The Naughtiest Royal Child Revealed

Prince William has shared a rare insight into the different personalities of his three children, while revealing the real cheeky monkey behind closed doors.

The Prince of Wales made the surprisingly frank comments as he visited the national federation of the Women’s Institute (WI) in Sunningdale, Ascot, alongside his wife, Princess Kate. The royal couple journeyed to the WI to mark the third anniversary of the death of Queen Elizabeth.

Before his children returned to Lambrook school last week, William talked warmly about his children and their summertime activities while sharing some more recent recollections of his family life and hearing anecdotes about the late Queen over tea and cake.

When questioned if his children were back at school, William jokingly responded: “Thankfully, yes” before saying he had “got them off” for the new school year after completing the school run.

Nina Derrick asked, “Is Louis a bit of a handful?” to which William seemed to defend his youngest son, saying that Louis was “a very good boy”.

When it was pointed out that George seemed to be the sensible one, whereas Louis was “a bit of a character”, William said that there was “five years between them” and quipped that while George knew how to behave in public, “behind closed doors it’s a different story”.

Kate said that she and the children had been crafting in every corner of the house” over the summer holidays, and spoke to the women about her bee-keeping, and the importance of “making and crafting” and “community”.

Talking to one group, William acknowledged that it was his grandmother’s anniversary. “I can’t quite believe it has been three years already,” he said, before adding that the time has “gone quite quick”.

He said that the late Queen, who had been a member for more than 80 years, had “loved” the WI.

Acknowledging his closeness to the Ascot racecourse, which hosts Royal Ascot each year, he added, “I think she would have loved a few more wins. She was very upset that she couldn’t win a few more times.

“She used to have an iPad so that she could watch all the foals being born, so wherever she was in the country, she could see. She was very dedicated.”

The WI has a close connection with Elizabeth II as she was a member for 80 years, joining in 1943 and acting as president of the Sandringham WI from 2003 until she died in 2022 at Balmoral, aged 96, after a rule lasting 70 years.

Kate and William have one strict rule for their children, and one way to deal with their poor manners.

Kate and William, the Prince and Princess of Wales, have regularly been seen out in public with their children as the young royals grow and take a more involved role in public life.

The youngest are often seen having fun at major events – from pulling faces to blowing out candles.

However, insiders have revealed that there are some strict rules the children have to follow, and although they do have the help of a nanny, the royal couple are still extremely hands-on with their children, who are said to love taking part in activities such as bike riding and baking.

At their Windsor home, Adelaide Cottage, William and Kate apparently have a set of rules that must be followed at all times, so it’s not all fun and games for George, Charlotte, and Louis.

According to a source, this rule is one they are strict on following – there is to be no shouting in the house. Shouting is completely off limits for the children, and any inkling of shouting at each other is dealt with by removal.

But rather than be sent off to their bedrooms or to the naughty step when they act up, the royal couple have a different approach – the sofa chat.

The source added: “The naughty child is taken away from the scene of the row or disruption and talked to calmly by either Kate or William. Things are explained and consequences outlined, and they never shout at them.”

Don’t be deceived by their royal status – they’re parents too, and when they see behaviour that isn’t acceptable, they clamp down on it like anyone else would.

The pair have been raising their three children to be outstanding Royals, and Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, nine, and Prince Louis, six, have been known to be extremely well behaved in the public eye. But what about at home?

It seems that the two steer clear of more conventional forms of discipline, such as the naughty step method.

The step is often a technique where parents send their children to sit alone apart from the family so they may reflect on their actions and return with an apology.

It is generally condemned as a poor approach to assist your child learn from their mistakes, and to be honest, it is not an effective technique.

Instead, many choose to talk to their child about their mistake and work through it together instead of isolating them.

For William and Kate they too like to talk it out. There’s no ‘naughty step’ but there is a ‘chat sofa.’

William and Kate explained that the naughty child is taken away from the scene of the row or disruption and talked to calmly by either one of them.

“Things are explained and consequences outlined, and they never shout at them.”

When it comes to making choices involving the kids, their nanny, Maria Borrallo, works hand in hand with William and Kate.

You would never suspect that it’s a military operation since they put a great deal of effort into raising their three children while maintaining a calm and joyful environment.

Katie Price: Plans On Having Lots More Babies

Katie Price, who is now 47 years old, seemingly intends to have lots more babies, even though she is approaching menopause and her eggs are apparently not viable anymore.

However, she has voiced a longing to have lots more babies despite approaching menopause.

The twice-featured I’m a Celebrity star admitted that her eggs were not viable, but that she still can carry a baby, providing her with prospects for expanding her family size.

Katie, 47, is already a mum to five children: Harvey Price, 23, from her relationship with footballer Dwight Yorke, Junior, 20, and Princess Andre, 20, whose dad is Peter Andre, Bunny, 11, and Jett Hayler, 10, who were born during her marriage to Kieran Hayler.

Earlier this year, Channel 4 viewers saw Katie conclude her in vitro fertilisation (IVF) journey on a TV show, saying she felt “exhausted” with romance after splitting with her former fiancé Carl Woods before the airing of Katie Price: Making Babies.

On the programme, the model and TV personality was informed by gynaecologist Carole Gilling-Smith that she has a “couple” of eggs that can be collected, her hormone count is extremely low, and that she is “moving towards the menopause”.

However, Katie seemed optimistic about her chances of becoming a mother again as she spoke on stage in Fleetwood on Saturday night.

The spirited star was performing – and vaping – at the Marine Hall alongside friend Kerry Katona for the first leg of their nationwide tour.

After revealing some secrets on stage, including delivering a playful dig at her former husband Peter’s manager and discussing their struggles with mental health, Katie and Kerry concluded their opening night performance with a Q&A session from the audience, reports the Mirror.

When the moderator posed the question ‘Can you help me with my perimenopausal symptoms’ on behalf of fan Emma, Katie admitted: “I’m going through it.

“I had a blood test – so I still want more kids – but my eggs are f***** now. To cut a long story short, it happens to all of us.

“And I get the cold sweats at night when you wake up soaking wet, and it’s no smell, it’s different, and that’s normally when your period is.

“Just because your eggs are old and they won’t really give you like a baby.

“I can still carry a baby, so there’s still ways that I can have babies and I will have more.

“I’ll have as many as I can still, and I will, so you’ve heard it, I’m gonna have lots of babies.”

Throughout the two-part programme Katie Price: Making Babies, recorded in 2023, the medical professional successfully retrieves two eggs, with Katie being told that one egg has been fertilised, before discovering that the procedure was unsuccessful and she is not expecting.

It’s at this point that tensions in her romance with former Love Island contestant Carl Woods began to emerge, with Katie voicing concern that choosing a donor egg might leave him dissatisfied – a claim he denies.

It later emerged that Carl ended the relationship, with the salesman expressing his distress over Katie’s “mood swings” and the geographical distance between them, living in different parts of the UK.

He defined it as the “hardest decision” and said, “I have done everything I can do; the only last thing is to walk away”.

She’s too old now, and to be honest, I wouldn’t let her look after a hamster, let alone another child.

All of this from Katie Price is getting rather tiresome now. God knows what’s going on with her brain. Does anyone know if she’s even got a brain?

She has now failed IVF, and she’s not eligible for adoption in the UK because she would be considered too old, so how does she intend on having loads more babies?

Katie Price must have the emptiest head on the planet with nothing to fill it, save thoughts of herself, men, surgery and money – kids and pets come into the equation when she’s exhausted all other things.

Is there nothing this disgusting woman won’t say to gain media attention? Yet the media fall for it time and time again.

She is just PRICEless!

City Held To Ransom

London commuters are today encountering ‘pure carnage’ as striking Tube drivers on £72,000-a-year brought the capital to a halt as they demand higher wages, a four-day week and discounts on train journeys.

Members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union have started their five-day strike, leaving commuters facing days of travel mayhem with little or no service on all of the Tube as different parts of the union walk out on other days. 

Hard-pressed Brits encountered scenes of disorder this morning as the London Underground network was paralysed, bus drivers turned away passengers, and motorists and cyclists faced crippling lane closures.

The Elizabeth Line and the Overground, the only two lines running as normal, have been completely overwhelmed, with queues forming outside the station exits.

Images throughout London this morning reveal closed-off entrances to stations and mammoth queues at bus stops as millions of British workers look to fight tooth and nail to make their way into the city.

Lane closures have intensified the strike, trapping commuters in traffic in several areas of central London, notably the streets surrounding King’s Cross St Pancras, the location of the RMT’s official picket line.

Many were also unable to order Ubers – or encountered inflated fares – while hire bikes were snapped up in seconds. Adding to the misery and confusion, TfL’s website crashed due to the high demand of commuters searching for alternative routes.

As hard-working Londoners were unable to get across the capital, Labour’s Liverpool Riverside MP Kim Johnson said she stood in ‘solidarity’ with the RMT, adding: ‘No worker should be put at risk by fatigue & extreme shift rotations – power in a union, always!’

Striking Tube workers are demanding an increase to their pay packets despite already being on £72,000 per year – as well as a reduction from a 35-hour working week to a four-day, 32-hour system.

They are also asking for a 75 per cent discount on all rail travel, despite already receiving benefits which entitle their loved ones to free travel across the whole London public transport system.

It is believed any moves to meet the RMT’s demands would cost around £200million – and that is before the huge discount on rail travel is even considered.

TfL, which has since tabled a 3.4 per cent pay rise offer to the union’s members, said reducing working hours would be ‘simply unaffordable’ – adding today that they were ‘bitterly disappointed’ with the RMT’s decision. 

Some passengers who have been able to board the few available Tubes have described being stuck in a closed station when they attempted to get off.

Due to impassable exit barriers and a lack of staff, TfL was compelled to issue an apology to passengers on the Central Line at Debden.

They say this was due to the station opening later than usual and that passengers could exit after around 10 minutes when staff arrived.

Critics have called Sadiq Khan’s position into question, pondering why there has been ‘no sign or sound’ from the Mayor of London as British workers face disarray. Many fumed that London had been ‘held to ransom’. 

Keith Prince, City Hall Conservatives transport spokesman, said: ‘Where is Sadiq Khan? While millions of Londoners suffer through transport chaos, our Mayor has gone missing in action. 

‘He can find time to comment on arms fairs and international issues, but when it comes to the transport strikes bringing misery to his own city, Khan is nowhere to be seen.

‘This is a complete abdication of duty. The Mayor’s deafening silence while London grinds to a halt shows he has completely lost control of the situation. 

‘If Khan can’t even be bothered to speak up during the worst transport crisis in years, what exactly is he doing as Mayor? Londoners deserve leadership, not empty silence from City Hall.

‘Khan’s refusal to engage publicly with this crisis, despite his willingness to grandstand on other issues, shows his priorities are completely wrong. He should be leading from the front, not hiding away while the city he’s supposed to serve grinds to a halt.’

The walkouts were launched yesterday, with a little service still operating, but today’s full-scale strike is the first time the underground grid has been completely closed since March 2023.

TfL said it was ‘bitterly disappointed’ that the RMT has gone ahead with their action ‘despite our fair, affordable pay offer’. 

They added: ‘We have been clear that their demand for a reduction in the working week is unaffordable and impractical, and we urge them to put our offer to their members.’

The transport body added that they will ‘ensure our website and real-time travel tools’ are updated to assist the public in their journeys – but thousands reported that TfL’s site dramatically crashed this morning.

While it seems to be operating now, social media users criticised the receipt of a message which read: ‘Sorry for the inconvenience. We’re working hard to return our website to normal…’

Commuters had hoped a similar aversion would be deployed to that of last January, when Mr Khan used £30 million of Greater London Authority funds to stop Tube workers from striking.

But with no solution in sight and a week of disruption ahead, numerous Britons have taken to social media to tell of their anger as they called the Mayor of London’s role into question.

One posted to X this morning that they had forgotten ‘all about the tube strikes’, adding: ‘Pure carnage on the roads until Friday.’

Another wrote: ‘Another bloody tube strike in London, TfL. Absolute nightmare.’

A third added: ‘No sign or sound from Mayor Khan about this tube strike. Absent from the airwaves – as always when there’s trouble.’

Conservative MP for Bexley and Sidcup, Louie French, said the Mayor was ‘missing in action’ in a post on X.

He wrote: ‘Millions of Londoners will be impacted by this week’s strike action. Labour’s union paymasters want more pay for less work for tube drivers already earning £65k plus. 

‘It’s the Labour way and Sadiq Khan is missing in action yet again, despite promising zero strikes.’

A spokesperson for the Mayor of London said: ‘Nobody wants to see strike action or disruption for Londoners.

‘Strikes have a serious impact on London’s businesses and commuters. The Mayor continues to urge the RMT and TfL to get around the table to resolve this matter and get the network reopened.’

However, Paul Nowak, the head of the Trades Union Congress, has supported the walkout.

The union’s general secretary told Times Radio: ‘I think it is reasonable for them to exercise their democratic right to take strike action. I think there’s a whole set of issues in that dispute, including work intensification and problems and issues about people working overtime because of a shortage of staff.’

He added: ‘I think it’s really important that TfL and the employers sit around the table with the RMT and reach a fair settlement that satisfies their staff and also gets the tubes running again.’

Mr Nowak admitted that while people will ‘find tube strikes frustrating’, but added: ‘At the end of the day, people lose pay when they take industrial action. But no, I’m not going to castigate people, whether they earn £72,000 a year or not. And not everybody is on that level of salary.

‘But this is a job where health and safety is critical, where people work really difficult shifts in difficult working conditions. I think they’re right to be able to take their concerns to their employer and support them absolutely being able to do that.’

An RMT spokesperson said they ‘are not going on strike to disrupt small businesses or the public’.

They added: ‘This strike is going ahead because of the intransigent approach of TfL management and their refusal to even consider a small reduction in the working week in order to help reduce fatigue and the ill-health effects of long-term shift work on our members.

‘We believe a shorter working week is fair and affordable, particularly when you consider TfL has a surplus of £166 million last year and a £10 billion annual operating budget.’

Muniya Barua, Deputy Chief Executive at BusinessLDN, said the strikes would hit small businesses dramatically as she urged both the RMT and TfL to come to an ‘urgent’ agreement.

She said: ‘This is hugely frustrating for Londoners that rely on the Tube to get around the city. It will hit firms that rely on footfall especially hard, particularly those in hospitality, retail and the cultural sector.

‘At a time when the economy is weak and firms are already reeling from a National Insurance hike, the economic cost of these strikes could run into hundreds of millions of pounds. It also sends a really poor message to visitors and investors.

‘We urge both sides to reach an agreement urgently and put an end to these damaging strikes.’

The economy has already been impacted by the walkouts, as seen by Coldplay and Post Malone postponing their scheduled performances at Wembley Stadium and Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Coldplay said in a statement: ‘We’re sorry to announce that, due to planned industrial action on the London Underground, we’ve been forced to reschedule our final two concerts of the current Wembley Stadium run.

‘Without a Tube service, it’s impossible to get 82,000 people to the concert and home again safely, and therefore no event licence can be granted for the nights of 7th and 8th September.’

It has been calculated that the entire cost to the economy over the coming week could reach hundreds of millions. 

Michael Kill, CEO of the Night Time Industries Association, said: ‘Since 2022, rail and tube strikes have cost the UK’s night time economy billions in lost revenue, with forecasts indicating a further £150 million could be lost during this week’s strike period alone.

‘This devastating projection comes at a point when the sector is relying heavily on consistent week-to-week trade to stay afloat.’

As Underground stations across the city lie desolate, workers will pack onto buses, the Elizabeth Line, the London Overground and trams – with roads also predicted to be far busier than normal.

Travel expert Nicky Kelvin, editor-at-large at The Points Guy, told the Daily Mail: ‘For those commuters who are unable to avoid travelling during the strike days, I strongly advise exploring alternative transport options such as buses or even Lime bikes.

‘Commuters should also factor in potential ripple effects on the London Overground, as connecting stations will likely experience increased pressure. It’s a given that all remaining transport modes will face heightened demand, especially through morning and evening rush hours.’

Mr Kelvin added that it was important to ‘monitor real-time travel updates’ as well as on-the-ground reports from social media.

Docklands Light Railway (DLR) services, which operate through east and southeast London, will also be stopped completely on Tuesday and Thursday over a different dispute.

TfL has announced that alternative means of transportation look set to be ‘extremely busy’ as commuters attempt to find a way into the city.

The expectation is that they will be so packed that certain routes may not even be able to stop at stations that are shared with the London Underground.

Announcing the strikes last month, RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey said workers were ‘not after a ‘King’s ransom’.

He said: ‘Our members are doing a fantastic job to keep our capital moving and work strenuous shift patterns to make sure Londoners get to their destinations around the clock.

‘They are not after a King’s ransom, but fatigue and extreme shift rotations are serious issues impacting on our members’ health and wellbeing- all of which have not been adequately addressed for years by LU management.

‘Coupled with the fact there are outstanding issues around staff travel arrangements, an atmosphere of distrust has been created, where our members feel like no one is listening to them.

‘RMT will continue to engage LU management with a view to seeking a revised offer in order to reach a negotiated settlement.’

With bus strikes imminent just after the London Underground resumes full service, commuters in the city may experience even more suffering.

If planned action goes ahead, services run by First Bus will strike in west, northwest and southwest London from 5 am on Friday, September 12, to Monday, September 15.

Should the Tube network not be operating again by this time, workers face an almighty task to make it into the heart of the city from those areas.

People, it’s all intentional! In an attempt to tax us more money and declare it a STRIKE, Sadiq Khan has vanished from the scene, and the economy is in a deep hole.

Anyone who gets money through extortion, which is what it is, is not protecting their workers; they are exploiting them.

We have been given the appearance of freedom, yet as humans, we are all slaves. However, human beings, like all other living things, desire to control and take use of the resources in their environment.

We have become controllable, but we are also so valuable in a way no other resource could ever be.

Human farming, the most lucrative and destructive activity in history, is being carried out by us humans and is currently reaching its destructive apex.

Governments don’t give us certain freedoms because they care about us or our freedoms, but because they want to boost their profits, and this is the cage that we were born into.

Unions were brought in because they knew that they would ultimately turn citizens against each other.

If human beings believe that they are free, then they will produce much more for their masters, and the best way to maintain that illusion of freedom is to put people (unions) on the payroll, and those people who become dependent on the existing hierarchy will then attack any other person who points out the violence, hypocrisy and immorality of human ownership.

The plague of slave owners is the Unions, and now their leaders have become pure evil.

Basically, they want money for nothing – reducing hours, increasing money, where does it stop? I used to have respect for unions when it was about health and safety, and working conditions, but now it’s always about money.

Everybody with a union to support them will be at it now because they know there’s a fairly small window to fleece the government.

Tube Strikes Begin Today With Limited Service Ahead Of TOTAL Shutdown At 6 pm

Britain’s largest city has been plunged into transport disarray as Tube employees begin their first full-scale strike since 2023.

London Underground staff have begun striking this morning in an RMT-led dispute over pay and conditions, which will see the city’s major method of transport grind to a halt over the coming week.

The union had demanded that its workers receive an increase in money as well as a reduction in working time from 35 hours to 32 hours per week.

However, Transport for London (TfL), which has since tabled a 3.4 per cent pay rise offer to the union’s members, stated that reducing working hours would be both ‘unaffordable and impractical’.

Nick Dent, TfL’s director of customer operations for the Tube, issued a plea to the union to put an end to the strikes because of the chaos in travel.

He said on Friday: ‘We have met four times in the past two weeks and we would welcome further talks. It is not too late to call off the strikes and put our offer to the RMT members.’

But it looks like the union is moving full force forward with the strike, which has already caused several routes around the city to be disrupted.

While limited services are operating today, London’s Tube network is set to be shut down completely as of 6 pm this evening until about 8 am on Friday, September 12.

It will be the first time the underground’s entire grid has been closed since March 2023, a move led by then-RMT chief Mick Lynch.

Commuters had hoped a similar aversion would be deployed to that of last January, when Sadiq Khan used £30 million of Greater London Authority funds to stop Tube workers from striking.

However, as there is no apparent solution, concerns have been raised about the possible disruption the walkout may bring in the next week.

As Tube stations across the city lie desolate, staffers will be forced to pack onto buses, the London Overground and trams, with roads also predicted to be far busier than normal.

Docklands Light Railway (DLR) services, which operate through east and southeast London, will also be stopped altogether on Tuesday and Thursday over a different dispute.

TfL has announced that alternative means of transport look set to be ‘extremely busy’ as commuters attempt to find a way into the city.

The expectation is that they will be so packed that certain routes may not even be able to stop at stations that are shared with the London Underground.

Announcing the strikes last month, RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey said workers were ‘not after a ‘King’s ransom’.

He said: ‘Our members are doing a fantastic job to keep our capital moving and work strenuous shift patterns to make sure Londoners get to their destinations around the clock.

‘They are not after a King’s ransom, but fatigue and extreme shift rotations are serious issues impacting on our members’ health and wellbeing- all of which have not been adequately addressed for years by LU management.

‘Coupled with the fact there are outstanding issues around staff travel arrangements, an atmosphere of distrust has been created, where our members feel like no one is listening to them.

‘RMT will continue to engage LU management with a view to seeking a revised offer in order to reach a negotiated settlement.’

They want more money for fewer hours, then of course, they get paid overtime for the hours they said they didn’t want to work in the first place.

They are an utter joke. Holding all of London to ransom out of pure greed.

Even if train drivers received a million pounds annually, they would still go on strike to demand more pay.

The reality is that they are always going to strike for any excuse whatsoever. It’s called ‘blackmail’ because they know that in the end, they will get what they want.

What magic money tree do these morons believe their pay rise is going to come from? Oh yes, of course, the British taxpayer.

Discontent, and it’s not even winter yet!

First strike since 2023 – you do realise that’s only 2 years ago – it’s not like it’s ancient history.

There is now Khanage in the capital, and Sadiq gets a knighthood for the mess that he’s caused. Let’s see the merry old Labour boys wiggle out of this one.

Workers on the TfL are already paid a good wage. They want more money, regardless of where it comes from, even though they are aware that the nation is in a dire financial situation. This is very inappropriate and blatantly selfish and greedy, and the unions are like an insidious virus, permeating the sheer fabric of this country.

And where is Sadiq Khan while this is all going on?

Unions are way too powerful, so well done Labour, you should pat yourselves on the back for ineptitude! And the leader of the RMT isn’t concerned about his members losing a week’s money because he still gets his wages.

And taxi companies will benefit greatly from people’s suffering as they struggle to get to work.

Yvette Cooper Pays The Price For Huge Failures On Channel Crossings And Migrant Hotels

The Home Office has stumbled from one catastrophe to another during Yvette Cooper’s turbulent year in charge, and she is now paying the price for a litany of dismal failures.

Chief among them is Labour’s derisory ‘smash the gangs’ promise to tackle the small boats problem, which has proved ineffective. 

The resulting increase in immigration is one of the main causes of the Reform Party’s ascent, which is reshaping British politics.

Ms Cooper had promised the new Border Security Command would ‘pursue, disrupt, and arrest those responsible for the vile trade’ in people trafficking, which has seen drownings and misery plaguing the English Channel. 

But mainly what the public witnesses is images of border control and coastguard vessels helpfully yanking migrants out of small boats in the middle of the Channel and giving them a free ‘taxi ride’ to Britain, no papers needed.

The statistics speak for themselves. Since the election, the number of migrants to have reached Britain has passed 50,000, a record high, with the soaring figure a clear indication of the lack of a plan since Labour axed the Tories’ Rwanda deportation scheme on their first day in power.

As locals wait on housing waiting lists, large numbers of migrants are now coming and being forced to reside in council apartments or four-star hotels thanks to government funding. The Home Office acknowledges that health and education services are under pressure.

With protests and arrests straining police forces across the nation, Labour has seen a second summer of turmoil amid growing public unease.

The Home Office has frequently promised to cut down on the use of hotels for migrants, yet numerous hotels are still ‘closed’ to the public and full of migrants instead. 

The recent chaos at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, is seen as a consequence of the Government’s failure to get a grip on the problem.

From shoplifting to grooming gangs to curbs on free speech, it would be easier to choose the worst catastrophe than to pick out any individual successes notched up by Ms Cooper’s department. 

As chair of the Home Affairs Committee and Shadow Home Secretary, she had thoroughly researched every aspect of the department and came to the Home Office with a reputation as a true expert in her portfolio.

But the challenges she encountered were dizzying, with one long-serving minister remarking to the BBC that ‘whichever cupboard you open, you know all sorts of terrible things that have been crammed in there for years will fall out’.

The trouble for Ms Cooper, to continue this metaphor, may be that she seems to have ripped open all the cupboard doors at the same time.

Her failure to set up a grooming gangs inquiry – or, as her critics would say, take the issue seriously at all – was one of the avoidable own goals.

Meanwhile, the shoplifting epidemic has grown worse than ever, with current shock figures showing nearly 800 crimes a day are going unsolved.

Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures published last month revealed that shoplifting struck a record high of 530,643 crimes reported to police in the year to March, a 20 per cent increase on the previous year’s count of 444,022.

Meanwhile, the Government’s Online Safety Act, though rightly striving to protect children from the plague of pornography, may be curtailing freedom of speech on the internet, according to experts.

One of the primary duties of a Home Secretary who presides over the police and MI5 is for the safety of the nation, yet even Yvette Cooper’s bid to act tough fell flat.

In early July, she determined that Palestinian Action was a terrorist group, after idiotic activists broke into RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire and sprayed red paint into the engines of two refuelling aircraft.

Amid a national debate over whether this wanton criminal act amounted to actual terrorism, Palestine Action exploited the publicity and lured support from other bloody-minded anti-social groups such as Just Stop Oil, and the newspapers were filled with images of unlikely-looking ‘terrorist’ activists on Palestine Action marches, including two 89-year-old ladies being taken away in police vans.

Ultimately, it is immigration that will serve as the millstone around Ms Cooper’s neck. Concern over immigration has surged to become the public’s most pressing issue, according to polling.

Almost half the public view immigration as one of the biggest issues in the country – the highest proportion since just before the historic Brexit vote – a recent survey by Ipsos found.

It was cited by 49 per cent of people invited to list the ‘most pressing issues facing Britain today’, up 15 percentage points on the previous month.

The exact number of undocumented migrants in the UK is unknown.

The Home Office fails to collect ‘basic information’ on foreign workers, including whether they carry on working illegally in the UK at the end of their visas, MPs from the Commons’ Public Accounts Committee (PAC) warned recently. They found the department ‘does not know’ how many foreign visa holders leave the country when they are supposed to.

The right to free expression has turned into a poisonous issue under Ms. Cooper’s leadership.

Humiliatingly, for a country that has long cherished a free Press, Britain has found itself being criticised by US Vice President JD Vance for cracking down on free speech.

It comes after absurd scenes when police officers take a break from chasing criminals to call on the houses of those who have been accused of posting abusive content on social media.

The head of the Metropolitan Police recently blamed politicians for putting his officers in an ‘impossible position’ over online speech.

After Father Ted creator Graham Linehan was arrested for remarks he made on social media, he spoke out.

In response to Mr. Linehan’s three posts on X in April, Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley justified the five armed police who detained him at Heathrow on Monday on suspicion of inciting violence.

The tweets included one in which he quipped that women should punch transgender women ‘in the balls’ if they use female-only spaces.

Sir Mark said ‘a threat to punch someone from a protected group could be an offence’ but admitted: ‘I understand the concern caused by such incidents given differing perspectives on the balance between free speech and the risks of inciting violence in the real world.’

He added: ‘When it comes to lesser cases, where there is ambiguity in terms of intent and harm, policing has been left between a rock and a hard place by successive governments who have given officers no choice but to record such incidents as crimes when they’re reported. Then they are obliged to follow all lines of inquiry and take action as appropriate.’

Ms Cooper, 56, a Labour veteran who served in Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s governments, and is married to former Labour minister Ed Balls, risks being remembered as the Home Secretary who failed to secure Britain’s borders.

Now, as Foreign Secretary, her job is to travel beyond them, and only time will tell if she can make more of a success at that.

The issue is that the massive failures on the Channel crossing are being borne by us, the British taxpayers.

How could she bear the consequences of bringing about mass migration? Or are Starmer and Labour only trying to mislead the people with this policy?

Removing all internal borders appears to be Yvette Cooper’s goal. She might as well turn it over to Fox’s so they can control it, and if she is being sacked because of her failure on small boats and migrant hotels, then Starmer should go as well.

This is the biggest crisis in the UK since the pandemic, and he has literally done nothing – he won’t even talk about it!

I wonder what their next job will be? Strictly Come Dancing perhaps!

But it’s par for the course with this government.

They have no idea how to govern the UK, and Starmer and his friends are destroying it. It’s shameful that they continue to embezzle money from hard-working taxpayers and give everything away for free to migrants who shouldn’t be here in the first place. This is just Shambolic leadership.

Starmer promised that Labour would ‘smash the smuggling gangs’, but the only people that Labour have ‘smashed’ are the British people.

At this point, Keir Starmer should just acknowledge that he is unfit for the position and call for a general election.

If someone runs a company and someone is hopeless at their job, they are fired – they’re not moved down the corridor to another division.

To be honest, they’re all useless – the same corpse in a different shroud!

Dressed Up As A Nurse To Sell Drugs During The COVID Pandemic

A Polish crook who pretended to be a nurse to deal drugs during the Covid pandemic has avoided deportation after a judge ruled her offences were not serious enough.

Urszula Kareme impersonated an NHS ‘key worker’ to evade detection in her role with an organised crime group that traded large quantities of cocaine, heroin and cannabis in lockdown.

When police ransacked the crook’s home, drug-dealing paraphernalia and £50,000 in cash were discovered – most of which was stashed in her washing machine.

She was jailed for nine years, and after her conviction, the Home Office ordered her to be deported.

But despite finding her dressing up as a nurse to commit crimes ‘a cynical and totally unacceptable exploitation of the public’s goodwill’, Deputy Upper Tribunal Judge Miranda Butler ruled her offences were not serious enough for her to be removed.

‘During the pandemic, there was a sense of national pride and support for key workers at the time and the particular status accorded to nurses, for whom the public clapped nightly, and many of whom tragically died in seeking to fight the pandemic,’ she said.

‘Furthermore, the pandemic involved widespread loss of life, and we accept the submission that [Kareme] may have been yet more likely to avoid scrutiny, as anyone minded to question her as to her whereabouts may have been prevented from doing so by fear of transmission of the virus.

‘We accept that this was a cynical and wholly unacceptable exploitation of the public’s goodwill at a time when the overriding national interest was in a community-minded effort to protect the vulnerable and save lives.

‘This case does not involve violence of any kind. It does not involve sexual offending. It does not involve children. It does not involve exploitation. It does not involve abuse. It does not involve terrorism. These offences will generally be of the type which cause such widespread, serious, and lasting harm that they attract the heaviest criminal sanctions.

‘We acknowledge that her offending arose in the almost unprecedented context of an international pandemic and the wholly unprecedented context of a national lockdown.

‘This feature and the fact of her impersonation of a key worker at such a time are highly unusual (and seriously aggravating) features. It is important, however, not to conflate exceptionality of occurrence with exceptionality of gravity.’

The Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber heard Kareme was convicted at Manchester Minshull Street Court for engaging in conspiracy to supply Class A and Class B drugs, namely heroin, cocaine and cannabis.

She has lived in the UK for almost 20 years and had ‘forged integrative links’ in the UK.

Throughout 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Kareme, alongside four others, used encryption devices to communicate and organise the extensive movement of drugs.

They supplied drugs on a weekly basis across Manchester, bringing in £35,000-£40,000 per kilogram.

Kareme was said to have impersonated a nurse to avoid scrutiny while working during lockdown, as nurses were given more freedom to travel and meet others.

The drugs were sourced from across northwest England, the Midlands and the south. Police confirmed the group handled at least 20kg of cocaine.

She was paid a wage by two of the group’s leaders to distribute considerable amounts of cash and drugs from her car.

During a police search of her home, seen as a safe house, in June 2020, £50,000 cash, counting machines, scales and packaging were discovered.

In December 2023, the 47-year-old was sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment alongside four other men.

Asad Zulfiqar, Riasat Ali, Jake Burke, and Patrick Barry were the other members of her criminal organisation who were imprisoned.

They received a total of 60 years and six months, with individual sentences ranging from eight to 16 years.

In May 2024, the Home Office issued a deportation order against Kareme, which she successfully contested.

This led to the latest hearing after the Home Office appealed that ruling.

This is just butter justice, so soft!

Keir Starmer Confirms: ‘It’s My Decision’ Angela Rayner Braces For Sack

If a standards inquiry reveals that Angela Rayner violated the ministerial code by failing to pay property taxes on her flat, Sir Keir Starmer has said that he is ready to fire her.

On Thursday, Sir Keir admitted that the decision “falls on him” to axe Ms Rayner if the ethics probe rules she breached the ministerial code.

Ms Rayner admitted to paying £40,000 less in stamp duty than she should have on her £800,000 home in Hove.

During Prime Minister’s Questions, the Labour leader rallied behind Ms Rayner, declaring he was “very proud to sit alongside” her.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves also threw her support behind the housing secretary, adding that she had “full confidence” in her and claimed she had “tried to do the right thing”.

The assessment of Ms. Rayner’s behaviour is anticipated to be released on Friday by Sir Laurie Magnus, the Prime Minister’s independent advisor on ministerial standards.

Sir Keir said he would “act” on Sir Laurie’s findings if he concludes the Deputy PM breached the code.

The Prime Minister said, “We need to establish the facts and come to a conclusion.

“Obviously, I will look very carefully at whatever report he puts in front of me… and then of course I will act.”

Government officials have hinted that Ms. Rayner’s position may not be as safe, even if her fellow members of the House of Commons have backed her.

One minister told The i Paper: “Yesterday, I thought she would be fine, today I think things are slipping.

“I just don’t see how she can stay in charge of housing.”

Another source, lashing out at an apparent media smear campaign, blasted: “At the moment, two points of view can co-exist; you can think she’s still an asset because she’s working class and a victim of the Mail and Telegraph snobbishness.

“On the other hand, you can also think Keir is going to find it hard to keep her in housing, whatever the outcome tomorrow.

“This might change tomorrow, but right now there is a distinction.

“Some people may be privately saying they think she can’t survive, but no one is gathering in corners actively saying she should go.”

Ms Rayner blamed “legal advice that I received” for avoiding payment of the £40,000 tax bill on her seaside property.

However, lawyers for the Deputy Prime Minister said that they had not provided her with any tax advice on the flat purchase.

Joanna Verrico, the managing director of small family-run firm Verrico & Associates, told The Telegraph: “We did not – and never have – given tax or trust advice.

“It’s something we always refer our clients to an accountant or tax expert for.

“We probably are being made scapegoats for all this.”

Despite coming from a working-class family and living on a council estate, Angela Rayner has only made life more difficult for the working class. That’s called ‘hypocrisy’, but because the whole lot of them say one thing and then do the opposite, she will get away with it.

Whilst some might be sympathetic to Angela Rayner, especially as she has a disabled child, but that doesn’t mean you can get away with allegedly paying less tax, whoever you are!

She is supposed to be setting the standards because she is a government worker, and if Rayner is found guilty, she should be sacked, and if she isn’t sacked, she should at least have the decency to resign.

Nigel Farage Slammed As A ‘False Patriot’

Nigel Farage is a “false patriot” who doesn’t care about working-class Brits, a senior union leader has said.

TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak branded the Reform leader a “snake oil salesman” and accused him of sowing division for political gain.

He urged Labour to take the fight to Mr Farage, and to show it’s on the side of ordinary people.

Mr Nowak told The Mirror: “Let’s be clear about Farage. He’s a complete political snake oil salesman. He sells false cures to the big problems that face parts of our country.”

He took aim at Reform’s attempts to claim Britain is broken, saying: “This is a classic example of why Farage is a false patriot.

“At the same time that he wraps himself in the flag, he constantly talks down Britain, he constantly talks down working people in this country.”

The TUC leader said Reform had repeatedly voted against greater protections for workers in the Employment Rights Bill – and accused him of wanting to replace the NHS with a US-style health insurance model.

In the past, Mr. Farage has discussed examining the NHS’s funding model, although he has stated that it would remain free at the point of use.

Mr Nowak, whose grandad Josef came to Britain from Poland to work as an aircraft engineer during the Second World War, said the debate on immigration had become “depressing and dangerous”.

He said: “Farage, he is sowing division in our communities. He is constantly looking for scapegoats. He’s happy to rile up those divisions for his own political agenda.

“He’s a complete and utter opportunist, and I think the government’s got to be relentlessly focused on demonstrating ‘We’re the people on the side of working class communities’.”

Mr Nowak added: “I think most of the British public are instinctively fair-minded and decent, and I think they will be really worried about their neighbours feeling threatened and worried and harassed by the likes of Farage stoking it up.”

I guess it’s safe to say that Farage and his Reform Party won’t be winning the 2029 election – he’ll be lucky to win even one seat. He should at least get a participation award for at least trying.

We do not want false patriots in this country – be gone with you, Farage, and take your little dog ‘Toto’ with you!

A Prime Minister who immortalises their nation is what we want, not one who disparages it.

We don’t want a Prime Minister who is a fraud – they are called ‘salesmen’, and they sell worthless and deceptive products. There is only one thing that I can say about Farage – the charlatan party!

If you vote for Reform, you will be voting to eradicate everything that is dear to us. Farage is a grifter, and he only cares about himself, and anyone who believes otherwise is just another fool who Farage will use to his own ends – it’s called playing ‘devil’s advocate.’

Mother Of Brianna Ghey Wants Smartphone Ban

The mother of murdered teenager Brianna Ghey is calling on Sir Keir Starmer to ban smartphones in schools, claiming it “would really have helped her daughter”.

In addition, Esther Ghey is calling for increased funding for schools to implement phone lock pouches, which she claims have worked well for her daughter’s previous school, Birchwood Community High School in Warrington.

Brianna was killed in a despicable, deliberate attack by Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe in a Warrington park in February 2023.

Her mother is now supporting the ban along with actors Stephen Graham, Kate Winslet, and a number of Members of Parliament.

Esther told reporters, “For me, it would have really helped Brianna. It would have helped her to focus on her schoolwork.

“She wouldn’t have been getting into so much trouble because all of the issues were around the phone use. She would have had a much better chance in life.”

During the three years Brianna was at Birchwood, there were 120 safeguarding logs and 116 behaviour logs around her phone use, Esther said.

Esther explained: “These ranged from Brianna being at risk of child sexual exploitation, to what she was accessing online, which was encouraging her to self-harm and to have an eating disorder…As a parent, I really felt like I was failing…I didn’t know what to do.”

Talking about the services Brianna was offered, Esther told her daughter’s inquest last year: “I feel like she was let down with the lack of mental health treatment.”

Under the Birchwood approach, students’ phones are put in pouches when they first arrive at school and are then carried around by them instead of being locked somewhere else.

Esther said: “The funding needs to be in place, because I’ve spoken to headteachers.

“They’ve said sometimes it’s a choice between a new classroom assistant or the pouches, and headteachers shouldn’t have to make that choice.”

Asked about this, Esther said: “My thoughts on the idea currently is that under-16s shouldn’t be on social media full stop. There’s so much harmful content on there.

“And I think that’s the issue with schools, because there’s so many parents that are completely locking down phone or that are choosing to give the children brick phones so they can’t access social media, but when they go to secondary school, they’re opened up to a world of harms because all the children have phones.”

A ban in schools is just “one part of the puzzle” in the approach to children’s phone and social media usage, she added.

Jenkinson and Ratcliffe, both 15 at the time, lured Brianna to Culcheth Linear Park in Warrington, where the 16-year-old transgender teenager was fatally stabbed 28 times with a hunting knife in February 2023.

Jenkinson was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court in December 2023 to a minimum sentence of 22 years in prison, and Ratcliffe to a minimum term of 20 years.

The court heard how Ratcliffe’s motivation was, in part, hostility to Brianna’s transgender identity, while Jenkinson was motivated by a “deep desire to kill”.

Responding to the news of the sentencing, former Met Police senior detective Peter Bleksley told GB News: “It is so astonishing, so brutal, and so vile. My thoughts go out to everyone who knew and loved Brianna.”

Smartphone use by kids should be restricted until they graduate from school since it can lead to several issues, such as grooming and harassment.

Youngsters should only have rudimentary access to a cell phone in case of an emergency.

No child should be bullied, full stop! It should be made illegal to bully another person, regardless of their age.

Even before cell phones and the internet, many children were victims of bullying, but it is much worse now.

Back then, there were no cell phones, and I was subjected to severe bullying at school. I was fortunate enough to be able to defend myself rather adequately, but many people are unable to do so and end up taking their own lives.

The majority of internet gadgets include parental controls, so parents must take charge and limit what their kids can and cannot do on their phones and other devices.

It’s a treacherous world out there, and parents should be mindful of those perils.

A strong smartphone policy is already in place at several schools. Contract phones should not be available to anybody under the age of 18. Pay as you go is more than sufficient, but we do require more responsible parents. If their kids aren’t using their phones appropriately, they should be banned from using them.

Smartphones and other internet devices are an issue for most kids, and they have far too much access at a young age. And these devices should now come with a health warning!

Tube Passenger Kicks Out Train Window

A shirtless man booted through the window of a London tube before walking away after passengers were allegedly “stuck” on board.

The man is seen kicking the glass three times until it finally breaks onto the platform at Euston station in footage that has gone viral on social media.

The man then climbs through the window before swearing and walking away.

The incident unfolded in front of a Transport for London (TfL) employee, who could be seen earlier in the video speaking to a passenger on the train through the window.

A TikTok user who posted the clip alleged the underground passengers were “stuck” and had “no air conditioning”.

People on social media have reacted to the video in different ways.

One person said the passenger did the “right thing”, with others branding his actions “valid”.

You may have experienced what it’s like to be trapped in a tube when everyone else is coughing, sneezing, sweating, and in a panic.

Greetings from London under Sadiq Khan.

It’s not surprising that many people want to leave cities like London. Some believe London could become a place to avoid, with people moved into so-called ‘smart growth zones.’

We have such lovely people who now live amongst us, and we have become overrun with many lunatics.

Another one of our esteemed visitors simply bringing our nation to its knees.

What does a government that disregards this conduct and the worries of people affected say? Instead of punishing its citizens, our government ought to take care of them.

The issue is that people are becoming more conceited and entitled because they can get away with anything. If they end up in jail, they will have access to training programs, food, phones, and gyms—all of which are obviously funded by taxpayers.

Over to you, Keir Starmer, for comment!

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