95-Year-Old Queen Elizabeth Marks Her 74th Wedding Anniversary

The Queen has poignantly reached her first wedding anniversary without her late husband the Duke of Edinburgh.

The difficult milestone, seven months after Philip died at the age of 99, would have seen the royal duo celebrate 74 years of marriage.

It’s also a month since the Queen was admitted to hospital overnight for preliminary examinations and ordered by her royal doctors to rest.

The 95-year-old, who also sprained her back and pulled out of attending the Remembrance Sunday service, has only been carrying out light duties since her October 20 hospital stay, including a face to face audience this week with the outgoing military chief General Sir Nick Carter.

However, recent reports suggest the Queen is determined to attend the joint christenings of her great-grandchildren in Windsor.

According to a newspaper outlet, she told her courtiers that she was set on being present as her granddaughters Princess Eugenie, 31 and Zara Tindall, 40, christen their babies at the All Saints Chapel in Windsor Great Park.

It’s thought that she will make an 11th-hour decision and was taking advice from her doctor, with a source saying she’s keen on being there because she knows it’s important for her children and great-grandchildren.

Princess Elizabeth married the dashing Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten in Westminster Abbey on November 20, 1947.

Their enduring relationship lasted the longest of any British monarch and Philip was at the Queen’s side throughout the decades, supporting her as she dedicated herself to her role as head of state.

Following his death in April, the Queen said she and her family were in a period of great sadness, but that she was comforted by the tributes paid to him, and she said they’d been genuinely touched and continued to be reminded that Philip had such an amazing impact on many people during his life.

Philip’s funeral was held during coronavirus restrictions with the numbers strictly limited and the final goodbye taking place entirely inside the confines of Windsor Castle.

The Queen who sat alone, socially distanced from her family as she mourned.

In the days after the duke’s death, the Palace issued a photograph from the royal family’s private photo albums of the Queen and Philip relaxing together, sitting on the grass at the Coyles of Muick, a beauty spot on the Balmoral estate.

I’m sure that the Queen misses Philip terribly and it always looked like he made her laugh.

Knock Off Christmas

Police have seized an extraordinary haul of knock-off designer goods, unsafe toys and hot products in pre-Christmas raids.

More than 17,500 items were impounded by police and public bodies from shops on Oxford Street, London, in a single day.

The multi-agency Operation Jade saw four souvenir and sweet shops raided on Thursday night in the famous central London street, which has about 300 shops.

Heather Acton, Westminster City Council’s cabinet member for communities and regeneration said that Oxford Street is the nation’s high street and that their shoppers should be able to trust the products they’re buying in the city that are being described on the tin.

She said the quantity and variety of goods seized by their officers were startling, and that many of those goods were unsafe and certainly unhealthy, and she said that from cheap imitations of fashionable commodities to mislabelled tobacco and even psychoactive substances it was essential that they protect their customers and get those products off the shelves.

And she said that this Christmas was a make or break for many high street shops and that checking retailers would support genuine businesses and protect the reputation of the West End as a leading destination for shoppers.

Trading standards officers confiscated 11,000 goods including hazardous toys, counterfeit clothing and nicotine products incorrectly marked and with high nicotine content. The police also impounded two bags of food that had more than the permitted legal limit of THC, the main psychoactive compound in cannabis, and 4,000 items being sold by an unregistered food business operator.

Some 2,500 souvenirs were taken from unregistered businesses and unlicensed street traders.

Meanwhile, health and safety officers served three notices for hazardous electrical goods and poor standards of safety inside premises, and it’s not the first time police have confiscated such a large haul.

Police in Manchester seized an estimated £500 million worth of fake designer goods weighing more than 200 tons from 55 storage units across Strangeways, in the north of the city, in September.

Among the assortment of items were suspected counterfeit footwear, clothing, handbags, watches, makeup, sunglasses and headphones.

Fake brand names, which are frequently imported separately to be stitched onto the counterfeit clothing and shoes, were also recovered.

Two counterfeit perfume factories were also found as well as the chemicals used to create the fake fragrances.

The operation took place with help from the City of London Police’s Intellectual Crime Property Unit and the UK Border Force.

Remember the TV show? “No income tax, no VAT”. Well, it just proves that these people that are selling think that people are real plonkers.

Oxford Street isn’t a place where you want to shop anymore, aside from the bigger stores because lockdown has destroyed the pleasure of shopping there with all those vulgar tat shops selling items to those that are silly enough to buy them.

These are just dodgy shops run by dodgy people, but the councils do nothing, apart from another fine to fill in their dodgy council pockets – God Bless Hooky Street.

But it’s not unusual tradesmen or market traders selling the usual knock-off rubbish so that they can avoid paying tax – it’s the same story every year and nothing will stop it, especially now that we’re allowing boat people into the country.

There are dozens of shops in big cities and it seems that the police close them down every couple of years, but they still open up again selling the same fake designer clothes, trainers, football shirts et cetera, but mostly a blind eye is turned.

You, Will, Receive Six Points On Your License If You Use Your Phone While Driving

Ministers announced that drivers will shortly encounter £200 fines and six points on their licence if they so much as touch their phone while at the wheel.

Tougher laws taking effect early next year will make phone use while driving prohibited in almost all cases.

Touching the screen to scroll a music playlist, browse the internet, take a picture or play a mobile game will all be covered by a ban early next year.

The rigorous rules will also apply when stopped at a red light or stuck in traffic.

The only significant difference is that motorists will still be able to use their phone as a sat nav as long as it’s secured in a holder and hands-free calls. Mobile payments at drive-through restaurants or on toll roads will also be allowed.

But drivers performing one of these actions could still be prosecuted if the police find them not in proper control of their vehicle.

The changes strengthen existing laws that prohibit texting or calling while driving.

The move was first announced last year but then stalled. Ministers have now stated that it will now happen early next year, with the Highway Code also being updated.

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the changes would make it easier to prosecute motorists who disregard the rules, and he said that too many deaths and injuries happen whilst mobile phones are being held.

He said that by making it easier to prosecute people illegally using their phone at the wheel, they’re ensuring the law is drawn into the 21st century while further protecting all road users.

And he said that while our roads continue to be the safest in the world, they will continue working tirelessly to make them safer, including through their award-winning THINK! campaign, which challenges social norms amongst high-risk motorists.

The Daily Mail’s End The Mobile Madness campaign has called for tougher punishments for motorists who carelessly put the lives of others at risk by using their phones.

Plans for a blanket ban on using mobiles while driving were first mooted two years ago, but following a public consultation, it discovered that 81 per cent of people were in favour, but the law has been fine-tuned to include a small number of exceptions.

The Highway Code will explain the new rules and make it clear that using a phone even in stationary traffic is forbidden.

Sadly, there will be some pretty vexed drivers sitting in a 5-mile queue for four hours that just want to ring home. This is just criminal.

Not so long ago I was saying that it was difficult to get out of bed in the morning without violating one law or another, and there doesn’t seem to be any common sense anymore, and there’s a huge distinction between sitting in traffic using your phone to when your driving and texting, and there are already laws in place to deal with hazardous driving and driving without due care.

However, the ergonomics of car control systems are now equally beguiling with tiny and hard to find fiddly little buttons. Remember the days when heater controls were nice and simple to find, with round dials or big slidders? Piloting an Airbus and driving a car are becoming indistinguishable now and so very distracting.

Infotainment systems are extremely distracting and they’re way over complicated and can cause numerous accidents and yet they’re legal, and it’s stupid that on many, to just put the heater up requires changing several screens. Basic functions should be by switches and buttons.

A Nurse Is Jailed For Using A Dying Patient’s Bank Card

A hospital nurse was imprisoned for 14 months after she went on a spending binge with a dying patient’s bank card.

Leanne Wallace, 40, targeted weak and vulnerable Leslie Rushworth, 84, as he lay gravely ill with problems including pneumonia and anorexia.

Teesside Crown Court was told that whilst he was under her care, she took a bank card from his wallet and used it to pay off a £900 loan, purchase a £699 bed, spent £74 on wallpaper and bought items on Amazon.

Days later Leslie Rushworth was transported from the University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton to a hospice, where he died.

The judge who imprisoned her said that Leanne Wallace had damaged the reputation of care workers in this country.

The offences came to light after Leslie Rushworth’s son noticed a message from the bank on his father’s phone about suspected fraud.

He initially dismissed it as spam, but the family investigated when further messages followed.

He found the order for the bed and found it was scheduled to be delivered to one of his father’s nurses.

Leanne Wallace initially denied responsibility and the court learned she’d wiped data from her phone.

She then lied by claiming Leslie Rushworth had graciously offered to pay her loan, and after talking about her needing a new bed he bought one for her.

Police found no proof of searches for any of the items on the patient’s phone or iPad.

Emma Atkinson, prosecuting, said all of the money had since been returned to his family, but that the crimes had a significant impact on the family in the last few days of their father’s life.

Leanne Wallace, of Hartlepool, pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud by abuse of position when she first arrived in court last month.

Stephen Constantine, in mitigation, said his client was disgusted, devastated and disappointed with her behaviour and she’d shown some measure of understanding and regret and the upset and pain that she’d caused Leslie Rushworth’s family.

Stephen Constantine said it occurred when Leanne Wallace faced financial difficulties following the breakdown of her marriage.

She’s now lost her job at the hospital but has a new role as a carer.

Passing sentence, Judge Howard Crowson said that it was a shocking abuse of trust and that she was selfish and that she’d ruined the families final hours with their father.

Stealing from someone on their death bed is inexcusable, especially when it’s a nurse doing this, but then I guess there’s a rotten egg in every profession.

This was a nurse that got fired from her job and now she’s working as a carer. How on earth did she get that position with theft allegations dangling over her?

Sadly, it brings nurses and carers into question, and anyone who abuses the trust placed in them by vulnerable patients should have far longer sentences.

Of course, there are many exceptional nurses and carers out there, but it only takes a few rotten apples, and she should never be employed in the care sector again, and it just makes you question how many thieves in hospitals and care facilities get away with their misdeeds.

But of course, far worse was probably going on in these places during the pandemic because they knew that their families were being kept at arm’s length, and you can wager that this won’t be the last scandal that we see.

Mafia-Linked Union Boss Jimmy Hoffa Under Investigation

FBI agents have searched a former landfill site in New Jersey in the hope of finding the final resting place of union boss Jimmy Hoffa, whose 1975 disappearance was told in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-nominated film The Irishman.

Jimmy Hoffa was born in Indiana but lived in the Detroit region since he was a boy and had a cottage on Lake Orion, 40 miles north of downtown Detroit.

On July 30, 1975, he told his wife Josephine that he would be back at 4 pm to cook steaks for dinner, and headed out for a meeting at the Machus Red Fox restaurant 20 miles away, in Bloomfield township.

He called Josephine several hours later, annoyed that he’d been stood up. He was never seen again and his green Pontiac Grand Ville was discovered in the parking lot of the restaurant the next day.

For nearly 50 years police have been trying to discover where Jimmy Hoffa, who was declared dead in 1982, was buried.

On Thursday it emerged that the FBI in October unearthed a site in New Jersey, 650 miles from where he was last seen.

Special Agent Mara R Schneider, a spokeswoman said that FBI personnel from the Newark and Detroit field offices completed the survey and that data is currently being examined.

A newspaper outlet reported that the exploration, on October 25 and 26, took place in Jersey City, beside an old landfill site, and the material from the dig is currently being examined, with the hope of ending one of the most shocking mysteries of the last half-century.

Jimmy Hoffa, who was played by Al Pacino in Martin Scorsese’s film, was an immensely influential union leader whose links to the mob terrified Bobby Kennedy, the president’s brother and attorney general.

Jimmy Hoffa at the time, as James Neff penned in his 2015 book Vendetta, was the permanent president of the biggest, worst, and most powerful labour union in American history and the union boss was convicted of bribery, conspiracy and jury tampering, and was in jail from 1967-71.

On his release, he tried to return to his dominant union position and continue his mafia ties, in particular his connections to Anthony Provenzo, a capo in the Genovese crime family.

Anthony Provenzo was the head of a teamsters association in Union City, New Jersey.

The mafia leader was unimpressed by Jimmy Hoffa’s attempt to return to his former ways, and connections between the two men soured.

If Jimmy Hoffa was killed, then I can’t see the mafia risking transporting one of the most infamous men at the time halfway across the country, just to bury him in New Jersey, and they clearly didn’t want him to be discovered, so they probably didn’t bury him.

The thing is, the people that were involved would be in their late sixties now and if they’ve not informed in all that time, I suspect they’ll not be talking now.

Is there any point in looking for Hoffa now? Let’s face it, those resources could be going to areas that are needed. It’s going to be one of those mysteries where everyone’s guessing, but no one really knows.

I would assume that anyone that could be implicated in Jimmy Hoffa’s demise is probably already dead, so this is a continuing waste of money, time and resources on a wild goose chase for Jimmy Hoffa’s remains, and instead could be diverting personnel and money into finding missing children and people.

We should just let him be because sometimes you just need enduring mysteries to keep the pulse going.

The FBI Launches An Urgent Investigation After Smallpox Is Found At Merck

Multiple federal agencies are looking into 15 vials, including five alarmingly labelled as smallpox, that was found at a pharmaceutical laboratory outside of Philadelphia.

According to Centres for Disease Control, the vials, 10 of which were labelled vaccinia after the virus used to make smallpox vaccines, were discovered by a laboratory worker who was cleaning out a freezer.

Smallpox was annihilated in 1980 with a successful mass vaccination campaign after it killed a predicted 300 million people in the 20th century alone.

Samples of the dangerous virus are only supposed to be kept in two labs, the CDC headquarters in Atlanta and the Vector Institute in Koltsovo, Russia.

The FBI and the CDC are now investigating the discovery.

The two agencies didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment from a newspaper outlet.

The finding was first reported by Yahoo News, which obtained a copy of an alert sent to the Department of Homeland Security marked For Official Use Only.

It’s not known how the vials ended up at the Merck facility in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania or if they do contain the virus.

After they were found, the vials were secured quickly and the facility was put on lockdown but was later lifted, and a source told NBC10 that Merck was in the process of figuring out why it was there.

Merck didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment from a newspaper outlet, and a CDC spokesperson told Yahoo that there was no evidence that anyone had been exposed to the small number of frozen vials.

It was said that the frozen labelled Smallpox was unexpectedly spotted by a laboratory worker while cleaning out a freezer in a facility that conducts vaccine research in Pennsylvania.

According to WCAU, the discovery took place at the Merck Upper Gwynedd facility in North Wales, approximately 30 miles northwest of Philadelphia.

The spokesperson said CDC, its Administration partner, and law enforcement are investigating the matter, said that the vials’ contents appeared intact and that the laboratory worker who found the vials was wearing gloves and a face mask, and that further details would be given as they were available.

The incident is likely to renew questions about what should be done with the world’s Smallpox samples, which are kept in only two labs in the world.

According to the CDC, Smallpox is an infection caused by the variola virus. Patients develop a temperature and a unique, progressive skin rash.

And even though Smallpox was eradicated in 1980, it continues to be a possible means of biowarfare and bioterrorism, and it’s deemed a category A organism, which is easy to disseminate and spread from person to person.

Merck probably has old samples buried at the back of their freezers. The problem is, we trust these people to be above and beyond our mistakes, and they’re supposed to keep stringent controls that are monitored and catalogued, not buried at the back of a freezer, which makes you question what other world killer viruses are being left undocumented.

This is a huge dominating vaccine pharma company. Of course, someone might have wanted to damage its reputation by planting something that shouldn’t have been there, but then there’s no holds barred in the big pharma world. Smear, defame and put your competitors out of business.

Conservative Fury At Boris Johnson’s Crackdown On MPs’ Outside Earnings

Boris Johnson was facing another brutal day attempting to quell the sleaze crisis with Tories angry about his back of a fag packet crackdown on their outside earnings.

The Prime Minister desperately sought to draw a line under the chaos by promising to ban politicians from working as consultants on the side, something that costs dozens of his own backbencher’s significant sums.

In a major shift, Boris Johnson also suggested MPs should have limits placed on the time they spend on second careers.

The dramatic intervention was meant to outmanoeuvre Labour amid mounting fear that its strikes on the government over sleaze were hitting home.

But it promptly threatened to descend into a shambles, with Trade Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan suggesting that twenty hours on a sideline was fine, and she said that’s two shifts, that would be 16 hours a week. Were they saying 10 to 20 hours a week outside their work as an MP and a parliamentarian? And that if that’s what they wanted to do, as their choice, then that was fine.

Anne-Marie Trevelyan also indicated that former attorney general Geoffrey Cox wouldn’t have to curb his £1 million a year legal practice under the mooted reforms, despite No 10 claiming he would, and she asked, was that he was doing a good job for his constituents? And, that from what she’d heard, no one’s stood up and said otherwise.

And she said that as he continues to practice what is his professional skill while he’s a backbench MP, for her, it was quite acceptable, in the same way, that Maria Caulfield works in the NHS as a nurse continues to practice her profession alongside serving her constituents is, she thought, essential for the NHS.

The proposals have teed up a major confrontation with some Tory MPs over whether and how the rules at Parliament should be improved, and there’s grumbling that many will fail to turn up for crunch votes on the changes.

One backbencher told a newspaper that Downing Street had dreamed up another unfavourable idea that looked clever at first glance but wouldn’t stand up to any scrutiny.

They said that they believed it had been put together on the back of a fag packet and it was the same error they’d made over Owen Paterson.

If MPs want to do other work they should quit and call a by-election because MPs should only have one master, the people, and it looks like Tories and sleaze go together like bread and butter.

I realise that some MPs want to do another job, but unless it’s something beneficial to the country, such as a few stints in A&E as a porter, all second jobs should be forbidden.

These MPs need to live in the real world, working at something like being a shopkeeper, a hospital worker or driving a van or on a building site, not hanging about with their buddies and captain’s of industry, that’s no way the real world works.

And let’s face it, Boris Johnson never actually does anything concrete ever. He simply creates an impression through show and PR, and it’s all about the show with Boris Johnson.

Boris Johnson is completely lacking in moral fibre and understanding of others and has a lot of questions to answer about his financial integrity, and he’s just plain unsuitable for public office.

However, if you trust Boris Johnson just carry on voting for his party, and I agree that those that voted for him thought he would be a good Prime Minister, but now he’s nothing but a cunning conman who’s destroying the United Kingdom.

Matt Hancock’s Lover Throws Out Empty Booze Bottles

Matt Hancock’s lover Gina Coladangelo was pictured binning a recycling sack of empty alcohol bottles outside their West London lovenest.

The ex-ministers former aide, Gina Coladangelo, 44, was spotted outside Matt Hancock’s flat taking out a bin sack bearing empty booze bottles before the couple went their separate ways on November 14.

It’s been reported that Gina Coladangelo has been staying at the former Health Secretary’s home overnight and several days later she was spotted locking lips with Matt Hancock outside his home.

According to a newspaper outlet, the couple, who first met while they were both studying at Oxford, was seen sharing the embrace in front of their home following their recent European getaways.

Neighbours of the couple referenced Gina Coladangelo taking out the bins by relating it to Theresa May’s appearance on BBC’s The One Show, where the former Prime Minister said that there were specific boy jobs and girl jobs around the house.

One neighbour told a newspaper outlet that wasn’t it Theresa May who said that taking the bins out was a boy’s job? Looks like Matt Hancock’s turned that on its head, and that it seemed like they’d settled in pretty quickly, and that they’re comfortable with each other.

This sighting comes just months after Matt Hancock was forced to quit the Cabinet when CCTV from his Whitehall office was leaked of him kissing his married aide in violation of COVID social distancing guidance.

CCTV images of Gina Coladangelo and Matt Hancock locked in a lover’s clinch in his office were extensively published in June, leading to his departure from Government, and she reportedly left the £4.5 family home she shared with Mr Tress after the affair was exposed, and it’s understood that she’s now in an ongoing relationship with Matt Hancock, who in turn walked out on his wife and young children.

Matt Hancock and his wife married in 2006 and have a daughter, 14 and two sons, 13 and eight, in London and West Suffolk, until earlier this year when Matt Hancock’s affair was exposed.

Matt Hancock’s kiss with Gina Coladangelo, a mother of three whose husband Oliver Tress is the founder of the clothing store Oliver Bonas, is alleged to have taken place on May 6 this year.

After the footage surfaced, Matt Hancock confirmed his resignation and said he wanted to reiterate his apology for breaking the guidelines.

This despicable man stopped people from having a loved one with them as they lay dying in hospital and care homes and then stopped families hugging at funerals. Meanwhile, he was frolicking with his mistress.

Innumerable amounts of people didn’t see their families because they didn’t want to make anyone sick, or get sick themselves, and also because Matt Hancock and Boris Johnson said that they couldn’t.

Mind you, it does make you question why newspaper outlets are watching Gina first thing in the morning putting her rubbish out. Have they nothing better to do with their time? After all, a woman’s got to do what she’s got to do, especially when she wakes up each morning and sees who she’s laying next to.

Perhaps it’s those drinks are that are getting her through the day, although, saying that, she must have been plastered when she first jump him – there isn’t any other logical explanation – boy is she in for a shock when she sobers up from her epic binge.

Don’t Make Elderly People Choose Between Heating And Eating

MPs have been asked not to make the elderly choose between heating and eating by suspending the pensions triple lock in a Commons vote.

The mechanism ensures the state pension increases by inflation earnings or 2.5 per cent, whichever is highest, but the Chancellor wants to delay the earnings link for a year because last year’s increase of eight per cent was artificially boosted because of the impact of the pandemic.

Earlier this month, the House of Lords voted to keep the triple lock, but now the House of Commons will vote on the same measure, and Conservative MPs are on a three-line whip to reverse the Lords vote and limit next year’s pension increase to inflation or 2.5 per cent.

Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK, said that they can’t have a situation in which unforeseen cost pressures result in the poorest having to choose between heating and eating.

Former Tory pensions minister Baroness Altmann, who put forward the Lords amendment, ask if they thought it was right that Britain, with the lowest state pension in the world, could afford to cut taxes on banks and alcohol but can’t keep its promises to protect pensioners?

The Lords amendment would see pensions increase by around 5 per cent, to take into account the effects of the pandemic.

Baroness Altmann added that the Government was imposing a three-line whip, and she said that if only enough Tories were prepared to do the right thing and agree it’s right to cut pensions for millions of the most disadvantaged people in our country, with no other money, in the eye of a cost of living storm, could this pass?

Charities say that limiting the rise of the pension would hit older people because inflation had risen in recent months, causing a cost of living crisis.

With all the news we’ve had lately about MPs and their financial dealings, with their ratings at an all-time low, it would be great if they did the right thing for once, but of course, they won’t.

And politicians always ignore what British people want because they’re more involved in looking after boat people than their own citizens, and just because they don’t like the figures doesn’t give them the right to pick and choose when to honour the triple lock. What about next year and the year after that, if salaries and inflation continue to climb, what will they do then?

It seems that we can afford to house, clothe and feed thousands of new arrivals but we can’t afford a decent rise for our older people, and it’s clear that even an 8 per cent increase in the UK’s OAPs pension which is the worst in Europe, will not cover the rise in energy prices and inflation, let alone all the other price hikes, and if Boris Johnson and Priti Patel choose to rob OAPs of their promised pension increase again, more pensioners will die this winter.

And the Tories are going to lose a lot of votes if they abandon the pensioners and eliminate the triple lock, so let’s hope that there are some honourable men and women on the Tory benches who are prepared to stand up and do the right thing.

People who are living on the basic OAP should be paying no tax at all, but they do – a 20 per cent surcharge on almost everything that they purchase, it’s called VAT. And for those that can afford a little car pay nearly three pounds tax on each gallon of petrol and it seems that we’ve gradually moved from taxing the wealthy to taxing the poor, so where’s this Conservative fairness?

As Revenge For Brexit, France Is Allowing Migrants To Cross The Channel

Ministers are accusing France of letting migrants cross the Channel in retaliation for Brexit as Priti Patel braces for confrontation talks with her Paris counterpart this week.

The Home Secretary will meet Gerald Darmanin in the coming days after a record 1,185 migrants arrived on Thursday, shattering the previous daily high of 853 just eight days earlier.

However, the government fears that there will be no tougher response from Emmanuel Macron and the situation could get even more serious as he centres on the emerging presidential elections.

There are claims that the lack of enforcement on the French coast, which saw just 99 migrants caught on Thursday out of 1,284 who sought to reach the United Kingdom, is part of a Brexit punishment strategy and has become linked to disputes over fishing and Northern Ireland.

The total to have reached British shores since the start of the year stands at more than 23,500, almost three times the 8,400 in the whole of 2020, but one government source told a newspaper outlet that ministers are bleak about the chances of tougher action by France.

The source said that they don’t believe that the French are going to give them anything at all, and that with the elections coming up they think it will only get more serious and that it’s part of Emmanuel Macron’s Brexit punishment strategy.

A Home Office source continued that they were just part of a much bigger problem with the election, Northern Ireland and fishing and that they don’t want to be using French taxpayers’ money before the election.

Last week Boris Johnson pressed President Emmanuel Macron to close off the door to migrants entering French territory and attempting dangerous Channel crossings.

This month, the Home Office sent the first instalments of a £54 million deal with France to finance beach patrols, but migrant numbers have since soared.

Priti Patel emphasised that the migrant dilemma was a shared problem with France, and Emmanuel Macron’s government was understood to have opposed the introduction of her pushback tactic to intercept small boats and direct them back to the French shoreline.

Priti Patel said that last week showed that they must do more and that she wants to go further and faster, and that was why she would be holding discussions with Gerald Darmanin.

Border Force has been resisting requests to use the pushback strategy, citing objections such as weather and the size of the boats being intercepted.

The more we accept them and encourage them, then we help people smugglers make more money.

The trouble is, Priti Patel is always having crisis meetings and this will be just another meaningless gesture.

It’s not France’s responsibility to regulate our borders, much like it’s not our responsibility to control theirs. We’re an island and it’s our border and our responsibility. Priti Patel and Boris Johnson are just attempting to cover up their incompetence, yet again!

And if Priti Patel and Boris Johnson do nothing, it will only get more serious.

It’s astounding, when it comes to raising our taxes our government are all action, but when it comes to immigration, it’s all talk.

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