A Neighbour Brought Food To Starving Siblings, 7, 10, and 15, and Charged Their Cellphones After The Power Went Out

The three abandoned children who were discovered marooned in filthy conditions in a Houston home alongside the skeletal remains of their nine-year-old brother who’d been dead for more than a year managed to survive thanks to a helpful neighbour.

The children’s mum and her boyfriend were interviewed and released by law enforcement officials, and child welfare services in Texas have also started an investigation.

According to law enforcement officials, the mother and her boyfriend left the children alone for numerous months. Occasionally, the mother would return to bring the kids food.

The three children were taken to a hospital for treatment and a post-mortem is being carried out on the fourth child to determine the cause of mortality.

The Harris County Sheriff’s Department told a news outlet that an unidentified Good Samaritan who lived in a nearby apartment complex in Houston brought the three children food and charged their phones after the electricity was cut in their house.

However, it’s not clear why she didn’t report the neglected children to the police or child protective services, and a fellow resident said that if the person was bringing them food to eat, they must have seen that child.

Law enforcement officials said that the neighbour was helping the three children, ages 7, 10, and 15, for at least the last two weeks, and according to investigators, the 15-year-old said that the parents hadn’t been living at the home for weeks, effectively abandoning the children to be on their own.

KPRC-TV reported that when the police arrived at the home, they discovered the brother’s skeletal remains out in the open and that the two younger boys appeared to be malnourished and according to law enforcement officials showed signs of physical harm.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez told reporters that it appeared that they had been fending for each other and that the older sibling was doing the best he could to take care of the others.

In an update, Gonzalez announced that the children’s mother and her boyfriend had been found and questioned by homicide detectives.

The sheriff stated that the couple had been released without being arrested or charged with any wrongdoing, and no explanation was given for the decision to let the pair go at the time.

You have to feel sorry for the poor children, and I guess that we really do live with monsters around us, and the scary thing is sometimes you don’t even know who they are until it’s too late.

Some parents never seem to care about their children, and not enough gets reported to the police.

How these children will ever recover from this kind of treatment is beyond me, and so many people are bitter and divided, with poverty increasing from all the economic statistics, despite the increasing wealth, which means that the US is turning into the very thing that their founding fathers didn’t want, and how is this happening in today’s world – is no one paying attention?

And the two burning questions that I’m sure everyone has on their mind, is why were the mother and boyfriend released?

It clearly stated that the mother would periodically bring food to the children, so she was aware of the conditions, and secondly, why did the neighbours fail these children? It was kind of the neighbour to take these children food, but why did she not contact the police?

Facebook And Instagram Will Require Parental Permission For Australian Children Under 16

Australian children under 16 will need parental consent to sign up for social media apps under proposed new laws.

Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, OnlyFans, Bumble, WhatsApp and even Zoom would all fall under the new requirements.

The companies must take all responsible measures to establish a user’s age and ensure a child’s parent has given consent.

Facebook and Instagram already require users to be over 13 in Australia and use artificial intelligence to determine their age.

Social media giants will face increased penalties of up to $10 million for infringing the rules, up from the current maximum of $2 million.

The changes were outlined in an exposure draft of new legislation released on Monday by Attorney General Michaelia Cash.

The new law aims to prevent children’s data from being shared without permission, and the draft legislation said that privacy practices of online platforms could be harmful to children and vulnerable persons, including sharing data for advertising purposes or engaging in harmful tracking, profiling, or targeted marketing.

Communications Minister Paul Fletcher told Parliament on Tuesday the online privacy code would strengthen protections for children and other groups of vulnerable users, and he said that they’re being pretty clear in their requirements on the social media platforms under the code, and they will be expected to take all reasonable measures to establish the age of users to take more prudent steps to verify parental or guardian consent for children under the age of 16 years old.

As well as social media services, the code will install new rules for data brokers and other large online operators with more than 2.5 million Australian users such as Amazon, Google and Apple.

The code will enable users to demand their data be kept from any third parties.

The draft legislation said that a person may wish to use this when, for example, they don’t want an organisation to disclose their personal information for direct marketing. However, the law wouldn’t give users the right to demand their data to be erased.

The proposed law is a response to the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal in March 2018.

The British consulting firm used the personal data of millions of Facebook users to target political advertisements.

Mia Garlick, Director of Public Policy for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, said Facebook was still reviewing the proposal.

It comes as Facebook endured a blizzard of criticism after former employee Frances Haugen leaked internal studies showing the company knew of possible harm stoked by its sites, urging US lawmakers to renew a push for regulation.

Of course, like everything else, kids will eventually know how to bypass this, and is this really about protecting children, or is it to ensure that every person using the internet has a digital ID that shadows their every move?

All around the world every government is moving in the same direction, while forcing us all to conduct all of our banking, work-life, booking events, literally everything online, and all of this requires ID verification.

However, social media is toxic to children and yet we allow it to happen, but the theory is a great idea, but the reality is that a 14-year-old is going to be able to get around this if they want to. I believe that children should be allowed to be children as long as possible, but of course, we all insist on giving our children mobile phones and computers so that they can access the internet without surveillance.

What Are The Chances Of Plan B?

Rishi Sunak insisted there was no need to move to Plan B to cut COVID cases after health leaders debated whether there needed to be an urgent rollout of tougher measures to combat a surge in cases.

The Chancellor insisted that the data showed that bringing back working from home and introducing compulsory COVID passports was not yet needed.

His comments to the BBC’s Andrew Marr programme came after it was reported that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) contacted local authorities on Friday to canvass their level of support for the immediate rollout of the winter plan – Plan B.

An official, sensitive document was seen by a newspaper outlet solicited viewpoints from the leaders and chief executives of councils across England to be furnished to the Cabinet Office before the end of the day.

But Rishi Sunak said the data didn’t imply they should be immediately moving to Plan B.

However, a leading Government scientist said some kind of Plan B was needed immediately.

Professor Adam Finn, who’s on the Joint Committee of Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), said COVID 19 hospital admissions and deaths were rising and cautioned against complacency in what he said was a worsening situation.

Meanwhile, shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said the Government should introduce its Plan B to tackle the increasing rates of coronavirus now.

Speaking on Marr, Rachel Reeves was asked what Labour’s position was on reintroducing restrictions such as the wearing of face coverings and working from home.

She said Labour as a responsible opposition has always said that they would follow the science and that they’ve seen that SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) was saying that some aspects of Plan B, like wearing masks on public transport and in shops, and also working from home more flexibly should be introduced.

And she thought the first thing is the Government have got to do more to make Plan A work, and that if scientists are saying work from home and masks, then we should do that, and so we should get A working better because the vaccination programme has been stalling, including those parts of Plan B.

She said that there are also things not in A or B that needed to be done, like paying statutory sick pay from day one and also better ventilation in public places.

Asked directly whether Plan B should be introduced now, she said that it should but that we shouldn’t let the Government off the hook with Plan A either.

Sadly, countless people are now terrified thanks to the scaremongering by the media, and if you drip feed the lies long enough people will believe it.

What astounds me is that almost everyone has access to the internet, yet they absorb everything from the TV, but there’s a wealth of information out there that the mainstream media will never acquaint you with.

And whatever you believe, we shouldn’t be throwing hatred towards other members of the general public. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, and I’m not sure why there seems to be a need to resort to childish name-calling.

If what some people are saying is true, that this is some scheme for mass control, then they’re just playing into the hands of those we believe are behind us, but really it’s all about divide and conquer, and as human beings surely we should be beyond turning and throwing childish remarks.

However, our Government is prepared to trash the country even though the data says there’s no need for any plan or COVID passports, which makes some people believe that this is all about control.

Why Was A Gun On The Alec Baldwin Film Set Loaded With Live Ammunition?

The deadly chain of events on set that led to Alec Baldwin being given a gun with live ammunition and unintentionally killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins has become more apparent after it emerged last night the actor fired a live round, believing it to be a blank.

The unfortunate accident came days after Alec Baldwin’s stunt double also fired off bullets on the production’s set on Saturday after being told the gun was ‘cold’, an expression used to signal to cast and crew the gun was not loaded with live or blank ammunition and was safe to fire for the scene.

New details of safety issues on set emerged as the production’s armourer was named by a search warrant issued on Friday as 24-year-old Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, the daughter of legendary Hollywood armourer and firearms consultant Thell Reed, and revealed she was the leading firearms on a film set for only the second time.

Alec Baldwin inadvertently shot Hutchins when he aimed and fired towards a camera operated by the cinematographer, hitting her in the chest and director Joel Souza in the shoulder.

After firing the shot, Alec Baldwin was heard saying that in his years, he’d never been handed a hot gun.

Experts told a newspaper outlet that safety on set was normally very tight with live bullets never being used in filming and it remained unclear why a gun loaded with live ammunition was on the Rust set at all.

A warrant issued on Friday revealed the gun was set out by Gutierrez-Reed and handed to Alec Baldwin by assistant director Dave Halls, who told him it was cold.

A search warrant issued on Friday said that minutes before the accident, armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed set out three prop guns on a cart outside the filming area.

A search warrant said that first assistant director Dave Halls picked up one of the firearms, a vintage-style Colt revolver unaware that it was loaded with live ammunition.

The warrant said that Dave Halls shouted out that it was a cold gun before handing it to Alec Baldwin, using the expression to indicate to cast and crew that the gun was safe to shoot for the scene.

Alec Baldwin, who was shooting a scene inside an Old West-style church, then shot a live round towards the camera, inadvertently killing Hutchins as she filmed him, also wounding director Joel Souza, who stood behind her.

Alec Baldwin must be feeling pretty bad for what has taken place, and must now be in shock because he now has to live with the reality that he’s killed, someone, even though he didn’t kill her intentionally, but whoever was in charge of the gun clearly didn’t do their gun checks correctly, although a gun is a gun and you really shouldn’t trust anyone but yourself because mistakes do happen, no one is infallible.

Someone was at fault here and it was probably the armourer because it was her responsibility to make sure that the gun was safe and loaded with the correct blanks. I mean, who in their right mind puts live ammo in a gun unless it was put there because it was intended to injure or kill someone? And it seems that people are pointing the finger at Alec Baldwin and saying that he’s at wrongdoing, but it’s the armourer’s responsibility to ensure everything’s safe.

In England, Almost One In Fifty People Had COVID Last Week

England’s COVID cases have reached their highest level since mid-January with approximately one in fifty infected with the virus last week, official data has revealed amid mounting concerns that the imminent fourth wave and slow booster vaccine roll out will force ministers into adopting its winter Plan B.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures show about 977,900 were infected in England on any given day in the week up to October 16.

Infections haven’t been as high since the country started to recover from the gloomiest days of the second wave at the start of the year.

Cases increased 9.88 per cent on last week’s figure of 890,000, the fourth week in a row infections have increased.

Meanwhile, separate data from the UK Health Security Agency, which took over from the now-defunct PHE, today revealed the R rate has risen on last week and was about 1.0 to 1.2, up from 0.9 to 1.1, and it’s the first time the R rate has been above 1 since August.

Figures from the Department of Health, based on the Government’s official testing programme as opposed to the random swabbing of thousands of Brits, confirmed cases breached 50,000 for the first time in three months.

The Department of Health bosses recorded another 52,009 infections, a 15 per cent increase a week ago and the highest number since July 17 at the peak of the summer spike. The daily average is now nearing peak second wave levels.

Medics have warned that cases will continue to spike unless Britain doubles the rate of its vaccine booster rollout. Only 4 million out of the 8.7 million patients in England who are suitable for a booster now have had one, including just a third of care home residents and half of the over 80s.

Doctors warned that it’s being held up by the NHS sending texts to elderly Britains who don’t know how to use their phones.

Boris Johnson issued an urgent plea for more Britons to come forward for their boosters to strengthen people’s defences against the virus, amid concerns increasing cases could lead to a last-minute curb ahead of Christmas once again.

The Government has so far resisted increasing pressure to return to its winter Plan B to bring back masks and WFH guidance despite mounting case numbers and in the face of doctors accusing them of being willfully negligent.

We really do like talking ourselves into a crisis in this country, and the academics are especially good at doing that, and once again only time will prove how over the top and exaggerated most of them are.

Pandemics always end after a while as immunity is built up within the population, and perhaps the Government is right in letting it rip, otherwise we could be restricted for years.

Sadly vaccinations don’t prevent you from getting the virus and passing it on. However, if you’re vaccinated with the COVID 19 vaccine, you’re less inclined to catch it, and less likely to become ill if you do get it, and less likely to spread it to other people, but it’s still possible for this to happen, well this is what they’re telling us, and try telling that to people who I know have all been jabbed and still got COVID and were extremely unwell – somethings not adding up.

And I don’t mean to sound flippant here but I’m starting to believe it’s all the luck of the draw, depending on your immune system, your genes, and your vulnerability.

Queen’s Cousin’s Son – 65th In Line To The Throne – Accused Of ‘Constant Antisocial Behaviour’

Police and Westminster council have failed in a bid to ban the 65th in line to the throne from the borough after years of violence, threats, criminal damage and racist behaviour.

Deputy District Judge Olwen Davies ruled that Rowan Nash Lascelles, 43, would just disregard the proposed Criminal Behaviour Order and take his offending to other neighbourhoods.

Rowan Nash Lascelles, who’s the son of the Hon. James Lascelles, the Queen’s first cousin once removed, fled the City of London Magistrates’ Court moments before the hearing and a warrant was issued for his apprehension.

The court was informed that he’s addicted to the potent synthetic marijuana ‘Spice’ and mixes with the users and dealers who gather in Westminster, particularly around The Strand.

The great-great-grandson of George VI has many convictions for racially aggravated criminal aggressions and was once banned from Sainsbury’s in The Strand for telling staff that they should go back to where they came from and that he was going to boot them out of the country because they weren’t English.

Scotland Yard had supported the request to ban him, with one officer, PC Zak Ali, telling the judge that Lascelles was a burden on the Metropolitan Police.

And Westminster’s rough sleeping coordinator, George Bossman, said Lascelles had always ended up losing his accommodation due to his unseemly behaviour and has now drained all of his options.

George Bossman said it requires a lot of money to put him in a hotel, and there was persistent anti-social behaviour and criminal damage, and that there have been terrifying destructive disturbances and racist behaviour and that he’s been engaging in the illegal use of substances and buying it in Westminster.

The court heard that his father, The Hon. James Lascelles had provided him with hotel accommodation in Victoria.

Judge Davies called him a persistent offender, who left misery in his wake.

Ignoring the Criminal Behaviour Order application, Judge Davies ruled that an order wouldn’t prevent him due to his established criminality, and said that he’s either incapable or unwilling to change and disregarded the criminal law.

He said an order banning him from Westminster would just be ignored, and if he didn’t follow the law he wouldn’t obey a Criminal Behaviour Order and would just offend in other London areas and transfer his suffering to Camden or Wandsworth.

The judge said that he would just ignore the proposed Criminal Behaviour Order, and this is why jail time is the only solution for this chap, and he might be the descendant of the Royal Family, but he’s only 65th in line to the throne, and why are we even pursuing this level of irrelevance? Because this is so far removed that it makes no difference, it’s not like he’s ever going to be the King of England, so therefore he should be punished like everyone else and sent to prison.

People like Lascelles, when they’re locked up, if they’re locked up, end up being detoxed, free bed and board and develop a habit of doing it for a break. It happens all over the United Kingdom, especially when hotels won’t take them due to the risk of attacks on their staff and other residents.

Then they come out of prison, overdose and get free B&B at a hospital for a couple of days. This sets up all the food bank vouchers et cetera, leaving cash for drugs until the next crime.

Pay To Dispose Of It

All single-use items, not just plastic, could face charges under a new Government drive to stop Britain’s throw away culture.

A plan to give ministers new powers to bill consumers for using products that can’t be reused or recycled are set to be announced by the Government today.

This could see the 10p carrier bag charge replicated across a raft of other products including coffee stirrers and cutlery.

The campaign is being spearheaded by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch, Labour’s Shadow Environment Minister, who passed an amendment to the government’s Environment Bill.

The proposed legislation already makes it easier for ministers to bill consumers for single-use plastics but she wants this to be extended to all single-use products, and it’s said that this change to the Environment Bill will mean they can put an end to here today, gone tomorrow throwaway culture and move towards sustainable alternatives.

The number of single-use plastic carriers issued by the stores has been cut by more than 95 per cent since supermarkets started having to charge more for them.

The charge rose to 10p from 5p on May 21 and now applies to every retailer, from giant supermarket chains to corner shops, small clothes boutiques, butchers, greengrocers and airport duty-free shops.

Before the 5p tax applied only to retailers with more than 250 workers but it’s resulted in the average person in England buying just four bags a year from the big store chains, an enormous decline from 140 bags each in 2014.

Charges for all single-use products would work in the same way as the carrier bag tax, which sees retailers forced to bill customers more with any money raised going to good causes.

However, the detail of the scheme is set to be announced.

Ruth Chambers of the Greener UK coalition said that they welcome this change which is more effective for tackling the single-use culture and that while it was necessary to tackle single-use plastics, some alternatives to plastic disposable items had a greater carbon footprint or introduced other environmental impacts, so what was needed was a shift to reusable and refillable items.

More and more we are living in a nanny state, or should I say a nasty state, and why is that if you purchase something in a plastic bottle or container, you’re being charged for it and not the manufacturer who could easily switch to an environmentally friendly packaging? This just reeks of yet more taxes and costs on already hard up ordinary people – this has nothing to do with money being raised for good causes – the good causes are just the government’s coffers.

They could very easily introduce the plastic bottle recycling machines they have in Scandinavia where you feed your bottles in and get cash or a token to spend in the supermarket, but of course, this is all an excuse to raise taxes so the government can make money from the contracts, just like they did with the pandemic.

And it seems that at the end of the day we will have no choice, the consumer will foot the bill anyhow because we’re just being harvested.

Perhaps we could go back to the days when you bought everything separately because not everyone wants a pack of four or six, that way they could be put into paper bags and you could have as many as you wanted, so perhaps the powers that be could look to the old days where we had very little waste.

No Gun License Without A Mental Health Checkup

Priti Patel will announce a major tightening of gun laws under which shooting enthusiasts must get a doctor’s report to get a weapons licence.

Under a catamaran of new requirements, police will also be told to carry out checks of applicants’ social media accounts.

The Home Secretary’s crackdown comes in the wake of the Plymouth shootings in August that left five dead, including a three-year-old, prompting questions over the killer’s legitimately held gun licence.

Killer Jake Davison had posted a string of hate-fuelled online rants inspired by the misogynistic incel or involuntary celibate movement, but his posts, which should have been treated as blazing red flags, seem to have been missed by Devon and Cornwall Police.

After the mass shooting, Shaun Sawyer, the force’s chief constable, said his police didn’t look at social media accounts when someone applied for a gun licence because it would be an invasion of privacy.

The force suspended a shotgun licence held by Jake Davison after he was implicated in an alleged crime, but it was returned to the 22-year-old just weeks before he launched his attack with a pump-action shotgun, in which he also shot his mother, before killing himself.

The new measures mean all 566,000 holders of firearms or shotgun documents in England and Wales will face further security checks.

From next month a medical report will be needed to purchase or renew a licence, including aspects of the applicant’s mental health. It will also have to disclose whether the appellant has any history of substance abuse or a neurological condition, and social media checks will be made an explicit part of the application process for the first time.

Police will be asked to look at online posts to ensure individuals who want to own a shotgun or rifle haven’t openly expressed sympathy with the incel movement, Islamism or far-right groups.

The requirements will be in force for new applicants and for existing holders who are seeking to renew their licences, and for the first time, they will be compulsory for individual police forces, which run gun licencing, to follow after concerns that implementation has been sketchy up until now.

Police will also be expected to look at applicants’ financial records and check for existing police records with domestic violence or public protection units.

This is just common sense in this wretched country. Why on earth would you give a gun licence for firearms, without a mental health check anyhow? Although most people are sensible, some people are not sensible enough!

And let’s face it, most people can be identified as having a mental health problem these days, which means almost everyone will not be permitted a licence, unless you’re one of the Royal Family, because of course, they’re the sanest of all!

But of course, this law will have consequences, like everything we do does. So now, if someone has a mental health issue and is a gun owner, they will have to get a mental health check to renew their licence, or will they just stay away from the doctors, get sicker and then do something stupid which could have been prevented by having proper treatment because depression, which is a mental health problem is experienced by numerous people and with proper treatment is controllable.

You will be able to apply for a gun license, but just how will doctors with no behavioural health or sociology training accomplish the questioning? And who will this be reported to? And how will this new medical information be protected from disclosure?

Outside The White House, Alyssa Milano Is Arrested

Alyssa Milano was one of more than 20 demonstrators arrested outside the White House on Tuesday afternoon as they demanded the federal government protect voting rights.

Photos from the demonstration, organised by the progressive group People for the America Way shows the 48-year-old actress leading a march to the White House before being arrested by US Park Police for refusing to clear the area.

She held up her arm in protest as she was escorted away, and shared regular Twitter updates on being taken into custody. Although it was unclear if Alyssa Milano herself was posting the updates, or if someone else was sharing social media posts on her behalf, and no updates have been given on whether she remains in jail, or if she’s been released.

The activist actress later confirmed her arrest on Twitter, writing that she was just arrested for demanding the Biden Administration and the Senate use their mandate to protect voting rights.

‘Stand with me and @PeopleFor and tell the Senate and White House that voting rights shouldn’t depend on where you live #DontMuteOurVote.’

According to the Deadline, she was one of more than 20 activists arrested at the demonstration, after a US Park Police officer warned them that they risked arrest under a Washington DC misdemeanour law that prohibits crowding or obstructing streets or sidewalks.

The demonstration came one day before the Senate was set to decide whether to move forward with the Freedom to Vote Act, which would make it easier to register to vote, establishing a 15-day minimum early voting window, making Election Day a federal holiday.

It would also require that states provide same-day voter registration at all polling stations by 2024, and make a variety of cards and documents valid for in-person voting identification.

The push for the legislation comes after Senate Democrats blocked the For the People Act in June, and are once again threatening to filibuster the bill.

Ben Jealous, the current president of the progressive group said in a message on Twitter before he, too, was arrested that they came back to the White House to deliver a clear message to President Biden, that they need actions that match the urgency of his words on voting rights, and time was running out.

And he said that the Freedom to Vote Act had to pass now if they were going back to protect voting rights in the next election for them all, for black voters and brown voters, for women, for younger voters, voters with disabilities and working people of all backgrounds.

Someone needs to tell Alyssa Milano that women got voting rights in 1920, perhaps she’s a tad confused. Maybe she should have used her magic charm on them. Oh, but she’s such a rebel, and I can’t wait to hear about her endless complaining of poor treatment on social media now and for the rest of her life.

She’s a nobody with a failed acting career desperately striving for relevance by morphing into an activist, with nothing else to do with her unfulfilling life.

Every legal American citizen has the right to vote, so I fail to understand what they’re so enraged about, but if you make it where the votes can’t be traced, like mail-in voting and no ID requirements, then they’re stealing the votes of actual citizens, and that’s the dilemma.

People have been using mail-in voting for years, and it’s a great option for seniors and others who have difficulty getting out of the home, but of course, you can’t actually see your signature on the ballot itself, and there’s no other way to prove that the ballot was yours.

Glasgow Bin Collectors Plan Week-Long Strike

A bin strike threatens to turn Glasgow into an enormous rubbish dump during the COP26 climate change summit.

About 1,500 refuse and cleaning staff are planning a week-long strike from November 1, at the start of the international gathering.

The GMB union has given the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (Cosla) until Monday to table an improved pay proposal.

Rail workers have also voted overwhelmingly to take industrial action during COP26 amid a pay row with ScotRail.

Concerns are mounting that the city will be paralysed by transport turmoil and blighted by uncollected waste at a time when it will be at the focus of global awareness.

One local authority insider said that they could be in a position where the city is turned into an enormous rubbish dump, just as it’s on show to the world.

GMB bosses have refused an £850 a year pay raise for workers getting up to £25,000 and are asking for a £2,000 increase.

Senior Organiser Drew Duffy said that if strike action is to be circumvented, then a significantly improved offer must be brought forward to give their key workers proper value.

Glasgow City Council asked the union to review its actions, and a spokesperson said that these were national, rather than local pay negotiations and it was difficult to understand why this step had been taken while those negotiations remained ongoing.

And it was said that COP26 would undoubtedly be a busy and challenging time for the city and its inhabitants, and they urged them to think again about the timing of this.

Perhaps it will show the world what a huge problem waste and overconsumption is, with fast fashion being an enormous problem and landfilling a global one.

Scotland is a lovely place, but when it comes to waste, it’s a mess, and now the council will be attempting to hide the squalor ahead of the arrival of the world’s wealthy elites coming to preach about climate change, and they will literally be trying to paint over the filthy eyesores to try and make it more palatable to the fat cats. Meanwhile, one mile away Joe Average is wondering how he will pay his heating bill this winter.

But here we go again with the unions holding the country to ransom and trying to grab more money whilst the country is vulnerable and this is reminiscent of the 70s and 80s but then we had a leader with some bottle to fight them, now we have Boris Johnson who appears to be floundering about trying to look great and to please everyone, with his latest brainwave about going green.

And where is the first minister of Scotland? Keeping her head down, no doubt, or is this Westminster’s fault? But when the meeting is on she will no doubt want her share of the good news.

Bin men have had to tackle huge rats, and that’s not just SNP politicians, never mind the four-legged ones, and nothing appears to be working in Scotland, and it seems that every public service has been broken.

And where is Nicola Sturgeon when Scotland needs her? Oh, I forgot, she’s only interested in independence and not the problems of real life. And where is her pride in her city? When this would be a great opportunity to show off Glasgow to the world, but no, she just wants to waste it, no pun intended.

What a horrifying portrait of Scotland this paints. Here we are on the brink of a worldwide event and this nation is immersed in filth, rubbish and seemingly infested with rats. This didn’t appear overnight and the SNP must take the blame because Glasgow, was once a dear green place, and now it’s just a slum and Scotland deserves better.

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