitan-based Aussies would consider moving either within the country or overseas, higher than the 42 per cent of those living in regional areas.

West Australians were the most likely to make a move within the country, while those living in NSW were most likely to consider moving overseas in the next year.

QMR chief executive, Imogen Randell told The Australian that the statistics have created concerns over workforce shortages in the next 12 months, and the data shows that it’s younger Australians aged under 40 who are most likely to be looking to move internationally, and this was a problem because they’re the ones who are being relied upon to cover workforce shortfalls.

She said that many were working overtime to replenish the worker void, leaving them wondering about leaving and potentially taking off. The more that occurs the more difficult it will be for employers to find suitably skilled staff, but given this, it was good that the federal government had already moved to raise the annual immigration intake.

Australia was already encountering considerable workforce shortages due to the lasting impact of the COVID pandemic and closed borders.

However, numerous young people aspire to travel, and young Australians are no different. Travelling is a good thing – it widens the horizons, and young people should travel, it teaches them so much.

It’s pretty normal for young people to want to travel outside of their own country because they have no responsibilities, no children and no mortgages et cetera.

On the other hand, some young people just know what they need without having to sleep in a hostel with a crazy person sleeping next to them. At the end of the day, grass is grass, trees are trees, beaches are beaches, snow is snow, food is food, but everyone acts like Australia is the worst place on this planet, but believe you me there are worse places to live.

But perhaps youngsters should travel to distant places, then it might give them the concept of how good their own country is, especially once you’ve been out there and seen what’s going on in more impoverished countries, I would imagine that Australia stacks up rather well on the grand scale of things.

Are First-Class Carriages On Their Way Out?

Southeastern has become the latest commuter train operator to discard first-class carriages as the Department for Transport orders companies to cut costs due to low demand post-pandemic.

Whitehall officials approved a call to axe first class tickets and free up seats after rail bosses revealed only 28 annual season ticket holders paid the premium fare.

The nationalised southeast operator, which operates 1,500 services from Sussex to Kent, is the latest to ditch commuter first class tickets, following Greater Anglia, West Midlands, East Midlands, and the Stansted Express.

According to a newspaper outlet, with train travel demand still lower than pre-pandemic levels, the DfT welcomed the move as a spokesman said it would benefit commuters.

He said commuters repeatedly grumbled of having to stand and look at empty first-class seats from packed standard carriages, adding that Southeastern had taken measures to make commuters’ travel more comfortable and ease overcrowding.

First-class tickets have gradually begun to vanish from non-intercity routes across the country and Whitehall sources said the impact of the latest culling would be closely scrutinised.

Great Western Railways removed first class seats from most of its regional services in 2016, citing a shift in expenses policy due to economic circumstances and also converted about half of their long-distance first class carriages to provide additional space for its patrons.

A spokesman for Northern, the Liverpool to Newcastle operator, confirmed the line no longer had first-class ticket options, despite being intercity.

First-class tickets on commuter routes have almost dropped off altogether, with operators such as Thameslink and Transpennine among the last to offer the premium service.

As train travel demand is still below pre-lockdown levels, the train network continues to drain public funds, with £10 billion of taxpayer money spent during the pandemic to keep operators afloat and almost £17 billion spent on the rail industry in total during that time.

Despite the removal of the first class commuter experience, Government sources said there were no plans to enforce the axing of premium long-distance services.

So, now it seems that we’re all cattle class, but then, on the other hand, many of the first class carriages have remained empty for a long time, so it seems a waste of space to leave them totally empty while ordinary people have to stand all their journey due to there being no seats.

But then, on the other hand, some people have discovered that you don’t actually have to purchase a first-class ticket to sit in a first-class area, they will sit there anyhow, and on the rare occasion the ticket inspector comes along, they will just feign ignorance and move to standard, and to be completely honest, it’s extremely rare that a ticket inspector comes to check.

There seems to be no penalty for doing this, apart from the humiliation of having to move, and there really doesn’t seem to be many inspectors to check tickets these days, and there definitely isn’t anyone there when a fight breaks out on a late-night train.

Everyone should be able to get a seat, especially with all this technology that we have these days, surely it’s not that difficult to figure out, and all that first class is simply a white napkin over the headrest, laughable really.

Things were so much better before the pandemic, but if you look at it logically, it was just a planned demic.

Travelling by train used to be so enjoyable, but now there are no inspectors and too many disrespectful and antisocial passengers, even in first class, but then again I suppose we could always ride on the roof like in India.

Before Christmas, Nine Out Of Ten Teachers May Support Strike Action

Nine in ten teachers could back walkout action before Christmas forcing schools to close across England over pay disputes.

The figures from the largest education union, the National Education Union (NEU), reveal that hundreds of thousands of educators could join rail and postal workers causing disruption across the country as they fight back.

Up to 30,000 members have said that they would become strike volunteers as they endeavour to get their message heard.

In fact, the NEU survey, which was sent out to 450,000 members, led to the website crashing as unhappy teachers expressed their concerns.

The online ballot, which so far has 7,000 responses, still has a fortnight to run and an insider has disclosed the union will open up to a formal vote for striking.

NEU General Secretary Mary Bousted told a newspaper outlet that teachers don’t want to strike but they’re desperate and fleeing the profession in droves. Striking is their last resort, and it’s a message that things can’t go on like this.

It will pour more misery on both parents whose children were consistently forced to miss long periods of school during the COVID pandemic.

Teachers are demanding an above inflation rise in their earnings after the Department of Education told them that most would receive a five per cent rise, rising to 8.9 per cent for newly qualified staff.

But more strike action dooms on the country as the current retail price index rate (RPI), which measures inflation, was at 12.3 per cent in August.

Schools are facing a teacher retention crisis due to more than a decade of pay issues where real pay has dropped by a fifth since 2010.

Just last week NAHT union’s General Secretary Paul Whiteman said that the spiralling energy bills, inflationary prices, and lack of funding for teachers’ pay this year meant school leaders were forced to make cuts that ultimately couldn’t help but negatively affected the education and wellbeing of children.

He said that they encourage all political groups to listen to the profession to really comprehend the connection between funding, pay, and children’s life chances, and to commit to making the investment into education that’s so urgently needed.

It comes also after a summer of widespread union protesting among rail staff, postal workers and NHS staff.

In fact, just yesterday passengers were met with travel chaos as unions kickstarted the biggest rail walkout in decades during one of the busiest sporting weekends of the year.

Most teachers work from 7 am and seldom leave work or stop working till about 6 pm, and weekends are frequently worked as well. They’re not only just teachers, but social workers, counsellors, and the police and they also suffer abuse from parents.

But let’s face it, they’re no longer educators of children, but drones of the state, along with our children, and now, of course, our children will have more disruption to their schooling, so welcome to the gloomy, cold, dark and hungry winter of our discontent.

However, most teachers don’t want to strike, I mean who wants to strike? But the way newspapers demonise teachers to get readers is shocking, but then again, if you look at the basic blunders made in most articles it’s evident that these substandard journalists didn’t have a fantastic experience at school.

But it seems that the newspaper outlets are demonising everything, and then once everything loses support, the Tories can privatise it. It’s that good old saying ‘you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone’, and people are falling for all this garbage.

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